"Mary? Mary? Mary!" Vince ran to her side as she collapsed onto the ground, catching her and laying her in his arms. "Mary. No, Mary..."

By the time she laid in his arms, it was too late. Mary Cooper was already dead.

"Come on, Janson," Dr. Paige told him as he placed a gun back in his coat pocket. "Load them up. Let's go. Get rid of all these people."

With horrified looks on their faces, the soldiers began to grab them one by one.

"Let go of me!" Sonya yelled.

"Sonya!" Harriet shouted her way, grunting at the soldier's grasp.

"No! Don't do this!" Piper protested, struggling to stay in place while soldiers tried to grab her.

Thomas was about to walk, too, when he elbowed a soldier in the face and pulled out a bomb and its remote from his jacket. "Get back! Everyone, stand back!" He waved the bomb around at the soldiers, trying to get them to back away from the Immunes.

"Hold your fire!" Janson commanded.

"Let them go!" Thomas screamed.

"Thomas, put it down!" Janson yelled.

"Let them go!" he repeated, his tone a bit angrier this time.

"You know I can't do that!" Dr. Paige protested.

"Thomas, please stop!" Teresa intervened, her voice desperate. "I made a deal with them. They promised that all of us would be safe."

"And we're supposed to trust you now?!" Thomas retorted.

"It's true! It was her only condition!" Dr. Paige backed her up, trying to sound convinced. "Everything can go back to the way it was." She sadly shook her head. "Do you really want all of them to die, Thomas?"

"Listen to her, Thomas. Think about what you're doing," Janson warned him.

And so Minho, Newt, and Frypan all gathered behind Thomas, who was breathing heavily and at the verge of tears. "We're with you, Thomas," Newt stated.

"We're all with you," Maeve added, motioning toward Piper, Lillie, Gwyneth, Harriet, Sonya, and Aris.

Teresa shook her head in desperation. "No..." she croaked out.

"Don't, Thomas," Dr. Paige said, shaking her head as well.

"Do it, Thomas," Minho said.

"We're ready," Frypan added.

Thomas' breath became shaky. "We're not going back there." He raised the bomb, huffing a loud sigh. "It's the only way." With that, we all closed our eyes, waiting for the bomb to go off.

"Thomas!" Dr. Paige shouted.

All of a sudden, the sound of a vehicle approached them, the horn going off. Everyone opened their eyes to find Jorge driving through the camp at full speed, shouting and laughing all at once. They all moved out of the way as WICKED's soldiers shot at the truck while Jorge collided with the helicopter, sending the blades toward everyone's heads. Everyone got to the ground, the chaos beginning once more.

"Come on!" Gwyneth shouted at Piper, throwing a gun her way.

The Right Arm began to tackle down WICKED soldiers, taking their guns and fighting back. Some other soldiers took Dr. Paige and Teresa back to the Berg. Piper was tempted to go ahead and shoot both of their brains out, but she knew that her friends needed me out here.

"Freeze! Don't move, kid!" a soldier yelled at Thomas.

So he took the bomb, threw it their way, and ran to the ground. "Get down!" he shouted at the others.

They obliged as the loud BOOM went off, sending the soldiers in the air and then to the ground. Piper got up and scurried around the camp, shooting and hitting at every soldier in sight.

"Piper, look out!" She turned to see Aurora shooting a soldier that was about to take me down. "You're welcome. You're lucky I even saved your ass after elbowing me in the damn stomach."

Piper rolled her eyes. "Just go! I'll cover you!" she stated, going back to fighting as they made their way toward safety somewhere in the camp. When her gun ran out of ammo, she began to use it to whack soldiers with it in the face, knocking them to the ground.

"Looks like you need to be covered!" Aurora retorted, still shooting her gun at WICKED's soldiers.

Vince and Lillie were now on the back of trucks, firing off machine guns back and forth all over the camp. Once there were no more bullets to fire, she hopped down and took a gun nearby, cocking it and preparing to shoot. "Mae, come help me out!"

"Got it, stick!" Maeve yelled back.

"Piper!" Aris yelled, grabbing my arm.

"Aris, we've got to go!" Piper told him.

"No, you go! Get to somewhere safe!" he said.

"What? No, we're going together!"

"I'm staying to fight! Be safe! Please, Piper!"

"Aris, I--"

But before she could finish her statement, he pulled her in for a long kiss. She froze in my place, taking in the moment, before feeling him pull away, the warmth that was there suddenly vanished. "Go. Please just go!"

Piper gave him a sad look before reluctantly nodding her head. "Be careful, Aris."

"I will. I promise."

So she ran for safety beside Gwyneth and Harriet. With the gunshots and explosions ringing in her ears and the sight of the fires and the flashing lights of the Berg messing up her vision, they watched the world around them go down in flames.

Thomas, Newt, and Frypan joined the girls, ducking down behind some boxes. Then, the next thing they spotted made them all gasp in horror.

"Minho!" Thomas shouted, trying to go after his friend that had just been electrocuted by a soldier with his gun.

"Thomas, no!" Frypan shouted, running for him, along with Newt and Jorge.

The next to go down was Maeve. She was whacked upside the head with a gun, knocking her unconscious.

"Mae!" Piper shouted in horror, covering her mouth, while trying to stand up.

"You can't go after her!" Gwyneth said, holding her back.

Lillie was the third to finish her fight as she was also shot down by a soldier. Piper screamed as loud as she could, the tears flowing down her face. Her heart was sinking so low that she wasn't sure how much more she could take.

That was when she saw WICKED take Sonya and Aris next.

Her eyes widened as her friends were all piled onto the Berg either by force or because they were unconscious to fight back. The rest got out of hiding and watched as the Berg closed its door and lifted off the ground, flying off into the sky.

Piper began to pant, shaking her head in disbelief. "No. No, this...I can't believe this..."

"Piper, just stop," Aurora spoke up. "It's over. We lost."

"No. No, I just got my friends back!" she protested, crying even more.

"Calm down, Piper," Harriet said, pulling her for a hug. "Just calm down..."

Piper felt the arms of Gwyneth wrap around them as she kept crying even more. She cried and cried until there were no more tears left. Harriet and Gwyneth led her to a nearby truck and laid her down in the back seat, letting her rest. "Just leave her alone and let her get some sleep," she heard Harriet say to the others. "I think we all need some sleep, actually."

"Yeah, we've got a lot to do and talk about tomorrow," Vince stated. "We'll regroup in the morning."

Piper was listening to the sounds of rustling and everyone getting situated in what was left of the camp. She huffed a long sigh as the last of her tears rolled down her face. She closed her eyes, wanting to block out everything, forget the images of the chaos that they had just endured tonight.

But of course, there was no way that was happening.

So all she could do was try her best to fall asleep, despite the fact that everything was not okay. In fact, everything was far from it.

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A/N: Well, that just happened, too.

What does everyone think of Aris and Piper?

Song above is And The World Was Gone by Snow Ghosts, the same as the previous chapter.

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