Cristalina: I intend on fixing the length of this chapter and the ones to follow, I liked the robot too; I needed something to break it up a bit. Well I've updated now at least when you read this anyway.

Spiderbear: Yes, scary looking eyes, I thought of a tail and it would have been funny but not exactly fitting the theme unless it was poisonous hehe.

"Hey take care Velvet" Joanna watched as Velvet stuck her keys in the door to leave for work

"You too, you may have recovered but you should still relax" Velvet said

"I'm so bored though, I've gotten over relaxation, there is only so much TV I can watch before my blood boils and I've got to do something" Joanna replied frustrated

"Have fun" Velvet walked out ignoring Joanna

"Grr" Joanna growled miserably as she stood up and tried to find something that would amuse her. Velvet's house seemed so much simpler compared to her own.

Velvet was driving as usual, she wished she could have said yes to Joanna, but she thought she might get into trouble with Carrington or Sarah. However she noticed a car had been following her for sometime now, it was taking every exact direction that she did. She was definitely being followed, as Velvet picked up speed so did the driver behind her, but before she knew it she suddenly felt sleepy, as she turning around she noticed that there was a tiny needle like object in the back window that had quietly broken a small hole in the glass and put gas in the car, Velvet tried to reach out and remove it but as she tried she passed out.

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Jonathan was pacing around the Institute cafeteria, again. This was his third straight day of boredom, although it could have been worse, he could be in the firing range testing Foster's most boring weapons, the device lab wasn't much better as Wendy seemed busy on another project at the moment, or even worse still he could have been assigned to chase after Sean and was forced to accept. However he wished Carrington would hurry up and find out the connection in that stupid shoe; it never took this long before.

"Jonathan Dark to the front desk please" Suzan's voice called out over the loudspeakers in the Institute, interrupting his thoughts.

Jonathan went to the front desk and spoke to Suzan.

"You asked for me?" Jonathan asked

"Yeah, Perfect cow on the phone for you" Suzan replied

"Who?" Jonathan smiled sarcastically he knew she meant Joanna but wanted to mess around with her

"Joanna then" Suzan gave some rare politeness as she handed him the phone "I guess you want a have a nice day" Suzan said

"Would you like fries with that should come first" Jonathan replied as he uploaded the call from the front phone into his mobile, but why would Jo call him in the first place.

"Hello?" Jonathan answered into the phone

"Hi Jonathan, listen I want to return to the Institute, sure time off was great, but I am totally bored out of my mind, could you come and get me, I've got the OK from Sarah" Joanna said

"Whoa, why didn't you say anything to your sister this morning?" Jonathan asked

"Because she was so insistent I stayed here, and she isn't there yet according to Suzan, although she should have got there a while ago now" Joanna said

"Well if you say so, I'll just get the okay from Carrington but, are really you sure Jo?" Jonathan asked

"Definitely, don't make me regret asking this of you" Joanna said

"Alright, I'll be there in 20 minutes I guess" Jonathan replied

"Wait, I'm not at my place, I'm at Velvet's" Joanna said quickly

"No prob, see you soon" Jonathan hung up his phone.

He went up to Carrington's office wanting to get permission to leave for about 50 minutes.

"Ah Jonathan, you are just in time" Carrington said with a smile Jonathan hadn't seen for days.

"Umm sir, I was going to…" Jonathan thought, if he told the truth Carrington may not tell him what is going on, but there was no other way around it "going to pick up Joanna, she's ready again" Jonathan told him

"Oh? Well, alright, but be quick… are you sure she's ready?" Carrington asked

"She said so" Jonathan replied

"Well okay, where's Velvet anyway?" Carrington asked

"I don't know, nobody seems to be able to find her" Jonathan replied

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"HEY! Who are you! Let me go!" Velvet screamed as she regained consciousness, she couldn't see anything as she had a blindfold on her. She was also tied up she couldn't move her legs or her arms.

"Remove the blindfold" A male voice ordered, Velvet was able to see again but it didn't do much good the room was very dark, she saw the man in front of her, but couldn't see him very well because of the lack of light.

"Who the hell are you and what are you doing to me!?" Velvet demanded

"Hehe, generally in an integration I ask the questions, but first remove the ropes" the voice ordered

"But sir are you sure!?" One of the guards asked

"Just do it!" the voice demanded again

Velvet allowed them to untie the ropes, and that is when she struck the person on her right, but the source of the voice held her arms down.

