Five years after the events in chapter five.

Five years past and Angela pretty much had her life back. A year ago she had moved out of her mothers with Travis after finishing college. Aelita still had the money for that and gave it to Angela who used it to go back to school. After that she got a descent job and moved out with Travis into an apartment near the school.

Though Travis was only fifteen, he would be graduating this year. Taking all honors and advanced classes, he had earned enough credits to graduate three years early. Most of his friends were his age still, but he had good acquaintances with his classmates.

Aelita was a little sad that year because her father died. Franz Hopper died at age ninety six. It was a painless death, dying in his sleep. The phone call from the hospital still makes Aelita scared to answer the phone. They had his funeral a week later and everyone went back to their lives. It was the first funeral they had been to that was caused naturally. Aelita was starting to feel lonely. Charlie moved out as well and moved out of the city for work, and now she lived alone in a house only filled with painfully happy memories.

Things were going good for the most part, until Charlie died. The police reported it as a suicide, but Aelita knew he had no reason to kill himself. Then suddenly, more deaths began to occur. Sissi died a month later, the police reported it as a robbery and murder, though nothing was stolen. Then later Justin died as well, car crash as reported. His car was just fine, the police said he was in a friends. There was no apparent pattern to the deaths, nor did they all have one thing in common. Yumi and Ulrich didn't feel these things were accidents.

And weren't to far off.

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Ulrich and Yumi were asleep in their bed. It had been a long week for both of them with the death of there second son. Yumi had taken it the hardest and both couldn't pull themselves together to do what they usually did Saturday night. They still were sleeping close to each other, Yumi's arm wrapped over Ulrich who was facing the wall and the alarmclock. Suddenly Ulrich heard a noise from down stairs.

" Yumi," Ulrich said waking up quickly and quietly.

" I heard it," she answered, " think it's a robber." They heard foot steps leading up the stairs as Yumi rolled to the side of the bed and reached under the mattress. Ulrich reached under from his side and pulled out a gun. They both rose and quickly readied themselves on opposite sides of the door.

The door was kicked open as three men burst in. They were wearing tactical black clothing, and were carrying silenced weaponry. Ulrich hit the man with the butt of his gun and the man fell to the ground. Yumi hit another and he did the same. The last man fired, missing before Yumi shot and he fell to the ground dead.

They heard footsteps leading up again as Ulrich took one of their wallets and walked to the center of the room. Placing the gun on the bed he put his palms together as Yumi used his hands as a lift and opened a trap door on the ceiling, climbing into it. Ulrich took of the mens gun and threw it up to Yumi and jumped up.

Yumi helped pull him as Ulrich took a few breaths and said, " I'm getting to old for this shit." The closed the trapdoor and Ulrich took out small flashlight and shined it onto the mans wallet and looked at it.

Right away he saw a badge and said, " They're government."

" What do they want with us?" Yumi asked looking at the wallet. Four more men entered their bedroom and checked the bodies.

" Officer down, I repeat officer down. Suspects have left the room what are my orders?"

" Find and eliminate them. Use of live ammunition allowed." The government agent put on a pair of goggles and looked around the room.

Looking up he aimed and said," Suspects found, they're in the attic, open fire!"

" Fuck!" The agents began to fire as Ulrich and Yumi began to run away as bullets burst out from beneath them. Bits of wood were exploding all around them as they made for the other side of the attic. Ulrich was hit in the leg, making him fall to the ground. Yumi carried him as the bullets stopped.

" Lost visual, the heating vents are obstructing my view."

Ulrich took off his shirt as Yumi used it to bandage his lower left shin. Quietly they continued to crawl, and slid down a slide leading to the garage. Ulrich and Yumi pushed a shelf out of the way as Ulrich was about to get in the drivers seat but Yumi took the wheel because of Ulrich leg. They hit the garage open button in the garage as more gun shots arose. Behind the doors was three more men.

Yumi hit the gas and back up into one of them. He flew over the car and hit the ground, as the other two began to fire at them. Pulling out of the driveway, Yumi switch to drive and drove away as fast as their car could.

It took a few minutes, but soon the government agents were on them. They began to open fire as Ulrich and Yumi ducked down again. Ulrich took the gun he stole and began to return fire. He saw the bullets hit the car, but not do any damage.

" They're bullet proof!" Ulrich shouted to his wife who was doing her best at driving.

" The tires!" she shouted back and swerved to the left making Ulrich lose balance.

" Easy dammit!"

" I'm making us a harder target, hold on." She swerved again, knocking Ulrich to the other side of the car. Ulrich crawled to the back and began to shot out the back window. He hit the tire of one car that swerved at first but managed to right itself before losing control.

