Code Naia: The Resistance 11

Author: James the Lesser

I actually own most of the characters, and ideas, but thanks Moonscoop! And my Muse The Pink Haired One! This is really dedicated to her since the split off/new world was mostly her idea.

A week had passed and Dante hadn't returned. I didn't know what to do. Dante was my friend. He was the last one from the original group and now he was gone. Dante was either dead or captured by the Traitors. How he died, what happened to his body, we'd never know. If he was captured by the Traitors then he was strong enough not to give our position away. I was calling him a pussy yet he might have been stronger then me. "Arrow what do we do? We lost another person. There are only four of us left. I think we should hold off on any attacks."

"We can't just stay in here though Sanne." I glare. He was supposed to say that I was right.

"Why not Arrow? We have plenty of food. Even more now that we're missing Dante. We shouldn't attack or leave the Factory except to empty the toilet area or bathe. It is too dangerous for us."

"That doesn't sound like the Pho I know. She'd want to go out and kick ass and get revenge for her friend."

"Well that Pho didn't get her last friend killed!"

"Your last friend? What about Ani, Radio, or me?"

"You don't count. Dante was before the invasion. They all were but now they're dead. All of my friends are dead." I have to fight back tears. "We shouldn't attack any more. Just wait for the war to be over."

"If we don't fight it won't end." Arrow hugs me. I wanted to push him away but didn't. "It will be ok Sanne." He pulls away from me and grabs his cross. That was enough.

"You can rely on the boogieman to fight but I will be doing the fighting on my own." I push him away. "We need a meeting."

A few minutes later Arrow and I had Radio and Ani in the meeting room. "Dante's gone and it's just the four of us now. We can't stop though. We have to fight NAIA and the Cans until we defeat them or we die."

"Which means we need a target." Arrow places a hand on the table. "I think maybe we need to check out the palace."

"But, isn't, wouldn't that be dangerous?" I nod.

"Yes Ani. But NAIA is in there. If we can kill it we can maybe stop the war. If we focus on the palace we might find a way inside or a way to destroy it from the outside."

"But its NAIA's palace. The defense around the castle is insane. It has Walkers and Cans out the ass." Radio pounds the table hard. "There is no frakking way we can get in there. But maybe we could bomb the shit out of it from the outside." She smiles wickedly.

"Maybe. We don't have the slingshots any more." Arrow shakes his head. "But we will need to find a way to destroy it and NAIA."

"We will scout it out together. It's too risky for us to not go together. Sanne we will need to be careful, more careful from now on."

"Of course. If we lose anyone else we won't even be able to play a game of euchre." I laugh, no one else does. "We'll start tonight. I want to be able to watch that palace as much as possible. If we can find a way in we can get a bomb inside and blow the place up."

That night all four of us were going through the sewers. What were left of the sewers. When we blew up the city we didn't have too many passages left to go through. "Wait." I see a red light. "Scanner devices." I get closer. "They've really got the security up." We back off and try another way around the scanner devices.

We spent several hours and ran into the scanner devices in almost every sewer passage. "This night is over let's get back before we're spotted." We started to go back to the Factory.

Frak, we turned one corner too early and without knowing it ran into a scanner device. When the alarm sounded I knew we were frakked. "Split up! Get to the sewer entrance where the Hermitage used to be!"

"Hermitage? What?" Frak they didn't know!

"Frak just, go somewhere not the Factory and hide! When you know you're not being followed find a way back to the Factory!" We split up and run as the alarms blare. We were frakked.

I ran around a corner and saw two Twitchers. I shoot them and they explode. I had to find a way to get away and hide but how. The Traitors and Twitchers would fill the sewers soon. There weren't too many paths for me to choose from. Maybe if I was on the streets. Yes, the Traitors and Twitchers would be in the sewers so the streets would be safer. When I find a ladder I climb up and onto the streets.

The Cans were every where. I was lucky they were noisy enough for me to hear them over the sound of the alarms and dived under a car. Watching them walk by gave me time to think. If I hid long enough maybe things would calm down enough for me to make it back.

I waited for more then an hour and the alarms were still blaring. They weren't going to stop until they caught us. I, as the leader, had to do something. Across the street from me was a Kawasika 700 Phantom. I loved watching the motor races and knew this was one of the most powerful cycles ever built. Over seven hundred horsepower of pure speed was packed in that vehicle. But it had to have fuel and the keys. I couldn't see the ignition from here and there was no way to tell if it had fuel until I turned the key.

I heard the Cans marching down the street before I could see them. They were with several Traitors. If this kept up I could be here all night.

The alarms kept blaring all night. When I saw light I knew the sun was coming up. The Cans were still out there. I even saw a Walker on the street. I saw the same group of Traitors so much I gave them names. There was Red Beard, Black Guy, Bug Eyes, and several others.

I heard the Cans coming down the street again. There was a new group of Traitors this time. They must have switched groups.

I was starting to fall asleep and I was hungry. There was nothing I could do about either. If I fell asleep I wouldn't be able to react if they found me. And I had no food. I wasn't supposed to be gone for this long.

Frak. When I woke up it was dark already. But I was alive and still under the car. "I have to do something." The alarms were off. But I could here the sound of metal on pavement. I was able to turn under the car and see a Walker. It was at the intersection and wasn't moving. Did they know I was on this street I couldn't tell. But I had to stay where I was.

When the Walker disappeared I crawled out from under the car and ran over to the motorcycle. The keys were in it. I was about to use it to get back to the Factory but that would be stupid. I'd be leading the Cans to the Factory. I had to find another way back. No, I had a chance to do some damage and pull them away from the Factory. I would take that chance. I used to drive a motor scooter this should be no different. Or like the Overbike on Lyoko. "Come on, have fuel." I turn the key and it starts, half a tank. "This will be fun." I rev the engine. It was nice and quiet like all Hydrocell engines. I rev it again and take off.

The alarms start again. Good. I would have a blast if I had things my way. I get my hand gun out when I see two Traitors. "Hey hi!" They heard me but it wasn't in time for them. I shot them both and took off.

I drove around a corner and saw the Walker. "Frak!" I turn sharply and almost lose my balance. I rev the engine and drive away as the Walker charged a blast. "Frak!" I turn out of the way of the blast.

