[===---===]

(As they came into view of Lucy, Gibbs and Ziva tried to rouse Lucy, McGee and Tony almost balked at the thought of Lucy being alive while large bone shards were poking out of her legs.)

"Daddy!" said Nana as she strained against the chains to Hug Woodman as he approached.

Behind the window, Strucker asked "in't that just a little dangerous considering the carnage Lucy wreaked at our other facility?"

Viper shrugged and said "We interacted with this one, rewarded her, complimented her, apparently she's presenting with extreme Stockholm syndrome."

Strucker chuckled and said "why wasn't this done with Lucy?"

"There was no way in with her, Nana grew up here, Lucy grew up in an orphanage, and Lucy seems to have developed a severe hatred, in her mind, most to all humans are just like those kids she ripped apart."

"How is it those navy cops can approach her so easily?" asked Strucker.

"She's hiding behind them," said Viper.

"Then why did she run off?" asked Strucker.

"She wanted to kill someone? Pimps aren't exactly the most sympathetic victims, and she wants to keep the navy cops on side. … "

Woodman had finished undoing Nana's restraints and had gotten around to the mission briefing.

"A favour? Anything!"

"There's another diclonius, Lucy, she has run away from us and we need to retrieve her."

"Oh? How can I help?"

"We'll need some assistance, she's enlisted the help of some misguided cops, we're not going to be able to get them to turn her over to us, so we need you to use your vectors to take them out."

"Okay, I'll take them out and bring Lucy back," she said, cheerfully.

"Ah, you should wait for backup before taking on Lucy, she's seven handfuls, you only got six, if you know what I mean."

"I understand. Where was she last seen?"

"She's at Bethesda, a hospital, they are unaware of the danger they face with Lucy, and we don't have time to tell them."

"Hospitals have sedatives, right?"

"Yes," said Woodman.

[===---===]

"Well, this is curious," said Donald as he looked at the bones exposed by the dissection that had occurred. Donald, Jimmy, his assistant, and Gibbs were still at the pimp's house, trying to find something to connect with the person that killed the pimp and his goons.

"What?" asked Gibbs.

"There are no apparent tool striations, it is as if the bodies were pulled apart in opposite directions," said Donald, "but the way in which it was done would suggest that somehow the thing that pulled the bodies apart had grabbed the tissue from the inside or there would be evidence of some kind of clamp force, bruising or physical impressions. There's no way you can aim a sword or axe between vertebrae, and the severed limbs, the bones, the faces are furry, they look to have undergone tensile failure rather than being sliced which would have left smooth striations across the face. It would have to have been done with a force field or a tractor beam, and as far as I know, no ones developed the technology for that."

"What about Telekinesis?" asked Gibbs.

"Telekinesis? … … I've never heard of a true case of telekinesis being proven. … Of course, just because I don't know how such a thing could occur doesn't necessarily mean it can't, it's merely highly improbable," said Donald, "But then again, the same applies to force fields and tractor beams. … Jethro, if I may ask, where did you get the idea that this might be telekinesis from?"

"The director," said Gibbs, "call me if you find anything," said Gibbs as he left.

[===---===]

The Marine Staff Sergeant in the security office noticed one of the screens going blank.

He picked up the radio and said "zero five six from zero zero one alpha, camera zero one five is down, take three marine with you and check it out."

"Zero zero one alpha from zero five six, have that, investigating camera zero one five failure, over."

[===---===]

Nana lowered the nurse she had knocked out into the bushes, the clothes she had borrowed should allow her some movement through the hospital, as would the fake tag.

Nana's horns were being disguised by a silk scarf, it wasn't ideal, but it should be sufficient to avoid any real attention.

She passed the four marines that were rushing to investigate the downed camera.

They would find the f-type connector had come loose, they would puzzle over how that had happened without any signs of anyone approaching the camera and conclude that the electrician who had wired their security system had simply screwed up.

Of course having every marine guarding the hospital getting knocked out would make it look a little more deliberate, but public awareness of people with telekinetic abilities was so low that they would be looking for a mundane explanation.

First destination would have to be the security office. First target has to be command and control. Knock the occupants out, destroy the equipment.

[===---===]

"Nyu?" said Lucy.

Abby held Lucy's hand as she lay in the MRI machine, getting Lucy to lie still while the machine performed the vital task was a pain in the ass, but they had her head properly immobilised.

"It's okay, Lucy, remain calm," said Abby.

Miriam had Lucy's other hand.

Eventually the bed slid back out.

"Can we let her out now?" asked Abby.

The doctor nodded and entered the room.

Abby and Miriam released Lucy's head from the table and Lucy sat up.

