Jade entered. The room was almost pitch black, but she could make out a fuzzy figure in the middle of the room. "No, I haven't come to talk you out of leaving. I learned a long time ago that I can't argue with you when your mind is set on something. I've come to say goodbye. They're going to take me away tomorrow so they let me out and you were the first person I wanted to see." There was a quiver in her voice, and in the silence and blackness of Monk's room, Jade, the stoic soldier, broke down. She dropped to the ground and began sobbing. "I'm sorry, I just couldn't hold it in anymore. I don't want to go to jail, as much as I said that I could habdle it, I can't. I keep thinking about you, and not being able to see you is going to kill me. I don't know what to do Monk, I just don't." She buried her head in her hands and continued sobbing.

Monk didn't move an emotion, but even though the darkness and slight chill in the room, Jade felt a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Why do you think I'm leaving? I'm going away so you don't think of me anymore, so no one will think of me anymore. Everyone is always so caught up in others emotions, no one stops to tell themselves how they feel." He paused. "I've just noticed this, and I've decided that I have to go. I don't know if I'll ever be back."

He knelt down in front of her. "Please don't cry. It is only making this harder to bear. It sounded like everything was going good for you before I showed up. I should be begging for forgivness, yet her I am pleading for you to stop crying. You have no reason to shed tears, for I was the one to put you through this hell once again. I'm so sorry. Please fogive me."

Wolf checked Angel's message. He typed a quick reply. "Maybe later...I have an asshole to deal with." He started running down the hallway.

"Where are you going?" Kaitlin asked as she caught up to him.

"I have to talk to the person responsible for this mess..." Wolf said heading towards the administrative offices, his fists clenched.

"I think I understand..." Kaitlin said as she stopped running. "I'll wait for you back in your quarters."

Wolf waved slightly over his shoulder before arriving at his destination; the general's office. He paused to knock...but stopped.

"He's in there...just so you know." Beowulf said.

"Excellent." Wolf replied as he smashed through the door with a well-aimed kick. The general leapt up from his chair.

"What the hell is going on?" he asked.

"Sit down and shut up...sir." Wolf snarled. "You and I are going to have a little chat."

"What do you think you're doing barging in..."

Wolf slammed his fist down on the general's desk. "I said SHUT UP!" The general went quiet. "Good...smartest thing you did all day. Now let's get one thing straight. I hate your guts. You're pondscum...and don't deserve to live. If I wanted to...I could ice you right now because I have an honorary licence to kill given to me by MI6. But I won't do that...no...I want you to suffer the way you made Jade suffer by sending her to prision. I want you to suffer the way Monk suffers every day because he thinks his existence makes him a threat to humanity. I want you suffer the way I do because I couldn't save either of them. Your callous actions put my CO in jail and caused one of my friends to run away...and now you'll pay the price."

"HA!" The general shouted "What are you going to do about it? I can easily have you removed from command!"

"Not after today you won't." Wolf shoved his PDAP screen in the general's face. It displayed a newspaper article with the headline: "CYBER FORCE GENERAL UNLAWFULLY TRIES TO DISBAND TEAM: POLITICAL OUTRAGE ACROSS THE UN."

"See? I'm not the only one who hates your guts. Remind me to thank Coyote for leaking the trial to the world." Wolf said putting the PDAP away as the general went pale white in the face.

"Still...I am your CO and there's nothing you can do about it!" the General said.

"But there is." Wolf said glaring right at him. "As per General Order 104, Section C, I am removing you from command on the grounds that you are mentally unfit to lead."

"Bullshit. Only the Chief Medical Officer can do that."

Wolf grabbed his PDAP and dailed a quick number "Dr. Oedupe to the General's office please." he said.

30 seconds later the doctor showed up in the office. Wolf nodded to the doctor when he entered. "He saw the trial, let's see what he thinks of your mental stability."

The doctor was glaring at the General. "I don't say this very much...but they ought to put you in a padded room with 4 straitjackets on you." he said. "I concur with Colonel Wolf's decision to enact General Order 104, Section C."

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!!" The general screamed.

