BEYOND THE SEA. JAMES "MAC" MACKREIDES (THE MEG 2018)

THE HERO ALWAYS DIES.

Jonas got the Shark in the path of Suyin, telling her to take the shot and she did exactly that.

After she did so, a splash shot high up into the air but the missile sadly missed the Meg.

"Anybody see it?" Jonas asked.

"Can't see the Shark, but something's going on up here."

Anastasia ran out onto the main deck with the team, meeting up with Lori who was already there. Two helicopters passed over the boat, and everyone looked up to the sky, seeing a third one going in the other direction.

"Okay, I've got her attention," Ana could barely hear Suyin from the helicopters that were still buzzing around. "Bring her to me." She could hear Jonas reply. Suyin's voice came in after that but Ana didn't hear her anymore.

There was commotion from Jonas' end and it didn't sound good.

The boat shook lightly as Jonas passed under with the Meg hot on his tail. The team was still focused on the helicopters, watching as two of them collided with each other, fire erupting as two halves of a helicopter dove into the water, but the other was coming straight for the Mana One team.

"Go. Go. Go!" Mac yelled, and grabbed onto Anastasia's hand, pulling her over to the side of the boat. The helicopter crashed into the deck just as they submerged into the water.

The explosion spilled into the water, fire sat on top of the surface. "Where's DJ?" Jaxx asked, causing Ana to look around the open ocean.

"I don't know," Mac answered her.

"Where's Meiying?"

"I don't know! I couldn't see her anywhere."

"Meiying!" Ana yelled out, she grew concerned for the young girl. "Meiying! DJ!" She yelled again but it was no use.

As if the panic from not knowing where Meiying or DJ were, the panic that she was in the water with a large Shark that had already killed a number of her friends had started to set in. Trying to ignore the fact that they were pretty much-sitting ducks as long as they were in the ocean.

Not for long though, Suyin came around from the other side of the boat with DJ and Meiying on the side of the glider. "Come on, come up!" Ana grabbed onto Jaxx's hand, assisting her onto the glider.

"There it is." Ana turned her head at Jaxx's words. The Meg was close by. "Oh, my god." She and Suyin spoke at the same time.

"Jonas!" Mac yelled.

"It's coming." Suyin thought out loud.

"We're sitting ducks up here, Jonas," Mac stated the obvious.

"Mummy!" "It's coming." Meiying and Suyin's voices were background noise to Ana's thoughts.

Was this it?

Was death coming right for her?

"Can you hear me, Jonas?"

"Meiying, hold on."

"Suyin, we're gonna have to go. Through here."

"Jonas, we've got nothing left," Suyin spoke. Ana hoped he would finally reply. "Almost nothing."

"How're you gonna kill it?" Mac asked.

"Evolution. I'm gonna make this thing bleed. Suyin, what you said before, you were right. It's not about the people you lose. It's about the people you save. Signing off."

"Jonas!" Suyin yelled, trying to stop him. Protests were let out by her and Mac but they fell on deaf ears.

Jonas was the type to sacrifice himself. He was the hero of the story if Ana had ever seen one.

This time she hoped it worked out for the hero.

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