Abby had done a brief gyno exam while they were lying her on the MRI table. It looked like Lucy had been assaulted, there was a bruise inside the vestibule from some idiot skipping the foreplay or any kind of lubrication what so ever, Abby had managed to collect a swab off her vestibule to test for disease, but she hadn't wanted to alarm Lucy with anything more thorough. The thing about brain injuries was that stress could exacerbate bleeding if that was going on in her brain. After this quick exam, Abby had pulled Lucy's panties back into position so she wouldn't be as alarmed when her head got strapped down.

From looking at the crime scene, there had been several pink hairs shed onto the sheet, all had follicle tags, that should allow them to locate Lucy there, but it hadn't looked like they had gotten very far into it before they got killed.

Abby would still feel better if they could do a more thorough vaginal exam on Lucy, but there was a question on how Lucy would react to it.

If Lucy was capable of telekinesis, how had it gotten as far as it had before Lucy reacted? There must have been a full fifteen seconds between them wrestling her onto the bed and the pimp getting into position.

There were some bruises on her, her wrists and ankles had been grabbed hard by these men.

"I'm not seeing any sign of bleeding, not seeing any hypoxia either, there's a fractional increase in activity in some of the affected areas, I'd say what you saw was her re-living a traumatic memory."

"So she might not want to remember?" asked Abby.

"From what your people are saying, I wouldn't want to remember," said the doctor, "I think the psychological damage is interacting with the physical damage, and like I said before, the age of the injury indicates there is no significant risk of a stroke, especially considering the amount of stress she has experienced since the injury was sustained. Obviously bring her back if anything changes, but from what I can tell, she can be released into your custody."

"Okay, I think we'd best complete the exam I started, see if there was anyone else involved in assaulting her, we might find a living witness to the assault and the murders," said Abby.

[===---===]

Nana entered the security office, having got the marines used to the door not closing properly (courtesy of her vector constantly pushing the latch out of it's socket), she was able to see in enough to administer the sedatives.

There were just three of them and she had four vectors, so she had been able to subdue them in seconds with injections to their carotid arteries, then she had used her vectors to hold them up so they didn't fall and make any noise.

She slumped them over their desks and looked at the CCTV footage of the hospital, locating Lucy on camera 306, floor three, camera six, she checked the map of the hospital.

Lucy was in transit with two women, one dressed in jeans and a plaid flannel shirt, the other in a lab coat with an NCIS logo on it, black cargo trousers with extra pockets, a spiked collar? ??? That's a federal agent?

Nana would need to know where they are going or she would end up wandering the corridors, and more time here meant more chances for someone to challenge her identity. "Who is your supervisor?" "Errrrrr …. "

Of course, by the same token, time without these three marines being available on the radio would also be time for the marines to figure out something is wrong and to respond.

They entered a cubicle in one of the wards. One of the women pulled the curtain around. Okay, if they hold that position for the next five minutes, Lucy will have them. She destroyed the view screens and computers with her vectors and left.

[===---===]

Abby closed the box and said "Okay, all done,"

Miriam helped Lucy dress again. "How is it she got distressed at seeing us? She keeled over right when I called out to her."

"I've no idea, she seemed okay with out presence when we got there," said Abby, "Temporal lobe handles memory, that's the part that got damaged, it could be that once she fought the memory down, she was perfectly calm again."

Tony and Ziva entered the cubicle.

"Excuse me, you realise someone could have been naked in here?" asked Abby.

"But they weren't," said Tony, he than stared at Lucy's head "wha … "

"Yes, she has horn growing out of her head," said Abby, "what are you doing here?"

"Shield's taken over the facility Lucy came from, we thought we'd come here and see if we could help you guys," said Tony as he moved towards Lucy, reaching out to feel her horns.

Ziva slapped his hand and said "let's see if we can avoid losing her again, shall we? I heard Fury and Sheppard say she's telekinetic,"

"Huh. First I was thinking of Elizabeth Hurley, now I'm thinking of Sissy Spacek."

"I'm sure that means something in your head," said Ziva, "Don't you ever quit?"

"No, you see, I was thinking of Elizabeth Hurley because she starred in Bedazzled, she played 'The Devil', but Sissy Spacek played Carrie White, who had telekinetic abilities, and went apeshit when she got picked on one too many times. Hey, I bet those horns must have drawn extra attention when she was growing up."

"You think?" asked Miriam, looking extremely pissed off.

"Yeah, I mean, think about-"

"I saw it for myself officer … "

"Agent, Dinozzo, we're agents, as in federal-"

"I volunteered at her orphanage and saw what was happening to her the entire time, there was no where for her to go, no one wanted to adopt her, no personal space, and when I saw her riding in that pimp's car, I nearly threw up!"