"Easy, easy" The voice said overpowering her attempts at fighting the guards off

"Tie her up again?" one of the guards asked

"No" The voice replied "Leave us" The voice said

"Are you sure?" The same guard asked

"OF COURSE I AM SURE! Stop questioning me or I'll report you to Trent" The voice suddenly lost its patience

"Yes sir" They walked out and closed the door

Velvet struggled once more, but to her surprise the man let up.

"Velvet stop, it's Sean" Sean told her

"It can't be" Velvet said

"Look closely" Sean told her as he moved closer and took of his glasses, fortunately the yellow eyes had faded, Velvet gave a smile.

"What are you doing here? Why are you working for Trent" Velvet asked

"Well to get Junior back of course, I know where he is but I can't get to him, it's restricted even to me" Sean told her

"What do you mean even to you, you like high rank somehow or something?" Velvet asked

"Pretty much, I'm Trent's personal bodyguard, but only Trent can go in that room along with some scientist. I can only imagine what they plan to do to Junior with some of the Skedar technology they have" Sean sighed

"How awful. What's that humming?" Velvet asked

"Currently flying to Hong Kong, Trent wants to hide there. I better go, or they'll get suspicious I'm talking to you for a bit too long, they aren't expecting you'll crack until the third interrogation, lucky for me and you, I get to do all of them. I'm glad that there aren't any recording devices in here" Sean said

"How do you know?" Velvet asked

"A device from the NSA, but I'll tell you what's going on later. I've got to get back now. Take this so Carrington knows where you are and don't do anything rash alright?" Sean said giving Velvet her tracking device back that she could swallow so Carrington would know her exact location.

"You know I won't" Velvet replied swallowing it immediately

"Yeah okay, sorry I shouldn't have said that" Sean gave a weak smile as he left the room and closed the door. Velvet heard further conversation.

"Should we go in and guard her?" One of them asked

"No, leave her. She's still feeling weak, besides there isn't a way out on a plane" Sean replied "Guard the door though" Sean told him. Velvet guessed that Sean was trying to keep his cover but keeping her as comfortable as he could, she wasn't sure how good he was at undercover though but either way she'd soon find out. Although how did Sean get connected with the NSA and Trent all in the period of less than 24 hours, assuming he did sleep, Velvet thought.

"Say Mark, Find out anything?" Velvet heard a voice it was definitely Trent.

"No" Sean replied

"No matter, I didn't order her capture to be interrogated, but now with the 3 strongest Institute agents down there is only one more left and it's only a matter of time before Carrington assigns him to something else" Trent gave an evil laughter, Sean gave a slight chuckle and Velvet also smiled to herself, he had no idea that Joanna was almost ready to return, and Sean was right under his nose.

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Jonathan had arrived at Velvet's place, he knocked on the door and Joanna was all ready and almost opened the door before he knocked.

"Let's go, let's go!" Joanna said impatiently

"Alright, alright, if you really want to" Jonathan replied as if he had just told a child they could have something they wanted.

Joanna just gave him a look but Jonathan ignored it as Joanna got into the other side of the car. When they were both in they took off.

At the Institute 20 minutes later.

"Ah welcome back Joanna, are you ready?" Carrington asked

"Definitely" Joanna replied, she knew she had to be careful of how much Daniel made her do.

"Your sister has been captured" Carrington told her

"Where is she?!" Joanna covering her mouth in shock

"Currently on board a plane registered to a Peter Macolyan, which as Grimshaw has found out is an alias for Trent Easton. Somehow she's got her tracking device past security and used it. The flight seems to be scheduled to land in Hong Kong. It matches because we've finally got a result on the poison tip, we couldn't find anything because we were simply looking in the wrong places. It comes from a very small factory there which was again owned by Peter Macolyan. So you know what I want you to do, go to Hong Kong find out info and get Velvet back" Carrington told them

"Understood" Joanna replied.

"Sounds simple enough" Jonathan said half sarcastically.

Within an hour they were on a plane to Hong Kong.

