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Warning: This is the final boss battle and in this battle there's a bit more gorey details. So if you don't like epic fights with some blood, don't read. Ye Have Been Warned Me Hartes! ;)

Chapter 18:

Of Blood and Sacrifices

The next few weeks came and went relatively fast. The group left Dr. Guitirrez's cabin with a new perceptive of what biosuits were capable of.

Luckily, Chief Vick stressed that no one will ever talk about Lassiter's new found powers. Which soothed Lassiter's nerves tremendously.

The case was moving at a snail's pace, but it was still regarded as top priority.

A potential lead was what brought Lassiter, Juliet, and the Psych agency to the morgue.

"Wood-ster, What's crack-a-lackin?" Shawn asked as he and Gus joined the group in the morgue.

The tall, oddball mortician turned around to greet his guests. His sleeves were rolled up and his arms were drenched in what appeared to be blood.

"Uh Woody...? Why are you covered in blood?" Juliet asked.

"Oh this? This isn't blood. It's ketchup. My staff decided to prank me. And I, being the hardass that I am, had to send them to lunch. I lunch that won't be paying for! Now that I think about it though, I was probably to hard on 'em. What do you guys think?"

Before a long conversation could even begin Lassiter asked impatiently, "Strode. What did you find?"

"Well remember that blood sample we found and that it wasn't fully human. Well I figured it out! The person that left it was wearing a biosuit."

"How do you know this?"

"Oh! Uh, how do I ummm. Well...I got some of Lassie's blood and ran some tests. Because I wanted to know more about biosuits and from there I found that the blood sample has altered your genetic makeup itself. Your genetics are still human but once the biosuit is...I guess activated your genetics are...enhanced tremendously."

"How did you get my blood?"

"W-where? Umm...well...remember earlier you cut your hands on that broken coffee mug...? Yeah I took that bloody napkin you threw away and ran some tests..."

Lassiter's simply glared at the mortician before he left the room with an air of annoyance hanging over his head.

"Does that mean we're not going to lunch later?" Woody said to Lassiter's retreating form.

"Probably not Woody." Juliet said with a fond smile on her face as she too left the room.

By the time she was back by her desk, Juliet saw Lassiter was standing at his desk holding a sniffling Mia. The little girl was just brought in by Henry from school.

"Hey Mia what's the matter?" Juliet asked as she approached them.

"A m-mean boy hurt C-Cuddles."

"Oh no! Let me see. Maybe I can fix Cuddles."

Mia looked at the junior detective with big hopeful brown eyes and nodded as Lassiter handed the stuffed bear to his partner.

Juliet walked over to her desk and inspected the bear. Mia's beloved bear was torn at the shoulder with stuffing falling out.

However something caught her attention on the inside of the bear. There was something slightly shiny on the inside.

"Carlton can you put Mia down for a sec and come here?"

Lassiter looked at his partner strangely but did what was asked of him.

Once he was standing over her desk, Juliet silently pointed for Carlton to look inside the hole of Cuddles arm.

Lassiter's blues eyes widened and then he furrowed his brows in question. The Head Detective then stood up and walked back to Mia sitting at his desk. He picked the little girl into his arms and smiled gently at her as he ran his hand lovingly over her head. As Lassiter did so, Mia started drifting off into a blissful nap. As she was nestled in the crook of his neck, Lassiter walked back to a flabbergasted Juliet.

"Carlton that's awful," Juliet whispered.

"O'Hara look. We need to see what's inside of Cuddles. And quite frankly I don't want to see her cry."

"So the big bad Head Detective can't..." Juliet smirked but was cut off by an embarrassed Lassiter.

"Just open the bear O'Hara!"

About fifteen cautious minutes later, Juliet had pulled out a small recording device tapped to a small smart phone. As both devices were sent to the SBPD tech lab, Juliet had skillfully sowed Cuddles back together and had given the bear back to Mia as she was just waking up.

Thankfully, the results of both devices can back within the hour. Lassiter put Mia at his desk to do her homework as he and the others went inside a closed door conference to listen to the devices. And what was on the devices shocked the investigators.

The phone had tons of pictures that was uploaded through a cloud account. The pictures were of test subjects, a couple of dead test subjects with biosuits hanging off of them and both were in a specialized dumpster, a few containers with biosuits, and more.

On the recording device, there was a conversation between the late Dr. Zien and a flirtatious woman that they assumed to be Eliza. The conversation consisted of the Doctor bragging about a confidential project he was working on and that the buyers were from an ran different governments sort he world and several elites. One of which was an American senator named Dick Roman.

