Alright everyone here it is chapter 3: Subduction Zone! Are you ready?

Disclaimer: I don't own Nikita, but I do own Mr. Mysterious Man. I still want the show though.

Chapter 3: Subduction Zone

Michael and Nikita had just arrived outside of the church in Spain they believe Amanda is hiding in.

Michael was on his phone, he promised himself and Ryan that nothing would happen to Alex. "No, we're in Spain she's in Romania." He pauses as Nikita crouches down next to him, giving him a worried look. "Yeah that's right." Michael continues. "Do you have the coordinates…No trust me, thank you."

"All good?" Nikita asks. "I'm just worried about Alex."

"Don't worry about her, she'll be okay." He answered. "How are you?"

"I'll be fine." She replied. "Whatever happens I'm glad you're here."

"Please, you know I love Spain." He says sarcastically.

Nikita smiles, "I know, I pushed too hard on this."

"Alright, do me one favor, if Amanda really is in there, push harder. Kill the bitch."

Nikita nods as they both prepare to raid the church.

Nikita and Michael enter the church. No one is inside so they move toward the catacombs where they find Cyrus still tied to a chair. Nikita notices a bomb underneath his seat. Cyrus looks up at her.

"Where is she?" Nikita demands.

"She's gone."

"No" She thought to herself.

"You really shouldn't have come for me."

Nikita shakes her head and stares at the bomb.

"How's it wired? Pressure plates?" Michael questions.

"No. No, it's remote." Cyrus responds, knowing there's no way they can save him. "She wanted to be the one" he says as he looks up toward a camera mounted in the ceiling.

Nikita realizes Amanda isn't there. "Michael, it's a trap."

"Nikita" He says trying to calm her down. "You don't know that."

"I have to warn Alex!"

Alex and her team enter the abandon warehouse in Romania.

"Target reached, moving in." Alex tells Ryan in ops over her coms.

"Okay Alex, we got you in view. Hold positions."

Alex looks around and has a bad feeling. "Ops we got an empty nest here."

"Alex! BE CAREFUL! We can't find Amanda, something isn't right." Nikita exclaims in her ear.

"What?" Alex tries to hear what Nikita is warning her but Ari had just turned on the sideswipe.

"ALEX!?" Nikita screams.

"Ops, signal is lost!"

Suddenly, a line of bullets comes raining down. Alex realizes she is being under attack and quickly jumps behind some cover. Ari was prepared for this, he knew Alex would be here but how? Alex couldn't understand what was happening. Her head started to swirl again as she took in the sights surrounding her. One by one her team members were dropping like flies.

Ryan is panicking in ops. "Get Alex back online. Now!"

"I can't." Birkhoff told him. "Ari must have the sideswipe on. I don't know how he knew we were coming." He looks at Sonya. "Do you have any ideas?"

Sonya looks away unable to look him in the eyes and shakes her head. "No, I don't know. Excuse me I have to go." She gets up to leave. Birkhoff becomes suspicious and decides to follow her.

"Where are you going? Get back here!" Ryan demands.

Birkhoff turns around angrily. "I have to deal with this!"

Birkhoff finds Sonya on sub level 9. He confronts her. "Sonya, what's going on? You can tell me anything."

"This is all my fault." She cries. Birkhoff moves closer to her placing his hands on her shoulders.

"What are you talking about?" He asks. Sonya starts rambling but Birkhoff can't understand a word she says. "Slow down, start from the beginning."

"A few weeks ago I was walking to my apartment and someone grabbed me. Anne, the cleaner. She pulled me inside of her van. Amanda, she reactivated my kill chip."

"Stop, stop I don't believe you." Birkhoff says in denial thinking to himself. "She can't be the mole."

Sonya looks at Birkhoff and can sense what he's thinking. She starts crying. "I'm Amanda's mole. I'm so sorry. I had no choice."

"Amanda's not here, so she can't know if you asked for help which you never did." He shouts at her.

"There's someone else inside. She told me there was someone else and that they'd be watching. And in Division there is always someone watching."

Birkhoff shook his head. "You can't know that's true."

"I can't know that it isn't." She replied worry and fear etched in her eyes. "She has me restricted. I have to send her an update every two hours. I haven't slept the night in weeks. If I even walk in the direction of medical which Amanda gas bombed, by the way as a warning to me. Her spy will see and tell her and she will trigger the chip and I will drop-"

"Okay, okay alright." Birkhoff stopped her understanding the mess she was in.

"I wanted to tell you." Sonya begged. "I wanted to warn everyone. I'm sorry about putting Alex and Nikita in danger. I didn't know what Amanda had planned. I was only following orders."

