A/N: Finally. I got this one up. My beta was sick for a few days, which is why this one took so long. I also had a hard time writing this chapter. This is the climax of the story, and then the next chapter will be the last in the main story. Of course little old me has to do some sort of an epilogue, so there will be that too.

I'm actually caught up on all my current stories which I'm finding is very rare in the Summer. It's acutally given me time to post drawings on DeviantArt and to work on some new stories. Which is really nice. The Summer's coming to a close though, and when it does school starts. I'll be a senior this year, which I really hope doesn't mean too much, but if it does my stories may slow even more, which is not something I hope for...

Read, review, enjoy.

"Mister? Mister? Mister, wake up!" Fye made a groaning noise and turned over in an attempt to get away from the voice that yelled right next to his ear. "But Mister! Your breakfast is going to get cold!"

At this Fye opened his eyes and turned over again. There were the children, the girl holding out a tray for him to take, "My name is Fye, you don't have to call me Mister. Have you two already eaten?"

The girl nodded waving the tray in his face to get Fye to sit up, "Yep! Now it's your turn! Hurry, hurry or it'll get cold!"

Fye chuckled as he sat up and took the tray from the girl. "How did you two sleep? You did fall asleep on me you know." Fye placed a bite of the oatmeal in his mouth.

"No worries here, we both slept really well. Right?" The girl looked at the boy and the boy nodded. "How does it taste?"

"Like I remember it tasting," Fye mused as he swallowed. "You can feel the vitamins and minerals eating away at your stomach lining."

The boy smiled and the girl giggled as they watched him eat the food. Each bite was enjoyment for them, probably because each time Fye took a bite he made a face. After a little while Fye even exaggerated his faces so that they would smile wider and giggle louder.

"Hey Fye?" The girl crawled up next to him on the bed as Fye pushed the tray away from him.

"Hm?"

"You said that we can have names, right?"

"Of course you can."

"And you said someone else can name us, right?"

"Yes, sometimes it's better for someone else to name you. After all, mothers and fathers name their children when they're born. The child doesn't name them self."

"Could we ask you a big favor?"

"Yeah, sure, go ahead."

"Will you name us Fye?"

Fye's eyes widened and he dramatically placed his hand at his chest, "Me? Name you?" The two children nodded, Fye's face fell a little, as if he had thought them to be joking. "Really?" They nodded again. "A-all right...I've never named anyone before though."

"You'll do just fine! We know you will!"

"Well..." Fye sighed as he looked from the girl to the boy to the girl again. He didn't even know which nationality he should start at. Fye, if spelled 'Fai' was a Chinese name, Yuui could be taken two ways, if slightly altered to Yue, it was also Chinese, but Yuui all by itself was Japanese.

Perhaps he should follow the same line of thought his parents did? One Chinese and one Japanese name?

For a long time he continued to think until at last he smiled, "All right, you," Fye pointed to the girl, "Will be Sakura. You," he pointed to the boy, "Will be Syaoran."

Sakura and Syaoran stared at him, "Do you not like those names?"

"No, they're wonderful, right 'Syaoran'?" Syaoran nodded at Sakura's words, "But why those names?"

"Well, I know Sakura is the Japanese word for cherry blossoms. You are still just a bud, but I know that with time you will become a beautiful blossom. So, Sakura. As for Syaoran, I was originally thinking of Xiao-Long, or little dragon, but while it does fit you now, oh you with knowledgeable eyes, I know you will not be little forever, so I altered it to Syaoran."

Sakura giggled, "Fye is so smart! He knows a lot of stuff!"

Fye chuckled, placing his hand on top of the girl's head, and ruffled her hair slightly. "I've had a lot of time to study this stuff in the past, but I don't know everything, just bits and pieces."

"It's still amazing."

Syaoran came a little bit closer to Fye and looked up at him, "Yesterday Fye said that he had to go home today. When are you leaving?"

"Yes, I'm sure my loved one at home is already in a panic at how long I've been gone, I'll be leaving as soon as I can figure out how to get out of here without getting shot."

"Shot?!" Sakura gripped onto Fye's jacket, "Why would you be shot?!"