I must have had all of the Cans and Traitors in Paris after me. Lasers and bullets flew around me. I grab a grenade and slow down. When the Cans get closer I drop it. They chase after me and are destroyed when it goes off. But there were more Cans and Traitors to chase after me.

Under the moon and stars I drove on the empty streets. It was creepy. I had NAIA's forces after me but the streets were empty. There were no other cars, motorcycles, busses, nothing. I had a clear street to go as fast as possible. I looked at the speedometer. "Wow, over three hundred fifty kph!" I had never gone that fast, alone. "Woohoo!" I was having a blast. Even with lasers and bullets being fired at me I was having fun.

But the fun ended when I turned down a road and I saw the road block at the end. I had no choice but to drive at them. I would kill as many as possible. One of them had a bullhorn. "Stop where you are and surrender!" Fat chance.

I revved the engine and charged at them. I fire my gun at them until the clip was empty then I threw it away. I had three grenades left. When I got closer I would activate them all and kill everyone.

"I said stop and surrender now or we will shoot!" I ignore him. I look at the speedometer.

"Four hundred kilometers an hour. I'll splatter against the barrier and they'll be blown to shit. I'll be seeing you soon Krieger." I activate the grenades.

"Fire!" I ignore the gun fire. I was on them. I let the grenades go and drive into the barrier. I expected to slam into it and have my skull crushed. I expected to be like a bug against the windshield. Instead when the Kawasika hit the barrier I flipped over it. The Kawasika and I were over it and upside down. I was past the barrier and starting to flip back over. When the wheels touched I saw the road was not a four way intersection but a three way. I was about to crash into a building.

"Aaaa!" I crashed into the large plate glass windows. The Kawasika and I slam into a counter and I am thrown off. I feel a sharp pain in my leg as I hit the floor. I slide and crash into a support pole where I come to a stop. "Frak." I hear the sound of the grenades exploding. Hopefully I had bought myself some time. "Aaaa!" Frak, shit, my leg was broken. I would have to drag my ass to a hiding place. And drag I did. I made it to the back of the store. There was a door. I dragged myself to it and pushed it open. "Frak." I saw a couple of Twitchers crawling down the alley way. I was able to get the door closed before they saw me. I had to hide but where. I keep crawling looking for a place to hide.

I saw a metal grate. I pull it off. "Ventilation ducts. Only a Twitcher could get in here." I grab my second hand gun out. I had twelve rounds. I could kill a couple if they crawled in after me.

I was smart enough to put the metal grate up after I crawled in. Maybe it would trick them. Frak my leg hurt as I crawled inside. I kept hitting it on the sides of the ventilation shaft as I crawled. I had to bite my lip to keep from screaming.

I could hear them outside. I almost screamed when something hit the outside of the ventilation shaft. The Cans and Traitors were looking for me. If they found me I'd have to kill myself. Frak shooting them these bullets would be going into my skull and scrambling my brains.

I kept checking my watch. I had been in here for an hour. The Traitors were in here now. I could hear them breaking shit. "Where the frak did that bitch go? Damn resistance members! They probably set off the alarms earlier."

"You sure? That was yesterday. You'd think they would have gotten the hell out of here by now."

"Maybe." I hear the sound of wood breaking. "I wonder how many there are." I hear more breaking.

"I hope one of them is a girl."

"Heh, they are fun." I hear laughter.

"It's fun breaking them. Getting to do anything you want to them. Beat them, rape them, burn them, anything." More laughter.

"I once set a bitch's head on fire and listened to her screams while I frakked her from behind."

"Damn man that's frakked up. But maybe there might be more then one."

"Reports said there was only one on a motorcycle."

"Dude that Kawasika 700 Phantom in the front? Those things are beasts! Man like four years ago Marcos Ambrose went undefeated riding one on the circuit!" Hey, I remember that year. My dad took me to the final race of the season where Ambrose completed the first undefeated season in racing history. Frak, I was going to cry if I kept thinking of times before the war.

They smashed things up. I heard some gun shots. But finally I heard them leave. I wanted to crawl out but my leg hurt too much. I had to grind my teeth to distract myself from the pain. "Please, frak." I just wanted the pain to end but to do that I had to get back to the Factory.

I was starting to crawl back to the front of the ventilation shaft when I heard the sound of footsteps. They were waiting for me. They knew I was in here. They were trying to be quiet and lure me out.

I was crying but was able to keep quiet. My leg hurt and it only got worse. But I couldn't do anything about it. They would kill me. I had to keep quiet or they would kill me. I couldn't let them find me or they would kill me. I wanted the pain to go away but that would only happen if I was Scanned or I died. Only one of these options would happen and if it were up to the Traitors it would be the latter.

Frak, frak, frak, frak, frak, frak, frak, frak, frak, frak! I wanted to scream but knew I couldn't. They were out there and would kill me if they heard me. I wanted to get away. I wanted to go back to the Factory and be Scanned. "Please go away." I know it won't do anything but I had to distract myself from the pain.

The pain wouldn't go away. I was lying down with the gun pointed at my chin. I could make sure they didn't capture me alive. If I fell asleep and they found me I could shoot myself before they could capture me. But I wouldn't or couldn't sleep with the pain. But I had to be safe.

I was crying again. I knew it was over. I was hungry, in pain, and had to go to the bathroom. If they didn't hear me they'd smell me. Frak.

I had to hold it in. It was a horrible thing. To be hungry and have to go at the same time was a frakking bullshit situation.

Frak. Maybe the Traitors wouldn't smell me. I sure did. If I wasn't starving I would have thrown up.

I got lucky. They must have only left Cans and Twitchers in the building. Machines couldn't smell and that saved my life.

I hadn't heard anything for awhile. But with pain and smell distracting me maybe I missed a noise. It didn't matter. I had to get out of there and get to the Factory. I crawled to the end and kicked the metal grate open with my good leg. Nothing happened. I crawled all the way out and still nothing. "They left, frak." I had to grab a piece of broken furniture to pull myself up.

Frak it. I took my pants off. The smell was horrible. Maybe I could find a place to clean up.

