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Chuck rounded up all of Kenji's men and divided them; Casey with Mayo, who corrected Casey so many times on how to pronounce his name that he just gave up, and the other half with Chuck. Casey took his half to hide outside while Chuck took the other half who would engage Tokugawa's forces and bait them to come inside. After making sure everything was where he wanted it to be he went to see Casey.

"John are you clear on what you need to do? Once we get them in the tunnel you need to make sure they don't get out again."

"No problem, Mayo dug me up a couple of M2 Brownings that Kenji's people acquired. They should be in a museum somewhere but they work and I've got plenty of ammunition so keeping them bottled up shouldn't be a problem. Mayo here will be my translator," said Casey as he slapped the kid on the back almost knocking him over.

"His name is Meiyo," said Chuck looking at the embarrassed man worked out his shoulder. "Meiyo I know John needs some getting used to but you're going to have the most important job. You're going to have to get them to lay down their weapons."

"Don't worry Mayo," said Casey. "Mr Browning and friend will make sure nothing gets lost in the translation."

"Okay everyone knows what they're doing let's get in place. I want to go spend the rest of my time with Nee-san. You know being stuck in that iron coffin has got to be really uncomfortable especially with everything that's going on around her."

"Meiyo I'll catch up with you," said John finally pronouncing his name right. The man turned and smiled before running off.

"What is it John? I couldn't stop her if that's what you're going to lecture me about. I tried but the truth is she was right. I just wish she'd said something before she took off."

"Can you explain to me how someone kidnaps you, threatens to kill you then all of a sudden they're your friend? But I guess you wouldn't be you if you didn't. Listen what I wanted to say is I can handle this if you want to go after her?"

"John I appreciate your offer but you don't speak Japanese and Mayo… Christ, now you've got me calling him that. What I'm saying is he's a kid and when real bullets start flying he might forget everything even his name. I don't see him staring down a yakuza lieutenant. After we get everyone bagged I might leave the tagging up to you."

"I understand and I'll have a ride waiting," said John as he walked off. "Mayo where have you disappeared to… Jesus you guys all look…"

Chuck didn't hear the rest but he didn't have to knowing John's cultural sensitivity. He glanced over at the locker with the videos then went into the stasis room to spend time with Nee-san. She looked out of it lying there sweating. Chuck checked her temperature then made sure the chamber was functioning properly.

"Who's there? I hear you," Chuck heard Nee-san say. He jumped because he thought she was still unconscious.

"Oh it's just me I was checking to make sure your bio pod was working properly," said Chuck as he continued to look it over.

"I'm sorry but I feel so tired and confused. I think I'm going to sleep a little longer," she said as Chuck looked at her through the glass then she looked back at him.

"You should rest. Go back to sleep and dream of electric sheep."

"Excuse me but do we know each other?" she said as she drifted off.

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Kenji and Sarah left while Chuck was on the phone with Morgan. Sarah didn't like leaving the way she did but she knew Chuck would try to stop her. They had heard what they needed to hear from Morgan and the wheels were set in motion for the showdown. Kenji had a vehicle waiting for them loaded with all the gear they'd need.

"What are you looking at," said Sarah catching Kenji glancing over at her. "It's only natural that we look the same."

"Yes but it's more… I don't know you're quiet like her too. It's… well it's…"

"Creepy, I know but I'm quiet because I'm thinking how I'm going to justify what I did to my husband. I don't like what we did. I know why I had to sneak out, because that's what we did, but I don't have to like it."

"I'm sorry I wish there had been another way," said Kenji as they hit the main road and started heading towards the Tokugawa stronghold.

"How long have you been with Nee-san? She seems to rely on you, are you her… I don't know Lieutenant or something like that?"

"Something like that I don't know what she told you about us but… well I'm having a hard time talking to you. It's like talking to her. I guess I know what Chuck must've felt when we took him."

"You were jealous and now you aren't jealous anymore? We did just leave them alone back there in the lab together."

"Why aren't you jealous? You ask me but he's with her and he did come back when he could've left so I ask you why aren't you jealous?"

"Because I know my Chuck," said Sarah as she paused like she was catching her breath. "I've been in love with him since the first time I met him. Neither of us realized it at the time but looking back now I fell for him the moment we met. I'm guessing the same thing happen to you and Nee-san."

