Meanwhile, at Ascension
Tank Dempsey stood at the control scheme shortly after Takeo left. He debated momentarily to just launch the rocket before the two would make it, but he shook it off. If they really wanted to leave him, then they could. Fuck it, he didn't need them anyway. After all, Richtofen was batshit insane and Takeo was known to hate Nikolai. He would find Nikolai, bring him home, and the two of them could fortify some rural place and resist Samantha's onslaught.
He wondered how they would even signal him to launch the rocket. Neither had informed him just how he was supposed to know when they were ready. He sighed and rubbed his temples, gleaming with sweat. He stayed in that position for what seemed like hours, thinking, planning, until a voice suddenly came from a nearby speaker.
"OK, Dempshey, we are ready," came Richtofen's high-pitched voice.
Dempsey sighed and pressed the button, removing restrictions on the rocket to launch.
"Ooooohhhhh, wunderbar!" Richtofen exclaimed like a happy child. "I still hate you, Dempsey."
"Are you fuckers leaving or not!?" Dempsey allowed his inner anger to take over. Richtofen then roared into laughter at the suffering of his enemy.
"Doctor, we really should get going," Takeo was heard in the background. He probably shouldn't have spoken up, because it only rubbed salt in Dempsey's figurative wound.
"GET THE FUCK OUT!" Dempsey bellowed so loudly that he probably could be heard without the speaker.
From the rocket, Richtofen sighed and typed away on the thousands of buttons in the cockpit. "Alright, Dempsey. It's been horrible knowing you. See you in hell."
Launch sequence initiated! The automated loudspeaker sounded.
5. . .
4. . .
The rocket's engines roared to life.
3. . .
The ground began to shake viscously. Dempsey clung to the wall nearby just to keep from falling over.
2. . .
Richtofen formed a fist and moved to bump Takeo's. The samurai frowned and shook his head, still feeling upset from about betraying Dempsey. He just hoped that his own plan would be enough to stop Richtofen.
1. . .
The rocket began to lift itself off the ground, and Dempsey struggled with all his might to stay standing. As the shaking died down, Dempsey took one last look at the rocket as it soared high in the sky.
"Fuck you, Richtofen," He grumbled. "I hope your rocket smashes into a meteor."
He set his gun on the ground and pondered on his next move, but before he could get a solid plan nailed down, he heard a voice in his head.
"Dempseyyyyyyyy," it whispered, startling the American out of his thoughts. He instinctively reached for his weapon.
"Don't be silly," it giggled. "You can't shoot me."
"Samantha?" Dempsey instinctively thought.
"Oh, you're so smart," Sam uttered sarcastically.
"Have you come to rub this all in my face?" Dempsey rolled his eyes.
Without warning, a bright light filled the room with the intensity of a flashbang, causing Dempsey to cover his eyes and stumble for a second. When he opened his eyes again, Samantha stood in front of him, her physical form smiling. "No, of course not. Believe it or not, I'm actually here to help you."
"Help?" Dempsey raised an eyebrow. "You've been trying to kill us since Shi no Numa."
Samantha smirked. "Oh, no. It was never anything personal, Tank. I only want Richtofen dead."
"Just Richtofen?" Tank frowned, raising his eyebrow. "But you sent the zombies after us, too."
"Well, maybe I wouldn't have had to if you weren't helping him," Samantha defended.
Dempsey rolled his eyes. "Well, why didn't you try to talk to us earlier? We don't exactly like him, you know!"
"Well. . ."
Dempsey smirked, knowing he won the argument.
"Alright," Samantha conceded. "Maybe I got carried away and didn't think things through. That's not why I'm here, though."
"Then why exactly are you here?" Dempsey questioned as he leaned against the wall.
Samantha gave a devious smile. "It's about Richtofen."
Dempsey grew impatient. "I figured, now can you maybe tell me what that plan is?"
"Alright, alright. Anyway, Richtofen is too blind to see what he is doing. He left you behind to launch the rocket when he should have left Takeo behind."
Dempsey cocked his head. "And why is that? Richtofen hates me, he doesn't hate Takeo."
Samantha walked up to Dempsey and poked his forehead. "It's because you're stupid."
