Jade shook her head to get the ringing out of it and leapt at Kaitlin again. She managed to get her arms and pull back hard, dislocating both of them. "Jason! Quick!"

Jason staggered to his feet, blood still dripping down his face, and he hobbled over to Kaitiln. Remembering what Jade had said about where the vaccine needed to go, he took the syringe and plunged it into Kaitlin's neck. He finished just before Kaitiln lashed out with a kick that caught him in the groin, then headbutting him in the skull and sending him to the ground again.

Kaitiln then stomped down hard on Jade's foot and reverse headbutted her to break free, her arms slowly relocating back to normal.

Monk came in from nowhere once again and landed a clean and powerful right hook to her jaw. "Would you just calm down please. This would be a lot easier if you would just agree to our terms." Kaitlin, obviously not agreeing with what he had said, retaliated with her own melee attack. Monk was able to however block the attack and counter her counter with a quick jab to the ribcage, then another quick jab to the bottom of her chin. "Ok... we'll do it the hard way I guess..."

Jade wiped the blood from her nose. "We're almost out of time..." Her PDA projected Kaitlin's vitals at their extremes. Kaitlin however, seemed to be tiring. "The antidote is working to neutralize the virus. We need to get the second one in there to destroy it." She lept back into the fray, joining Monk in fighting Kaitlin.

Kaitlin staggered under Monk's blows, but countered by sweeping his legs out from under him and driving a series of punches to his already burned and battered chest. As an added insult to injury she kicked him in his broken arm.

Jade spared her husband from further injury by kicking Kaitlin in the ribs. Kaitiln clutched at her side but struck back with a right hook to Jade's skull. Concussed, she staggered.

Jason hobbled back in to give Jade time to recover. He was dizzy from the blood seeping from his nose and forehead, and his broken leg hadn't fully healed yet either. Plus his groin hurt like hell. He landed only one punch on her right shoulder before she kicked him in the broken leg and dropped him to his knees in pain. Then she drew in close and pulled out a knife.

"Killing you will be a most enjoyable irony" she said as she drove the knife forward. Jason barely deflected it, but the knife still dug into his side and left an ugly red slash on his torso. Kaitiln then grabbed him by the throat and tossed him 10 feet away. Kaitln turned to go finish off Jade and Monk.

Jason landed with a thud and slid a bit across the cracked and broken pavement. He could feel his injuries starting to get the better of him. That and he had no weapon to stop Kaitiln with.

Broken nose, broken leg, bleeding like a stuck pig, hurt back, injured groin...metal thing in my leg...wait

he felt around his right ankle and realized he DID have a weapon. A walther PPK. A last ditch weapon that was probably there in case there was no other way to handle things. He forgot about it in the heat of battle, but now it was right at the front of his mind.

He drew the gun and despite one of his eyes being blocked by blood and his vision beginning to get dark, he prepared to take aim on Kaitlin. Suddenly Jax's voice came to haunt him

"You don't have the ability to pull the trigger if it comes down to it."

Jason's expression tightened and he took aim. I'm going to prove that son of a bitch wrong.

"HEY BITCH!" he shouted. Kaitiln turned. "GET OUT OF MY WIFE'S BODY AND GO TO HELL!"

Jason fired.

*BLAM*

Kaitiln's right knee exploded in a spray of blood. she dropped to her knees

*BLAM*

Kaitln's left knee exploded and she fell to the ground. As she did, Jason fired a third shot and took out her left shoulder to make sure she didn't get back up.

The gun fell from Jason's hands. "Jade..." he said. "Do it..."

Then the darkness overtook his vision and he passed out from his injury.

Tia fluttered down nearby and got to work stabilizing Jason's injuries, after doing a quick once-over on Monk and Jade. Looking up at Jade to speak of, she didn't need to say anything to express how quickly things needed to be done.

Jade was seeing double. How anyone could give them all such a beating even with their nanites she didn't know. She clutched her head to try and stop the ringing and pain, but she had a concussion and she knew it. Without her nanites, Kaitlin would have probably caused major brain damage. She looked over to see Kaitlin down and bleeding, Jason having fired three shots into her. She staggered over to where Kaitlin was starting to get up and grabbed her by the neck.

