Part 25 by Lease
"Copper do you remember just where this passage leads to?" whispers her sister Fiona.
"Sure..." said Copper, only to mumble "yeah right" to herself.
Before they made the next turn in the tunnel there was a flash of light that appeared right in their faces.
"What the..." said a accented voice softly.
"Copper? Fiona? Birky? Is that you?" asked Nikita.
"Man, hasn't anyone ever told you it's not polite to scare people like that... you could have given us a heart attack!" Complained Walter.
"Sorry, but Uncle George was taking to long." Copper said, moving past Michael, Nikita and Walter.
"Come on, we don't have much time, they will start tearing Section apart when they notice that we are no longer in our rooms." Fiona said catching up to her twin.
"How did you find us?" Birkoff asked as he caught up to Nikita.
"Walter knew of the secret passages and tunnels. Operations is looking for all of us now. He is not doing well at all. We may have to take him down and then take him to the white room for altering." Nikita told him in a hushed whisper as they heard voices coming from up above them.
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"What the hell do you mean the Twins aren't in their cells?" Operations yelled at the poor Operative that was on hand. "Find them or you are cancelled!" he screamed.
"Yes sir! Right Away Sir!" said the operative as he ran out of the room.
"First the mission goes wrong, then George plays that trick on me, then Madeline, Michael, Nikita and Walter disobey me and then Birkoff is out with those permissive twits! They are all just going to be cancelled... How dare they think that they can challenge me and not get away without some form of punishment.... They have no idea just who they are messing with!" he raged to himself.
Michael grabbed a hold of the collars of both girls. "No.... not yet. We need to get to Madeline and George first. Then we will take care of him."
Cooper looking madder then a wet hen. "Permissive Twits!" she said in a strangled whisper.
Fiona mimicking her twins' feelings and thoughts "He WILL pay.... With his life!" she replied in a hushed whisper.
"Michael?" Birkoff whispered.
"Yes Birkoff?" Michael asked with barely contained anger. Not anger at Birkoff, but anger at Operations. It seemed that...
"I know where we are, there should be a computer access board about 20 feet ahead of you. We can access it to send a small virus to the computer terminal in Operations office. It will lock him in the Tower for about 5 minutes." Birkoff said.
"And then what Birkoff? What are we suppose to do then while we are all down here?" Michael asked now with a loss of patience look in his eyes.
"We won't be here Michael." Nikita said. "We will be outside. Having already gotten Madeline and George out of their rooms, we will be able to blind side Operations in the Tower, stun him and then get him down to the white Room. It is a great idea." she finished.
"I am tired of Operations trying to play God with our lives. He is not God, he just thinks that he is.... I hate people with God Complexes!"
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Part 26 by N507
Sometimes, Nikita was shocked that no one ever took her plans for what they were bullcrap. Nikita had other things on her mind as she looked around the room, waiting for Birkoff to set the virus. Suddenly, Birkoff stopped and turned to Nikita.
"Wait, how do we get him to the Tower?" Birkoff questioned and all of the people turned and looked towards Nikita. She appeared to be in thought. Birkoff had just said what she was waiting for. Nikita dropped her head and then lifted it.
"I guess I have to get him up there." Nikita whispered and Michael turned around and snarled.
"No you won't!" Michael said and everyone looked at them.
"Michael, the Tower is Operation's love nest. He isn't going to go up there with you." Nikita explained calmly and Michael took Nikita's hand.
"It's not worth risking the baby, Nikita." Michael whispered.
"Baby? What Baby?" Birkoff snapped out as the twins turned and looked at Nikita.
"YOU ARE PREGNANT!!!!" The girls sang out together. Nikita nodded her head as she reached out to Michael's cheek.
"It's time that I protected this baby, Michael. You cannot protect it all by yourself. Don't worry... I'm young... and Operations shouldn't be thinking with his head... well.. His brain." Nikita commented and Walter laughed.
Nikita sure did have Operations pegged.
****A Bit Later****
Nikita stood in the Tower as Operations strode down the hallway. He have smiled, as he could not believe he had finally gotten Nikita where he wanted her." Why are you offering yourself now, Nikita? Only desparate operatives serve their bodies up for me." Operations said and Nikita sighed and smiled at Operations.
"The time has come to do what is right." Nikita said as the door closed.
Operations looked at Nikita and then charged towards her, knocking her immediately to the floor, in the fight that Nikita had been wishing for.
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Madeline looked to George as Michael led the way out of Section One. Madeline looked around outside, surprised not to see Nikita. Madeline reached over and grabbed Michael's arm.
