STAR building

They pulled up to the STAR building still laughing and carrying on.

"Ok we are here Mr. Walther will be up in his office on the top floor." Tara said.

"Ok as soon as we get our things inside we'll go see him." Josh said pulling his duffle bags out of the trunk.

"We have some engineers that will take your things down to sub level b." Tara said.

"Ok but they better not touch our suits." Josh said. "There is a cretin way they need to be set up and only we do it."

"Ok I'll tell them to just take them down there and leave them." Tara said.

"Alright lets go see our old friend." Josh said.

They hoisted their bags over their shoulders and headed inside. They walked right passed the security guards and through the medal detector. And into the elevator and took it up to the top floor. When they stepped out they were in a room with a desk and a large door..

"That's Mr. Walther's office go right in." Tara said.

"Thank you." Josh said and they headed for the door. He was just reaching for the handle to open the door when he pulled his hand back.

"What's wrong?" Tara asked.

"Miss. White do you have a little vanity mirror?" Josh asked.

"Yes in my purse why?" Tara asked.

"Room sweep alpha." Josh said looking at his team. "I just with we hade a mark 11."

"How about a mark 45.? Terry asked pulling a grenade like canister out of her duffle bag.

"How did you get that past the medal detector?" Josh asked.

"I just made it before we left its made out of plastic there is no medal what so ever." Terry said grinning.

"What are you planning?" Tara asked.

"Of all the years we have known each other Jack is the only one we have never taken by surprise. Now is our best chance." Josh said. "Can I borrow your mirror so I can get a fix on his location and the layout of the room? Josh asked.

"You won't hurt him will you?" Tara asked.

"His ears might be ringing for a few minutes. That is what the mark 45 is it's a diversionary device. It will explode with a blinding light and a loud bang." Josh said.

"Well as long as it won't hurt him." Tara said handing him the mirror.

Josh opened the door quietly and just enough for him to reach the mirror in.

"Ok the desk is approximately 20 feet straight in the door there are no obstacles in the way." Josh said. " When the mark 45 explodes Mike you and I will rush right Terry and Kenny you rush left he is sitting at the desk working on his computer."

"10-4." They all said and Terry handed Josh the mark 45.

He handed Tara her mirror and pulled the pin on the mark 45 and tossed it into the room. A loud pop was herd then 1 seconded after that a bright light filled the room and a extremely loud bang emitted from the device.

"Go go go go." Josh yelled and threw open the door.

Josh and mike rushed right and Terry and Kenny rushed left. They tackled the chare where jack was sitting but he wasn't there.

"Shit where is he." Josh said looking to Mike.

"I don't know I thought you said he was at the desk." Mike said.

"He was." Josh said looking around the room.

They herd the unmistakable sound of the slide to a handgun sliding back then forward loading a round into the chamber. They looked at where the sound came from and there stood Jack with his old .45 caliber handgun aimed at Josh.

"Look at you 4 you look like you are trying to recover a fumble." Jack laughed holstering his sidearm.

"Damn we are never gonna get you are we?" Josh asked getting to his feet.

"No." Jack said.

"Well anyway its good to see you 3 years is to long for people who risked their life's together to stay apart." Josh said shaking Jacks hand.

"Well you haven't changed sense the last time I saw you all." Jack said.

"Not much just got older." Josh said. "So what's the situation so far?"

"Right down to business as always." Jack laughed. "Well we haven't hade any more Boomers go rouge sense the 40 earlier today. But that wont last."

"Ok lets go get our suits set up you can fill us in as we work." Josh said and headed for the door.

Silky Doll

"Ok you guys dinner is ready." Mackey called.

"Good I'm starving Nene." Said jogging into the kitchen.

"Me to." Linna said following close behind her.

They sat at the table and began loading their plates.

"I'm gonna go take a plate to Syila and see if she needs any thing." Mackey said and walked out of the kitchen.

