After two weeks of recovery, Jack's injuries had fully healed. And while the drama of the first day with Hawke and Shyira was gone, it was clear to the two that his mind wasn't changed.
As the boy was armored and prepared to head back into the front lines, the two Jedi who watched offered him residence were seeing him off. "So, any idea where you'll be heading to next?" Hawke questioned.
"Not really." Jack answered. "I've been out of contact with the Resolute for the whole time I've been here. Haven't heard a word from them, they could be dead for all I know."
"Knowing Anakin, I doubt that." Shyira spoke, laughing a little at the idea.
"Then we clearly know two different Anakin's." Jack chuckled, pointing to her with his helmet in hand. Once they reached the military shipyard, Jack stopped and turned to the two, offering a smile as he spoke. "I can't thank you two enough for allowing me to stay with you."
"Think nothing of it." Hawke responded. "And just so you know, you're always welcomed back whenever you're on Coruscant. Just give us a call and we'll make the room to fit you in."
"You really don't have to. I should have enough credits to afford somewhere next time."
"We insist." Shyira spoke, stepping up as she did. "You'll be having a rough time as it is, you shouldn't have to worry about paying for some rundown apartment while you're off fighting a war."
"I'm not the only one fighting."
"But you're the only one that doesn't have a home to go to." The Jedi Knight then placed her hand on his shoulder, conveying her feelings through the action. "Jack, it's nice being able to talk to you. You're one of the few people that don't treat Jedi like generals or untouchable beings. You're a good kid with a bright future, even if you don't know it yet. Just… please let us do this for you."
"Ugh, you need to stop being sentimental like that." Jack sighed as he shook his head. "Fine, I'll come when I'm off duty. But I expect to at least have to do something to help around the place."
"I think grocery shopping and doing the dishes should be good enough of a start." Hawke smiled as he walked up to the two. He then saw as a Republic transport ship flew by, landing a few dozen meters away. "Well, we shouldn't keep you waiting for too long. Adventure awaits."
"I hear that." Jack said as he turned to walk away, being stopped as Shyira hugged him from behind.
"Please don't get yourself killed." She whispered, confusing Jack at the suddenness. "I get that there'll be a chance you die, we're fighting a war. But don't die recklessly by being the hero. Don't fight because you think you have to, fight because you have something to fight for."
"I'll… try." Jack responded back, lightly touching her hands before she released him. "I don't have anything worth fighting for right now, but I'll try and find something."
"That's all I ask." She smiled back, watching alongside Hawke as Jack headed for the transport, waving as he gave a two-finger salute to them.
"You know that was reckless, bringing up his reason for fighting." Hawke spoke up, looking to Shyira as she faintly smiled. "And you know that it won't likely change anything, there isn't much to think of protecting while in the middle of a fight."
"He'll find a reason." She responded. "I know he will. He just needs to remember the real reason he choses to fight. Not because he thinks he just has to, that he has nothing left. No one just fights because of that, not the way he does."
"I just hope he doesn't die trying to find it."
"So, feeling better from your stomach ache?" Ahsoka asked as Jack walked up the ship's ramp, rolling his eyes as a result.
"Of course you're the one they sent to pick me up." Jack then noticed a small tired look in Ahsoka's eyes, to which he pointed out. "You alright yourself? You look like you've gone a while without sleep."
"It's nothing." She responded, making it clear to Jack that there was clearly something.
But instead of trying to get anything, Jack just shrugged his shoulders. Honestly, he didn't really care about what bothered the togruta, just curious. But if she won't talk he wouldn't waste his energy on something like that. "So, any idea if we're going on another assignment?"
"Yeah, we're going to be on standby with Naboo being our next possible deployment."
"Naboo?" He questioned. "Last time I checked that was Republic space. Why would we be heading there for deployment?"
"Locals had recently taken out a patrol of droids." Ahsoka answered. "We don't know if there's more or if they were just a simple recon team. So we'll be on standby until Senator Amidala and Representative Binks investigate."
"Well, I guess this'll be a good warm up back into things." Jack commented, rolling his neck a bit to loosen up. "I haven't been able to do any real training since I got here. I'm itching to get back into the fight."
"Whatever you say Jacky boy."
"Shut it Shorty."
