Jonathan let out a deep sigh. He wondered if he would ever get some time with Natasha, maybe tomorrow was his opportunity. He liked her… a lot, she was not only beautiful, intelligent and had a liking to hear and tell jokes but she was as sarcastic and as cynical as he was. While they had only been officially together for a few days, for weeks, months many signals were let out. She was especially kind to him during the device training, not that he needed her help he scored perfect there anyway, but she always asked him how he was going.

"Hey dreamy eyes… what are you doing?" Foster asked

"Err… well…" Jonathan replied. He hadn't taken two steps from the institute.

"You're thinking about something… ooooh… right Natasha" Foster let out a slight chuckle

"No, it was about the planet… it's fascinating" Jonathan replied but Foster wasn't fooled.

"Come now, no matter how good that planet was, it wouldn't make a guy freeze like that. I'm sorry for spying on your before, it was I just had nothing better to do" Foster said

"I think Natasha got her revenge. Also I knew that you had nothing better to do, spying on people was Grimshaw's latest craze. How do you think I knew about the camera?" Jonathan asked

"That's true. So can I ask what's next for you two?" Foster asked

"Well I guess so. I just…" Jonathan thought for a moment. It was really none of Foster's business. "I dunno, I just don't want to go too fast or too slow" Jonathan said. Foster laughed

"Natasha seemed to want to go as fast as she can… Jonathan, you have to move fast or she will go" Foster said

"Hmm… I guess you were there sort of, but at least you apologized for it, and you wouldn't have if Grimshaw didn't but why should I believe you?" Jonathan said

"Err… I don't know. I could be wrong, but that's the impression I got from those two times I saw you both" Foster replied

"Thanks, I think. I have to play this game my way" Jonathan said

"Okay good luck. See you later" Foster walked away and headed back inside and headed to the hangar.

Jonathan let out a deep sigh again. He wondered if Foster was right. Foster did know Natasha longer then he did. He headed home and went to straight to bed. The next morning he woke up and did the usual morning stuff and headed back to the Institute. Natasha was in the main foyer area.

"Ready?" Natasha asked

"Of course" Jonathan replied.

"Elvis will be coming with us, but only because we fear certain complications may arise. It will be easier to have him nearby" Natasha explained as they walked down to the hangar and boarded Carrington's private plane. Elvis was already on board.

"Alright but how are you going to get him to our hotel room though?" Jonathan asked

"To work out how to penetrate the Skedar cloaking device, I had to make one myself with Elvis' help, however it can only be used by a Maian" Natasha said

"Excellent, but Elvis will stay there of course won't he?" Jonathan asked

"Yeah" Natasha replied

The three landed in Sydney, Australia but it was about 5am the next day when they did because of the time difference.

"Great. I forgot about time difference" Jonathan said

"Well Carrington did say the day after you land. I think he assumed we would arrive now. Because 5 days from that day is not today, it's tomorrow." Natasha smiled

"I see. Anyway let's get to our room" Jonathan said and Elvis triggered the cloaking device as they left the plane.

They had no trouble checking in and they headed up to their room and Elvis must have followed the entire time as he appeared when they entered.

"Hehe. So many did not see me" Elvis laughed

"Keep it down. That voice is a little distinctive and weird for a human" Natasha said and Elvis nodded.

"Well. It seems like we just slept doesn't it?" Jonathan said

"I guess so. Elvis we are going to look around and do some research and stuff for the mission. Do you mind if you stay here?" Natasha asked

"Of course not, I can look out the windows with the cloaking device. Views are good from here" Elvis said. He was right, their room had a good view of various things in the city.

"Alright but be careful, I'll get some food for you to eat" Natasha said

"I'll be careful. I don't want the Skedar taking me away again" Elvis replied.

"See you later. Have fun I guess" Jonathan waved to Elvis

"I will, I wonder what's on TV" Elvis jumped over the lounge chair and flicked on the TV and his eyes lit up with excitement.

Natasha got some food for Elvis to eat through the day but she really just wanted time with Jonathan, there was little work to do on the actual mission since it was all done for them by reconnaissance, and the work they had to do they could do while walking around the city. They planned to look at the sun rise from that famous tall tower in Sydney.

"Welcome to Centrepoint" one of the tour guides said "Want a guided tour?" She asked

"No thanks, we'll manage" Jonathan politely replied. The girl just smiled as they went up the lift to the very top of the tower.

Jonathan looked outside and saw the famous bridge. It was true to those postcards that you could buy on the bottom floor. They were the only people around. Jonathan wondered if he could have bought a postcard of the Maian city.

"Isn't it great?" Natasha said as the sun begun to rise

"Yeah" Jonathan said as he kissed her on the cheek. He pulled back and Natasha turned to him, who returned it. Then the kissed each other on the lips with their arms around each other for about 10 seconds. Jonathan noticed somebody and he patted Natasha on the shoulder and they pulled out but the man was paying no attention. Jonathan smirked a little and Natasha returned it before laughing.

They continued to look around the city all through the day and had dinner while overlooking the harbour. Afterwards they went into the middle of a park and sat on a bench. Jonathan thought he may be moving too fast but he couldn't hold it any longer.

