April 24th, 2027 – 0600 Hours – Stormwind Prison

"Why must I keep an eye on her? She's just a hordie..." said Izui, the black haired Draenei girl who served as the Azeroth unit in Walker's battalion

"Because, you're the most caring and forgiving of the bunch, I don't think I'd trust the others with keeping an eye on her much less keeping this plan a little secret." Walker explained. "So do you understand what I'm asking of you?"

Izui nodded "I'm to keep an eye on the Elf, then when this other human comes in I'm to just... accidently drop a prison key?"

"Pretty much... all the while I want you to make sure she stays alive... and if... if worse comes to worst I want you to go with them." Continuing before she could interject "If they find out you're involved things could get a whole lot worse and I don't want that happening got it? For several reasons."

"I... alright..."

"Good, now then I've gotta get prepared, hopefully I'll see you in a bit." And with that Walker left the Draenei outside of the Prison's Med-Bay.

Izui sighed and just decided to get this over with. She'd go in there, keep an eye on the Elf to make sure she didn't go anywhere, as if she would... and then when the time came, help her enemies escape. Why not?

She entered the Med-Bay looking at the injured, most of them were in for simple things like broken bones from fights or some mild sickness, but then she saw the elf... almost the entire right half of her head was wrapped in bandages with her right eye covered as well as her cheek, ear and forehead.

"Oh my... by the Light..." Izui muttered in her inverted Draenic accent, now what that meant as she'd been told, meant she sounded less East European and more Italian than anything. "What happened to you?"

The Elf just shot the Draenei with her most disgusted look she could manage what with her only being able to use half her face and wheezed out. "What's... it to... you?"

"I... I was just sent to keep an eye on you and... I wanted to know..."

"Sent... to watch... me? Not by... that crazy? Hmm?"

"What? No, I was sent by Lt. Col. Walker to make sure you were ok." Izui said, appalled by damage caused to the Blood Elf.

"Walker? Sent you?"

Izui nodded... the Elf clenched her eye shut and whimpered "That mad man... he... he took my ear."

Izui reeled back in disgust "What!? How... why would... That's just..." she was at a loss of words, she just really wanted to find whoever did this and beat some sense into them... unless you are fighting for your life this isn't something you do to a person, much less a prisoner who can't fight back!

The Draenei girl knelt next to the Blood Elf's cot, "The name's Izui..." she looked around to make sure no one else was in the room within ear shot. "I'm here to help you escape." She whispered.

"Mh... Faluara" the Elf muttered "Ah!" she then yelped, putting a hand to her bandaged head then yelping again even louder, a few tears trickled down her face.

"I guess you're still in a lot of pain huh?"

"Mhm..." Falu whimpered.

"Well, here, it's not much but this would help ease the pain." Said Izui, placing her index finger and middle finger over the Elf's forehead bestowing a small glowing mark on her, warming her up and soothing her wounds with a minor healing ability that all Draenei possessed... "Does that feel any better?" she asked.

"Yeah... a bit... thanks."

"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be outta here soon..."

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April 24th, 2027 – 0745 Hours – Stormwind City, Market District

Walker had come up with a plan, it was simple. In fact he worried it was too simple... all it hinged on was him getting two of his squadmates to throw a fake fight in an alley, he'd get the guards to come help him and send Ryan and his squadmates to take over for the missing guards while they helped him sort out the fight.

But first he had to run this by his would be scrappers... he asked one of his underlings, Illiara to bring a message to Grundur and Quinn, two others who were in her squad which in turn was placed in his battalion. He told her to tell them to meet him in the alley behind the Market district's auction house.

"Yee wanted ta see us sir?" said Grundur Stonebeard, one of the battalion's newest additions. With him was the aging veteran but still very healthy human Quinn Rivers.

"Yes, I did..." Walker started, inching into the subject. "I have a bit of a problem you see."

"Well what can we do sir?" asked Quinn.

"Ugh... well... you're not gonna like it..." Walker cringed.

"Is this uh... legal... sir?"

Walker cringed again "No... not really."

"Then I don't think we can help you." Quinn stated firmly.

"Wait, look... shall I explain first? Quinn, Grundur, you're both honorable men right?"

Grundur and Quinn looked at each other, Grundur raising an eyebrow. "We believe so sir."

"Well you see, I've a friend inside Stormwind's prison... a horde member. Ah, now before you storm off, hear this. They've been doing terrible things to a few of the prisoners down there, horrible, gruesome things that no one should have to endure, horde or not. I can't do it the injustice it deserves through words... but it's really not a place you will want to see. And... I'd like to get her out of there, the warden won't have any of it, nor will my C.O... which is where you guys come in. You believe that no one should have to suffer through agonizing torture or... experimentation right?"

"Experimentation!?" Quinn hissed "That's what they're doing down there? On live subjects!? That's inhumane!"

"Exactly... but trust me when I say no one will be able to link us back to the break out because it's not us doing it." Grundur looked like he was about to ask a question when Walker held up a hand, silencing him. "There are three horde spies in the city that I've caught and brokered a deal with, they'll help get my friend out and in return they'll go with her back to horde territory after I've searched and confiscated any documents they have."

"Ok... so... where do we come in?"

"Easy, you two throw a fake fight near the prison, I grab the guards to help me out stopping you, we sort everything out without getting anyone else in prison, don't worry I'll have some pull there. Then while the guards are helping me sort the apparent fight out, I'll send the Horde spies in who are disguised as Alliance guards to take the place of the guards helping us. They bust out my friend, head to the motor pool and escape however they want from there."

"Alright... seems simple enough. For us anyways..." said Quinn. "But still I dunno... defying our own?"

Walker sighed... "I'll give you each two hundred gold."