It was a long trip for everyone afterwards, even the clones had to suffer through the continued argue between the Padawan and corporal. Luckily however, Naboo wasn't too long of a trip, making it no more than a few hours to get there through Lightspeed.
Once they met up with the fleet, the pair along with Anakin and Obi-Wan traveled down to Theed. And once they touched down in one of the hangars, the Jedi stepped out as the Queen and Captain Typho greeted them. "General Kenobi, Skywalker, we're so glad to have you-"
"Where's Senator Amidala?" Anakin interrupted, noticing that the Senator was missing.
"She went to look for the lab." Typho answered.
"And you let her go?"
"Senator Padme can be very hard to stop once she has made up her mind." C-3PO spoke up, walking up to the Jedi Knight.
"Good point."
"This is Peppi Bow." Typho motioned to his left, bringing the female gungan to attention. "She was the last person to see them."
"If she can give me an idea on where to go, I can find them no problem." Jack said to the Jedi. "Assuming they're captured, it might be best if I go, they won't even know I'm there."
"Are you up for it?" Anakin asked, turning back to the soldier.
Jack rubbed the back of his neck, one of the places Anakin recognizes as where he was cut open before. "My scars are acting up a bit, but that's something I can work around."
"They're acting up?"
"I get a little on edge when I head to a laboratory. You know, for reasons." The Jedi didn't push on after, just nodding to give him the all clear. Jack then walked up to Peppi. "So, you know where the Senator went?"
"Theysa looking for the sick-maker down in the swamp." Peppi answered, getting Jack to tilt his head.
"They? Sick-maker?"
"Representative Binks was with her." Typho explained.
"Then we don't have time to waste." Jack muttered to himself. "Can you show me where the swamp they were looking for is at?"
"Follow meesa." The gungan responded, nodding her head as she started to walk away.
"Wish me luck." Jack said to the Jedi as he put his helmet on and started to follow her. Just before they left, the three noticed him scratch the back of his head, where Anakin and Obi-Wan knew where the chip in his head was.
Once the two were out, they started to travel on top of one of Peppi's shaaks. Jack knew at then they were in for a long journey, but at the least it meant that he'd have time to think of a possible way to sneak in. Of course, he'd have to wait to get a geo-scan of the area to find the actual laboratory.
'It's been a few months since the last time I…' Jack started to think, feeling his left arm spike in pain for a second. The mere thought of entering any kind of lab would set him on edge, Kamino was horrible when he had to get all the medical tests done. But something felt worse here, his scars were normally numb, not outright painful.
"Yousa Okeyda?" Peppi asked, looking back to Jack as he clenched his arm.
"I'm… fine." Jack grunted in response. As they moved on, Jack's eyes wandered to a nearby river, seeing several dead shaaks at the bank. "Hey, were any of those yours."
"Yesa. Theysa been killed by sick-maker." Peppi answered. "Hesa put bombad stuff in water, and Theysa die instantly."
"Instant death?" Jack echoed, looking closer to the dead shaaks. His eyes widened as he saw the dead cattle's' bodies a light shade of blue, their veins and arteries visible. 'It can't be…'
"Test subject Z3X died after testing after the virus was introduced into his system for ten minutes."
"Only ten? Hmmm… the virus seems to be incomplete. My research seems to be hitting a roadblock."
"Doctor, we didn't hire you or give you the resources to create your Blue Shadow Virus. You're suppose to make it that the subjects can survive the hundreds of diseases currently in the galaxy, not the ones that are long gone."
"Ahhhh, worry not sergeant. I've been testing your subjects very thoroughly, the last thirty, well twenty-nine now, have been doing impressively well in countering the diseases. J4K has shown to have the most impressive immune system after my serum was injected into him. I'm just… adding a few extra tests to it."
"J4K is the key subject in this whole project. Keep him out of this side project you've started. You have permission to use any of the other subjects as you wish, but if J4K dies you will be face the proper punishment."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes we're very clear. Now leave me alone to my research."
"Get me out of this!"
"Calm down J4K. It'll just be a tiny pinch, nothing too severe."
"You damn scientist! You've been injecting this damn serum into me for a month!"
"And yet you still live. Perhaps you'll make a great carrier when my research is complete."
"Let me out!"
"Of course, of course. Just after a quick opening to see how your organs have been working."
"Gah!" Jack's chest spiked in immense pain, causing him to fall off the shaak.
