Chameleon smiles grimly. "The version of us that succeeded the first time. Before we messed it up. He's not dead. He's just... 2.5."
"Who was that?" she asks.
"You can't save them all," the echo bubbles. commandos 2 dp 2.5
Sniper raises her scope to her eye, looks back at the island. A fifth figure stands on the shore—a commando made of afterimages, half there, half not. It salutes. Then fades. Chameleon smiles grimly
The screen flickers. The commandos' faces appear—but each one has two shadows. He's not dead
Chameleon infiltrates the command bunker disguised as a colonel. Inside, he finds a radio playing a conversation between himself and the spy from a future that no longer exists. "You always betray them in the end, Julian."
"I don't need to save all of them," Mako says. "Just this one."