I didn't find a place in the building. But with my broken leg I couldn't really go much farther to look. "Frak it I have to make it to the Factory." I go to the door and open it. It was dark out. More then a day had passed. I hopped on my good leg out of the building. I wanted to find a sewer entrance but realized that the Traitors had those scanning devices everywhere. If I went down there I'd set them off. I had no way back. I was half naked, smelled like shit, and had a broken leg. I didn't want to give up but I saw no way out of this that ended with me making it back to the Factory.

I hid under a car every time I heard a Can. It was rough getting down and up every time with a broken leg but I had to do it. The Traitors were easy to hear also. They weren't quiet. Hell half the time they were singing some stupid song about NAIA and the world domination.

I saw the river. I went down the side and went into the river. It felt good to wash off and the cold water felt great on my injury.

I heard the sound of metal on pavement. The Cans were walking down the river front. "Ok get ready!" Traitors were with them. What were they doing I had no idea. "Move it!" I heard a beeping noise.

"Ok, dump it!" What were they dumping. I found out soon enough.

"Ok, keep going!" I heard splashing noises.

"What the frak?" I saw something float by me. I grabbed one. It was a hand and part of an arm. They were dumping body parts into the river. "Oh Frak." I let it go and it floats a little bit before sinking.

"Ok, backs empty let it down!" I hear an engine running then a loud metal slam. "Let's get out of here I hate doing this shit." A minute later they drive off leaving me in a river filled with body parts.

A few minutes later I got out of the river. I decided to stay near the river instead of going to the street. I was tired so decided to crawl instead of hopping on my good leg. The Factory couldn't be too far.

I knew I was close. I had to be. If I wasn't the sun was going to come up and I'd be exposed.

The sun was coming up but I saw the bridge. I didn't dare cry out. I had to get closer and hope they saw me.

I frakking made it. Frak all of you assholes I made it. I just had to get up the river side. I couldn't though with my leg. "Ani!" No response. "Arrow!"

"Shh!" I hear someone moving up above then I see him. "Sanne, are you ok? Get up here the sun is about to come up." I wanted to scream.

"I can't I broke my leg, help me." He slides down the river side.

"Come on Sanne we have to hurry." I grab him and he helps me up the river side. "Um, want pants?" I had forgotten I took them off.

"Its nothing you haven't seen before. Just get me to the Scanner room." He helps me into the Factory.

Ani and Radio helped Arrow get me to the Scanner Room. But when those doors opened Ani had a set of pants for me. "Arrow grabbed them." I put them on quickly. I might not care but the others would.

"Thanks Ani." I was back and after being healed had one more thing I had to do, eat. "Get me food, now."

"Arrow said he's getting it already." Radio has a bracelet. "Put this on."

"What? I wasn't chipped." I back away as Radio advances.

"We don't know that. We have to be careful."

"It's too late now. If I was chipped they'd be here by now." I push Radio away. "Ani grab it!"

"Yes Sanne." Ani grabs it from Radio.

"Arrow said we have to be careful!"

"And I said if I was chipped they would have been here by now! Leave me alone I'm frakking hungry!" I push Radio away again. "Do you understand me?"

"Well, you're the leader." Radio goes to the ladder and climbs up.

"I'm sorry Sanne." Ani hugs me but I push her away.

"Don't touch me." I stare at her and she backs away. "When did you make it back here?"

"Um, this morning, yesterday morning, whatever time it is now." How long had I been gone?

"Were you the first one back?" She shakes her head.

"Radio and Arrow made it here before I did. I had to hide since the Twitchers were after me."

"Good. So you didn't beeline back here like they did." She shrugs her shoulders.

"I don't know if they did that." I was a little proud of her. She had done the smart thing. The other two may have just came right back.

"Well you didn't. You did the right thing." I pat her shoulder. "Good job Ani." She smiles.

"Um, thank you Sanne." I hear someone climbing down the ladder. It was Arrow with some canned food.

"About time I'm starving."

"Sanne what happened? How did you break your leg?" He hands me a can of ravioli. I use my fingers to pull some out and eat it.

"Motorcycle crashed into a plate glass window and I bounced off of a pole and the floor."

"Motorcycle? What motorcycle?" I reach back in and eat more.

"A Kawasika 700 Phantom. She was a beautiful machine. Feeling that rumble between my legs as I drove around the city." I smile at Arrow. "It felt good until I broke my frakking leg."

"Wait, what?" Ani and Arrow were both confused.

"I was trying to get back and had to hide under a car. Across the street was a Kawasika 700 Phantom and I decided to drive it. I was smart enough to not drive it back here of course. I caused some chaos on the other side of the city shooting Traitors and blowing shit up with grenades."

"But, Sanne that's crazy!" Ani was chewing on her finger as Arrow grabbed his cross. "And brave."

"It was fun. It was really fun when I hit the barrier they set up I went flying upside down and then landed on the tires driving into the building. It was something out of an action film." I smile at Arrow. "Really exciting." I lick some sauce off of my lips while looking him over.

"Um, Sanne, that was dangerous."

"I know that." I roll my eyes. "But maybe they will stay on the other side of the city since that's where I was."

"Maybe." Finally Arrow smiles. "You're amazing Sanne. I tried coming back here right away but I had a couple of Traitors on my heel. I ran out of an entrance and hid in the ruins of an old house."

"The Hermitage." I turn and see my mother climbing down the ladder. "You found the Hermitage, my childhood home."

"Oh, um, yeah." He looks away.

"Its ok Arrow we all knew it was destroyed by the Cans. But it was a smart thing to do."

"Well when I did get back Radio was here. I don't know how she did it but she got back here almost right after the alarms went off."

"Well if she had been followed the Cans would have been here already." I eat the rest of the can of ravioli. "The next thing on my list is sleep, move." I push past my mother and go to the ladder.

"Wait Sanne." Arrow follows me.

"What?"

"Actually after I was done with watch I was going to bed. Um, yeah." He was blushing.

"Well go on watch then go to bed."

"Um, if I could um, go to bed at the same time as you um, maybe we could, do," Oh my gods I was ready to smack him.

"If you want to frak just say so." I grab him by his shirt and pull him over to the sleeping area.

"I didn't, I mean, yes but not frak but, um, sex, make," I smack him.

"Don't you dare call it love." I push him on a cot then pull my shirt off. "This isn't love this is pure animalistic frakking." I pull my pants off. "This is a way to get a release from everything." I grab his boots and pull them off. "Come on Arrow get naked." I pull on his pants.

