Prologue:
Caesar's POV:
The alarms on my computers started blaring all of the sudden. They made a special noise that I had programmed into them in case it happened, but it was unlikely. Yet here I was listening to the alarm while I was tinkering with a watch I was trying to put a phone into. I sat there for a while hoping that it was just a glitch, that the computer was wrong, even though I knew it wasn't. I had programmed myself it after all.
I put down the watch and proceeded to check the alarm and my worst fear was fully realized. There she was. Just standing there. A portal had just closed behind her, which I had assumed she came from. Sadly it wasn't one of Breach's portals. She stood there waiting. I knew what she wanted. She wanted me to come for her. So she could destroy me for what I had done to her, but I wasn't about to go unprepared.
"White Knight. I need to speak with you." I said as I called White on the video screen.
"What is it Caesar. I'm busy." He replied, annoyed.
"I think you need to see this." I said putting the video of her up onto the monitor for him to see. He watched it. At first he was annoyed since I'd just interrupted whatever he had been doing, and then realization flashed across his face. I didn't know he knew her.
"Take Six and contain her. I want this done yesterday." He ordered. He knew her, somehow I wasn't surprised.
"What about Rex?" I said already knowing the answer.
"Keep him out of it. He does not find out about any of this." And with that he blinked off the screen. He was right. Rex didn't need to find out about her. Ever.
I left my lab and called Six to meet me at a Jump Jet. White Knight already had one waiting for us.
"What is this about Caesar?" Six asked unemotionally after we and a few other Providence soldiers were heading to her location.
"A dangerous E.V.O. White wants us to capture." I said without looking at him.
"Then why isn't Rex with us?" he asked. I knew that was the question he was getting to and I already had an answer.
"Rex can't help us with her." I said simply. He accepted the answer for now.
As the pilot sat the Jump Jet down I saw her. Still standing in the same position she had been in on the monitors.
She gave me a cold stare as I walked towards her. Providence's soldiers surrounded her and aimed their guns towards her. She simply ignored them. They couldn't hurt her and she knew it. Six stood beside me, bringing out his swords.
"Caesar." She said coldly, "I see you actually had the guts to come, after what happened before. I didn't think you'd show."
"Mija. I only did that to protect you. You know that." I said caringly.
"That's what you said the last three times you betrayed me."
"It's different this time."
"You said that too." She said. She was hurt. I got that. After what I'd done to her. I could see how she wouldn't trust me, but everything I did I did to protect her. One day she would understand that.
"Please Mija. Just come with me and I can explain."
"No." she said flatly. "Do you think I'm stupid Caesar? Like I'd go with you just because you brought Providence. Providence did things to me too. Before they decided to go all E.V.O friendly. I wasted two years of my life there after the Event. And I am not going back."
"Mija?"
"Stop freakin' calling me that!" she screamed jumping at me and pulling out a sword in midair. The soldiers started to shoot at her, but all the bullets just bounced off like she was made metal. She landed on top of me, knocking me to the ground, with her sword at my throat. She was fast, but so was Six. He went around behind her and pointed his own swords at her back.
"Mija. You need to calm down. You don't know what you are capable of." I said.
"I know exactly what I'm capable of, Caesar." She said harshly ignoring Six's threatening blades at her back.
"Let me up and we can talk." I said.
"No I didn't come here to talk. I came back here for one reason, Caesar, to find Rex and I will find him this time. You will not stop me again. So tell me. Where. Is. Rex." She said digging the sword into my throat.
"What do you want with Rex?" Six said before I could tell her anything.
"Six don't tell me you don't remember me?" she said, and then she saw the puzzled expression on his face and she turned back to glaring at me. "Did you make him forget too?"
"Yes, sort of, but for the record I wasn't the one that did that to Rex. Rylander was."
"It was your idea to put some freakin' safeguard in his head for whenever he turned into that thing." She yelled at me.
I didn't say anything. This wasn't a battle I was going to win with her. I never could.
"What do you want with Rex?" Six repeated.
"I want to save him from the brother that hurt him for science." She said still glaring at me, although addressing six. He stepped back allowing her to get up. He wanted to know more.
She stood, but I stayed on the ground. I felt as though that was the most tactical choice. She spoke slowly, "You know where he is, don't you Six?" she took her eyes from me and stared at Six. The kind of stare that bore into your soul and made you spill all your secrets. Just as Six was about to talk, I took out a small oval shaped key, that I keep with me always, out of my pocket and inserted it into the back of her neck. She cringed and stopped cold, dropping her sword beside her. From the key blue lines raced out all over her body, she was in my control. The key allowed me to access her nanites, it was specially made just for her in the early days of the nanite project for the simple reason that she was to unpredictable.
"Designation: Subject 01. Command: Sleep." I told her nanites. The blue lines disappeared as she fell into my arms unconscious.
I told White that she needed to be kept away from people, because if and when she woke up she would be mad and out for blood. But she especially needed to be kept away from Rex. She knew too much. She knew things he shouldn't know just yet.
We took her to a remote Providence facility in Siberia. Thousands of miles away from anyone she could harm. I knew she would get out eventually, so I set safeguards to slow her down if she ever managed to wake up and I equipped the soldiers that guarded her with something that would actually be effective against her, but still wouldn't fatally harm her. I stood in front of her containment unit putting in the final code. She was put in a cylindrical tube filled with a blue liquid, of which the name wasn't really important, with a mask over her mouth and nose so she could breathe. Every once and a while she was dosed with an anesthetic to keep her asleep and she had other smaller tubes connected to her body for medical purposes. She looked kind of peaceful asleep, with her eyes closed. You would never guess how dangerous she was.
I turned to Six who was standing beside me and said, "Rex doesn't need to know about this. Not yet." Then I walked out of the sterile white room she resided in and didn't look back.
