Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of its characters. Summary: When Biovolt goes after one of its past 'students' the BBA steps in and places the girl under the watch of the Blade Breakers. What are Biovolt's plans for this girl and what happens when they get a hold of her because she risked herself by saving one of the Blade Breakers that has grown fond of her.

-All right this is something new for me. I'm going to put lyrics to a song to this chapter, or rather lyrics to two different songs. Both songs are by Anouk and from the album Together Alone. The first song will be My Life, and the last one will be Sacrifice. If it doesn't go very well please tell me so I don't try doing it again. Oh.And please review!-

Takes place after the World Beyblading Tournament

".." Talking '..' Thinking

Clandestine Wolf
Chapter Eighteen - Freedom Comes With A Price

I'm gonna get out of my shell
Try without anybody's help
To loose this heavy load
And get my life back on the road

Slate gray eyes shifted slowly, looking quietly about the room in which the owner or the unsure globes had lived in for so long. Under his arm her carried his laptop while in his other hand was his beyblade and his launcher. It was about eleven in the morning, the atmosphere tense and damp as it rained outside. Brian had made up his mind that he would trust the stark white hair teen that had visited his room last night, and somewhere in the back of his mind he admired her courage and strength that she had still possessed while still having emotions and feelings. Whether or not he could do the same Brian could only wish and try to become someone in which everyone would enjoy to be around, like Tala and even Kai. True he had taken joy in injuring the raven-haired teen from the Blade Breakers, but now he thought back on it and found it half disgusting that he had reduced himself to fold under Biovolt's will and harm someone in a beyblade match. To Biovolt it had nothing to do with honor, but rather power and skills, how deadly you were, and if you won or not.

I've seen the worst when I was down
Only loneliness I found
Now I'm climbing to the top
And I ain't never gonna stop

After Alexis had left Brian's room the lavender hair boy had sat down to think things over. True he wanted his freedom badly enough that he'd put anyone in risk to get it, but after giving it another thought he wondered if he'd be willing to risk someone who was wanting to help him instead of encage him. That night he had been taught to be gentle, and for the first time he hadn't hurt someone with an object that could readily and easily kill someone or injure them badly. At first the thought made Brian cringe, but after taking time to sort things out and put them back together he almost smiled, knowing he didn't have to be just some person who was always hurting everyone and was deemed unnecessary to the world. No, if he could teach himself further to be gentle and not always hurt everyone he would be necessary to the world, and possibly have friends to go along with it. He wasn't a monster now, but an actual human being that could have feelings, even if they were very small and barely there, as he now would be free and have his own choice on things.

I'll carry on, though the road is long
I'm gonna get myself together
And I'll hold on, 'cause I'm strong
Gonna try to make it better, baby

The secret passage way was a tight squeeze, but Brian made his way through the endless maze in content silence. For a brief moment he had thought about turning the way Alexis had turned and going further into the abyss of the Abbey, but he changed his mind as he thought of his freedom so clearly ahead. Whatever the dark-skinned teen was going to do wasn't any of his concern, giving her enough trust to just follow her advice and get out of the Abbey before noon. He had everything he wanted from his small room, never having liked the non-homey feeling to the stone-floored area. The door had never been locked at night, but there were always plenty of guards positioned by his door just incase Brian got any bright ideas to follow Spencer and Ian and run off. It was too bad Biovolt didn't know about the passageway that connected all of the Demolition Boy's rooms together, because now he could run off without anyone knowing.

The rest of my life I'll take these chances
Time goes by so very fast
I'll share my fortune and my failure
'til there's nothing left

The smell of fresh air hit Brian like a wave of hope, smelling of pine trees and other plants while carrying a cold hitch to it from the snow that had fallen the night before. Now it rain though, the snow compacting and turning to ice as the wetness hit it while the rain gave the area a sense that the world its self was mourning. Like Alexis had told him Brian stepped out in a small batch of trees not too far from the Abbey, but no guards were in sight. Glancing at his watch he realized he only had about fifteen minutes left to get a safe enough distance from the Abbey. With that he started sprinting, keeping in mind that he had to make sure no guards saw him as he ran across the tree scattered landscape behind the Abbey. It wasn't safe to go into the city, but it soon would be as soon as whatever Alexis had planned took place. Like he had been told, though he still did it on his own free will, he would seek out Spencer and Ian at the Blade breaker's mansion in South America and possibly stay with the two other Demolition Boy members.