He walked through the living room and into Syila's room. Syila was still sleeping and Mackey hated to wake her up but she needed to eat.

"Sis hey sis wake up." Mackey said.

"What is it Mackey?" Syila asked.

"I brought you something to eat and see if you need anything." Mackey said helping his sister to sit up.

Syila looked at her dressing. There was a little blood seeping through but it was ok.

"I'm fine for now Mackey dear but I am very hungry thanks for the food." She said and gave him a smile.

"Your welcome." Mackey said and turned to leave.

"Have any more Boomers gone rouge sense earlier today?" Syila asked.

"No its been quiet." Mackey said and left.

Mackey walked back into the kitchen and sat at the table and started eating.

"How is she doing?" Linna asked.

"She is ok for now there is a little blood on her dressing but for the most part it looks like its subsiding." Mackey said shoveling food into his mouth.

"That's good." Linna said and filled her glass.

They ate in silence for a few minutes until Nigel's voice came over the intercom.

"Hey we got a few rouge Boomers tearing up what remains of the harbor." He said.

"Oh those Boomers have the worst timing." Nene said as she was filling her plate for the 2nd time.

"Well lets go Mackey keep the food warm we will be back as soon as we can." Linna said as they headed into the pit.

STAR building

Josh and the others worked on their suits and Jack filled them in on what has been happening.

"Ok so the Boomers that have gone rouge so far aren't to tough I take it." Josh said.

"Not really once you know there weak spot but we have a group of Boomers called Pit bulls like the dog. They are extremely tough and strong and we cant call them back I think they are going rouge." Jack said.

"Can the Knight Sabers and the ADP handle them?" Josh asked.

"No." Jack said shacking his head. "No not a chance the ADP don't have enough officers to handle 2 of the Boomers that have gone rouge so far and the Knight Sabers only have 2 members. They wouldn't last 2 minutes against 1 Pit bull but there are 5 Bit bulls..

"5 my God." Terry said.

"Well then I say we finish our suits quickly." Josh said.

"How long till you are finished?" Jack asked.

"20 minutes or less." Josh said.

"Good then we should be ok." Jack said.

Tara came running into the room pushing an engineer out of the way sending papers flying into the air.

"SIR IT'S THE PIT BULLS!!" She yelled.

"Tara calm down." Jack said.

"It's the Pit bulls they are destroying the remains of the harbor." She said catching her breath.

"Oh shit not now they aren't finished." Jack said.

"Make that 10 minutes." Josh said and began working double time.

"Ok from here you are 5 minutes away from the harbor." Jack said.

"Ok any idea how far the Knight Sabers are from the Harbor?" Josh asked.

"No I don't but I think you need to get there ASAP." Jack said..

Silky Doll.

"Nene something doesn't feel right about this so be very careful." Linna said suiting up.

"There are only 5 that should be no problem for us." Nene said.

"Yea but still I don't like it." Linna said stepping into the launcher. "Ok Nigel we are ready."

"Ok take care." Nigel said and pressed the launch button.

They launched from the roof of the Silky Doll and headed for the harbor. They arrived at the harbor a few minutes later.

"What the hell is that." Linna said looking at one of the Boomers. "That is NOT one of the Boomers we fought before."

"I can see that so how do we want to do this?" Nene asked.

"Lets double team the one closest to us and try to destroy id before the others come to its aid." Linna said and rushed the Boomer.

She managed to come up behind it with out it sensing her.

"Perfect scratch one Boomer." She said and rammed her fist into its back. "AAARRGG." She cried in pain as her fist bounced off the Boomers back with out leaving so much as a dent.

Nene tried a round house to the Boomers midsection but her leg just bounced off. The Boomer turned and looked at her.

"Oops." Nene said as it reared its fist back and let it fly.

The force from the hit sent Nene crashing into Linna and sent them both into a wall.

"Oh shit that hurt." Linna said.

