Multiple Choice
With the armies of Chorus converging on the capital for one final, bloody battle, the Mercs offer the Blood Gulch Crew an escape; if they take a shuttle off of Chorus and agree to keep quiet about what they've seen, they'll be allowed to live.
Tropes
- It's Quiet… Too Quiet: As the New Republic travel through the capital, Kimball is not comfortable with how quiet it is.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Assuming the Mercs were being honest, then Control is this. Due to the Reds and Blues being a loose end that needs to be tied up, Control tells the Mercs to offer the Reds and Blues a chance to leave the planet peacefully under the condition they don't speak a word of what really happened to anyone rather than trying to hunt them down when they have the ability to teleport anywhere on the planet. The Mercs admit there is no way for them to prove they aren't lying and that the offer is genuine, but admit they were doing their job and Felix outright admits he hopes they don't take the offer so he can have more "fun" killing them himself.
- Sadistic Choice: As Church notes, the options they have range from "Fucking terrible" to "Goddamn nightmare".
- Option A/"Fucking Terrible": They use their last teleportation grenade to hide somewhere on Chorus and lay low. They will fail to stop the two armies from killing each other, but they will be able to continue to gather intel once everyone is rested and will eventually be able to bring Control to justice.
- Option B: They take Control's offer and teleport back to the canyon. Assuming the Mercs were telling the truth, they will be able to board the ship they provide and go home and never mention anything they witnessed. The odds that the deal is legitimate is only 50%, with the other 50% being they have rigged the ship to explode and kill them all. Add to it, they will still have the deaths of both armies on their heads, Control will continue their illegal operations without facing punishment, and even if the deal is legitimate they will constantly be looking over their shoulders in case Control decides to come after them and finish the job.
- Option C/"Goddamn Nightmare": They teleport to the radio jammer which is currently being guarded by Felix, Locus and an unknown number of pirates, and attempt to fight their way through their forces, disable the jammer, and expose the truth to the Feds and Rebels before they kill each other. Morally this is the best choice for setting everything right and getting the most people out alive, however the odds are extremely stacked against them and it has the lowest probability of success. The enemy is better equipped and Carolina is still injured so the odds are most of them will probably die, and they will be in a race against time to send a message to the capital before both armies kill each other and don't know how they are going to convince them the Reds and Blues are alive and the Mercs have been lying to them.
- Washington proposes an Option D: The Reds and Blues accept the deal and go home while he, Carolina, and Epsilon go on the run themselves.
- Shout-Out:
- Locus warns the Reds and Blues if they don't take their offer to leave "We will find you, and we will kill you", referencing a famous quote from Taken.
- Palomo enthusiastically compares his squad chosen by the Reds and Blues to The Avengers.
- Take That!: Bitters claims that if Palomo were any member of The Avengers he'd totally be Hawkeye. Specifically the one from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Palomo: Comic book Hawkeye or movie Hawkeye?
Bitters: Movie Hawkeye.
Palomo: (raises pistol, pissed) You fuck yourself!