The last recorded message was from overhearing a security guard named Alistair ordered to kill the intruders and especially Dr. Emerson. Because he and another unknown at that time scientist were leaking information.

It was at that moment that both Lassiter and Shawn said simultaneously "Ah Ha!"

"What?" Juliet asked.

"That was the final chunk of the puzzle to solve the case." Shawn jumping up and down excitedly. Then he suddenly stopped and said mysteriously, "Here's what happened. Four years ago, Dr. Joseph Emerson killed Eliza Brockwell's husband in a drunk driving accident. Ever sense, the scientist had a guilty conscience about it and reached out to Eliza to make things right."

Lassiter then jumped in saying, "Emerson then became Eliza's inside informant for Life Foundation. But as we just heard, the company figured it out and sent this goon Alistair to kill him. Which is why Emerson fled the country."

"As time past, Eliza was able to break in and trick scientist Dr. Ritz Zien into giving her some more info. But somehow, the company found out about this as well." Shawn said.

"The day of her murder, Eliza dropped Mia off at her stepdad's house for the night and then broke into Life Foundation again. As she took a crap load of pictures, she must've been caught and was then chased by that security guard Alistair. I wouldn't be surprised if Alistair has a biosuit! Because he's obviously the hit man for that company."

"That Alistair dude then killed her and anyone else who was involved with Life Foundation and tried to talk about the secret they all knew about."

"Wow you guys actually did a tag team wrap up," Gus said with an empresses expression on his face.

"I can't believe we actually agree on something," Lassiter said.

"I know right?! But I must say Lassie, we need to work on your flare just a wee bit."

"Shut it Spencer," said Lassiter with a small smile on his face.

"So what do we do with this information?" asked Gus.

"Now we move Emerson to a safe house and confirm our story."

Juliet nodded and said, "I'll get Buzz and Gilroy to follow us."

As they exited the conference room, Lassiter informed Chief Vick and Henry of their plans. The Chief agreed to watch Mia since she had a rare afternoon free and Henry was going to come with them just in case Shawn and Gus get just a little rowdy at the safe house.

"Also, take Dr. Skirth to the safe house as well. We need to keep them both safe."

Backroads to a potential safe house…

Soon enough everyone was on their way down the road. With Lassiter, Juliet, and Dr. Emerson in the navy blue Crown Vick. Buzz, Gilroy, Henry, and Dr. Skirth in a squad car. And finally Shawn and Gus in their Blueberry Echo. However, about thirty five minutes into their drive, Woody sat up from the backseat saying, "Hiya guys! Where are we goin'?"

The sudden voice of the mortician caused both men in the front of the car to scream like little girls and Gus swerved a little bit on the road.

"Woody! What're doing here?" Shawn said as he felt his heart drop back into his chest.

"I was just taking a nap. I needed it after the ketchup fiasco earlier. And I heard that taking naps in new places can make you smarter and sexier to women."

"Really! I never knew tha-"

"You can't take naps in my company car!" "Oh well I didn't see any signs."

Just then, Shawn's phone rang.

"Hey Jules."

"Shawn are you guys okay back there? We saw you guys swerving."

"Yeah we're all good. Woody apparently was scrunched in the backseat taking a nap. He really scared the crap outta Gus. He started to scream like a little girl."

"I did not Shawn! And even if I was you were screaming too."

"Nuh uh!"

The semiserious disagreement was cut off by a tree falling in front of the blueberry. All three cars stopped and inspected any potential damage.

On the backroad they were using, there wasn't much cell service. And several meters ahead of them was an old abandoned insane asylum. But with the impending danger looming over them, they had to be extra cautious.

Which served them very well. Because the very moment they stepped out of their cars, a huge grey biosuit covered monster-man fell from the sky and landed feet first on Gus' blueberry.

The blueberry was crushed beyond belief as the car alarm went off involuntarily.

"WeLL, wELL, WeLL. WhAt Do wE hAvE HeRe?"

Juliet, Lassiter, McNab, and Gilroy all had their weapons drawn ramrod straight pointing at the giant aggressor.

"Who are you?" commanded Gilroy.

"Me?WEll LeMmE GiVe yOu a TeEnSy-wEeNsY hInT." The grey monster said as he reverted to his normal appearance to reveal Detective Larry McKinley.

"Larry!" exclaimed Gilroy as the others went slack jawed. "What's going on?"

