Well it seems the feedback was positive for the most part so I'm keeping this going. 14 reviews, 12 follows and 13 favourites...thanks guys! Since I've got so many on the first part I'll just have to stick to the direct questions and inquiries but please keep reviewing and giving me ideas. Reviews can change my story flow as some already know :)

EnclaveOfficer745: No, no cyborgs this time. I don't want to be thought of as a one trick pony so to speak. There will be some other character returns though.

TSCSupremeCommander: This is the last major idea I've had, sure. I've still got one or two others in the pipeline though they might be stories of the past rather than continuing stories but I'll see how this goes before deciding.

Oddliver: I'm not done writing yet but I might be going back in time rather than forward for the next one.

Flipout6: Oh dear this is plainly the DLC you don't like but, unfortunately for you, it is canon since it's an official DLC. There were definite plot holes in it that you pointed out well and that's what I 'm trying to fix with this fic since no one else seems to have tried yet. If that doesn't float your boat then you'd best try another fic.

eaglescorch: Oh the Zeta have gone darker alright. Desperation tends to do that...

Chazzen01: I've still got a few twists up my sleeve, don't worry. :)

The next part might be a little longer off as I'm going abroad soon and away from the internet :( but I'll do the best I can.

Zeta ship

"Hey, wake up!"

Amata groaned as she heard the voice. The aliens' 'experimenting' had done a number on her and she felt like crap. She managed to open her eyes to find a familiar good looking blonde girl shaking her awake.

"I know how you're feeling but you've got to move now!"

Amata let the girl pull her up and help her to the wall of the sterile metal cell they'd been flung into. There was no door but a shimmering force field over the entrance and the roof had a large opening in it. The reason why soon became apparent as a large metal grabbing claw went over them at fast speed.

"Thanks," Amata gasped. Her insides felt like a hoard of Yao Guai had been tearing at them. "Hey, I remember you. It's Lucy isn't it?"

Lucy West grinned. "Yeah. I'm surprised you remember me, you didn't stay in Megaton long."

While relieved to see a familiar and friendly face Amata's mood soon worsened. "So...it's not a dream then."

"No such luck," Lucy replied grimly. "I've been through that stage already."

"I've seen some weird things in the wasteland but...aliens?" Amata was having trouble catching up with reality.

Lucy nodded. "I know. I keep hoping that I'll be waking up soon but given I've been here four days I don't think that's going to happen."

"Four days?!" Amata gasped.

"Yeah, four days. I was with Maggie just outside the town, I was teaching her how to shoot a hunting rifle when she was snatched off the ground by this green beam thing. I try to drag her back but I get pulled in as well; then there's a bright light and I wake up on a slab and surrounded by those...things," Lucy sighed.

"Did they hurt you too?" Amata shuddered a little as she remembered her time on the operating table.

"I don't know what they did but it hurt...a lot," Lucy replied with venom. "Little bastard torturers! Still, as bad as it was, at least I still have my clothes!"

"What? AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Amata shrieked as she finally realised that she was stark naked aside from her pip-boy!

"Hey take it easy," Lucy reassured her. "We're both girls and it doesn't look like you've got anything to be ashamed about. You must have a lot of guys chasing after you."

"Only one really," Amata blushed. "And I haven't seen him for awhile. A pity, we could really use his help right now!"

"If you're looking for any help or an easy way out of this place, forget it," Lucy warned. "That door seems to be the only way in or out and it only works for them. I can't find any controls, loose wires, nothing! What really scares me is..."

Lucy was cut off by the claw coming back over but this time it had a 'cargo', namely a ten year old girl who was screaming in terror all the way.

"...That."

"Oh god!" Amata was sickened as she figured where the kids of Little Lamplight had gone. "They took kids too?"

Lucy nodded. "I haven't seen Maggie since we were taken. Since then most of the poor bastards they've been taking with that thing have been kids. A lot haven't been coming back either."

Amata's disgust quickly turned into white hot rage. Any thoughts of waiting for Leon and rescue had disintegrated. "Well I don't know about you but I'm not sitting here waiting!"

"You got a plan? I haven't been able to find a way out," Lucy replied dejectedly.

"Maybe but there was only you then. Now there's two of us," Amata schemed.

"But what difference does that make? We still can't open the door."

"But they can for us," Amata reasoned. "It's just a matter of making them."

"And how do we do that?" Lucy was eager after four days of confinement.