"Time to let our friend go, I know what you are, and you will not win." She drove the needle into her neck and watched the manifestations of the virus disperse as Kaitlin lost consciousness and log out. Jade could feel herself log out as well, and woke up groggy and still concussed. "Anyone get the number of that truck?"

No time to digest the joke as Wraith stated, "Her vitals are stablizing... all right guys, hurry up and get her the hell to the emergency room!"

He stepped away from the consoles then and shooed the medical teams out, helping to clear the way first, though.

Jason opened his eyes and saw only white, after cringing a bit from the brightness he tried to figure out where he was.

Am I dead? he thought. as he tried to look around his head throbbed in pain, as did his leg and his torso. okay, not dead...i can still feel pain, that's good His eyes had finally adjusted to the light, and he realized that it was coming from a hostpital lamp. He heard footsteps. The lamp was moved aside and he saw the footsteps belonged to Dr. Oedupe.

"Ah, good, you're awake." Oedupe said. "How do you feel?"

Jason grimaced a bit in pain. "Like somebody smacked me around with a sledgehammer."

the doctor chuckled a bit before getting serious. "That's too be expected. Any burning sensations?"

"Slightly..."

"Also to be expected. You might be wondering why you're even here given your augmentations."

"...yeah."

"Well, what happened was that the fire that the virus used against you was already taxing the nanites to repair any damage from burns. Add that to the broken leg, broken nose, getting kicked in the groin, getting skewered by a knife and the concussion pretty much was too much for the nanites and they shut down. They were able to keep your injuries from being too life threatening, which is why you're still alive, and now here. I don't think you'll have to stay any longer than 24 hours, it's just to make sure that your nanites didn't suffer any permament damage."

"I see. Well, thanks for patching me up."

"It's my job."

Jason smiled a bit at that. "Of course, that was a silly thing for me to say." then he had a thought. "...Did Kaitlin make it? I didn't see anything after I...shot her..."

Oedupe grinned slightly. "Rest easy Romeo, she survived the fight, but right now she's unconcious and under heavy sedation. She'll pull through though."

"Where is she?"

"Right next to you."

Jason looked to his left and saw Kaitlin lying in the hostpital bed next to his own. She looked peaceful, despite being hooked up to a few IV's.

"Thank God Jade pulled through in time..." he said.

"Indeed."

Jason turned back to the doctor. "I think I'm going to rest for a while. Tell Wraith I'm leaving him in charge until i recover. And if you see Jade and Monk before they leave, tell them i said thanks."

"Don't worry I will."

With that, Oedupe left Jason to drift back to sleep.

OOC: This is before I forget t do it:

Darkness. There was a long period of darkness that followed before the was a steady pulse of sound, followed by a dim light behind his eyes. He slowly opened them, alowing the light to slowly come in, instead of rushing in. "Wha? What happened? My body feels numb. Better than it being on fire.. but numb..."

Jade was sitting next to him, asleep in a chair. Her hand however, was woven tightly with his.

He couldn't feel that there was something coming out from his hand, but he most certainly feel the presence of his wife. Rolling his head over to see her sleeping brought a soft smile to his face. "Aw... she's sleeping. I better be quiet so as not to wake her.." He could feel his eyes getting heavy again, as they started to flutter close."

Jade could feel a shifting in the bed next to her and opened her eyes. She smiled at him, "I thought you'd never wake up."

"I'm awake!" He nearly shouted. He squinted a bit and rolled his head back over, "I mean... why is that? Did I almost die again?"

Jade's face turned to concern, "you did get beat pretty bad."

He shook his head, "Bah... It'll take more than that to take me down, you should know that. I mean... you're cooking takes a harder toll than that fight did..." he chuckled, hoping that wasn't going to tick her off too much.

Her eyebrow quirked, "and only because you're already in the hospital do I let that pass."

"That... and you love me too much..."

She sighed, "that too." She rubbed her head while cringing.

"You ok?"

"Well, it feels like I got hit by a tank, but I'll be fine. I'm more concerned with Kaitlin."

