"Sage, are you sure about this?" Ryo asked as he and Rowen walked into the main entrance of the prescient along with Dom walking behind them.

"No, but it's the only choice we have. Talking with my father, letting him know everything is out in the open and our plan is out of the window. We'll have to figure out another way to bring them down." Sage replied as they walked right pat the reception desk and towards his father's office.

As soon as the small group entered everyone stopped what they were doing and glared at them as they were making their way through the room. "You have some nerve coming here!" A chorus of agreement chimed in behind the statement.

Sage ignored the multitude of narrowed eyes glaring at him and his friends as they continued onto their destination.

A detective came right up to Sage and stopped him right in his tracks, "Look, you and your friends can just turn around and leave unless of course, you want to be arrested."

Sage stopped and stared down the detective right into his gaze. He gave no reaction to his verbal threat. "You have no grounds to arrest me nor my friends. Plus, I have the right to see my father if I want to. Now, I suggest you move out of our way."

Anger crashed through the detective, "Why you little!"

Ryo and Rowen stepped up on either side of Sage taking in the scene and noticing the other cops and detectives were starting to close the gap a little at a time. "This doesn't look good Ryo."

Ryo did a glance at Rowen as he gave a nod, "I know, just stand your ground. We're here to help out Sage not to get into a fight with the prescient. It makes me relieved Kento was talked into taking to the streets instead of coming here with us."

"No kidding, he'd cut loose in here in a moment's notice." Rowen agreed as he picked up on more of the tension in the room.

The commissioner-general heard the yelling of the detective from his office. He glanced up from his desk and saw his son standing off with the yelling detective. Standing from his desk he left his office and started walking towards them. "What's going on here detective? Why are you causing a scene in the middle of the floor?" The other officers and detectives started to back away when they saw the commissioner-general approaching the small group.

"Sir! Gomen sir. I didn't..."

"I heard what you said, threatening my son and his friends with being arrested just because they walked into the prescient. You're lucky I don't demand your badge for being so rash. Now get back to work!"

"Sir! Yes, sir!" The detective said quickly as he backed off and went back to his desk.

Sage and his father stared one another down, it seemed like time stood still until finally one of them spoke, "Father."

"Sage, you and your friends can follow me to my office. We can talk there where no one can interrupt us." The commissioner-general replied with a small nod as he turned around and headed back to his office.

Sage glanced at Ryo, Rowen, and Dom, "Come on, the longer we stand here, the less time we'll have to figure out what to do next." Walking towards his father's office with the others following quickly behind him.

"Talk about a close call," Rowen whispered to Ryo as he glanced over towards the detective who challenged Sage a moment ago. "What's his problem anyway?"

Ryo shook his head, "No idea and I'm not going to ask him, are you?"

Rowen studied the detective and then shook his head as the three of them followed Sage into the office.

"Close the shades, and make sure the door is shut tight. I don't want anyone around when we're talking." The commissioner-general stated as he sat down in his chair.

Once Dom was inside, she closed the door and shut the shades, "So what's going on between the two of you? Are you still fighting with one another or not? Because it's getting confusing."

The commissioner-general gave a small smirk as he motioned for them to sit. "I see Sage has informed all of you our fight at the hospital was staged." He saw each of them nodding, "Sage and I knew Maverick and Reno were out a long time ago. We had to keep up the appearance the two of us were still fighting with one another all these years. More in likely he told the rest of you only a few of us know the truth."

"Yes sir, but why keep it from us all this time?" Ryo asked with a slight frown.

"It was a matter of need to know basis. This is a personal matter, none of you were supposed to be involved. But since you are, now there's no going back. The only thing we can do is figure out where to go from here."

Rowen leaned forward a bit in his chair, "No disrespect sir, but Sage is our friend, we're family. We're not going to let Sage deal with this on his own. Just like he would help any of us if we were struggling with something."

Bringing his hands together in a steeple he studied them intensely from his desk. From what Sage told him these people he's been living with for the last few years are like another family. He understood now what he told him about them. "No disrespect taken Rowen. But know in the end this whole thing is a police matter. The main reason why Sage was brought in on this investigation was because of his history with them. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been involved, none of you would."

"Right now, Cye, Kento, and Kaye are out in the city with a few others from my crew searching for them. While we're here playing twenty questions. We should be out there helping instead of sitting here on our butts!" Dom grumbled as she crossed her arms while sitting back in her chair.

"Young lady, I've had undercover officers watching your crew for a long time now. During their watch, they could have brought you and your crew in at any time. Especially with all of the street racing all of you have been doing."

Sage turned his attention towards her with a raised brow, "Dom? I thought you quit racing. Or were you just telling me what I wanted to hear?"

"Sage my shop was going under. Just working on cars alone wasn't cutting it, we had to start racing again so we could get enough money to stay in business. I'm not going to apologize for what we had to do to survive."

Rowen looked between Dom and Sage, "Hey, come on. Now isn't the time for you two to be fighting with one another. We have bigger things to be concerned about right."