"Oh Tommy. You can't really be that dumb. What's it look like? I've got an upgrade and a new paying gig. Meet my new coworkers." Larry boasted as eight other people emerged from behind the crushed blueberry.

Lassiter and the others recognized the new on comers to be Roland, Cole, Alastair, Heather, Billy, and finally three others they didn't know.

"How did you find us?" Shawn couldn't help asking.

"Gilroy didn't know this but I enabled the GPS on his phone when we first met and always kept track of him. It served me well if I needed to come save his sorry butt. Now though, it served a different purpose. A purpose that none of you will survive." Larry said as he transformed into his grey monster biosuit.

His cohorts followed by transforming as well. Alistair into his red biosuit. Roland into a slender green biosuit. Heather into a slender pink biosuit. Cole into a black and yellow biosuit. Billy into a slender black and green biosuit. A pale man with a semi blondish buzz cut into a bulky orange biosuit. Another muscular but good looking bald man with a suntan into a semi-bulky all white biosuit. And finally, a young Brazilian woman with well-done boxer braids into a white and red biosuit.

At this point, Juliet pulls out her sonic vibration gun and shoots the powerful device towards them. They all, except Lassiter, is pulsating in tremendous amount of pain. The blast was powerful enough to allow the others, who've already grabbed some duffle bag full of gear from their cars, to bolt toward and inside the asylum.

As they all ran inside of the abandoned asylum, Henry and Lassiter tried to barricade the door by shoving some old moldy furniture against it. The two older men were doing this, Gilroy had pulled out his phone and turned the GPS off.

Once the door was secure, they collectively ran further into the building. They found a big room and sat close to the door huddled together.

"Holy crap! That was the ugliest thing I've ever seen! I always knew Larry had something up his butt...I never thought that it was real!" Gilroy said in a terrified whisper.

"Look we don't have time to go over this. What we need is a plan." Juliet said.

"O'Hara's right. Look...let's cover ourselves in that Vervain the doc gave us. At this distance it'll mask our scent."

The others nodded and Woody reached into the duffle bag he had and passed the Vervain oil around to mask their smell. Everyone then started to cover their clothes and any exposed body parts with the plant's oil.

"It's a good thing Lassie's immune to this stuff," Shawn whispered in Gus' ear.

"The way I see it we're not going to get outta here without a fight," Henry pointed out.

"Henry's right. This is one of those kill or be killed scenarios. And now that we've got our weapons, we have the element of surprise on our side. Okay so let's start moving some stuff around quickly but as quietly as we can. It's going to possibly take some time for them to recover from that blast O'Hara sent their way. And a little bit more to find us without their sense of smell. But once we're done with the furniture, everyone's going to grab some weapons. Henry give Gilroy what to use and how to use those weapons in a crash course as fast as you can."

During this fast run down by Lassiter, Gilroy couldn't help but be curious as to everything happening around him. But he swallowed his questions and started moving furniture for potential barriers and the like.

As everyone was working, Juliet noticed a couple of speakers mounted on the wall. That when she noticed a back room attached to their room.

"Carlton. Cover me." The junior detective said as she went into the room followed by her partner.

The room was small but had a dust covered soundboard sitting against the wall.

"I'm gonna rig one of the vibration guns to this sound panel. Remember Dr. Guitirrez said they were calibrated to our phones." Juliet said as she got to work. But Lassiter only gave a sound of confirmation. The ones he usually gave when he wasn't really paying attention.

As Juliet finished calibrating her lethal surprise, she glanced over at her silent partner and asked, "What's wrong Carlton? I can practically hear your thoughts churning in your head."

"Nothing. Just trying to make sure we get out of here together and in one piece. Otherwise, I'm going to die trying."

Juliet hesitated but continued with her work and said, "We're in this together Carlton. I know it's a long shot, but I have faith that we'll get out of here. But let's promise each other that if we do get out of here we're going to go out to dinner and get away from work for awhile."

"Even I will agree to a small vacation after this."

Getting up from her seat, Juliet's heart started to race and as she looked up into her partner's deep blue eyes she knew that he picked up on the increase of her heart. Lassiter tilted his head in question but before he could ask what was wrong Juliet pulled him down and kissed him hard on the lips. Lassiter simply moaned and kissed her in return with voracious fervor.

As the two released each other, both of their lips were swollen and red from the passionate kiss. Juliet smirked at him and said cheekily, "Now you're going to have to live through this aren'tcha?" Not waiting for a response, Juliet left a shell shocked Lassiter standing there staring at the spot where she was just standing.