"I'm not supposed to leave, or at least, I don't think I'm supposed to leave."

"Why not?"

"Like you, I was once a number, with no name. During my stay here the last time I became very valuable in data collection and their experiments. I also have been hired by them recently and I disobeyed their orders. I suspect that they wish to punish me."

"No, no, no. That will not happen. Syaoran, we can help Fye get out, right?"

"Yes." Syaoran nodded, "But there is one condition."

Fye smiled and tilted his head to one side, "What?"

"Take us with you."

"You wanted to meet us here?"

Kurogane shook his head at the two teenaged boys, Kamui and Fuuma. "No, I wanted to meet you here. You could have left the other one at home."

"Where I go, Fuuma goes. I thought I lost him once, I'm not risking it again." Kamui looked over his shoulder glaring playfully at his companion, "He might slip away again."

"I said I was sorry."

Kamui smiled and looked back to Kurogane with a slightly curious expression, "So, why did you call for me? Where is the government anomaly, Fye? The two of you were inseparable when you brought me here."

"That's just it. When Fye and I left, Fye said he had to go somewhere, to get more answers. He also said that he would be back in three days at most. It's been four days, no sign of Fye."

Kamui frowned, his fingers flexing as he thought through this information, "That's...peculiar. Fye's a man of his word, if he says he's going to do something, he's going to do it unless he hates you, or all of hell breaks loose and holds him back. Did he say where he was going to get more answers?"

"The source, the government."

Kamui's eyes widened, "Damn fool. Fuuma!" Kamui yelled over his shoulder, "I have to go, take my bag, go home. Tell Ashura I went to Nekoi's house for studying. Nekoi's honorable, he'll believe that."

"Sure, he'll believe you went with Nekoi, but you studying? That I'm not so sure he'll believe..."

"If nothing else, it'll buy me a little time. Kurogane, come with me. I'll take you to where Fye is, but I'm not going inside, understand?"

"Um, yeah?"

"Good," Kamui turned around, quickly shoved his brand new school bag into Fuuma's arms and ran off toward Fye's car. "Hurry up! He's been gone for four days, who knows what they've done to him! It might be worse than death!"

"Worse than death?" Kurogane mumbled to himself as he went around to the passenger's side of the car. "And I thought Fye's words made the government sound bad..."

As the passenger side door slammed shut Kamui shifted the car into gear, "Buckle up. I speed."

"And you're sure about this?"

Fye nodded, "One-hundred percent sure, Syaoran. Not only will it satisfy me, but it'll buy us more time than trying for a direct way out would."

The two children crawled up on the bed in front of the blond man and stared at him with eyes that said that didn't understand anything that Fye was saying. "You're confused?" They nodded, "Well, think of it this way; if we take a direct route out of here then we'll inevitably run into someone. That someone will know that we're not supposed to be going that way, and then we'll have to run. Running is a tip off that we're doing something we're not supposed to be doing, and we will be easily caught. Then we'll be kept under surveillance and that'll make it even harder to escape. Am I wrong?"

Sakura shook her head slightly, "No, according to anyone's logic that's right. What we're wondering about is how visiting Fei will make it any easier."

Fye smiled and reached out, placing his hand gently on Sakura's head, "Simple. Every night you and Syaoran go visit Fei for your assignments, right?"

"Every single night."

"Then you take me with you. You'll tell anyone on the way that Fei told you to bring me with you. Then after we finish with that visit..."

"But Fye, that's where it gets confusing. Fei would just call a lot of officials and we'd be caught even faster."

"Fei won't be able to call anyone."

"Why not?"

Fye's eyes narrowed and his lips spread into a grin, "Because children, I fully intend to kill Fei." A soft chuckle rung through the room, "I'm opposed to killing nowadays, but I think I have enough will left in me to kill a man like him. Understand?"

The children nodded. The expressions they wore indicated that they didn't exactly believe that Fye could kill anything. "So you know that this will work? This plan?"

"I can't be sure, but I used to know a boy who tried to escape from this place at least once a week. I know what doesn't work, so perhaps from that, I know what will."

