13. Last Minute

Complete story — includes the ending

Months later, Red Alec and Emily narrowly survive an assassination attempt. They return to join forces with Kiera and Brad to stop Green Alec's plans to accelerate the rise of Piron and the launch of Halo. Declaring that they must all embrace this new timeline, Kiera recruits the surviving members of Liber8, and Brad reveals that the device he reclaimed from the Freelancers will send a distress signal to his future meaning if he activates it and nothing happens, then his future has ceased to exist. Garza fakes an assassination attempt at the Halo launch, and in the confusion Kiera kidnaps Green Alec, and Red Alec returns to Piron to destroy the antimatter lab, and steals back the time travel device. However, Green Alec is rescued by his security forces, and returns to Piron only to die in a fight with Red Alec. In the wake of these events, Liber8 claims control over the Freelancer's base, Kellog reveals that he managed to get Green Alec to sign documents that allow him to take complete control of Piron and has Red Alec ejected from the company, and Brad's beacon activates with heavily armed soldiers emerging from a rift in the future implying that the disastrous future he was sent to prevent is still on track to occur.