Disclaimer: Same as always, I don't own Alias.
A/N: Do you notice how besides Danny, Noah, and Francie no one ever dies on Alias? They always come back. Sorry about the lack of major action scenes, but most things are revealed in this chapter. Ok, hopefully this will be the second to last chapter, but we'll just see how it goes…
Chapter 9~ One moment
***Sydney's POV***
Sydney's eyes opened wide in shock before she took action. Grabbing weapons she ran into the warehouse a few minutes after the second wave had went it. She pulled open the doors saw a forked path and heard gunfire coming from down the hall to her left. But she couldn't see a thing there because it was pitch black while the other way she heard voices of CIA agents yelling at people. She turned right and crept into the room.
***Irina's POV***
She turned around when she heard someone walking into the room. She relaxed, seeing Sydney and ran up to hug her.
"I have to tell you something, but not here," she whispered.
"Sydney- I found this guy. From the looks of it he has a high rank." Weiss announced coming in from another door holding a man in handcuffs. "So, you wanna do the honors?"
The man cursed him in some foreign language. "Doesn't matter what you do to me. Because you're all screwed," he laughed.
Sydney walked up to him and punched him in the nose. "What do you mean? Irina, where are your men?" Sydney demanded.
"They are searching for the Covenant Agents. If they find any they are to take them captive and hand them over to the CIA." Irina told her.
***Pilar's POV***
Pilar woke up on something fluffy. It appeared to be a lazy boy chair. What the fuck? She thought. She sat up and saw Agent Vaughn tied up in a chair. His bullet wound was oozing blood and he was badly beaten. He didn't seem to be moving.
"Vaughn? Vaughn?" She asked getting up. "Vaughn answer me!"
"Syd?" he asked waking up. "No it's me, it's Pilar, and I just wanted to tell you that I'm so happy you're alive."
"We gotta find Syd," he mumbled.
"You didn't let me finish." she whined. "I'm happy you're alive and that I get to finish you off myself." She stood up and pulled out a spare gun hidden strapped to her ankle. She aimed it at Vaughn and cocked her head to one side and told him,
"Mr. Sark sends his regards." She shot him in the leg and he doubled over in pain. "And this one is from me." She shot him dangerously close to his heart stepping towards him, "Why couldn't you just have held out a little longer. If would have waited for her to return then little miss pop princess would have stayed with you and everything would have gone according to the plan. And everybody would have been happy."
"I wouldn't have." Someone said. "Give it up Crystal, let him go."
"No." Pilar said defensively, "No, no, no!"
***Weiss's POV***
They had now grabbed most of the Agents in the building working for the Covenant; they just needed to get the ringleaders now. And that was the part that worried him.
***Mila's POV***
"What going on?" she asked running into the main part of the building. She was escorted by a few of Irina's men who were all packing something.
***Sydney's POV***
"Something's not right…" Sydney whispered to her mother. The first wave had used the information obtained by Sydney to break into the building, but something wasn't right. This seemed to be easier than it took to take down Sd-6; all it took was a few passwords, voice recognition, fingerprints, a virus and a few misc. things.
"I know what you mean. Keep your guard up." Irina voiced. She nodded off into the hallways from which Sydney had come from and they went through it again.
***Mila's POV***
"Umm guys… when you hear a ticking sound… is that good?" she asked her voice shaking.
"No!" Pilar screamed and ran away.
"Wow, drama queen, I was just asking a question. Ummm… Ok, so it's not good, then we gotta find what's making the sound." Mila suggested.
"Hello! What kind of agency are you people! You're agent is sitting there, most likely dying and you're all what's that noise? 'Oh look one of our agents might be dying… Hmm who wants sushi?'" Sark mocked stepping into the light.
"Ok, in case you haven't noticed we're a little busy." Mila shouted as she searched for the weapon.
***Sydney's POV***
"Mom, Sark said something to me, just before we went in." She told her walking in the darkness. (They had taken the other path Sydney had seen earlier.)
"Something serious?" She asked.