"That hurt you I was the one that got punched." Nene whined putting her hand to her helmet.

"Get off me before that thing comes over here." Linna said pushing Nene off her.

"Well now what?" Nene asked.

"Don't ask me." Linna said. "Lets just try and get this one then we may have to make a run for it.

"I wish Priss was here." Nene said getting to her feet.

"Me to." Linna said still laying in the ruble of the wall.

The Boomer now very mad about being attacked turned to the to women that hade attacked it and picked up a large steel pipe.

"What's with these Boomers and pipes." Linna said standing up.

Linna and Nene rushed the Boomer from the left and right Nene landed a right hook to its jaw but the Boomer just swatted her aside with its arm and sent her into another wall.

"Ok you over grown pile of scrap medal take this." Linna said and slashed it with her cutters.

The cutters left 2 large slices on the Boomers face and chest. The Boomer raised the pipe and crashed it accost Linna's rib cage sending her skipping over the ground like a rock over a lake. Linna holding her side had the wind knocked out of her was rolling on the ground trying to get back on her feet. The Boomer walked over to her and put its foot on her chest and raised the pipe meaning to finish her off.

'So this is how its gonna end is it killed by a fucking Boomer.' She thought and closed her eyes and waited for the deathblow.

All Linna herd was the boomer give a cry as it brought the pipe down. But instead of the pipe hitting her she herd the sound of medal hitting medal. She opened her eyes and saw a figure in combat armor a lot like hers but it was red and the figure was holding a large double-sided sword with both hands and was using it to block the pipe.

"Move already." The figure snapped.

'It's a man that's for sure.' Linna thought as she rolled out of the way.

The man in the armor took a quick step to the side and let the pipe crash into the ground. The man in red spun around and brought his sword down on the Boomer's hands and it cut right though them. The Boomer took a step back and tried to make a run but the man in red plunged his sword into the Boomers back. The sword pierced the boomers back and exited its chest but the sword was low and missed the core. The Boomer pulled free of the sword and faced the man in red and was about to hit him with its stump on its hand. When another Figure with the same armor but this one was black came down behind the Boomer and brought his sword down on the Boomers head and sliced right down the Boomer's back and through its core.

"Good work now lets get the other 4." The first man said and turned to Linna.

"Stay there you'll be fine." He said and turned back to the Boomers. "Knights square off." He said and 2 other figures appeared one was defiantly a women with green armor and the other was a man with blue armor.

The 4 figures walked up within 5 feet of the 4 Boomers and raised their swords in front of their faces and the Boomers picked up pipes and the battle began. The man in red gave a cry and he rushed his Boomer he did a fast spin and swung his sword at the Boomers mid section but the Boomer blocked it with the pipe and counter attacked. The man in red blocked blow after blow from the Boomer's pipe and retaliated with a melee of his own. One of the blows caught the Boomer on the arm that was holding the pipe and it fell to the floor. Then he raised his sword and sliced open the Boomers chest exposing its core he sheathed his sword and reached in and crushed its core with his hand. Then he walked over to Linna and sat down next to her.

"You ok?" He asked.

"My ribs hurt like hell." Linna said.

"Yea I saw that hit you took that must of hurt." He said and extended his hand. "My name I Josh I'm the leader of the Crimson Knights." He said.

Linna didn't know why but she felt she could trust him. "I'm Linna its nice to meet you." She said shacking his hand.

"Look at them there are stalling." Josh said taking off his helmet and cupping his hands to his mouth. "Come on you guys remember the last one to get a kill buys the beer." He yelled at them.

"Where did you guys come from and why are you here?" Linna asked.

"We are from the United States." Josh said. "We got a call yesterday morning from our friend Jack Walther he is the CEO of the STAR Corporation. And he said he hade a Boomer problem and needed us to help he said that the ADP could not fix the problem and that you guys stepped in with 3 members instead of 4 like you usually did and that one of you were badly hurt. By the way how is she?" Josh asked.