Abby looked at Lucy and noticed she was getting agitated. "Okay, maybe we could pick this up-"

"That's what I'm talking about," said Tony, seemingly fully oblivious to the fact his comments were inappropriate.

Ziva suddenly noticed a syringe floating up behind Tony's head.

She grabbed the syringe and pulled the needle off. She then felt a needle in the side of her neck and pulled it out, but not before she got a fairly substantial dose of whatever the syringe was carrying.

Abby had moved when Ziva had, she bumped into another syringe, and Miriam was jostled by Tony who had moved after Ziva had reached around him, she also noticed a syringe. She grabbed it, but didn't know what to do next.

"LUCY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" asked Abby as she grabbed the syringe that had been floating near her. Tony saw the syringes in everyone's hands. Miriam was forced to let go of hers when it suddenly twisted out her grip.

He then noticed someone peering in through a gap in the curtain. Someone with a pink iris.

He pulled his gun and stepped around Miriam, pulling the curtain, he stepped up to the new girl saying "Stop what you're doing and identify yourself."

Suddenly the slider on his gun moved back and the magazine fell out.

"Oh, yeah, funny," said Tony.

While the girl had been paying attention to Tony, Abby had pulled her Taser and shot her, dropping the girl like a sack of potatoes.

Lucy stood up and approached the girl.

Tony held Lucy back saying "No, stay back." He then realised "In fact, let's get you out of here."

He then saw Ziva fall down pushing the gurney sideways as she fell.

"Miriam, could you get her," said Tony, pointing at Ziva, "Abby, get ready to move."

With Miriam holding Ziva up, Tony pulled Lucy with him, and said "Okay, MOVE!"

They then all moved away together.

As they left, Nana tried to get up, but her body was still vibrating, or felt like it was vibrating.

She had to use her vectors to sort of lift herself to her feet, and then she pursued them. She ignored Tony's gun, she didn't want to kill anyone, but she had to retrieve Lucy.

She had activated the beacon that would draw her people to her, but she hadn't attached it to Lucy, so she had to get after them now.

[===---===]

"Every marine on this floor is unconscious," said Abby. The unconscious marines had either been sat in a chair or laid on a gurney in pairs.

"That girl's been busy," agreed Tony, "don't want to wait for the elevator, let's use the stairs."

Tony stopped by an unconscious marine and grabbed a gun and two clips, but immediately noticed something wrong when he pulled the slider back to expose the chambered round if there was one or do work out he needed to cock it if there wasn't one: When he let go, the slider stayed where he left it.

He looked around, and ran to a bin. Twenty or so recoil springs. Tony grabbed one and they continued on their way as Tony dismantled the weapon. He stuck the recoil spring back in place and reassembled the weapon as they ran down the stairs, cocking it.

They reached the bottom of the stairs and were stopped by four marines who had their weapons drawn.

"FREEZE!" said one.

"WE'RE NCIS, I'M AGENT DINOZZO, WE NEED TO GET HER OUT OF HERE," said Tony as he produced his warrant card.

"NOT WITHOUT OUR SERGEANT'S APPROVAL!" said the apparent leader.

"SO RADIO HIM!" Said Tony.

"HE'S NOT ANSWERING!" Replied the marine.

"ALLRIGHT, ESCORT US THEN! WE GOT a … four plus five, damn it, can we borrow an ambulance?"

Two UH1s, each with eight armed people in tactical gear flew into view, half on the helos covered them all while the other half descended down ropes hanging from the other side.

The Marines couldn't decide weather to cover the new arrivals or the people with the horned girl.

"WE'RE FROM SHIELD!" said the leader of the new arrivals.

"ARE YOU NOW?" asked Tony.

"This is not your jurisdiction," said the girl that had tried to sedate them a minute or so ago.

"I suppose you're going to claim you're from shield too are you?" asked Tony.

"Just hand her over."

"So you can experiment on her again? We found the facility she was being held at, and you know what? I WOULDN'T HAND HER BACK IF YOU WERE LEGIT!"

"Lucy is not a human, she is a diclonius like me," said the girl as she removed the scarf covering her own horns.

"Yeah, worked that out myself, thank you, how about you? You kept in a cage and drugged to the eyeballs most the day?" asked Tony.

"Well- … " The new girl didn't know what to say "That's irrelevant, we don't have to justify ourselves to you, Lucy belongs with us."

Tony then addressed Abby saying "You see that? She hesitated just then, she knows what they're doing to her is wrong," he then addressed the new horned girl again and said "But you're not willing to acknowledge it, you feel like you earned something from enduring all that crap they did to you, were they nice to you between atrocities? 'Good girl, well done, have a cookie'?"