"Where's Lassie?" Gus asked as he positioned his Hexaplan blade on his hand.

"Oh he'll be out in a minute." Just as she said this, Lassiter came out with his hair sticking in odd directions.

"You alright boss?" McNab asked.

"I'm fine. Let's just get this over with. I think they're coming this way now."

"So shouldn't you…suit up?" Henry asked only for his son to look at him incredulously.

"Suit up? Really dad. That was so lame! How are we even related."

"Oh yeah. Need I remind you what you walked in on when your mother and I…"

"WHOA! DAD! Please no. Haven't you scarred me enough in my life." Shawn exclaimed as quietly as he could manage while holding his ears.

Lassiter simply rolled his eyes and responded, "Once the fight starts yes. I want to see how what we're up against first."

"Wait…what do you mean by 'suit up' and 'what we're dealing with'?" Gilroy asked, as he was no longer able to withhold some of his questions any longer.

"Well we don't have time to explain but in short Lassie's got super powers now," Gus explained.

"Super power?"

"Yeah Lassie's got crap you've never seen!" Woody said smiling, while waving his own Hexaplan blade around like the loveable weirdo he was.

"Just smile and nod. We've got butts to kick so get into your positions. They're on their way." Lassiter said as he heard Roland's voice give orders to his group. The Head Detective heard Roland tell three biosuits named Kyle, Sarah, and Jim to don't let up on Lassiter's team. They were told to kill Lassiter's team.

After hearing this, Lassiter simply looked at Juliet and she knew that this was a death match.

About five long stressful minutes later, the door burst open and the offending team burst forth. The fight started immediately. But the villainous assassins weren't prepared for an onslaught of righteous defensive measures the SBPD and company had prepared.

Within a matter of minutes, Juliet and Gus had killed the white and red biosuit clad woman named Sarah with both the sonic vibration gun and the Hexaplan blade.

Another biosuit monster followed suit by dying at the hands of Woody and Henry. The bulky orange monster was named Kyle. Kyle didn't see Woody sneak up behind him and Woody then pounced on his back and immediately stabbed him in the jugular. As he fell in pain, Henry shot him with a miniature heat gun. Needless to say, Kyle died a painful death.

In the corner of the room, Larry and Gilroy were circling each other. Larry's sharp fangs were shown as he was smirking at his former partner wielding his Hexaplan blade at him.

"YoU cAn'T FiGhT mE ToMmY. I'vE AlWaYs hAd To sAvE yOuR sOrRy…" Larry was cut off as the hexaplan blade sliced his thigh. The beast hissed and then growled at the small young man. "YoU'LL bE sOrRy fOr ThAt."

"Why Larry?"

"BeCaUsE yOu IdioT. ALL mY LiFe I'vE bEeN OfFeReD a CrapPy hAnD. BuT nOw…I've gOt a bEtter oFfEr."

"You're accepting an offer from murderers Larry!"

"WhAt CaN I sAy. ThEy GaVe Me An OfFer I cOuLdN't ReFuSe."

"You're not going to get out of here alive Larry."

"WeLL nEiThEr wILL yOu!" Larry said as he slapped the blade from Gilroy's hand. And as the young man looked at the fallen blade but then he looked up in horror as Larry opened his jaws. It was unfortunately the last thing the young detective saw because Larry chomped off the young man's head and part of his shoulders.

Lassiter saw Gilroy die and in righteous anger shanked the all-white biosuit monster named Jim to death before he tried to charge over to Larry. Unfortunately, Billy shot a black and green strong yet slimy substance that was his arm at Lassiter. The Irish detective struggled against the material holding him in the air. As the material started to crush his body slowly, Shawn and Gus blasted the black and green monster Billy with a double dose of their sonic vibration guns.

Billy screeched in pain as he dropped Lassiter from the air. Billy's entire body started to ripple and tried to almost dissolve. But as Lassiter was approaching Roland from the air, the Head Detective transformed his arm into a giant blade and decapitated Billy. Without stopping his stride, Lassiter transformed into his sleek obsidian form effortlessly.

Lassiter then lunged at Larry who was currently fighting Juliet and McNab. Due to the sheer force of the attack, Larry was knocked backwards and left looking at Lassiter with a mixture of bewilderment and anger. Lassiter was then standing in front of his two coworkers and Larry.

Larry got off the floor growling, "YoU'Re gOiNg To pAy LaSsItEr! ThEn I'm gOiNg To fEaSt oN yOu'Re pReTty JuLiEt."

