Samine fought the urge to close her eyes as the car sailed into the air at the end of the highway. Her heart jumped into her throat as she felt the rear wheels leave the pavement and strained to look where the car was going. She saw the edge of the piece that was supposed to be connected and actually started to think that she just might make it. The flight almost seemed to take forever and her life flashed in front of her eyes and she was amazed at what she happened to remember. A grim reality check hit her as she realized something that her life was lacking, something important that she needed in her life. Shaking her head to clear it she vowed to rethink her life once all of this was over and she could relax.

Bracing herself the car neared landing on the other half of the highway and she did close her eyes just before it landed. The jolt rattled her entire body and her eyes snapped open disbelieving that she was actually alive and the car was still moving.

"I am not a bitch Ms. Nalia. I just saved your life," the automated voice suddenly said and she looked down at the screen smiling broadly.

"I stand corrected. I apologize."

 She smiled broadly in excitement as she sped down the ramp and past all the other construction nearing the connection to the main streets. Looking down at the map again she saw that she had to take a left at the intersection that was closing faster and faster and at the busy intersection. Almost reading her mind the screen displayed the current status of the lights at the intersection and flashed the red lights towards both directions making all traffic slowly come to a stop at the intersection. Except a moving truck that was stuck in the middle of the intersection when the lights changed and was still in the middle of the intersection. Taking a deep breath she turned the wheel sharply and pressed on the brakes hoping she could angle it just right. The right side of the car hit the front part of the cab right next to the driver's side door and the big wheels. Looking up at the shocked driver of the truck she smiled weakly and waved at him as she cleared her throat.

"So sorry, kind of got away from me. Powerful engine you know," she said and he slowly nodded in shock at her as she hit the gas and shifted into second gear quickly.

Following the map she quickly neared the street she wanted as she drove between the other cars on the street sometime driving on the wrong side of the road. She saw a collection of Government Issue cars parked at the corner of the street and she slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car barely having enough time to kill the engine and pull out the keys. Running up to the most popular car she spied Gibbons talking with some police officers as she ran to him.

"Gibbons!" she yelled catching his attention.

"Samine! Where's X?" he asked noticing that she was alone.

"He's dealing with Enclave. What do you have?"

"The helicopter has pinpointed the radiation output in this radius but can't be more precise in these conditions. I've distributed the picture of Pierce to all the sharp shooters and all the police officers around and they're looking for him and the book bag. But this is New York City and book bags are very popular around here. And the only picture that I could get was when he started to work at the British Secret Service so it's not recent. He has to have a detonating device attached to the plutonium, it doesn't have to be big but it can still do the job he wants it to. Here's the picture that we've distributed," he said and handed Samine the picture and she glanced at it.

"It's not the best but it'll have to do. He looks older and the hair is a bit longer, not so closely cut. He should be recognizable from this picture," she said nodding to him and the other people around the map on the car hood.

Gibbons suddenly tipped his head to the side and pressed his ear piece in tighter as he listened to whatever was being said. He looked up at Samine and nodded his head and started to walk towards a car as Samine followed.

"Keep him in sight; we'll have someone there shortly to confirm it." Gibbons turned to Samine as they reached the car.

"They have a possible sighting but they can't be sure. There's too many friendlys around him, it's about two blocks south. We're going there now."

Samine looked to the side and saw the bad congestion of the roads which was always New York traffic.

"You take the car. I'll run, the traffic will slow us down too badly and we can't spare the time we have. Find out about Xander and see how he's doing," she yelled over her shoulder as she jogged away.

Slipping her gun in her holster she quickened her pace as she started to run between pedestrians dodging left and right to miss them. Almost crossing the street a cab stopped abruptly in front of her and the back door swung open and she was shocked to see Xander step out in front of her. Blood was streaming down his left arm from a gun shot wound in his shoulder as he held his gun in the other hand and he looked at her with a weak smile.

"What in the hell happened to you?" she asked shocked at his unruly appearance.

"Enclave happened to me. But we'll talk about that later. Where're you going to?" he asked slamming the cab door shut.

"I'm running to a hopeful sighting of Pierce one more block down."

"Well what are you standing here for? Let's go!"

"Wait, hold on X! You're shot; you can't go running after Pierce like that."

"I'm not going to stand here for an ambulance while you go running after that maniac. I'm going to be there to watch your back whether you like it or not. Now let's go bitch!"

She stared at him with a look as he started to run away from her as she shook her head.

"Prick," she muttered quietly as she started to run after him.