"It was about this mission. He said that the Covenant was stronger then we think, and that we may not make it out alive. He's wrong isn't he? Isn't he? Answer me please mom, tell me that he's wrong." Sydney pleaded. But her only answer was the deafening silence. "Why isn't there anybody here?"
Before another word could be uttered she fell down to the ground clutching her nose. She had just run into something, but what? Turning on her flashlight he beamed the light up to the object in question.
***Sark's POV***
"Mila watch out!" he yelled. He aimed his gun on a guy on the second floor and shot him numerous times before he could even begin to shoot at them. The man crumpled to the floor and then a door opened on that floor and men poured out from it. Another door opened on that floor, but on a different side with the same flood of men.
"Shit." he breathed under his breath. "It's a trap! Get out of here!"
He looked around and tried to find the quickest way out.
"But what about-" Mila started.
"If we prolong it long enough we can use it to our advantage. But we can't do that if we're dead!" Sark told her. He took out his tranquilizer gun and shot at the men. He was going to save the other guns for when they met up with the instigators.
"No wait don't go!" a voice commanded. "Stay here and party with me."
Everyone turned around to find Crystal on the third floor holding a gun to someone's head. Mila's heart rose into her throat as she quieted and recognized the person.
"Nooooooooooooooooo!" she yelled going for Sark's gun. Crystal had somehow gotten a hold on Stacia and now she was going to pay for something she had no control over. Weiss held her back while Pilar spoke.
"You know, your life can change in one single moment. One split second. One toss of the dice." she told them walking down the stairs. "You swear you know something or someone. And then life turns your world upside down. You can't trust anyone in this world, because everyone has a hidden agenda, a profit to make off you, a reason to screw you over. You see, this building is gonna blow up in less than 30 minutes. And if I die when it does than I'm taking you guys down with me. Kill two birds with one stone. I mean isn't that your theory Sark?" Pilar yelled.
"Crystal, you need help." Sark said. He eyed the door again. Hurry up Sydney. He couldn't do anything until he knew Sydney was safe. He turned around when he heard a shriek. The men had taken Mila and Weiss captive. He whipped his head around and saw them just standing there. He looked up at a scared Stacey and mouthed that he would be right back. Running out of the room, Sark searched for Sydney.
"Let him go, I love the chase." Crystal told the guards.
***Sydney's POV***
It was just a wall. "It's a dead end. Just like my life." she muttered turning around.
"What is wrong Sydney? The world is not perfect… if you truly love something then you will have to fight for it. The best things in life come at a price." Irina told her. "Sydney, Sark loves you and you love him. But, you also love your country; that's a decision you're going to have to make. You need to stop putting it off."
Sydney soaked in what her mother had told her as they made their way back.
"Sydney?" a voice Sydney recognized as Sark asked.
"Sark?" Sydney asked. "What are you?"
"We have a problem, Crystal has Stacey, your niece." He told her grabbing Sydney hand and leading her through a different exit.
"Sark, explain yourself." Irina ordered hurrying after them.
"Hold on." Sark breathed running up a set of stairs. "They are expecting us to stay on the first floor."
Sydney and Irina followed close behind. "What are they hiding up here?" Sydney asked him.
"Everything." he told them. Opening a door they found themselves in a room that looked like a security office. There were TVs everywhere that were displaying different scenes with a few scattered blue folding chairs and black one office chair.
"How do we disband this?" Sark asked.
"Like this" Sydney answered throwing a chair on the controls.
"Freeze" Someone, shouted pointing a gun to the back of her head.
Sydney acquiesced to their demand and froze.
"Mr. Sark, come with us, and I wont harm the girl." a minion demanded.
Sark smirked, but went because he had promised Irina he would take care of Stacey. And if anything happened to Stacey, then he would be a goner. Then man waited until Sark had left the room and then shot Sydney with a needle. Sydney went to do a low kick behind her when she fainted most likely because of the needle. The camera zooms over to Irina how it seems has been injected with something as soon she falls down too.
"It's time." he mutters and walks outside carrying both woman in his arms.
