DISCLAIMER: I own nothing and no one from The Zeta Project. I am just a poor college student who also happens to be a rabid Zeta fan and this just happens to be a fanfiction that my mind came up with that I feel like sharing with other fans. I make absolutely NO money from this. It is merely for fun and hopefully the enjoyment of other fans. Please don't sue and fans please enjoy.
Title: I Once was Lost, but Now I'm Found
Chapter 1: Surprise
"Ready?" Bennett rumbled under his breath, his gaze fixed on West across the doorway even as he saw most of the rest of the team nod in his peripheral vision. This was a big collar. There was no room for error, not even from West. Somehow, with his face looking more serious then usually, the redhead caught his boss's searching gaze and nodded.
"Well then," Bennett whispered, looking back towards the door. "Here we go."
….
Bang!
The door blew in, chips of wood flying everywhere and NSA agent James Bennett charged right in after it, his team coming in behind, covering his back. Bennett's eyes searched the room and his gun trained on the first person he saw. "Down on the ground. Krick get down on the ground right now or I'm going to blow your brains out."
The fugitive cyborg dropped his fork and raised his hands in surrender from where he sat eating dinner in the stark, cold room of the abandoned warehouse, the startled look still plastered on his face. He had just set down to the meal. This raid was entirely unexpected. He couldn't believe his early warning system had failed him so completely. Of course he had been focused on other things lately.
"Down on the ground!" Bennett growled, his tone enlisting a few more of his team's guns trained on the fugitive.
"Okay, okay. I'm down. I'm down," Krick said, moving to lie on his belly on the floor. "I'm peacefully surrendering myself to you. Don't shoot"
"Hands where I can see them," Bennett demanded coldly, not giving the cyborg an inch.
Krick quietly complied, slowly laying his hands palm down on front of him. Bennett gave a tight nod when the deed was done. "Good now stay there. If I so much as think you've twitched wrong, my people are going to blow your head off."
"Whatever," Krick said lazily to the ground.
Bennett twitched his head over to look at his team, but he didn't take his eyes or his gun off the fugitive. Just because Krick was down didn't mean he wasn't dangerous. "Search the place," the commanding agent ordered the pair behind him. "I want to know exactly what this lowlife was doing here."
West and Rush broke off from the rest of the group and started into the compound, their guns raised.
"And be careful," Bennett called after them.
"Yes sir."
Krick's head jerked to the side drawing Bennett's attention back to the cyborg. "Don't test me," the man snapped.
"Oh no. I would never do that." The fugitive had the nerve to grin. "I just have to ask agent Bennett; how did you ever find me?"
"Creds," Bennett answered shortly. "Follow the money."
Bennett could see Krick's eyes widen in surprise at that. "Wait so you were after me?"
"What do you think?" Bennett scoffed. "You're a degenerate criminal who needs to be locked in a cell with the key thrown away."
Krick's eyes widened further. "You don't know…" Then he smiled viscously. "Oh how fun!"
Bennett's already scowling lips deepened into a frown and he glared suspiciously down at Krick over the barrel of his gun. "Know what?"
"Sir-"
"Not right now West," Bennett snapped over his shoulder then turned back to find Krick was sniggering. The cyborg was actually sniggering! "Know what Crick?" the head agent demanded again.
"You'll see, you'll see," the fugitive said in a strange sing-song voice.
Bennett stared. Why in the world was the psycho so pleased with himself? He had just gotten arrested for crying out loud!
"Sir-"
"Not now West!" Bennett snarled, not taking his eyes from Krick.
"Bennett you really need to come over here."
Rush's calm, quiet, very professional voice said from Bennett's left where she and West were standing right outside one of the many doors that were scattered within the building.
Bennett sighed. If Rush insisted as well as West then it must be important. The man pulled out a pair of restraints and crouched next to the fugitive. "Hands behind your back Krick. Good." Bennett clicked the cuffs around the cyborg's wrists and stepped back again, gesturing to another set of partners in the group. "Take him to the van and sit on him. Sedate him if you have to. I don't want this one getting away. He's caused us enough trouble as is."
"Understood" was the nodded reply.
"Sir?" West's voice chimed in again.
"I'm coming. I'm coming," Bennett said tightly, swiftly making his way over to the pair who were hovering by that door. "What is so importan- Oh god." Bennett stopped dead in his tracks and stared into the room at the sight that greeted him. "Is that… that's Zeta!"
TBC…
Hey all. Most of the fanfics I have does so far are rather long, but this is my attempt at a shorter little 5-10 chapter fic. (Orignally it was a oneshot, but I just can't seem to do those. My imagination gets carried away with itself.) Anyway, I hope you like and please, please review.
P.S. My chapter titles are mostly inspired by songs and/or lyrics within a song that I generally like (although sometimes inspired by other media like popular movies etc…).
Title: "I Once was Lost, but Now I'm Found" lyric from "Amazing Grace"… a song sung by many a person.
Chapter title: "Surprise" from the song "No Surprise" by Daughtry.