They ran down the street yelling at pedestrians to move out of the way as they sprinted the last block. Slowing to a stop they gasped for air as they looked in both directions for Pierce and Samine pressed her ear piece in to contact that sharpshooters she could see on the roofs of some buildings. Following his directions she motioned to Xander and started walking down the street and slowly pulled out her gun from her holster. She motioned to Xander and pointed out a guy whose back was too her and him. He turned sideways and she saw his profile and nodded to Xander. It was Scott Pierce. Motioning to Xander to make a circle around him she held up her gun and moved up behind him. She tapped him on the shoulder and stepped back.

"Good to see you again Scott."

He slowly turned around and smiled at her and held onto the straps of the book bag. Samine hoped that he didn't see Xander moving around him slowly. The crowd around them moved away quickly when it became apparent that Samine and Xander had guns in their hands. Scott looked over at Xander with a cheeky smile which made Samine uneasy.

"Just take the book bag off Scott and we can end this nice and easy. No one needs to die, especially not us," Xander said keeping his gun leveled at Scott.

"Oh but that's where you're wrong."

Suddenly he reached out and grabbed a bystander that had just came out of the store directly next to them and held her close to him and pulled out a gun. Samine stepped closer to him and the hostage and lifted her gun higher and pointed it towards Scott's head and glanced over at Xander. He had his gun pointed towards Scott also and she could tell that he couldn't get off a shot without endangering the hostage. Slowly he started to back away from Samine and down the street as he pulled the terrified hostage with him.

"Now you two are just going to back off and let me walk away or else you're going to have to explain to this woman's family why she's dead and you just stood there. Now do as I said and back away."

Samine looked over at Xander and nodded as she slowly took a few steps away from him but kept her gun pointed at him. He slowly moved towards one of the doors leading to a semi-tall building and quickly shoved the hostage to the side and went into the building. Samine leapt forward and checked the hostage before following Xander into the building and ran after him as Xander ran towards the bank of elevators. Gunfire erupted in the lobby and Samine ducked behind a desk as everyone screamed and started running towards the exits. She saw Xander behind another desk as Scott fired at the desk giving Xander no time to move to safer grounds. She saw where Scott was firing from and knew that she couldn't get a good shot where he was standing. Looking above him she lifted her gun and fired at the water sprinkler and set off the sprinkler system. Water started to pour down from the sprinklers as Scott moved into an elevator as Samine quickly glanced over the desk and didn't see him anymore. Moving out she moved swiftly past Xander and into the area where all the elevators were. Looking above the elevator, it showed that it was going up to the top floor or as far as it would go. Not wanting to take the elevator and possibly be jumped when they got out she spun and pushed open the door to the stairwell and started to run up the stairs with Xander on her heels. Reaching the top she kicked open the door and ran onto the floor and just saw another door slowly close behind someone and ran to it. The sign on the door said roof and she groaned, not happy about that.

"He went on the roof," she mumbled as Xander stood next to her breathing deeply.

"Watch your back," he said before pushing it open with one hand and held his gun ready with the other hand.

They walked up a small set of stairs and through another set of doors that led out onto the roof. Xander slowly led the way onto the roof and went in one direction as Samine went the other. Glancing around one corner she slowly walked beside one of the air conditioner units and glanced behind her before freezing in her tracks hearing a gun being cocked very close to her head. Holding her hands up she turned and faced Scott only to realize that he wasn't there. Looking above her she was staring down the barrel of a gun as Scott moved to jump off the top of the unit where he had been waiting.

"Surprise," he said with a smile before jumping off.

Right when he landed and crouched a bit to absorb the shock Samine stepped forward and kicked him flush in the face knocking him back towards the edge. His arms flew back and he lost grip on his gun and dropped it on the ground before he righted himself before his hand came back up and punched Samine in the face dazing her for a moment before she called for Xander. Scott grabbed her arm and pulled her past him and pushed her towards the edge of the building as Xander came running around another air conditioning unit. Samine tried to stop her momentum towards the edge but failed when her feet skidded on the gravel and pitched head first over the edge. Xander watched as Samine fell over the edge with a scream but had to pull back quickly as Scott fired at him and he had to seek refuge behind the unit. Scott ran towards the door leading off the roof as Xander started to run after him but something made him stop. He slowly walked towards the edge and couldn't bring himself to look over the edge. Tears started to prick his eyes as he tightened his grip on his gun trying to hold them in.

"Oh Samine," he mumbled sadly bowing his head in sorrow.

"Oh Xander. You had better not be up there about to cry. I would so seriously kick your ass once I get up there."

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Okay everyone there is the new chappy. Hope everyone likes it, I know I was having fun typing it up so here ya go. Okay I'm about ready to put up the first chapter for my new The Fast and the Furious story and I was going to type it and put it up once I get this one posted but I got to involved and typed a whole lot more than I meant to. So that means that the new TFATF story will probably be up tomorrow sometime, I promise I'll do it right when I get in from work. Okay so everyone please R/R and tell me what you think. I love hearing from my readers. Peace.