"Oh no!" Peppi shouted, getting off the shaak and kneeling next to Jack, getting him onto his back. "Are Yousa hurt?"
"No… just had a flash." Jack said, forcing himself to sit up against the pain. Underneath his helmet he was sweating, the pain feel all the more present than before. With how bad the last flash was, he'd rather take Grievous' talons to his chest again than suffer another.
Jack would then pull his helmet off, making it easier to breath before noticing the ship to his right. "Wait… is that the Senator's ship?"
"Yesa, yousa were out for moi long time. Yousa wouldn't respond the whole trip."
"Sorry." Jack groaned as he stood back up, picking his helmet up with him as he stood. It didn't take long to find a set of tracks, to which he started to follow. "Huh, a pair of human and gungan prints. This must have been them. But it ends just a few meters away. Where could they have…" Jack began to trail off as he noticed the hollow feeling the ground had.
When he heard the quietest sound of machinery, he tackled Peppi behind a massive tree root, narrowly avoiding a security camera. Listening to the camera's movement, Jack made sure to hold Peppi's mouth closed, keeping her quiet and out of sight to avoid detection.
Once he heard the cameras go back into the ground he released Peppi, holding a finger to his lips to tell her to remain quiet. He then put his helmet back on and pulled out his holo comm, contacting Obi-Wan. "General, I'm certain that we found the lab. Security is placed around twenty or so meters up here, if my guess is correct anyways. No possible way in without detection."
"Good work corporal." Obi-Wan responded. "Now for getting in, I have a plan." A hologram of the whole base came to life, causing Jack's eyes to widen underneath his helmet.
'That's… Faust architect.'
"I need you to deploy a bunker bomb at the south end of the facility." When Obi-Wan pointed it out, the southern most part of the base glowed red. "It should cause a nice distraction and seal off the bomb area while we come in through the hatches."
"Bombs, sir?"
"We can confirm that they've been making a biological weapon. A gaseous virus meant to possibly wipe out entire star systems."
"Understood." Jack nodded, although his fingers subconsciously tightened on the holo comm. He had more than a few good ideas on what the bombs could have in them. It didn't add up, but it gave him a start.
"Ahsoka and Rex will be there to back you up once you start." Anakin spoke up, appearing on the comm.
"Copy, Jack out." The boy said as he cut the communication, putting the comm onto his belt.
With his mission now clear, Jack reached for the grenades on his belt, counting three thermal detonators on him. Grabbing one, he tossed it up a few times, getting the right balance set as he prepared himself. He then watched for the cameras, being sure to stay out of sight while monitoring them. When they went down, he started to count.
'One. Two. Three. Four. Five.'
At five seconds, the camera's popped back up, leading him to count again.
'One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.'
When the cameras went back down, Jack smirked. i'That's rather lazy security. Frequent, but not very through.'/i Once the cameras were back down again, Jack wasted no time and threw the grenade high into the air at an angle. The time to prepare himself almost made him get caught, but he was lucky as he completely dropped to the dirt.
"Peppi, cover you ears." Jack warned, seeing the Gungan do just that. He then held three fingers up, looking over to the cameras. "Three. Two. One." The moment the cameras went down, the grenade hit the middle and exploded, causing enough damage to completely punch a hole into the base.
Just after the explosion, two gunships flew over the two while a third now hovers over the recent hole, getting them both to stand up. "Meesa come too." Peppi said, getting Jack to place a hand on her shoulder.
"No, That is going to be a war zone in a second. You need to stay here and make sure nobody gets out of here." He ordered, turning and running towards the hole. As he reached it, a wire came down from gunship down to the base. He wasted no time as he grabbed the wire and repelled down swiftly. The moment he touched the ground he jumped to the right, getting behind cover as droids began to fire at him.
Once he started firing, Ahsoka jumped through the hole and landed next to him, igniting her lightsaber and attacking the droids. Jack would provide cover fire, the aid increasing as Rex and his troops all made their way down. Once the men were all down, they all followed Ahsoka as she cut through the droids, blasting whichever ones she managed to miss.
As they began to gain ground, the chances of advancing were lost as two destroyer droids rolled into the fray, activating their shields and firing at the squad immediately. "Fall back!" Ahsoka ordered, getting a retreat moving. As they moved back, a trooper was hit, leaving them a man down as they made their way back to a separate hall.
