"I need you to take care of Jo. I need you to get stronger. She probably won't show it, but i know what I'm about to do is gonna tear her apart inside, and i need you to help her and protect her when she's at her weekest. Do you think you can do it or should I just dye your hair blonde now?"

Of course, only Andre could mix an insult into such a serious situation.

But all the redhead could do was let out a little chuckle and smile. "Yea, I can do that."

"Hmm, we'll see." He smirked as he road off toward the city.

'So, RAPT headquarters, it comes down to this.' Andre thought to himself as he sped towards Tokyo.

As he rode up on the destroyed roadblocks he knew the team had already been through their.

"Time for a shortcut."

Andre lept his biike off the bridge and landed on the railroad lines that led right past RAPT headquarters.

When he got there he stopped and took a deep breath.

"Theres Jango. Looks like the fire works are about to start." He told himself as he shot through the top story window and hopped into the building.

"Now, where's the main room? You'd think it would be up here somewhere." Then all of the sudden the whole building shook.

"Sounds like Jo's here."

He looked outside and sure enough he saw Jango hovering right infront of a giant hole in the side of the building.

"Now, how do I get down their, I could repel but then what about my exit plan? Hm." He thought for a second when he saw it. A scaffolding that was left from a repair crew that was more then likely fixing a busted window. He crawled down it and hopped onto Jango and into the room without detection during the Chaos.

After Jo had destroyed the main brain she decided that Jango was the only way out, pushing Sei in.

"Jo! Get in here right now! Thats an order!"

"Sorry Sie, only room for one." Andre watched from the shadows while the silver-haired young girl just smirked as the door slammed shut and the monsterous bot fell to the ground.

"Bravo" He said, walking out of the shadows with his rope clipped around his back loop

"Andre, what are you doin h-" he cut her off with the kiss he knew she wanted while he used the moment to tie the rope around her waiste. He could hardly hold his composure. It was the moment she had been waiting for, too bad he knew how it had to end. Suddenly he broke the kiss, snapping her back to reality.

"How did you know?"she wondered. She never actually told him how she felt, or even showed the slightest interest for that matter.

"Meg told me"

He saw her face turn red, he knew she was thinking of the things she would do to the redhead if she ever saw Meg again. Andre decided to use this moment to push her to safety. He knew the rope had been frayed in the jump from the railroad tracks by the broken window and that it wouldn't support his weight.
As her crimson eyes looked up at him as he voiced his thoughts.

"I'm sorry Jo, See ya on the other side."

Those words, matching almost perfectly with his lit cigarette, that timeless wink, and that stupid grin he always wore into any situation. That was how he operated. If he could spit in the face of any oposition and piss someone off he would go out of his way to do it.

He turned around to face his fate with dignity when all of the sudden he fell to his supriseas the floor below him crumbled and an extraction team rushed him out the window on the other side.

He could still heard Jo's scream"ANDRE! D-"

All of the sudden their was a huge white light above him while he slid down the rope on the otherside.

When he reached the bottom Andre took off running to the otherside of the building to make sure that Jo was ok, bu he felt something hit the back of his neck. Rubble from the blast? No, it felt familiar. A rifle butt.

"Great, you guys again." He said with a sarcastic tone as they tied him up while speeding away in the van.

"Yes Dante, its us. And if you don't cooperate and take our instructions, your friends back there are done for. Right now Jo is stumbling off into an alleyway severely injured, but we know that the cook, Kyohei Tachibana, uses it that alley to get to class everyday due to traffic and we're sure that he will find her. As for Sei Loabon, she is currently being taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and questioning. Don't forget, RAPT is still in charge, and it would be a shame if we had to put those two down."

It was the same guy from the interigation earlier.

"Fine, I'll listen to what you have to say. But what is your name?" Andre asked, wanting to know who he would kill one day.

"Robert Stanton. And now my associates are going to inject you with a serum. When you awake, you'll remember your programming and be a good little boy."

'Damn, how can I get out of this? I'm so fucked.' Andre thought to himself as he passed out from the injection.

present day.
observing security at harbor.

"Dante, are you listening?" Maria asked as they watched the beefed up security around the Bailan shipments.

