Watching Fareeha and the others sleep soundly put Mercy at ease for the time being. She stared for a longer than she probably should have, though she knew there was no immediate threat if she stayed just a little bit. Her hand slowly ran along Fareeha's face, the memories of those younger years flooding into Mercy's mind. Such pain and heartache for such a small girl to have to live with. Mercy slowly stood as she felt the AI buzzing through her head, surprised he hadn't pushed her into moving yet.

"If we could go, that would be great. Unless you would like to stick around and explain to everyone about how you just magically gained super powers..."

Mercy sighed softly before nodding, quickly making her way from the scene and to her room. She wasn't planning on switching outfits, though she wasn't about to go anywhere without at least her pistol. She took in the sight of her room, not knowing exactly how long this trip would take her or if she would even have a place to come back to when she was finished. Her eyes came across one of the old pictures she had on a clothes drawer, picking it up and smiling to herself.

It was one of the few pictures that had the old team together and not at each other's throats in one way or another. She remembered this time, the happiness they all shared and the work they managed to complete. She popped the back of the frame off and folded the picture in half. Quickly unzipping her suit, Mercy placed it right along the inside, the old picture cool against her chest before she zipped back up. With nothing else to grab she made her way to the door, activating the room's defenses and locking the room up as she left.

Her walk was more of a jog to the hanger, her ears perking up at every noise in case Jack and Ana had found the others and were looking for her now. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself as she soon found herself among the ships that they had managed to keep even after the government had come to take everything they considered theirs. She looked over them all, though most of what was left were the larger ships which were meant for a team and not just a single person.

Luckily she knew where Lena kept her personal ship, the plucky pilot having hid it rather well from any prying eyes. Though a few late nights had led to some wonderful conversations, which led to Lena showing off where she had kept the ship hidden all this time.

Mercy felt her lips curl into a small smile as she thought about the girl, trying to keep her mind from sinking into the negative side of the current situations. Running her hand along the smooth wall, she closed her eyes to feel for the small... little...

click

The wall creaked open as Mercy began to push and pull the secret little passage open. It had always surprised Mercy how this was able to be hidden, considering the ship wasn't too small, and had enough room to take off from here. The long hallway leading to pitch black nothingness made Mercy a bit uneasy, though she knew that she could open the doors down there.

'Okay, so... you know how to fly this thing, correct?'

"Nooooo, I was just going to get in and pray that you knew how to!"

'Well excuse me for just checking. You seem to make up things on the fly more often than not.'

"That almost sounds as if you're scared. I thought the big, bad Anubis wasn't scared of anything?"

'Do you want to get rid of me or not?'

"Oh trust me, I can't wait to be rid of you."

Mercy slowly walked over to the ship and was soon opening the cockpit, slipping inside and looking over the controls in order to get reacquainted with them. After about a minute she had the ship fired up and prepping for launch.

"Good afternoon Angela. Where can I take you on this beautiful day?"

Mercy had completely forgotten about the ship's AI, a modified version of Athena that Lena had had Winston install in case she had needed to take a break or charge her chronal accelerator while she was piloting for whatever reason. The female voice coming through was strange though, sounding more human than Athena usually did. Had Lena modded in a new voice?

'Where are we going?' Mercy thought to herself and as such the AI.

'Numbani.'

'Really?'

'Why would I lie to you about this?'

'Just seems like a strange place, though I suppose your temple isn't much of an option hm?'

The AI was silent, though Mercy could feel him giving her a glare. Perhaps she was being a bit too harsh, but then she remembered what she had been put through plus the fact that the AI had done this to himself, so he had nobody to blame.

"Angela?" The female voice filled the cockpit, pulling Mercy back out of her head.

"Ah yes, er... Athena? I'm heading to Numbani, if you would be so kind."

"Of course! A lovely place to visit. Oh and please, call me Emily!"

Mercy nodded before pressing a few last buttons and getting buckled in, making sure everything was properly adjusted to make the initial push of flight as smooth as possible. About that time she would see red light starting to flash rapidly, a loud siren echoing through the hall.

"WE ARE GOING ON LOCK DOWN. IF ANYONE SEES ANGELA, STOP HER IMMEDIATELY. THAT IS AN ORDER!"

The voice was Jack's, the anger in his voice obvious as he yelled into the comm system. She thought she had given herself more time, though it would seem that he and Ana had found the others, or he had been watching the cameras at any given time.

"Shit. Er, Emily, could we go ahead and leave now? I really need to get to where I'm going..."

"I'm so sorry Angela. I wish I could, but it would seem that the watchpoint is going into a lock down, which means I have lost any permissio-zzzt"

The female voice was gone, the blue display starting to flood with red as Angela found her hand on the console. When had she...?

'We don't have time for this, I'm taking this ship over and overriding it all. If there is one person who won't be stopping me, it's Jack FUCKING Morrison...'

Mercy felt her stomach getting knotted a bit as she heard the anger in Anubis' voice, her head buzzing and starting to burn slightly as she also imagined the look on Jack's face as he was surely running his way here now. She swallowed a bit, her breathing getting quick as the rush of adrenaline hit her veins again. She was really doing this. She was running away in order to help this rogue AI in some way. How was he going to be taken from her and who was going to be taking him anyway? What sort of friends did this thing have? The adrenaline mixed with fear now as Mercy began to feel herself growing a little hot, her breathing a bit labored.

"I want out."

'What?'

"Let. Me. Out. NOW."

The AI began to laugh as Mercy found her hands moving on their own, the things working quickly over the ship's console as the jets on the small ship began to fire up loudly. Mercy gritted her teeth as she tried to pull her hands away, her arms feeling like she had been laying on them funny, the tingling doing nothing but annoying her more.

"STOP THIS NOW."

Jack's voice filled the cockpit, Mercy's head snapping to the side as she saw him standing in the doorway, staring her down with a look that she had only ever seen once before. The fire in his eyes, the scowl on his lips. She could tell right then and there that she made a mistake.

The ship was ready, the console flashing brightly as Mercy looked into the eyes of the man she had been trying to get closer to for so long, feeling her heart breaking a bit as she knew this was probably the last time she would be seeing him as a friend.

As the ship began to push away slowly, Mercy could feel something coming over her entire body. Her eyes grew hazy, lids starting to droop. She blinked a few times, trying to hold off what she knew to be the AI's control over her now. It was of little use, the woman feeling her head growing heavy as she looked at Jack one last time.

"I'm sorry, Jack.." was the last thing she got out before succumbing to the darkness of sleep.