An invisible force slapped Tony across the face.

"You do not get to say those things about my father."

Tony looked somewhat bemused. " … Your dad does these things to you? No wonder you're screwed up."

The same invisible force that had slapped Tony now pinched his throat closed, and started to lift him off his feet.

The girl calmly said "I'm the good one. Lucy is the bad one."

Tony then aimed his gun at the girl and fired. Two rounds skipped off an invisible force, and then Tony's gun ejected it's magazine and cocked itself, and then the slider came off and was thrown off to the side.

Lucy was looking distressed at what was happening to Tony.

"ALLRIGHT, YOU'VE MADE YOUR POINT, STOP IT ALREADY!" said Abby.

Tony dropped to the floor, his breath rasping through the damaged part of his trachea.

Lucy and Abby huddled over Tony, Abby whispering "What the hell do we do about her?"

Lucy whispered "Nyuu?"

"I dunno, it's kind of like facing off against evil Willow out of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, we need an anti-spell spell," whispered Tony.

"Nyu," agreed Lucy.

"Yeah, but that's magic, I'm a scientist, we need to translate that into science," whispered Abby.

"Nyu-Nyu," added Lucy.

Tony coughed a little more and said "There's also those armed bad guys that want to abduct Lucy, this other girl's probably what's stopping them from shooting us and making off with Lucy."

"Nyuuuuuu," commented Lucy.

"One thing at a time Tony," said Abby.

"Nyuuu."

"TONY!" shouted Gibbs from his position Standing over the girl's unconscious body, "IF YOU'RE NOT DYING, YOU MIGHT THINK ABOUT HELPING US TAKE THESE ASSHOLES INTO CUSTODY!"

Tony, Abby and Lucy looked around.

Eight more marines with 7.61mm versions of the M4 had appeared, and the bad guys on the ground were now kneeling with their hands on the backs of their heads.

The ones in the helos no longer had their weapons and the Helos were descending to the ground to sate director's Sheppard and Fury who were both aiming SMAWs at them.

[===---===]

"Okay, we have all these guys pretending to be Shield agents, our only way in is a girl with telekinetic powers we don't know how to negate, what's the next step?" asked Jenny.

Fury shrugged and said "I could get a psychic I know to take a look inside her."

"You don't sound too sure that's going to work," said McGee.

"I don't trust this guy, he seems all good on the surface, but he's trying to stay hidden from us too," said Fury.

"Yeah, us government agencies haven't had the best of reputations lately, what else can we do?" asked Tony.

"We could try to get Lucy to remember what happened," said Abby.

"Yes, she could be real helpful, if she doesn't instead decide to dice us up into neat little pieces with her telekinetic powers," said Donald, "the way Lucy killed that pimp and his muscle indicates a fair amount of sadism, Larry's blood was flooded with cortisol and adrenaline, she lingered about a minute, made sure Larry was absolutely clear on how dead he was."

"But why would she hate us?" asked Abby, "we've been her friends throughout."

"Not Lucy's friends you haven't," said Donald.

"What do you mean?" asked Abby.

"If this was simple amnesia, the instant her memories came back, they should have been fixed back, they're not," said Ducky, "I think we're dealing with some kind of multiple personalities disorder. Lucy won't remember us, there's a very strong chance that as son as we've told her where she is and what's happened up until this point, she'll simply dismember us all and run off."

"What's that based on? As far as I can tell, all her kills have been people she's come under attack from, the pimp, the pimp's helpers, those pseudo-Shield guys," said Tony.

"There have been other people murdered by the same means by which people we are fairly certain Lucy killed died by," said Ducky, "I've been looking through other cases in the Washington area, trying to figure out how these guys even came to know about Lucy's powers to begin with. Apparently there were about ten families murdered, all by a similar modus operandi, none of these cases were solved, the coroner had no idea what did it, his photos of the fracture surface of some of the limb bones are identical to the fracture surfaces of the limb bones recovered from the crime scenes."

"She might hold off if it's just me in the room with her," said Miriam.

Everyone thought about it.

"I knew her before her class got shredded," said Miriam, "I may have caused this by getting thrown out when she needed me there."

"From what you said, I'd have slapped the little bastard too," said Tony.

"I know better, I should be better, telekinesis powers aside, my actions meant I was no longer there to help her."

"What happened won't unhappen however much you want it to, Abby, how do we switch her brain to Lucy mode?" asked Gibbs.

"Best way would probably be hypnosis," said Abby.

"Hang on," said Fury, "Abby, I don't recall any psychology degrees on your CV."

