A/N: I know this took a while to come out, but I've been busy. This is also being split into 2 parts. Am I milking for parts? Probably. Are the chapters still good? I don't know. That's for all of you to say. Anyway, for this chapter, you get to see Tridon be a total badass towards. Like a super badass. How badass is he? Well, if you've ever watched the Red vs Blue series, think of him as a combination of both Tex and Carolina with a dash of... idk, Epsilon helping both of them by making the other people they fight terrible. Like in Season 12. Anyway, enjoy and I'll see all of you in the next chapter!


Tridon slowly opened eyes to a bright, blinding light. He tried to sit up, but noticed he was strapped to an operating table of some sort. He looked around and noticed nothing but darkness. The only light in the room he was in was the one shining on him.

Tridon wanted to yell, but he knew that it wouldn't have mattered. He just sighed and stared at the ceiling past the light. He started whistling in order to pass the time.

"I guess that means you're awake." Erica commented as she stepped from the darkness, "Anything hurting?"

"Oh don't worry. I'm having an absolute blast! Just laying here doing nothing. Best day of my life."

"Do you know what we're planning to do?"

"Well, crazy doctor plus crazy ex-girlfriend. Hm." Tridon thought for a second and said, "He's going to experiment on me and figure out how my power works while you help him in order to get me to yourself. It all makes sense to me now."

"What? No."

"Wait what?"

"He's going to extract your power from you so that you don't have to live as an Enigma."

"H-Huuuuuuh?!"

"He said he has found a way to extract a person's power. However, the only problem is that there's a 50/50 chance of the person being killed during the process."

"Has he tested this process?"

"He's tested the process on 100 people with powers. 53 people survived the process while the rest either didn't make it or suffered complications that killed them not long after the process."

"Any patterns?"

"I can't say."

"I expected that answer." Tridon stared at her and said, "You know they'll be coming here guns blazing in order to save me, right?"

"I know. They'll be able to find this place, but they won't get past the defenses." Erica snapped her fingers and the room illuminated itself more, "I have control over everything in here."

"As for the doctor?"

"Dr. Voltrov wants to wait until there aren't any barriers in his way. Until then, you're stuck here."

"I know it's a stupid question, but can I at least walk around?" Tridon looked at his abdomen and noticed his wound has been stitched up, "I probably won't even find a way out because this just looks like a steel bowl of nothingness that I'm assuming only you and that doctor can open."

"True, but are you going to be able to do anything?"

"Well, I was able to take out those 'elite' soldiers of Robert with ease. I'm assuming I can probably handle you better."

"More than likely, so I'll just leave you there."

"Well this sucks." Tridon shut his eyes and said, "Well, sleep is the only thing I can do in this situation."


Sayori was the first to arrive at Tiffany's house almost 2 hours before everyone else. She knocked on the door and waited for her to open.

Tiffany eventually opened up and asked, "Why so early?"

"I need to talk to you about Tridon."

"Okay?" Tiffany let Sayori in and she stared at her, "What do you want to talk about?"

"Tridon has been acting weird since that day we talked about the powers and stuff. He's been spending a lot of time alone at his home. Monika told me that he would often lock himself away in his room. I don't know what he's doing alone in that room and Monika doesn't know either. They live under the same roof. I'm just worried."

"Hm." Tiffany tapped her chin and turned to Sayori, "Sayori, I've been training Tridon to become an agent."

"You what?!"

"I know. It was a stupid move. I forced him to start training last year and I've been kicking myself ever since I had him start training."

"Tiff, he specifically said he didn't want to deal with any of that. He already has enough problems now. Why?"

"He wanted to be prepared for this exact thing. When people start gunning for him and when all of you are in danger."

"That idiot." Sayori mumbled to herself, "I guess that explains how he beat all those soldiers last night."

"He's trained enough in combat, but he's still raw in terms of power and endurance. So he spends time alone putting himself in scenarios where he can help build on that rawness."

"But Tiff, I..."

"I know. I'm sorry. I didn't want him to, but I know I had to for future reasons.

"Well, it did help him dealing with those soldiers, but he was still hurt. I'm guessing it was easy for Erica to kidnap him because he was already hurt." Sayori then though to herself and asked, "But what if she's trained too?"

"There's the possibility that she is. But I doubt she can go toe to toe with Tridon if he was 100%. The only way they would've got him is if he as injured and already fatigued. I'm more surprised he took out a group of soldiers with more training with such ease while injured."