Lassiter's anger boiled into a deep seated but rage on the inside. On the outside though, he released a deep guttural growl. One that wordlessly expanded his threat of violence and vengeance for Gilroy. Juliet and McNab quickly moved out of Lassiter and Larry's way as they began to tumble their way.

Lassiter and Larry clawed at each other in vicious precision. Their claw like talons ripped through each other's skin as blood was drawn. Larry at one point got the upper hand and tried to bite at Lassiter's neck with his menacing fangs; however, Lassiter was able to kick the grey biosuit monster off of his own monstrous form. While Larry was on the ground, Lassiter pounced on him and bit at an open laceration in Larry's side. Larry then howled in pain so loud that it shook the very foundation of the asylum. After shaking the raging Head Detective off, Larry didn't have time to heal because Lassiter was back on top of him.

With amazing speed, Lassiter grabbed Larry's face and started to slam his head into the concrete floor. After several minutes straight of Larry's face being pummeled by the concrete, Larry went still underneath Lassiter. With a stretchy arm, Lassiter retrieved Gilroy's fallen Hexaplan blade and rolled the battered and more than bruised Larry over onto his back.

"EvErYoNe is GoInG tO kNoW tHaT ToMmY GiLrOy kILLeD yOu," Lassiter said as he stabbed Larry in the neck and yanked the blade all the down to Larry's stomach. And as Lassiter yanked the blade free, Larry's inner organs spilled out over his body and onto the floor. Lassiter couldn't bring himself to think about what he had just done because he was literally yanked back into the fight by Alistair.

Across from the three biosuits, were Shawn and Gus were fighting and holding up surprisingly well against Cole clad in his black and yellow biosuit.

On the left side of the room was Juliet and McNab who were fighting Roland. During this fight, even McNab wasn't holding back because Roland had stabbed Dr. Skirth.

And finally in the back of the giant room was Henry and Woody who were barely holding their own against Heather clad in her slender pink biosuit.

As the fight wore on, Lassiter was knocked into a wall by Alistair. Because of this, Alistair started to laugh hysterically. As he was laughing though, Lassiter punched the red biosuit man into the wall in retaliation. This truly angered Alistair though. The red monster-man lunged at Lassiter with wall shuttering roar. Thankfully though, Lassiter side stepped the attack and in midair Lassiter grabbed onto Alistair's horns with his powerful jaws.

Alistair howled in pain as Lassiter's bite did slack as he thrashed for the Irishman to release him. This worked in a way, because the thrashing caused Lassiter to snap off a horn from the red monster's bubbling head. Between his powerful jaws, Lassiter crushed the horn and any potential hope of attaching the offending thing later.

Because of his anger and pain, Alistair could no longer judging his opponent's movements. Because of this Alistair failed to see Lassiter transform his black arm into a giant blade. And as the angry biosuit red monster flew toward Lassiter, the head detective cut Alistair in uneven halves. Alistair died immediately.

In that moment though, a collective howl of pain filled the room from the remaining biosuits. Lassiter then squinted at Juliet as she was holding her phone in one hand and blocking her other ear with the other.

The horrible sound was coming from the speakers hooked up to Juliet's sonic vibration gun in the backroom. And as the loud noise rang and rang, everyone was going around pouring a liquid hexaplan on the remaining and writhing biosuits.

After a few moments, Juliet turned the sound off and then the team observed their surroundings. The victor's saw that out of the original nine assassins there was only three left. Those three were paralyzed and unconscious on the ground. The others were dead. The real tragedy was from the two people that had died on their own side. Detective Tommy Gilroy and Dr. Doris Skirth had died in this battle.

"Is everyone okay? Or relatively okay?" asked Henry as he held onto his bleeding knee.

"Yeah we're mostly okay dad." Shawn responded as he threw an arm over Gus shoulder. Like their comrades, they were covered in blood.

Lassiter approached Juliet and allowed his human face to be pealed back from his biotsuit to look her into eyes and asked, "Are you okay...Juliet?"

After her small pause, "Yeah Carlton. We've lived to see another day." She then looked around the room and allowed her eyes to return their gaze back into Lassiter's blood smeared face with more dripping down from his horns. But even with that, Juliet thought he looked amazing. Simply, because he was still with her.

TBC

A/N: Alright everyone only a few more chapters left! Here's one of the last, if not the last, cast for the story. Kyle Simms played by Brock Lesner. Jim Niles played by Dominic Purcell. Sarah Graham played by Polyana Viana.

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Please leave a review to let me know what you all thought of the massive end time battle.