Ax woke up slowly, wiping the crust from his eyes before getting up. He was treated to a not so pleasant surprise. He looked over to the fire pit, and Alice was sitting there with a bomb vest. "Nonononononono..." Ax wondered if he was still dreaming. He came over to her. "Are you okay?" She shook her head. "That was rhetorical." He checked the clock on the trigger. 4:00. [i]Okay, okay. I can do this,[/i] he thought to himself. He woke up Eclipse and told him to sweep the area for anyone who could have done this. A speaker crackled to life on Alice's vest. "Hello, guardian. You have Eclipse, we need him back, yes? We'll trade: Eclipse... For Alice." Ax looked to Alice, who shook her head. "Shove that deal up your fallen a**," he said under his breath as he began to work on the bomb. [i]2:00[/i] Ax located the trigger and battery quickly enough. "Eclipse, get that whoever that was and get him on the line." [i]1:30[/i] Ax disabled the security system on the vest, but saw a sniper dot on Alice's head. Thanks to Eclipse, it quickly went away. [i]1:00[/i] Eclipse was close now, he could tell. He removed the captain's vanguard and approached the skiff where he was. Meanwhile, Ax disabled a manual secondary trigger. [i]0:30[/i] Eclipse took the captain hostage. "Okay, bud. You're gonna answer my questions. Then you'll run the hell away. Got it?" The fallen captain tried to grind Eclipse's toes. [i]0:20[/i] Eclipse's radio sparked to life. "Okay. There's a blue wire from the battery to the trigger. Do I cut it?" The captain shook his head, and he relayed the message. [i]0:15[/i] "Cool. There's a red one from a receiver to the trigger. Cut or no?" The captain didn't answer, and Eclipse tightened his grip. The captain broke. "No...no." [i]0:10[/i] "Okay. Green one from trigger to battery." No response from Eclipse. "Do you read me? Cut or no cut?" Time ticked down, and still no word. [i]0:05, 0:04, 0:03, 0:02, 0:01...[/i] [b]"Grr, BLAMMIT ALL!"[/b] And he cut. And there was no explosion.