"I never sent you my C- … Okay, but I have had success, I helped McGee and Jimmy Palmer remember stuff, well, I've been able to hypnotise them at any rate, I should be able to do something to switch it over to Lucy."

"Will you have to be with Lucy while you're hypnotising her?" asked Gibbs.

"Duh," replied Abby.

"Can you do this over a video link?" asked Gibbs.

"Gibbs, I'll be fine, okay?"

Gibbs looked pissed off.

"Okay, if Miriam can't stop Lucy going ape faeces we're going to need a plan B, as in something that will kill her," said Fury.

"She couldn't stop that 12.5 mm round from hitting her, we should be okay with anything upwards of that, LAWs, AT4s, squash heads," said Gibbs.

"I'll talk to the SecNav and set it up," said Jenny.

"Okay, Abby, anything you need?" asked Gibbs.

"Just Lucy and her other self," said Abby.

"I should stay too," said Ziva.

"Why?" asked Gibbs.

"I might be able to help convince Lucy to not kill us," said Ziva.

"How?" asked Gibbs.

"Grew up in Israel, know something about vengeance," said Ziva.

Gibbs eventually said " … … Okay."

[===---===]

"Where's Woodman?" asked Strucker.

"We're still looking, but I'm more worried about what those two diclonii can tell NCIS and Shield," said Viper.

"Well, that problem has an easy solution," said Strucker. He presented Viper with several printouts.

"Mariko?" asked Viper.

"Yes, Mariko."

"We've … … She's … … There's no way to control her," said Viper. This was a very polite way of saying Mariko was a total sociopath who killed with the same glee that most kids enjoyed a Nintendo Wii.

"Fuck controlling her, just stick her in the building and let her do what she likes, that's all you got to do," said Strucker.

Viper eventually nodded and said "Okay boss," and left.

[===---===]

"Close your eyes, like this," said Abby as she pulled down on Lucy's eyelids.

Lucy did this.

"Okay, now, regulate your breathing, in … out … in … out … "

Lucy opened her eyes and looked at Abby asking "Nyu?"

Abby stood up and sighed. "How the hell do I do this? I need her to concentrate in order to go into a trance."

"I dunno, maybe I could try leading her in prayer, that might remind her of when I did that with her in the past," said Miriam.

Miriam kneeled in front of Lucy and clasped Lucy's hands together.

About halfway through the prayer Lucy said "Nyuuu," almost in boredom.

Miriam realised this was going nowhere. "Or we could take a coffee break," Miriam said, standing up.

Lucy started exploring the lab under Abby's supervision.

Eventually she picked up one of the rape kits, saying "Nyu?"

She then looked around some more until she found the box of gloves. She put a pair on and turned to Abby, taking Abby's hands. Abby blushed as she realised what Lucy was thinking of doing. "Okay, I guess it's only fair."

At this point Ziva entered the room and drew her gun.

"ZIV-" said Abby before Ziva started firing at Lucy, emptying the clip. "-A!"

Lucy was now looking alarmed.

Then she looked pissed off.

"Blanks," said Ziva, "Abby, you want to fill her in or should I?"

"Fill me in about what?" asked Lucy as she held up her gloved hands and the rape kit her other self had picked up. She then looked at Abby who was squirming a little.

"There's, aaaaa, realllly, good, explanation behind that," Abby said, pointing at the rape kit, she then continued "but there's a more important matter I need to discuss with you," said Abby.

"Such as?" asked Lucy.

"You're on the run for a terrorist organisation who keeps pretending to be Shield, and you're a suspect in a number of homicides, the pimp and his goons are justifiable, your class, I'm guessing your patience finally snapped or you'd have shredded them long before that point, your legal problems come from these families you randomly slaughtered," said Abby as she picked up a folder and produced from it the copies of the crime scene reports from the homicides.

"My legal problems?" asked Lucy.

"Yeah, you see, there's no statute of limitations on murder, there is a possibility of getting your sentence suspended, that'll be up to the judge and whatever deal your lawyer can strike with the District Attorney, but if you try to run, you're making the US DOD your enemy, and from what I can tell, I think you've got enough enemies and not enough friends at the moment, so how about you refrain from killing anyone at least until you've tried to get your legal problems sorted? You have another problem besides that."

"Really? And what's that?" asked Lucy.

"Your multiple personalities disorder."

" … what?"

"When me and Gibbs found you standing naked b the side of the road, you presented no communications skills what so ever, we attributed it to a gunshot wound on your left temple."

Lucy reached op to her own head and felt the dressing that covered the wound on her head.