"Maybe those scenarios you've been making him train in private has helped him more than you think."

"Probably."

"Do you think he crafted some scenarios that would help in these types of scenarios?"

"Possibly..."


Once everyone had arrived at Tiffany's house, she led them to an armory underneath her house. The girls stood amazed at how massive her armory was. Tiffany grabbed some vests and SMGs and set them on a nearby table.

"We don't know what we're dealing with. So I want you girls to get used to carrying equipment like this." Tiffany signaled Jen to stand next to her and proceeded to say, "Jen here will demonstrate how to properly wear your vest, so follow her instructions to the letter. I'll be preparing my own equipment, so don't take you. We don't know how long we'll have before they... do whatever they're going to do to Tridon."

Tiffany walked off as Jen explained to them how to put their vest on. Tiffany took her phone out and called Tridon's mom.

"Ms. Pierce..."

"I know." She interrupted, "A mother knows everything."

"Then you know that we're heading off to get him, right?"

"Yes. Please save my son. He's all my daughter and I have."

"You know I'll fight tooth and nail to get him back. Just keep your daughter in check. I know she can be a little reckless whenever Tridon's in danger."

"I can do that for you dear. Just save my son."

"No problem."

"Captain," Jen interrupted just as Tiffany put her phone away, "they're geared up and ready."

"Alright. Take them in the humvee and get going. I'll meet all of you there."

"Yes ma'am."


Tridon opened his eyes and looked around again. He noticed Erica nearby messing around on the massive control console near them. He scrunched his face and popped his neck. Erica turned around for a short second and shot him a small smile before moving back to what she was doing.

Tridon shimmied his wrists lightly and continued for a short moment. He smirked and looked back at Erica's back. Tridon laughed to himself and closed his eyes.

"These metal bindings keeping me strapped are good, but the ones holding my upper body are weak. I can't break them with my core strength, but maybe I can wear them enough to do just that."

Tridon started to shimmy his wrist again ever so slowly and carefully to where Erica couldn't hear him. Tridon looked at he roof and nodded to himself.


While Jen drove the group to the building Tridon was being held in, she explained to them their situation, "Tiff didn't get much sleep after the hospital raid in order to figure out where they were taking Tridon. They found out that they took him to an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town. Like the far outskirts."

"Why is it always a warehouse..." Natsuki groaned, "Could've been a lot more creative there."

"The warehouse has a massive underground facility where Tridon is being held." Jen continued, "We'll be split up into groups of 2-3 while we search the facility."

"Who are the teams?"

"Natsuki, you're with me and Chelsea. We're heading through the east wing of the underground facility." Natsuki and Chelsea looked at one another before shifting glancing away, "You two will just have to coerce some way. As for Monika, you're partnered with Yuri. Sayori, you're with Lola."

Sayori glanced over to Lola who waved at her. Sayori thought back to the time Tiffany told her that Lola could be working with Robert. She gave her a device to use in case Lola would show her true colors, but for her to do so this late into the school year and to wait this long to infiltrate their group seems like a stretch. Even if Erica did that exact thing last year.

Sayori gripped the device that was in her vest and smiled at Lola. She knew that she had to watch her carefully. If she is working with Robert in some way, this would be the perfect chance to stab 'em in the back to capture Tridon.

Once they arrived, Jen readied her weapon and said, "Time to split up. Keep your radios on and sweep the facility. Find Tridon as fast as you can."

"Right!"


Tridon, after shimmying his hands repeatedly over the course of the last hour, he managed to loosen it enough to move his hands and out. All he had to do was work on his upper body. He looked at Erica and smirked.

"You know, there are some things I miss when we dated." Tridon started.

"And what's that?"

"How intimate we got." Tridon noticed Erica stop what she was doing, "For a 14 year old, it would be a dream come true to be extremely intimate with a hot girl. Especially since I was living on my own at that time."

"We didn't go too far though. Mostly because we were underage at the time."

"True," Tridon chuckled, "but all those times of just cuddling, sitting with one another, kissing," Tridon noticed her lean on the console and think about those times, "it's just one of those things that you can't forget and actually yearn for after 3 years."

"What's stopping you?"

"The choice."

"So you're still dead set on choosing one of them?"

"Yup." Tridon moved his body while Erica stood distracted at their conversation, "I enjoyed our time together, but you and I seem to attract a lot of trouble. What with my beef with Robert started when you left me for him."

"I didn't leave you!" Erica snapped, "He played with my feelings for you."

Tridon stopped and asked, "How?"

