Chapter 30- Crossroads

With Maddie, Belle, Sarah, and Loki. They are in a car.

Sarah: They've been conducting raids all over the city... Everybody is on edge after what happened yesterday... It's gonna be all right. We're almost there. A little further on that way, there's a large field called White Field. When you get there, find Connor. He will help you. The last bus for the border leaves at midnight. You absolutely have to be on it. You'll be safer on the other side. It's not much, but it's a start. My brother lives in Whiterun, I've given you his address... He'll be able to hide you until things calm down. You're a very brave little girl, Belle. You deserve to be happy.

Maddie: Thank you for everything, Sarah.

Sarah: Let me know when you make it over there, all right? And be careful. Take care of them.

Loki: Come on, girls. We better not hang around. We have a bus to catch.

With Sean. Sean is looking for White Field. With Maddie, Loki, and Belle. They are in White Field.

Maddie: We've got to find a warm place for Belle.

Maddie finds a warm place for Belle.

Maddie: How do you feel?

Belle: I'm hot and cold at the same time...

Maddie: Stay with her. I'll try to find this Connor.

Loki: The last bus is in two hours. And the terminal's on the other side of town, we haven't got much time.

Maddie: We'll leave as soon as we have passports...

Loki: Maddie... There's something I have to tell you... It's about Belle...

Maddie: We'll have lots of time to talk on the bus... I'll be back. Stay with Belle.

Maddie finds Connor.

Maddie: Are you Connor? I'm with a little girl and another android... There's a bus leaving for the border in less than two hours, and we need passports...

Connor: No, Newark's under curfew. There're soldiers everywhere and they're rounding up all the androids and sending them to camps... Maybe you should stay here a while.

Maddie: Maybe you're right... We might be safer here until things calm down.

Connor: One of our people used to work in the State Department. He has electronic passports he can easily modify. I'll have him get them to you.

Maddie: Thank you.

Connor: You said you're with a little girl, right? You know that humans hate us... Why are you protecting her?

Maddie: She needs me. And I need her. It's as simple as that...

Maddie returns to Belle. Maddie finds out that Belle is an android.

Maddie: Belle?..

Loki: You knew from the beginning. You just didn't want to see it. She wanted a mom, and you wanted someone to care for. You needed each other. What difference does it make? Do you love her any less now that you know she's one of us? Belle loves you Maddie. She loves you more than anything in the world. She became the little girl you wanted! And you became the mother she needed. Forgetting who you are, to become what someone needs you to be... Maybe that's what it means to be alive.

Belle: Maddie? Is there something wrong?..

Maddie hugs Belle.

Belle: We'll be together forever, won't we Maddie?

Maddie: Yes, forever...

Sean arrives to White Field. He starts to go up the stairs when Sarah stops him.

Sarah: You're lost. You're looking for something... You're looking for yourself...

With Connor. Connor is in the Captain's cabin with Kenny and Maddie McWilliams.

Kenny: We're short on blue blood and biocomponents. Our wounded are shutting down and there's nothing we can do!

Maddie McWilliams: Humans are conducting raids in all the big cities and they're taking androids to camps to destroy them!

Kenny: It's all our fault... None of this would have happened if we'd just stayed quiet!

Connor: We couldn't just suffer in silence, they're killing us! Nothing is gonna justify that.

Kenny: What's the point of being free if no one is left alive?

Connor: Humans enslaved us! I'll never regret standing up to that.

Kenny: This is getting us nowhere.

Maddie McWilliams: He's right. All that matters now is what we do next. Connor?


Connor: Dialogue. It is the only way... I will go alone, try to talk to them one last time.

Maddie McWilliams: Don't do this, Connor. They'll kill you!

Connor: Maybe...but Mads, I have to try. If I don't come back, lay low as long as you can...

Kenny: They need to realize how much they're hurting us... Find the right words and they'll listen.

