Part:1

Old business

Jackson speeds through the streets as he navigate his way through traffic, the roar of his Suzuki GSXR-1000 screaming loud and proud as he pins the throttle wide open.

His destination... the location of the supposed hideout of the Mercenary group that Houki's abductors were planning on taking her.

Thanks to the micro projector hidden in his helmet, a small digital map being supplied by Tohka was displayed in the far corner of his visor and giving him clear navigation to his destination. He tears through lines of traffic with laser guided precision, leaning and tilting his bike like a professional Moto GP rider... Some civilian drivers honking their horns and rolling their windows to shake their fists at the young Texan as he narrowly roars past them like a jet fighter on wheels, cursing at his hoodlumism.

Something that Jackson couldn't help but chuckle at a little, then a faint buzzing rings in his ear as his Codec communicator goes off to indicate someone trying to contact him.

"This is Jackson, Go ahead." He said as he verbally activates the call.

"Jake... It's Mimi, have you reached the elevator yet." He hears the familiar voice of his Squadron Hacker over the comms.

"Not yet, I'm two miles out and closing fast... should be there in a few minutes." Jake said as he remains focused on weaving through traffic whilst Mimi spoke to him.

"Okay, good... Listen I've done some more research into this and you're gonna have to find an alternative way into the complex other than that elevator... security and surveillance is gonna be too tight to just walk in there without a fight." Mimi said, causing Jake to just sigh a little at that.

"Huh, since when is it ever that easy." Jake chuckles as he disconnects from the main road at starts navigating his way down the narrow streets of downtown, scanning his surroundings for anything out of the ordinary that might suggest any scouts guarding the elevator nearby.

"That's why you got me, JJ." Mimi chuckles. "Cuz we both know your missions would be a hell of a lot harder without my help."

"Hahaha, That's why I love that magic you can work, Mimi." Jake chuckles as he slows down to stop at a set of lights, listening to Mimi giggle over the Comms.

"Anything for my JJ-Kun, Nya~." Mimi says in a cute voice before snapping back to the more serious matter at hand. "Okay, listen carefully Jake... when you get within five hundred yards of your Destination, peel off in an alley on your right."

"Got it." Jake replies as the lights go green and he moves off again.

He keeps a watchful eye on his map to count down the distance till his destination... when suddenly he catches a car running a red light cross in front of him and hits the brakes. The driver stops in panic in Jakes path and his bike goes up on its front wheel as he just managed to bring his bike to a controlled halt only a mere few feet from the drivers door before his back wheel lands back on the road.

"Hey Dumbass... watch where your riding that thing... you wanna get turned into road pizza or something?!" The driver starts yelling at Jake as he shakes his fist and flips him off, infuriating Jake due to the fact it was the driver of the car that ran the red light and was in the wrong here.

Jake wasn't in the mood to be picking a fight with street trash like this guy and with a twist of his throttle he spooled his bikes engine all the way into the red. The driver of the car is forced to cover his ears from the ear shattering whine of Jake's engine as he revs his bike as loud as it could... when suddenly, the pitch of the bikes scream became so intense that the widows of the car shatter into pieces, littering the driver with glass. He just stares at the blacked out visor of the young man on the bike as he returns the flip off he gave him before Jake cranks open the throttle and wheel spins off to leave the driver to deal with the mess his car was now left in.

"What was that, JJ?" Mimi asked as she could only hear tire screeches, shouting and high revving on her end of the Comms.

"Oh, nothing... Just some idiot with road rage issues." Jake huffs as he continues to ride down the street.

He reached the five hundred yard mark and slows down, scanning his surroundings for this alley that Mimi spoke about, until he comes across the alley hiding behind a few dumpsters obstructing the entrance.

"Okay, I found the alley." Jake said as he dismounts from his bike and moves to push the dumpsters out of the way.

Despite it being the middle of the day, the alley was shadowed in the dark by the towering blocks of flats that hung high over Jake, he carefully pushes his bike into the alley, watching his surroundings for anything... feeling the eyes of passer byes and the odd civilian standing over the metal balconies of their homes while they were having a smoke, no one really paying attention to young Texan as he ventures deeper into the alley.

"Okay... Jake, you should find a service hatch somewhere in that alley, head down there and it should lead you into the main sewer system connecting to the city." Mimi said over the comms, however the only thing she heard from Jake's end was a displeasing huff.

"Great... just where I wanted to go." He huffs as he spots the hatch in question and parks his bike nearby before standing in front of the hatch... still feeling a little put off about having to crawl through a sewer for the rest of the way to his destination.

"Oh quit being a baby, Jake." Chuckled Mimi.

"How come its always me that has to crawl through these kinda places." Jake retorts. "I don't see any of you girls doing this sorta work."

"Because we all know you can handle it, JJ-Kun." Mimi said brightly, but Jake just sighs at that.

