In the normal dimension, Horatio was talking to his younger self in his house. Everyone had already told the story of what is going on and why they needed them to reconnect.

Young Horatio: So you are telling me I... we get to Captain a real Indominous with a fleet, have a wife and kid...

Horatio: Daughter.

Young Horatio: Have water and ice powers and be able to transform into a dragon?

Horatio: And be able to rock this uniform and six swords.

Young Horatio: And that assault rifle?

Horatio: Yup.

Young Horatio: Can I see?

Horatio brought out his assault rifle, he ejected the Meg, released the bullet and the grenade from the chambers. Horatio handed it to his younger self and he was looking at it.

Young Horatio: Shot count, Grenade launcher, suppressor, how can you have grip on this with the grenade launcher?

Horatio: Had enough for the extra attachment.

Young Horatio: Select fire and Target finder scope?

Horatio: Nope, that scope does all ranges, all sights and a target painter for an artillery strike.

Young Horatio: And you built this?

Horatio: No, Pure did.

Young Horatio: Pure, are you serious?

Horatio handed him the bullet he ejected from the gun.

Young Horatio: Hollow point poison rounds, only one person knows the custom bullet I like.

Horatio: Yeah, we get along well after what happened.

Young Horatio sees the dragon scales on Horatio.

Young Horatio: What did we had to go through to get this far?

Horatio: Military training, making sure the call I made was right, caring for my ship, fighting in a war, a lot of things.

Young Horatio handed the gun and bullet back to Horatio, Young Horatio was thinking about everything.

Horatio: I know it's a lot to take in.

Horatio reloads the assault rifle and the grenade launcher. He puts the gun on his back and continues talking.

Horatio: But it was all worth it in the end.

Horatio goes into his coat and pulls out a picture; he gives it to young Horatio. It was Lucinda and Horatio and he was his daughter Athena, Athena had on Lucinda's Captain's hat.

Young Horatio: This is them?

Horatio: Yeah?

Young: Why are they blue?

Horatio: They are Scylla.

Young Horatio: What?

Horatio: My wife, Lucinda is a Scylla and our daughter Athena is a hybrid of human, Scylla and Dragon, her laugh always brings a smile to our day, even the worst ones and she laughs a lot.

Young Horatio: Do we play with her?

Horatio: Every chance we get.

Young Horatio just sat there looking at it, thinking out the good and the bad. Back in reality and at the fort, everyone was on standby to move out with their weapons and Exo-suit to go, they still had the option to train and some of them still stuck to training while they waited. Miku was talking to Gear on his chest while he was sitting down.

Gear: So you got picked for medic?

Miku: Yeah, I liked being out there but I like the idea of healing rather than hurting.

Gear: I thought you might say that, so how is training going on that?

Miku: Once I got over the blood and the insides and some vomiting up my lunch a few times I got used to it. There is a lot to learn about the inside of us but I learned the basic things so far, sowing up wounds, bandaging wounds, cuts and do a medical check.

Gear: That's nice, I see you have a pistol and knife too.

Miku: Doctor said just in case.

Gear: Good thinking.

Meanwhile over in the water Madeline and Derek were talking as well, Madeline kept in the water while Derek was on land but he had his feet in the water. (All Exo-suits are waterproof, obvious!)

Madeline: So you are on the strike team?

Derek: Yeah but I picked a custom built assault rifle for my pick.

Since his firing hand is not his mechanical hand so he has a more steady aim so he picked an assault rifle over a sniper, his assault rifle is built for accuracy and shot count so it has extended meg but not a drum Meg.

Derek: So what did you pick?

Madeline: Same as you but a little different.

Madeline's assault rifle is built for underwater to surface hits so that she doesn't have to surface to take a shot but her own sight allows her to see above water when she takes a shot so he has an ACOG sight for a better accuracy but her gun is a light metal build so it won't be a bother underwater.

Derek: Nice.

Madeline: I got some practice with it in training; Horatio showed me some tricks on how to shoot.

Derek: Which is?

Madeline: Count your bullets to make sure you have one left in the chamber so you can cut down on reload time, aim down sight quickly on target and when there are multiple targets, three bullets are enough to put them down and make sure you switch targets fast.