"All right. So. Here's the deal. I brought you here, I'm going to tell you the quickest way to find Fye, I'm going to give you a weapon, but there is no way in hell that I'm going in that place."

"What? Are you afraid?" Kurogane smirked in a joking fashion as Kamui leaned over him to get into the glove box that Fye had always kept stuffed with things such as keys, bullets, knives, and other items.

"Hell yes." Kurogane's face fell at Kamui's blunt honesty. "I spent almost all my time in that place trying to escape from it. They tortured Fye to the point where I started to hate him because he never did anything for himself. It was always for someone else."

"They didn't harm you?"

"When they tried...Fye would conveniently "lose" control of his powers. He always protected me...anyway, the point is that I am never going back in there, not for Fye, not for you, I might not even go in there if it was Subaru or Fuuma. Here you go." Kamui pulled back away from the glove-box and dropped several rounds of bullets and a gun into Kurogane's lap.

"All that was in Fye's glovebox?"

"Fye's always kept his best weapons there. He uses the simple logic that no one would think to look in such an obvious place for such obviously dangerous things. He uses the same logic for keeping his keys there...even when he's not around. At any rate, I assume you know how to use that."

"Yeah, but I don't need it. I have my own gun."

Kamui snorted rudely, "That stun gun? No way. It won't work."

"Why not? It worked against you!"

"Yeah, me. A single person who thought you were harmless, and had turned his back on you to go after bigger pray. The people in that building will do no such thing, and even if they were to do that, they're more than one person, and a stun gun takes a lot of time in between shots. You need a real weapon. Fye's always used a pistol, but I've always preferred knives. Would you prefer a knife? Makes no difference to me."

"No..."

"All right. Moving on, you should try to get in the back door, the front will be crawling with people. Wait for someone else to come out, do not shoot them, just get inside before the door closes, and be silent. From there it doesn't take very much to get to the section Fye would be in if they caught him. There's a bunch of doors. Check each one quickly. If he's not there, go back the way you came. If he is there, take advise from him as to which way to go next."

Kurogane frowned, "What will we do if he's not there?"

"That's simple. If he's not there, he's either dead, or escaped. Either way, we leave, and you wait. If he doesn't return in a month, I'll tell Ashura he's died, and you should accept it as that too."

"No way!" Kurogane grabbed at Kamui's shirt collar and growled at him viciously.

"Don't give me that. Fine, if you want to not follow that, it's your death. Just go. I'll be waiting here."

"What if I don't come back?"

"I'll wait for three hours. That's more than enough time. Go."

Kurogane got out of the car and ran toward the back. He stood to the side, away from the door, but not in front of it. He didn't want to be so obvious that if someone or something came through the door that it would run right into him, yet he also didn't want to be so out of the way that it would be impossible to get through the door before it closed again. All he hoped was that Kamui's advice worked.

He waited by the door for a while, waiting and watching until someone came through the door. They kept going forward at a quickened pace. The person who came out of the door never looked back, which was an indication that no one expected there to be an intrusion.

Before the door snapped shut again Kurogane rushed forward and slid into the hallway of this strange maze of a building. Carefully looking from side to side, Kurogane walked down the main hallway. He hoped that Kamui's words were right, and that the section Fye should be in wasn't far.

Sure enough, about five minutes after he had started to creep about the building he got to a hallway that was just door after door. His hand reached out to open the first door within reach when a scream reached his ears. Why did the voice that just screamed sound like Fye?

Down the hall Kurogane ran, toward the area he had heard the scream come from. He stopped when he heard a crash come from behind a closed door and without a second thought the doctor grabbed the doorknob and threw the door wide open.

Instantly two pairs of small, but extremely strong hands reached up, grabbed him, and dragged him to the ground. "Fye! There's an intruder!" The voices of two children reached his ears, but more important than their age was the name they spoke.

"Don't kill him. Remember, there was only one target." A soft clacking sound was heard as boots walked across the tiled floor. A figure lowered itself to his level and Kurogane found himself face to face with Fye Valeria. "Kuro-myu?" The blond tilted his head to one side and his golden eyes seemed to hold an extreme amount of confusion behind them. "What are you doing here?"