"He said he could take your power. Take it so that you wouldn't have to live in obscurity. He said that he would only do it if I were to marry him. When I found out that he just wanted your powers to get what he wanted, then I knew I had to turn my back on him. I just had to figure out how."

"But you called Eric. You sent him to our school and made that week a living hell for me." Tridon didn't care if Erica noticed his movements as he quickly burst out of the bindings and tackled her to the ground before she could react, "I nearly lost everything because of you!"

"And I'm trying to make things right by taking your power away!"

Tridon grit his teeth and stood up, "I want to get rid of my power more than anything." He walked off and said, "But I don't want you and that doctor to take it away for me."

"If that's the case..."

"You know you can't fight me. I would wipe the floor with you and I wouldn't be afraid to do so just because you're my ex." Tridon interrupted, "I wouldn't try it."

"I'm not, but the people Doctor Voltrov hired as soldiers will." Erica slid Tridon a small USB drive and said, "That has what you want to know about his experiments. If you really want to get rid of your power, then you'll want to look into that."

"What about you?"

Erica stood up and looked around, "I don't know. The most I can say now is to watch your back. Like right now."

Tridon turned around and ducked under a barrage of bullets. Tridon kicked over the operating table he was on and used it as cover. He looked where Erica was to see her gone. However, where she was last seen, a shotgun was left on the ground.

"I can't tell if this girl wants to help, or make my time worse by leaving me a shotgun." Tridon slid to the shotgun and checked the chamber quickly before firing at the people shooting at him. He took 6 precise shots and killed all of them, "Slugs. I guess it'll work."

Tridon stood up and looked at their bodies. He grabbed some of their weapons and ammo while looking at his shotgun, "Interesting shotgun." He looked the shell and said, "It fires more than one slug without needing to pump it. Interesting. 3 shell mag while the shells themselves hold 10 lethal slugs before needing to pump them out. I guess a 3 shell mag size is the drawback it needs to have."

Tridon stood up and looked at the doorway Voltrov's soldiers came out of, "So much for a secure room." Tridon hauled the shotgun over his shoulder and grabbed the rifle he took from the dead soldiers and ran off.


Sayori peaked out, but instantly ducked her head back in as both her and Lola were pinned by a massive barrage of gunfire.

"Tell me. Why did we get the difficult part of this facility?!"

"This was just by chance Sayori." Lola answered, "There was no way we could predict it would be this hot."

"Well, if that's the case, then that means Tridon is close by. So we should probably find a way to deal with these people."

"I've never tried this, but I think I can use my power to stop their bullets."

"How many of their bullets?"

"That's the thing. I don't know."

"Well, if your power is complete, then you should have no problem catching all their bullets."

"We could try."

"Alright. On my go. Ready?" She looked at Sayori who nodded at her, "Go!" Lola jumped out and held her hand out. The bullets stopped just before they hit her body and they piled up in the air, "Now Sayori! While they reload."

"I don't know how to fire a real gun, but ah what the hell!" Sayori jumped out and fired her gun haphazardly, managing to kill 2 of the 4 soldiers before the remaining 2 started firing again.

Lola quickly reacted and fired at the last two, but missed and only caused them to duck under for cover. Both Lola and Sayori both ran back to cover when they noticed a large group of soldiers arrive to attack them.

"Can your powers stop this many people?"

"I don't even wanna try..."

"Need some help girls?" A voice called out. The two of them peaked out and their eyes widened when they saw Tridon sprinting towards them.

"Tridon!" They both yell.

Tridon dashed forward and clotheslined 3 people in one succession.

"Whoa..." Sayori and Lola gasp in awe.

Tridon ducked under one of the soldier's guns and elbowed one of them. He used that moment and shot them in the chin while grabbing their limp body, using their gun and firing it at 3 more.

He ran forward, grabbed one, and slammed them to the ground. He mounted them and grabbed their handgun to fire at 3 more soldiers. He fired at the one he mounted and swept his leg behind him to trip 2 soldiers. He grabbed a knife off one of the soldiers he tripped and quickly sliced both of their necks.

"Where did he learn to fight so well?" Lola muttered in awe, "I know Tiff said she trained him, but fighting like this means he would need to train for years."

"Or just endless nights of self-training in a conjured scenario."

"Huh?"

Sayori smiled and said, "This boy continues to surprise me everyday."

Tridon stood while grabbing the head of a unconscious soldier and dropped them. He wiped his hands and exhaled sharply. He looked at the girls and waved at them.