"And this is the only way in besides that elevator." He asked, curious about whether there was at least another way in.

"Fraid not Jake... at least not without raising any alarms." Said Mimi, "Listen I'll explain more in a second... but for, just get down there before someone spots you and gets suspicious."

"Yeah, yeah... okay, I'm going." Jake scoffed.

Quickly glancing over his shoulders to make sure no one was looking his way, he leans down and grasps the handle of the service hatch and pulls it open... for most people this would have been a two man job due to the weight of the steel hatch, but with Jake's superior strength it was like lifting a pebble to him as he climbs down the hatch and begins to descend into the sewer system that ran deep under the city above him.

"Jesus... it reeks down here." Jake groans as he held his nose shut, the fowl stench of human and chemical waste lingering in the sewer as he reached the bottom of the ladder and begins to scan his surroundings. "Well... guess I better get to work."

Jake closes his eyes and summons his IS's Stryker mode, lighting the sewer up in the white light of his armour materialising from light particles until his body was wrapped in the familiar black armoured suit that specialised in operating in arenas far too confined for a conventional IS unit.

"Alright Tohka, time for you to go to work as well." He said as he reached onto his back to pull a small device that was attached to him off and place it on the ground, kneeling down he pressed a button on the top of the device and a faint humming sound came from it as it began to unfold and morph shape to reveal a small quad-copter drone that he had brought along with him to allow Tohka to scout out the sewers ahead of him and help guide him to the facility hiding in the complex maze of tunnels. Holding his hand near the drone, Tohka transports herself into the drones on-board hard drive via light particles and soon enough the drone powers up and she takes control of it and rises into the air to Jake's head level.

"All set, Jake... lets go hunting." Tohka said, eager to get started as much as Jackson as he begins walking through the sewer system.

"It's Jackson... I'm in the sewers." He said as he holds his arm up and calls Mimi over the Codec, a small screen being projected via a micro camera on his arm pops up to reveal Mimi's face as she begins to fill Jake in on the details she currently had on the mission.

"Alright, lets get started. Your mission is to infiltrate and investigate the facility located somewhere in this sewer system. After our recent discovery involving Vixen's presence in this area, its highly possible that this will be a (Raven Head) associated facility... According to the information I have been able to claw together so far, its likely that this could be one of their main C-S-S-U (Cyber-Stryke-Suit-Units) research and development bases."

"C-S-S-U's... been a while since I ran into any of those things." Said Jake as he walks through the main passage way of the sewer system, constantly checking his hyper-sensors for any movement.

"Yeah... but they shouldn't be a problem should you run into any... if I recall you referred them as (Walking Vending machines)." She said, gaining a light chuckle from Jake.

"Well... Compared to my Stryker Suit, they're pretty much are like that." He chided through a smug smile as he continues down the main passage tunnel.

"Oh, and FYI... Some of the intel that I had gathered on this lab lead to suspect that they might be tied to the same human trafficking cartels that we linked (Raven Head) with a while back... allegedly anyway." Mimi said as she scoots over her facts that she had saved down.

"Huh... This just keeps getting better and better." Jake said sarcastically.

"Tell me about it." Sighed Mimi. "You need to infiltrate that lab and find out everything you can to prove that this intel is correct... though after seeing that (Raven Head) has been operating in this area as well, it seems likely that it is already."

"I take it that its up to me to find it first." Jake asked, looking down at his Codec screen to see Mimi nod at him.

"Fraid so... there was only so much data I could gather in the time that I had and I still wasn't able to pin point the labs exact location yet." Sighed the purple haired kitten, glancing over at her screens as she monitors Jake's progress from her room back at base in the States, looking for any more vital intel she had that may help Jake with his task at hand.

"So I'm looking for anywhere the labs might hook up with the sewers." Jake asks, looking around for anything that might suggest such a thing.

"Yep... If that lab is really down there with you, they have to have some form of waste management that links up with the sewers some how... and that'll be your way in." Said Mimi as she leans back in her chair. "Find that connection, sneak into the lab, and see if you can find any evidence that implicates them in associating with (Raven Head) as well as what they might have had planned for Miss. Shinonono if they actually managed to get a hold of her."

"No problem... Stealth is my specialty." Jake chuckles, gaining an equally humoured chuckle from the purple haired kitten herself.

"Right... Maybe, but not your preferred way of doing things." She chuckles as she twiddles the end of her tail between her fingers.

"You wouldn't happen to have picked up any intel that tells us what kind of research this lab is up to down here?" Jake asked as he comes up to a curve in the main passage, starting the central distribution system for the various different tunnel systems that spread across the city... However Mimi just shakes her head at him.

"Not really... Maybe something related to all the people they're trafficking?" She said half assumingly, going off of gut instinct more than raw theory.

"Like... Experimentation maybe?" Jake added, trying to gain a suggested theory of what was going on inside that lab himself.

