Yumi and Ulrich walked down an empty sidewalk with Chase and Jennifer. The couples had their hands locked together as they walked.

"Where do you think Rebecca is?" Jennifer asked.

"She went to go look at the Arc De Triumph, and later she's going to go and see Emperor Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides. Odd, Jeremie, and Aelita all went to the Louvre..." Yumi replied.

Jennifer nodded as Ulrich looked around, noticing the emptiness and silence in the street.

"Guys...? Did we make a wrong turn?" Ulrich asked.

"I'm not sure... Where are we?" Chase asked.

The group then heard a loud scream come from a nearby underground passageway.

"What the hell?!" Jennifer asked.

"Come on!" Yumi said.

The group saw Yumi run towards the passageway. The group ran after her, and they all ran down a flight of stairs.

They ran into the passageway itself, going wide eyed with what they saw.

A woman had a fearful look as a man held a knife to her throat, furious as he threw her purse away.

"No Euros?! Really!? What am I supposed to get my fix with?!" the man asked.

"I- I'm sorry!" the woman tried.

The man shoved the woman away, leaving a large cut on her throat. Thankfully, it wasn't deep enough to slit it, and the woman ran off without any major injuries...

Then the man noticed the group...

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!" the man angrily asked.

The group backed away as the man walked towards them.

"Which one of ya took her money?! I need my fix!" the man said, obviously high on something.

"Listen, asshole! We don't want any trouble!" Jennifer said, frowning.

The man raised his knife, and the group could see something that made them confused.

He was wearing a freaking NAMETAG...

"Umm... You're wearing a nametag." Chase pointed out.

The man quickly went wide eyed and looked down at his shirt.

"SHIT!" the man exclaimed.

The group saw the name on the nametag. "CASHIER: Marquis De Santa". Marquis quickly put the namtag in his pocket with a look of annoyance and self-hatred.

"Are you kidding me? You rob people while wearing a fucking nametag?!" Jennifer asked, completely dumbfounded.

Marquis growled, looking straight at Jennifer.

"You stupid bitch! I don't need to explain shit to you!" Marquis growled.

"L- Look... We'll go away..." Yumi tried.

Marquis growled again, this time roughly grabbing Jennifer's arm.

"Hey! You're hurting me!" Jennifer exclaimed, painfully.

"You're not leaving until I get your cash, your phones, or some other shit I want!" Marquis warned.

As Marquis said this, Chase slowly reached behind his back...

He then gripped the handle of the M1911 tucked in his waistband...

"Listen, we'll go away... There's no need to do anything bad, okay...?" Ulrich tried.

"Fuck you! I want your phones, cash, and whatever else you got!" Marquis growled.

They saw Marquis raise his knife, threatening to use it on Jennifer.

"LAST CHANCE! Give me my fucking cash, or the bitch gets cut!" Marquis warned.

Chase gripped the handle of his gun, waiting for his chance...

But Marquis noticed him holding his hand behind his back...

He knew exactly what he was planning...

Before Chase or the others could act, Marquis pulled Jennifer to him and smirked as he thrust his knife into her stomach. The group had a horrified look, and Jennifer had a look of extreme pain as Marquis allowed her to fall out of his arms and onto the pavement.

As Jennifer bled on the ground, Chase pulled out his gun and fired seven shots in Marquis De Santa's chest. His corpse fell to the ground as Yumi got her phone out and dialed 911, and as Chase ran to Jennifer.

"Jenny?!" Chase asked, crouching and gently holding her body.

Jennifer had a wide eyed look of pain and fear as she looked at the ground around her, seeing the blood pool around her body become larger and larger...


At Les Invalides, Rebecca had a deeply interested look as she studied the details on Emperor Napoleon's tomb. She quickly took a couple of pictures of it with her cell phone, smiling as she kept looking at the tomb.

She then noticed something that caught her eye...

Two men in black suits were looking at her from the other side of the room...

Rebecca rose an eyebrow, her smile falling as she started looking back at the men.

They both had black sunglasses on...

She knew exactly who they were, or at the very least had a pretty good idea...

FSB...

Rebecca nervously looked away and hurried towards the exit, not noticing the FSB agents taking pictures of her and speaking into small headsets...


Jeremie and Aelita had deeply annoyed looks as they saw Odd running around the inside of the Louvre.

"Should we just leave him?" Aelita asked.