" Get down!" Ulrich shouted when he saw a agent come out with a large machine gun and began fire. Bullets began to tear through the car and Ulrich ducked down. Yumi ducked as best she could but took one to the shoulder. The bullet went through, blood spraying on the windshield. They began to slow down fast as Yumi tried to stay conscious.

" Yumi!" Ulrich shouted, looking back when he heard her shout in pain.

" I'm fine, start shooting back, I feel like a sitting duck." Ulrich looking up again and began to fire, hitting the gunman who feel over the hood and was flattened by the car, that with one tire out swerved and hit the one next to it. Now they only had two cars on them and Ulrich fired , and hit the front tires of first one. The car spun out of control and hit a parked car.

" Let this one get closer I have an idea," said Ulrich. Yumi slowed down as the last car rammed them from behind. An agent crawled out of the sun roof and jumped onto the roof of their car. Yumi slammed on the brake for a second, making him fall back and land on the hood of the car. Ulrich fired and hit the agent on the hood, who slid off the car and was ran over by the one chasing them.

His gun was still on the hood so Ulrich opened the broken window and grabbed it and fired at the car behind them. The bullets tore through the windshield, hitting the driver causing the car to crash and flip.

" I thought they were bullet proof?" Yumi asked surprised.

" They are, but this gun has armor piercing rounds, I figured it would because of how easily it tore through our car," Ulrich answered putting on a shirt he found in the car and moved into the passenger seat.

" Where are we going?" Ulrich asked Yumi while moving to the passenger seat.

" Don't know, but you should call the others, they might be targets as well."

Ulrich open the glove box and took out his cell phone and went through his listed numbers. He first came to Jeremie's and hit call. It rang ten times before he answered in a groggy and irritated voice.

" Ulrich do you know what time it is?" Jeremie asked, hunched over his bed.

" Yes I do. Jeremie I think your in danger."

" What, why?"

" A bunch of government agents just broke into my home and tried to kill me and Yumi. We shook them, but we're not sure for how long."

" One sec someone's at my door," Jeremie said removing the phone from his ear.

" Don't answer it!" Jeremie didn't hear him and the next thing he heard was gunshots and the phone fall to the floor.

" Jeremie!" It was silent for a few seconds before he heard a woman scream, then more gunshots. Ulrich heard the phone go dead, and he took it away from his ear and hit off.

" Jeremie and Emilie are dead." He went through his numbers and called Aelita and received no answer. " We need go to Aelita's she could still be alive."

They hid the car in an alley as Ulrich took the first aid kit from the back moved stuff out of the way. He lay Yumi in the back and said, " Take your shirt off, I need to see the shot."

Yumi took her shirt off painfully and Ulrich saw the damage. Looking at the wound closer Ulrich said, " Didn't hit a nerve or a bone, just muscle. Probably why it straight through. The bleeding stopped but we need to patch it before it gets infected."

" I know Ulrich. Your not the only person who knows first aid. How bad is it though?"

" Not too bad, but it'll hurt like a bitch for awhile."

" I've had worse."

" You need to be topless for this, I can't properly bandage it.."

" Just take it off, I'm your wife why should I be shy about you seeing my boobs." Ulrich unhooked Yumi's bra for her because she couldn't reach around. Then he treated the wound with peroxide making her wince. Placing a bandage pad on both ends of the wound he wrapped it and took off his shirt and gave it to Yumi.

" Call Aelita again, best to not fear the worst."

Ulrich called and was relieved when she answered. " Did you call me earlier, what's going on?"

" Aelita, we don't have time to explain, but you need to get out. Don't answer your door if someone knocks. The government is targeting us. Get out and lie low."

" What about the others."

" I'm fairly positive they're dead. Get out and met us at point zero."

" Alright." They both hung up.

An hour later Ulrich and Yumi pulled into a garage and parked the car next to Aelita's. They knocked on the door twice, a moment later Aelita answered it and they stepped inside the safe house known as point zero. It was roomy and comfortable, but the last place any of them hoped to be at. They sat in the living room and Ulrich and Yumi told her what had happened to them. Aelita got to point zero without event, but still felt like she was in danger.

After Xi and Odd were killed, Aelita and the others thought it best to build a safe house in case xana ever appeared again. This so far didn't seem to appear to be xana, but none the less this was the only reliable place. Aelita financed the construction of the house with the fortune Odd left her.

The next day Ulrich was using a radio receiver to try to find a frequency being used by the government. He hit almost every radio station and a few kids with walkie talkies, but stopped when he heard a man talking.

" We lost the Stern's and never found Robbia. What are our orders?"

" We need to regroup and plan our approach. Everyone gather at the Fritge plaza at twelve hundred hours. Begin radio silence."

" Gotcha," said Ulrich with a smile.