A/N: I am aware that I can't spell tazer. I'm just stoopid and my spellchecker is even stoopider. Lol.










Bullet walked back into the kitchen and sat down at the table.

"You okay?" Zero asked.

"I guess." Bullet answered.

Fixit signaled that they should let Bullet have some room and everyone, except Bullet, went into the living room.

"I wonder what they talked about." Ralph said.

"I don't know." Zero said. "Do you think he convinced Elliot to, ya know..."

"I think he did." Fixit said. "He wouldn't be all sad like that if Elliot was going to White. He'd be rushing us out of here."

"What I want to know is how Mister Military got into all that stuff." Zero said. "He was always so smart and... good."

"The world can change people." Ralph said. "We should know."

"Hey, do you hear that?" Bugler asked.

"Yeah." Zero said and listened closer. "It sounds like..."

"Footsteps." Ralph filled in.

"Lots of them." Fixit said.

Zero went to the window and looked out. He adjusted his vision and saw the forest around was swarming with soldiers.

"Lots of soldiers." Zero said. "Lots of guns."

"What's their position?"

Everyone turned to see Bullet. He was in full soldier mode.

"I don't know what position you want. Close, closer, or moving much closer." Zero said.

"Okay, get away from the windows." Bullet said. "We've got to get away from the back."

Everyone nodded and followed Bullet to the backdoor. Zero looked out the kitchen window for any signs of soldiers.

"There's about ten out there." Zero said. "I would say the best way is to charge right through the middle of them. We can take out the ones that get in our way."

Bullet nodded then opened the door slowly.

"The object is to just get away." Bullet said. "Disarm or fight only if you have to."

Everyone nodded, then they went.

They separated and ran quickly. Each of them got past the guards easily, they only had to stop about twice each to fight. They were basically dodging bullets.

When they got to the edge of the forest, they all found each other again.

"Are you guys okay?" Bullet asked. Everyone said they were. "Okay, well, we better get moving."

They tried to go forward, but when they looked ahead, they saw Elliot and a line of armed X-6s.

"Elliot, what's going on?" Bullet asked, stepping in front of the others. Elliot just grinned nastily.

"Go."

At Elliot's command, the X-6s rushed forward. Bullet and the rest ran back into the forest, right to the Manticore soldiers.

Bugler screamed as one of the soldiers grabbed him. Zero ran over and kicked the soldier down and grabbed Bugler, but an X-6 came up behind him and hit him on the head with the butt of his gun.


Ralph was fighting one soldier and one X-6. She kicked the X-6 from behind and grabbed the soldiers gun. She turned and hit the X-6 in the stomach with the butt of it, but when she turned to the soldier, he had a tazer. He tazered her into unconsciousness, then threw a net over her.


Fixit grabbed a heavy stick off the ground and hit an X-6 to the ground. Then she turned and hit the other X-6 that was attacking her. She grabbed both their heads quickly and slammed them together, knocking them out. She went to go help the others, but another X-6 tackled her and put a small device on her. Fixit kicked the X-6 off, but he only grinned at her. Fixit wondered why, but then she began shaking and she knew why.

Bullet pushed past a group of soldiers and went over to Zero. He tried to get to him, but two X-6s grabbed him by the arms. Bullet struggled to get away, but both X-6s tazered him.

*****

The X-6s threw Bullet, Zero, Fixit, and Ralph on the ground in front of White. White smiled as he looked down at them, then he frowned.

"Where is the fifth one?" He asked.

"Sir, these were the only ones in the forest." Elliot reported.

"I need the fifth one!" White screamed.

*****

Bugler ran through the forest as fast as he could. He knew where he was going and he had to make it and fast.

Seattle.