"Wait Sanne I, this isn't what I wanted." I yank hard and pull his jeans loose. When I get them off I grab his boxers.

"It is what I want." He struggles a little.

"Wait, Sanne!" He tries to push me away. "I didn't mean it like this Sanne. Please slow down." I get his boxers off.

"Why? I want it hard and fast." I climb on top of him. "You're already hard why slow down?" I grab his dick and position myself over him. "I need it hard and fast." I lower myself onto him.

"Sanne, this," He stops resisting when I start moving up and down.

"This is what I need and what you want." I ride him until we both get our releases.

We were frakking some more, this time he was on top, when the door to the sleep room opened. "Oh, um, sorry." I turn and see Ani.

"Shut the frak up Ani." I wrap my legs around Arrow's waist so he couldn't pull out. "If you want to frak later I'm sure he'll be up for it but right now I'm getting my release."

"I, Sanne, that's, the resistance sent us a message. They're on the radio."

"Frak." I push Arrow off of me. "What do they want?"

"A Kinghawk says he needs to talk to the leader of our group. You're the leader so I came to get you."

"Fine." I find my pants and shirt and pull them on. "Well, I got his engines revved if you want to drive him." I smile and laugh a little as I walk past her. "I'm sure you know how to drive a stick."

"Um, no." She was blushing.

"Go ahead, have fun." I leave the sleep room and go to the radio room.

Radio had the controls. "What's going on?"

"Kinghawk this is Phase Three leader is here." There is some static noise.

"We need to speak with you."

"Well, speak."

"In person. I want to meet the person Nighthawk said would win this war." I laugh.

"Well he's dead so shows how much he knows."

"He is but he knew you. I only know of you. I am the leader of the France, West Germany, Northern Italy, and East Spain resistance. I wish to have a meeting with you in person." There is some static.

"Wait, repeat, we have interference."

"We will send you the coordinates in Morse Code at a later date. We will not say when in case the Cans are listening."

"Well, what if I don't want to go?"

"I am the leader of the section you are in therefore you will report to me." I had to laugh.

"Nighthawk must not have told you much about me then if you think I will just bow down to your orders."

"He said you had fire. He said you had heart. If what he said about you is true then we need to have a meeting to discuss some, plans. I can't elaborate any more over the radio."

"Fine, when you send the coordinates I'll go. But don't think you can order me or any of my members around."

"Understood. Dropping and out." There is a click noise.

"Is that it?" Radio nods.

"Kinghawk, Nighthawk, do you think they have a bird fetish?" I laugh a little.

"Good one Radio."

"Whatever." She lies down next to the radio.

"Um, if you want we could bring a cot in here."

"Whatever." Toughest ten, no, was she eleven now? Maybe even twelve. With the war we all lost track of time. Hell I might be fifteen, or sixteen.

"Um, Radio, how old are you?"

"Don't know." What a stupid question to ask.

"Well um, when you get older you will start to um, have some changes." Why was I blushing? I was just caught getting frakked by Arrow but trying to talk to Radio made me blush.

"I know. I've already started the curse."

"Oh, um, we have the uh, things." She rolls her eyes.

"I know. It isn't rocket surgery how to figure them out. Open them up and put them in."

"Oh, I didn't know you could use those since you uh, never did that." I was going to shoot myself if I acted more like a fool.

"Just because you're all sluts. I just shoved it in. Hurt a little but it frakking beats bleeding all over the place."

"I, well, I'm glad you um, knew what to do." I leave the radio room before I have to beat my head against the wall. I felt stupid blushing like that. This was war. I've been tortured, molested, beaten, shot, and this made me feel uncomfortable.

I go back to the sleep room and find it empty. "Damn it I wanted to keep going." I go to my cot to take care of myself before going to bed.

When I woke up Ani and Arrow were still missing. Maybe they were frakking each other in private. It didn't matter the resistance had sent the coordinates in Morse Code. The problem was I didn't know Morse Code. Neither did Radio. "Maybe Arrow does. I just have to find him." I leave the radio room and go hunting.

It didn't take long. He was in the food room. "I'm surprised you're not here with Ani." I smile seductively.

"I, Sanne, about that, I," I laugh as he blushes.

"You're embarrassed? Gah, we were frakking who cares if we were seen? It's not that big a deal."

"I, if you say so. Um, what is that?" I show him the paper.

"What are these?" He turns the paper side ways.

"Morse Code. I can't read it."

"I can't either."

"Frak." What were we supposed to do. "I doubt Ani could read it."

"Um, your parents?" I was a little annoyed at them being called my parents. But they might know.

"Let's go ask." We walk out of the food room and go to the Control Room.

I show my parents the paper. "Do you know Morse Code?" Both shake their heads. "Frak. I'm supposed to go to the meeting place but we can't read the coordinates to get there."

"Um, wait." My mother goes to the control panel. "SAI?" A screen appears. The program that used to be my grandmother appears. "Can you read this?" My mother holds up the paper.

"The meeting is to be held six days from receiving this message. You are to head west then south from Paris and go to…" She continues reading the message.

I had less then six days to get to the old border. As I was getting ready I start to laugh. "What is it Sanne?" Arrow was with me helping me. He wasn't coming with me though.

"Of all the places I've been with my parents I've never been to Spain. This will be the first time I go."

"Well it's not really Spain any more." Arrow helps me get the pack on. "Are you sure you want to go alone?"

"Yes. You're needed here. If I die it's no big deal but if the Cans find the Factory it will need to be defended."

"I, it would be a big deal if you died. It would matter to me." What a sap.

"Whatever." I go to the entrance. Ani had been doing guard duty since she saw Arrow and I. "Ani, is it clear?"

"Yes Sanne." The entrance opens and I hurry out. Ani helps me down into the sewers. "Um, good luck, be safe."

"I just need to find a way through the sewers so I can get out of Paris." The sewer cover is replaced and I go on my way.

It was hard getting around the scanning devices but I got out of the city. I had a long walk to the lands formally known as Spain.

Going south I was going to be moving near Orleans, where the Hydrocell plant used to be. Of course Orleans wasn't there any more either.

I followed near an old road that was once called A10. The next town I'd be getting near would be Tours. I had to go around it as it was thick with Traitors and new factories. The smoke and dust filled the air billowing out of them.