"Where is Nikita?" Madeline demanded and Michael tensed up. Madeline knew who the decoy is now.
"ARE YOU MAD, MICHAEL! EVERYONE BACK IN!" Madeline screamed and moved quickly.
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Nikita, though, was suffering from the morning sickness and the weaknesses from the accident. Operations flipped her over and grabbed around her neck.
"Go ahead..." Nikita growled out as she closed her eyes. She had gotten in her hits, and now was losing.
"NO..... I am going to get what you offered to me, Nikita." Operations said as he tore at Nikita's shirt. Nikita's lip trembled, almost losing control.
"No." Nikita firmly stated out.
"I don't think you have a say in the matter." Operations growled.
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Part 27 by Jade
Operations was strangely determined to have Nikita, but as Mother Nature would have it, Nikita had no choice in the matter. She lost her struggle to hold back the morning sickness that had been plaguing her for the past few days. Within seconds, Operations was staring at the toes of his expensive patent leather shoes. He lifted one foot carefully, his lip curled in disgust.
"That was a bit extreme, even for you, Nikita," he said, distastefully holding his pristine white handkerchief over his nose.
"I told you no," she said wearily, the last of her energy finally fading.
"But how did you learn to do that?" he asked curiously.
Nikita sighed in disbelief. Leave it to Operations to think that she had somehow mastered a new technique. He would be teaching all the new operatives how to heave on command any day now, claiming full credit for the idea, too, no doubt.
Madeline burst through the door, gun drawn, and evidently more than ready and willing to shoot Operations. Operations had the grace to look totally chagrined and raised his arms in the air, indicating surrender. Michael and Walter followed close behind Madeline, almost crashing into her in their hurry to enter the room.
Michael found Nikita lying on the floor and pulled her into his arms. "Michael," she said weakly, "I wouldn't make any sudden movements, If I were you." He looked puzzled till he noticed the puddle on the floor near Operations' feet.
His face cleared as he suddenly understood what had happened. He hid a smile as he bent to kiss Nikita's cheek. "Are you okay?" It was a question that covered a lot of territory. She wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Pull me back up, Michael, please." When he stood up, he pulled her toward him, and she wobbled, unsteady on her feet.
"You're definitely not okay, Kita," he grumbled. "I never should have let you do this."
"You didn't let me do this. I chose to do this," she snapped, a bit irritated.
He narrowed his eyes. "You took a terrible chance, Kita. You can't do that sort of thing without thinking anymore."
She would have agreed, at that point, but she succumbed to her weakness at last. She fainted in Michael's arms. It was difficult to tell who was more surprised. Michael looked down at Nikita in dismay.
Madeline nearly dropped the gun she had aimed at Operations. Operations actually took his eyes off the gun to stare at Nikita. "All right, people, there's something else going on here, that I obviously don't know about."
Walter spat on the floor at Operations' feet. "Get used to disappointment, Paul. If anything happens to Nikita, cause of you, what's left of your so-called life won't be worth living."
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End by N507
Michael didn't know if he liked the sounds of Medical inside Section One, anymore than he did in the regular hospital. Maybe their treatments here were better, but they also followed orders, and those orders could be anything.
Michael was not alone though, and the people, who could give orders like to end the pregnancy and to kill Nikita, were standing beside him, looking on towards the room the doctors were working on Nikita in. Michael at first thought it was just that she was weak, but when the rushed her away, Michael knew there was something more. It was when they pushed him from the room, to the waiting arms of Walter, Birkoff, and George, Michael started to more than worry. He started to regret.
Operations was sitting there too, bound and gagged on a chair, as his fate would be decided later. There was no hurry to make the decision on his life, and the style of his death would be hinged on what happened in that room.
The doctor stepped out and all of them turned as he walked towards Nikita. "There are two things that I am going to order..." the doctor said and Michael flinched.
"First... that she is pulled off active duty for the next year." The doctor says and Michael smiles softly.
"And second.. That she gets married... to settle her emotions!" The doctor says with a laugh and the room explodes.
"So the baby is fine?" Michael asked and Madeline watches Operations' eyes bug out. There was the bloodline that Operations had been trying to stop to form.. and now there was an heir to Michael in the Section Family, and worse in Operations' mind, was that it was to Nikita. That child was just Operations' nightmare.
"Michael... you go be with Nikita. We will do a ceremony today.. if you want... or in a few weeks.. It's up to you.... Since you will be running this place... " George said and Michael nodded his head and moved towards the room and stopped and looked to Operations.
"Do you want to tell him something before we take him down to the White Room?" George questioned.
"Good-bye."
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