The next morning all awoke to the ship in transit through space to its next mission destination.
In case Sigma tried to make contact with theta Eve decided she would stick by Agent North as much as possible.
According to church there were no upcoming missions that would separate/interfere with her plan of watching over him.
"..no the next few days are just travel. Oh and you can tell your team the helmets they destroyed have been fixed so they can come out of hiding. Or I'll just tell them when I check in." church left to visit the rest of the librarians sleeping in the floor of Agent Washington's room.
The AI woke up Cassandra. "hi, just FYI the helmets are fixed no one wants to kill you, except Sigma and South of course."
"uh thanks." She said waking up.
"So…why did DC take the giant fire axe?" church asked referring to the giant axe Jacob seemed to latch on to.
"He's good with axes," Cassandra shrugged." Why does Agent Florida have the same mental ability as me?"
"If you survive your mission I'll tell you." With that Church left.
Cut to 3 hours later, in the middle of deep space after much argument between South and Sigma they launched plan B.
Sigma jumps in to north's armor, with his new found power he attempted to delete theta. "I'm putting an end to this once and for all."
Luckily the purple AI had the sense to jump in to Eve's armor. Despite the fact it was an illusion something allowed her to have a functioning AI port.
"Church I need you!" She could not take down the anger of Sigma with the skill of agent North without help. Luckily Church knew it would. He had possessed bodies before.
"Why do you call for the director?" asked Sigma.
The director? Did he give Church his name? "No-I called for the alpha." Said Eve behind a shield created by Theta.
"fight me" said Sigma, in full control of Agent North's armor but not mind.
"Eve….." he said in a breath. He was still present. She needed to find away to put in control.
"Church what do I do." she asked as the glowing AI appeared at her side.
"You have to let this play out." he said as he jumped in to her armor, pulling up even more shields shields as North opened fire.
"Are you the alpha" asked little theta.
"yeah… do me a favor kid-I'm going to have to leave soon I need you to protect as many people as you can, trust me reinforcements are on the way"
South was frozen in place, but others- not so much. Carolina and York went on the attack, hoping to subdue their friend before the situation got out of hand.
"Sigma stop this!" shouted York. He struck North in the back. North got back up and punched his friend threw a wall. Carolina struck him in the chest, but somehow he managed to kick her in the crotch.
Then as Church predicted a voice bellowed from the command center. The leaders of the ship; Counselor Price and the 'director' were seeing this and they were a mixture of angry and confused.
"Eve, I need to leave you for a few seconds-try not to die." As Alpha/ Church went back to the mainframe so check in.
"What is going on!" shouted the director.
"Long story short Sigma has taken over agent north's armor." He said quickly.
"That's not possible; Sigma is only a AI fragment." said Counselor PriceCounselor Price (he was in charge of the AI distribution project and the more scientific aspects of the ship.)
"Well it's possible and it's happening. So if you'll excuse me I'm going to go deal with it." Church was not about to try to explain the universal leylines. He returned to Eve's side.
"Don't be alarmed about what is about to happen." he said jumping in to her armor. The last few times he did this (in the normal timeline)he completely over rid the personality of the body until he left.
But that would not be the case; because of her mental, emotional strength, Church appeared on her shoulder the same as he would for Tucker, and every great leader he teamed with.
Wyoming, also a sniper opened fire on North missing 4 times. North fired back missing 4/5 shots. And the one hot he did get only grazed Wyoming's helmet.
"North would never miss a shot that badly."This confirmed Church's fears; North's kind personality, combined with sigma drawing power from the leylines allowed Sigma to be in complete control.
"Or maybe he's trying not to hurt his teammates?" Eve interjected.
"Still glass half full I see.." was all Church said.
Maine ran out with his gunblade; a rifle gun with a broadsword.
"Eve supply cover fire!" Church shouted. But she emotionally couldn't the best she could do was let Church protect the others.
"Why are they attacking one by one like a video game." asked Ezekiel as the team watched from a balcony.
"because no one wants to hurt Agent North." Cassandra ran to a visibly upset Carolina. "Agent Carolina, Hello, um. I have an idea but only you have the skill set to pull it off."
"talk." Carolina was already pissed that she had to attack her friend.
"You need to get the helmet off."Cassandra said.
"You don't think I knew that?!" the other red head muttered.
"And you need Agent DC's Axe." added Cassandra.
"why?" asked Carolina.
"because you need to hurt him so bad Sigma will have no choice but to leave." the words made Cassandra sick. North would be crippled and South/Sigma could still go after Florida. And if they screw it up they could just reset.
"Why didn't you ask me to attack?" asked Jacob as he was forced give up his giant axe.
"You don't have it in you to attack an innocent." Cassandra said.
Carolina agreed to get Jacob's Axe and proceeded to jump on North's back stabbing his back so badly his armor was rendered inoperable.
North tore off his helmet, finally in control; of his body, "shoot him out of my head!"
Everyone froze as he was essentially asking to be executed. He could feel Sigma trying to over ride the to save himself so in a final act of desperation he managed to slammed his rifle down in such a way a single round exited the weapon shooting himself through the jaw dislodging the implant in his head. There was allot of blood.
"nothing's happening- the day's not resetting." Cassandra noticed.
There was a pause then a realization. "That's because he's not dead." Eve ran to his side.
"GET A MEDIC!" she screamed as she tried to contain the bleeding.
North was taken to the clinic and stabilized while Church went back to the mainframe.
"Eva" eve said sitting down with agent south. She was holding her unconscious brother's hand. "how's he doing?"
"he's stable now but it's going to be the same as all the other tries; he'll spike a fever, and then he'll either die or be in pain for the rest of his life."
Eve placed her hand over Eva's. A part of her felt she could change the girl's mind.
"Agent south.." said Sigma appearing over North's body. "you crave power. I chose you because you are a stronger vessel then agent Maine."