Before anyone else could do or say anything, Fein hit a button and the floor seemed to heave as an energy wave seeped slowly through the building. Markus smiled as he watched the nanobots free themselves from both himself and Evangelion. Darkspade was staring wildly round at all the wires and buttons as Moebius and Brand-X arrived. X cast a quick look round and hit a few buttons on the console, Fein smiled.

"You're too late, you'll all die in this place and Charon will never make her way back from this. This time she will die permanently."

X ignored him but Spade already had the greasy slimebag round the throat, Moebius now had Crimson clinging tightly round his throat. He looked at his watch before speaking quietly to X.

"How long?"

X's fingers seemed to move at impossible speed as they worked over the various keyboards.

"3 minutes maybe less."

Moebius pulled Spade round and handed Crimson to him.

"Take her and get her out now, we'll follow."

Spade blinked between Crimson, Charon and Fein. For the first time in a long time he didn't argue, he picked up Crimson glared at Fein and exited the room and ran. Moebius looked at X, he looked back and then they both looked at Charon who was still jacked into the system.

In the virtual world Lillith and Charon were locked in a somewhat unique battle, Lillith had tried everything to bring down Charon but she simply could do nothing to destroy her. Charon smiled. She hadn't come into this plane to win, just to hold her at bay and Lillith was becoming more and more frustrated by the second.

Charon saw the distortion, saw the nanobots and then was a little too slow to react. Lilliths form took on a more solid look and as she was hit at point blank range by a blast of electrical energy she was flung backwards and she blacked out momentarily.

When she opened her eyes she seemed to be staring at Brand-X, before she could react or do anything about this weird change of scenery, Moebius had picked her up and thrown her over his shoulder. She could hear a lot of noise, rumbling, crackling, snapping and weird pinging noises.

X followed Moebius at a frighteningly fast pace, he glanced down at his watch.

"30 seconds mate"

Moebius said nothing as time seemed to start to slow down and everything began to move as though in a slow motion scene from a movie. They were only a few yards from the exit when the entire complex exploded...