Derek: Sound advice.

Just then an emergency came in.

Mima: We got a hijacking of a plane over the Pacific Ocean; nobody is close enough to assist.

Arachnid: Which direction is the plane headed?

Mima: US.

Arachnid: Ok, Artemis, Marshal, Cariño, Anne, that is your area, take a strike team with you to secure the plane. No jets, they will see them coming and want to blow up the plane. Lucinda, head underwater with Madeline and Taeyoung in case they splashdown in the water. Come in quiet so they won't know. Come in from the back to create less difference in the back while Artemis keeps the plane stable, silencers only. Victoria, try to hack the plane to relieve control of the terrorists. Everyone else be on ready in case this is one of the deck making a play.

Maud: Wow, nice strategy.

Arachnid: I was a queen remember.

Marshal: We will have to come in low close to the ocean when we get close to get behind it.

Arachnid: Nice call, what about the passengers?

Marshal: No casualties, we make sure they are all in the back.

Arachnid: Ok, get going.

Artemis, Marshal, Cariño and Anne left by air with Lucinda in the water, a strike team was on Artemis' back holding on. Victoria was hacking the plane while they were on their way. When they got in range of the plane, they came in low and around the plane to avoid being spotted. They came up behind it and turned off their thrusters to come at the same speed as the plane. Victoria called over the com to tell about her progress.

Victoria: Ok, I got control of the plane and they don't know about it, the plane has a section that I can operate to let you all come in and it's at the back, check under it.

Cariño went under the plane and saw the compartment.

Cariño: I see it.

Anne: Run a train, one at a time.

Victoria opens the hatch and turned off the sensor it was on. Everyone on the strike team got on Anne and Cariño's back and got into the hold. Once everyone was inside including Marshal, Victoria closed it back up and they let the air equalize with the plane's air before opening the hatch above them. Marshal peeked out and there was a terrorist right in front of him. He carefully pulled out his combat knife and got up right behind the terrorist. Marshal covered the terrorist's mouth quickly and drove the knife right in his neck so that he wouldn't make a sound. Once the terrorist was dead he hid him in the bathroom nearby.

Marshal: -whispering- Ok, come on up.

The strike team came up and was ready to move.

Marshal: -whispering- Ok, quiz time team, how are we going to see how much they have?

Derek: -whispering- Satellite?

Marshal: -whispering- If you don't have that?

AI: -whispering- Our scopes, we can switch it to x-ray and see how much there are.

Marshal: -whispering- Nice call.

Everyone turned their scopes to x-ray and they see the passengers and terrorists.

Derek: -whispering- We got twenty-four total, six bombers, three a section of the plane and they got one big bomb in the cargo hold below us.

Planes have been getting advanced throughout the years, so much in fact double floor planes were now regular for flying to carry more passengers, so with more passengers means more power coming from the engines, so the planes have been built with six engines, three on each wing and two Concorde engines that were redesigned, upgraded and made sure they won't have any troubles than its earlier models. (look it up to figure out why they were grounded in the first place).

Marshal: -whispering- Ok, two head to the bomb and defuse it. Rest of you split up and take out each terrorist one by one. Use your Exo-suit and slide to catch their bodies so that they don't make a sound.

Everyone split up from there and hid, there were stairs nearby so that they could get to the next floor.

Marshal: -whispering- Headshots only.

All of them got into position and steadied their hand.

Marshal: -whispering- Just breathe and squeeze, three, two, one.

All of them squeezed the trigger and took the shot; others slid towards them and caught the bodies so that they wouldn't make a sound. The passengers saw them and they put their finger on their mouth so they would keep quiet. They complied and kept quiet. The passengers helped out by hiding the bodies in-between the seats so that they won't be spotted. They moved up and kept quiet, in the cargo hold they got to the bomb and took out the terrorists.

AI: Ok, we are at the bomb, defusing it now.

Marshal: -whispering- Hope that defusing class came in handy.

AI: Let's see now.

The AI got some bomb defuse training on bombs since AIs are more equipped to analyze bombs and find the most accurate way to defuse them. While that was going on the rest of the team above moved onto the next set.

Snow:-whispering- Six terrorists each floor.