***Weiss's POV***
He was in the same room with an unconscious Mila, but now Sydney and Irina joined them. Sydney's clothes were torn with a few cuts here and there and Irina looked a little scuffed up, but they would live.
***Pilar's POV***
She stepped into the room and saw Sark sitting there looking bored.
"How dare you Sark? I loved you," she muttered before she shot aimed and shot at his heart.
***Mila's POV***
Waking up she tried her best to stretch. They were tied up.
"Hey, minion, come here. If you untie me, I'll strip for you. I know what you're thinking, 'why would I do that?' well if I'm gonna die then it wont matter to me, but for you however…" Mila trailed off.
The stupid horny bastard untied her quickly while she waited patiently.
Kicking him in his stomach and grabbing him by the hair Mila threw him into an empty desk. Untying Weiss, Sydney and Irina she told them she was going to find Stacey and then go after Crystal.
"Her ass is so grass," he muttered before running to make true to her words.
***Sydney's POV***
"Well, I guess it runs in the family." Sydney joked. "Weiss, go find and disassemble that weapon."
He ran to do just that and Sydney looked at her mother.
"This mission still feels ominous." Irina told her.
***Sark's POV***
He waited until Pilar left until he got up. Thank god for inventors. He had been wearing a bulletproof vest. That was when he noticed something on the ground. It was a walkie- talkie.
"Hello, Pilar, are you there? Should we activate the weapon? Is it supposed to be pointing towards D.C.? Well it's still here in the compound, tell us when you're ready to go," a voice asked.
Sark grabbed the radio and ran outside. He had to hurry. No wonder it was so easy, this was just a distraction. They had most likely made two weapons.
***Weiss's POV***
Weiss ran back into the room telling them that he had disabled the remote controller.
Sighing a sigh of relief he told them, "At least it can't get any worse."
Just then Sydney's walkie-talkie went off and they heard Sark tell them about the Covenant's plan and how they had to blow this place up before it was too late. "You do know that this is your fault?" Sydney asked Weiss. "Wait, then that means, it'll have to set off manually. Which means Sark was right…" Sydney trailed off. Someone wasn't coming home.
"Hey…" Stacey greeted them. "My mom is kinda busy right now, so she told me to come here."
"Get your ass back here! You wanna see a crazy ass bitch? Mess with Stacey again!" Mila yelled firing bullets at Crystal who was running away from her currently out of weapons.
"Hello! Does any body remember Vaughn?" Sydney yelled.
"Here I got him." Weiss told her and grabbed Vaughn's arm.
"I'll help you." Irina told him. Everyone so far, had been true to his or her word. Except for Crystal. With Irina's help Weiss carried Vaughn out of the building.
***Sark's POV***
He ran to Sydney and whispered that he would take care of everything. She just nodded, but she soon realized what he meant. Someone had to manually detonate the building, before they set the attack into action.
"This is yours…" he told her slipping a ring on her left ringer finger.
"Dangerously in love…"
His usual wrinkle and mar free suit was torn and creased just about everywhere thanks to Pilar. He didn't seem to care about his suit however. He sized up Sydney's injuries briefly before she spoke.
"Sark, you have to-" she started. He silenced her with a kiss before looking deeply into her eyes. He grasped both of her hands, looking at the left one.
"Keep the ring, Sydney. No wait, don't say anything yet." he instructed her.
Uh oh, Sydney thought. This is not going to end well.
"I love you Sydney" he said kissing her again and starting to back away from her.
"I love you too, Julian." she told him looking into his eyes . He smiled at that, still backing way from her. Sydney was afraid to ask why.
"Remember, keep the ring." he told her and blew her a kiss before turning around and running away. She could have sworn he whispered 'Not everyone lives happily ever after', but she wasn't sure.
"Sark!" Sydney yelled attempting to run after him. But before she could take a step towards the direction he had run off too, she was knocked unconscious…
A/N: Eeek, that was such a crappy chapter. Please don't flame me too bad. The next chapter is the epilogue. All shall be explained. Please review… or I'll end the story right here, and I'm serious. Plus, I'll give you a cookie if you review, *holds out plate of cookies*…
