A few days later they were called for a mission; another facility had been uncovered like the first. Another lab where people were being experimented on with the new technology. The plan was Gen:Lock would wait until the all clear; since they were sending in an infiltration team first. They would find the hostages and then Gen:Lock and the Strider teams would go in and cause a mess. Hopefully the infiltration teams would be able to deal with anything that would lock up the tankier machines.

They split up. Which meant Leon and Sinclair were with the striders. The rest of the Gen:Lock team took to the other side of the facility. All waiting for the go ahead, which meant they were going stir crazy.

"Soooo, you rejoining the vanguard?" Jodie asked from his strider where they were stationed.

"I thought I was vanguard." he hummed scanning the horizon. Was he Vanguard? He lived with the rest of the Gen:lock squad half at RTASA and half at the Anvil in between missions.

"No seriously. Since being shoved in that machine you've been basically gone man." Jodie complained watching the game on one of his monitors. It had been hours at this pount.

"Jodie it's not like he can leave it for long." Miranda sniped at him watching readouts on her Strider. Leon looked down at the two striders, at his team. It made him feel warm and fuzzy that they cared that he might come back. Though it was worrying that they seemed to be at odds, again.

"I know! I just- ugh. I miss working with you Leon. That's all." Jodie crossed his arms. Leon looked over to the facility in the distance again. "Yeah I know; so do I."

"So, why are we waiting?" Sinclair asked looking over at Leon from his position sitting on the knee of his Holon; cutting into the banter between striders. It was hard being the odd man out, Leon could sympathise.

"Because….." Leon told him squinting as he scanned the tree's again. He could have sworn he saw-

He saw it again out of the corner of his eye and cursed, "Command I found a Pylon." He called "And active. Val/entina do you see these things?" They should have from their sniper perch. They should have been out of range, outside their holon.

Silence on the comms.

"I don't like this." Sinclair uttered from his Holon. Leon could see sparks travelling up his arms in response. Neither of them had great memories the last time they saw a Pylon.

"Wraith? Chaser? Shogun? Trixx? Huma?" Leon called; biting his lip as he did so.

No answer.

"Where are you guys?" Leon closed his eyes, tentatively he listened for the other Holons. It should have been easy to feel them, he had been near them all week. But he felt nothing; like he hit a… wall. Could they act like the nanotech and block signals going out?

"Command those pylons are active." Leon said. Still they had static. He looked down at his team and when they had no response he stepped out of his Holon. The others joined him on the ground

"I can't hear anything from Command, or the others. Do we go in and try to figure out what's going on?" Leon asked as the others looked between each other.

"I think we do, let me go get us something to use." Sinclair trotted off to their transport to grab them both guns. He came back with pistols for both of them, with ammo and handed one to Leon.

"Why give Leon a gun he-oh ooOOOoOOOOOHHHHHH:" Jodie started to Yell and Leon's palm hit his face. "Where you not paying attention earlier?" Leon asked with a sigh. Miranda snorted covering her mouth as if to prevent laughter.

The four of them headed for the facility sans Holons or Striders. Leon wasn't worried, Sinclair had survived months in the Union on his own, and he knew Jodie was former intelligence. The reason his teammate was a Strider was a lifelong dream; Otherwise Jodie would still be doing jane bond style missions for a living.(Or at least that's what Jodie said, he assumed there was more paperwork.)

"Shit." Jodie cursed under his breath as they reached the door for the Union base. It was locked, a hand scanner the only way to open it. "I got this." Leon told him and reached forward. Open. Please?He asked and the door slid open. Jodie whistled appreciatively, and gave him a thumbs up.

They held their collective breaths passing through the massive facility. They had only scratched the surface before they all had to duck into a closet to reset. "Ok this is going to take forever." Jodie whispered dragging his hands down his face.

"OK so we need to find their holons. Room by room is too slow. What about a command center?" Miranda asked "We might be able to turn off those things there."

"Yeah but where is that?" Sinclair asked and they all turned to Leon.

"Oh right." He pressed his hand against the facility wall and asked

In his mind's eye: The facility had a basement that was blocked off by something that Leon couldn't penetrate. He asked where the command center was and found them a route through the facility.

"Ok so; good news, there's a command center in the center of the building. Bad news? There's too many people between us and it, and I'm pretty sure the other infiltration teams were caught or killed." Leon told them and Miranda nodded and pulled a little device from her pocket.

"Let's go start a fire." She offered and Leon nodded with a smirk , "Jodie, you and Sinclair head for the command center." he pulled up a screen and transmitted the information into a sort of map for them to follow.

"Miranda and I will head outside, and start causing a fuss with the striders. When those pylons go down I'll go grab our Holons and we can get these people out of here." Leon explained and Jodie and Sinclair looked at each other.

"I hate this plan." Jodie sighed, but the way his shoulders drooped meant he would do it.

"I hate that I agree with you." Sinclair traded looks with Jodie.