"Its possible... We won't know for sure until you complete the mission... First thing first, though. Find a way into that lab." Said Mimi. She was about to end her call there and leave Jake to get on with the mission, but then quickly remembers one more thing she figured was important to warn him about.

"Oh, right... I also forgot to mention, keep your head on a swivel down there... odds are that if the labs nearby... you more than likely run into some form of security." She said.

"Who in the right mind would agree to walking around in a sewer for hours on end?" Jake scoffs, unsure of what kind of (Security) he would run into down here.

"Not sure... Its likely that they could be using this as an opportunity to run patrol tests on newly built C-S-S-U's... I know you can more than likely handle it Jake, but still... Be careful." Said Mimi. Jake gives her a nod and she leaves the call to allow him to get on with the task at hand and monitor him form the base using his Stryker Suits built in GPS and optical nerves fitted to his visor.

"I'll scout ahead and map the system... you follow and provide back up." Tohka said as she takes lead, gaining a chuckle from Jake as he finds it humouring that she was acting as if she was in charge of this operation.

"Haha... Sir yes Sir." He chuckles as he salutes the drone hovering above him.

"Commence operation." Said Tohka and before long, she flies off into the darkness of the sewer to map out the route for Jake.

Jake brings up his A.R.S (Advanced Radar System) and scans over what she had picked up for him so far. The main sewer system carries on round a blind right curve but it seemed the route after that was blocked off by fallen debris from one of the sub-channels collapsing, meaning that the only way for him to advance was to take the first break off tunnel to the left after the right curve. He begins to track through the sewer, following the directions Tohka had mapped out... When he suddenly hears her calling him over the comms again.

"Jackson: Unidentified C-S-S-U's are patrolling the sewers nearby. Exercise caution."

"Huh... Looks like getting into this place won't be as boring as I thought." Chuckled Jake.

As he takes the next left and passes through an open shutter door he cracks his knuckles and loosen his shoulders up, ready for any engagement he might encounter along the way, when suddenly... his senses flag up as he hears some rumble hit the water behind him. He turns his head back to see a few more brick fall into the water behind him and looks up where they were falling from... When he suddenly sees a large unknown figure hiding in the shadows above the shutter that was waiting in ambush for him. Without warning the figure raises one arm to reveal a Browning. M3 50. Calibre Machine Gun attached to its arm and fires at Jake. With quick reaction timing, Jackson darts and backflips out of the way of the incoming fire and the figure drops down from the tunnel roof to reveal itself to Jake.

"Well... you're a big fella." Jake said as he identifies the hostile.

It was a Type-2 C-S-S-U... a heavy support type Unit and a larger version of the more typical human formed Stryker that took on the shape and body design of a gorilla, packed to the limits with high strength (C.N.T) muscle fibre and armed with a heavy machine gun on one arm for fire suppression. The Type-2 beats its chest in a gorilla like manner to display its anger and clangs its fists together at Jake, clearly ready for an engagement. Jackson reached behind him and draws his High Frequency Blade, standing in a defensive pose and holding his ground.

The Type-2 then suddenly jumps in the direction of the wall, Jake track it as it hits the wall and launched itself at him, bringing both its fists up in an attempted to pound him into the ground. Jackson cartwheels back just in time before the C-S-S-U landed where he was just standing, the ground trembling as the Type-2 slams its fists into the ground. Jake uses his superior speed to his advantage and charges at the Type-2 before it could get back up, with one swift motion he slices into Stryker Units right arm and strikes the machine gun attached to it, severing attachment clean off as he passes by and spins his body to slash across the back of its legs, cutting into the reinforced muscle fibre but only damaging it.

"Better take out that C-S-S-U quick. Don't want attract too much attention down there." Mimi said to Jake over the comms as she was watching the engagement from his optical nerve.

"Yeah, kinda already working on that." Jackson replies as he tries to stay focused on fighting.

He times another charge with the Type-2's next swing and power slides under its legs, quickly getting back up and lashing out across the Units back, spraying oil and artificial blood across the sewer walls. However the C-S-S-U took Jake by surprise and spins its body violenty, swiping Jake with its arm, causing him to drop his blade and slams him against the wall. Before Jake could get up the Type-2 jumps into the air and lands on him, pinning him to the floor and bringing both fists up as it tries to pumble him into the ground, but Jake was a step ahead and fires his shoulder cannons right as the Unit was about to strike. The explosive plasma shots hit the Unit square in the head and knock it back, stunning it long enough for Jake to grab his blade and just as the Type-2 regains its consciousness, it was too late to react as Jake leaps up and drive the blade straight through the Units neck.

The Unit staggers as it slowly loses power and drops to its knees, unable to even react to Jake who was just standing behind it his back to the Unit. Without even looking at his prey, Jake reached round the Type-2's neck and grabs the handle of his blade, twisting it with one brutal swing that decapitated the unit, oil and artificial blood spurting from the wound as it collapsed front first into the foul waters of the sewer. Jake swings his blade to remove the blood and oil from it as he returns it to the sheaf on his back and continues on his path through the sewers.

