Frozen Freelancer Base
We see Doc lying by the warthog which is flipped and Wash lying in the snow nearby, disoriented. He looks around in confusion with blood on his hands, until a sees someone in black armour heading to him.

Wash: It can't be....Tex?

Wash quickly dives for his gun next to him, but is stopped by Tex who stomps on his arm, before he could reach it.

Wash: You're supposed to be dead.

Tex: Don't sound so disappointed. You'll make me cry. Where's the Director?

Wash: The Director? How would I know that?

Tex: (Tuts) Wrong answer....

She goes to shoot him, but the Meta rams into her and sends her flying off Wash. He charges forward, but Tex catches him with a powerful punch, knocking him to the ground. With a growl of anger, the Meta jumps up and throws jabs at Tex, which she blocks.

Tex then knees Meta in the head and kicks him back. Tex grabs out a detonator and activates it setting off some explosives by her feet, revealing a powerful chain gun which she grabs in midair before swinging it towards the Meta and opening fire. With a growl of shock, the Meta runs across the field before diving behind an icy boulder. Behind her, Wash gets back onto his feet and whips out the capture unit, revealing a large spike from it.

At that moment, Tex's gun runs out of ammo and the Meta takes this moment to return fire with his pistol. Tex ducks behind an icy stalagmite, smashes through the ice and draws out an assault rifle and a battle rifle which she beings returning fire at the Meta. Wash runs up behind her and thrusts the unit's spike at her that she dodge, he then knocks one of her guns away, he goes to swing at her, but she ducks the blow and knocks it out of his hands.

Wash: NO!

He quickly dives for it, preventing it from going over the cliff and into the abyss.

Wash: Be more careful, this thing can't take any more hits!

Over to Church, who's on his knees while clutching his gun shot wound. Doc comes running up to him.

Doc: Church! Are you okay?

Church: She fuckin' shot me! What is wrong with her?

Doc: She did? That's what brought us to you!

Church: I know! She meant to do that!

Doc: Well, she's paying for it now.

Back to Tex, Wash and Meta. The Meta has Tex pinned to the ground, trying to wrestle her gun away, but she kicks him backwards towards a wall of ice. She rolls back onto her feet, just as Wash rejoins his with the Meta. Tex pulls out another detonator.

Wash: Is that a...

Tex presses the button and a loud beeping starts behind them. Wash and the Meta spin around and see a row of mines built into the wall of ice.

Wash: ...Mountain?

The mines go off and the wall crumbles down into huge blocks of ice that go tumbling towards the two ex-Freelancers, who set off running. Wash goes to stabs at Tex again with the unit, but she ducks aside and kicks him away making him drop the unit. Then the Meta charges forward, picking up the unit.

Wash: (Yells) Meta, take it! Hit her!

As the icicle blocks crash around them, the Meta grabs the unit and swings out at Tex, but she ducks away. Wash then leaps up to do a jump-kick at Tex's head, but she dodges and flings him to the ground, with Wash grabbing Tex's battle rifle before he falls. The Meta then kicks her in the chest, right under a huge shard of ice. She quickly rolls away, avoiding getting crushed, but the Meta kicks it out at her. Luckily, she jumps onto it and flips away.

Wash leaps onto another large icicle and runs along its length, firing at Tex. She lands on a block and vaults over it, followed closely by the Meta. As Tex lands, a boulder lands behind her and she strikes it, launching it towards the other two. Wash ducks aside and the Meta jumps off it towards Tex. She runs up another icicle and intercepts him in midair, grabbing him by the chin and cracking his back over her shoulders. As she lands, she throws him up and kicks him in the back towards Wash, who dives out of the way.

Wash then raises his battle rifle and fires at Tex, but she dives behind an icy boulder where, waits for a few moments, before drawing out a third detonator and hits the button. All at once a line of charges go off under the ice about twenty feet from her and as the mountain shelf begins to crumble, she takes off for the safety on the other side, but Wash fires at her and she screams in pain as the bullet hits her shoulder, landing on the safety of the ice sheet.