"Only one way I can think of. They want us alive so they can experiment, right? So how about we go a few rounds and see if they come in and stop us?" Amata put up her fists and smiled.

Lucy did the same and returned the smile. "Bring it on!"

Mothership Zeta

Things hadn't entirely gone how Leon wanted them. He'd made the rendezvous point in good time, so had Sarah and the Pride but unfortunately word of the incident had got around faster than anyone thought. That was pretty obvious given Freddie, Christine, Susie, Butch and Alphonse Almodovar were waiting there as well. On hearing the news by radio they'd 'commandeered' a Vertibird that happened to be on the ground in Grayditch at the time.

Leon wasn't happy and nor was Sarah but he knew there was no time to waste and certainly none for the full blown argument he knew he'd get if he tried to stop them coming so, in the end, he'd just gone to the teleport point and beamed up first. Now he was frantically scanning every inch of the planet's surface.

"But I don't understand it Leon!" Sally said as she helped Leon search. "We've been up here all the time, there's no way another ship could have got past us!"

"Except for the last two weeks," Leon answered. "It's a safe bet they slipped in while we were fighting the cyborgs in California."

"Leon...what the hell is all this?"

Leon cringed at Sarah's exasperated voice from right behind him. He'd been so focused on going after Amata he'd forgotten that, Yuna and Dan aside, he'd brought an almost completely new team that had no knowledge of the mothership yet. Everyone else was still speechless and recovering from being teleported for the first time and the fact they were on an alien ship.

"Short version Sarah since I don't want other that ship getting away from us. Yes, we're on another alien ship. It tried to take me four years ago just like this one took Amata."

"What on earth for?" Alphonse hadn't stopped worrying since he'd heard the news of his daughter's abduction.

Leon sighed in worry. "Given what happened on this ship I shudder to think. Elliott, could you bring up the camera records again just like we did last time?"

"Sure," Elliott started bringing up the camera records of their first battle against the Zeta.

"That'll show you the highlights of my little adventure up here," Leon told them. "While you catch up I'll find Amata...I hope."

Zeta ship

If Leon had known what was going down on the other ship as he spoke, he'd have been proud of Amata. The 2 alien guards that entered the cell were used to cowed and docile human specimens. When they tried to separate the 'fighting' Lucy and Amata they certainly weren't ready for the brutal ambush they got as the girls' fists quickly turned on them. Even with shock batons the aliens were at a severe disadvantage as they were beaten to the ground.

Lucy, furious at being caged for four days, grabbed one of the batons and slammed it into her opponent over and over until he was a burnt out corpse. Amata's did no better, her hand to hand training with Leon had made her lethal and it wasn't long before she trapped him in a corner and started smashing his head into the wall time and again until his skull had caved.

"You ok?" Lucy asked.

"Never better," Amata replied as they grabbed a shock baton each. "Let's get out of here!"

Both ran out into a corridor just as metal and sterile as the cell they left behind aside from the many force field covered doorways.

"More cells," Lucy looked at Amata both thinking the same thing. Most of them were empty, one had a corpse of a wastelander who'd somehow managed to slit her wrists, in another a female Talon who 'wasn't there anymore' so to speak. Although she was still alive she was slumped on the floor staring into space and literally drooling. However the last one that Lucy checked held a dark haired man in his early forties dressed in metal armour.

"Hey!" He'd noticed Lucy through the energy barrier.

Lucy had some misgivings about releasing him, everything about him gave off a Raider aura but...she supposed he was human. She hit the switch and dropped the barrier.

"Thanks, never thought I'd need rescuing, if we get out of this don't tell anyone! I'd be a fucking joke in hours!"

"And you are?" Lucy asked with a hint of suspicion.

"Name's Jansen. Used to be one hell of a Raider before I retired. Or until I thought I retired! Fucking freaks! I'm gonna...whoa!"

Jansen had caught sight of the naked Amata who'd turned the same colour as a tomato and was desperately trying to cover herself. Not likely given all she had was her hands and a shock baton.

"Will you look elsewhere?" Amata snapped. "Unless you want this upside the head?!"

"Feisty too! I like her already!" Jansen grinned.

As if this day couldn't get any worse! Lucy facepalmed as Amata got madder by the second...

Mothership Zeta

As Leon expected nearly everyone was speechless by the time the playback had finished.