"We took you to Bethesda, had you checked out, I did a rape kit on you, turns out no sexual activity had occurred at that point, doctors used an MRI to check your brain. No risk of a stroke seemed present, so they released you into our custody. Gibbs took you to an orphanage we found out a girl matching your description had disappeared from, hoping it would trigger some memories.

"You ran off, you were later seen being transported by a known pimp. We found out where he was living, the pimp and his hired muscle were dead, got a dog handler to follow your scent from that place to where we later found you, you keeled over, we suspected a stroke, so we took you back to Bethesda.

"Your brain seemed okay, well, not okay-okay since your brain injury seemed to be blocking your memories, I did a second rape kit, I'm afraid you were assaulted, bruises on your wrists indicate you were manually restrained, and further bruising in your vagina, but you're probably aware of this as I suspect that's when you switched back to you and killed them all, I took a swab and the DNA comparator should be able to identify any diseases that bastard may have been carrying, you may need treatment for that.

"Anyway, after that another girl with horns showed up trying to abduct you, she chased all of us downstairs, we encountered a bunch of people claiming to be from Shield, then Gibbs, Jenny, Nick and some marines showed up and saved us and arrested the people trying to abduct you."

Eventually Lucy's mind absorbed Abby's dictation and she said "Okay … This other personality of mine wouldn't be capable of evading capture, so I need you guys to look out for me when I switch over to her."

"Or someone you can trust, doesn't have to be us, but you do need someone you know won't exploit your other self."

"Uh-huh," said Lucy as she placed the rape kit on the desk and removed her gloves.

[===---===]

"-So that's where the comparison not The Incredible Hulk comes from," said Tony, "You don't want to see Lucy when she's angry."

"Yeah," said McGee, "you know I prefer the comics to the movies and TV series, right? So those actors names and the audio dialogue mean nothing to me, right?"

Tony sighed and stepped off the hummer McGee was stood on behind the Marine manning the H2B2 machinegun and the TOW missile rack.

There were eight hummers with whatever ordnance could be mounted on them because they could get here first. There would be some tanks along later that would be packing squash heads and FSDUDS rounds.

Everyone was wearing comms gear so they could all be appraised simultaneously if something happened.

"All callsigns, we have a bogey half a klick, 20 degrees, 200 Knots it's a C212C, it's making out it's having comms problems," said their air traffic controller.

All the marines on the hummers pointed their machineguns in that direction.

Jenny pressed the transmit button and replied "Have that, C212C inbound half a Klick at 20 degrees, intention unknown, all guns, standby but weapons tight."

C212C was originally a military transporter but was available to civilians, STOL turboprop, back opening cargo-space.

They saw the aircraft appear over the roofs of nearby buildings, Jenny, Gibbs and Fury noticed it's engines were slightly larger than they remembered seeing on this type.

It's back doors opened so quick that there was no warning prior to the emergence of a parachute.

Jenny promptly ordered "WEAPONS FREE, SPLASH IT!"

The item the parachute was attached to was out the doors and the aircraft turned to over fly the line of hummers.

They got a number of hits in, but no systems seemed to become damaged. Aircraft must have been armoured up too.

The box landed.

"EVERYONE TAKE COVER, EOD HAS CONTROL," said Jenny.

[===---===]

"But I don't remember that. I've been having weird feelings ever since I saw you again," said Miriam.

"Seeing you again switched me over to my other self, you could be psychologically blanking it out or something," said Lucy.

"My absence from the orphanage-" started Miriam.

"-Not what did it," interrupted Lucy, "you know what those little bastards did after you left? I found this stray dog when I snuck out in the evening, I adopted it, took food out to it, played with it. It was a relief to have it, gave me something nice to think about. Then they found out about it, dragged it into the recreation room one day, held me back while they beat it to death right in front of me.

"Up until that point I was not entirely aware of my TK powers, but after they did that, I wanted to rip them apart so badly that … well, … that I did."

"Oh," said Miriam.

"Totally went off humans at that point, and I figured I couldn't stay, so I wandered the streets, stealing for survival essentials … … Those families … … I have no explanation, I could give a vague account of why I ended up selecting them … … They were happy, I wasn't, I therefore had to do something about it. … " Lucy then looked off to outside the room, alarmed, "Oh no. … This, is bad."

"What's bad?"

Lucy turned to Abby and Ziva who were sat at the other end of the room, she pointed at the main screen and said "Abby, can we access your security cameras from here?"

Abby looked concerned and asked "why do you want to-"

"It's important, just do it," said Lucy.

Abby shrugged and walked to the keyboard saying "Okay."

In about fifteen seconds, Abby had access to all the security cameras on individual thumbnails that were playing in real time.

"That one," said Lucy, pointing at an image of the car park, where a box with a parachute rested between two cars.

