Oh my gosh my inbox is broken from all the activity on this story. Not that I'm complaining ;) Anyways, this chapter gave me a fit! Re-wrote it forty-five million times. So enjoy it.

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Difficult loading, difficult flying, difficult unloading; so far this Storm Shadow guy was giving off nothing but trouble to A.J. As well as picking up on the tense vibes from Snake Eyes, she could tell this wasn't going to be the smartest idea she's ever had. But then again, when had she had a safe, smart idea?

"Trip. Hey, Tripwire….. A.J!" Lady T swiped a hand across the sleeping woman's face. A.J snapped up straight in her chair looking around half out of it before resting her face in her hands.

"Good God woman, did you have to—I mean….." She started to fall asleep again. Lady T snapped her fingers repeatedly by her ears. A.J grabbed her hand and went to bite her fingers, but Lady T was too fast.

"Come on, we thought you might want to see this." Scarlett said in hopes of coaxing A.J out of her sleepy state. Not one to be left out, A.J forced herself to stand from the chair she fell asleep in while waiting for Nightshade to arrive at the infirmary. The two women made their way to stand with the Alpha Team.

Nightshade was there now, as well as a bunch of people. She stood by the bed Storm shadow had been moved to; looking at all the monitors, her fingers slightly moving in a random order. The crowd stood in a curious wonder as of what she was doing. As the 'show' was about to start, A.J put one arm on Lady T's shoulder and rested her head on it. Lady T gave her a raised eye-brow.

"Shut up, you're the one who woke me up." She jokingly snapped as Lady T shook her head. Finally, Nightshade moved her arms and placed her fingers in a premeditated position on Storm Shadow's head. The interest of the crowd grew as they began to move for a better look.

Lady T whipped her head over her should and gave a short, stern Shoosh! Before turning back; satisfied at the immediate silence. Nightshade was focused on her actions only it seemed a she adjusted her finger's positions on last time, checking that the medic team was still in their positions, before applying equal pressure to them. First, the heart rate monitor started to pick up to eighty beats a minute for, the forty it had been. Then the brain wave monitor picked up regular activity as Nightshade released her grips. Almost immediately after Storm Shadow began choking on the air pipe that ran all the way to his lungs to supply him oxygen. The medic team rushed to remove the pipe leaving most of the crowd shocked.

"Common reaction when the person starts to breathe on the own. Saw it all the time at med. bases in Afghanistan." A.J assured Lady T and whoever else was in ear shot. Once the tube was removed they began sticking in IVs and other such things as a pair of random Joes began hustling the crowd out. Nightshade joined Lady T and A.J as they exited.

"Nice show Ninja-Woman." A.J said holding up a high-five hand. Nightshade tried to ignore it as A.J began moving it and a circular motion to get her to high-five back. "If you don't high-five my hand I'm going to high-five your face." Nightshade rolled her eyes and high-fived her back as A.J made a cheesy smile.

"So what exactly did you do back there?" Lady T inquired shoving A.J off her.

"It's kind of like pressure points; some will kill you, some will save you." Nightshade answered with a slight shrug.

"Trade secrets. It's like the Coca-Cola recipe." A.J told Lady T as the trio walked down the hall that would end their journey.

"I got a work 'til eight. You'll have to find someone else to spar with tonight." Lady T informed her as she left the group. A.J gave Nightshade a hopeful look, who answered her by walking off. A.J sighed as she made her way to the training room by herself.

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A.J found that treadmills were fun. She'd been running on this ne for about thirty minutes pushing it as fast as it would go. She used to love to run when she was still in college; pretty much the only good period in her life was college years. She had left the Brotherhood, she met Lady T, and she became who she was today.

In the Brotherhood she was taught to hate. To hate everything, to kill everything. There is, there was, and there will be only the Brotherhood. To have no self, to be brainless….

A.J gave her head a shake in attempt to clear her minds of such thoughts. That was over now. 'Menhit' was dead to the Brotherhood, only 'The Rebel' remained.

'Rebel. Oh the old days.' A.J thought with a smile creeping up as memories came back, but she shoced them out again. After a few more minutes of running, she stopped the treadmill and headed down the stairs, on the level where the door was.

There were a few dabblers hanging around, mostly lifting weights. She noticed something out of the corner of her eye but kept going. Once she reached the door she spun around on her heel, coming face to face with Snake Eyes.

"Ha! You didn't think I saw you there." She smirked and opened the door, motioning for him to go first. Once they were out the door, she re-adjusted her gloves that no noticed anymore simply because she wore them all time. He was going to ask if she was following him before they were across the hall from each other.

"I want to thank you for helping Storm Shadow." He signed after a while.

"Don't thank me, thank Nightshade. I just forced her to do it." She joked. "Speaking of which, we need to have a rematch some time. You only won that time because I wasn't in condition." She waved a finger at him. He gave a silent chuckle.

"Fine with me." He signed back. Something was different about A.J. Most people by now would have asked the common 'Why don't you talk? Did you get shot in the throat?' or 'Why do you always were a mask? It's not like you have to hide from your own people.' But A.J never asked such things. And most women would be trying to impress him or act very shy around him, but A.J acted like everybody had the same face. She couldn't tell them apart, so she didn't treat them different.

"Cool. It'll give me a chance to try out my old boxing moves in put in with some karate." She said receiving a hidden look from Snake Eyes.

"Never heard of combining those two styles before." He signed. A.J gave short laugh at the comment.

"I guess I'm just a rebel like that." She shrugged turning towards her door. He hadn't even realized they were in the room corridor. "Well, good night." She gave a short wave before closing her door behind her.

Snake Eyes smiled slightly before going into his own room. 'Good night, Rebel.'

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Holy cats in hell that took forever! All the other chapters took about an hour a piece. But I've had such bad writers block from the stress at work, I couldn't write! Anyways, this chapter is mainly just a filler to explain.