"No one believe it? I don't blame you, I lived through it myself and I can't believe it some days."

"I knew you'd been through some crazy stuff Leon but this?" Sarah found her voice first.

"There's more," Leon switched on his pip-boy and played back some of the prisoner files he'd downloaded four years ago.

"Unbefuckinglievable!" Butch crudely summed it up.

"So they've been watching us and...collecting us for over 500 years?" Alphonse was aghast with horror.

Leon nodded. "Yes and I still have no idea what for. Not understanding their language makes it difficult and their computers can't be hacked in the same way ours can."

"I've been able to access most of the controls whilst I've been here," Sally added. "But I haven't been able to access their mainframes and their research files. I know what a lot of the controls do but I can't make sense of their language at all."

"I suppose your 'friends' haven't been able to fill in the blanks?" Leon was referring to the red suited alien crew.

Elliott shook his head. "They're able to understand us but not the other way round, they talk to us through sign language. Fortunately we can control most of the stuff up here with just the two of us. One thing we do know for sure is they're sadists! There's no reason good enough to dissect living people on operating tables!"

"And they're NOT doing that to Amata!" Leon shared Elliott's anger.

"I've found them!" An elated Sally suddenly broke in. "They dropped their cloak and I'm reading teleport energy. I'm guessing they're still taking people."

"Where are they?" Dan asked first.

"Over the west coast by the looks of things. Uh-oh, they're on the move again!"

"Can you lock on?" Leon asked in desperation. If the ship could cloak and evade their sensors Leon knew they might never get a chance to spring Amata, not when they could fly right by them.

"Don't worry. Now that I know what to look for that cloaking device won't help them," Sally promised.

Zeta ship bridge

On the opposing ship's bridge the alien commander was not in a good mood. He'd hoped he was safe to continue his 'acquisitions' for much longer than he'd had but he'd no sooner moved to the other side of the continent before his bridge crew warned him they were being scanned. His cloaking device could shield him from anything the primitive population had to offer but he knew it would do nothing to shield him from another of their warships. The system had been designed for camouflage against enemies but easy location by their own fleet in case one got into trouble. They'd never planned for a scenario where an enemy controlled one of their ships.

If the commander had his way they'd have brought the fleet here, wiped out the captured ship and the planet below as an example. His race's needs took precedence however. Shameful as it was to admit, his race needed this experimentation and the humans. His race's technology was highly advanced but physically he knew they were pathetic. That was one area where the human race did put his to shame but then again they'd not been forced to live for centuries in space migrating from one place to the next. Still he knew his debate would have to wait. He now had an escape to plan.

{Are you sure we can't elude their sensors?}

{Unfortunately I'm certain we can't,} a lieutenant replied apologetically. {Whoever controls that ship has certainly mastered its detection functions.}

The commander half expected that but it didn't make things any easier. {Did we collect enough specimens from this area?}

{Not enough to meet the required quota.}

The commander cursed mentally again. The science division would have to make do with what they had. There was no time to safely abduct any more.

{Move us out of the atmosphere, maximum speed! Put out a distress call to any available ships,} the commander ordered. {With luck we'll outrun them and reach the protection of the fleet before they can catch up with us. Head for the warp gate once we clear the atmosphere.}

{Their weapons are fully operational. What if they try and shoot us down?}

{If you do as instructed now they may not get the chance!} the commander's patience gave out. {They may not even take that risk given we have some of their people aboard but I'd sooner not find out. Now get this ship moving!}

{At once.}

If the commander thought that was the end of his problems he was in for a disappointment as another operator called for his attention.

{Commander, we have a breakout on the prison level!}

{What? Show me!}

The commander's mood grew angrier by the minute as he watched Amata and Lucy's escape. {They called themselves warriors? Beaten by two human primitives and females no less!}

{I'll alert every warrior we have.}

{Yes, do that!} the commander growled. {Keep me informed of their movements. We can't afford any damage from within while we are under pursuit!}

{Understood. The science team is asking how to proceed with our newest acquisitions. What should I tell them?}

{Tell them to do whatever they see fit. I have too many problems of my own to attend to!}

Zeta ship prison deck

Lucy had managed to broker an uneasy peace between Jansen and Amata. As a result Jansen was taking the lead sneaking up the corridor. In the first place he was the most heavily armoured and in the second he couldn't easily check Amata out (much to his chagrin).