"Sorry, kinda off in my own little world again. What were you saying?" He asked as he remembered that faitful day.

"I asked you what that tattoo on your right arm means? You didn't have it when you were in project satan." She asked, rubbing her finger over the T inside a sideways O on his arm.

He knew what it meant "I don't know, they gave it too me to match that sergeant when the army brainwashed me."

The symbol was his great great grandfather's infantry insignia. Even if it wasn't a blood relation, that tattoo kept him sane through all the injections and attempted brainwashing.

"Oh, why don't you have it removed then?" Maria asked.

"I like it, it looks cool and its my only tattoo." He stated cassually.

"Maybe I should get the same one. That way we could match." She said with enthuseism.

"Maybe, but we should probably look up what it means first. For all we know its some bad luck charm." He didn't want her to get it, but he knew if he said that she would know that he knew what it meant, and then it would be all over.

"Right there, the security doesn't know that we swam there last time. Lets call it a night and we can pick up some scuba gear and swim over tomorrow night." He stated, trying to change the subject.

"Ok, I'll call Robert and tell him that we need scuba gear." She said while they walked back to the car.

"Ugh, why do you call him Robert?" Dante asked while looking at the night sky with his hands on the back of his head.

"What would you prefer I call him?"

"Douchebag, cockknocker, limp dick, ass pirate, pillow biter, dick sucker, stanton the pain in my ass, anything but Robert!" He told her with clear distaste in his tone.

"Why don't you like him?" She asked

"Because all he does is use us to complete his agenda and puts us in danger time after time!" He yelled at her.

"But the money is good? I mean, that's what we were designed to do. So why question it." She said obviously confused.

'That's right, she's still programmed to do what she's told, even after they shot and almost killed her.' He knew what to say. " I just don't like the way he talks to you and how he thinks he can hit on you. It pisses me off." Dante watched her blush.

"Thanks Dante, its nice to know you care."

"Of course I care, now lets get out of here before we get caught." He said as they sped off to call it a night.

Elizabeth

"Meg, where's Jo?" Sei asked as she walked into Meg's room.

"She went out for a walk. She was kind of peaved about not being able to go on the roof because of the shooting earlier." Meg said while trying to pick out an outfit for the club she was planning on heading out to.

"Out for a walk? Are you sure that's safe?" Sei asked after some thought.

"Of course it is. I mean, its Jo. Plus from the way it looked they guy was shooting at Josh, too bad he missed." Meg was trying to decide between the black mini skirt with stockings or the skin tight faded blue jeans with holes cut up the side.

"Which do you think would go best with a red lowcut?" Meg asked holding up both.

"Probably the mini, so when's Jo going to be back?" Sei asked, not really caring what Meg wore.

"I don't know, she said she was going walk over to the vetrans cemetery and visit Andre's grave so I'd say a few hours." She said while holding up to colors of lipstick.

"Good, that's actually what I wanted to talk to you about." Sei said, closing the door.

"Lipstick?" Meg asked as she picked one out and put it on.

No, what? No, Andre." Sei said, confused about the lipstick comment.

"That's right, the 5 year annaversary is coming up soon isn't it. We should really do something to comemorate it. What did Andre like doing? Hm." She held her finger on her chin thinking." I don't think that getting in a ar fight would be a good memorial, how bout we all head out to the harbor and put a pack of swisher sweet cigarettes, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a flat bill cap on a little boat, set it on fire, and push it out to sea, kind of like a viking funeral." She said with her finger now waiving around in the air, showing that she was proud of her idea.

"Or," Sei had an idea of her own. "We could find him and bring him home." Sei proposed. Meg got a disturbing look on her face.

"What are you talking about? There was nothing left of him from the blast remember?" Meg was obviously confused.

" Or did he find a second means of escape?" Sei asked retorically as she handed Meg the picture Amy pulled up.

"What? How? And why did he make us think he was dead? And why is he with Maria? I thought RAPT killed her too? Why are you showing me this? And why can't I tell Jo? Sei," Megs eyes were pleading for answers" What going on?"

"I don't know Meg, but I do know this, he made sure to reveil himself to Kyo so the rest of us would know he was alive, and he made sure to do it the same night that RAPT reumurged and destroyed one of our supply ships." Sei said with a convicting voice.