"Jo… are you alright?" Jonathan asked, Jo was very quiet

"Yeah, I'll be fine but this time I'm going to kill the bastard, can you come up with a horrible death" Joanna asked

"Well, I guess but…" Jonathan started

"I'm really annoyed I couldn't take care of Trent the first time, couldn't beat me fair so uses a stupid cheap trick" Joanna said angrily

"Well I put a grenade into the mouth of my worst enemy and let it blow him to pieces, ask Sean, he saw it" Jonathan whispered

"What you!? I never imagined that you would do anything like that, what did he do?" Joanna asked

"He betrayed me, and the Institute and… killed… somebody" Jonathan replied

"So? What else is new" Joanna replied missing the point of Jonathan's slower talk

Jonathan didn't know how to reply, he was a little hurt by Jo not picking up the change in tone but he learned to deal her and should have known better to mention it around her. As much as she was strong as an agent she could on occasion be really be as thick when it came to the obvious.

"I… I'm sorry" Joanna picked up on Jonathan's silence

It was the first time Joanna had ever apologised to his face about anything.

"It's alright Jo, it doesn't matter now" Jonathan said

"No tell me" Joanna replied insisting

"Well okay, promise to keep this to yourself okay?" Jonathan said

"Sure" Joanna replied

"You heard of Natasha Filnaro?" Jonathan asked

"A little, wasn't she in the device lab until about 8 years ago when she quit" Joanna said

"That's what Carrington told you. She actually died on assignment… with me… she was my fiancée, I proposed to her the previous night" Jonathan told her

Joanna was totally caught by surprise, she had never suspected this in him, he always seemed like a guy who always kept to himself. Then again, now she knew why.

"Don't tell anybody, not even Carrington I told you this. Terrence, my enemy killed her. He used to work for the Institute until Cassandra gave him a huge pay rise to betray me and of course he did turning on me during a mission which I was lucky to survive. About a year later I thought I had killed him but the Skedar revived him, but his second death was fatal after falling 75 floors down and then just to make sure I stuck a grenade in his mouth" Jonathan said breathing when he was done

"Alright, again I'm sorry" Joanna said

"Thanks Jo" Jonathan replied. After that nothing was said.

Hong Kong

It was night around 8pm on a dark cloudy night. Jonathan and Joanna knew what they were after but finding it in the busy crowded streets was not easy. Market stalls set up all over, as the pair moved against the crowd in an attempt to get somewhere, but it was just impossible, they had no idea where they were going as the characters guiding them were very hard to read when you weren't familiar with them, especially when they both knew they were searching for a needle in a haystack. Both of them were getting tired and frustrated with it and then it started raining making it only harder.

"Jonathan this is impossible, let's find somewhere to rest up" Joanna said

"Not yet. Look you go if you want but…" Jonathan was interrupted by a loud shout.

The crowd parted to look where it came from and Joanna and Jonathan easily made it through with speed, although they probably knew it was unlikely to lead them anywhere it was the only thing they had. They then saw what was going on; two boys in their late teens were surrounded by at least 7 guards in dataDyne uniforms.

"You better give it back or ELSE!" one of the guards ordered

"You can take it from MY dead body!" One of the boys replied

"As you wish" The guards began to move in to beat the stuffing out of them but then one went one way and knocked one of the guards down and the other knocked the other forcing the way open. Two guards moved in each of them and just as they were each going to fight back Jonathan and Joanna each gave a swift punch to one of them each taking the guards weapon and raised it at the other guards who threw a smoke bomb, Jonathan tried to catch it but missed just leaving him coughing in the thick smoke while the guards made their get away.

"Hey thanks for that" One of the boys said

"Yeah thanks, me and my brother thought we would have a tough time getting out of that one" The other replied.

"You guys twins then?" Joanna said getting a look at the two of them, they were obviously of Asian appearance.

"Yup, anyway I'm Kelvin and that's Melvin, or Kel and Mel as we can be called" Kelvin said who was dress in a white t-shirt with jeans and white sneakers. Jonathan was still coughing from the smoke bomb.

"Strange name for your… background shall we say?" Joanna asked

"Well it's our English name, our actual names are hard to pronounce" Melvin said "Crap my hair man…" Melvin had a hair style that could only be defined as weird, it was sticking up like he had put his finger into a power socket, but because of the fight and the rain water it began to fall into his face. Kelvin was laughing at Melvin's predicament as he tried to get his hair to stand up again but it was no good. He also had a blue t-shirt with black tracksuit pants and black sneakers. Both Mel and Kel's T-shirt's read, don't listen to him, I'm the smart twin.