As the squad closed a blast door to catch their breath, Rex did a head count for the troops they had. "Commander, we lost two of our men."
"Two? Which ones?" Ahsoka asked, deactivating her lightsaber and turning to the commander.
"Guts was killed during the fall back. And Jack's missing."
"Missing?" Ahsoka groaned. She then tapped her communicator, linking to Jack. "Jack, where are you? You were supposed to fall back."
"I um… took a wrong turn." Jack whispered, moving through an air duct. "Heat of the moment kicked in for me and I went into the ducts. I'm moving towards the main lab."
"Jack, you need to form back up with us." Rex responded, patching into the comms. "We're cornered and down a man."
"Don't worry." Jack chimed, hitting his wrist comm against the side of the duct. "I left something to even the field for you guys."
"What did you-" Before Rex could finish, the ground shook as an explosion went off. "-do?"
"That was my second grenade. The destroyers should be dealt with." Once Jack found an opening, he kicked the panel out and climbed out of the duct. "I'll stay in touch, but I need to keep moving if we're going to catch he scientist."
"Jack, what are you-" The boy then cut his link with the two, stopping Ahsoka from continuing.
'I know it's you!' Jack thought with a glare as he started to run down the corridors. 'And I won't let you get away this time!'
His eyes turned murderous as he turned a corner and saw a group of droids. At the center, however, was Doctor Nuvo Vindi. The head scientist of the laboratory and an expert in all of the galaxies viruses.
Jack didn't even hesitate as he shot at the doctor, missing and hitting one of the battle droids beside him. "Vindi!" He shouted as the droids and doctor turned to him, the latter with a HAZMAT suit.
"Ah, J4K, you're alive and well I see!" The doctor grinned. "Tell me, how had the experimentation gone for you?"
"Why don't you stay and find out!" Jack glared, firing two more shots at him. The doctor, however, pushed one of the B1 droids in front of him to take the blasts.
"Take him down, but don't damage the body too much." Vindi ordered, turning away and starting to run to the hangar. The remaining B1 and B2s aimed and fired at the boy.
"You won't be able to run away again!" Jack shouted as he got behind cover. He knew he'd have little time, and worked on the adrenaline to aid his reaction timing. Taking his last grenade, he split it in half and moved back into the fray, throwing one of the halves onto one of the B2s. As he pressed the trigger on his left arm, Jack took a grazing shot to his shoulder, getting a wince from him as it detonated.
Rolling his shoulder, his nervous system seemed to numb the pain to allow him to move it. With a quick test of moving his fingers, elbow and shoulder, his glare returned and he ran after Vindi. His speed was greater than when he was after Slick, his body pushing itself to the limit as he chased after the crazy Faust doctor.
Once he reached the hangar, he saw Vindi standing in front of a Separatist ship, his hands folded together. To the left of his feet was a triangular container, and with a single glance Jack could tell what it was. The room was dark, but for both it was hardly impairing their vision. "So you did it, you crazy damn Faust."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" Vindi laughed, holding his left hand out to show a small vial of a blue gas. "I've been very busy since the last time I saw you J4K! Not only did I synthesize the Blue Shadow Virus into mass, I finally unlocked it's full potential! The gaseous form it was always meant to be!"
"So that's it? The damn thing that you spent a year injecting into me and the others for?" Jack questioned, throwing his blaster to the side as he started to walk towards Vindi. His anger was building, and he wouldn't be satisfied with something as quick as a shot to the head. "Countless injections with chemicals and biological components that was killing us; and you did it all to recreate a damn virus."
"Yes, it is beautiful, isn't it?" Vindi responded, acting as if the approaching soldier wasn't even a threat. "And most of the research is thanks to you and your compatriots. You all provided such good data thanks to how well you reacted to it. But none were quite like you, J4K."
"Don't call me that!" Jack shouted at he lunged at the doctor, tightening his hand into a fist.
As Jack was about to reach him, Vindi revealed a small remote from his right sleeve. Pressing one of the buttons, Jack's head was suddenly filled with pain, causing him to trip and roll past Vindi. "Confused J4K? Not that I blame you, this was a parting gift my benefactors gave me after I left your little project. One of the control switches to your chip."