Anyway they'd put aside their bickering for now and they'd reached their first obstacle: namely the prison block control room in a booth just inside the entrance.

"There's only one of the little pricks in there. Allow me!"

Now he was free Jansen was hungry for revenge himself and wasted no time taking it as he snuck around the control room under the windows. The alien operator was flat on his back before he even knew Jansen was there and by then it was far too late. Jansen had nothing but his muscles, fists and feet but that was more than enough. The small alien stood no chance against a frenzied ex-Raider who knocked his shock baton away and then proceeded to rain punches and kicks down on him. It could only end one way and it did when Jansen raised his foot over the broken alien, stomped his face straight through and then spat on the corpse.

"Come on in. Little fucker's Brahmin meat! Let's see what we can scavenge up!"

All three of them opened up crates searching for weapons and any protection they could find. Amata was elated to find all of her gear though Jansen was disappointed on one level.

"At least you can stop ogling Amata and concentrate on helping us get out of here," Lucy had chewed him out as Amata ducked behind a pile of crates to dress.

"Damn. Oh well I suppose it was kind of distracting," Jansen admitted. "Oh fucking A!"

Jansen had found his own customised AK assault rifle. It had a slightly larger clip of 30 rounds and he'd riveted a combat knife blade onto the barrel to form a jerry rigged bayonet.

Lucy also found her missing hunting rifle and Amata her laser rifle.

Jansen was taken aback when he saw her recon armour and holotag. "She's Brotherhood? Damn it, why do they always get the...shit, someone's coming! Get some cover!"

The girls hid inside the control booth whilst Jansen hid to the side of the door despite Lucy feeling confused. "What's he talking about? I didn't hear..."

Amata shushed her quickly. She hadn't heard anything either but Jansen looked certain. Whatever else she might have thought of him he had the look of a wasteland survivor and it looked like he had good instincts.

His hearing instincts, honed by years of ambushes as a Raider, were dead right. He could hear a young voice through the door.

"Alright, I'm going, just stop using that fucking thing! OW!"

Jansen's anger began to rise as he heard the shock baton being used. Another prisoner being brought in. Time for one of his old tricks.

Sure enough the door slid open and admitted a young 13 year old boy prisoner and two escorting alien warriors.

Jansen grinned. Thanks suckers! And a one and a two and a...

With a swift lunge he sank the bayonet into one guard's throat. Amata leaned out of the booth and decapitated the second with her ever precise laser shots before he could even think of raising a shield.

Their prisoner, on seeing the bayoneted alien crash to the floor, snatched one of their batons and gave him a 'helping hand' into the next world. Or more like a frenzied beating until his strength gave out but by then the alien was a smoking corpse.

Amata and Lucy rushed to the kid's side as he collapsed to the floor sobbing. Even Jansen swallowed hard when he saw both his arms were covered in burns. Amata gently pulled him up into a hug.

"My sister...they took my sister!" The kid got out through his tears.

"Do you know where?" Amata asked softly.

"No. I tried to stop them but they took her someplace else!"

"Do you think you could take us back to where they separated you?" Amata asked. "We're getting everyone we can!"

"No problem, strength in numbers, right?" Jansen knew her words had been aimed at him mainly. "Well if we're doing this we'd better make it fast!"

He checked out in the corridor to make sure they had no other company before they moved on. All of them were now determined to escape or die trying.

Mothership Zeta

Things had taken a big turn for the worse for the pursuing team. Somehow the aliens had got the drop on them, putting on an extra burst of speed and getting past them out of Earth's orbit. Leon guessed they must have transferred extra power from their shields to the engines or something similar. It didn't really matter how they'd done it but the result was a chase into space. All in all not good in itself. But things were about to get worse still.

"What the hell is that?" Elliott had been working the long range sensors trying to figure out where the ship was going. Their course was taking them toward the Kuiper Belt and toward some kind of energy distortion there.

"I don't know," Sally replied in a worried tone. "But whatever it is they're headed straight for it!"

Leon exchanged a worried look with both Alphonse and Sarah.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Sarah asked.

"I wish I weren't," Leon replied.

"Well don't keep us in suspense already!" Freddie broke in.

"This is only an educated guess but I think we've just had a time limit added," Leon was grim. "I'd say that thing is their way out of this galaxy to god knows where and if they get to it before we catch them they'll go through and slam the door in our faces. If that happens Amata, the Lamplight kids and everyone else aboard is gone...for good!"