"She will live but she is out of action for a long time." Linna said.

"Well that's good I'm glad she made it. Hey where is your friend the one you came with?" Josh asked.

"Oh no Nene I forgot about her she was thrown into a wall just before I was hit in the ribs." Linna said and tried to get up. "AARGG." She cried and she fell back to the floor.

"Take it easy I'll get her." Josh said and put his helmet back on.

He passed by Mike and the others and ran up to the wall Nene was thrown into. She was half buried in rubble and was out cold. Terra finished her Boomer off by ramming her sword through its chest and core.

"There goes mine." She said turning to the others.

"Terry I need you over here now." Josh yelled and she ran to his side.

"Is she alive?" She asked.

"I think so but you are the medic help me get this shit off her and fined out." Josh said and picked up a large piece of concrete.

Once they hade her free Terry took off Nene's Helmet and felt for a pulse.

"Ok she is alive but she is in bad shape how is the other one?" terry asked.

"I think she has some broken ribs but that's about it." Josh said.

"Ok we need to get her back to her home base now or she might not make it go get the other one and have her show us where it is." Terry said.

"Ok I'm on it." Josh said.

He ran over to Linna and helped her to her feet.

"How is Nene?" Linna asked.

"Not good." Josh answered. "I'm gonna need you to show us where your base of operations is we need to get her there soon of she is gonna die."

Linna was silent for a minute thinking if she should tell him.

"Linna there is no time to waist she is gonna die if we don't get her help right now." Josh said helping her over to where Nene was.

Mike ended his Boomers rain of terror by slicing it clean in 2 at the chest.

"Kenny you are buying." Mike laughed as Kenny rammed his sword into his Boomers chest.

"Damn it." Kenny said sheathing his sword.

 Mike and Kenny were soon with the others and saw how Nene looked.

"Oh man she doesn't look good." Kenny said.

Linna saw the look on all there faces and could tell they weren't kidding.

"Ok our base is in The Silky Doll a lingerie shop go north west from here and I'll show you the way." Linna said.

"Ok you herd her Kenny you and Terry carry Nene I'll take Linna and Mike follow us." Josh said.

As soon as they were within communication range Linna keyed down on her microphone.

"Nigel its Linna get Dr. Springer rolling now Nene is hurt really bad and I need some help to." She said.

Kenny and Terry carried Nene through the front doors of the Silky Doll and Josh helped Linna in and Mike held the door. They placed Nene on the couch in the living room and set Linna in a chare.

"Who are you guys." Nigel said when he saw them.

"We are the crimson Knights we are here to help." Josh said.

"Where is the Doctor you called?" Terry asked.

"He will be here any minute." Nigel said.

"Good she is in bad shape." Terry said.

A minute later Dr. Springer ran into the room with a big medical bad full of drugs and surgical tools.

"How bad is she?" He asked running up to Nene.

"She has internal bleeding some broken ribs and a possible broken back. Terry said.

"Do you have medical training?" Dr. Springer asked opening his bag.

"Yes sir I was a medic in the US Army." Terry said.

"Good you can help in my bag is a bottle of morphine and a syringe inject her with 30 CC's." He said.

"Yes sir." Terry said and pulled out the bottle and syringe and injected Nene with 30 CC's of morphine.

"Goon now put some gloves on and hand me the scalpel out o my bag." Dr. Springer said

"Yes sir." Terry said and did as she was tolled.

An hour later Dr. Springer and Terry sowed Nene up after closing 3 holes in her organs.

"Well she is stabilized but she is in a coma." Dr. Springer said walking into the kitchen and cleaning up.

"When do you think she will come out of it?" Mackey asked.

"Its hard to say could be today, tomorrow, next week I don't know but that women Terry will stay with her she is a very capable medic and she can handle almost any thing that can go wrong." Dr. Springer said

"Thanks Doctor." Mackey said.