I had three days to go. I was just getting around Poitiers. It used to be a beautiful town and now it was replaced with a Skin Job facility and factory. The smell of death almost made me sick as the wind blew it in my direction.

Frak. Floaters were every where once I got near Vileneueve-sur-lot. They carried crates and barrels. I didn't know what was in them. "Why the frak is the meeting place this deep into NAIA's controlled land? Are they asking to get me killed?" I keep moving being careful to hide when a Floater flew over head.

I had a day to get there. An old rusted sign showed I was only four hundred kilometers from San Sebastian. I'd never make it. I had gotten faster as the pack got lighter from me using supplies but I'd never make it.

I had to keep going. I had to go faster. I even traveled during the day a little. It was risky as frak but I had to do it. This meeting was going to be huge. It could change the course of the war. I had to be there! This Kinghawk knew about me because Nighthawk told him about me. I wanted to know what Nighthawk told him.

Damn Floaters. I had to hide as two flew over. I couldn't see what they were carrying. Probably more cyborgs. Traveling during the day was risky but I had to do it. Even with the Floaters buzzing over head.

I was near Bayonne when I took another break. I had been pushing myself hard but had to eat. As I opened a can of peas I hear a noise. It didn't sound like the metal of a Can. "Frak." I hide under some brush.

"We're going to be late. We should have left earlier." It was two men. Both were carrying packs and rifles.

"We had to make sure the defenses were ready. Who knows when the Cans might find our bases."

"If they find it." They were resistance members, had to be. I let them walk a little farther ahead when I come out from the brush and raise my rifle. I had to be careful just in case this was a trick.

"Freeze!" Both stop. "Are you resistance members or Traitors?" I point the rifle from one to the other.

"Resistance." One reaches for his hand gun.

"Stop, I'm resistance." I lower my rifle. "Headed for the meeting?"

"Yeah and running a little late." Both turn around slowly.

"Same here." They finally see me.

"Whoa." Both look me over.

"What? You act like you've never seen a woman before." I smile at them. "We can stand and talk or we can get moving."

"Um, yeah, let's go." We continue together. I just tip the can of peas so I can eat and walk at the same time.

As the sun set we were near Pasaia. "We're going to be late no matter what." One of them, Michael or his resistance name Nemecheck, sets his pack down.

"I just want to get there." The other, Jacque or his resistance name Diver.

"Same here, two to one, we keep going."

"Fine." We continue. I wanted a break but I didn't want to appear weak. I was still hungry and my legs were killing me.

When we got near San Sebastian we had to be even more careful. "Think the Cans know a meeting is going to happen?" We saw a group of Cans being flanked by Traitors.

"Maybe. We are pretty deep in NAIA territory." Jacque raises his rifle and aims. "Too deep. If we started anything we'd be frakked."

"Then we better find the base. They said the yellow road will lead to the five. We figured they meant E-5 which is yellow on a map."

"Yeah, what we figured too." Michael moves forward first.

The moon was up giving us some light as we got away from another group of Cans and Traitors. "We need to find a five."

"I'm looking." Michael was getting on my nerves. "We all are."

"The faster the better." Jacque wasn't too bad. He was actually kind of cute. And he was strong. He never wanted a break. He didn't complain like Michael had. He was kind of attractive.

We were still looking when I saw a Hydrocell sign. "Stay Alive at Station 5." That motto was annoying when they played it on the commercials but gods if it wasn't the truth. "I found it." I lift it and find a handle.

"They said we have to move the handle in a certain way." Frak, Jacque was right except I forgot what they said.

"Um, you do it. I hurt my shoulder in an attack a while ago."

"No problem." Jacque goes to the handle. A minute later he opens it revealing a long tunnel. We climb in and close the panel behind us.

It was pitch black inside. None of us had brought a flash light. "Think they'll be mad because we're late?"

"It doesn't matter Michael." I roll my eyes, not that he could see. "We risked our asses to make it here. I don't even know why. What is the big frakking deal?"

"I don't know either. This could be something major. I heard they called every leader in the lands formally known as Spain, Portugal, Andora, France, Germany, and Italy." Jacque keeps the lead as we go through the tunnel.

We were blinded by lights then heard people moving towards us. "We're resistance! Don't shoot!" I put a hand over my eyes trying to block the light. "Come on we're resistance members!"

"Down on the ground!" I feel a barrel against my neck. "We have to make sure you aren't Skin Jobs."

"Fine, geesh." I get on the ground. Someone grabs me and lifts me.

"Clear." After two more clears the lights are dimmed. "Ok, get up." We do. "Welcome to the safest place in Europe."

"Yeah, whatever." I just wanted to get inside and eat, sleep.

"Sorry we're late."

"You're not the only ones. We're still waiting for more so the meeting has been delayed." We are led to a door and allowed inside.

I was able to get a cot after eating some food from the mess hall. In the cot next to me Jacque was tossing and turning. We weren't the only ones in here but everyone else was asleep. "Can't sleep?" He sits up.

"Still all worked up from trying to get here." I sit up.

"Me too." I smile at him. "What is your group like?"

"Just six of us left. Its pretty bad but we keep going."

"Yeah, four left in mine. But we have dozens of refugees that we take care of." I sigh. "Why were you surprised to see me?"

"Huh?"

"When you first saw me you went, and I quote, whoa."

"Well it's been a long time since I've seen a woman." He scratches his chin. I see a beard growing in.

"Really? My group is three women and one guy, now. We've lost a lot of people." I feel the emotions coming but I can't let them control me.

"Lucky guy." He laughs.

"Well, sometimes." I laugh with him. "I don't know what I'd do if I was stuck with all women. Sometimes a person needs a release." And I was feeling that need. Thinking about the others who died was making my emotions come.

"Well I don't even want to think what some of the guys have been doing for that release." He laughs more. He was so damn good looking when he laughed. He had great teeth. And his face it reminded me… Krieger.

"Are you half Asian?"

"Um, yeah. On my mother's side, why?"

"You reminded me of someone." I get off my cot and sit on his. "Someone I was really close to before they died." I put a hand on his.

"Um, I'm sorry."

"Not your fault Jacque." I move my hand up his arm rubbing it gently. "But if you want to make up for it I can think of a way." I lean in and kiss him.

"I, I'll try my best." He kisses me back.