"What us? No, she doesn't even know I'm alive sometimes. She barks orders; I follow them and make sure the men follow them too."

"I don't think it's that way. She asked me to make sure you stayed safe. What does that tell you? That she's concerned about you. For girls like us that means a lot. We don't care a lot about anything or anyone but if she told me to keep an eye on you that means she likes you."

"She did?... She does? …. No you're reading more into what she said than what she meant. There can't be anything between us."

"Why because you were sent to kill her and her sisters?" said Sarah. She got the reaction she expected as he almost ran off the road.

"She told you then and you still want to help me," Kenji said then he paused as he thought. "Or are you taking me out to execute me?"

"Don't be silly if I wanted you dead I wouldn't have come this far. When she was delirious she mentioned you and she talked about the Huntsman in Snow White so I put the two together."

"Yes I was sent by Tokugawa," said Kenji as he clarified, "George to be exact to kill Nee-san and her sisters. Lee was leaving and he wanted his mess buried but he didn't want to get his hands dirty."

"But you didn't, what happened," asked Sarah as they drove down a dark road climbing up the side of Mount Fuji. "Listen I need to know if I can trust you to go through with this or if you're going to back out again."

"I'm not going to back out," said Kenji as he got mad. "Never… Okay we had them all three but Nee-san asked me for something that changed everything." He looked over at Sarah and realized she wasn't going to let it go. "She told me she'd never kissed anyone and asked me if I would kiss her before we killed them. I did then I realized I couldn't kill her, so like the huntsman, I brought back false hearts."

"False hearts? What do you mean?"

"I killed my own men and took three of their hearts back as proof," said Kenji as he paused to breath. "I know what it sounds like and I'm not looking for sympathy. I did what I did and that's it. Anyway my trick didn't work, Lee had some sort of test and I had to fight my way out. Nee-san and her sisters came to help with friends I left with them. To make a long story short George had her friends slaughtered and we took revenge on him. Larry wanted to blame what happened on Lee but he was too well connected and gone before he could do anything so he began his war on us. My family ostracized me but we've been able to carve out a small place for ourselves plus the Jōhōhonbu come to us when they need someone like Nee-san to eliminate an obstacle."

"I bet she found that she's quite good at obstacle removal. Kenji when this is over you guys need to go leave this place and this life. Find a beach somewhere and watch the sunrise together. If you ask her she'll go. Take my word on it."

"We have to get back in one piece first," said Kenji as he turned off his lights and pulled off the road close to the compound parking near the wall. He activated a cell phone jammer as they grabbed packs, HK MP5A3s along with extra clips and suppressed glocks.

"Thanks but I prefer my own," said Sarah as she took the suppressor off the glock 17 and put it on her Smith and Wesson. "Nee-san isn't the only one good at removing obstacles."

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Takeo and his men pulled up outside the tunnel making sure to stay out of sight. What they didn't know was that the video feed they were watching Morgan was watching too. Relying everything to Casey through his phone so it was easy for Casey to keep his troops hidden. One of Takeo's men brought up a blueprint of the tunnel, it indicated the way inside was basically only one through the main entrance.

"So this is the way we have to go in," said Takeo. "But if we hit them hard and fast they won't know what's going on until it's too late."

"But there's a ventilation shaft here. We could drop a few guys behind them then catch them in a cross fire."

"The shaft's too small to move enough troops that would matter. No send a couple of guys with automatics and have them guard it in case any rabbits decide to run," said Takeo as he ran his finger over the blueprint.

"Is something wrong? You look like you're not certain or are having doubts, Takeo-san this is a good plan and it will work."

"Thanks Moriyama, but there's just something about this that bothers me. This woman has been cleaver all these years now she traps herself inside a cave. That's what this tunnel is a cave. I don't know… You need to tell the men to keep their eyes open."

"Takeo-san, Takeo-san," yelled a man as he came running with a tablet in hand.

"Bakayarō! Idiot keep your voice down," said Takeo as he took the tablet from the man. "You should just go up to the front door and knock. Maybe they'll let us in." All the men around Takeo laughed.