"Trying to find you."

The confusion in Fye's eyes disappeared and his face seemed to become angry as he stood to his full height. "Let him go. He's not an enemy." The two children obeyed, allowing Kurogane to stand up straight once more.

"Fye, are we leaving now?"

Fye placed his hand on the boy's head and smiled brightly, "In just a moment we'll be going. Kuro-chan's arrival changes things a little, but before we discuss that..." Fye brought his other hand up and bashed it against the side of Kurogane's head without warning, "I needed to do that."

Kurogane rubbed the spot that had been hit. It hurt, but judging by the fact Fye hadn't even been looking at him, it could have hurt a lot worse, "What was that for!?"

"Your idiocy." Fye sighed, "Do you really think that your coming here could help me? You should have stayed at home Youou Kurogane." When Fye called him by his full name Kurogane realized that Fye was truly angry at him. That was damn ungrateful! He had come here because he was worried about Fye, but no, he was just pushed off as a burden!

Fye sighed, "But, it can't be helped. We just need to get out of here. Sakura. Syaoran. Which one of you has the better external telekinesis?"

Kurogane looked down at the children, the boy raised his hand. "Okay. Syaoran, you stay by me. Sakura, remain by Kurogane's side. We're going to head out toward the back door. With any luck, no one will realize that Fei is dead, and we'll slip out unnoticed."

Kurogane's eyes flickered about the room when Fye mentioned someone being dead. It was only when he looked in the corner that he saw the crumpled body of a man. There was no blood, but the look on his face was particularly gruesome. The only thing Kurogane could think of was that Fye had used that strange power F.A.I.s had. He had thought Fye was against killing people now, why had he killed this one? Was he one of the people who had abused him?

"Kurogane?"

Kurogane quickly ripped his eyes away from the corpse and looked back to Fye's face. "Yeah?"

"Do you have any weapons at all?"

"Kamui gave me a pistol from your glove box."

A small smile graced Fye's lips, "So my car is here?"

"Yes."

Fye grinned now, "All right, I forgive you. The car is something I need. Kamui is here as well?"

"Yes."

"Even better. Do you understand the plan?"

"Get out of this place?"

Fye sighed a little, but nodded, "That's the basic idea...let's go."

The little girl came to Kurogane's side and held onto his hand, a great big smile coming to her face, "This one's warm too, just like Fye..."

The four of them came from the room and with Fye's guidance they weaved in and out of hallways, hid in rooms to avoid people, and once the boy went so far as to knock a man out. After that particular incident Fye told Kurogane to give him his pistol, Fye himself had left his behind so that he could get into the now dead man's office.

"There." Fye smiled as they got to the final hallway. "There it is." He took in a deep breath and sighed out in relief, "We made it."

"Not quite." Fye's eyes widened and he spun around. Behind their small group was a larger group of nine or ten people. They were led by a small man, no older than Fye or Kurogane was. He didn't look particularly threatening, yet Fye grabbed at Syaoran, Sakura, and Kurogane and pushed them all behind him, toward the door. "You didn't really think it was that easy did you 685? If it was 686 would have escaped long before the release."

"You know..." Fye chuckled darkly, "For a moment there I really thought it was. Kurogane, take the children, go out, get to the car, leave."

"No way! I'm not leaving without you!"

"Kurogane!"

"Fye!"

"Fine!" Fye took the pistol from his back pocket and pointed it at the group, "Tell the children how to get to the car, and have them tell the driver, to leave in ten minutes or when he sees officials."

This command Kurogane did obey, quickly whispering instructions into the children's ears while Fye seemed to have a screaming match with the group that opposed them. After a minute he sent the children running, and when the back door slammed shut, he knew that those two were safe.

"They may escape 685, but you and your...friend, aren't leaving here."

"Why? Because we know too much? There are still other F.A.I. and other government officials who know."

"No, it's simple. You are considered a failure, yet from your data we can possibly create success stories. You are needed for that data. Your friend...well, he's the reason you like normal life, isn't he? If we get rid of him, well, you'll have no reason to want to leave."

