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Ivy sniffled and whiped tears from her eyes with the back of her hand as she nodded, "Yeah, I will." She sniffled again and said calmly through her tremoring fear and heartache, "Manji," she paused and searched his eyes for awareness, "Manji I love you. I'm sorry this didn't go better...I love you." She gently put a hand on one of his cheeks and placed her lips to his in a tender kiss. She pulled away and whispered in his ear, "I love you."

Richard awoke from his own trance...far too late. The battle was over with both sides taken casualties. Manji was dead, and he couldn't help. He ran in the middle of battle. He felt ashamed.

"You're here for..." Drake didn't want to say it. She was right, oh Jesus she was right. She was made for fighting in all reality, not him. He was for obtaining information and for after the fighting was done. "You're..." he started again but his voice cracked, he hated the tears she was crying because of him. He moved his hands up to her face, her cheeks cupped ever-so gently in his large hands. He knew the battle was over and he could see through Ivy's mind's eye the damage. "The battle's over...It doesn't matter any more..." For now he refused to tell her on what conditions the fight had only been stalled for.

Holly was frozen in the doorway of the hide-out. All of the emotions pounding in her skull. All of the dread, hatred, sadness, and pain like the weight of the ocean crushing her and knives peircing her. She could hardly breathe. Twin tears rolled down her cheeks as she closed her eyes and exhaled, closing herself into her mind behind thick walls.

Cliff couldn't stand it any more, he had to go outside. Afterall, Drake has said it was over and he didn't sound upset but rather relieved. How bad could it be? He slipped outside passed Holly and slowed to a stop as Alex and Rei passed his vision, reveling Ivy and Manji on the pavement in a pool of blood. "Ivy?" He asked as his legs moved him forward in a panic. He was afraid she was wounded, but as he approached the scene he saw all he needed to. He stayed where he was silently as he pushed his glasses slowly back up his nose.

((I'm so glad this isn't a happy moment...I'm afraid I'd ruin it.))

Manji shook violently as his body quickly began to break down as was the fate of most other shapeshifters once they lost control over their powers the last words he heard was I love you, from Ivy as he sank into the blackness her face was imprinted into his mind the last image he ever had on his mind as the reaper came for his prize.

Kale looked around the room. The feeling of pain and hurt, of which he was not used to, was making him uncomfortable. "Hey, come on, Jon." He said, grabbing his arm again, but gentler this this time. "Let's get out of here." And so, the two retreated to the barracks, knowing there was not much they could do.

Rachael nodded solemnly, her face riddled with tears now. She reached out for Amelia, grasping her in a full embrace. She needed some comforting, badly.

However, Amelia was not in the state to do so. She gingerly returned Rachael's hug, but her mind was elsewhere, moving a thousand miles a minute it seemed. 'Alex said we're not going to look for Cecil...that can't be!' She thought.

Mikayla looked over to Hannah, a desperate look on her face. "Whatever is happenning must be important," she seethed, taking a seat at the table now that it was vacated. "Let's just hope we have the chance to show this to Alex somtime within the next ten years.", indicating the dogtags.

Most of the rubble was now moved, so Alekssander's excuse to forget Manji's death was gone. Sweatng a bit, he looked over at the others, only to see that Cliff had now joined them. Slowly, he walked over and stood next to him, seeing what he had been trying to do. "It's alright..." he whispered to him. "Just let her go."

Richard watched Ivy's pained face. He could easily feel her pain. He couldn't do anything now. She was far gone. He thought back to himself. He was gone as well. "More deaths will follow suit soon.", he said aloud.

Rei watched the scene unfold outside, his mind begining to race. He began to think about all the people that had died due to those accursed labs, all the friends and allies he's ever lost, even before he met with holly and alix. All of them, dead because of greed.

Rei turned from the crowd without saying a word, and headed inside. His expression made it easy for everyone who saw it, to see he was cursing a lot of things inside. He walked up a few flights, to the top floor, and opened a door that lead to a corner apartment. Most of his belongings were there, and the place was covered in papers and books, as well as weapons and munitions. Almost all of it had come from Pat's apartment.

He began rumaging through papers, profiles more or less. He then came across a familiar face. It was the enemy they were fighting. Jack King. He's a superior tracker, and a bounty hunter. As Rei began to read down through the list, he could see why Jack was so hard to fight, or at least, he was getting an idea. Jack seemed to be an EC, but not from the labs. Rei sat back in a large leather chair behind a small desk, clasping his hands together, resting his elbows on the desk, and his chin on the clasped hands. He began to think hard about how they would be able to take out what they were all designed to imitate.