He comes to a T-Junction at the end of the passage way, however the left route was blocked off by debris and the shutter door on the right was sealed thus preventing him from advancing that way.

"There's a maintenance catwalk by that shutter, use to advance forward and conceal yourself if necessary." Tohka informs over the comms.

Jake spots the stairway to the catwalk and proceeds with caution, moving over the shutter door and remaining in the shadows to stay hidden as he sees two more Type-2 C-S-S-U's patrolling a stretch of the sewer below him. The two Units had their machine guns loaded and pre-aimed, ready to fire upon the first sign of movement. Jake watches from the safety of the shadows as he plans his next move out carefully, it would not be wise to just drop in on them and engage in a straight up fight and risk raising the alarm being raised. He watched their patrol patterns carefully, then noticed an opening to attack as the two Units turn around and are back to back with each other.

Targeting the nearest C-S-S-U, Jake draws his blade and waits until the Stryker was right under him, in silence he tosses his sword into the air and jumps after at. The Type-2 was oblivious to its fate... and with no warning what so ever, Jake's blade strikes it right on its head. Jake follows the blade and drives his foot down on the hilt of his sword, forcing it all the way down and through the C-S-S-U's brain, killing it instantly in silence as he backflips off his prey and lands behind it. The sound of the Stryker hitting the floor alerts the second one, but as soon as it turns round, Jake draws one of his .500 Magnums and fires, landing a perfect shot through the Units eye socket to destroy its brain and killing it instantly. The remaining Stryker drops to its knees and lifelessly falls forward into the water. Jake blows the smoke out of his gun barrel before returning it to the holster on his hip and pulling his blade out of the Stryker that he'd stealth killed.

"There's the Jackson I know." Mimi cheers happily over the comms, impressed by the display she got to see Jake put on while observing the mission.

After that encounter, Jackson moves on down the sewer, only to come across yet another obscured tunnel. Looking around for a moment he spots a thin metal bar door sealing off another passageway that he could go down. Using his blade, he slices downwards with precision on the hinges, his blade cutting through them like a hot knife through butter and with the aid of his Stryker Suits strength he rips the door clean off to gain access to the passage.

"Jackson... I'm picking up another life form in the area." He suddenly heard Tohka say over comms, instantly gaining his attention.

"Define (Lifeform)? am I dealing with a hostile?" Jake asked, hoping for more detail on that contact.

"No... B.M.I readings are too low to classify as a soldier of lab worker... Jake... its a kid, we have a kid in the sewers in your area." Tohka said, sounding a little concerned about the situation.

"Copy that, I'll keep my eyes open." Jake said, taking in the extra intel and continuing on down the tunnel.

He rounds another bend in the passage and sees a cut off hall leading to the pressure maintenance room and decides that would be his next place to head to, but as he dashes down the seemingly empty channel, his Hyper-sensors suddenly go off to warn him of an incoming enemy, but there was nothing around... when out of nowhere something wraps around his torso.

"What the?!" Jake stutters, then he soon realised what had grabbed him.

It was a Gecko Tripod MK1, a recon scout drone that was nothing more than a sphere like machine with three arms that it used for movement and climbing, due to their lack of armour and poor combat ability they more commonly used for surveillance... However they had one very nasty trick up their sleeve should they get the jump on an unsuspecting enemy, which involved latching onto them and activating their self-destruction protocol and taking their prey with them in a violent explosion.

Something Jake realised quickly was about to happen to him.

With no time to waste he wriggles and twists his body violently to force the drones grasp on him to loosen just enough for one of his hands to break free and grabs one of the Tripods artificial limbs. In a single motion, he spins his body and lashes out, ripping the Tripod off his body and launching it off his body with a few seconds to spare before the drone detonates and lit up the tunnel in a fireball. Jake was forced to shield his eyes from the explosion, however when he looks back he sees that the detonation of the first drone and knocked three more that were waiting in ambush further down the tunnel out of their hiding and fell to the ground in front of Jake.

The three Tripods see him and make a dash for him, but Jake merely smirks at their somewhat pointless attempt to attack him as he draws his blade and waits for them to close in. The first Tripod leaps up and tried to grab onto him, but Jake counters and slices upwards right before the drone could reach him, splitting it clean in two and passing either side of him. Carrying him momentum through, Jake curves his sword round and slashes downwards in a diagonal motion to the right, striking the second drone and cutting in two as well, and finally spinning his body to bring his foot round and drives it straight into the remaining drones optical nerve and launches it back before it could even get near him.

