Sergeant Mal Mu listened as his Siren teammates broadcasted Takada’s message through the towers. Within sixty seconds the entire Mu/Atsuro ISF team was armed and on the move. Their Sirens also confirmed they weren’t the only ones.

  Ritsko was on Osaka for breeding. I wonder…Rage burned in his heart. He had spent the last four years undoing the harm the Advanced officer’s training had done to Ritsko. They had come to an understanding, and he had even bought a ring, when she had come up for breeding. Unfortunately, he was only a fourth dan, Ritsko was a sixth, which meant a minimum requirement of fifth dan to breed her, and since they weren’t married the command had seen no reason to grant their appeal.

  As his team hit the stairs, they heard rifles and sonic pistols that let them know they were not the only team defecting. “Yoshi! Get me a working comm. Sarah, connect with the other Sirens let all defecting teams know to communicate on channel forty two!”

  He grabbed the communications handset his underling was holding out for him and keyed the talk button. “This is Sergeant Mal of the Mu/Atsuro team. I am taking command of this situation. We are moving to secure admin floor fourteen. I repeat we are moving on floor fourteen. We need to take out the command. Please call in with targets.”

  “This is Major Kuno of Shi/Yaun, We are moving on the weapons depot on sub floor F.”

  “This is Specialist Ami of Koi/Tendo We are taking heavy fire on floor eighteen we have six men down, requesting medical and backup!”

  “If any one is listing from the Ki/Haki team please report to floor eighteen.” Mal yelled into his com as they raced up the stairs.

  “We read you Mal, Ki/Haki are on the way.” said a female voice.

  Mal cursed as a stairwell door blew in and a half-dozen men in black and grey uniforms ran in firing blind down the stairs. Mal dropped down just in time to miss getting shot in the head, the Siren male behind him was not so lucky and took a shot in the gut, tumbling down the stairs. The six Kitsune fired up at the black ops agents.

  “Down and cover!” shouted Shingi, their explosives expert as he threw a tiny round blast grenade up at the black ops troopers. Mal covered his head as the boom shook the stairwell and dropped bits of plaster and cement chips around them.

  “Mal! Mal? do you read?”

  “I read we have taken fire on floor thirteen and have a man down.”

  “This is Lisa Cole in personnel. I now have the cameras, we have a helicopter approaching from the mainland, and a half-dozen men, including Colonel Trencher and Colonel Jacobs, are making an escape attempt up the eastern stairs. I am directing Ranger Specialist Hari to set reverse rappels. Blow a hole in the exterior wall you should start seeing lines within two minutes.”

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  “Thanks for the assist Lisa, please contact-“

  “I am directing Ranger team St. Anne to secure floor fourteen.

  “You are a godsend Lisa remind me to put you in for a promotion.”

  “From what government sir?”

  “That’s a good question. We’ll figure that out later.” He tuned his ears down as Shingi set up another charge and blew a large chunk out of the wall. Seconds later black cords with harnesses dropped down in front of the new hole, and the six Kitsune strapped in and began running up the white plasticine wall.

  Off to the side they could see the helicopter as it neared the building, then they heard a pop, and the helicopter began to spin out of control, Mal could see the neat quarter sized hole in the pilot’s head.

  As it spun close to them Asa unclipped from her rappel and jumped at the floundering craft, pulling herself into the open gun bay, and throwing the two gunners out as it began to plummet to the ground.

  Mal continued running, with four others behind them. He didn’t look back to see if Asa had succeeded in capturing the helicopter. The fact that there was no boom was a good sign.

  As he and his team pulled to the top of the building, they positioned themselves around the door. Thirty seconds later the door flew open and four human agents ran out laying cover fire for the two Colonels. Within seconds they had been gunned down by Mal’s team and the Ranger. The two Colonels stared at the five Kitsune and the human ranger.

  “You will not get away with this treason!” said Colonel Jacobs. A shot rang out and he fell dead, as the Ranger holstered his pistol.

  “What do you want?” Asked Trencher. “I am sure we can reach an agreement. After all, we all want what is best for best for the City.”

  “You think you can wave a hand and make all this go away?” said Shingi, anger in his voice.

  “Young man, I have quite a bit of power.”

  “Enough to get them to quit killing Sirens?”

  “I can probably work out something to protect Military personnel.”

  “Not good enough.” Mal spat. “Not good enough at all to make up for all the children you’ve killed. “For the murder of Specialist Cassidy Aiko, Haru Aiko, Aaron Miko, Miyuki Yu,-“

  “Listen for humanity to survive. Sacrifices-“

  “Regin Aiko, Douglas Acer, Kylee Sparowhawk.

  “Listen Sergeant! I’m trying to help you!” Trencher said his face paling as he looked up and saw his helicopter piloted by Asa Mu.

  “Greg Rogers, Lucas Hunt, Allison Yu.” Mal nodded at two of his men who grabbed the Colonel

  “You will never get away with this!”

  The two male Kitsune began dragging the human to the edge of the tower.

  “Osamu Yu, and Gaia knows how many others. As acting commanding officer of the InSec Central tower I sentence you to death. This sentence is to be carried out immediately and there will be no appeal. May Gaia forgive you, because no one else will.” With that Mal lined a sonic blaster to Trenchers head and fired. The two Kitsune threw the corpse off the roof. They watched as he fell thirty stories down where he stained the glittering white plasticine path red as he hit the ground.

  “This is acting commander Sergeant Mal Mu. Report.” He said into the comm.

  “This is Lisa, the building has been secured. What are your orders, sir?”

  Mal scanned the area around InSec Central, taking in all he saw. Fires were burning in Sydney Central Hospital, and he suspected that wasn’t the only fire burning, nor the only hospital hit.

  “Take some men and secure the hospital.” He ordered. “Consider the chief of staff and the entire neo-natal department culpable and deal with them accordingly. Then try and find out if we’re the only group to get this far.”

  The world was changing. He only hoped it was changing for the better.