"Oh shut it Kel" Mel gave a punch to his brother on the shoulder

"What did those guards want with you?" Jonathan asked as he recovered from the smoke

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot, our prize!" Kel gave a smile as he pulled out some kind of computerized device.

"What is it?" Joanna asked

"How the hell should I know, we just swiped it from them. Just to get some revenge, for what they did" Mel replied as he gave up on his hair and just pushed it backwards away from his eyes.

"But who are you?" Kelvin asked

"I'm Joanna and this is Jonathan" Joanna told them

"What did they do, to cause you to seek revenge?" Jonathan asked

"Hey, let's get out here first, they may send back up" Mel told them

"Shit yeah, some did get away" Kelvin replied as Jonathan and Joanna followed Kel and Mel.

A/N: While not complete copies these characters are slightly based off Yun and Yang from the Street Fighter 3 series, all they have in common are, they live in Hong Kong and kick butt.

As Mel and Kel lead the way back to wherever they planed to go it became clear they knew the area extremely well, and within 10 minutes they were at their destination.

"Here we are at home again" Mel said as he put his key into the door

"Still use primitive locks" Joanna joked

"You think I'd trust those computerized locks that can be hacked so easily these days?" Kel replied "Well at least the ones you can get here" Mel added

"Fair enough, my sister uses them too" Joanna smiled but then thought about Velvet and wondered if she was alright.

"Hey Jo, check this out" Jonathan called to her

Joanna walked over to Jonathan looking from the outside.

"These characters match, this is the place we are looking for" Jonathan told her quietly

"That can't be right, these guys hate dataDyne" Joanna said

"Let's just walk and talk though, find out what we can" Jonathan replied as Mel opened the door

They walked in and saw a lot of computerized stuff, some weapons and other things on a desk just ahead of the front door. There was an upstairs floor and the downstairs area was a lot larger then it first looked.

"It's not much but it's home" Mel walked into the lounge room and sat down on the rather large couch.

"Not much? You guys are doing well considering" Joanna replied

"I guess but it's not as good as it used to be" Kel said going into the kitchen

"Now what's this revenge thing with dataDyne" Jonathan asked getting straight into it

"Oh, well you can see all the stuff we have. Obviously it's not for us, we used to unofficially worked for dataDyne. All we did was make some poison tipped thing, an old trick and secret only us and our grandfather knew, how to get it into a certain spot and kill instantly without anybody knowing what had really happened, silent death it used to be called. I hated doing it but we had to just to survive and thankfully we never found out quite what they were using them for, although they were being moved around the world and stuff. But yesterday night we were told our services were no longer required" Mel told them

"We were kicked out, just after making a delivery of the stuff, we tried to ask why and how and stuff but got no answers, we didn't even get paid for the job so we decided on a plan to get revenge. Since only a few knew of our dismissal we were able to sneak in and steal a thing or two" Kel said from the kitchen, judging by the computerized sound and the steam he was doing some kind of kettle boiling.

"Yeah a few two hundred things" Mel gave a smile "This however was very well guarded and not easy to get, I have no idea what it is used for but it seemed to be very important" Mel showed the device to Jonathan it seemed like a very strange communication device. Joanna grabbed it and looked into the screen and press one of the buttons randomly. It started making a strange screeching sound.

"Hey don't do that" Mel took the device back off Jo as he turned off the sound

"Yeah, no offense, but we want to sell it" Kel came into the room

"Sorry, I was trying to work out what it did" Joanna said

"It's alright, but we'd really like it in untouched condition if possible" Mel told her

"Guys, don't you think you should find out what this does" Jonathan asked

"Perhaps, it's pretty weird looking, what do you think Kel?" Mel asked as he noticed Kel bring in tea

"Well I guess, but where do we start" Kel replied as he handed the cups to Jonathan and Joanna

"No idea…" Mel replied as he accepted his cup from Kel

"We didn't ask, but thanks anyway" Jonathan said

"Drink if you want, don't if you don't" Mel said, flicking his hair away from his eyes again.

"That hair man, it's got a mind of it's own, let me cut it" Kel went for some scissors near by on the table

"Noooo! Don't, I like my hair so leave it alone" Mel said raising his voice a little bit

"You're no fun" Kel sat back and folded his arms

Jonathan continued to look at the strange device, if what Kel and Mel were saying was true dataDyne here had to be guarding this for a reason. It looked like one of those communicators that he once found while at area 51 undercover, but he never found out then what it was for either.