"What did Amanda tell you to do?" He asked.

"I was given instructions to leak her location, that's how I found her. She's not in Spain."

He looked at her confused. "Then where is she?"

"Ops? Come in this is Alex, we're under attack!" There was only static. She looks up to see Ari smiling down at her from the second floor of the warehouse. "We're trapped!" She yells to her alpha team. "Is there any way out?" No one replies to her, they were all too busy trying to dodge the endless bullets coming right at them.

Another one of her comrades gets shot and falls back down next to her. "Alex!" He says.

Alex could no longer focus, her mind was in a million different places. "Alex! What do we do?"

She looks down at her fallen agents, suddenly aware again and shakes her head to clear her mind. In one last ditch effort, Alex grabs 2 guns and springs into action. It was a bold move, but Alex ran straight into the line of fire and aimed her weapons in Ari's direction; shooting until all the men on the terrace protecting him was dead and her bullets had run out. Slightly panicking, Alex ran to find more cover until she could figure out her next move. She had no more weapons and by now all the members of her alpha team was dead.

Alex sighed, ready to give up. Ari's men had her surrounded. "This is it" Alex thought, "I'm going to die in here."

She leaned back against her cover and let her mind rest. She could hear Ari's men shouting at her. "She's over there! Get her!" There was more bullet sounds bouncing off of metal walls.

Suddenly the sound of screams brought her back to reality. She saw one of Ari's men dropping from the terrace. "How did-" More men were crashing down around her. "What is going on?" Alex couldn't believe what was happening.

She looked up at the ceiling and saw a man hanging from a rope shooting in Ari's direction. He was like a guardian angel sent to protect her. "Who is that?"

Alex tried to see who it was but her vision was blurry. Her head was starting to get dizzy. Alex got up from her hiding spot and stumbled toward the figure who had just dropped down from his suspended height. "Sean?" Alex questioned when she saw him.

He looked at her, immediately noticing Alex's clumsy state. She tripped, and his arms reached out to steady her.

Alex looked into his eyes. "Sean...how?"

"Michael said you might need some backup" Sean replied to her.

"I was- we were under attack. Everyone is dead? Ari?"

"Ari got away but I managed to shoot the sideswipe." He says, speaking into his com "I got her, Alex is safe."

"Good, bring her back to Division, Sean. I'll tell Nikita she's safe." She heard Ryan say over the coms.

"You. You were like an Angel with a shotgun." Alex said in amazement.

Sean looked at her. He didn't know what was wrong with her.

Alex suddenly poked him in the face "You're real!"

"What?" He says clearly confused.

She hugs him and takes a deep breath "You came back for me?"

Sean sighs as he holds her. He loved Alex but he still meant what he told her earlier. "Listen Alex, Michael called and said you might need some backup. That's it. I was just doing my job."

Alex pushes herself away from him and shakes her head. Realizing what this meant, She became angry.

"Oh okay I get it." She says trying to hide the hurt in her voice, but her eyes tell a different story.

Sean wants to say something, anything. He hated seeing her this way.

Alex quickly looks around then looks back to Sean, "I'm going after Ari. He can still lead us to Amanda."

"No, Alex it's too dangerous alone"

"Well good thing I have you for backup right?" She states coldly.

Sean can only nod. There was no stopping Alex once she made up her mind and part of him still wanted to protect her.

"Ari can't be that far, let's search the building for clues."

"Okay, here take this gun" He hands her a small handgun

"Thanks" She replies. "Maybe we should split up"

"No, Alex... I don't think that's a good idea."

"I can take care of myself Sean! I don't need you to babysit me" Alex yells at him.

Sean is taken aback by her. "I know, but-"

Alex stops him short, "Why did you come here? You had left Division. You were free!"

He couldn't think of an answer. When Michael had called him and said Alex was in danger, he dropped everything and hopped on a plane to Romania. Sean looks down. Alex was waiting for his response.

"Okay Alex. Let's split up."

Alex looked at him slightly upset. He had chosen the wrong words again.

He watched her walk away from him.

Amanda was sitting at a desk when Anne walked up to her.

"Nikita is in Spain with Cyrus right now. She's discovered the bomb" She shows Amanda a tablet with a video feed of the scene. "Do you want to talk to her now?"

Amanda looks up at her. "No, not yet. I'm waiting for an old friend to show up first."

Anne nods at her and walks out of the room.

Amanda picks up her phone to check on the last message the mole had sent her before she had left Spain.

It read: Alex is prepping for a mission. More details soon.

"Old news." Amanda looks unamused.

Alex reached into her jacket and pulled out a pill she was saving and swallowed it quickly. "This should get rid of the headaches for a bit" She thought.