"Natasha, I've got something I'd like to ask you. I know we haven't been going out that long, but we've been good friends for months. Should something happen to me tomorrow I would fell awful if I didn't ask you this" Natasha remained silent. Jonathan pulled out a box and opened it with a ring inside. He bought it while Natasha was looking at something else.

"Will you marry me?" Jonathan asked. He was really nervous, even more nervous before his first mission.

"What kind of question is that! Of course I will!" Natasha replied. "Took your sweet time" Natasha joked as she accepted the ring and put in on her finger.

"Well… I thought you'd say no even now…" Jonathan said "It seemed too fast, but you never know what's going to happen"

"Jonathan, don't talk that way, everything will be fine" Natasha said.

"Thanks. I'm so glad I had the guts to ask you that" Jonathan smiled.

"Me too. Anyway Elvis is probably bored out of his mind shall we go back?" Natasha asked

"Yeah, thanks for saying Yes" Jonathan said

"Thanks for asking" Natasha replied

They headed back to the hotel. Elvis clearly wasn't bored as he watched the TV in excitement.

"He is funny" Elvis said

"Do you find everything wonderful here Elvis?" Jonathan asked

"Pretty much. It can be so lifeless on our planets at times." Elvis replied

Jonathan and Natasha headed to bed. Jonathan smiled to himself glad that he had the guts. Elvis went to sleep turning off the TV soon after.

"Guys can you hear me? Guys? Jonathan? Natasha? Anybody?" Jonathan's communicator was going with a male voice. Jonathan rubbed his eyes and picked it up.

"Hello?" He said through it trying to recover. It was 6am.

"Jon, were you still asleep?" Carrington asked

"To be honest sir. Yes" Jonathan replied

"Alright. What time is it there?" Carrington asked

"6am. What's up?" Jonathan said

"You won't be alone today. I have dispatched another agent, he was already in Australia since he lives there. Weapon is Falcon 2 scope. I can't name them or give you a description for obvious reasons, but if something goes wrong, which it probably will he will contact you" Carrington said

"Thanks. At first you didn't think something would go wrong, now you are almost certain of it. Did something happen I was unaware of?" Jonathan asked

"The Skedar may want revenge against the human race because you prevented the most powerful Skedar ever attacks taking place. Instead of getting a major advantage over the Maians they were forced into offering a ceasefire. Anyway good luck, Carrington out" Carrington said and Jonathan put the communicator down and got up.

Natasha too was woken up by Carrington, she and Elvis came in.

"Good morning. What did Carrington have to say?" Natasha asked

"Apparently there is another one of our agents around, all he could tell me was Falcon 2 scope is the weapon. Probably worried about interception issues." Jonathan said and Natasha nodded in agreement

They both had showers and ate breakfast. They went over the plan one more time.

"Jonathan just before 12 you are going to be above the ground floor in the building" Natasha said "These glasses will let you see various things, but most importantly it will let you see through a cloaking device, but make sure when you don't need them don't use them since it is more difficult to see" Natasha said and Jonathan nodded

"After you succeed they are probably going to wonder why there is a dead guy standing in front of the British PM. I will be waiting on the ground floor, but if you exit from this side" Natasha pointed to a side on the map she had. "You can get in the car and we can get away and deal with what happens next" Natasha said

"Okay, got it for the tenth time" Jonathan smiled

They just sat in the hotel room and waited. At quarter to 12 it was time for Jonathan to leave.

"See you later" Jonathan hugged Natasha and gave her a kiss

"Yes I will" Natasha replied

Jonathan took his equipment and went into position. It was raining but this didn't bother Jonathan much.

"This is Jonathan. I'm in position" Jonathan said as he looked over from above. It was like a stage below him, but Jonathan was well and truly hidden but he could still clearly see what was going on.

"I'm in position as well. Okay the PM has just walked in the building. It's up to you now Jon" Natasha said

The Prime Minister shook hands with various people. Jonathan just watched it happen. They all moved into their positions and sat down, no sign of anybody yet.

"And now for the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. Anthony Kensington" The announcer said and everybody clapped, as the Prime Minister stood up and headed to the front with the microphone.

"My father once told me…" Mr. Kensington started but that's all Jonathan heard there was somebody in cloak. They stood out because of the red outline, Jonathan drew his Magnum as the intruder got closer and closer to the front desk and Mr. Kensington just did his speech unaware of what was going on. The intruder drew a strange looking grenade and he looked ready to pull the pin but Jonathan pulled the trigger and with perfect accuracy the bullet hit and everything went as planned.

"OH my goodness!" The PM said witnessing as the intruder was made visible and appeared to drop dead out of nowhere.

"What's happened?" One of the security shouted and then everybody saw a man with a strange grenade in hand and a gunshot wound.

Jonathan meanwhile was running concentrating on his escape. He jumped from the building and into Natasha's car as she opened the roof quickly to let him in.

"Success?" Natasha asked starting the engine.