As Vindi stared down at the downed boy, Jack desperately pulled his helmet off and clutched onto his head, feeling like his brain was being boiled to a crisp. "You were always the most resilient of your batch J4K. I knew it would've only been a matter of time before you broke free. So, I made a choice to get paid not with credits, but with a means to stop you."
"Stop it! Stop it! Make it stop!" Jack shouted, clawing at the back of his head where the chip is implanted. He wasn't digging through his skin, but with the desperation he felt he wouldn't be able to stop himself for much longer.
"Don't worry child." Vindi responded, putting the vial of the Blue Shadow Virus back into the container. "I don't plan on killing you. I just need you unconscious and workable before we leave this planet. I need you to improve the Blue Shadow Virus even further."
"Not on your-AHHH! Make it stop!" Jack tried to fight the pain, but there was no way to even get it out. At the rate the pain was increasing, he would black out in a minute.
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Just imagine how much further it could evolve with your DNA." Vindi continued on as he walked up to Jack. "I'll be able to adjust it even more, just think about it! It could kill all plant life, burn up a starship's hull, or even corrode the entirety of a planet! Soon nothing but the virus will remain in the entire galaxy!"
"Back up slimo." At the sound of a lightsaber igniting, Vindi turned to see Ahsoka at the entrance, her green blade illuminating the room around her.
"Ah, so one of you managed to catch up to me, Jedi."
"Ahsoka!" Jack shouted, the pain in his voice impossible to miss. "The container! The rest of the virus is in the container!"
"Jack! What's wrong with-"
"JUST GET THE STUPID CONTAINER!"
The outburst surprised Ahsoka, but it shook her into focus. Before Vindi could even turn to run for the container, Ahsoka was already there, holding it while facing her blade to the Faust. "You're finished."
"Now, now young one." Vindi responded, pulling Jack's inhibitor remote back out. "You don't want to do anything you'll regret now, do you?"
"What is that?" Ahsoka questioned, her eyes looking to Jack for a second to see if his condition was changing.
"A failsafe meant to keep J4K in check." Vindi answered, setting the chip's intensity down and relieving some of Jack's pain. "It can be used to fix his current dilemma with a mere switch." He then set the setting back up, getting the boy to scream in agony once more. "Or make things worse."
"You'll turn that off right now." Ahsoka glared, taking a step forward as the hangar platform started to move up.
"If you take one more step, I'll set the chip's intensity to its max. His brain will be nothing more than a hot slush in less than a minute." Vindi warned, getting the Togruta to stop. "There, see? We can reason, yes?"
"What do you want?" Ahsoka asked, turning off her lightsaber and connecting the hilt to her belt.
"The Blue Shadow Virus, hand over my remaining samples and step away from my ship."
"That's not happening."
"It's either that, or J4K becomes another victim of a lobotomy." Vindi countered, smirking as he set Jack's chip up higher. "And in this way, it's excruciatingly painful."
Now facing the dilemma Ahsoka was looking between Jack and the container. Choosing between a living being and the mission, a choice few should have to make. It would've been hard enough to choose on its own, but the screams of pain coming from Jack made it even harder to stay where she was.
"You have ten seconds!" Vindi stated, hovering his hand over the remote's switch. "It's him or the Virus. Tell me, what is more valued? A lab experiment, or life?"
"Wait!" And as Vindi was about to switch to Jack's final setting, Ahsoka held her hand out. "Fine, take your virus. Just stop the chip."
"Hand them over first, then J4K is free to go." Vindi demanded, holding his free hand out to her.
"Ahsoka! Don't!" Jack screamed between his teeth, trying to stop the Togruta as she walked towards him. As she handed him the container begrudgingly, Jack's whole body felt like it was about to shut down. His head was in splitting pain, but his body had begun to start moving on its own.
'I won't let you get away after what you did to them!'
Before Ahsoka or Vindi could react, Jack's hand flicked down to his leg, grabbing ahold of his knife before stabbing it into Vindi's leg. The pain from the injury caused the doctor to drop the container and remote, to which Ahsoka snapped into action and catch the container before reaching out and pulling Jack's chip remote to her. When she flipped the switch back to zero, Jack could almost feel himself start to think clearly again, the pain leaving slower than it came.
And once his head was clear enough to properly move, Jack didn't even hesitate and tackled Vindi. A feral rage then overcame Jack as he wildly punched at Vindi's helmet, creating a small scratch on the hardened glass. With each punch, the crack would grow wider and wider, and both Vindi and Ahsoka were staring in horror at Jack's enraged glare.
