Hope you liked the Kibbs part. More to come soon. Sorry for the delay by updating, but real life is a bit stressful. I'm going to write my final exam at the end of November.

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Part 8

Well Tony was going into the lion den. Okay, it was his suggestion, but he wasn't feeling that well about it. All he knew was, he wasn't going there without any tech. Back in Seattle when he had been 'Eyes Only' he had gotten a device used for listening. But it wasn't a simple listening device, it was better than that. It was organic; there was no way to detect it. He just needed to put it into his body with a syringe. But that wasn't difficult or dangerous. Now Tony just needed someone how would do the listening. There was only one person he could think or.

"Morning my favorite tech-girl." Tony greeted Abby.

"Tony, what do you need?"

"Having a bad mood, Abbs? Haven't had your usual amount of caff-pow."

"Well, boss-man's not here to bring me some. So what do you need?"

"I need you for doing some listening."

"Gibbs or Kate can do it. Why calling me?"

"I need someone with special computer skills. That's not a usual listening device. It's an organic one with one special frequency. You need to hack into this frequency."

"Where did you get that? It's clearly no NCIS property."

"Abbs, I will tell you later about that, okay? Now you have to test the reading. I'll send you some software and the frequency. Then you try to hack it and after that we will test it? Got everything? When you have some problems, get the Probie. You have one hour."

One hour later Abby called back.

"Tony that's sure a thing. I haven't seen something like that before. Just great."

"I know. Were you able to hack it?" Tony asked.

"I'm offended you ask. Of course I hacked it. It was a real hard nut. I'm looking forward the day you explain me where you got it from."

"I promise you, I will Abby. Ready to try?"

Both of them ended the phone call. Tony began to speak into the room about nothing in particular. At the end he said. "Abbs, if you can read me, call me now."

No 10 seconds later his cell rang. "That was very mean you said about Kate. I just hope she wasn't with you."

"Abby, I wouldn't say something like that with Kate in earshot. You got everything?"

"Yeah, so want I'm going to do with this little darling?" Abby asked.

Tony told her that was going to be the bait for some bad going. He just needed her to record to conversations for something they could use against Lydecker.

The next morning Tony spent on the street, hoping for Lydecker's guys to show up. He had said good-bye to Max and she promised him to stay in the room until Lydecker called. Kate would have an eye on her, not that that was an easy task or even necessary.

So Tony visited popular places to show him. He had lunch at a little, cozy restaurant with only a few more guests. He had noticed that he had been followed for longer time. He was just waiting for them to do their move.

On his way to the toilet Tony was hit hard on the back of his head lost conscious.

In the meantime at the hotel

Max paced the room. Logan had left the hotel about three hours ago. She didn't know if Lydecker had captured him already. But she wasn't going to be useless. She had some friends, too. Some strong friends and they would love to help her fighting Lydecker.

"I'm going to make some calls. I'm inviting some of my transgenic friends from Seattle. Most of them know Logan or at least 'Eyes Only' and they will be more than happy to see Lydecker again."

"Okay, do what you need to do. I hope you don't mind me staying. I promised it Tony."

"No, I don't mind." Max said and dialed a familiar number on her cell.

"Hi big fellow."

"Hi little fellow. I miss you, where have you been this long?" Joshua, a doglike transgenic answered. He looked like a beast, but was a very gentle soul. Max and he had been friends since she and Logan freed him out of the basement of Manticore.

"Sorry Joshua that I haven't said good-bye but I needed to find some of us. You know some were missing."

"Joshua knows. Alec is one of them. You found him? Joshua is missing Alec, too."

"I'm sorry to tell you, but Alec was found dead. But I found someone else. Do you remember Logan?"

"Logan? Of course. Logan is friend, too."

"Yeah, Logan is a friend of us. But that's not all. I think we found the murderer of Alec. It's Lydecker. He is trying to build a new Manticore out in the skirts of New York. At the moment some friends of Logan are watching him. And Logan was captured by Lydecker to gather some information."

"Logan was captured. You need to free him, like he did with us."

"Well, big fellow that's the plan. I'm going to free him but I need the help of some friends. Joshua will you do me a favor? Use the sewer system to get into Terminal City and ask Mole to put together a group of fighters he trusts. Then they should come up to New York. Would be nice when they are not seen traveling. If possible they should try to arrive here tomorrow."