Wash, suddenly realizes that the ground is moving and he looks around to see that the shelf is cracking and breaking as it falls towards the icy water below.

Wash: Oh my God! RUN!

Wash and the Meta sprint across the shelf towards the ledge which is becoming more distant away. They leap over cracks and side-stepping the sliding boulders. As they reach the edge of the shelf, the Meta spots his brute shot falling over the cliff and leaps straight towards it.

Wash: META! Wait, I...

The Meta grabs his weapon in midair and uses the combat side as an ice pick to hold him in on the side of the cliff.

Wash: God-dammit!

Doc runs towards the cliffs edge, waving a Warthog's tow hook at Wash.

Doc: (Waving the tow hook) WASH! Here! Take this!

Wash: (Shocked) DOC?! Throw it, throw it!

Wash waves his hands above his head, signalling for Doc to throw it.

Doc: Here it comes!

He throws and... fails miserably as it falls down the side of the cliff.

Wash: You've got to be kidding me...

Wash still goes to jumps for it, grabbing the rope and starts climbing up it. Once he reaches the top of the cliff, he hauls himself up.

Wash: That was the second worst throw, ever, of all time.

Doc: What d' you want from me? I ran track in high school.

The Meta runs towards Tex as she struggles to her feet. The Meta swings the blade end of his brute shot at her, as she parries it with her combat knife then punches him back. As he stumbles back, she dashes forward and slashes across his stomach then stabs him in his left shoulder. With a growl, the Meta aims his brute shot at the ground and fires, sending them both flying, knocking Tex down.

Wash runs up to them as the Meta grabs the capture unit and hauls Tex to her feet.

Wash: (Panicking) Meta, wait! We don't need to hurt her, we only need-

Ignoring him, the Meta stabs the memory unit's spike straight into Tex's visor, causing her to scream in agony as her body violently twitches and spasm. A blood red light emerges from the cracked hole in her helmet as she is absorbed into the capture unit.

Church: NO!

With a growl of satisfaction, the Meta draws the unit out and flings Tex's broken body towards the stunned Church.

Church: Stop! Let her outta that thing!

Wash: (Wearily) We can't. The unit is failing. Epsilon, it's over. You're coming with us.

Church: (Furious) I'm not going anywhere with you! We can fight you!

Doc: (Surprised) We can?

Church: (Determined) We will!

Doc: (Sighs) Aw, great.

Wash: I'm sorry to hear that. Meta, give me the memory unit. (The Meta doesn't respond) Meta?

Wash looks over at the Meta who's staring at the unit in his hands. He looks up at Wash, who already knows what he's about to do.

Wash: (Horrified) Meta! NO! Don't...

The Meta attaches the unit to his back and becomes invisible.

Wash: Damnit! Doc, you have to protect Epsilon!

Doc: What do I do?!

Wash: RUN!

The Meta slams Wash to the ground and proceeds to shoot at Church and Doc. Wash gets back up and jumps onto the Meta's back, throwing his arms around his neck.

Wash: I'll try to hold him!

Meta throws him off and continues to shoot. Wash retaliates, but is knocked off balance by a shot from the Brute Shot. The Meta calmly advances on him, chuckling to himself as Wash is on his back clutching his side.

Wash: I knew you would do this, Meta. I just can't believe... (His voice trails off as he looks over the Meta's shoulder) can't believe...(The two have spotted something in the sky, trailing black smoke) I can't believe it.

In the sky reveals to be a pelican, badly damaged, with Grif behind the wheel. Sarge, Wade, Caboose, Simmons, Leo and Tucker can also be seen inside.

Sarge: There they are! Land right next to them!

Grif: Right...land...

Leo: Grif... you do know how to land this plane, don't you?

Grif: Sure! That just means stop flying, right?

Horrified by his response, everyone prepares themselves for the worst.

Wade: Brace for impact!

Tucker: Oh shit! This is gonna suck!

Caboose: ...I still haven't got my peanuts.