Sage closed his eyes and sighed a bit. "You're right Rowen." Opening his eyes he looked over towards his father. "More in likely, Maverick and Reno as well as Tobias have figured out our little ruse. Father, even though it's technically it's a police matter. I'd rather have my friends and I take them down our way and not have any police involved."

Narrowing his eyes, he locked onto his son's gaze. "Sage, I don't know if I can follow through with your request. This is a police matter."

"Father, please. Let us handle this, and I promise you they will be taken down, but in our way. It's a matter of honor now." Sage pleaded as he kept his gaze. "You know I wouldn't ask you unless it was important. But this is important to me. Father, you taught us to take care of our problems. So I'm asking you to allow me to take care of this our way."

"How about this? We'll keep in touch with you on our cell phones. Then when it's done, we'll call you and hold them until you and the detectives you have assigned to the case take them away." Ryo suggested glancing between father and son.

The commissioner-general was first to break the staring contest. "Fine, I can agree to the terms. Keep me informed and I'll send them in once the job is done."

Sage gave a small smile as he felt his body relax. "Thank you, father."

"Just make sure none of you try anything crazy. I'll fill them in after you leave, then they'll be more agreeable to help with this new plan."

"Has anyone heard from Yayoi or Shaw?"

"No, we haven't heard from them in a few hours. But they were at a safe house the last time Shaw checked in with us. You know your sister won't be happy when she sees her home tossed."

Sage winced at the possible confrontation with her, "I won't be looking forwards to having her blow up at me about it."

"No. To be truthful, I won't be looking forward to it either. But she'll understand you and your friends were trying to help with the investigation. So she won't be as..." Leaning back in his chair he pulled his hands apart and rested them upon the armrests. "Upset. What about your other friends? The ones racing around somewhere in the city?"

Ryo glanced around at the others and then turned his attention back towards him, "They caught up with the crew and are keeping them busy until we catch up. We need to get out there."

Rowen, Ryo, Dom, and Sage started to walk to the door of his office. Sage glanced back and saw his father was already on the phone talking with dispatch informing them what's going on. He waited just a moment longer and then followed the other three out to the main door.

Once outside they walked over to two cars, "Rowen, get a hold of Cye. Let him know what's going on. Also, tell him we're on our way." Ryo instructed as he got into the passenger side.

Rowen gave a nod as he reached for his cell and called Cye catching him up on things. Then he pocketed his phone and got the keys as he got into his car and drove away.

Sage got into the driver's seat and started up his car. He glanced over towards Dom when he heard her getting into the passenger side.

"How much time do you think we have before your father tells them to move in on the crew?"

"Not much, knowing my father. So the sooner we get this done, the better."

"Sage, there's something I need to talk with you about. It's important."

"Gomen Dom, but right now we need to concentrate on taking them down before my father sends out reinforcements. Whatever you want to talk about can it wait until this whole thing is over?" Sage asked as he kept his eyes on the road while following Ryo and Rowen.

Dom turned her attention out towards the passenger window, "Yeah, fine later."

Meanwhile in a different part of the city...

"Cye, what did Rowen have to say?"

"He said Sage's father will hold back the cops until they hear from us so we can take the crew down our way."

Kaye gave a nod as she watched Kento racing ahead of them on the motorcycle he chose to ride. "Hard to believe Sage kept the truce between him and his father to themselves. I can only imagine how hard it was for them to keep it from everyone for so long."

"Same, but I guess they had their reasons. Right now it isn't the issue. We need to figure out how to stop the crew from trashing and looting the entire city."

"I agree," Kaye replied as she shook her head in amusement, "Looks like Kento's having the time of his life out there on his bike. He's tearing it up."

Cye chuckled as he was doing his best keeping up with the orange Ronin. "Do you wish you were riding with him?"

Kaye raised a brow when she turned her attention towards him, "Not the way he's riding. I'd fall off and end up being street pizza!"

Smirking Cye shook his head, "You wouldn't have to worry about it, he wouldn't be riding like he is with you on the back."

"He better not," Kaye said under her breath as she settled into her seat.

"See if you can raise him and let Kento know everything is going as planned."

"Right," Kaye dialed in Kento, "Hey hotshot, Sage's plan is a go!"

"Sounds good, I just spotted the car Tobias drives. It's the same one Dom described. It's about a block ahead. Not sure how he got ahead of us so quickly, but I'm going to ride ahead and see if I can slow him down."

"Be careful! I don't want to scrape you off of the street!"

Kento chuckled, "No worries, I'm not going to let some two-bit scum bag take me out! I'll make sure to leave some of the crew to you and Cye until Sage and the others catch up to us! I'm signing off!" Revving the engine to his bike he reared and then shot off towards Tobias. Kento continued to weave in and out on different vehicles in passing as he was working his way to catch up to his target.