"Okay, Joshua will get to Mole and tell him. Can Joshua come, too?" he asked. Max knew that he hated being in public, but he was a dear friend of her and Logan. And he could be a real beast. And she could need the support of a good friend.

"Yes, big fellow, you can come with them. You have my number. Call me as soon as you are here. See you soon, Joshua."

Max addressed Kate. "Okay, Joshua will get some friends together. Then we have the moment of surprise on our side. Lydecker will think I will come alone. But my friends will be with me. We endured many worse things and Logan helped us with every thing he could. That's the least we can do for him."

"And you are not alone. Gibbs and I we are helping you to get Tony back. He can be a real pain in the ass, but I don't want him to get hurt. I love him like my brother. You can be happy to have him, Max."

"Now I know how much I missed him when he left me, I'm trying everything to get him back to me. I won't lose him again. He is the best what had happened to me my whole life. He loves me just the way I am. And that's a wicked way."

In the middle of nowhere

When Tony woke up he was in a window-less room sitting on a chair. His hands were tied behind his back. The lights were dimmed. At the far end of the room he could see someone standing, but he couldn't recognize him. Somehow he must have noticed that Tony was awake.

"Mr. Cale. I see you are back among the living ones."

Now Tony knew who it was. "Lydecker, what the hell I'm doing here?"

"I see you remember me and I believe you know the reason for being here. I got your message!"

"What message? I didn't even know you were here. Let me go, I haven't done anything wrong!"

"I'm not sure about that. You destroyed Government property, you helped an unknown number of prisoners to escape and you hacked into secret Government files to use the information to confuse the population of Seattle."

"Oh yeah, and in my spare time I helped the aliens to escape Area 51. Do you really believe the shit you told me? You perfectly well know that I had to use a wheelchair until one year ago. How should I be able to free prisoners?"

"I know it was you. You and X5-452."

"Pardon me? What is X5-452?" Tony asked.

"You can't fool me. You know who X5-452 is. Max to you."

"Oh, yeah. I remember. It's the nice girl you engineered in a test tube and forced to be a soldier. When some of them were lucky enough to flee from their prison, you tried to capture them or even worse you killed them. Do you know what you have done to them, Colonel?"

"It doesn't matter what I have done. They are soldiers, trained to fight for the United States. Now tell me where she is."

"Well, I don't know. I haven't seen her since two years. You know we haven't left on good terms. But I'm sure you are going to find her, like you did previous. Say hello from me, would you?" Tony smiled at him. It felt so good to make Lydecker angry.

"I know you are in contact with her. She would have never stayed away from you."

"Sorry, pal." Tony said.

"I have to be sorry. I wished I needn't to do this but you don't give me an alternative." Lydecker winked his two bimbos into the room. He gave them some instructions and left the room. It didn't last long before the two newcomers began to fight with Tony. With his hands tied behind his back there wasn't much he could do.

Back at the hotel

Max was still restless, not knowing where Logan was and what Lydecker was doing to him. Logan was now missing for 36 hours, without a word from Lydecker.

Gibbs came to Max and Kate. Kate saw the exhausted look on his face. He was worried about Tony, more than he would have told. But Kate got the chance to know Gibbs better day for day. And she knew that he was every single minute worried about his agents.

"Gibbs, you have to relax. I'm sure Tony is well." Kate said, touching gently his arm.

"I'm not so sure about that. I just got a call for Abbs. Looks like Tony got a way for her to record all talk Tony and all persons in a radius of 100 meters. The trick is it's organic so they wouldn't notice it. Smart guy."

"That's great, isn't it Gibbs?" Kate asked.

"Well, yes and no. Yes for having the evidence for all the things Lydecker did. But Abby hadn't heard a single word of anybody for about ten hours. That's the reason she called. All she heard before was some kind of fight. All she said was that it didn't sound too well for Tony."

In the middle of nowhere

Tony didn't know how long he had been out when he came back from unconsciousness. Lydecker was in the room again.

"I see you are back. Had a nice nap? Are you going to tell me now, where Max is? Or should my two friends pay some of your friends a short visit?"