The Pelican quickly drops toward the surface and crashes. The Meta and Wash, quickly jump out of the way, avoiding it. The Pelican finally comes to a stop at the very edge of the cliff, with the Reds pressed against the glass, almost crushing a cowering Doc, who's standing in front of the pelican. Both the Reds, blues and Doc loudly scream. As soon as the Pelican stops, the Reds are thrown back.

Doc: Wow! That was a close one!

Wash: (Comes out from behind a tree, faintly bemused) I would say that was the cavalry, but I've never seen a line of horses crash into the battlefield from outer space before.

Church: (From behind the same tree) Uhhhh... Is it possible for a memory fragment out of an artificial intelligence program enclosed inside a robotic body to piss its pants? Because I'm pretty sure I just did that.

Wash: Come on, let's go see how many of your friends survived that.

Church: You know, they're not really my friends.

Wash: That's okay, I'm sure none of them really survived.

To Sarge, Leo and Grif standing besides the crashed Pelican.

Sarge: Grif! Look what you did to our ship!

Grif: (Dismissively) Eh, fuck it, it's a rental.

Sarge: Eh, good point, fuck it. (He kicks the Pelican off the cliff and it falls over the side into the icy water.)

Leo: (To Grif) You are never flying again, got it!

Church runs over to the group, with Wash not far behind.

Church: Has anybody seen Tex?

Leo: I thought she was with you?

Wash comes up next to Church.

Wash: I'm sorry, Epsilon. The Meta captured her inside of the memory unit.

Church: There it is!

He sees the unit laying in the snow and runs over to it with the others following behind.

Church: She's here!

Leo: Wait, Tex is in there?

Church: Yeah! The Meta got her caught in that fucking thing.

Wash: Epsilon, there's nothing we can do. She's stuck in there.

Church: So, let her out!

Wash: We rigged it so it's one way. We didn't want you to escape again.

Church: Well, unrig it!

Wash: I need to get it to a lab. Somewhere with tools.

Church: Simmons?

Simmons: Hey, he's the expert. I don't know what I can do to help.

Wash: And it's in no condition to move. If it locks down, before I can open it, she'll be trapped in there.

Leo: We have to try something, tho.

Wash: If I let her out, you have to come with me.

Church: (Frustrated) Yes, fine, just get her out!

Wash: (Turns to the Blues) Caboose, Wade, Tucker, get in the base. See if you can find some tools.

Caboose: Okay!

Wade: Roger that!

Tucker: Alright! I'll be right back!

The three of them run off.

Wash: (Turns to the reds) You four find me anything that has power. Anything and everything. We're going to need a lot to keep it online.

Sarge: (Running off with Leo, Grif and Simmons) On it!

Church: (Looking down at the Unit) I can get her out.

Wash: What? No!

Church: It's my only option.

Wash: I need you, Epsilon. You're my only ticket out of this mess. If you get stuck in there, they'll never believe me, I'm not going back to prison!

Church: I can do it.

Wash: No, I won't let you.

Church: You can't stop me. I have to help her. She's here because of us.

Wash: Because of me?

Church: Not you, us - Me, and Alpha, and the Director.

Wash: You've started to remember.

Church: I found some journals from the Director. She's someone from his life. Someone he loved...

Wash: (Quietly) Allison. Her name was Allison.

Church: Allison... (Turns back to the Unit) When they made Alpha, she came back. She was a byproduct of the process.

Wash: She's just a shadow.

Church: (Angrily) Don't call her that! She died in her real life, and that's all the Director ever remembered of her. So now, no matter how tough she is, no matter how hard she fights, she's always going to fail! Because that's what she's based on. No matter what she's doing, or what she's trying to accomplish, just when her goal is within her reach, it gets yanked away. Every. Single. Time. Can you imagine what that's like?

Suddenly, the unit lifts itself in the air, revealing to be on the back of the Meta, who's still invisible, has been present... the whole time.

Wash: I think I'm getting the idea...

Church: Uh oh...

Meta: (Growls loudly)

The End
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