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Final Omega Quatrain. Eddie called it the last chance. "Into the void must go the Twice Bless'd Man. Seek the hammer, as the seeker has sought before. In the courage to end, find the beginning, or death and darkness befall mankind."
The hammer is the ultimate Gua weapon, able to move matter through a vortex in time and space. It could deliver an alien army to our doorstep in a heartbeat. Our only salvation was that the hammer had been lost in a vortex, beyond Mabus' grasp.
Or so we thought.
Joshua intercepted a Gua transport carrying a locator, a device meant to help the Gua locate the missing hammer. Our only hope was finding the weapon before Mabus did. Eddie and Joshua rigged a device to get me into the vortex; once inside, the locator would lock onto the energy of the hammer and guide me toward it. Downside: There was no way back. Only the hammer could bring me home. It was succeed or die.
And if Mabus got there first, there wouldn't be much to come home to. Joshua asked me if I was ready. Was I ready?
I'd been fighting the Gua for three years. I'd traveled to the future, been killed, brought back to life, trained by an alien sensei — this was as ready as I'd ever be. Joshua didn't think any of that mattered if I wasn't prepared to face the hardest part of my journey — I'd have to kill Mabus in Jordan's body to win this fight.
For me that was the absolute last option, but if it had to be done, I'd do it. Jordan would've wanted it.
Into the vortex I went. Found myself under Gua fire right off the bat. There was a sign: "Terminal City: Forbidden Zone. Condemned by the Gua Military Council." Bullets had me running for cover.
There was a girl there, looked like Raven Nation, name was Taryn. She knew who I was. She took my locator, figured me for an "AC" - Assassination Clone. I was in the future again; the invasion had already happened. Then I was face-to-face with myself, but this time I was nine years older — and I looked like hell.
The "future me," a guy Taryn called "the Commander," wouldn't believe I was real; he said no one could stop the Second Wave. But if the Commander really was me, then I should've known what I was doing there. Confusing, I know, but stay with me.
My future self was bitter, angry. Said he knew all about the hammer and that the plan wouldn't work. He'd already fought for a decade, watched humans hunted and exterminated and all they had left to fight for was this hellish future. He'd failed, which meant I was wasting my friggin' time. He destroyed the locator. In an instant, he'd killed us all. The fight for the future was over.
And Mabus was in the vortex now, too. The older Cade was afraid that, if he helped me, history would repeat itself. Thing is, I didn't know what the history was. Eddie and Joshua entered the vortex behind me; I wish they hadn't, but Joshua wanted to be sure someone came out with the weapon.
Taryn seemed intrigued by me... wanted to know more about why I was there, told me Eddie was dead in this future, started asking questions about Jordan. Taryn said her Commander had loved Jordan and that Jordan had been a martyr for the resistance — the Commander didn't talk about Jordan much. It killed me to know Mabus had finally finished Jordan off.
The Commander came to see me. I realized he still had the hammer in his possession. We talked about the prophecy, he'd had to choose between Jordan and the hammer and he'd chosen the weapon — it wasn't an easy call to make. Said I'd do the same — it was the only way to stop the Second Wave. But the Commander had lost something in letting Jordan go — it broke his spirit, dulled his skill — all he'd been taught meant nothing. He couldn't control the weapon when he had to.
Then he told me how Jordan died — the Commander said I killed her.
She was so close he could see her eyes when he did it, he could see Jordan was still inside Mabus. "I" shot her through the heart. Mabus died too, but the Second Wave came anyway. Commander said this time it would be different; Jordan wouldn't die because he wouldn't let me kill her again. He was gonna let Mabus get the hammer — this time Jordan would live!
Figured I'd become insane in the future. Wanted to make things right, but the future me couldn't believe we had a chance. We couldn't both exist in the same time period, not for long. We were deteriorating. The Commander felt one single act could change the world, and he wanted "us" to disappear from both our realties. Figured whatever happened, the world would get another chance if "we" hadn't existed. He was just hoping the next spin would be better than his own.
The Commander was playing with all our fates, but I believed he was wrong. Got out of my cell and went after the hammer.
I could still stop the Second Wave if I got there first.
See, there was a difference between the future Commander and Cade Foster today: he'd given up. I hadn't.
I will stop the Second Wave.
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First Wave (1998) - 3x21 - Terminal City