A robot with some kind of sensor on the end was next to it.

The lid opened and a hand reached out, grabbing the edge of the lid.

The hand pulled the lid off and Lucy could see yet another horned girl sit up.

"Who's in charge around here?" asked Lucy.

"Director Sheppard and Gibbs are the two-" started Abby.

"CALL THEM!" said Lucy.

"What's going on?" asked Ziva.

"I can sense her," said Lucy, pointing at the girl in the box, "and I don't like what I'm sensing from her."

Abby said "Gibbs, Lucy says there's something hinky with that girl that just parachuted in."

Lucy saw two people enter the frame headed to the box. She grabbed the phone from Abby and said "GET YOUR PEOPLE OUT OF THERE! ABBY SAYS YOU GOT MISSILES AND SHIT, USE THEM! NOW!"

"Hold on, Lucy, you can't ju-" started Gibbs.

Gibb's objection was cut off by the sight of the two men they had sent in being telekinetically dismembered.

"I think you were saying something about this not being my call? Well, what's your call on this?" asked Lucy.

They then saw missiles and tracer being shot at the girl.

It was all getting deflected.

Lucy pointed at the screen and asked "you had me afraid of that?"

"The tanks haven't arrived yet," said Abby, "or we'd be hearing their guns."

Lucy asked Gibbs "How long before your tanks arrive?"

"Another ten minutes," said Gibbs.

"That's too damn long," said Lucy, "we can't let her leave," she then turned to Ziva and asked "Where's your armoury?"

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McGee with his 9mm and the marine with the 12.5mm and Tow missiles made for an odd couple, but they were both shooting at the newest horned girl.

The girl, in addition to deflecting everything thrown at her, was throwing cars around like toys.

Several of the Marine hummers had been knocked off the road in spite of the drivers moving them back and forth.

Suddenly gunfire erupted from the roof of NCIS headquarters.

It was Lucy with six M4s, two in her hands, the other four floating around her.

"KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!" said Gibbs over the intercom system.

No one had stopped firing anyway.

The girl turned her attention to Lucy.

Lucy turned and ran.

Too slow apparently, the new girl managed to stop Lucy in her tracks.

Gibbs eventually said "TONY, MCGEE, ON ME!" and ran towards the building.

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Lucy continued to struggle against the new girl's hold as she lifted Lucy up off the roof so she was face to face with her.

Lucy tried to grapple the girl with her vectors, but the new girl was just out of range.

"You're also a diclonius?"

"Yeah, I'm Lucy, who are you?"

"I'm Mariko. Why are you protecting these humans?"

Lucy had to think about that one. Eventually Lucy asked "Who are you fighting for?"

"What?" asked Mariko.

"We could go inside and talk," said Lucy.

"Inside?" snorted Mariko, "No point, if we go inside, I'll have less room to do this," she then lifted Lucy up, and pointed her head down at the roof of the building.

As the roof rushed up to meet her, Lucy tried to slow her descent with her own vectors.

The feeling of pain from the impact came several seconds after the event, Lucy's wrists and knees were abraded by the rough anti slip surface finish, her nose felt ice cold as her nasal cavity filled with blood, her jaw felt like it had been dislocated, her heart and guts felt like they had been pulled just a little too hard.

Her ability to move was compromised long enough for Mariko to lift her up again. Lucy felt her head swell and realised she was having trouble co-ordinating her vectors, she couldn't grip the roof with sufficient force to stop Mariko from lifting her up.

The sensation of her nasal cavity filling with blood was alarming, she had to breathe through her mouth. "You don't have to do this."

"No, I don't, I'll let you know when I'm bored with it," said Mariko.

Lucy felt herself being pulled down again, this time she fell back first. She convulsed in fear as she anticipated the impact.

Her head struck the roof first, she felt the back of her skull crack, her spine laid itself down as her wrists impacted the roof, her insides were pulled towards her hips by the whip effect, she knew she was feeling them fracture, then her ankles were similarly fractured with the kinetic energy that had been accumulated by the whip effect.

The cold feeling spread from the fractures and she felt like she was going to throw up.

Mariko giggled childishly, the apparent casualness of Mariko's attitude towards killing and torturing only served to further nauseate Lucy, and the fact that Lucy was the one at Mariko's mercy didn't help matters either.

Lucy turned her head, looking at the roof access.

Lucy started to remember that she should use her vectors to drag herself inside, she had to entice Mariko-

Her arms and legs were pulled upwards and outwards by Mariko.

"STOP!"

Mariko giggled again saying "make me."

Lucy again reviewed what had led her to take on this girl.

She had been concerned for the humans at threat from Mariko.