"Yeah. Now we just wait and see" Jonathan replied

It didn't take long for something to happen. Security was running around everywhere trying to get people away from the building but then on Natasha's right a bunch of Skedar in human form started to attack with dataDyne assistance.

"This isn't good Natasha what do we do?" Jonathan asked

"Fight of course" Natasha said making a quick turn heading for a recently placed road block.

Despite the security trying to stop Natasha she drove on anyway using whatever means she could to hit the enemy guards down. Various lasers, machine guns and Jonathan shot his Magnum outside the car trying to help. Soon they had a car behind them, it too fired weapons and Natasha tried to get away from the action to draw their opponent out of the action.

"What are you doing?" Jonathan asked

"We can't fight them with this guy behind, I've got a few tricks" Natasha said and pressed a trigger letting out some spikes but they were no good as the other car continued to trail them and it just floated over them.

"Ah crap" Natasha said "Now I mean business" Natasha pressed another button and the car let out a few grenades from the back but again they were shot by the other cars machine guns before they could get anywhere near the opponent.

"Damn he's good…" Natasha moaned "Now for the last resort" Natasha pressed a button releasing a slow homing rocket however their opponent had done the same.

"Natasha it's going to hit! Let's get out!" Jonathan shouted

"Damn ejector seat isn't working" Natasha fiddled with it

"He's probably jammed it let's get out." Jonathan said and Natasha stopped the car

She opened the door however the other guy had done the same as Jonathan and Natasha tried to get away from the doomed car. Jonathan ran and hid behind around the corner and the car exploded and the flames just missed him. He then noticed somebody was missing.

"Natasha?" Jonathan said quietly. No response.

"NATASHA!" Jonathan shouted. Still nothing.

He turned around the corner drawing his weapon and he looked at the two burning wrecks. Natasha was knocked down a fair distance from the cars. He looked around for the man he was nowhere to be seen. He cautiously walked up to Natasha, she had her eyes closed he put his hand on her pulse … nothing.

"Natasha…" Jonathan said kneeling over her still on the lookout for the other man… "No…" but then his weapon was kicked out of his hands.

"Ah you have a girlfriend that's cute. Or should I say had" A man laughed it sounded familiar… too familar. Jonathan looked at him…and the DY357 Magnum that was drawn to his face. He had metal over the right side of his face with a blue eye. The rest of his face looked badly beaten, he wore a dark blue datadyne uniform. The hair… it was… but it couldn't be, he was dead…

"You are speechless to see me alive again I see" Terrance said

"You bastard… stop your lame crap and just shoot me" Jonathan said

"Ah but don't you want to here my wonderful story about how the Skedar saved me and repaired my body from the damage you did. I want to pay back every blow" Terrance used his Magnum to hit Jonathan hard.

"It's going to have to wait, you freak!" A voice was heard and bullets came Terrance's way but a red shield protected him for a moment before he ran off heading into the tower they were in yesterday.

Jonathan looked to the new arrival. It was a man armed with a Falcon 2 scope. He had a white skin but it was fairly dark as well and he wore a blue T-shirt with black pants with black sneakers, he was slightly taller than Jonathan. His hair was short and black and was a bit wet from the rainwater.

"You must be Jonathan… oh and that's Natasha… I'm sorry I was too late, is she…" The man looked to Natasha's body.

"Yeah…" Jonathan replied. He couldn't believe she was dead.

"Listen I can chase him if you want, but I think you want to do this. I'll take of things down here, take this radio" the man offered Jonathan a radio and he took it.

"Yeah… this time I'll kill him for certain…" Jonathan said with anger.

"Take this too… I stole it from one of those Skedar guys." The man offered Jonathan a strange device

"What is it?" Jonathan asked

"It's a shield, it takes a certain amount of damage before fading like the guy had" The man explained. It was then it occurred to Jonathan how unusual he looked for an institute agent, he looked younger then he was.

"Who are you anyway, you seem too young to be an agent" Jonathan said

"That's what everybody says, yeah I've just turned 19. Name's Sean Lomberson. We don't have much time" Sean said. Jonathan looked at Sean, then took another look at Natasha.

"Sean? You copy?" A voice was heard from Sean's end of the radio it was Carrington.

"Yeah I copy… I've met up with Jonathan. I was too late to save the woman though" Sean said with a bit of sadness.

"Natasha is dead?" Carrington asked

"Yeah… Jonathan is going to chase this Terrence guy who killed her. He looked like something you'd see out of a scary movie. Metal covering the right side of his face, his left side looked barely human" Sean said. There was silence at Carrington's end.

"Leave Terrance to Jonathan. You better hurry back to the where the action is, as for you Jonathan good luck. Keep your mind focused if you can and when you kill him this time, make sure he's actually dead." Carrington said.

"Will… do… sir" Jonathan mumbled, split between getting angry and upset. Jonathan picked up his Magnum and took one last look at Natasha.

"Sean you better hurry, but keep your mind on the job and not your revenge" Carrington instructed

"Thanks. I will do my best" Sean replied "Good luck Jonathan" Sean said as he loaded his Falcon 2 and ran.

Jonathan ran the other way and headed into to the tower.