We lie down on the bed. I keep kissing him as I feel his hands move to my chest. I pull away from him and get my shirt off. "It's been so long since I've seen anything this beautiful." He moves his mouth down to my nipple and starts to suck on it. I moan quietly as he moves his mouth to the other one.

"More," I reach down to his waist and undo the pants. I move down the cot and pull them and his boxers off. "I'm sure it's been a long time since you've had this done." I move down and put it in my mouth getting it nice and wet.

"Wow, you're amazing." He places his hands on my head as I bob up and down on his dick.

When he is hard, and wet, I pull away. "No, what's wrong?" I hear his groan. I smile.

"Don't worry its about to get better." I pull my pants off and lie down on my cot. "If you come over here." I lick my lips.

"I can't move fast enough." He gets off of his cot and gets in mine. He grabs my legs at the knees and spreads them apart. I feel him move into me.

"Yes…" I moan as he slides into me.

"Frak, frak," He moans as he moves in and out of me.

He didn't last long but I didn't expect it. I did a pretty good job with my mouth and if it had been as long as he said it was I was lucky he lasted more than a minute. As he lay next to me he sucked on a nipple and played with the other while I worked myself off.

We didn't have long to relax as our actions had woken others up. I guess I'm the only woman here as they were all men and all wondering when they could get a turn. "Stay the frak back or I'll hurt you." I grab my shirt and pull it on.

"Come on babe you just frakked him why not me?"

"Because Jacque is strong, a leader, and attractive. You have a gut. Back off!" I push him away.

"Oh come on you're a slut." Another one tries to grab me but Jacque punches him in the face.

"What are you animals?" Jacque hands me my pants and I get them on quickly. "Stay back!"

"Come on dude you just got laid why deny us that shit?"

"Frak you!" I grab for a handgun in my pants pocket and pull it out. "I'll kill every single one of you if you don't back off!"

"Yeah right bitch you don't have the balls." I shoot the asshole in the arm.

"My balls are bigger then yours and I'll prove it again." I aim at his other arm. "If you make me."

"Holy frak she's crazy!" The others back off.

When the door opened several members had their rifles raised. "What's going on in here!?"

"She shot me!" The one I shot was holding his arm.

"I told him to back off or I'd shoot." I keep my gun leveled at the others.

"What's going on in here?" Another person steps in. He was taller than the rest. He had this, power, about him.

"Kinghawk she frakking shot Greeper!" I aim my gun at the one who spoke.

"Because I told him to back off and he wouldn't!"

"Whoa hold it!" His voice bellows in the room. "What happened?"

"She was offering then she turned on us!" The one who spoke before was going to get shot if he didn't shut up.

"That's not true." Jacque goes to the one they called Kinghawk. "She and I were, together. When they saw us they thought they could, do what they wanted and she declined their offers." I smirk. What a smart ass. It made him even more attractive. "One didn't accept that and she declined him again."

"Shit. You must be Pho." I nod. "Nighthawk always talked highly of you and now I see why firsthand." He laughs. "You never gave him the location to your base. I'm pretty sure you were the only one to say no to him."

"Of course. No one knows where it is and ever will."

"Well if that is true I'll have to talk to you as I'm Kinghawk."

"Well if you're Kinghawk you must be the one in charge. If I could get a different place to sleep where I'll be safe from these pigs I would most appreciate it." I finally lower my gun.

"Come with me and I'll find you a place."

"Wait," I turn to Jacque. "I want him to come with me. It will be easier to defend myself if I have a guard."

"You have to understand being the only thing female without a chip in her wrist you're a hot commodity."

"I'll kill any one who tries anything I don't like." I motion to the one I shot in the arm. "Do you understand?"

"Firecracker just like Nighthawk said." Kinghawk motions to the men who came in with him. "She's probably the best leader we have in the area formerly known as France. Protect her with your life and I will reward you." He leaves the room and Jacque and I follow.

We slept on the floor but it was probably the greatest sleep I've had. Curled into Jacque, his arms around me. He looked like Krieger, felt like him. I swear he even smelled like him. "Krieger," I snuggle against him. I wanted more sleep with the person who reminded me so much of Krieger.

When we were woken up it was because the last leader had made it. We are led down the hallway to the meeting room.

"Wow." I hadn't seen this many people in one room in years. Kinghawk was standing at a podium as the leaders of the surrounding area take seats. Jacque pulls out a seat for me and I sit down. He takes the seat next to me.

"This better be good." Jacque puts a hand on mine. "I didn't risk my ass for some bullshit."

"Yeah, same here." We sit and wait.

After a few more minutes the meeting starts. Kinghawk was in control. "NAIA has control of Earth. It has started sending Cans to the Moon. Soon all of humanity will be under its control. Some resistance members have tried to negotiate with it." Fools. There was no negotiating with that thing. "And made some progress." What, no. How could anyone think of negotiating with that thing. "If the resistance surrenders we will be given the lands of America and Australia to live in."

"But, that, no frakking way!" Thankfully I wasn't the only one to feel this way. Others protested.

"We can't do that! Earth is ours not that things!" Jacque of course. Made me smile.

"Yes, I thought you would say that. That is why I took it out of your hands." He raises a control box and pushes a button.

All hell broke out. The Cans and Twitchers were every where. "Aaaa!" The screaming almost droned out the sound of laser blasts.

"This way!" Several members were taking charge. As much as I wished I were one of them I had no idea what to do. This place was foreign to me.

"Jacque!"

"Sanne!" I duck as a laser flies over me. "Watch out!" I turn and see two Twitchers coming towards me. I pull my hand gun out and shoot them.

"Frak!" I forgot they exploded.

"Aaaa!" More screaming, more panic. Chaos ruled in the base.

"The other passage is open! Hurry!" I follow who ever it was. For all I knew it was a Traitor leading me into a trap. But I could fight out in the open. Down here if I tried to shoot I had a better chance of killing a resistance member then a Can.

We ran out into daylight. It was a lot darker out then normal as the sky was filled with Floaters. "Spread out! Go to your bases!"

"I think not." Everyone froze. When I turned I saw it, NAIA. "Surrender or die." It raises its hand and a Shiva Skin Job appears. "I have thousands of these in the area they will kill you."

"Frak you!" Several shots ring out but a shield comes up around NAIA.