The remaining drone twitches and sparks as that kick from Jake had immobilised it and rendered it useless. Jake walks towards the last Tripod, smirking as he watches it try to escape but had been reduced to a crawl that even a baby could keep up with, as he passes the drone, he deliberately steps on it and crushed it under the weight of his Stryker Suit and chuckles.

"Predictable..." He mutters as he leaves the tunnel and heads down the hall to the pressure maintenance room.

Suddenly... Jake hears a scream in the near distance, instantly gaining his attention. It was a cry for held from what sounds like a young girl... and it was coming from it was coming from the vertical passageway just in front of him. It had to have been that child that Tohka informed him about earlier and Jake quickly approaches the edge of the passage and looks down. It was a good thirty metre drop down to the next level of the sewer... but Jake could see her, a young black haired girl... maybe no older than twelve years old and dressed in a white lab robe that had been dirtied up from traveling through the sewers was scuttling back through the waters below him, crying for help as she desperately tries to fend off two Tripod drones that were trying to grabs her legs and drag her off.

There no time to waste by taking the ladder, the drones would have snatched the girl up by then, so without hesitation Jackson jumps into the passageway and falls towards the unsuspecting drones. With his blade ready in one hand he grabs one of his revolvers with his free hand and fires on the nearest Tripod whilst still descending towards them. The bullet strikes the first drone and punches through its weak armour, knocking it out as the round tears vital components inside it apart. The second Tripod spots its ally fall and picks a bad time to look up as it sees Jake falling towards it with no time to move. Jake quickly reattaches his revolver and grips his blade firmly in both hands, using the speed of his fall he flips in mid air to build up momentum and strikes the drone as he hit the ground. His Stryker Suit was more than able to break his fall and the ground trembles from the force of him striking the floor, his blade slashing through the drone with brute force and kills it as its cleaved in two.

Jake glances back to see if the young girl he'd just saved was still okay, thankfully she didn't appear to harm harmed, just shocked and gazing at the metallic human that had dropped in to save her. Suddenly, Jake notices the girl glance past him and a mechanical growl catches his attention.

"Huh?" He mutters as he turns back around.

Jake looks up to be met by three towering C-S-S-U's that he assumed had been sent to collect the girl... but these Units were a step up from he'd encountered so far in these sewers. They were Type-3 Heavy Assault C-S-S-U's, the successor model that followed after the Type-2 and were even bigger, designed more off the shape and body of a Velociraptor fitted with a fully traversable camera pod to eliminate blind spots, a six pod rocket launcher on one shoulder and machine gun on the other and came equipped with a short range E.M.P generator for self defence. The three Units give off a mechanised roar that forces Jake to take a defensive stand, knowing that he had to take these things out quickly before they tried to hurt the girl behind him.

"Get outta here." Jake calls to the girl, urging her to get back to a safer distance before the engagement started... but the girl was more focused on the sight of Jake, scanning her eyes up and down the armoured suit that in cased the boys body and the razor sharp blade he held in his hands, she'd never seen something as amazing in her life and started chanting in joy at her saviour.

"A Stryker-Ninja? Cowabunga! Go Ninja! Go Ninja! Go!."

"What're you... MOVE!" Jake shouts, waving the girl to run. The little girl suddenly decided to listen to him and quickly gets up, bolting it as fast as she could into a safe spot behind some rubble before popping her head out... watching as Jake prepares to engage the threats in front of him.

One of the Type-3's leaps forward at Jake and tries to stomp him into the ground, but Jake was faster and cartwheels back to avoid the attack, however he had no time to waste as the second Unit flanks round his left side and spins its body, swinging its tail around to swat Jake. With barely any time to spare Jake arches his body back and limbo's under the Type-3's tail to evade being hit, bringing his blade over at the same time to land a strike on the weaker more vulnerable underside of the Units tail. The Type-3 gives off a mechanical wince as it backs away from Jake, oil and artificial blood spurting from the gaping slash wound under its tail. In defence it fires at rocket at Jake forcing him to lunge right to avoid it and hit the wall behind him, when suddenly a gut wrenching ache shoots through his side.

Jake groans as he is flung into the air, he hadn't spotted the third Type-3 sneak around him and had used its head as a battering ram to knock him in the direction of another that swings its tail around to swat him in mid-air. Jake crosses his arms to shield himself the best he could as the first Type-3 smacks him with its tail, sending him flying back and straight into the wall. Staggered and winded, Jake uses his blade as a crutch to quickly get back on his feet and look up to see the Type-3 who's tail he'd damaged was charging straight for him, attempting to crush him against the wall with its head.

"No you don't." Jake said as he jumps into the air right before he was hit and the Type-3 smashes into the wall and is stunned. As Jake leaps over the C-S-S-U he grabs his gun again and fires on its camera pod, destroying it and blinding the Unit. With no clue of what was now going on around it the Unit begins to flail and lash out in panic, trying to hit anything that went near it. Jake quickly grabs the blind Unit by the tail and uses his immense strength to swing it round like a ragdoll and smashes it against another one that was trying to stamp on him. The two Units collapse to the floor in a twisted mass of limbs and give Jake a moment to focus on the lead Unit.