For a long moment Fye was completely still, then he let the pistol drop to his side. "My data? You want my data? My computer programming mixed with true human blood?"

"That's correct."

"Huh," Kurogane couldn't see the look on Fye's face, but just from the voice he could tell that the blond was plotting something. "My data..." The assassin clicked his tongue as he lifted one hand up, allowing the sleeve to fall to his elbow. On the skin of his forearm was something Kurogane had never noticed before, three numbers: 6, 8, and 5, burned into the skin.

Fye laughed, "Well, if that's what you want, I'm going to make sure you can never have it." Quickly he lifted the pistol again and placed it a few inches away from that spot. A second later Kurogane's ears rung with the sound of a gunshot and a scream as Fye shot himself in the arm.

"You idiot!" The leader of the group yelled, "What do you think you're doing!" The same basic thought was running through Kurogane's own mind. Inside he was panicking, what was Fye thinking? Why would he injure himself instead of the enemy!

Fye made a sound that Kurogane wasn't able to identify, at times it sounded like a laugh, but others it was a sob. "Shutting down my systems. Isn't that right? The main computer system is in the brain, but the device that keeps it going is in the arm, right below the I.D. point. It causes an increase in power production, making the subject stronger, but the drawback is that the system completely dies within minutes." The sound became louder, "In ten minutes, you'll no use for me."

"But that's practically suicide! You only have a fifty-fifty chance to live! No sane person--!"

"That's the point! You told me before Kyle! I was suicidal before, and for a good cause, I'll be it again!"

"Grab him! Before the system shuts down! If we are able to reconstruct the arm we may be able to..."

"Kurogane, on the count of three, we run."

"Got it."

"One..."

"Save most of the program's data!"

"Two! Three!" Both Fye and Kurogane turned on their heels and ran.

"Gun them down! I don't care where you hit the other, but make sure you leave 685 alive!" Kurogane heard gunshots from both next to him and from behind them, indicating that both sides had fired. Fye was apparently a better shot, because two voices yelled and there were thuds.

As they reached the door there were more shots, and this time one of them managed to hit. Kurogane bit his lip so hard he was sure it was going to bleed as he felt pain explode from his shoulder and heard Fye's voice ask if he all right. "I'm fine! Just open the door!"

Fye slammed his shoulder against the door, causing it to open and the two men ran out. "Come on, quickly, to the car, we don't have much time. They'll be out front in about four minutes, and that's only because the building's so big."

Kurogane nodded, leading Fye around the building. About halfway to the parking lot Fye fell to his knees. "What's wrong?!"

"My systems are shutting down! It weakens most functions and confuses the waves that my brain sends out."

"Can you get up?!"

"No. Go."

"No way in hell!" The doctor turned around and ignoring the excruciating pain in his shoulder as best as he could, he picked Fye up into his arms.

"Put me down! You'll injure yourself more! Not to mention this is the desert! You'll tire yourself out more running with extra baggage!" Weakly Fye moved against him, trying to free himself from the man's grasp, but it was all futile.

"Shut it! I'm not leaving you! I came here for you, I'm leaving with you!"

Fye's voice screeched as Kurogane began to run again, "It doesn't matter! I only have a fifty percent chance of living anyway!"

"Then you better make sure you're in that top fifty percent."

As he ran, Fye's objections and movements became slower and slower, until he completely stopped moving. He was still breathing, which gave Kurogane hope, but even that was starting to slow as the parking lot came into view.

A car-horn honked and Kamui's voice yelled, "Hurry up! You've got twenty seconds before I'm leaving!"

The back door to the car opened as Kurogane reached it, passing Fye off to be arranged in the seat by Sakura, and he pulled himself in and shut the door. "Go Kamui."

Kamui turned the key and put the car into gear, "I know that this is going to kill the engine, and I know Fye will kill me for wrecking his car later, but if they catch us before we get to the nearest gas station, we're in their territory and we're done for. Understood?"

Kurogane looked down at the unconscious Fye, he was sure the blond would agree that getting away from this place was more important than the quality of his car's engine, "Yes."

"Good, then hold on to something."