Just then Vega jumps from above and abushes the US Marines. "I have come by orders of my leader Albert to kill that boy Lucian." Vega shows the sergeant just how sharp his claws were. "I will have the blood of that ugly boy on my claws and drink it. Jee jee jee. But first you traitors must die for rescuing that ugly boy! I will send your dead bodies back to your boss Charlie!" Vega brings his claws up and charges at Sephiroth.

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"Vega, you fuckwit!" Medcraft roared, firing a few rounds at the feet of the Spanish Ninja. "What d'you think we're here for?" He yelled at the Marines to go before spelling it out for him.

"We keep the boy alive, he can be used as leverage now get your ass in gear." Hiding behind a tree, Medcraft provided covering fire, wondering if it was worth aiding the terrorist when he just blew their cover the way he had.

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Sailor Pluto was startled at the sight of Vega and then gets very worried at what MedCraft said. "You idiot! I told you to be careful, now Charlie is going to be very mad and he might even fire us!" Unfortunately now they couldn't chase after Lucian and the people taking him away because Vega was stopping them.

Sephiroth blocked Vega's claw attack with his sword and started fighting with him. He was able to stand his own against Vega and push him back to his terrorist friends. A little worried a what just happened. "What do we tell Charlie now that we failed our mission and the boy is in the hands of terrorists once again? I actually thought they were real and from the marines." He slowly took the phone that he was carrying and called up Charlie to explain everything that just happened.

Charlie immediately answered his phone as soon as it rang. His face boiled red in anger at what he just learned and shouted loudly at Sephiroth on the phone. "WHAT? You let Lucian get away to imposters? I didn't send for any US Marines! That was probably our last chance to rescue Lucian and bring him back to Nancy to prevent a war from happening. IDIOTS!" With that Charlie hanged up the phone.

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"Were you able to find anything?" Sofia asked on the phone. On the other end Philip shook his head.

"I tried looking up the deaths of martial artists but that lead's come up dry. There's nothing I could find that linked their deaths to terrorists at all."

"Why?" the Russian found herself asking out loud. When Philip didn't answer she told him Nancy might know something.

"You think she should be bothered with this?" he asked. Sofia looked where Yun was, thinking.

"You right...I call anyway and see how she is."

"Yeah, okay, you do that." Philip figured a gentle question during a social call would be okay, and hung up so Sofia could phone Nancy.

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"Dead," Reiko said finally to Mendez. "He's dead, disappeared, who knows. He dropped out of sight after there was an attempt to break up Diablos."

"Let her go," a police Lieutenant said. "Orders came through, she's to be given immunity." Mendez paused, before dropping the cuff keys and walking away. "Sergeant, let it go. She acted in self defense."

"And I want to know what she was doing there," he replied.

"Hey fuckface." Mendez turned to scowl at Reiko. "Too bad, huh? Your bosses say I'm innocent."

"I know you're not." Mendez began to storm up to her when the Lieutenant stopped him.

"And you're not going to find out this way." Picking up the keys he undid Reiko's cuffs. "What were you doing there anyway?"

"Told you." She began to walk off.

"This isn't over." Reiko flipped the bird at Mendez without looking back, she was done here."

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"Alex, Vega, come in," a female voice said on the radio. "Vega, we need you to return immediately. Right now." Her tone indicated it was of great importance, maybe even personal importance, to the Spanish Ninja. "There's something here you need to see."