And if somewhere down the line
I'll find I'm running out of time
I hope to go that I can say
I made the best of everyday

Boris had decided since this was the day that Alexis would have the chip implanted on the base of her brain he gave her the morning off to do whatever she wanted. The night before when she had returned to her room the guard was still unconscious and she had tossed him out of her room and into another where she gagged and hog-tied him so he wouldn't get loose. The guard's keys were kept, playing a big part in her little plan that she had safely tucked away in the crevice of her mind. All morning, after getting only a few selected hours of fitful sleep, Snowflake had exercised and pushed her body to its physical limits to make sure she was ready for the task at hand. With the stitches taken out of her shoulder she was given a better rag of movement, practicing her limberness just as she had done while at the mansion in South America. Time would only tell if her plan would work, but no matter what she had to make it work some way or another as everyone's safety and life depended on it.

'Til then I'll carry on, 'though the road in long
I'm gonna get myself together
And I'll hold on, 'cause I am strong
I'm gonna try to make it better, baby

During her trip the night before Alexis had made a short stop at the storage room for useless and old objects and materials. Upon making that stop she gathered up her uniform from the team she had so fondly named the Ancient Shadows. At noon she'd prove herself loyal to the rest of her pack and show them that she too was willing to make a sacrifice to protect the ones she cared about. Now she was lacing up her black boots tightly yet not too tight that it cut off circulation. The leather of the boots shined with the fact she had cleaned them of the mud from the Ancient Shadows previous journey. Upon thinking about them a sharp ache in her heart appeared, feeling the loss of her closest friend Tala and understanding the grief that their friend razor was going though, but most of all she felt for Kai about the pain he was going through now while she was here preparing herself to protect them. The last piece of clothing was put on; the cloak in which she had made while under the influence of Biovolt's drugs, but that wasn't the most important part of the look. No, the most important part were the red triangles which were under her eyes, now not in pain but in her own blood.

The rest of my life I'll take these chances
Time goes by so very fast
I'll share my fortune and failure
'til there's nothing left

It was now or never, just a mere ten minutes before Boris and his men would come to retrieve Alexis from her room to have the chip implanted into the base of her brain. If Voltaire thought they could simply control her behavior by a simple chip they'd have to certainly think again, because she wasn't just going to lie down and let them put the piece of electronics into her. Pulling out the keys she had taken from the guard the night before Alexis unlocked her door, listening first to make sure no one was in the hallways to see her escape her enclosure. The keys were brought with her as she once more located all of the cameras and traveled through their blinds spots, being very careful about where she stepped and which hallways she went down. The eyes of guards while turning down a hallway had almost caught Alexis more than once while they were walking around on patrol. Further and further into the Abbey she went, creeping in the shadows as her way was made towards the room where the power generators were.

Who's the one that makes you happy
Who's the one that always makes you laugh
Who's the reason you're smiling
And dragged you through these times, so rough

It was then when Snowflake was just mere hallways away from the power generator room that the alarm went off, signaling that her ten minutes had passed more quickly than she had thought and that Boris and his henchmen were going to be searching like mad to find her. There was no doubt that Voltaire himself would be furious about her disappearance and escape. Obviously they hadn't realized Brian was gone as well, their only person who could actually catch her and give her a good challenge, possibly beat her as well since she didn't have her companion bit beast with her. Now she was bitterly alone, no one with her to guide her and give her hope as she kept making her way to the power room. No longer was Cynewolf with her to soothe her pains and aid her with his strength and loyalty, leaving her with a sicken alone and helpless feeling in the pit of her stomach and depth of her heart. Knowing she had gone too far to turn back through Alexis pushed on, dodging cameras and standing in the shadows as guards rushed passed. So close she was to her objective, yet so far away as well.

I was the one that made you happy
I was the one that eased the pain
But I'm the reason that you're crying now
My own tears scattered by the rain

Steel blue eyes narrowed slowly as Snowflake's breathing hitched, a mass of guards coming from the way she needed to go, and they were headed right towards her. 'Figure it be my luck to run into difficulties now. I don't even have any weapons, much less am I all that prepared to begin with. No equipment to cut off the power with to get me the time I need.. I think it's time I just change my plans now. Let them see me, but they can't do anything about it now. I won't let them stop me from destroying Biovolt permanently.' Suddenly Alexis ran, ran for all her worth straight down the center of the hallway where all the guards and cameras could see her. They had guns, but their shots were too lazy and quickly made to do much of any damage much than to graze her quickly moving form. The door she wanted had been closer than the door she had planned on before hand, but upon reaching it the chilling room's door was shoved open and quickly locked behind her. This was where she wanted things to end; the room where her parents were stuck in cryogenic sleep while the room was like an icebox with a door thick enough to keep out a force of guards with guns. 'Now I'll truly be at home and with my family..'