"I don't have any friends. So I don't gonna tell you even I would know where she is."

"How about I send them to Bling or Shang or Asha? I don't think that would be wise since you haven't had contact to them since leaving Seattle. How about that girl Abby, or your boss Gibbs or better your girlfriend Kate?"

"I don't have a girlfriend named Kate. Just leave me alone. I don't know the information you want. Got that?"

Lydecker wasn't impressed. He waved his to fighters back into the room. He told them three addresses, the addresses of Gibbs, Abby and Kate. Tony couldn't let them get hurt.

"Okay, you won. My friends mean more to me than everything else. I don't know where she is, but I have a number where I can reach her."

"Okay, call her and ask her to come over to this address. Understood?" Lydecker asked.

Tony nodded. Someone gave him a phone and he called Max.

"Hi Max, this is Logan."

"Logan, I just thought about you. I wanna see you."

"Me, too. At the moment I'm in New York. How about tomorrow evening? Some dinner, some talk? That's okay with you?"

"Sounds perfect. See you tomorrow." Tony gave her the address and handed the phone back to Lydecker.

"I have just one question. What are you going to do with Max when you got her? Use her as birth mother like you did with Claire?"

"Who's Claire?" Lydecker asked.

"The pregnant girl that escaped about one week ago. The girl you did breeding together with Alec. You remember him? That's the guy you paired with Max for breeding when you had captured her the last time."

"How do you know about all of this? It wasn't in the news and nobody but me knows about that?"

"Well, I have a good running information-network, just like back in Seattle."

"Of course, 'Eyes Only' helped you getting the information. Capturing you is getting better every minute. Tell me where Claire and Alec are."

"I'm more than happy to tell you, where they are. They died while trying to get out of your lab. You murdered a young family. Feeling good with this?"

"I didn't know this. I just thought they were hiding. I need to improve security to avoid a further incident like that."

"Lydecker, just one more question. Is it true that you are engineering a new series, just this time without test tube? Are you using those young girls and boys for your sick purpose? You can tell me the truth, since I'm sure I'm not going to leave this place living." Tony asked Lydecker, knowing that Abby would record the conversation, so they could use it against Lydecker later.

"Well, I'm giving some homeless X-types a place to stay. They are just doing me a favor. Nothing dangerous, you see."

"Nothing dangerous? You just killed three people and you tell me, that it is not dangerous. You are sicker than I thought. Max is not going to help you with your little dirty plan."

"We will see, Mr. DiNozzo. We will see."

Back at the hotel

There wasn't much they could do. Tony had called in the meantime and gave them a date and place to meet. But they have to wait at least 16 hours to break open. Joshua had called, too. Mole had put together a group of 25 Transgenics he trusted the most and they were already up in New York. Max would go to see them to set up a plan for tonight.

"Kate, I'm going to see my friends to set up a battle plan." Max said getting her jacket, ready to leave.

"You are not going alone. I promised Tony to keep an eye on you." Kate said, getting her jacket, too.

"Kate please, you don't understand. I'm going to see some of the Transgenics. They don't like company they don't know."

"But you know me and you can tell them who I am." Kate said grapping her purse.

"It's not like I don't trust you, but they are different. They are not like you or me for the matter. They are human crossed with animals, who look more than animal than everything else. I'm afraid you will be shocked by them. I really must go now."

"Not without me. I'm not afraid of them. I know you are a gentle person and if you don't be afraid of them, than I'm not afraid of them. I just have to tell Gibbs."

Kate won't let Max go all by herself even she wasn't sure what she was going to see there. So Kate went to the room she shared with Gibbs and told him she was going with Max to see some of her friends. Gibbs was just like her. He wouldn't let her go alone and since he was part of the rescue team it would be better to know about the battle-plan. Max wasn't happy with that but what could she do about that.

"I really wonder how Logan manages to work with both of you. Are you always like that?"

"Most times, but he has his good part to share, too."

The three of them went to a small fabric building. It looked like it hadn't been in use since WW II. The perfect place for them to hide, Max thought. Gibbs and Kate went into the building through the front door, only to be greeted by the business end of a heaving fire weapon…

Nice cliffhanger. Hold on the see who is at the other end of the weapon. And don't forget to tell me, what you think about the story.