"Sei, are you trying to say he's working with RAPT? He wouldn't do that!" Meg screamed at the young commander" Andre would never work with them! Not after all they did! He just wouldn't!" Meg neede answers.

"We can't rule it out Meg. There is alot about his past that we don't know. I tried contacting the Army about his history but they said that after his death the CIA cealed his records. And when I called them they said I didn't have the clearance to access them." Sei started on her hypothosis."I think he might have worked with RAPT when he was in the military, and he realigned himself with them after faking his death."

"No Sei, your wrong." Meg was in tears." He would never do that. Andre would never work with such horrible people!" He eyes were red from crying.

"Meg, don't tell Jo, she was too close to him. If i'm right then there is a possibility that Jo won't be able to fight in any upcoming conflicts with RAPT do to his influence. But another question is, will you be able to?" She stared at Meg.

"If your right, then yes. But I'm telling you right now. Your dead wrong." Meg's voice was full of resolve. The resolve to clear Andre's name.

"Lets just hope your right Meg, because if your not. I'm not sure if any of us are good enough to take him down."

"What's going on?" Jo's voice made both girls jump as the silver haired girl stood in the doorway.

"Nothing!"Meg snapped as she hid the picture under her pile of cloths on her bed. " What are you doing home? I thought you were going to visit Andre's grave?"

"I had to come back and get some money for flowers and I heard yelling from my room so I figured I'd check it out." Jo said in her monotone voice.

"What did you here?" Sei asked, worried she knew.

"Something about how he wouldn't do that? Who's he?" Jo was curious, but not enough to raise her voice.

"Oh," Meg had an idea. " Sei was just telling me about how Josh was hitting on the new girl in charge of shipments and he used some stupid pick up line. What was that

line Sei?" She decided it was Sei's turn to improvise.

"Oh, um, it was, 'If you were an instrument, I'd play you all night long.' Dumb, huh." Sei was glad that they had just been talking about Andre. She remembered the

line from his drunken arsenal from when she first brought him to Japan.

"Yea, that sounds like Josh." Jo said as she leaned against the door frame.

"Yea, cheezy, so what are you gonna do?" Meg asked Jo " Because if you want, I'm going out to the club tonight. You can join me."

"No thanks," Jo said, closing her Eyes." I remember the last time I went with you. Andre had to drag me out of there after pulling 4 guys off of me."

"Oh yea, I'm still sorry about that." Meg blushed.

"Don't worry about it. He said he had fun kicking their asses in the parking lot later." Jo had a small smirk on her face.

"Oh yea," Meg remembered that night when her came back bloody. "I had to stitch up his eye."

"What, I don't remember that." Jo said

"Me neither." Sei added.

"That's because he didn't was Jo to worry or you to nag him about it." Remember when he said he "fell on the stairs" and had stitches in above his eye?" Meg asked, air

quoting fell on the stairs.

"Yea" both women answered.

"That's when it happened. He said that after he got Jo home, he went back and squared off with them in the parking lot outside the club. He said one caught him with a

beer bottle in the face but he managed to get all 4 of them down and apologize for quote 'slapping Jo's ass and talking about her like a piece of meat". He said 5

stitches was worth making them pay for talking about her like that."

The three sat for a moment after reminiscing.

"Yea, he was a good guy. Even though he alway acted like he didn't care, he would have done anything for us." Jo said, oblivious to the others findings.

"Well, I'm gonna go to his grave, then I think I'm gonna go the the new resident evil." Jo said as she turned around.

"Bye Jo." Meg said as she walked out.

"That was a close one." Sei said.

As Jo walked down the hall to leave she saw Josh trying to chat up another girl.

"Hey Jo." He said cassually, trying not to draw his attention from his current girl of choice.

Jo stopped in front of him. "Play you like and instrument? God your immature!" Jo said in an irritated voice, followed by a slap.

"What the hell was that all about?" He asked the girl as Jo walked away, on her way to the flower shop.

A/N: The tattoo was kind of a tribute to my grandpa who passed away recently. He fought in world war 2 and was part of the 90th infantry division which is where I got the insignia from. If you'd like to see what it looks like go onto google images and search "90th Infantry insignia".