Dienamight : V.I.R.U.S.

Iapetus

Episode 7 : Epic Showdown.
Part 1 : Iapetus

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The Roof on the Shard,

June finally arrives at the roof, after walking up more than 10 flights of stairs due to the elevator stopping at the 60th Floor. No one else is on the roof, except Fabian who stands before the dispersion device he had hauled up to the roof weeks prior. On it's monitor, a countdown reads 30 minutes, it's status reading "warming up". Fabian is just finishing his cigarette as June walks closer.

"Why?" June asks, pointing one of her daggers from behind him where his heart should be located. "Ali was family to you. So why??"

Fabian sighs deeply and throws his cigarette butt over the side of the building.

"Answer me!!" June demands.

"I was never much for religion and spirituality. " Fabian began. "But once I understood that this world is temporary, I further realised I wasn't ready to move on to the next."

"What?"

"This is all a sick game by some divine being who got lonely and decided to create a sentient species cursed with free will." Fabian resumed, and turned to face June.

"What happened to you? " June replied. " We don't see you for about 3 years. After the Massacre you just disappear. Go on some spiritual journey, and now you come back talking all this sadist mumbo jumbo?? How does anything you've said justify taking your brother's life?!?!?"

"Bin Yasin isn't dead. Not yet at least. But your yearning for closure for his inevitable demise is exactly the problem with the world. " Fabian explains and pushes June's dagger away.

Right at that moment, Dwayne walks out of the stairway and arrives on the roof with Arnold and Anthony Close by. "Fleet, we're on the roof. Would appreciate you sending the Asset over anytime soon. " Dwayne informs through his comlink.

"You're on your own, Wilson. Von Abel and his GIGN buddies are joining you." Fleet said over the comlink from his hospital bed.

"What? Why??"

"With all these lies and Hellhound?? I can't trust him to do anything!!"

"This is stupidity, Fleet. We need all the assistance we can get! All hands on deck!! You saw how Big Boi took us all out at the warehouse and not to mention Iapetus!!"

Wilson awaits an answer, but gets nothing. "Fleet? What's the status on PALADIN?" "

"My coms are out too." Arnold informed.

"Muhfucka's ghosting us!!"

"Hey! I'm talking here!!" Fabian calls out.

"Yeah, well then shut your damn machine down or we're blowing your brains out!!" Dwayne threatened, placing his gun on Fabian's forehead.

"I was just having a nice chat with Agent Whittaker here, before your arrogant ass interrupted me!" Fabian scoffed.

"Talkative much? Before we unmasked you, you never said a word. And now you wanna talk while we listen??"

"Look at you. All of you. Pathetic. Protecting a fantasy paradise that never was your's to begin with. " Fabian uttered in disgust. " Everyone is so glued to this mundane paradise we, homo sapiens have built that we forget that at some point we, just like the dinosaurs will have to go too. And with what we're doing with this planet, destroying from the inside out, our petty political playground wars and stupid issues we create and suffer from with the Internet. Have I said enough, stating how fucked up we've gotten or shall I keep going? "

"Look man, I get it. The massacre fucked us all up. What we saw then. Messed us up big time. It came to a point Ali and I headed back home to the States to find some clarity."

"Clarity?? I have never been more clear-headed in my life!! Are you taking a piss with me?? When I joined the MI6 I was a raving punk with no purpose in life. All I knew was I wanted to make the world a better place. Then after Buraqistan I got connected with Iapetus and company and they showed what REALLY needs to be done to achieve that. Clarity?? You must be joking."

"This isn't the way, man. What's your endgame here even? Create the disease and sell the antidote, and then what?" Dwayne questioned.

"Yeah, what was Ali's fate for then? What is the plan even??" Arnold questioned further.

"The endgame, is to have people wake up and realize that we need to take charge of the crippling state of the world! Poverty, disease, apartheid, The year is 2030 and these concepts still exist??" Fabian added.

"Your concept, of making the world a better place?" June stated. " Sounds very much convoluted and misogynistic to me."

"Just cut this bullshit out, man." Dwayne pleaded." It isn't too late. We can work things out man. "

"Work things out how? By putting me in a cell? Caging someone even more and preventing them from practicing the free speech they have the right to? Convoluted? Really? You wanna say I don't have my head on straight? Speak for your own self, fool! The name Pilgrim sound familiar to you? "

Dwayne stops short and takes a moment to think upon Fabian mentioning Pilgrim.

"I can't believe, I was able to do all that I did as Pilgrim, and get away with it too. And you and your Trench City crew couldn't even figure it out."

"What the fuck?"

"You wanna "save" me now?? I'd say you're 2 years late. The time for that was when I was just starting out as Pilgrim and still skeptical on whether Iapetus was speaking truths, or full of bollocks. "

Fabian steps down from the ledge, and walks over to the dispersion device as the countdown is now at 20 minutes.

Dwayne grabs Fabian's shoulder, and firmly exclaims; " Shut it down, Fabian."

"Nah. I don't think so." With that, a sonic boom is heard as Iapetus zooms right at Dwayne, throwing him across to the other side of the roof as he falls down the building.

"Nooooo!!!!" June screams.

"What the fuck is that??" Arnold exclaims as he, June and Zzlash prepare to attack Fabian.

Suddenly, they hear the sound of a loud whirring engine as Dwayne's head pops back up over the edge of the roof revealing that he had landed on a parajet with Von Abel in the pilot's seat.

Dienamight hops off the roof of the parajet, and locks eyes with Iapetus who is hovering above everyone .

Arrowhead leads PALADIN, now including Hellhound in exiting the parajet to join VIRUS on the roof with Souris continuing to pilot the parajet and departing to lend Torture-Master firepower.

"8 against one? Extremely far from a fair fight. " Fabian smirks.

"Make that 10 against one seeing that Hellhound and I are pumped up on Megatomica." Dwayne insists.

"Let's even out the odds!" Fabian exclaims before extracting a water bottle of Megatomica which he proceeds to consume down to the last drop, leaving VIRUS and PALADIN with their jaws on the floor.

"What the fuck is this?? A chug fest?? " June cries out as Fabian proceeds to pass out.

"Well then. We have spoken too soon " Arrowhead states as he lowers his quiver.

"Spoke too soon indeed." Fabian chuckles, as he struggles to get up." Yagh!" He cries as the excess amount of Megatomica he consumed begins altering his physical form, his body growing in size and his nails turning into claws.

*Mother of God* Zzlash signs in astonishment.

"He is beginning to look like a sort of Goblin!" Centralé exclaims.

At long last, the ordeal ends, with Fabian now grinning with yellow feral eyes. He stands up straight, his posture laid back with great confidence in being able to wipe the floor with everyone's asses in his now enhanced form.