Hotch and Emily walked back into the building from yesterday. Emily led Hotch to the holding cells where they found Cardoza. When Cardoza saw Hotch he grinned.
"Well well well, look who decided to visit." Cardoza said laughing. Hotch kept his stoic mask and was surprised to see Emily had one too.
"Jesse what the hell were you thinking?" Emily asked through the bars. Cardoza laughed.
"I was thinking that he was hot and I wanted to tap some of that. I mean, if that little thing could take him then he could take me." Cardoza said pointing to Hotch. Hotch leveled a glare to Cardoza.
"You know may be when we finish this, you can join me next time." Cardoza said to Hotch.
"You will finish your life behind bars." Hotch replied simply. Hotch turned and left the man alone as Emily followed him.
They made their way to Horatio's office when an alarm began going off from Emily's phone. Confused Emily pulled her phone out and looked to see what alarm was going off. Hotch became worried when Emily went pale.
"Emily?" Hotch prompted. Emily's eyes snapped up to his. She didn't say anything. Instead she hurried to her dad's office with Leo on her heels. Hotch followed.
"Dad…" Emily said not bothering to knock on the door and just walking in.
"Emily what is it?" Horatio asked recognizing her panicked look.
"The house alarm just went off." Emily told him. Horatio stood up.
"Has Mr. Wolfe made contacted you?" Horatio asked. Emily's phone went off again this time in a different tone. Emily looked up worried.
"That was our safe switch. Ryan activated the switch in one of our book cases where we stashed an extra gun." Emily said her eyes wide. Horatio grabbed his service weapon.
"Call Eric and Natalia. I'll call Frank on the way there." Horatio said as they rushed to the hummers. Emily did just that as Hotch became worried as well. He started to panic himself when he saw three people rush out with them jumped in the hummers with them and the sirens and lights were turned on.
Hotch's stomach dropped when they reached Emily's house. Even from the hummers, he could see that the front door had been kicked in. With practiced precision, they all jumped out with guns ready. Hotch pulled his gun and followed them in the house.
The living room was a disaster area. There were bullet holes in the walls and it was obvious that a struggle took place here. Hotch bolted and checked the room that he and Reid had stayed in. Empty. He went straight back out to the living room. Horatio was the only one there but he was studying it like a crime scene.
Natalia, Eric and Frank returned just a bit later.
"There is no sign of them." The woman Natalia said.
"Process the scene." Horatio instructed.
"Dad…" Emily said from the stairs. Horatio looked up as did Hotch. The look on her face told them they need to follow her. Hotch followed Horatio up the stairs to a secluded room upstairs. Emily left the door open to a room that had monitors playing video.
"When the house alarm is triggered, hidden cameras immediately turn on and start recording. I had this set up when we got the house. The house alarm was triggered about ten minutes before my phone went off. This is what the camera's caught." Emily said trying to hold herself together as she hit play.
At first the video showed nothing off. Reid, Ryan and Nia were in the living room watching the TV. A few seconds later they watched as Nia bolted up and began swinging her head around looking for something. Then they saw it. Men dressed completely in black invading the house. They watched as Ryan grabbed one gun then made his way to a book case. There he reached behind it and pulled out another gun tossing it to Reid. Reid caught it the same time the men jumped the two men. They fought valiantly and were going good when more men flooded the house. Hotch did a quick estimation and noticed that the three of them had taken a lot a men with them. A gasp from Emily snapped Hotch from his thinking. He saw Ryan go down in a sea of black and Hotch instantly focused on Reid.
Nia was doing a good job of keeping people from Reid but eventually she began to tire and men got past her. Reid followed Ryan under the men. Nia seemed to panic then and went straight to Reid. She got those men away from him and kept them away. The sea focused on Nia. Nia was only one against many and fell beside Reid. The men got to work. They tied all three up and carried them out. The other men cleaned up the men that had fallen and they were all gone in under 15 minutes.
"Who was that?" Hotch asked. Emily shook her head. She bent down and began rewinding the tapes.
"Stop, there in the left." Horatio said pointing to one of the monitors. Emily stopped the video and zoomed in the camera where he dad pointed. One of the men in black garb had a hand raised and the sleeve had slipped down. On the underside of his wrist was a tattoo.
"No…" Emily said when she saw the tattoo. It was the Greek symbol for the planet Saturn.
"She's back." Emily said with some venom. Horatio nodded his head.
"It appears she is." He said in a thoughtful tone.
"Who?" Hotch asked slightly annoyed.
"Allis. She was a MAU agent till a few years ago. She became obsessed with getting a dragon of her own. She started kidnapping people who had bonds with them and began experimenting on them. She found a way to physically sever the bond. However when she severed the bond, it would kill both the human and dragon. We found out and tried to remove her as she was becoming a killer but she managed to escape before we got there. We had a few encounters but she always managed to slip away. After a while we thought an experiment of hers went wrong and she finally died but this proves otherwise." Horatio explained.
Hotch noticed Emily unconsciously curl and arm around her right side. Leo whined nudging Emily. Emily gave Leo a pat before leaving the room. Leo gave Horatio a pained look before following Emily.
Horatio sighed and rubbed something under his shirt. The next thing Hotch knew the big blue dragon from yesterday was there. "This is my partner Masato." Horatio said petting the blue dragon. Hotch dipped his head to the dragon.
"Where do we find this Allis?" Hotch asked folding his arms across his chest.
"That is what we are going to find out." Horatio said looking Hotch in the eye with a determined look.