Kenny leaves. Connor and Maddie McWilliams are alone.

Connor: They've been butchering each other for centuries over the color of their skin or whatever god they wanted to worship. They're not gonna change. Violence is just in their genes.

Maddie McWilliams: They can't stop what we've started. Since you've been here, you've given us hope... You've given me hope. Today, a deviant arrived in White Field and he told me that he stole a truck transporting radioactive cobalt... He said that he abandoned the truck somewhere in Newark and rigged it to explode. I convinced him not to do it, and to give me the detonator.

Connor: A dirty bomb...

Maddie McWilliams: We can't lose this war, Connor. If humans overcome us, our people will disappear forever. This may be our only chance to survive if things go wrong...

Connor keeps the detonator.

Connor: I just hope we never have to use it...

Maddie McWilliams: Whatever happens tomorrow, I just want you to know that I- I'm glad I met you...

Connor kisses Maddie McWilliams.

Maddie McWilliams: I'll go join the others. Look after yourself... I don't wanna lose you.

With Sean. Sean finds Connor and sees Maddie McWilliams leave.

Clementine: Well done, Sean. You succeeded in locating White Field and finding their leader. Now deal with Connor. We need it alive.

Sean: I've been ordered to take you alive, but I won't hesitate to shoot if you give me no choice.

Connor: What are you doing? You are one of us... You can't betray your own people...

Sean: Don't force me to neutralize you.

Connor: You're nothing to them. You're just a tool they use to do their dirty work. But you're more than that. We are all more than that. You're Sean, aren't you? That famous deviant hunter. Well, congratulations. You seem to have found what you were looking for...

Sean doesn't say anything.

Connor: Have you never wondered who you really are? Whether you're just a machine executing a program or... A living being... Capable of reason. I think the time has come for you to ask yourself that question. You really don't have to do this. You don't have to obey them anymore. You are alive... You can decide who you want to be. You could be free. It's time to decide.

Sean becomes a deviant.

Sean: They're going to attack White Field.

Connor: What?..

Sean: We have to get outta here!

Connor: Shit...

With Maddie, Loki, and Belle. White Field is under attack.

Loki: What's going on, Maddie?

Maddie: Quick, we've got to get out of here.

Soldier: Come on! Go! Go! Go!

Soldier: You heard the man, let's go!

Soldier: Foxtrot be advised, Delta is advancing on your position.

Soldier: Affirmative, we have eyes on the target.

De Santa: Like rats in a maze...

Loki: QUICK, MADDIE! THEY'RE COMING! The corridor, over there! Follow me! This way! Quick! This way! There must be an exit further on! COME IN! QUICK!  

Loki gets shot.

Maddie: Loki!

With Connor and Sean. Connor finds Maddie McWilliams.

Maddie McWilliams: They're coming from all sides! Our people are trapped in the locker room, they're gonna be slaughtered!

Connor: There are exits on the left and right sides. Find them and jump in the river! Where is Kenny?

Maddie McWilliams: I don't know, we got separated.

Connor: They're coming from the visitors stands now too. We'll be caught in the crossfire!

Maddie McWilliams: We have to run, Connor! There's nothing we can do!

Connor: We have to blow up White Field. If the field goes down, they'll evacuate and our people can escape!

Maddie McWilliams: You'll never make it! The explosives are all the way down in the locker room, there are soldiers everywhere!

Sean: She's right! They know who you are. They'll do anything to get you!

Connor: Go and help the others. I'll join you later.

Maddie McWilliams: Connor...

Connor: I won't be long.

Connor runs into Sarah.

Sarah: This is the end of White Field... Save our people, Connor...

Sarah dies. Connor falls and some soldiers pass him.

Soldier: Foxtrot team, hostiles sighted. Requesting orders.

Soldier: Find their leader! Don't let it get out! If they give you any trouble at all, shoot them.

Soldier: Affirmative, wilco.

With Maddie and Belle. Loki is still on the ground.