"Epic Fail." It laughs.

"Frak, what do we do?"

"Run!" We panic and spread out.

"Shiva's, bring me their heads!" The NAIA being disappears as a black mist. Shiva Skin Jobs attack from every where. I didn't know what else to do so I ran.

I ran. With all those Cans, Twitchers, Floaters, and Shiva's it was hopeless to fight. We had to run. Jacque and I split off from the others.

We ran, and ran, until we made it to a beach. "Frak!" I see some rocks and go towards them. Jacque follows me. "Frak, frak, what the frak happened?!"

"I don't know." Jacque huddles next to me in the rocks. "What happened? How did they find us?"

"Kinghawk said something about making the choice for us. About the deal with America and Australia." I huddle next to him. "Kinghawk sold us out." He puts an arm around me.

"He sold out the resistance. Europe is lost."

"No, I, we still have our bases. He might have the leaders but we still have dozens of bases. We can still fight." I put an arm around him. "We have to fight that thing."

"But, he, he knows where the bases are. We all had to report our base locations to him and his top advisors." I didn't want to but I smiled.

"I never gave him the location to my base. No one ever got the location." He squeezes my shoulder.

"Then it's the only free place left in Europe." He was right. The Factory was the only place in Europe that NAIA didn't know of. I had the last piece of land in Europe that wasn't under its control.

We staid in those rocks until night fall. We could still hear the Floaters flying overhead. The Cans still marched. But under night fall we were safer. "If we stick to the coast we should be able to make it to Paris. Eventually."

"Paris? What the frak are you still doing in Paris? The resistance higher ups ordered that place to be evacuated months ago."

"Yeah and as Nighthawk learned I don't take orders from anyone. I may take some suggestions if I like them but never orders."

"Damn, firecracker if I ever saw one." I smile, I liked being called that.

"Well as much as I'm sure you'd love to see me blow again we need to get going." We stick to the coast as we head to Paris.

It had been two days and we were hungry. "There isn't any food out here." I wasn't worried about food.

"Or fresh water. I'm thirsty as hell."

"How does it go, water, water, everywhere but not a single drop to drink?" I laugh.

"Yeah, something like that." I go near the ocean. "If we had fishing poles or something we could try and catch something."

"Who needs poles?" I see him pull a knife out.

"Uh, humans. Unless you plan to spear one with that." I roll my eyes.

"Close." He cuts his arm.

"What are you doing?" I see his blood drip into the water.

"You'll see. It's a trick I learned from my grandparents back in China." He drips blood into the water until he stops bleeding.

"China? Oh, your grandparents were from China?"

"Yeah."

"My, person I was close to his were from Japan." I continue watching Jacque wondering what it was he was trying to do.

I was getting impatient. "What are you doing? We could be moving."

"I'm hungry and so are you. I'm getting us food."

"How?"

"What does blood attract?" I was getting tired of this.

"Vampires?"

"Sharks. The blood will attract sharks. When they get close I'll kill one and we'll have sushi."

"That's frakking brilliant." I never heard of this but well, it was frakking brilliant. "So we just wait?"

"We just wait." And so we waited.

Jacque was right. After about ten more minutes we saw one. It wasn't very big but it would be dinner. "Now!" Jacque stabs it as I grab its tail. We throw it out of the water and on to the beach.

"Dinner." We hold it down and wait for it to suffocate.

It wasn't the best sushi I've ever had but it was food and water. It was also messy. "You made a mess." I wipe some shark blood off his cheek.

"It's worth it." I love his smile. So much like Krieger's.

"Well um, Jacque. If you're coming to my base there are some things you're going to have to understand."

"That um, your boyfriend is there?" I almost gag, and not just because I got some cartilage stuck in my throat.

"Arrow is not my boyfriend." I spit the cartilage out. "And that's not what I mean. There are some things at my base that are different."

"Like what? Food rationing? Toilet duties? No different from any other base." I shake my head.

"No something you could never guess."

"What, a super powerful computer with a virtual world inside that you hold the refugees in?" I nearly swallowed my tongue as he laughs. "Yeah right, what is it Sanne?"

"I, you'll see." I loved that laugh, so much like Krieger's. Did I think love, no. Love doesn't exist. I can't feel that. Pho doesn't feel that.

After eating we found a place to hide and sleep. With a full belly it was easy to do. It didn't hurt having his arms wrapped around me, holding me. Snuggling up against his warm body…

It was four days since the attack. I had no idea how long it would take for us to get to Paris. We would have to leave the coast eventually of course since Paris was farther in land but for now it seemed to be safest to stay on the shore.

Another day and another shark. I was getting sick of it but it was all we had. We were traveling under the cover of darkness now. We had to move as fast as we could. The sooner we were back at the Factory we would be safe.

We were near Saint-Malo. "We need to head away from the ocean if we're going to get to Paris."

"I know but the coast has been good for us so far." He rubs his arm. He had cut himself every time to draw the sharks and was leaving scars. "Maybe we should keep going along the coast."

"No. We need to get to Paris. Going along the coast will make us go a longer way. Come on Kri," I stop. "Come on Jacque."

"If that's what you want. But can we catch a couple sharks before we go? So we have something to eat."

"Ok." He goes towards the water but I stop him.

"I'll do it."

"I, you don't have to hurt yourself." I take the knife from him.

"When we get to my base you'll see this doesn't matter." I wince as I cut my forearm. I let the blood drip into the water. "I hope they don't mind my blood."

"It might bring more since its something different." We laugh as we wait.

We were heading east each carrying a dead shark. "If we had packs this would be so much easier."

"If we had packs there would be food in them and we wouldn't need these things." He holds up his shark.

"Yeah, true." We keep going.

The next night we were near Sees. After eating a shark we kept going. "Am I the only one who noticed there are no Cans or Traitors?"

"We're deep in NAIA territory. There is probably no need to have guards out here. Especially after Kinghawk turned on us."

"Yeah. And if anyone did see us they might just think we were Traitors." He looks at me as I look at him.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I nod. "But we better wait until we get to your base."

"Yeah, we better." We keep going.

We were hiding in some brush when the sun started coming up. We had finished the other shark. We couldn't have kept it much longer as it was going bad. "Frak. This isn't great cover."

