Hey guys, it's that Prick again! Good news, we broke 1,000 views! I didn't think the story would take off so quickly in only one month! I'm going to go ahead and delete that Fallout story I had, that judging from the views, most of you haven't noticed! Seriously though, this is so great, and I want to thank all of you who are following the story, even if you don't have an account to make it official. Thanks a ton you guys, and p.s. if anyone is interested in sending me some cover art for Kuo and Cole, pm me or leave a review and we'll talk.

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"Nix, remember." Zeke whispered as he slowly crawled along a fence.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Nix said from a top a tree using her new radio, courtesy of Zeke.

"I ain't no pushover, but I also don't shoot anything from my hands. I need a gun to do that."

"Yeah, I hear you man. Just remember to shoot the black tar when I call out to you. I'll try to be near you whenever I do that, so don't sweat it."

"Alright, I'm ready. On your mark."

"Zeke, are you sure you wanna go through dis? If we do, we can't leave no one to see wha' happened."

"Don't worry about it, I wouldn't recognize anyone, and neither would they. Bertrand has a kind of exploitable rule where everyone in one district are the only militia they know. Now, let's do this."

Nix shot a volley of bolts around the perimeter. With Zeke's help, they managed to open up several pockets of swamp gas, noticeable only by the rank smell these men had been putting up with for days. The ensuing explosion didn't really impress Nix. It was more like cotton flash, one instant there was fire everywhere, and the next it was gone.

"I think it worked." Zeke said a little disturbed, as the cries of those on fire rang out among the camp. "Crap!"

When Nix heard a shot rang out, she leapt from the tree. Nix, granted, didn't even do more than ten seconds worth of climbing, seeing as she just teleported to any branch that looked steady enough to hold her. As she plummeted towards Earth as non-chalantly as possible, she noticed that all the troops in the buildings and highest of guard towers had escaped the blast.

"Damn, we'll git rid of them te' fun way then." Nix said, smiling viciously. As soon as she managed to angle herself to the nearest tower, she teleported herself back up into the air. The sudden g-force being redirected so quickly damn near ripped Nix apart, but the pain subsided as quickly as it came.

"Gotcha!" The poor bastard scanning the area had just enough to time to look up and catch a brown blur flying towards him when Nix impaled him.

"Zeke. I'm in one of the towers! They're starting to reorganize. Hurry up man!"

"I'm there Nix."

She proceeded to walk to the side of the tower facing the fence and saw Zeke amidst the shrubbery. Once more she dived head-first over the railing.

"What the hell is it with you deviants and falling?!" Zeke said with a chuckle.

"You jealous of us, super-spy?" Nix said, hugging him from behind. Managing to teleport back to the tower in only three short bursts.

"You know Nix, I've seen you teleport stuff with just your hand on them."

"Yeah, those things are usually small too." Nix said with a scowl on her face. She turned around to find that sniper rifle that guard dropped.

"Besides, the more contact I'm in with something, the easier it is to take with me."

"Uh huh. OK. Let's get to work then Nix."

"Here, you'll want to take out the other towers first."

"Really? I didn't know. Can you show me how to load a gun too while you're at it?" Zeke said, loading a round into a clip.

"Sure, you grab the butt, shove it in there, and force it in if it doesn't fit." Nix said, a mischievous grin on her face as she teleported over to the ever growing crowd of "soldiers."

"Hehehe. Alright, let's get started." Zeke had a shot lined up, a man hiding behind a crate, firing off potshots at Nix. Heh, alright. Just squeeze, don't pull. Zeke tried not to squirm when he saw a small fountain of pink ensue. He often thought on how easy Cole made killing seem, how it almost wasn't really killing. It was a lot more surreal when you pulled a trigger, and even more so when you did it hand to hand. If he was honest with himself, Zeke had gotten the idea of inventing the Amp just so Cole wouldn't have to beat Reapers to death with his bare hands anymore. That was truly terrifying. Zeke continued to take out men taking cover from Nix's barrage.

"Zeke, now!"

He had to put the rifle down for a second to see where Nix ended up. He saw that she had five men who had dug down in cover where Zeke couldn't take them down.

"Just shoot the tar like we practiced already!"

"Don't got to tell me twice!" Zeke carefully aimed at the base of the tar, and took the shot. He couldn't actually see the explosion, so he yelled at Nix for confirmation.

"Yeah, we got em'. Those suckers fried alright."

"I'm coming down then." Zeke put the rifle down and was contemplating jumping over the rails when Nix reported that she was going inside the main building to look for stragglers.

"Oh well. Down the donkey-ball sucking stairs I go." Zeke said with a sigh. He damn near tripped when he got to the last few steps. He paused after finally stumbling down.

". . . . . . Did you trip?"

"OF course not!" Zeke said, involuntarily puffing his chest out for no one to see.

"Hahahahahahahahaha! Oh my God, Zeke Dunbar, Super-Spy just met his only foe, his two left feet!"

"Hn. Whatever. Did you find anything yet?"

"No. I'm almost to the top. I'll see you in a minute."

For a while, Zeke slowly lumbered towards the main gate. He had his six shooter out and about the entire time, and only let his guard down when he saw Nix. She was waving over at him.

"Zeke!"

"Huh, wh- ." Zeke stopped as he saw a distant shimmer. Then he felt the bullet tear through him.