"Hey!" he pouted. "I'm not stupid."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not."
Samantha slapped him with the force of a grown man. "Focus!" She screamed in her demonic voice.
"OK, sorry."
"Well," Samantha continued, her voice back to a sweet, childish one. "Richtofen does hate you, but Takeo isn't exactly bowing to Richtofen himself. He's our ally, even if he did leave you."
"So, what's our plan to actually stop Richtofen? And what about Nikolai?"
Samantha put a finger to Dempsey's lips. "Patience. I can assure you that Nikolai is safe and sound, but you cannot see him yet."
Dempsey became angry. "Why not?"
Samantha frowned. "You see, he is in another world. Remember when you shot the DG-2 at the teleporter?"
"Of course."
"Well, the power of the Wunderwaffe combined with an active teleporter has the ability to manipulate time and dimensions. Using my god-like powers, I was able to send him to this new world, away from conflict. He was like you, too stupid to notice Richtofen's true motives. It just happened that he was the one in the teleporter."
"So, you can control the teleporters?"
Samantha facepalmed. "Only when they have been overloaded with 115. Geez, you're so slow. Just don't put too much in there, or else it will overload to a point where I can't control it."
Dempsey thought about the time he and Richtofen put Craig the crawler into the teleporter and wondered if that had any effect. He then shrugged it off. "So, what's our first move, little girl?"
Samantha snapped her fingers, and they teleported back to Der Reise. The power was once again off and the doors were closed.
"Why are we here now?"
Samantha pointed at the blue beacon in the sky that indicated where the mystery box was. "If you want to see Nikolai again, you need to get a Wunderwaffe and relink the teleporters. I have an idea that can kill two birds with one stone."
"And can you actually tell me it, little girl?" Dempsey groaned in frustration.
Samantha, who had begun to walk away, turned back to him. "All in good time, Dempsey, all in good time."
She then vanished into thin air before Dempsey could say anything else, leaving him alone as the first zombies began to break down the windows.
"Sam! You're going to go easy on me, right?" Dempsey called out.
No response.
"Sam? Sam!? SAM!" Dempsey shouted as the zombies approached.
hahahahah...
So, sammy's new plan is to ship them all to equestria, leaving rictofen. Except rictofen, being rictofen, once he realizes sam's plan(maybe) will attach a I.V. to his arm with the other end attached to a barrel of 115, jump in a teleporter and attach a car battery to his nipples. Because rictofen on drugs.
6430953 You had me at nipples.
6431086 did i just accidentally a canon?
6431769 Ehh I already have plans for what exactly happens, but if I hadn't, then maybe.
6431810 in my professional opinion( its not) "rictofen on drugs" needs become a thing. Or a viable HiE excuse.
6431826 Or what if this is all a hallucination that Nikolai has after blacking out from overdosing Vodka?
6442317 What if I'm actually Gabe Newell and this is the script for Half-Life 3?
6442317 Oh shit I just thought of a great short fic idea. Gabe Newell comes to Equestria and the Mane 6 help him write Half-Life 3.
But someone else must write it for I have to write this fic.
6442438 Or what if L4D3 is already being worked on? Because it is.
6442317 no, because the "its all a dream" thing is one of the worst cop-outs in the history of the written word (playwrite, script or otherwise) and this author has too much story-crafting skill to go with something so cliche... unless he somehow makes it incredibly funny... but i will still be disappointed.
6443293 I know how cliched it is, and I know that's not how the story's gonna end.
6443293 My story-crafting skill is nothing compared to writers like Kkat and Pen Stroke.
But yeah, I will say that it's not a dream. Everything that has happened so far has actually happened.
6443523 I haven't told you everything, Marc. I still got some tricks up my sleeve
Like the part when I reveal that Applejack also has a crush on Nikolai. Nah, just kidding.
6443549 That's good. It keeps me from telling yor audience all the plot spoilers. Like The return of the fan-favorites Gear Grinder and Ugly Turnip
6443597 Why did you tell them that?.
6443601 I dunno. I felt like it. I have all the power now. It's chapter 4 again, Blake!
6443527 we shall see about that, sir
Then why would you even suggest that??? U b b8'n?
Samantha you heartless bitch.