"It's the best we have." We huddle together. Normally I could fall asleep in his arms but that was when we had cover. This brush wasn't much more then a couple of half dead bushes.

As the sun was setting we were getting ready. "If we don't stop we can make it to Dreux before sun rise."

"And we go in a straight line. But we can't." We wait for the sun to settle a little more before taking off.

I wanted to take a break but Jacque kept going. I was tired and hungry and thirsty. But Jacque was strong and kept going.

He was right. Without taking a break we made it to Dreux before the sun came up. We found a couple of old shacks and broke into one. "A cot, wow." I sit down on it. "Much better then the ground."

"Yeah but not much room for two."

"Well, um, maybe the other shack has one."

"And if it doesn't you can sleep first then I can."

"Or we could share it." I kick one boot off then the other. "If you think we can find a way for both of us to fit on it." I see his smile and feel my skin flush. It was so much like Krieger's. It was Krieger's. I don't know how but he had to be, something. "Or if I can."

"I think we can come up with a couple ideas." I pull my shirt off as he gets his shirt off.

"Show me your ideas." I lie on the cot and wait for Krieger, Jacque, to join me. Waiting for him to make love to me like we used to back in Kadic Academy.

It was incredible to be lying on his chest. Hearing his heart beat as he breathed slowly in his sleep. "I love you Krieger." I close my eyes and let sleep come to me slowly as I enjoyed being with him.

That night I couldn't help but smile. We were close to Paris if I remembered a map correctly. "Come on Jacque we're so close I want to keep going!" I run ahead a little.

"Wait Sanne we have to be careful." I slow down.

"Sorry. It's just been awhile and I want to get back."

"I want to get there too. You've built it up so much I can't wait!" He grabs my hand. "But we have to be careful."

"Ok, I'll slow down." I feel the warmth in his hand. "I'll stay close to you." I rest my head on his shoulder.

We were near Paris but the sun was starting to come up. "We have to hide or make it to the sewers."

"Sewers? Any near here?" I nod.

"But it might be risky. NAIA's palace is in the city and they set up scanning devices to detect anyone who gets too near it in the sewers."

"We just need a place to sleep and hide during the day."

"Then let's find a sewer entrance." We keep going as the sky gets lighter.

The sun had just started coming up when we found an entrance. We hurry down inside and close the cover.

I knew we were close now. After sleeping for a couple hours we were moving through the sewers. "Frak, another one." The Traitors had put in more scanning devices in the sewers. "We have to find another way."

I just wanted to be at the Factory. With Jacque the man who reminded me so much of Krieger.

We finally found a passage that didn't have a scanning device. "We're almost there now. Just you wait Jacque. I already feel like celebrating."

"I can't wait." He grabs my ass.

"You will though. I'll make it worth the wait." I run ahead of him. He chases after me.

Odd's graffiti was pointing the way. I was so close I could smell it. I could feel it. "Home." I see the ladder. "We're almost there."

"Wow, can't wait."

"You won't have to." I climb up the ladder and push the cover off.

"Sanne?" I turn and see Ani.

"Ani, is it safe?" She nods.

"Good. Jacque come on up." I climb out and wait for Jacque.

"Hey, um, hi." He smiles at Ani. I feel that gut feeling of jealousy. "I'm Jacque, and you are?"

"This is Ani, Animal. Ani this is Jacque, Diver."

"Um, we've been waiting for you." Ani goes to the entrance and opens it. We follow her inside.

I avoid Arrow. I didn't want to see him or for him to see me. With Jacque things would be complicated. I lead Jacque to the radio room. "Radio." She turns around.

"Sanne, is it true?"

"Is what true."

"The reports. Kinghawk sold us out." How would they know unless there, some one had to make it.

"There are survivors?" Radio nods. "Well, here's another." Jacque enters the room. "Radio, Jacque."

"Um, hello." Jacque was checking her out. I wanted to punch him for that how dare he…

"Hi. What do we do Sanne?" Radio probably didn't even realize it.

"I don't know. We've been traveling for days. I'm hungry." I turn and leave the radio room and Jacque follows me.

We go to the food room and I grab a bunch of stuff. "Come on Jacque." I toss him a can of beans. "Eat up."

"Gladly.

I took Jacque to the Control Room. "This is Aelita and Jeremie." I could tell by the way he looked at Aelita he knew we were related. "She is um, related to me."

"Um, ok. What is all this? Some thing J INC had?"

"Long before J INC was around there was a genius named Franz Hopper, the father of my wife. This was his creation." Jeremie points to the holomap. "And now we use it to hide refugees."

"Oh um, ok. Yeah uh, nice meeting you two."

"We'll go now." I turn and walk out.

After eating and showing Jacque around and explaining everything we went to the sleep area. "Want to celebrate?" I pull my shirt off.

"Yes, yes I do." He pulls his shirt off.

"I do to." I get my pants off and lie down on the cot. "Get over here and frak me."

"Don't need to tell me twice." He gets on the cot and I spread my legs. Expecting him to get on top of me I am surprised when I feel his tongue between my legs.

"Oh, Jacque." I moan as he licks between my legs. I grab his head as his fingers move inside of me.

"Want you nice and wet." He pulls his head away and climbs up my body. He kisses and licks and nibbles my skin as he gets closer to my breasts. When his mouth finds a nipple I feel him slide into me.

"I want you." I moan as he fraks me, plays with me, touches me. "Krieger…" I said it softly, he didn't hear me.

I held him in my arms. He held me in his. I wanted this moment to last forever. His skin pressed against mine as he breathed softly in his sleep. If this moment lasted forever, but unfortunately it wouldn't. "Oh, shit." I turn and see Arrow.

"What?" I was ready to bite him for interrupting Krieger and I. No, Jacque and I.

"I, you, you and him?"

"What do you want? I'm trying to sleep." I roll my eyes as Arrow blushes.

"I, your parents said they wanted to talk to you. But um I, you can um, sorry." He closes the door.

"Huh, what was that?" Jacque was awake.

"Nothing. But if you're awake then maybe we could have some more fun." I roll him onto his back so I could have more fun.

A/N Why so fast for Sanne? I tried to show that she sees Jacque as Krieger. Why it was so quick for her to fall for him. But will she realize he isn't Krieger and if she does will she care? Also, Merry Christmas every one!