"Sumimasen, I'm sorry but I thought you needed to see this right away. The motion detectors you had installed on the walls around the compound went off and this is what the cameras picked up."

"Intruders," said Takeo as he watched the feed. "That's that traitor Kenji and the gaijin girl. This is a diversion they're after the Boss."

"What do you want to do?" asked Moriyama. "They're only two and you left our four best men. You can call and warn them as we run back."

"No, that's what they want us to do. Now this is cleaver I should've expected something like this they want us to act like a yoyo," said Takeo. But he saw his Lieutenants didn't understand. "Let me make it simpler, it's like a dog caught between two cats. If he goes after one then the other one swats him. In the end he gets neither… just his bottom gets clawed up."

"So what do we do?"

"We need two dogs. I'll take two cars back with me while you attack here with the rest of the men. I'll call our guys at the compound on the way. Moriyama in a few hours this will all be over," said Takeo in a rare moment of emotion grabbed his man by the shoulders.

"Yes sir I'm honoured you asked me to do this for you. I won't let you down."

"Good begin the assault," said Takeo as he jumped into a car. He looked back out the window as he watched his men circle the entrance. "Moriyama you'd better win or your and my head will be next to each other in the courtyard."

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Chuck was double checking the stasis chamber and making sure the emergency generator was functional. When the attack came they probably would lose electricity so the stasis chamber had to be autonomous. It had to be able to be self-sufficient for at least six to eight more hours that was what Jill had calculated it would take for Nee-san's fever to break. Jill had intentionally been lying low and quiet since Chuck had read Lee's journals. There just wasn't anyway good to address the elephant in the room.

"Chuck can we talk this out," said Jill as she watched him hovering over the bio pod. "I can understand you being angry."

"Jill please I'd prefer not to right now. Listen Nee-san came to for a little while but she acted like she didn't recognize me. Could this be the memory problem Lee wrote about in his journal?"

"It could be but it's too early to know. Certainly this high a fever isn't doing her brain or her body any good. If it wasn't for the stasis chamber she'd already be dead. I just hope after all this she lives."

"That's awfully kind of you since you people put her in this situation to begin with. You couldn't leave well enough alone. I wish I could talk to this Lee and ask him if he was happy with what he did. How could he sleep at night knowing all the pain and suffering he caused not to mention the deaths. Then they label his creation a monster? No he was the monster. The poor creature was born just like anyone of us. Maybe in a different way but she was just born and anything she did or mistakes she made can all be laid at Lee's feet."

"Then what does that say about me? Chuck is that how you see me now?"

"Jill I don't think you want me to answer that because you won't like my answer," said Chuck. There was an awkward silence broken by Casey when he radioed.

"Chuck look alive in there you've got company coming and they didn't bring any of that chardonnay you like."

"Have the men engage but fight in retreat they need to draw them in. I'll be waiting for them. Have Mayo ready. Christ Casey there you go again making me calling him that," radioed Chuck.

"Roger that Casey out."

"I see you've got a new watch," said Jill.

"Yes but I still like the old one it got beat up but kept on working like our friendship."

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Morgan was on the phone with different catering services looking for one that could provide the best bird and ham at the best price. The problem was no one wanted to deliver on Thanksgiving. The most he got was on the eve of the day before. While Morgan was hassling with the holidays Alex was monitoring the sat feeds and relay to Casey.

"Okay I'll take four Diestel Farms turkeys brined with lemon, herbs, garlic, honey and roasted. I'll need three spiral hams. One with maple, one with brown sugar and the last with a honey mustard glaze. Bring them to the Buy More in Burbank. You sure you can't deliver on Thanksgiving?... I know it's Thanksgiving for you Wong but it's not like your folk came over on the Mayflower. … No, I didn't know the Pilgrims ordered take out. I'll be here waiting."

"Morgan, don't tell me you ordered our Thanksgiving turkey from Sizzling Shrimp? You ordered the turkey from a Chinese takeaway?"

"I know the cook and they gave me a good price. Hey what's happening there?" said Morgan as he came over to Alex's station and began working her mouse to zoom in. "There... Here let me clear it up a bit. See those two cars are leaving."

"Dad this is Alex can you read me? Dad can you hear me?" radioed Alex then a few minutes later his voice came in low.

