"Diana, we need to find out where Dr. Weigman went. Did you see him leave the room?" Astrid asked urgently. Diana raised her eyebrows.
"No, actually," she said. Diana started looking around the room, too. "Well, isn't he an evil adult version of Jack?"
"Yes… what's your point?" Astrid asked skeptically. Diana smirked.
"Wouldn't Jack hide with his computers at a time like this?" she said. Astrid laughed and started to get up.
"Wait, Astrid, I have to tell you something," Diana said and bit her lip. It looked important, so Astrid leaned down.
"What is it?" she asked.
"I'm, I'm going to be a mom. And Caine is going to be a dad," Diana whispered. Her eyes were big and looked worried. It took a while for Astrid to grasp that.
"What?" Astrid said, shocked.
"Yeah…" Diana muttered, looking down at the ground. She got up and started walking towards the computers, but Astrid grabbed her shoulder.
"No, you stay here. I'll find Dr. Weigman," Astrid said. "You stay safe and protect the baby."
Diana was about to object, but Astrid gave Diana a look that said No matter what you say, I won't change my mind.
Diana smiled and sat back down. She made a good choice convincing Caine to come back and stick with Sam's crew.
Astrid ran off to the computers. It didn't take long for her to find Dr. Weigman curled up in a ball, hiding under one of the enormous computers.
"Hello, Dr. Weigman," Astrid said brightly. The scientist jumped and hit his head on the computer.
"You shouldn't scare me like that! I could have broken this computer!" He cried indignantly.
"Why don't you call your soldiers off my friends?" Astrid said coldly. Dr. Weigman started quivering.
"I don't think I should do that. Where is the General, anyways?" Dr. Weigman asked. Astrid hoped Jack took care of the General, but she wasn't for sure.
"That doesn't matter, Carter. What matters is you order the attack to stop," Astrid said with a smile.
"You are just kids! You can't possibly think you could win this war!" Dr. Weigman cried.
"War? What war?" Astrid asked. She frowned. Dr. Weigman got a smug look on his face.
"Exactly. You're just kids. You haven't even realized yet what is about to happen, what this is the beginning of," he said. Astrid had enough. She grabbed the scrawny scientist by the ear and dragged him across the floor to where Diana was. It looked like Astrid was dragging a bad kid.
"Ow, ow, ow. Careful! This is humiliating and painful and I order you to let go of me!" Dr. Weigman whined as he was being dragged. "Wait! I don't want to leave my computers! I just got an upgrade on one of them!"
"Find something to tie him up with, Diana," Astrid said in a tired voice after she pushed a grumbling Dr. Weigman against the wall. Diana found some rope and started wrapping Dr. Weigman in it.
"Dr. Weigman, is there anyway to control that catwalk up there?" Astrid asked.
"Why do you want to know?" Dr. Weigman said with an eyebrow raised. Astrid guess that meant there was a way to control it.
"Because we don't like the way the room is set up. Not very good feng shui," Diana said sarcastically.
"Someone's a little grumpy," Dr. Weigman muttered. "And yes, you can control it with those computers."
"But I'm not telling you how," Dr. Weigman added like a pouting toddler. Astrid figured he wouldn't tell. But Jack could figure it out. Astrid planned to use the catwalk as their escape route.
"Seems like the Teenage Mutant Super Kids are done fighting," the scientist grumpily said. Astrid looked around, and sure enough, Sam, Caine, Edilio, Dekka, and Jack were standing, exhausted, surveying the damage they caused. Lana was still healing Brianna, and Quinn was standing up, stretching his leg.
Astrid watched Jack, Sam, Edilio, Quinn and Dekka all run over to where Brianna was laying. Caine slowly started swaggering towards Diana.
"Caine, wait!" Jack called. Caine turned around, surprised. Astrid frowned, got up, and started walking towards Jack.
"What is it, Jack?" Caine asked.
"I need you to carry the General," Jack said. He pointed towards the wall opposite of where Dr. Weigman was tied up. "He's over there, unconscious and wrapped in a piece of steel."
"Why can't you carry him?" Caine asked with his eyebrow raised. Jack shuffled his feet.
"Well, I don't want to mess up and have him escape," he said. Caine let loose an exasperated sigh.
"Caine, you should be grateful Jack was able to get us all free," Astrid said. Caine shot Astrid a murderous look, which only caused Astrid to raise an eyebrow. Jack muttered something along the lines of how he didn't like everyone making a big deal out of it.
Jack led them to where the General was supposed to be. But all that was left was a piece of bent steel.
"Oh no. I messed up. I messed up big time," Jack said. He looked like he was about to cry. Astrid put an arm around his shoulder as tears started to fall down his face.
"It's okay, we'll get him next time," Astrid said soothingly. Jack just shook his head and looked at his feet.
"It's all because I'm a big wimp. I didn't want to hurt him or anything, even though he tried to kill us all. And I had to check on Brianna, I couldn't just sit there when she could be dying," Jack sobbed. "Now he could trap us again and kill us. And he won't make the same mistakes again."
Astrid didn't know what to say. Surprisingly, it was Caine who spoke.
"You shouldn't regret not killing someone," Caine mumbled in a voice barely audible. He awkwardly nodded at Jack's shocked expression and walked towards Lana.
Jack sniffed and wiped his eyes. "Great. Now I'm even more of a wimp because I cried. I kinda always was, though," Jack said and laughed. Astrid awkwardly patted Jack on the back.
Diana ran up to them.
"Dr. Weigman disappeared!" she cried. "I looked away for one second and he was gone!"
That sobered Jack up. He locked eyes with Astrid. She knew they were thinking the same thing.
"The General took him…" Jack started, fear and confusion written all over his face.
"...but left Diana unharmed," Astrid finished in a dazed voice. She frowned, trying to make sense of it all.
Something strange was going on.
Astrid's thinking was interrupted by Lana.
"It's Brianna!" she yelled.