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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, so please don't sue me. I'm just making this because I'm a big DA fan.

Timeline: I guess it's somewhere after I and I am Camera, so nothing after that actually really happens like Tinga being captured by Manticore and all that. I'm also taking some information given in Meow, like Logan having fixed the exoskeleton and the implant that can be traced.

A/N: I know I said I would end this fanfic on the next chapter. I started writing and realized that it was going to be too long for just one chapter, so, that's why there are going to be two chapters instead of one. Look at it at the bright side: you'll have something earlier than if I hadn't decided to do two chapters. If I had sticked to what I first said, it would've taken me longer to write it all. Guess this chapter's title kind of fits, huh?

Said that, I want to make something clear. I'm not good at writing action scenes. I tried my best at writing them, but still, you can note that I'm not good at this. So, please, bear with me. I really tried to make them understandable. BTW, I want to thank BlackWolf for helping me with a doubt I had.

Ok, now on with the show.

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Max, you've got to be strong. You've got to wake up. Logan's voice echoed in Max's head over and over. She was in the middle of nowhere, but Logan's voice kept her strong. Max walked towards where the voice was coming from.

Before she knew it, she had snapped out from her unconsciousness. She now had a terrible headache that couldn't let organize her thoughts. The headache started to vanish, but something was wrong. She felt the handcuffs on her right hand, but she couldn't feell Logan's presence.

"So, why do you think they took your friend?", Normal asked George. Both were sitting on the floor beside Max.

"I don't know, but I do know it wasn't for good."

Logan! Max opened her eyes and tried to move. She was too weak and could only form her hand into a fist.

A blast of gunfire interrupted the silence in the office.

"Get down!", George told Normal as he dropped to the floor bringing Normal down.

George saw the open door. He looked back at Normal. "Follow me."

"What?! Are you insane? We might get killed."

"Well, they planned to kill us sometime soon anyway."

Normal sighed as both crawled towards the door. Once they got there, Normal stayed behind, he didn't want to be shot. George took a look.

 

"What's going out there?" Normal asked.

George didn't answer. He watched whatever was out there in horror.

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Dumont immediately turned around. He saw six men dressed in SWAT gear at the entrance. Each men was packed with MP5/A5 rifles, the leading three fired towards the ceiling.

Apparently, they hadn't seen his men because one of them took out his FN P90 and fired towards them. One of the soldiers got hit in the chest and dropped dead rolling down the ramp of the Jam Pony headquarters.

The soldiers noticed Dumont's men were armed and fired towards them killing the one that had shot a member of their group as well as another one that stood near the counter and that was pulling his FN P90 out.

Dumont was shocked and dropped the envelope he was holding. His right hand was no longer pointing at Logan with his gun. Logan stood still, he didn't want to bring Dumont's attention back to him.

Meanwhile, his female sidekick quickly pointed to one of the soldiers with her Beretta and fired placing the shot right in the middle of his chest.

Noticing that both were equally numbered now, the soldiers stepped out of the entrance using the walls as shields when they fired. The leader told his men to cease fire while he took out a radio transmitter.

"Subjects inside the building are heavily armed. Should we retreat?", the Special OPS leader said through the radio transmitter.

"Finish them off like planned. I want the girl, alive", Lydecker said.

"Copy." The Special OPS leader gave the rest of his men hand signals to fire when he told them to.

After that pause, another blast of automatic gunfire surprised Dumont's men, or what was left of them. Dumont pointed his nine millimeter and shot at the soldiers making them hide behind the walls.

Dumont and her female sidekick ran towards the couriers' bicycles hiding behind them while two of his men positioned themselves beside Normal's counter.

"Who are they?!", Dumont asked looking at his henchman.

"I don't know sir, but they're not the police.", she said. The soldiers reinitiated fire and killed another of Dumont's men. Three of four had been killed already.

Logan quickly stood up from the chair and ran towards Normal's counter in the middle of the gunfire. Dumont saw him hid behind the counter.

"That son of a bitch.", Dumont murmured.

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As soon as Logan got to the counter, he sat on the floor for safety. He held his arm tight to his chest. The pain was worse. He turned around and saw George looking at him from Normal's office door.

"George, move! You could get hit", Logan shouted. The sound of gunfire beside him was too loud for his voice to be audible at a normal tone.

George was about to crawl towards Logan. "I'm coming to get you. You're not safe there."

"Stop! Stay where you are!" George paused at Logan's call. "Look, I'm okay. Go back and take care of Max."

"But---"

"Just do it. I'll be fine.", Logan told him.

George crawled back to the office as Logan turned around and saw the envelope on the floor.

The envelope! He thought.

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Three shots to the chest took down Dumont's last man. He had been able to take down one of the soldiers a moment ago.

Dumont cursed as he saw his man drop dead. He turned around and saw the envelope lying on the floor.

"The envelope!", he looked at his sidekick. "Go take it. I'll cover you."

Dumont's sidekick nodded and walked towards the envelope. The shooting had ceased. She crouched and took the envelope with her right hand as she held her Beretta pistol with her left one. Turning around, she slowly stood up holding the envelope.

One soldier placed his MP5/A5 rifle beside the wall and fired without watching. Five bullets made impact on the woman's chest.

The woman was able to fire one last shot to the air. She slowly dropped on her knees and then to the floor. Dumont watched how his sidekick lied on the floor motionless. All his team had died in a few minutes, now he was the last man standing. As an act of rage, Dumont emptied his clip shooting towards the entrance from his hiding place.

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"Sir, we should retreat. They're taking us down quickly."

 

Lydecker raised his radio in front of his mouth after receiving the Special OPS message. "We need the girl. Do your best to get her. Do you copy?"

A sound of gunfire was heard through the radio transmitter, then static. "Do you copy?", Lydecker asked again.

There was no response. "Do you copy?"

Still no one responded. "Damn.", Lydecker mumbled.

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There was no sound. It seemed everything was over. Logan took a look and saw nothing but  lifeless bodies lying on the floor. He crawled towards the woman's body, her hand was still holding the envelope.

The view wasn't pleasant. The woman's body was covered in blood from the five gunshots that had made impact on her chest. Logan held the envelope and slowly pulled, taking it off the lifeless hand.

Once he got the envelope in his hands, Logan sighed. All because of this. He thought referring to the events of what had been one of the longest nights in his life. A light smile appeared on his face.

"What are you smiling at?"

Logan's smile disappeared as he heard that voice. He slowly turned up and saw a gun pointed at his head.

"I don't think there's a reason to it. This isn't over yet."

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