AI: -whispering- Four normal, two bombers on each side.

Marshal: -whispering- Are their fingers on or off the trigger?

They check.

Derek: -whispering- Off.

AI: -whispering- Off.

Snow: -whispering- If we can line them up, we can take them out in one go.

Marshal: -whispering- Do you still have your shell casings?

Snow: -whispering- Why?

Derek: -whispering- the shell casings can be used to lure people into target areas.

Marshal: -whispering- Which ones are out of alignment?

Snow: -whispering- One at the front and one at the back.

Marshal: -whispering- Roll one shell to the guy in the back and toss the other one under the curtain and make get the other guy's attention.

AI: -whispering- Three, two, one...

They threw the bullet casings directly where they wanted to go and the terrorists heard them. Derek and Snow steadied their hands and used their scopes to ready to take the shot. The rest of the team was ready to slide to catch them.

Marshal: -whispering- now.

Snow and Derek took the shot and the rest of the team slid to catch them, they were successful and everything was quiet.

The Ai called over the com about the bomb.

AI: Bomb defused, the mechanism is removed.

Human: Confirmed.

The team above moved the bodies to the back quietly. They didn't take of the bomb vests because it had a chance there was a wire or pressure switch to set them off. They were at the final cabin, first class.

Snow: -whispering- four terrorists, two are bombers.

Marshal: -whispering- where are the other two?

Snow: -whispering- In the cockpit, they are flying the plane.

Derek: -whispering- I can't get a clean shot, they are positioned to hit civilians.

Marshal: Ok, different plan, put this in the chamber.

Marshal handed Derek a different bullet to the ones that were in the Meg, it was Xiao's smart bullets she was working on.

Marshal: -whispering- Mark every terrorist clearly with your target painter.

Derek: -whispering- Marking.

Derek went to both sides quietly to get the clear shots; once all of them were painted correctly he came back.

Marshal: -whispering- Ok, shoot the first guy only.

Derek calmed down and took the shot, the bullet fired from the gun and hit the first target, the smart bullet knows what targets to hit and the resulting marking of targets causes the bullet to turn to the next target. All four of them were taken out the same time. All of them were taken out and caught before a sound could be heard.

Marshal: -whispering- Nice job, three left.

Derek: -whispering- that is going to be the hard part, they are at the control and that door is reinforced.

Over the years they have heavily reinforced and upgraded the cockpit so that no terrorist could get through since it has a biometric lock and a code that has to use all of the number pad's digits.

Marshal: -whispering- Oh Victoria.

Victoria: Way ahead of you and I'm checking the system now.

Victoria checks the system and she sees something off.

Victoria: Odd.

Marshal: -whispering- What is odd?

Victoria: You know how there is always a master code right?

Marshal: -whispering- Yeah, why?

Victoria: Well the master code is the last code inputted.

AI: -whispering- Isn't that code only known to a few people?

Victoria: Three, one is the person who builds it, the owner of the company and the head person of the company that owns the plane. Since most things are now hackable, they use air-gapped computers and write down the code so no one else could get to them.

Artemis: Unless someone spilled the beans.

Tactic: No, I wouldn't go after one if it was just the deck, I would go after the book.

Victoria: Niko, hack into the security of the people who made that vault and see if their book is missing.

Niko: I'm going to need help, those places are tough.

Builder: Wait a minute, I know someone in there, let me make a call.

Marshal: -whispering- Ok, who is left?

AI: -whispering- two terrorists and one above them.

Marshal: -whispering- Stay back, I got this one.

Marshal pulled out his knife and pistol on his leg. (Everyone carries three weapons, main gun, side gun and backup. Some carry a secondary backup if they so choose. Marshal knocks on the door and waits.

Marshal: -whispering- Victoria, turn on the seat-belt sign and do some turbulence.

Victoria turned on the seat-belt sign and made sure all of the passengers were safely in their seats she made the made get some turbulence by making it bob and weave in the air. Everyone on the team was magnetized with their Exo-suits to the floor so that they won't be affected. Once Victoria rattled them enough, the terrorist came out and Marshal used his gun to knock him out. Snow and Derek moved in in front of Marshal and had their guns on the terrorists who thought they were controlling the plane but in fact it was Victoria. One of the terrorists had a trigger in his hand and he activated it but it wasn't for the bomb in the cargo hold, it was one in the engines outside, it blew one of the left engines completely apart.