Wolf smirked "It's been done. I now no longer have to take BS orders from you or you First officer who is sneaking up behind me right now because you pushed the silent alarm button when I broke your door." Wolf spun around and upercutted the XO through the open doorway. "He'll be out for a few days." Wolf said shaking his fist. He put his face inches from the general's "If I were you, General...I would stay in this office and never...ever...leave...or I just might have to hunt you down."

Wolf spun around and left; Doc Oedupe followed him close behind. "Thanks for the backup, doc."

"Hey...he tried to break up a perfectly good unit. I may be a doctor...but that doesn't mean I can't take sides in an internal feud."

"I'll take that as a 'your welcome'. Wolf said heading back to his quarters where Kaitlin was waiting for him.

"So...how did that go?" she asked

"The general is now powerless to do shit...at least until he finds a way to revoke General Order 104, Section C." Wolf replied. "His first officer is also out for a while...I kind of punched him really hard."

"Ah...well...he'll get over it. Here, have a slice of pizza. I got it from Neil. I swung by his quarters while you were giving the general hell." she handed him the slice.

Wolf took it. "Thanks. Maybe this can help me forget about slugging the XO...not to mention all the shit that's happened today."

OOC: Well...that takes care of General Shit-for-Brains for now...and all thanks to a handy little Starfleet regulation.

"I'd expect a long jail sentence for the General. The suits in Washington will make sure of that." Coyote said.

Wolf picked up his PDAP again upon hearing Coyote's message. "You're probably right." he said to Coyote "Which reminds me: thank you for helping to get rid of that asshole. I always knew there was something odd about him...and you proved it. Since I've now been placed in charge of the Cyber Force...I want to make sure I don't wind up on your bad side. So I'm offically stating to you here and now that I will never conscript you into fighting for me. If I need your help, I'll ask for it. I respect your rights as a sentient being...and will not attempt to violate them in any way. Just...uh...don't use any more Weapons of Mass Destruction on civilians or my own team...please."

"Bargained well and done."

(( I apologize up front SS, but I like the way this goes. ^-^; ))

There comes a knock on the door, and Wraith peers his head into Wolf's room. "Yo... I just heard some news through the grapevine that the General got canned."

He steps in the room with Angel behind him, with booze and pizza in their arms. "I just dropped by to see if anyone was interested in a little celebration, eh?"

He pauses for a moment as something strikes him. "Well, what'll have to pass for one, seeing as Jade n' Monk're goin' away..."

"I can't stop crying, I've had 18 years of me being forced to stop crying. This isn't hard only for you you know. I have to rot in a jail cell for two years with nothing to think about but all of my memories. It's not so easy to forget about the one you love...I'm sorry...I shouldn't have said that. I know this is hard for you." She stood up trying to make Monk out in the darkness. "As much as you say I should I can't and won't forget about you. Two years is a long time, but I hope that my memory of you will keep me going until I get out." She had made out that Monk was now standing in front of her, so she reached out for him and pressed her lips against his. "I would have liked to have seen you one more time, but if you're content in living in darkness then I can't argue with you." She turned and prepared to leave.

Monk went to stop here, and muttered what he thought was a "Wait," but all it really was was a noise. An odd, high pitched kind of a thing. She stopped and looked at him. Monk turned away and lit a candle, then held it between the two. The light shown on his face presented a dark and scary Monk, the hair all over the place, covering most of his face, mostly his forhead and eyes. If one wasn't careful, they would think that Myth had taken over again. "You want to see your executioner one more time? Here he is. This is the man who is going to send you into hell once more. Why is it that you still have a place in your heart for me? Why is it that you still want me in your life? Why am I so important to you, that you choose to spend your last day with me? I am honored, but I do not deserve. That is why I have to go. You have to find someone who is better suited to protect you than I. I have hurt you so many times, I can't even began to count the number of shots, both from a gun... and from my mouth." He put the candle on a table and turned away from her. "I hope to see you again, ad I hope that you will be happy. For both our sakes..."

Wolf nodded at Wraith. "Yeah...might as well. Things have been far too depressing down here. And yeah...I've pretty much fired the general...although legal precedings will take some time. Right now he's listed as 'mentally unfit to command'. I guess that's something to celebrate, right?" Wolf looked around his quarters. "However, I don't believe my quarters are the best place for mass drunkeness. How about we go to the mess hall?"