"Well, he did try to touch the Mona Lisa, even though he wasn't supposed to..." Jeremie stated.

Aelita nodded, then heard a cellphone ringing. She sighed with a small amount of annoyance as she realized it was her own cell phone, sitting in her pocket.

"I got it." Aelita said.

Aelita got her phone out and answered it, as Jeremie looked around.

"Hello...?" Aelita asked.

As Aelita began talking, Jeremie walked up to Odd with an annoyed look.

"Odd, this is a museum." Jeremie stated.

"Sorry, Jeremie... Just trying to find ways to pass the time. It's pretty boring." Odd replied.

Jeremie sighed and rolled his eyes. He and Odd then went wide eyed, hearing a yell from Aelita.

"WHAT?!" Aelita asked.

Jeremie and Odd turned, seeing Aelita was still on her phone.

"Is she alright?!" Aelita asked.


"No, Aelita! She's not! W- We're taking her to a hospital right now, and there's an ambulance here..." Yumi replied.

"What exactly happened?!" Aelita asked.

Yumi had a wide eyed look, seeing Jennifer on a stretcher that was quickly being loaded into an ambulance.

"W- We ran into a mugging... The guy stabbed her, and Chase killed him..." Yumi said.

"Chase killed a guy?!" Aelita asked, shocked.

"Jennifer's been stabbed, Aelita! Look, you just take Jeremie and Odd, and get back to Kadic... Explain to Delmas what exactly happened. I'll call Rebecca and I'll tell her to do the same." Yumi said.

Aelita sighed, but was still incredibly surprised at everything she heard.

"Okay... See ya, Yumi... Tell Chase to talk to me as soon as he can." Aelita said.


"I will. See ya." Yumi replied.

Aelita still had a wide eyed look as she hung up. Jeremie and Odd cautiously approached her, both confused as to what was said.

"Aelita...? Is everything alright?" Jeremie asked.

Aelita sighed and looked at Jeremie and Odd.

"Guys... Jennifer got stabbed." Aelita said.

"WHAT?!" Jeremie asked, shocked.

"IS SHE OKAY?!" Odd asked, equally shocked.

Aelita shook her head.

"I don't know... But we got to head back to Kadic and tell Principle Delmas." Aelita said.

"What about Rebecca? Do we know where she is?" Jeremie asked.

Aelita was about to answer, but stopped as she saw Rebecca run into the room they were in.

"Oh, there she is." Aelita said.

Rebecca ran to the group, panting with exhaustion.

"Rebecca? Everything alright?" Odd asked.

Rebecca gasped for breath, leaning her hands on her knees as she looked up at Jeremie, Aelita, and Odd.

"I- I saw FSB at Napoleon's tomb..." Rebecca breathed.

The other three teens went wide eyed.

"FSB...? Dammit!" Jeremie exclaimed, frustrated.

"D- Did you see them too...?" Rebecca asked.

"No... But Rebecca, we need to get back to Kadic. Now." Aelita said.

Rebecca rose an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" Rebecca asked.

"Rebecca... Jennifer got stabbed, and Chase shot the guy who did it." Aelita said.

"WHAT?! I- IS SHE OKAY!?" Rebecca asked.

"I don't know, okay? But if there's FSB following us, then we need to get out of here... We've got to tell Principle Delmas, anyway." Aelita stated.

"But what if they follow us back to Kadic...?" Odd asked.

Aelita sighed, shrugging with doubt.

"I don't know... Fight them, maybe?" Aelita guessed.

"In any case, we'll work on stopping the FSB as much as we can... As soon as they leave us alone, the sooner we can focus on getting rid of XANA..." Jeremie said.

The group nodded in agreement, and walked out of the room...


Yumi, Ulrich, and Chase all had wide eyed looks as they watched the EMT's bring Jennifer out of the ambulance. They quickly got out and followed them inside, Chase being the most nervous.

"He must've pierced an artery... That's why there was so much blood..." Chase said, still very nervous.

"Is she going to be alright...?" Yumi asked.

Chase shrugged, still nervous.

"I... I don't know... When I was in Afghanistan, I had a buddy who went down like that..." Chase said, shakily.

Ulrich nodded as he, Chase, and Yumi were made to sit in a waiting room by a nurse. Ulrich patted Chase's back, causing him to look at him.

"She's a tough person... She'll be fine." Ulrich assured.

Chase nodded, looking back at the ground...

He was silently praying Jennifer would live...

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