"Month after month of torture!" Jack shouted as he continued his punching, not even pausing as a chip of glass pierced into his hand. "We suffered for ten years, but the pain you put us through was worse than anything we ever experienced! You killed a dozen of us! Do you even remember them!? How they begged you to stop!?"
With one last punch, Jack punched the glass into pieces, exposing Vindi to Jack's wrath. With the defense gone, Jack reached down to Vindi's leg and tore the knife out, the grey blood staining the blade as he held it over his head. "You took away everything worth living for away from me! And then ran away like nothing happened! You deserve death after all of this!"
"You won't do it, J4K." Vindi smiled, suddenly no longer afraid of the boy. "After all, Z0A would certainly frown upon a vile killer as yourself."
"She will if that means that the damn Virus dies with you!" Jack shouted, aiming to stab the Faust between the eyes.
"It will still live in you!" The quick response caused Jack to falter, jabbing his knife into the ground just beside his head.
Not missing a beat, Jack ripped the remains of Vindi's HAZMAT helmet before grabbing his suit's collar. "What the hell do you mean it'll still live in me?"
"Foolish boy, did you think I focused on you more because you had better survival chances?" Vindi asked rhetorically. "You survived every test, yes, but your adaptive nature made for something more useful. Thousands of gene pools go through the Blue Shadow Virus, and yours was the key. Any type of DNA could be added into it, but yours was key. The Virus couldn't get past yours, because you have the rare requirement. Something in you in such quantity that it couldn't overtake it. Don't you see, your DNA made the Virus! Whatever is within you predates the Virus itself, and transformed into a carrier!"
Jack's eyes were wide in shock at hearing the news, his hands shaking as the mad doctor continued to laugh in his face."Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! You get it don't you J4K! Without you, the Virus might not even of returned. You are the host, the necessity to make it!"
Jack's eyes then narrowed, determination burning in his eyes as he grabbed the last grenade half from his belt. "Then let's take the virus out together, shall we?" Before he could activate it however, the grenade flew right out of his hand into Ahsoka's, the Padawan using the Force to pull it from him. "Ahsoka!"
"Do you always have to go head first for everything!" The Togruta shouted back. "What does blowing yourself up solve?"
"It gets rid of this virus for good! What more could be needed!?"
"We don't have every thing yet. There's one last bomb, not to mention the dozens of vials of the virus left over." Ahsoka brought up, slowly walking towards the two. "So save the fiery sendoff for another day, okay?"
"But it's too late!" Vindi laughed, getting both Ahsoka and Jack's attention. "The bombs will go off and we're all going to die in the rebirth of the Blue Shadow Virus!"
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"W-where is the explosion?" Vindi questioned, looking around in confusion after the timer went off. "What happened to my Blue Shadow Vi-" Jack then swiftly punched Vindi straight in the face, knocking him out with a single punch.
"Jack!"
"What?" The boy questioned back, grabbing his knife and standing up. "I didn't kill him. Besides, I needed something after all the shrak he put me through." Once he sheathed his knife, he started to rub his bloody knuckles, feeling where the shards of glass are.
"Ahsoka, the last of the bombs have been disabled." Anakin spoke up through Ahsoka's communicator, getting the Padawan's attention. "Did you find Vindi?"
"He certainly won't be going anywhere anytime soon." Ahsoka responded offhandedly, looking over to the unconscious doctor. "I also found Jack, saved his butt like usual."
"Good work Snips. We'll be up with a squad in a minute." Anakin said, their communication cutting off after.
"You forgot to mention you almost handed him the virus and let him get away."
"I saved your life!"
"Details." Jack rolled his eyes, making sure to keep his attention off of Vindi. He knows that the moment he'd look at the mad doctor, he wouldn't hesitate to kill him. And he'd rather not deal with a court-martialing. Although it'd be more than worth it.
'It isn't what I wanted, but I'm getting close Zoa.' Jack thought, looking at his bloodied hand with a distant look. 'Now I have to find the ones who started this.'
(A/N): Well, this is the last chapter I had written before going on a hiatus, so the posting of this story will slow down as I start to write the newer chapters. And with that, I'm certain the quality of each one should go up as well compared to the ones posted.