A re-write of the Mind War episode, mostly directly from the show but with a slight twist. I mean, didn't you ever wonder how Bester and Kelly knew when IronHeart was leaving with Sinclair to make that dramatic entrance? And as I said in the summery, why didn't IronHeart sense Talia's sleeper?

"We were lovers. He was everything to me--the perfect model of what it meant to be in the Corps. Do you know what its like when Telepaths make love, Commander? You drop every defense, and it's all mirrors.... It's a feeling so profound it makes you hurt. It's the only moment in a telepath's life when you no longer hear the voices. He came to say goodbye, Commander. He came to say goodbye." Her voice broke, tears silently streaming down her cheeks.

"Alright," Commander Sinclair submitted, making a decision that went contrary to his common sense. He wondered if it was just his irrational dislike of that slimy worm Bester that was making him flaunt regulations. Yet something deeper pulled him, and he had to know for sure if IronHeart was guilty or innocent. "I'll meet with him."

They were silent the rest of the way to IronHeart's quarters. Talia lost in her memories and fears for IronHeart. The Commander, trailed silently after her, caught up in his own thoughts as well. Yet it was his powerful presents, striding half a step behind her, that made the station inhabitants turn to look as they passed but cleared the crowds out of their way; until the reached the abandoned corridors near where IronHeart's dwelled. Without pause or fear, Talia walked up to Jason's shifting mind barrier and called out to him with voice and mind. "Jason, can you here me? Please, Jason, let us in." The barrier dropped at her touch and as she and the Commander walked through it sprang back up behind them. Jeff turned to look at the barrier for a moment. Garibaldi would never forgive him for taking these kinds of risks, but now that he was in action a feeling of Purpose drew him forward.

Jason sat on the floor of his quarters, his head in his heads. Talia gave a wordless cry when she saw him and rushed to his side. "No," Jason rasped holding up a hand to stop her, fearful that the power contained within him would destroy her if she touched him. "Hello Commander."

"IronHeart." Sinclair inclined his head.

"I mean no harm Commander," IronHeart said in response to Sinclair's thoughts. He rushed to explain, as a dying man would, feeling his time grow short. "The Psi-Corps are dedicated to one thing, Commander: control.... Only one in a thousand humans is born telepathic, and only one in hundreds of telepaths is has telekinetic abilities, and only a fraction of those are stable. They wanted... to create a stable telekinetic. Can you imagine the good that could be done with it? A Telekinetic shield protecting workers in zero gravity.... But they didn't want that," the pain in IronHeart's voice echoed through Sinclair and Talia's minds. "They wanted things smaller and smaller. A telepath that could pinch close an artery with a thought... the life fades and then... the telepath withdraws.... An assassin without mark or trace.... But there is something even more powerful--something they didn't even know existed until I crossed the line. Not mind over matter, mind over energy.... I look at you, commander, and I see not a man, but a galaxy of subatomic particles which I can ... rearrange with a casual thought. I've gone farther than anyone was ever meant to go; we're not ready for this kind of power. I need to leave here... go someplace safe... where I can finish Becoming."

Talia stood mutely to the side, a second mind watching out of her eyes as IronHeart agued with the Commander. At last Sinclair agreed.

"Susan," Sinclair said into is link.

"Go ahead Commander."

"Have the corridors between Blue Sector and IronHeart's ship cleared."

"Yes Sir."

As Talia and Sinclair helped IronHeart out of his sealed lair, the Sleeper reached out to the Psi Cops. He's coming out, going to his ship.

We'll intercept him at the Zocalo. Kelsey sent back.

He's ours now, Bester thought to his partner.

Don't get cocky She replied.

Together Bester and Kelsey walked down the stair, launching a joint attack on IronHeart's mind. They never had a chance, but they almost took the entire station with them.

Outside the station, in his stolen shuttle, IronHeart gave himself over to the shudders of the transformation. Wave over wave of power broke over him, converting his molecules back into energy and consuming the shuttle in a flash of light. And then it was over. I have Become, He thought in wonder. He could feel the quarter of a million minds on the station and touch each one. The thirteen caretakers of the Great Machine on the planet below him. And more. Farther and Farther, millions upon millions of minds. And he saw the path the First Ones had walked before him, beyond the rim. Good bye Commander, we will meet again in a million years. IronHeart then turned to Talia feeling her love reaching out to him and seeing the serpent that lay coiled in her mind, beyond her awareness. Talia, he sent. I give you a gift in the memory of love. The only gift I have to give.