Ch. 56 Track Down (all)

[Dome]

Isamu looks at Jason his face stoic, in a solemn voice he says, "they were looking for you. You ran off without saying anything, we were concerned. We have all been looking at you since you tripped out the lights and ran away."

[shiivster]

Sierra's eyes have watched everyone as they had their talks and whatnot. when Kristian hugs her, her attention diverts to him and she is clearly thinking something out.

'i'm okay i guess. didn't really do what i set out to do. a night out just went up in smoke it seems' *she gives him a peck on the cheek*

'if i'm not needed anymore for the night i know i want to get some relaxation time. let's grab a 6-pak K and hit the sand'

*she'll tug at his arm once as she turns to the kitchen and back door. 'there's a bull out there that's gone wild and needs to be put down soon. just trying to think of how to approach it without endangering anyone else. sorry i was a bit addle brained earlier, i was worried about Ashley. glad she's okay'

*she will try to get out of the house to talk to Kristian about this animal when the others aren't about. Rag is a 'rogue bull' that will kill before it's stopped. she needs to find a way to stop him permenantly without the others knowing she plans too.

[she will be thinking of a big animal if scanned by Alice]

[doc]

Tom sighs, clearly tired. "You're probably right, but just the same. What's SCRET?"

[sasqaricious]

"You are probably right. Maybe I should just go snake a nap for a little while and then get up at 4:30 so we are there when he and my grandmother wakes up. The rise at the crack of 5 every morning, actually I am much like them in that regards which drove my mother insane because as a hippy she loves to sleep in." As she starts to get a little loopy she becomes more of a blabber mouth. "You know if I go shower and nap for a bit I should be good. Let me know if I am needed for anything."

With that she gets up and heads to the shower area to clean herself up before heading for a short nap.

[dakota]

Kristian draped his arms over Sierra's shoulders and pressed his forehead against hers once they were alone in the kitchen. He spoke softly. " Ashley is fine. I was able to keep her stabilized until Avi got here. Worst case, she'll have a little headache from him healing her skull fracture." He paused a moment, , then plucked the Coors from the counter and took her hand in his other," Not much of a picnic, Lead the way."

Jason was suddenly withdrawn, his face guilty. " But..., it was easier to do things on my own. " Her looked to Alice, "Alice, didn't you get my note?" He was suddenly concerned.

MacColter cleared his throat. " A valid question Tom. I forget sometimes that this is a new group. SCRET is the acronym for Superbeing Control, Retreival and Eliminations Team. There are agencies all acrossed the world, with each country running and funding their own teams. It means we not only have international level sanctioning, we have government funding and access. SATAR, which stands for the Superbeing Acquisition, Training Assimilation and Rebirth, is an offshoot of the US SCRET program. They currently have one team operating out of Washington and have absorbed some of the former people I had in the NSCA, but you folks are only the second sanctioned team. The other you may have seen on the news, the Sentinels of Liberty and Justice? I don't think we'll ever be as patriotic as them though." He grinned

[foxx]

Sara let the others talk, rubbing her forehead with her hand nursing a headache that jump up. Fatigue from tonights events, the fight, and bad news in the form of a psycho would do that to ya. She looks up form her thoughts at Jaine, "Yeah... so I know just oozed his way back into my life..."

She waves off any concern to sit down and listen to what Mac had to say after his phone call.

"Sweet, SCret." Sara says with a slight smile, "You think these kids are ready to go the big time with that much responsibility? They don't seem salted enough just yet..."

[dakota]

Mac looked at Sara," That's why they have some experienced memebers to show them how to deal with it. If you're up to it?"

[sasqaricious]

Deci overhears the last of the conversation before moving off. She is not sure what to make of the new team idea, but having nothing to compare it too decides to just go with it. That and she is tired so continues on her plan.

[Mierin]

Alice nods at Isamu as she replies, returning his fake smile. "It is fine. We are both new at this. Go ahead and meditate and get some rest if you need to."

Alice nods quietly as she replies, "Yes, I did get your letter and Isamu read it as well. However, did you not stop to think how your actions would affect everyone else? How worried they would be? How worried I was?" Alice does her best to remain calm, but can't keep some of the stress from showing on her face. "You should have let us help you instead of just taking off like that."

[Dome]

Isamu is about to leave the room. He stops and looks at Alice, also at Jason. He smiles genuinely this time but its a sad one, "today is the first day I told Ashley exactly how I feel about her, and I almost lost her. I am sorry I did not do so sooner. I apologize to you both for invading your privacy. I only wanted to be sure you were ok Jason."

He then leaves the room and heads down to medical to see if he can sit with Ashley. He knows Avery said he would be down there, so he looks for him before walking into Ashley's room.

[foxx]

"I'll do what I can if they want to listen." Other words, 'easier said than done'. She gets up to walk over to MacCoulter.

"We need to talk for a moment." She heads for another room, checking around to make sure no one was there to pry into their conversation.

"I got bad news to relate to you. I just found out Homicide is in town. I think I'm going to need a rush on my weapons and include some higher power automatics in with that. With armor piercing rounds, oh yeah and a rocket lauchner... maybe a small tactical nuclear weapon..."