Marshal: What was that!?

Artemis: One of the engines, I got it!

Artemis went close to where the engine was blown off and grabbed onto the wing, she activated her thruster to get back the power the plane lost and keep it even.

Artemis: I'm going to need some help holding this!

Marshal: Coming honey!

Anne and Cariño helped her by clinging onto the sides and using their thrusters to assist. Marshal went straight out of the plane by going straight back through the same way they came. Victoria opened the hatch and let Marshal out. Once Marshal got outside he assisted with keeping the plane in check.

Marshal: Victoria, how far are from the airport!

Victoria checks.

Victoria: About a mile out, can you punch it in time?

Artemis: We'll try.

Marshal went into a rage and it caused his wings to burn. They were all pushing it to the airport.

Victoria: I don't know how to land a plane properly so I'll set it to auto-pilot, the plane will land itself.

Derek: Wait a minute, where are the pilots and stewardesses?

Passenger: They captured them and put them down in the cargo hold.

Marshal: Check that would you!

They checked the cargo hold and they were there, wounded but alive.

AI: We got wounded, Maud you are up.

Maud came to the wounded and checked them.

Maud: Shots to the arms and legs, one abdomen, no through and through, they are bleeding out down here, patching them up for medevac.

Victoria: Plane is coming in now; I'll put what it's doing on screen.

They saw what the plane was doing and they adjusted to bring it in. The plane landed comfortably, Artemis, Marshal, Anne and Cariño let go of the plane to let it slow down and come to a stop. The team popped the emergency door so that everyone could get out.

The team escorted all of the passengers, remaining terrorists and the wounded. Artemis, Marshal, Anne and Cariño landed and started to sort everyone out. The emergency crews came in and put out the flames to the engine that exploded. They checked every single person out and gathered all explosives from the terrorists.

Marshal: This is military-grade Semtex; no way had they got this easy from a military base.

Builder: And I got more bad news, this is supposed to be kept quiet but the book is missing.

Artemis: For all planes?

Builder: Worse, they also do security systems for important places; he is sending me the hard drive of what they did it for secretly, this is going to get a whole lot more complicated.

Arachnid: Then we got a list of things to do, figure out where they got the Semtex, how they got it onto the plane, where these guys came from, how they managed to get Semtex in that engine, how they got the book to the master codes and how they even snuck it into the airport in the first place.

Marshal: Get started on that, we will take care of things here.

While everything was being sorted out in reality, Jack was talking to his younger self.

Young Jack: So you are telling me a guy we meet who has been through the worst shit possible built you this monster of a minigun and we get powers because of him?

Jack: And a family.

Young Jack: How did we get married to a sandworm? Don't get me wrong she is hot but isn't that a little...

Jack: Weird? I know but, you get used to it.

Young Jack: Ok, you got me signed on because of this minigun but not so much on the other set, almost makes me think the army wants us dead.

Jack: Thought so too but we made it because we were survivors.

Young Jack: Survivors of what?

Jack: Survivors of a lot of shit people try to put us through, even the military tried but they couldn't touch us.

Young Jack: Enough to be a walking dreadnought?

Jack: Yup.

Young Jack: And this guy...?

Jack: Pure.

Young Jack: Pure, he is the main reason we got promoted and we make a brutal wrecking team?

Jack: When you put Marshal in with his chaingun shotgun or the butcher he likes to call it, don't even bother trying to come in with a tank; it will get shredded in two seconds.

Young Jack thinks about it, while he was thinking about it, everything around them was breaking apart. Jack stood up and put the Tremormaker on his back. Small stones were going around Jack and Young Jack. All that was left was the ground they were standing on. When Jack looked back at his younger self and he had the dragon scales on his body.

Young Jack: If we reconnect, what is waiting for us?

Jack: A life that we are in the driver's seat.

Both of them just stood there, both of them were waiting on a decision and both of them knew what had to be done to make sure the enemy they have to face head on gets what they deserve.