It opens fire on Jake with its heavy machine gun, but Jake charges head first at it, swinging and curving his blade to deflect any bullets that might have hit him as he closes the gap. The Type-3 lifts one leg and tries stamping down on Jake again, however that was exactly what he was planning on it doing and without slowing down he drops and slides under the Unit as it brings its foot down. Jake lashes out with his blade at just the right moment, slicing the Type-3's foot off as he passes under it. The Unit makes all manners of mechanical cries and whines as its foot is hacked off, staggering and struggling for balance as it tries to stay in the fight.

Jake turns around just as the Unit twisted its body and swings its tail around for another attack, but it had lost strength and energy and its strike was slower and weaker than before. Jake catches its tail and stops the attack, wrapping his arms tightly around it and bends the tail, snapping the metal Exo-skeleton inside it and breaking the Type-3's tail. The Unit screeches and hops back on its remaining foot, its tail now limp and trailing behind it as it turns to see Jake standing in an offensive pose and ready for its next move. In a last effort to take him out the unit fires all six of its rockets at once, but just like the last time Jake runs towards the attack... only this time he was going in for the kill shot. Just before the rockets hit him he ducks and rolls under and tosses his blade into the air as he passes under the rockets, leaving no time for the wounded Type-3 to retreat as he uses the momentum of his roll to perform a powerful roundhouse kick. A magnetic clamp in his lower leg activates and catches his sword midway through the kick and Jackson uses his leg to swing his blade with brutal force as he strikes the Units exposed neck, spraying its blood and oil everywhere as he slices deep into its neck.

The Type-3 staggers and slumps as it rapidly loses power and strength before it finally goes down for good and collapses to the ground. However there was no time to celebrate the kill as Jake see that the remaining two Units had regained control of themselves and were circling him like a pair of sharks. Jake grips his blade in both hands and remains still, glancing over his shoulders to keep an eye on both Units. One of them suddenly fires a rocket at him but Jake reacted too quickly and uses his blade to slice the projectile in half before it could detonate. Suddenly Jake spots a strange purple glow coming from behind him and glanced back to see that the blinded Unit was attempting to use its short range E.M.P generator to disable his Stryker Suit. Jake quickly thinks of a plan before it could fire and grins as he turns back to the other Unit in front of him.

"COME ON!" He shouts at the Type-3, waving his hand in a (bring it on motion) motion to taunt the machine.

The Type-3 blindly takes the bait and charges at Jake, but just as it was about to head butt him, Jake jumps into the air and passes over the Unit... Putting it right in the path of the blind Type-3's E.M.P... The Unit blindly fires an E.M.P beam from its chest and accidentally hits the one that had been baited by Jake's taunt. The Type-3 that had been hit screeches as it twitches and sparks before collapsing to the ground in a lifeless mass, its vital circuits all fried and destroyed by the E.M.P and knocking it out of the fight for good. Jake lands on top of the stricken Unit and wastes no time in dealing with the remaining one, activating his shoulder cannons and firing a short burst at it.

Explosive plasma peppers the Type-3, tearing off chunks of metal, muscle fibre and spraying blood and oil across the wall. The Unit hunches as it tries to back away and disengage... feeling too injured to continue the fight, but no mercy was shown from Jackson as he dash jumps towards the wounded Stryker and drives his armoured knee into the side of its head, smashing it against the wall and forcing it to fall to the floor. The weakened Unit struggles to get back up, but Jake grasps it by the neck, digging his Stryker Suits razor sharp fingers into it muscles and tosses it back, forcing it to roll onto its back. The blind C-S-S-U was powerless to escape as it hears Jake draw his blade and before it could get away, Jake jumps into the air above it and drives his blade into its chest, hitting its power core and destroying it to finish off the remaining Stryker.

Jake takes a step back and looks around at the three smoking, sparking wreaks that he had created to make sure that none of them were going to be getting back up anytime soon before he returns his blade to his sheaf. Then he glances back over his shoulder to see the young girl that he'd saved earlier was still peering out from behind the rubble that she'd been hiding behind during the fight. Jackson decided that it would be better that he makes sure the girl was okay and find out why she was down here before he continued on with the mission.

"Daijōbudesuka? (Are you Okay?" Jackson asked in Japanese, not really expecting the young girl to be as fluent with his own language, however she just seemed to look quite confused by what he just said.

"Wah yuh say?" She asked in confusion.

(What'd you say?)

"Oh." Jake muttered to himself, realising this girl was more fluent with English than he thought.

"Mi a Guyanese. From Guyana... You speak English?" Asked the young girl as she comes out of her hiding space to confront Jake.

(I'm Guyanese. From Guyana... You speak English?)

