Thank for all of the reviews, especially those who love it. Some of you might hate me at the end of this chapter but believe me it wasn't something I wanted to do but, well reread the title.

Chapter Nine: Battleship

"Welcome Miss Bristow"

Sydney automatically didn't like the man. He was tall and thin with a pockmarked face. He was sneering at her and was surrounded by ten bodyguards. The way Vaughn's arm tightened around her waist made her obvious of his hatred towards the General.

"I believe there are some things Mr. Vaughn here hasn't told you, simply because he does not know them himself"

Vaughn looked up surprised and Sydney felt her heart pound. What were they keeping from them?

"It has to do with a Rambaldi prophecy Miss Bristow."

Sydney scowled when he mentioned him and found her voice.

"General please, Rambaldi was a crazy prophet. I can't believe that you let him dictate your affairs."

The speech sounded incredibly similar to the one she had given Sloane only a year before. If the world needed one less thing it was definitely Rambaldi fanatics.

"Miss Bristow are you aware that Rambaldi had prophesied you as the chosen one?"

Sydney nodded, bored by the old news

"Well he prophesized more, things that your mother never knew, things that Arvin never knew, things that only I know. He prophesized the movement of two great families. From one family, every generation was three males, from the other family, every generation was three females. Now what he said was that there was one child of the three destined to be the bearer of the next children. Your mother Irina was the bearer of your generation as was the Count duRene."

"But my mother only had two daughters, unless you're going to pull out some random girl and tell me she's my sister. Frankly, I wouldn't be that surprised."

"Such sarcasm, but that wasn't it for the prophecy. Rambaldi also said that when all goes wrong and the bearer has only two females, the eldest is the Chosen One and mother of the new Rambaldi."

Sydney looked at the General is disbelief.

"So it said nothing about the father? No specification on who he should be? If I had gotten pregnant with your baby would he still be Rambaldi incarnate?"

"My dear we assumed that the bloodlines were meant to join and so we sent the eldest of the males to protect you and hopefully mate with you. When he—"

"He had a name, his name was Danny" Syd interjected.

"When Danny died, we sent Michael to protect you, not to mate with you. We had frozen sperm samples of Danny's assuming he was the one to be the baby's father and would have implanted you with them had you not been already pregnant. We didn't abort the baby because the prophecy states that the first born child of the Chosen One was to be the new Rambaldi"

Sydney was speechless. She felt Vaughn tighten his grip around her and sent him a reassuring smile. Her mind was spinning and she had so many questions to ask. But before she could open her mouth Vaughn spoke up.

"Listen General, I'm curious. You had previously planned to sacrifice Sydney after the baby was born. What would you have done with the child?"

"Given it to a widow or the likes to be raised. Then we would have taken the child back while still young and manipulate its mind. That still is our plan, instead the revisions have Sydney free to go and not dead. We might let her visit if she's good."

"So your saying after all of it she loses her baby anyway?"

"Yes"

Vaughn looked particularly angry at this and he made a move to go after the General. But he was stopped when the doors opened and three more guards came in escorting a beaten man.

"General we found this man lurking around the perimeter"

The guards pulled up his head and Sydney gasped. It was Weiss and he was beaten to a bloody pulp but still alive. Vaughn gritted out "let him go" between closed teeth and started to approach him with Sydney in toll.

They were stopped by Sark. He turned around and told the General that Weiss was CIA and he was probably trying to free his friends.

"Kill him" the General hissed.

Sydney cried out and broke past Sark, running towards Weiss. She felt Vaughn right behind her and then felt strong unfamiliar hands holding her back. Two guards restrained her and looking to her side she could see Vaughn being restrained as well. They were both shouting out the General to let Weiss go.

Through all the shouting Weiss came to. He looked at his two friends as shouting at the guards and realized that he was in deep shit. He knew he only had a few more seconds left so he began to talk.

"Mike, you're alive, so are you Sydney. Your father has been tearing apart the globe trying to find you. No one believed that Vaughn was still alive until I found clues pointing to this place. I found you two! I just want to tell you guys how much I love you and I really hope you get married after this is over."

The guards then moved in front of Weiss preparing the gun. Sydney was crying and screaming. She had to fight them she had to.

A single gunshot rang out and Weiss's corpse fell to the floor.

Sydney screamed and promptly began to vomit. She felt Vaughn's arms around her; they must have let them go. She felt so numb. Weiss body was carried away and both Vaughn and Sydney stayed wrapped up together on the floor, each crying on each others' shoulders. Finally Vaughn managed to gain enough strength to pick both him and Syd up. Cradling her gently in his arms he carried her to the chamber and placed her on the bed. He laid done next to her and wrapped himself into her. Sydney cuddled deeply into him, hoping to make the pain disappear.