Loki: It's too late, Maddie! Save yourself! Save Belle!

Belle: No, we're not going to leave you behind! Right, Maddie? We can't leave him!

Maddie saves Loki.

Loki: What are you doing?

Maddie: I won't leave you!

Loki: Maddie, no...

Maddie gets Loki to safety.

Soldier: DON'T MOVE!

Loki: You shouldn't have done that. You can't put Belle in danger... Go now, before they come back.

Maddie: What about you? What are you going to do?

Loki: I'll manage. Belle is all that matters.

Belle: I don't wanna leave you, Loki...

Loki: Don't worry, I'll catch up with you at the border, okay? Go now! Take care of each other.

Maddie and Belle leave Loki. Maddie and Belle hide from the soldiers.

Android: Open up! Open up, they're coming! Please open the door!

Belle: She'll die out there Maddie! Open it! Open the door!

Android: They're gonna kill me! I'm begging you, please! Open me up! Let me in!

Maddie opens the door to the android. The soldiers come and kill the android. Maddie defeats the soldiers.

Belle: MADDIE! Are you all right, Maddie?

Maddie: Yes, I'm... I'm fine. We can't stay here.

Soldier: There's more down there! Follow me!

With Connor. Connor is still trying to get to the locker room.

Soldier: Fuckin' android!

Soldier: Go! ...

Soldier: Give me a sitrep!

Soldier: Find their leader!

Soldier: Come on, let's get outta here!

Connor sees soldiers aiming guns at some androids. Connor saves the androids.

Android: No!.. Please don't kill us!

Soldier: On your knees, now!

Android: Don't hurt us! We haven't done anything wrong... Please...

Soldier: Shut up! Put your hands on your head!

Android: Connor... You saved us...

Connor: Go now! Hurry!

The androids get away. Connor proceeds to head to the locker room.

Soldier: Gamma squad out.

Soldier: Tango. Stop!

Connor sees some androids getting chased by soldiers. Connor saves the androids.

Android: Look out!

Android 2: Here they come!

Soldier: Don't move!

Android: We surrender! We surrender, don't shoot!

Android: Connor... It's Connor!

Connor: Go now! Join the others!

Connor comes upon Kenny. He is struggling with a soldier.

Connor: Kenny...

Connor saves Kenny.

Kenny: Quick, this way!

Connor: Find Mads! I'll join you later!

Kenny leaves Connor.

Soldier: Over there!

With Maddie and Belle. Maddie and Belle escape White Field.

Maddie: A way out! We're safe, Belle!

Soldier: Stop!

Maddie and Belle play dead.

Maddie: Get down! Don't move.

Android: Please, don't kill me!..

Soldier: Come on, let's get outta here!

Maddie and Belle escape White Field.

Maddie: Quick, we've got to go!

With Connor. Connor got to the locker room. Connor detonates the explosives.

Soldier: DON'T MOVE! Go and join the others!

Connor defeats the soldier. Connor gets back to Maddie McWilliams, Kenny, and Sean.

Maddie McWilliams: Connor!

Connor: Bomb's gonna explode any second. We gotta get out of here!

They run and Maddie McWilliams is shot. Connor saves Maddie McWilliams.

Soldier: Fire at will!

Soldier: Contact! Contact! Hostiles engaged!

Connor: Over there! Run!

Sean defends both Connor and Maddie McWilliams.

Soldier: Go! Now!

Soldier: Tango, suppressing fire!

Sean kills the soldier.

Soldier: We need support. Repeat: requesting support.

They all run to the exit.

Connor: Run, quick! Come on!

Connor, Maddie McWilliams, Kenny, and Sean all jump into the river.

Soldier: They detonated an explosive in the hold. The ship is sinking, Sir.

De Santa: Order the men to evacuate.

Soldier: Calling all units! Abandon ship and evacuate immediately!

De Santa: This ain't over, Connor...

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