Lucas dressed faster than Echo he had had only a civilian shirt over his prison pants, and limited combat gear, "Well like I said Sinclair is like my father he will listen."

Echo finished dressing and then began the task of returning her armor to working order, a cloaking suit was never an easy thing to master and even harder to make, "It's the only thing to stop a war, and we've seen extinction and barely survived it once."

"You kill the doctor I'll destroy the data and convince Sinclair to stand down." Lucas said he had no doubt he could convince Sinclair he became the best Shadow Marshal to have served surpassing even the operative known as Luger in successful operations. That alone would make his words count.

"Good, because neither side is going to win…" before she could finish her sentence Lucas kissed her deeply, she was shocked but she liked it and only bolstered her hopes the Vektans would stand down.

"Well this crate is ready to transfer we should get going." Lucas said "I'll cover you and we go on your mark."

Maya smiled for the first time in a long while she was happy.

Vekta City VSA temporary headquarters

"That is ludicrous, stand down! WHY SO THEY HIT US AGAIN and with a bioweapon; yes they inflict suffering on their people and we will use that to cause an uprising as soon as this bioweapon is secured and the doctor is in your custody." Thomas said to Lucas simply dismissing everything Lucas reported. "I need you need to focus I know seeing the human refugees suffer at the hands of those animals is hard and leaving them was even harder but we have a mission."

"Alright, but I am stopping this bioweapon it's an abomination only those animals would think of using such things." Lucas pled his case hoping he could at least convince the closet person he knew to stop the madness.

It was not to be, having fought his way through an army of Stahls best men he made the slow approach to kill the man, he made never made a copy of the weapons data and Echo was finishing up her own mission to put an end to this madness.

Stahl was a crippled decrepit man kept alive by tubes and machines his hate was the only thing that made him continue to live in such a sad state. He paused, he saw the old bastard and began thinking of himself; he watched his father's execution. When Sinclair killed the three Helghast soldiers he was jealous of the man's skills. He wanted to do that and he did now he wondered if he would one day be wounded in battle, and kept alive by machines. Lucas aimed his LRS44 at Stahls head, a mercy killing he thought, but before Lucas could pull the trigger Stahl was shot dead. Then he felt nothing his legs and strength were gone he couldn't feel them. He could only feel his left arm he was shot somewhere between the 1st and 5th thoracic vertebrae. His breathing was hard he figured he got sloppy and missed a guard, but the truth was more shocking. When he managed turn over he saw Sinclair. Sinclair was talking to him but Lucas couldn't process it, Lucas fought to push out a last word, "Father?" all that came out of his mouth was dying gasps. Sinclair put him down like a dog with shot between the eyes.

22 years later

Daniel Kellan sat in his apartment's office going though the files on Sinclair's activities involving the operation that cost his father his life. All he had left to decrypt was personal diary that he stole in his free time from the Shadow Marshal academy. "You are really getting old I heard you about ten steps back mom." He said turning around to see his mother.

"I am not here to test you although most of this building's security systems are pathetic. I literally can walk through most of it without having to use cloak." Maya said as always she tried not to break out sobbing over the fact she left him in the care of others for most of his life, after the Black Hand made an attempt on his life.

"What's up you only come around to test me?" Daniel replied spinning around in his she was always about getting something from him.

"I scouted ahead for one of your missions; it's against an elite unit of Stahl forces they have a good sum of petrusite weapons dated but still deadly. The peace treaty is drawing radicals out. I'm going to ask for ISA assistance, my own Head of Security was killed three days ago so the only person I can trust now is you." Echo said she had no idea how to show her son love, she got him to safety across the wall in a home that children should be raised in. That was the last mother, son moment she had with him. He was too young to remember.

"Thanks for that information, you know I was 2.4 second faster… beating his stealth infiltration record, and um well it's been a while since I graduated and well we only just talked. I figured you'd like to know." Daniel said, forcing a compassionate tone of voice.

"That's good; you made me proud he would be proud." Echo said disappearing as the cloaking suit masked her from sight.

Daniel went to bed it was too late to eat and he knew he'd never sleep if he did. He was awoken by a call from his director; he had about four hours of sleep when he looked to his clock. He answered the phone keeping it on audio only, "Yes sir, what is the mission this time?"

"To the point as always, you and your team are going over the wall you need to kill a Helghast Colonel he took a small company over to the Black Hand. Your team was asked for specifically by name, but you will be taking a team of Helghast commandos in with you. The UCN and a lot of liberals in our own senate are looking for an excuse to call in the UCA. If you go dark in New Helghan after they request VSA help it's going to look like a hostage crisis and all hell breaks loose.

"I understand completely, we'll be in and out the Vektan Senate will be watching the report on the UCBN well after I am in bed." Daniel said hanging up the phone.