Authors Notes: Oops forgot to put this up last night with the new episodes excitement.

Frozen Timepiece

Chapter 28

Escape

Kate lay on her back her eyes fogged over. She had never felt weak enough for her eyes to unfocus before. Sanza had long since stopped torturing her. He stood there smiling at his work. Kates shirt had been ripped to pieces, and even her pants were torn up. They left little to the imagination. Echo was seething from where he stood gazing bullets at Sanza. Fresh promises on his lips, and anger in his eyes. He watched as Sanza touched a wound on Kate. He had left those thin knives within her skin. Each one to small to be knives really more like large needles.

"Would you like to say goodbye to her?" Sanza asked Echo. Zane felt his heart flip flop as he saw his brother look down at his love. Kate took a deep breath.

"I'm going to laugh...when he ends you." Kate tried to be as brave as she could for him. This got a small smile out of Echo.

"Thats my girl." He whispered. He knew she felt like hell and a lot of her skin looked like a white and red tiger. Every inch of her ached and he knew it.

"It'll be on the beach. Our wedding." Echo said allowed trying to lift her spirits.

"With a Barbeque." Kate whispered.

"Both of you knock it off. It'll be impossible because you both will be dead." Sanza smiled pulling out a knife and walked over to Kate. He grabbed her shirt and tore it clean in two.

"Now hold still."

A crackling sound was heard in the room Sanza looked around wondering if it was the steel post finally coming loose. He couldn't have that. A loud yelp escaped him as the ceiling fell through. Jay and Ronin landed on top of him and Cole landed on them.

"Damn it Ronin I told you it was left. This is…" Cole stopped and saw Echo and Zane. Zane had pulled his brother back away from the noise.

"You're alive!" Jay yelled and ran forward hugging them both.

"Please if you would…" Zane said holding up his wrist. Cole brought over the key and undid the bindings.

"What did they do to her!?" Ronin asked

"Do not pull it out like that Ronin!" Echo said running forward and stepped on Sanza on his way by. "Here…" He began to pull the needles from Kates body. She was cold to the touch, and she was shivering.

"Anyone know where a blanket is?" Ronin asked suddenly made that he didn't have a jacket.

"Just start opening those cabinets. There's something I'm sure." Jay said throwing open a cabinet and yelped having a bunch of pipes hit him.

"Why does he have pipes."

"He hits people with them." Echo said holding up his hand.

"Ow…" Ronin gasped and pulled a blanket around his sister tying it around her shoulder like a toga.

"I'm sorry…" Echo told Ronin. Ronin looked slightly taken aback by this. He never expected anyone to ever apologize to him...ever. Specially when he didn't get why.

"What?"

"I...I didn't protect her, and I made her cry. I broke her heart."

"Daww dude she loves you and she's alright. I mean look at her. If she didn't want to be around you I'm sure she'd have shoved you away. Most women do it." Ronin said watching Echo dab at Kates wounds.

"Come on Echo buddy...you can finish that up on the Bounty. Right now we gotta split. Lloyd said they're mobilizing. This room is under surveillance." Cole said

"Come on Kate...Lets get you out." Echo whispered kissing her forehead.

"Colors?" Kate whispered to Echo.

"Colors?" Ronin asked her.

"Mmmhum...for the wedding. You can give me away." Kate said her eyes fluttered closed. She put her head on Echos shoulder.

"Bronze and red." Echo whispered to her. "I love those colors."

Lloyd watched from the underbrush with Kai and Nya. Kai was up in the trees and Nya was in the water near the door. The place was built like a fortress. Electric fences, dogs, huge concrete walls. All lined along an ocean wall. A large van rolled up to the front entrance. Followed by two more.

"Cole there's a lot of men going inside. We'll stop as many as we can, but their are a lot. Probably about twenty." Lloyd said.

"We'll go out the back way." Cole told them.

"Just keep them distracted. These three aren't in fighting condition. Zane maybe, but Echos hand is kind of...well its in pieces, and Kate looks like she could use a spa day." Jay told them.

"But they're alive right?" Kai asked.

"Yeah they're alive, and we'll make sure they stay that way." Cole said

Lloyd gestured to Nya who used the water in the mote to push the vans back causing them to fall onto the rocks below the sea wall. She was pretty sure there were still some people inside.

"Get it lady!" Kai whooped to his sister. Nya giggled at the praise.

Kai ran forward pulling out his swords.

"And this is for my friends!"

Cole stopped just short of the corner slowly looking around. The woman with yellow eyeshadow smiled at him.

"Hello there…" She said.

"Be careful Cole...she's a cyborg." Zane said taking hold of his brothers shoulder to pull him away from her sight.

"Did you kill my father?" She asked.

"No he is just unconscious." Cole said rather curious and honestly just wanting to get around her.

"Well then…" She pointed to the door to the room with the tube since they had to backtrack away from the front door.

"You might want to know." She took a deep breath and held up the phone. Both Zane and Echo visibly cringed. The cell phone snapped in her hands. She dropped it to the ground. She looked into the room and looked at her father still unconscious under the concrete that fell from the ceiling. She walked over and pulled a flash drive from the machine and ran back out.

"I'm sorry I can't give you much. But...this has the data and the blueprints for the machine. If you give it to Borg I'm pretty sure he could replicate it." She said to Echo. Echo looked slightly miffed at her.

"Why would I want that?!" He growled out pulling Kate from her reach.

"If you ever want children...this is how you can. Its how I was made." She told them. Echo gasped and looked at Kate. Kate slowly looked up at Echo. "Its all there, your DNA codes both of you. All you need is the machine." She told them. Echo relocated Kate for a moment letting her lean on him. He took the flash drive and pulled a small drawer out of his leg compartment and put it in. The water tight slot closed and he looked at the woman and nodded.

"Thank you."

"Now go...father will be awake soon. Hes going to be angry. He'll come for you and I must do as he says. Its in my programming." She told them.

Echo picked Kate back up and followed Cole. Upon opening the door they ran into the woods. The Bounty was in there...somewhere. Echo smiled down at Kate. They were free, and they could continue there plans, and someday far off into the future they could have children. It was the best feeling he could ever have.

They burst through the trees at the sight of the white and red sails. Fifty men stood around the Bounty, all with guns, and swords. Each one guarding their way out. Echos heart stopped for a moment. When his heart started to beat again it was like it pumped his oil to fast, and he could hear it in his audios. It was so loud he couldn't hear Ronin tell them to run. Ronin had to reach out and pull the nindroid into the woods. Bullets whizzed passed their heads. Echo could feel one lodge into his upper arm and shoot straight out and into a tree. Inches from Kates head. He had lost sight of the others in his panicked run. He wasn't too sure if anyone else was hit. All he knew was his shoulder hurt like fire, and if it gave out he'd drop Kate and they'd both be dead.

He skidded to a stop as he saw the ocean. There was a cliff, down below was the ocean.

"Kate?" He asked through a shaky vocal.

"Hum?" She opened her eyes and gasped clinging to him.

"They're coming." He told her.

"If we stay we die, if we just...we might die?" She asked slowly climbing out of his arms.

"Might is better then are." He told her.

"I love you." She told him her face could be so beautiful when she looked sad.

"I love you too." He took her hand, and they jumped.