"I can hear you but I've got to keep in low. We've got hostiles on the move. If this isn't urgent I need to go Mayo is waiting for me."

"Are you fighting a battle or building a sandwich," said Morgan looking puzzled at Alex.

"I heard that Troll if you don't have anything…."

"No Dad two cars left. We're tracking them and they look like they're heading back to the compound. What do you want us to do? It's still not too late to call the General."

"And she'll do what? She can't authorize a drone strike even if she could the Secretary of State would have a cow not to talk about what would happen in the White house. Try to raise Sarah and warn her but they've probably gone dark."

"John you should tell Chuck," said Morgan. "He needs to know Sarah's in trouble."

"So that he'll do what? There are thirty armed men between him and the exit and if I tell him he'll try to run through them getting himself killed in the process. No, she's going to have to hold out until we can get help to her. Grimes try to slow down the vehicles hack into the traffic lights and make sure they get all red or make all the lights green; do whatever you have to."

"I hope you know what you're doing."

"I do to, Casey out."

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Chuck was inside the tunnel with Jill standing over the stasis chamber when they heard the small arms fire. At first it was barely audible but minute by minute it grew louder and louder as the noise began to echo inside the tunnel. Soon they could hear men screaming too as it sounded like they were charging towards them.

"Here, I know you know how to use this," said Chuck as he handed Jill a Beretta. "If we can't turn this tide you may have to defend this room."

"Chuck good luck," said Jill as he walked out front closing the door behind him. Already Kenji's men were regrouping around him as they got ready to make their last stand.

"The masks," said Chuck in Japanese, "put them on now and get ready."

"Chuck they're all in. It's time for you to do your magic. Hurry up we need to speak afterwards. Casey out."

"Speak about what?" radioed Chuck but he got no answer. He didn't like it and he had a bad feeling but the hands were dealt now he had to play his cards.

"Takeo-san," yelled Chuck as he came out in the open. "I need to talk to Takeo if he's got the courage to meet with me."

"You'll have to deal with me," said Moriyama. "I'm in charge of this operation. Do you want to surrender or die?" He was going to kill them anyway but like this he could save his own people and maybe Tokugawa would reward him.

"Where's Takeo?" said Chuck he didn't like it. Crap, he thought if he wasn't there then… Oh my God that's what Casey wanted to talk to him about. "Never mind… I'm giving you the opportunity to surrender or as you so amply put it die."

"You're a funny man, isn't he?" said Moriyama as his men laughed.

"I suppose you can read," said Chuck as he pointed at the tanks lining the room 'Sarin'. "I think you remember Tokyo," said Chuck as he pulled down his gas mask firing a round into one of the CO2 tanks that exploded.

The red pepper and wasabi powder taped to the sides mixed with the CO2 that filling the air in the room. Moriyama's men started to panic as their eyes and throats began to burn. The CO2 made the whole room surreal between the white fog and their tearing eyes the men dropped their weapons and ran. Chuck tossed a flash grenade and Kenji's men fired at the remaining tanks. Moriyama tried to raise his type 56 but Chuck took him out with one punch.

"Charge," yelled Chuck as Kenji's men came out of the woodwork chasing Tokugawa's men towards Casey where they were ordered to drop their weapons. Chuck heard the Brownings as he cleared the tunnel. Could the idiots have tried to make a stand he thought, but as he emerged from the white cloud and pepper mist he found Casey and Mayo guarding all of Tokugawa's men.

"John, their leader is out inside but it's not Takeo, Tokugawa's his chief Lieutenant. John what is it?" said Chuck. He could tell from Casey's look something had happened. "You knew didn't you? What's going on?"

"I know two cars left before the fighting started. I think he was in one. Sarah's on radio silence so we haven't been able to reach her. But Mayo has a plan."

"Mayo always has a plan," said Meiyo. "Here Chuck-san put this on. You'll need it."

"What for?"

"Just take it and shut up," said Casey. "Listen to the man." Chuck gave Casey a look but he held back his anger.

"Did you know ninjas invented the silent arts as well as this," said Meiyo as he showed Chuck what he was talking about.

"Somehow I don't think they invent the two-stroke."