It had been a long day and a lot of hard work but Lydecker was feeling proud that he had been able to do everything that he had to do without anyone else finding out about it. Two squads of military grunts were driving towards Seattle with him in several Hummers. It was only a matter of time before they reached X-6's base of operations but Lydecker still tried using the radio to reach Caine to no avail.

"Lydecker to Point Martyr, come in Point Martyr." Lydecker hadn't been able to get an answer for the past two hours but he still continued to try.

Finally he heard a garbled response, "....oint Mart.... ere... ver..... you.... ear..... me?"

Lydecker quickly picked up the receiver and spoke as loud and as clear as possible, "Point Martyr this is Lydecker. I am en route to your position. E.T.A. is forty-five minutes. Over."

He listened for a reply but all he heard was static. Lydecker wasn't sure if he'd rather them know he was coming or not. Something deep down told him that X-6 were going to try and escape and these thoughts were only fueled by the message he had found in the barracks back at Manticore. However this didn't explain why the X-6 had already brought in two of the rogue X-5. If they were planning on leaving then why would they follow their orders first?

It was something that Lydecker would be puzzling over until he found out the answers himself. The key to his plan would be to play the innocent and suspect nothing of them in hopes they would try and take him by surprise but he would be ready. While this is what he had expected to happen it was imperative that Madame X didn't hear anything of this or she might assume full command of Manticore and lock him out. That was the last thing that Lydecker needed at this point.

It was shaping up to be a longer night than he had planned as he looked at his watch and saw that it was almost one in the morning. Suddenly he heard the roar of a motorcycle breeze past the short row of Hummers on the empty road and it troubled Lydecker but he couldn't put his finger on what exactly bothered him about it. With a deep sigh he settled down and rolled over his plans on how this evening would finish.

Brin swerved back into the middle lane after passing the row of Hummers and she gunned the engine to her Hayabusa. She could tell she was breaking one-fifty but she didn't need to look at the speedometer to realize it. She knew that with a little luck she could have all of this finished and wrapped up with enough time to prove to Madame X that she was worthy of being her personal soldier. A smile spread across her lips as the world rushed around her. Not only would she be getting rid of Lydecker but she'd be getting rid of X-5 as well. Too bad the X-6 had to get in the way of it all but that wasn't Brin's concern. Madame X had already given the orders.