[dakota]

Avi had crawled onto one of the other beds acrossed from Ashley, and had pulled the curtain so he couldn't see her. He was already asleep. Ashley lay still to one side of the large beds, only her slow breathing and the occasional scury of her symbiotes giving any signs of life. Other than a finger clipped to a monitor measuring her heartbeat, Avi had disconnected all the other machines from her.

Jason had a withdrawn look about him, almost guilty. " I wasn't try to worry you, that's why I left the note. And I meant everything I said in it. It was easier for me to use my speed to get around town, and I think I found what I was looking for. I have to go see a guy named Cortex in the morning. Weird guy, but for the right price, he can dig up info on anything. I baited Wraith a litlle on his computer, but that was just a cover for the search I was doing of his computer. I found a reference to a Chassity being paid to be in the hospital the same time I had surgery. Chassity is Charisma's real first name. I remember Tyler dated her years ago, though I only the name. I should have remembered what she looked like in the hospital. At least you'd think so." he shrugged. " My memory is horrible anyways, barely remember anything that didn't happen yesterday."

Mac caught what Jason said and gave Alice an odd look before Sara ushered him aside. He looked at her," Homicide? You mean Glenn? Weapons shouldn't be an issue, but why is he a concern to you all of a sudden, a history I'm not familiar with?"

[sasqaricious]

After her shower Deci feels a little more human and decides that the hour is nigh and heads to the room she picked to get some shut eye....

[foxx]

Sara shakes her head collecting her thoughts and judging by the look on her face; they were painful memories.

"Yeah, Glenn. I'm surprise you didn't hear about some of his more, uh, 'colorful' escapades across the ocean blue. He's an artificial mutant. His father used a bunch of chemicals on him to correct an immune deficiency in his body. They had a reaction alright but instead they gave him powers to change his arms into weapons and rather or you knew this, merge with weapons with his body. He was recruited into black-ops like me. It was nice having him around, the extra help in A-stan and Iraq fighting Al-qaeda and their meta terrorists."

Sara leans against the door frame, looking off into the distance in her own memories.

"Unlike me, he had prior military experience and help me out, a green recruit, on how to really fight a battle. It wasn't like what they taught in basic training, that's for sure. He help get over my nervousness about having to kill people. He was good at that, maybe I should've noticed that he also like doing it a little too much too, but hell, what did I know at the time. We were soldiers fighting enemy combatants who like strapping bombs to the mentally challenged and sending them into a packed market lane...

"Anyway, I like the guy. Maybe had more of a crush on him but I never acted on it. He had a way of putting people off, even partners at time, to really to get to like Glenn."

Sara pauses for a moment as the really bad memory comes up. The last time she saw her former partner.

"Last time I saw Glenn I tried to kill him. The CIA had missions going awry and they knew that their information collecting apparatus had been compromised. We thought it was SECTOR screwing with us again. Damn, I hate those guys... but no, it turn out that the Taliban had gain a psychic in their ranks and were using her to clairvoyant future operations.

"That had to stop because special forces and black-ops were catching hell every time we moved and the bastards were there waiting for us. We figured out where she was but knew that we attempted to move in they were would be long gone. They devised a plan to fake her out but separating the teams into two and sending us out with envelopes stating our orders. No one was previously brief but we figured that one of the teams was going to going after her. The sprinkled us all over one possible locations for the clairvoyant and we sat out to find the base. The psych-out was that everyone was given the same order to NOT go after her. At the appointed time, we open our orders and that's what she would see.

"I imagine it was massively confusing knowing that all these spec-op, black-op guys were wondering around the mountain side of your home but no one was given the order to move in. Unless, one of the order packets had another envelope in it giving the order the okay to move in... Glenn and me were the lucky ones."

Sara rolls her eyes.

"While the Taliban swami was getting the wrong signals, Glenn and me, infiltrated the village she was in. It was long before the guards found us and the shooting match was on. I go ballistic and Glenn is absorbing every extra gun into his body turning the area into a free fire zone. Only he didn't care who got shot. He mowed everyone down with a happy smile on his face. I have no clue what it was that happen that day, but something made him snap. We called him Homicide because he hardly ever brought his targets in alive. I think the man lived for killing and being in an area without any authority to stop him allow him to enjoy his killer instinct.

"Of course we stop the girl. During the fire fight he splattered her head all over the wall in her bedroom, along with both her parents." Sara hits the door frame lightly with her fist, the wood now impressed the indentations. "She was only twelve years old and Glenn blew her away."

"I got made, I got the jump on him. I actually burned a circle in his face from the business end of my gun. He was surprised but he didn't care. He thought he and I were the same kind of person, that's the only reason I wanted to work with him. Thinking about it, I was the only willing to work with him. I made all the excuses that wasn't as bad as the others thought. My rookie ego took a beating that day.

"I reported him and told the bosses I would not work with him ever again. Homicide has some R&R force on him and he was sent back to the states for a pysch eval. After that the war on terror became 'man-made disasters' and I got fed up with the bull shit and quit."

Sara sighs, "So yeah, Mac. I got some history with Glenn. I was his dirty little gun whore who let him go on killing people, some of the probably innocent, while covering it up."

[Dome]

Isamu makes his way into the room and sits down on the edge of the bed next to Ashley. He reaches out and takes her hand. He gets up and finds a chair and brings it over next to her bed. He leans down and kisses her forehead whispering in japanese "I love you Ashley. Come back to me."[/color]

He then sits down in the chair and holds her hand again as he sits back and just watches her face.