"Uh, Yeah. I'm from Texas. Call me Jackson." Jake said to the you girl.

"Mi name Sabrina. Like (Sabrina the Witch.)" Said Sabrina as she introduced herself, using a popular show character to describe her name.

(My names Sabrina. Like (Sabrina the Witch.)

"Sabrina..." Jake said quietly to himself, glancing away as the young girls name reminding him of someone close to him that had the same name.

"You that mi." Sabrina said brightly to him, causing him to look back at her.

"Right... So what are you doing down here?" Jake asked, but Sabrina seemed to be more surprised to be seeing a Stryker pilot down here instead.

"Mi? Wuh da rass ayu fuh do here?" Said Sabrina, sounding more surprised that Jake was.

(Me? What the hell are you doing down here?)

"Yuh lose da map a ninja hideout, ninja man?" She said in a humouring tone.

(You lose the map to your ninja hideout, ninja man?)

Jake could only chuckle at her, knowing that she'd just used a ninja turtle reference on him.

"No, I'm looking for evil people." He chuckles as he tells Sabrina the reason he was down here... but that's when he noticed her expression shift to a more worried one.

"Ah, Dem skunt a research lab." She said, and Jake instantly goes wide eyed at her after hearing that.

(Oh, Those punks at the research lab.)

"You know about it?" Jake said in disbelief, realising he had just come across an escapee from the very lab he's been looking for.

"Mi know mi nah go back!" Sabrina said in a panic, trying not to think about the horrors she witnessed in that place before escaping.

(I know I'm not going back!)

"Hey... Yuh na wan of dem skunt, nah?" She asked Jake, starting to become cautious of him seeing that he knew about the lab to.

(Hey... you're not one of those assholes, right?)

She glances past Jake and looks at the wreaks of the Type-3's that he'd just fought a few moments ago... and soon began to calm down again, realising that if Jake really was a bad guy as well... he would have taken her away by now.

"Nah, I guess yuh all right." She said as she turns back to Jake and started glancing up and down at his armour that covered his body.

(No, I guess you're alright)

"If yuh a Cyber-Stryker, yuh know who dey is?" Sabrina asks Jake, assuming that he had some knowledge of the people she'd escaped from.

(If you're a Cyber-Stryker, you know who they are?)

"Sort of." Jake said, vaguely admitting that he knew about the sort of people that were working in that lab and the to had, had a run with them a while back in his life.

"What happened to you? How'd you end up all the way in a sewer here in Japan?" Jake asks, listening carefully as Sabrina begins to explain the story from her point of view.

"Mi bin live on da street... Rake and scrape fuh a bobb, nah? Den diss kutnee gal dress like da mafia say, (Hey gal, yuh wan a job?) Wah da worst gon happen, Nah? But dat mudda skunt done put me on a rass boat! Dey pack us all a bigable dutty containah. Next ting we know, we here. At dat jumby lab"

(I was living on the street, begging for quarters, you know? then this creepy girl dressed like the Mafia says, (Hey girl, you want a job?) What was the worst that could happen? But that motherfucker put me on a damn boat! They pack us all up in a big dirty container. Next thing we know, we're here. At that messed up lab.)

"All kids... like you?" Jake asked, urging Sabrina to tell him more, and she nods silently at him.

"Yeah, alotta gal." Sabrina said quietly. Jake noticed that she was starting to become discomforted with talking more about what was happening.

(Yeah, lots of girls.)

"But den mi bin overhearwuh dem skunt wan a do." Sabrina turns away from Jake... finding it hard for to face him as she reveals a gruesome secret she had uncovered.

(But then I overheard what those punks want to do.)

Sabrina hung her head down as memories of the torture she witnessed in the lab started flowing back into her head as she finds the courage to tell Jake what she knew.

"Strap us in der chair... wipe our brains... an gut all dey organs."

(Strap us in the chair... wipe our minds... and cut out our organs.)

Jake stands there for a second in silent shock, his mid struggling to process the gruelling facts that Sabrina had shared with him. It just made his skin crawl and his blood curdle at the simple thought of what the rest of those kids in that lab must be going through right now. He took a second to think about the whole mid wiping part she'd told him... it sounded... familiar, like that sort of thing was something he'd come across before in his past... but if he had to take a guess at what was happening at that lab. It seemed like they were using human trafficking run by (Raven Head) to bring in homeless females that they could use to erase their memories and transplant vital organs like their brains and hearts into certain C-S-S-U's... after all, they weren't full autonomous... they actually had human organs that boosted the Units instinct and adaptive nature.

Either way... it was a cringing and worrying problem that Jake had to stop as soon as he could before another innocent girl fell to these twisted freaks, and he turns back to Sabrina who was still keeping her back to him.

"So you ran away." He said calmly, sympathising for Sabrina... considering he'd have done the same if he was in her situation.