You can sacrifice me
You can sacrifice me
You can set me free
You can be who you wanna be

Bare and dark-skinned fingers brushed the frost off the glass of the chamber that held her mother's body, steel blue eyes full of sorrow and distant as Alexis memorized the contours of her mother's face through the thick glass. Soon the process was repeated with Alexis' father, the glass keeping her from actually touching her parent's skin and hugging their sleeping forms tight. They hadn't grown a single day older why she herself had grown up without them even having a single recollection of it. They looked so happy and peaceful sleeping like that, and secretly Snowflake hopped her parents remembered her as who she was when she was just a young child of a year old. 'May they never see what Biovolt has turned me into.' Banging on the door of the freezing room brought Alexis back to reality, her limbs becoming stiff with the coldness of the room but she pushed herself harder and further towards the task at hand. With expert knowledge and quick fingers Snowflake found what she was looking for; the chemicals which kept the room cold and the wires that she needed to complete her plan.

Deeper than deep you took me on a trip baby
You shared your wildest dreams and more
You dare me to express me feelings to you
I never felt that need before

The banging on the door only grew louder and more persistent, small dents appearing in the thick steel as ice started to fall from the door. Alexis only moved more quickly, pulling the plastic covers off the wires with her sharp wolfish fangs. Nimble fingers were soon becoming numb with the cold of the room, her breath forming small clouds in the air before they faded away and were replaced with another cloud. 'Blue with red.. White with black.' there was a spark as the wires met each other and were tied together with electrical tape. The small spark singed her fingertips ever so slightly, but she kept on working, placing wires together as she rearranged the order they were in to begin with. Once all the wires were connected steel blue orbs glanced at the door. 'Looks like they've gotten smart and are using blowtorch now. A little too late it seems.'

But suddenly you needed freedom
You felt the need to break free
You started drowning in your sorrow
You didn't wanna know I had the key

Carefully Alexis starting mixing the chemicals together, placing each new mixture in place of the ones they had previously been. Soon everything was where she wanted it, checking everything over more than three times just to make sure every wire was connected correctly and that every chemical was mixed right. Nothing could go wrong, because if it did things could go kaput or raise more hell than they were worth. The cloak's hood was pushed down, releasing her shoulder length white hair and showing her blue tinted lips. Once more Alexis took her time to look her parent's faces over, memorizing everything about them and trying to remember everything about them that she could from her past. Everything was just a cloud in her mind, the memories just small fragments in which Biovolt had so dreadfully tried to remove, but she never forgot where her true loyalties were towards; her own blood.

You can sacrifice me
You can sacrifice me
You can set me free
You can be who you wanna be

It was now or never as Alexis pushed several buttons on the control panel she had rewired and chemically redone. Soon there was a small clock of only thirty seconds, red numbers flashing vividly before the enter button was pressed. The whole thing she had rewired was a deadly mixture, the change made so that the whole Abbey would crumble upon its self in what would almost seem like a self-destruction sequence, giving the news reporters the guess that something had gone wrong in Biovolt's systems and everything crashed from there. Quickly Snowflake kisses the frost-covered glass of each of her parent's holding cases before running and climbing into the ventilation shaft. That room was the only room with ventilation, and the shaft its self was sturdy and led to the secret passage way. The cold made her body numb and almost unresponsive, but the clock was quickly counting down in its silent vow of death. Whether or not she would survive would be another story and another risk, but Biovolt would fall. With the clock on its final numbers Alexis tumbled through the ventilation shaft, moving as quickly as her frozen body would allow her. It was then as Boris and his men made it through the door when the timer hit zero, a blinding white light flashing as the deadly chemicals mixed together with each other and the rewiring done started the explosion. From there the whole place went up in sequence explosions, everyone within the reaches of the Abbey either being killed or hanging on by the last thread of their life.

You can sacrifice me, sacrifice me
You can be who you wanna
You can be who you wanna be
(End)

(A/N: No.. This is not the last chapter and I still have things planned
ahead. Just be patient.)