Blue's plane landed in Chicago three hours later, the bump of the landing waking Blue up from his short nap, his hand instinctively reaching for the walther, only to return to holding his book and putting it in his case. He stepped off the plane into the humid rain bouncing down on his head, grabbing his umbrella from his case and putting it above his head as he walked down the stairs and over to a cab.

"Nearest motel to the center of town please." Blue said as he got in, handing the driver a tip in advance. "you mind wakin' me when we get there?"

"sure."

45 minutes passed by, Blue was getting antsy, it shouldn't have been taking this long, he opened his eyes to see the driver pull up outside a restaurant.

"Motel not a restaurant." Blue repeated as he noticed the drive scoff.

"Head on inside, the boss wants to talk."

Blue got out the car, his case in hand and gave the driver a small sum of money. As he entered the restaurant Blue senses were taken aback a notch as he was hit with the stench of Budweiser. He looked around, analyzing the room for exits and cameras Blue spotted the target. As he walked over he was stopped by a guard who moved Blue's jacket breast to the side and took the walther from Blue's holster before shoving him into the booth with Alexander, the bouncer sat in the booth, pinning Blue in and jabbing the walther into his side.

"Hello Mr Bryan, or is it Blue?" Alexander said smiling as Blue smirked. "My client seems very interested in you, she told me everything about you, right here in this file, they have another copy so don't think this is your ticket out. your wife...ooh I'll look forward to meeting her. Anarietta, a duchess, my you are a ladies man. served in the SAS and Military police for a total of seven years before joining MI6 in '77. Served in Vietnam in 1968 - 1975, somehow but you weren't anywhere near military age for that time. Possesses an ability to time travel and Mother is Samantha Maxis."

Blue glared at Alexander as he read out every detail about Blue's past, every trauma that Blue had buried, everything he had ever ran from since the moment of his birth. Everything about Blue was in the folder Alexanders hands. Blue felt another poke from the bouncer.

"Look Red Peril you better stop jabbing me." Blue snapped as he glared at the bouncer.

"You would be wide not to agitate him when you're at such a disadvantage in a public place."

"For the amount of information you have on me in that file you're missing one of the most important details about me and traps."

"What information is that?"

"Traps never work when I'm in them." Blue said as he smashed a glass over the bouncers head and twisted their hand so the barrel of the walther was jabbed into him, Blue pulled the trigger and the suppressed shot fired out, Blue shoved the injured bouncer off of him and fired two shots into another two thugs before grabbing Alexander and dragging him to the car park and shoving him into the boot of a car, hot wiring it and driving off to an old CIA safe house, as he dragged Alexander into the safe house he shoved him onto a chair and handcuffed him to the chair, before Blue could begin to extract information he heard a noise over his shoulder, Blue swiftly turned on his heal and drew his walther, aiming it at the directional source of the noise. "Come out nice and slow."

A figure emerged from the shadows.

"Hey kid." Adler's voice said as he appeared from the shadow.

"Russ, I though they had you captured." Blue said calmly as he approached Adler, noticing bruises on his eye.

"Managed to get out, I was gonna get a few more people out but-"

"Hey, situations like that one person is better than none. This assholes one of the pricks who works for their boss." Blue said as he grabbed a pair of bolt cutters from a nearby workbench. "Tell me about your boss."

"Fuck you." Alexander said as Blue put his right thumb in the bolt cutters and using them to cut Alexanders right thumb off.

"Wanna keep goin' you got nine more!" Blue snapped as he put Alexanders right index finger in the bolt cutters.

"You ain't gettin' shit from me!"

"I wouldn't count on that statement pal, this kid can make candles sing like a fucking Disney movie." Adler said as he lit a cigarette.

"Give me what I want or shit will be the only thing left of you by the time I'm done." Blue growled as he snipped Alexanders right index finger off.

"You really think we'd let you find us without planning it, we just needed you out of New York."

Blue immediately set to ringing the New York Safe house.

"If Park doesn't pick up your better hope you're still of use to me or you're finished." Blue growled as the phone picked up. "Park, get out of there it's a trap, they lured me away so they can get to you, run."

"Aww, you were just a few seconds late, she might have put up more of a fight." a modified voice said over the phone.

"If you touch a single hair on their heads, yours will be on the ground next to your body."

"I'd be careful, you might give me the wrong impression. Here's the deal you hand Alexander over to me along with yourself and I let Park go."

"Deal." Blue said without a moments hesitation. "And the rest of the team."