"Yeah... I heard the shots. She'll make it. I know it..."

"I know...Monk, what are we going to do now?"

He paused, than answered, "Get better?"

She smirked, "after that."

"I don't know... why do you ask?"

"Well I was thinking...that maybe we should stay here."

"Stay... here? You mean... stay and help against the fight whatever is causing trouble now?"

She nodded.

Monk looked away, obvious he was in thought.

Jade waited patiently for a response.

"My... my first instinct is to say yes but... I don't know if I have it in me..."

"Why do you say that?"

"My... my body is not what it was back then. I'm not as strong as I was back then. The only reason why I survived was because... well... I don't even know to be quite honest..."

"Monk," she kissed his forehead, "you are just as strong as you used to be, if not stronger. This virus was ridiculous, stronger than anything we've faced, and moreso because it was infecting a friend. I don't blame you for getting injured."

"I should have been able to... I should have been able to take her down so that no one got hurt... so you and Wolf and Tia wouldn't have to engage in battle..."

"You couldn't have. None of us could have. Kaitlin is like a sister to me, she is my friend. I would have been in the same situation as you. Tia can separate her emotions from the task at hand, and even she got beaten. You care for people and don't want them hurt, it isn't a weakness. It's one of the reasons why I love you so much."

"I... suppose..."

"Don't suppose. You know it's true. We've been married for 3 years, and I know you enough to know that you are just as good as you were back then, if not better. Trust me, I'm your wife, I know these things."

Monk closed his eyes, soaking in what she had said. He was a strong fighter, he may have been stronger since the final battle with Mastermind. What was driving him away this time? There was something that was preventing him from saying yes to staying. He thought he felt weak, but that wasn't it, not in the least. He prided himself on keeping his body in such a shape that he didn't need augs to aid him. He could still fight with the best of them, and still have energy to spare. What was it then? His heart was pulling him away from fighting anymore. "I don't know Jade... I just don't know..."

"You don't need to rely on only yourself, you have people here who will back you up and help you. You're not on your own and you're not a superman. No one expects you to be."

He sighed. She was right. He didn't have to be a lone fighter. Monk nodded slowly to respond to her, but kept quiet on top of that.

Jade bent down and locked lips with him.

His lips responded as they always did, but his heart was still retreated deep within himself. He was still uncertain on the situation. Did he still have the strength to fight? He remembered when he first joined the last time. He seemed so useless in the first battle. So useless until he picked up and used... "The gun!" He pulled away from Jade.

Jade looked at him funny, "what?"

"The gun. That is why I am so afriad. I do not want to turn into what I once was. Jade... do you remember our first battle? When the team first was created?"

"Of course I do."

"Then you remember... how useless I was. When we took shelter in the abandoned warehouse, I could do nothing until I picked up the gun... then after that, things turned sour. I don't want that to happen again..."

"Why would you? Myth is gone."

"I know but... still.. I don't want to risk it. Jason thought he had killed Myth the first time around, and it turned out he was very much alive..."

Jade dropped her head, "do you not want to stay then?"

"No! It's not that... I want to help... but... I don't know..." He looked away. "I... I just don't know..."

"Stop being so unsure. We're a team you and I. I'll help you get through whatever is bothering you. We took a vow remember?"

"I remember, I was there." He shook his head, "I just... I just don't know... I wish I could say more but... I can't. There is nothing else to say..."

She held his hand in hers, "well when you make a decision, you let me know. I'll be sitting here until you get better."

"It may be a while..."

"I've got the time," she smiled.

He nodded slowly. "We should rest... A fresh body will help me think."

"Rest all you like, Or would you like me to rest with you?"

"You're welcome to..." He grinned.

She smiled and climbed into the hospital bed with him. She kissed him, "please don't beat yourself up about this love."

"Of course not. Not anymore than your eggs do to my stomach." He smiled weakly. This is gonna hurt...

Jade made a face and poked Monk in the arm. "Watch it, you're in the hospital, but do you want to be in the ICU?"

"I'm still reling on your love to see me through..."

She carefully snuggled next to him, "always and forever."