The same Humans she had previously considered worthless.

Worthless because they were pitiless monsters.

Those kids at her orphanage had been pitiless monsters, as was Mariko.

She had no idea weather or not those families she had killed were the same.

Mariko slowly ramped up the tension on Lucy's wrists and ankles, the fractures were being pulled apart, lighting Lucy's central nervous system like a Christmas tree owned by Tim Taylor off of Home Improvement, Lucy added her vectors to her muscles in her resistance of this force.

The resistance that was proving totally inadequate.

"PLEASE! STOP!" This was now more a sob than a shout, fear and pain were flooding her CNS and her consciousness, and even though she was aware that Mariko was feeding off Lucy's agony, she was still trying to convince Mariko to stop, crying, she couldn't help herself. She finally threw up. She turned her head to try to keep from drowning, but Mariko sensed this and forced Lucy's jaw shut.

As Lucy tried to clear her airways by swallowing back as much has possible and forcing the rest out through her nose, she wondered how many vectors Mariko had.

She then heard a crack and a scream followed by a loud bang.

She turned to look, as did Mariko, at the tank that had appeared across the river.

There were several tanks rolling into view.

Three more cracks with attached screams and bangs and a gash opened up on Mariko's side. A thin gash.

Abby had explained the FSDUDS, fin stabilised depleted uranium discarding sabot, must be what they're using here, thin depleted uranium arrows with a sort of aluminium piston that falls off of it once it leaves the barrel. The explanation had gone over her head somewhat, but the Youtube videos Abby had loaded explained it perfectly.

They should try squash heads, the deformation Mariko's vectors would cause would initiate the fuse and should at least pop Mariko's eardrums, that would mean at least one of the subsequent shots would get through before Mariko can recover enough to stop them, but the FSDSDU rounds had a fair chance too.

"You know what?" asked Mariko as she threw Lucy down again.

After Lucy's repeat of her previous impact (except now the simple fractures in her ankles had become compound fractures), Mariko continued "we should go inside, it's getting downright unfriendly out here."

Mariko entered the roof access, dragging Lucy along the pathway, scraping off her clothing and the skin from the back of her scalp, shoulder blades, and buttocks.

The threshold and the stairs weren't too comfortable either.

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"Navcops from Calvary Zero Four, no shot, no shot, X-ray dragged Yankee into roof access, your building," reported one of the tank commanders.

"Calvary Zero Four, Navcop Zero One Alpha, have that," copied Gibbs. They had all this in place to deal with Lucy if she had decided to take her chances on the run, and now Lucy was trying to help them.

"They're not moving any closer," said Abby, "She's in just enough to do what she likes to Lucy, Gibbs, we got to do something before she kills Lucy."

"I know … How did Lucy even become aware of her?"

"They can sense each other, the Diclonii have some kind of telepathic connection," said Abby.

"Is that a fact?" asked Gibbs. He then asked "Where's the second one?"

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Lucy felt pain erupt as her elbow joint slowly came apart, she was dimly aware her screams had this sort of gargling sound mixed in.

Then Mariko stopped asking "There's another diclonius?"

She then left Lucy heading deeper into the building. Lucy also felt the new presence. The diclonius that had shown up at the hospital.

Lucy elected to mull over this in the morning, right now she badly needed some shuteye.

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"Standby, stan-FIRE!" said Abby.

Ziva threw the switch on the hellbox.

They were showered in glass from the fluorescent tubes and dust from the ceiling as the shockwave from the explosives shot out from the killing zone Lucy had been trying so hard to pull Mariko through.

Gibbs, McGee, Tony and Ziva all ran up the stairs to the passageway in which Ziva had planted the charges. With Lucy's help, they had basically plastered the two walls of the stairwell with composition C4, they would need to have a structural engineer look at it, and they would potentially need to spend upwards of $4000 on repairs to the walls in spite of the low visibility of the damage, there was probably considerable spalling on the other side, and there were probably more cracks in the walls than in the Operation Iraqi Freedom reconstruction plan.

They arrived to find the girl unconscious, hopefully dead, but no one wanted to take any chances that she could wake up and kill them, all four of them unloaded their weapons through the girls head.

They then continued up the stairs to where Lucy lay, Gibbs shouting "GET THE CORPSMAN UP HERE, NOW!" back down the stairs.

As they came into view of Lucy, Gibbs and Ziva tried to rouse Lucy, McGee and Tony almost balked at the thought of Lucy being alive while large bone shards were poking out of her legs.

(As they came into view of Lucy, Gibbs and Ziva tried to rouse Lucy, McGee and Tony almost balked at the thought of Lucy being alive while large bone shards were poking out of her legs.)

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