Regaining her focus, Alex crept slowly up the stairs of the abandoned warehouse checking every corner.

"Come in Alex, did you find anything yet?" Sean's voice was calling her over the coms.

"No, did you?"

"Not yet"

"Okay, I'll let you know if I find anything." She replied switching her com over to another channel, "Hey Nikita can you hear me?"

Nikita was relieved to hear Alex's voice again. "Alex, thank god you're alright."

"I'm fine. How's your end?"

"Amanda isn't here. Michael and I are staring right at Cyrus and a bomb."

"A bomb? What are you still doing there? Get out!"

"I can't leave Cyrus here, I owe him. He said Amanda would be watching us from a camera. I see one mounted on the wall. I think she wants to chat."

"How long are you going to wait for her to chat?" Alex questioned, knowing Nikita wasn't going anywhere.

"However long it takes I guess. Michael is trying to figure out a way to disarm the bomb right now. There has to be a way."

Alex walked up another flight of stairs to the 3rd level of the building. She heard some noises coming from down the hallway. "Hey Nikita, I gotta go."

"Okay Alex, be careful!"

Alex switches back to the main channel to talk to Sean. "3rd floor"

"Got it." He replies.

Alex was outside of the door ready to face what was behind it. "Here we go!" She thought to herself as she pushed the door open,

"Amanda!"

"Hello Alex." Amanda smiled at her. "I was expecting you."

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh Alex, you need to work on your greeting skills"

Alex points her gun at Amanda. "How's this for a greeting?"

Amanda's smile disappears. "Is that any way to treat an old friend?" She says stepping closer to her.

"We were never friends!" Alex remains unmoved.

"I beg to differ."

Alex's eyes narrowed.

"You see Alex; friends can tell when other friends are in trouble. When they've been acting strange. Or more importantly when they have relapsed. Has Nikita noticed yet? I meant the signs are pretty clear. Look at yourself Alex. You're a mess."

Alex was shocked. "Stop playing games, Amanda."

"I know you Alex. You're an addict."

"No"

"Look in the mirror Alex!" She says pointing to a mirror to the side of the room.

Alex glances at it and shakes her head. "I'm not an addict", she whispers quietly.

"Look closer Alex."

For a moment, Alex looks at herself closer in the mirror. She hadn't even noticed a man in a hood creeping up behind her.

"Alex what do you see?"

Suddenly Alex sees a shadow behind her and turns around quickly aiming her gun at the intruder.

He knocks the gun out of her hand and she counters with a punch to the face, knocking his hood off and revealing his face.

"NERD!?" Alex screams in surprise when she sees the man's face.

He doesn't move or respond to her.

Alex is confused when out of nowhere Anne appears behind her and knocks her unconscious.

Sean was rushing up 3 flights of stairs when he overheard struggle over his com.

"ALEX!?" No response. "I shouldn't have left her alone. We should've never split up."

"I'm sorry Alex, I'm coming for you!" He says out loud.

When Sean finally reaches the top floor, he spots Anne and a man in a hood carrying what looks like an unconscious Alex out of a fire escape.

"ALEX!" Sean screams again. He rushes toward the door, slamming it open. "Where did they go?" Sean looks around frantically.

Gunshots fired in his direction. Sean ducks. When he heard the gunshots stop he got up and saw Anne reloading her gun. He quickly fired in her direction, and she ran toward something for cover.

"Get back here bitch!" Sean shouted at her as he ran down the fire escape determined to catch up with her.

When he reached ground level, his eye caught the sight of the man in the hood pulling Alex's limp body into a van.

"NO!" He shouted. Sean ran toward the van firing shots.

The man in the hood quickly jumped in the back of the van with Alex and shut the door yelling "GO!"

Anne rolled down the window of the van and shot Sean in the leg, making him fall to the ground. He screamed in pain.

"Alex no!" Sean yelled as he watched Anne swerve the van around to reveal Amanda sitting in the passenger's seat.

"SEAN! Status now!" He heard Ryan call in his ear. "What's happening? We heard gunshots."

Sean couldn't move his leg, he watched in agonizing pain as Amanda drove off with the girl he loved. "Alex is gone! Amanda has her!"

Whaaaat Nerd is working with Amanda O.o and she has Alex! Wth is going on! Guess you'll just have to read and find out ;) Oh and if you noticed Alex called Sean Angel with a Shotgun? Sound familiar? That's probably cuz it's the song by the Cab! And if you like them and Nikita and Salex please check out this awesome vid called Sean & Alex: Angel with a Shotgun my friend made on YouTube. (Detes are on my profile page) It's awesome! Oh and please review and tell us what you think! Thanks!