"You don't make the terms here. Meet me with Alexander at 12 pm at the Palace of Beauclair, just you and Alexander, if I find Adler there they all die." the voice said before the phone went dead.

Without a word Blue released Alexander and opened a portal to Beauclair.

"Not a word to Hudson or his superiors, understood?" Blue asked Adler, Russel nodded, smirking when the portal shut.

"Well shit, lotta people gonna die now."

Blue appeared in a safe house in Beauclair restraining Alexander to a chair before heading behind a screen and getting change into his beskar, hiding the electric arm brace under the armor, Blue decided this time to leave the helmet off, knowing it would likely cause the deal to go south. He reappeared and checked his watch, 11:30 pm.

"Let's go shit bag, you better hope she's unharmed for your family's sake, if not theirs then your own." Blue said as he dragged Alexander to Beauclair palace, constantly being eyed by the occupying force guards as he dragged the hostage through the street, across the bridge to the palace, he began remembering fighting a criminal on the bridge who was threatening Toussaint.

When Blue and Alexander reached the palace it was bang on twelve. They arrived in the palace courtyard to see Park and the rest of the prisoners being held on their knees at gun point.

"Our Guest of honor has arrived." said the enemy leader from under a hood.

"Who the fuck are you?"

"Oh, ho, ho dear, you really don't know do you?" the leader said as they removed their hood and mask revealing their face.

"Lovanya? You died in Siberia, hit by a fucking warhead." Blue said as soldiers tried to take Alexander away, only for Blue's grip to remain firm on the Russian gangsters arm. "Let Park go, that was the deal, him and me for her."

"Go, see how far she can get in this city." as Park began to run Blue opened a portal in front of her giving her no time to react before Adler pulled her through.

"Pretty fucking far." Blue said smartly and confidently as he kept his hand at his thigh ready to draw his pistol.

"Clever but we will find them eventually."

"You'll be too dead, the fact that you were too scared to actually take me on in Kovir said a lot about you. Remember, I was the first person to injure you in combat." Blue taunted as he used whistling birds to take out all of the guards around him. "you honestly thought that me wearing this armor meant I was scared...all it meant was that I have a plan." Blue said as he slowly approached Lovanya, the team grabbing the dead soldiers weapons and pointing them at her.

"You'll have to drag me through a hostile city."

"says who, you get VIP treatment. We've been planning this since Kovir, we intercepted your radio communications and de-scrambled your voice, receiving the exact location of your HQ, which is being raided as we speak, you yourself narrowed the 1000 mile search area down to 30 square feet, but hen we realized it was too easy, so we let you play us to find out where your base was, we reverse engineered the portal machine to look for any that open, that's why I took the plane to Chicago, you may have all the tech and such love but you are absolutely thick as pigshit when put next to me, there is a reason that I was given this armor and a reason I've beaten Damien on all but one encounter with him, it's not my ability, not my strength, it's my brain I use it and if you'd have been just a bit like me you'd have used it and wondered why I'm talking so much. Well it's the same trick I pulled on you last time only this time it's an Apache chopper and an army of soldiers from a very old friend and he is Fury-ous about you trying to kill us all." Blue said as the Apache landed and out stepped a black man wearing a black leather duster, a black turtleneck, black cargo pants, black combat boots and a black eye patch, he was bald and had a goatee beard.

"Blue."

"Director Fury, she's all yours, I trust you can handle her?" Blue said as Fury pulled out special handcuffs for the woman.

"I'll call you in a week or two when you can talk to her." Fury said as he dragged Lovanya away to the Apache, it took off and a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D soldiers arrived.

"City is secure sir." a soldier said as Blue gave a dismissive nod to him.

"You really are the best." Park said as she approached Blue, being careful not to hit her stomach on him.

"Thank fuck, are you okay?" Blue said as he held Park in his arms.

"Blue, I feel like you should know...what I wanted to tell you before is well...I'm Pregnant." Park said as Blue's face lit up.

"What? when how?"

"In the CIA safe house when we were hunting Linda, on the office desk."

"well, shit." Blue said as he laughed with joy into Park's shoulder. "We could go and live out by a lake now we're retired again."

"What about that threat you've been so worried about?"

"that was it, people getting hold of my ability, guess I was worried for nothing Blue said as he calmly walked away with Park into the city taking her to Corvo Bianco.

That night Blue and Park celebrated by finally relaxing, sitting down and enjoying the peace and quiet as they sat and listened to their Walkman cassette tape. They were 'free'...