"Uh-Huh." Said Sabrina as she turns back around to look up at Jake.

"Ise shame mi notta bad-ass robot-ninja-mon same's you, ha." She said, trying to mimic some of the moves she saw Jake make while fighting the Type-3's

(Man, too bad I'm not some kind of cyborg like you, ha)

"Mi bin strongest cyborg ever. Walack all dem Phantoms an Black Clothes dat eyepass mi." She said brightly as she thinks about that, but Jake seemed to have other thoughts on that.

(I would've been the strongest cyborg ever. Whack all those Mafioso and bad guys that mess with me.)

"You're starting to sound like a bad guy yourself." He said bluntly, making his point clear to Sabrina that there was a thin line between defending oneself and just being no better than the ones in the wrong as well. This causes Sabrina to shy away, seeing that she had clearly unamused Jackson by trying to talk like that.

"Jus playin' nah? Mi done plenty bad ting, but mi nah kill no man. Nah, nevah." She said, sounding apologetic to Jake for sounding like she was like one of them as well.

(Just joking, ya know? I've done some bad things, but I've never killed anybody. I don't want to either.)

"Good." Jake said reassuringly to her, glad to hear that even though she seemed to be in a tough place this early in life... she hadn't resorted to such violence and mindlessness to killing, something he considered rare these days now.

"Mi try to warn dem gal, I say, (Ayodese brain will get cut out! Run yuh rass out a der!) But dem gals wi mi no understand. Dey like Spanish or some'ting. So me the only wan fur escape. Den Dey come afta me an-" Sabrina glances over past Jake at the wreaked Type-3's... But Jake already knew the end to her sentence.

(I tried to warn the other girls and say "All your brains are gonna get cut out! Run your ass out of there!" But the girls with me didn't understand. They were like Spanish or something. So I was the only one to escape. Then that machine came after me an-)

"And I know the rest." Jake said as he glances back at the machines he'd torn apart a few minutes ago... When suddenly, he gets down on one knee and places his hands on Sabrina's shoulders, startling her a little as he looks her in the eye.

"Sabrina... I need every detail on how you escaped." He said to her.

Sabrina looks back at Jake and realises herself that he needed her to find a way into this lab... and that he was the only one that stood a chance of saving the rest of the children that were trapped in that place before what she'd told Jake could happen to them to, and with that thought in mind, she nods in understanding to him as she begins to explain how she made it out of the lab.

(Ten minutes later)

"So the kid got into the sewers through a drainage channel?" Said Mimi. She had been listening in on Jake and Sabrina earlier and was going over the fact that Jake had picked up off the young girl.

"Yeah, she said the channel is super tight, but there's some kind of shutter next to it I can get in through." Jake said as he walks down the sewer, following the marked map Tohka had left for him while he conversates with Mimi.

"Got it. That must be where the labs waste management links up with the sewer." She said, scanning over her notes and facts.

"There's something else... it sounded like there was a (Raven Head) exec was on-sight yesterday. If a sentry Stryker was on hand for the meeting..." Just then another screen pops up from Jake's arm to reveal Lola, who had recently joined in on observing the operation after running in on Mimi monitoring Jake's progress.

"You should be able to access their video log, provided you can find a server access-terminal." She said to finish off Jake's sentence, showing that she had the same idea as he did. "That would give you the evidence you need... as well as give us a little peek at the level of (Raven Heads) technology."

"So what about the kid?" Mimi asked Jake, realising that there was no way he was going to be taking her along with him for the rest of this mission.

"I made sure the area was secure and told her to sit tight. I'll pick her back up when I'm done with the mission...and I dropped one of Tohka's trackers for her to keep hold of, that way she can keep an eye on Sabrina while I focus on the mission." Said Jake as he glances at his Radar, spotting the tracking device he left with Sabrina.

"Good, you just focus on getting into that lab... If what that girl said is true... about the organs, we need to hurry." Said Mimi, sounding worried herself for the sake of he rest of the girls that could be trapped in that lab.

"Agreed... Jackson out." Jake said as he disconnects from the call.

He continues on his path down the sewer... but there was something on his mind... something that he couldn't shake, something that he'd figured out after what he'd learned from Sabrina... something he was hoping wasn't true... but deep down a pit in his stomach was telling him that it was.

"Jake... You okay?" He heard Tohka ask as she hovers next to him in drone form, and Jake just slowly turns his head to show the discomforted look on his face.

"This is bad, Tohka... Raven Head taken things a step further in their plans while I was out of the action." He said with a heavy sigh, gaining the same worried from Tohka.

"Are you saying that they might have..." She said, but Jake cuts her off to finish her sentence.

"They have, Tohka..." Jake said as he look back at the remains of a Type-3 C-S-S-U that he'd torn apart... the reality of the situation weighing down on him as he realises that things had just gotten a whole lot more serious now.

"They found a way to virtualise the Regiment Program."