Reaver had Flash tied down to a table while he talked to his commanding officer.
"So, the general was destroyed by the hunters?" he asked Reaver.
"Yes. I tried to get there in time but sadly I was too late," replied Reaver as a tear ran down his cheek.
"And the body? Couldn't you have transported it with you?"
"No sir, it was surrounded by hunters, if I came closer I would have been reduced to smoking rubble."
The officer looked him right in the eyes considering his report.
"Very well. What about this hunter?" he pointed at Flash, "Why did you take him with you?"
"He is a formidable warrior, I could capture him because he was further away from the group."
"Well done. He will make a fine addition to our forces once he has been shown the truth.."
The officer walked to the door.
"Oh, and one more thing Reaver, please report this to the base commander here. We need to register Titanium's defeat and I believe you were the only witness."
"Sure thing." Reaver replied.
The door closed, and Reaver was alone with Flash.

Reaver dropped to the ground with a sigh of relief.
"God, they're on to me... I can't afford any mistakes at this point..."
He walked over to Flash.
"Just play along with me alright? I have a plan..."
"Why'd you bring me here?" demanded Flash.
"Because I want to do some damage to the mavericks before they figure out I defected, I want revenge." explined Reaver, "But I knew I couldn't do it alone and since Jet has done so much damage to the mavericks they know his face, they'd suspect something. You on the other hand are fairly unknown to the mavericks. I'd have explained the situation to you guys on the Hammer but the mavericks know instantly when a general dies, it'd look suspitious if I didn't leave soon after, there was no time to explain there."
"...ok I'll trust you," Flash decided. "So whats the plan? We just rip this place apart?"
"Keep your pants on." Reaver grumbled at Flash. "If we go in guns blazing we won't live to see tommorow."
If we go in guns blazing we won't live long enough to see tommorow."
Reaver pulled a pair of shackles from his bag.
"Put these on. Don't worry, these are as fragile as they can possibly be. You can pull them apart if needed."
The two stepped out of the room to find themselves on the wrong end of hundereds of guns.
"What's the meaning of this?" Reaver yelled angrily.
"Don't play dumb, Reaver!" the commander yelled standing before his squad, "Did you possibly think you could get away with killing the Turtoise? He was full of recording material! As a matter of fact, we had a pretty nice view of HOW YOU RIPPED HIM APART!"
Reaver shocked, he couldn't believe he made such a stupid mistake, he and Flash were now as good as dead.
"What's the matter? Too surprised to speak?" the commander jeered.
"Sorry Flash, I screwed up..." Reaver whispered. "I'm affraid we have to surrender."
"I'm sorry Reaver, BUT THE MAVERICKS DO NOT TAKE PRISONERS!" the commander interrupted laughing.
Reaver activated his scythe as Flash broke his shackles.
"I guess we then simply have to bring EVERYTHING WE GOT!" Reaver cried fiercely. With a loud battlecry he dashed at the Commander and the bullets began to fly...

With the general dead and Flash and Reaver gone, Jet wasn't sure what to do next. Then he remembered that killing the general was only part of the mission, he was supposed to destroy the Hammer. Unfortunately the massive ship was hovering over the city and he'd destroyed the engines earlier to allow more hunters to board. He stopped to think for a moment about his next course of action. First he told the wounded to return to HQ, or what remained of it. Then he had an idea, instead of destroying the massive ship, it could serve as a temporary HQ. With a fresh wave of hunters, Jet destroyed all the mavericks remaining on the Hammer. Then he radioed Zero with the news, if he wanted to set up base there, the hunters could now do so. They could even add the ship to the hunter's fleet if they could repair the engines.

"Ugh, THERES TOO MANY!" Reaver yelled at Flash, who had his hands full as well.
The pair fought until exhaustion, Flash collapsed on the ground and Reaver knelt down breathing hard.
The order to cease fire was given. Shells could be heard falling on the floor but it was soon replaced by a deadly silence. A maverick slowly walked up to the two. He lifted Flash onto his sholder and walked away with him.
A soldier approached the commander. "Uh sir? What should we do with the other one?"
"He isn't compatible with 'it'. On top of that, he's a traitor... DESTROY HIM!" He yelled.
Reaver's eyes widened, his jaw dropped in awe. The mavericks closed around him.
Flash was carried into the hallway when he regained consciousness. He saw Reaver on the ground and the terrified look in his eyes. The airlock closed and Flash could hear countless of guns firing away behind the doors. A second later, he passed out again...

Meanwhile the mavericks had other plans for the Hammer. They would not let the hunters take control, now that it was lost to them they would use it in the only way they still could. They remotely destroyed the repulsor units keeping the ship afloat above the city and the Hammer began to fall...

-In Hunter HQ-
Zero stood in the control room. "Status report, what is going on?"
Hurriedly an officer rushed up to him and handed him a document. As Zero read it his mouth dropped
"OH NO FKIN WAY!" he yelled, several of the newer hunters dropped what they were doing and stared at him.
"Get back to work" he yelled at the hunters gapin at him. Then turning back to the officer in a low voice he told him "Prepare the Enigma MkII, we are going to blast it out of the sky!"
"B-b-b-bu-but sir, that was scrapped years ago. And there are still men aboard the ship!" stammered the officer.
A loud crunch shook MHHQ and one of the hunters turned, "Zero, the ship is coming in fast and breaking apart. Debris is impacting everywhere."
Zero turned to the officer. "GET THAT CANNON ONLINE ASAP," he barked.

Meanwhile...
A black shadow stood in a darkened room. "Soon..." he said.
A door opened and a lower ranking maverick walked in. "Sir, we have done as you requested and all things are proceeding as planned. However, Titanium Tortise has just been killed."
"You incompetant fool, you think I don't know that? Really, all these generals are just pawns in my game here. Even you are nothing to the sucess of the plan, though once it comes to fruition it will be a glorious age for all reploids, and we will all be able to enjoy all my hard work."
With this the black shadowed figure turned and pointed at the maverick before him. A single beam lashed out from the extened finger and struck the maverick in the head, piercing his control chip and killing him instantly. The shadow turned away as the reploid's body detonated leaving a black mark on the ground.

As the ship went into freefall it tipped forward, the floor was no longer lever and Jet began sliding down the side.
"What the hell is happening?" he wondered.
Over the comm he could make out voices over the static, "...freefall... the Hammer... Enigma...evacuate..."
"Get to a stable position and teleport out!" Jet screamed to the hunters as he tried to get his footing.
Several hunters were able to grab a pole or a door and teleport to safety but Jet couldn't grab anything.
As the ship's direction changed he was able to get to his feet and run up the side leaping off into the sky as the lazer vaporized the ship.

END OF CHAPTER 12