Tobias glanced in his review mirror and noticed someone was catching up to him on a bike. He growled low in his throat as his hands tightened even more on the steering wheel. 'Damn! Must be one of golden boy's friends. Does the pest think he can stop me? Ha! Laughable! He's going to find out the hard way, I'm not so easy to take down. Get ready little man.' Tobias thought to himself as he allowed Kento to catch up by him as they were now side by side. The two of them glanced at one another and then back to the road. Within a blink of an eye, Tobias jerked his wheel towards Kento's bike.

Kento saw Tobias's car coming for him and banked off to the left as he then sped up so he would be at least half a car ahead of him. Glancing back he saw Tobias was still on his tail. He smirked a bit and gunned it a bit more.

Tobias shifted into another gear and jammed his foot on the accelerator as he chased after Kento. Back and forth the two of them went, weaving in and out of traffic. A battle on wheels so to speak, attack, defend, attack, parry, defend.

Not too far behind, Cye was doing his best to keep up with them. "Tobias is crazy! Trying to mow down Kento, but at least so far Kento's able to evade the best he can."

"Cye, isn't there some way to help Kento?"

"We're limited on what we can do, but maybe..." Cye mused as he shifted into a higher gear. "Kaye, you might want to brace yourself."

Kaye glanced over at him as she braced her arms the best she could in the passenger seat. "Cye, what are you thinking? Are you going to do what I think you're thinking?"

Cye glanced over at her, "I think so. Hang on!" He stomped down upon the accelerator and was gaining ground on Tobias. 'This is going to hurt.' Cye thought to himself as he rammed right into Tobias's bumper.

The impact with the two cars made Cye and Kaye wince. Cye started to lose some control when his hands were jarred from the steering wheel for a split second. In a blink of an eye, Cye regained his grip on the wheel when he felt the car starting to swerve a bit. It took a few seconds but Cye finally got back into full control of the car.

Tobias lurched forward when he felt the jarring impact of the car behind him. He growled low in his throat as he glanced in his review mirror. 'More of their friends. I'm going to need reinforcements.' He reached to the dashboard and pressed the speed dial as he sent a message to a few closes by crew members to come and back him up. He sent them his location and then got both hands back onto the wheel as he gunned ahead.

Kento glanced back towards Cye and Kaye, he saw Kaye wave letting him know they were fine and to keep going. He gave a wave back and gunned it ahead to catch up to Tobias.

Kaye pulled out her cell and dialed. As she heard him pick up she put Rowen on speaker, "Rowen, where are you guys? Tobias is trying to mow Kento down. Kento is doing the best he can to stay with him. Cye just rammed into Tobias from behind. We need reinforcements."

"We'll catch up to you soon! Be careful!" Rowen replied as he glanced over at Ryo.

"Kaye, don't be surprised if Tobias calls for back up! Keep your eyes open! Cye, don't do anything reckless!" Ryo called out as he took the next corner. "We'll catch up to the three of you in five minutes!"

"Me? Ryo, when have you ever known me to do anything reckless? Kento on the other hand..." Cye asked shouting back over the phone.

"Just stay with Tobias! Try not to engage unless you have to. I'll call Sage and Dom letting them know what's going on. See you soon!" Ryo replied as he had Rowen hang up the call.

Rowen dialed Sage's number and waited for him or Dom to answer. While waiting he glanced at Ryo, "How long do you think they'll be able to keep up with Tobias?"

Ryo shook his head as he kept his eyes on the road, "No idea, hopefully at least long enough for the rest of us to arrive. Something else is bothering me."

Rowen raised a brow at him, "Oh?"

"If it's only Tobias they're chasing, then where are Maverick and Reno? Also, where are the rest of their crew?"

"My guess, they could be closer to their location than us. Which is why we need to get a move on if we're going to be any help what so ever." Rowen replied as he frowned glancing at his cell. "Come on Sage! Answer!"

Sage's phone kept ringing until finally, Dom picked it up, "Sage's phone, Dom speaking!"

"Dom! It's Rowen! Listen..." He started to fill Sage and Dom in on what Kaye told him and Ryo. Dom frowned a bit when she and Sage glanced at one another. "Any idea where Tobias might be going?"

"No, I don't, but it doesn't matter where it only matters what he's doing now. If I know his crew, then more in likely they'll show up before we do. How long did you tell Kaye we'd be to catch up to them?"

"Five minutes."

Dom frowned deeply, "Well then, you'd better shift it into a higher gear and get a move on because If the rest of the crew shows up before us, then your friends are in major trouble." Hanging up the cell she looked at Sage. "Are you ready for this?"

Sage glanced at her, "As ready as I can be I guess."

"Sage, there is no guessing, either you are or you're not. Your friends are in over their heads, and you know it. We need to end this now! Otherwise, it won't be the hospital your friends will show up, it'll be the morgue. You know I'm right." Dom stated as she readjusted in the passenger seat. "Look, I'm not trying to scare you, but you know I'm right. You know how Tobias and his crew work as much as I do. So what's your answer?"

"I'm not going to let Tobias or anyone from his crew do anything to my friends! He's crossed the line one too many times. It's time for him to pay for what he has done, and I'm going to be the one to do it." Sage replied as she shifted gears and raced on.