"Jus' ta punch each otha' a wee bit? Hehe, sure, why not?" Grundur replied.

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April 24th, 2027 – 1315 Hours – Stormwind City, an Inn overlooking the prison

"All this waiting is killing me..." Ryan muttered as he looked out the inn window, watching for any sign of the American commander.

"You aren't the only one feeling the stress." Legi added. "I don't trust him."

Ryan shook his head softly, pulling his gaze away from the widow momentarily. "Well... neither do I but I can't come up with a better idea... he's right about one thing though, that fort of a prison won't be easy to break into without inside help." Ryan paused, thinking for a second before continuing "Besides... If it means taking action now rather than later... I'll take that risk." He turned his head back to the window, looking outside for about two minutes before he saw Walker emerge from an alleyway, two figures behind him. He tapped on his side, holding out two fingers towards the alley to which the two seemed to respond too, stepping back out of sight. Then he made his move, shooting a glance at the inn window, giving Ryan a silent signal and holding out three fingers and tapping on his wrist.

"Ok... three minutes. Then we move." Ryan said to the others. Watching with the window open slightly, as the commander ran up to the guards at the drawbridge, feigning exhaustion.

"There's..." he wheezed loudly. "There's a fight going on in an alley over there, give me a hand, I can't break them apart alone." The guards seemed to recognize Walker's rank and position, nodding and following him to the alley at which point Walker waved towards the alley almost beginning his gesture in a position facing the window.

"Suit's on, let's go."

Ryan led Legi and Kael outside and passed the alley where Walker and the two guards were holding a stout dwarf and fit old man apart, all the while Walker trying to figure out what was going on, presumable in an act. He then glanced over his shoulder noting the three disguised Horde operatives.

"You three, go guard the prison gates while we sort this out, I'll relieve you shortly." He said to which Ryan replied with "At once!" bowing his head and making for the gate, which they didn't stop to guard and made their way past the gate and bridge and into the prison courtyard.

"Alright, now to find who we're looking for..." Ryan muttered, finding the way down into the prison. Rooms on either side of him blocked by iron bars and rounded by walls of stone, this place had no identifying features. The prison was a maze, with not even any kind of map... it wasn't like he could ask another guard for directions as IF he was SUPPOSED to be here, he would already know.

After passing through the mess hall and searching the entire top area, they came up empty.

"There must be another floor here..." Legi said. "Let's head back to the stairs and see if there is another floor."

"There wasn't, at least not on the entrance's stairs... so perhaps there is another set? At the opposite end, that'd make sense."

Legi and Kael nodded "Well let's do that way then." Kael said. "We haven't time to lose."

On their way to the rear of the prison building they came across a contraband room, solid locks and a surprisingly advanced alarm system in place... in fact it was rather... modern.

"If there is a powered alarm system in place here then this place has a power generator or something here... or a security room..." once they passed down a flight of stairs and saw the lower floor Ryan's theory was confirmed, the lower floor was almost entirely modernized with black and white tiled floors and steel doors and walls... it looked less like a prison and more like an asylum.

The first room on the left was a glass windowed room with many computers and switches... from the looks of it, they controlled the doors and cameras and alarms on the lower level and the contraband room on the top. Then right next to the security room was a narrow hall leading to a pair of washrooms, while on the other side of the hall, opposite of the security room was a infirmary from the looks of it.

"Alright, here's the deal..." Ryan explained. "We'll look around first, once we've gotten the layout of the area, we'll take the security room and find out which cell Falu is in... then once that's done I want Legi to deactivate all security systems across the board... give me a about a thirty second headstart before doing that so I can minimize the time I'm gonna have to spend with unpredictable alliance prisoners and psychos. But at the same time I want you, Kael, to go back upstairs and incite a riot, this way we can get out undetected, hopefully.

The three had a brief look around then went into the washrooms to pull their weapons out from within their plate armor, then coming back out to stack up next to the security room door... which Ryan went in quietly. There were two guards, both sitting facing away from Ryan in chairs... their faces glued to the screens and consoles. Ryan snuck up behind them, putting both of his hands behind their heads and then slamming their noses into the consoles, breaking a few monitors in the process.

He then looked over a console which told him what rooms were occupied and a few other important details.

"Shit, they ain't telling me where she is... just disable all the security quietly, I'll manually check each room myself then."

Legi scanned the room, finding another console with blinky lights on it, a few important words and fancy switches. "This looks important... time to break it." and with that he flipped off every switch, pressed every button and avoided the red ones.

Red emergency lights flicked on in the halls and the lights signalling the door locks on the cells flipped from green to red. They waited a moment but no sign of a riot yet...

"Ok... get ready to dash, I'll be right back."

Ryan crossed the hall and into the Infirmary, the red lights blaring in here too... "Everyone please remain calm, we'll have this sorted out in a moment." He said the to the medics and what few inmates were there. Ryan noticed a Draenei in the corner tending to a swollen mark on her cheek... their eyes locked and the Draenei subtly nodded towards the door making her way out of the infirmary.

Ryan followed her outside where she spoke. "You're here for the Elf aren't you?"

"No."

"Don't lie... you're not fooling anyone." She waved at his SMG.

"You ol' Chuckie's?" he asked

The Draenei nodded. "You'll want cell 9 and hurry... she was just taken back to her cell only half an hour ago by... well... not by someone well in the head. Go!"

"R-right." Ryan made a beeline for cell 9, finding it and hitting the manual open button, cracking the door, hearing the fussing and screaming from inside.

"No! NO! Keep that away from me!"

Ryan flung the door open to see a balding man with whispy white hair, holding various implements, one of which seemed to be stuck into Falu's wrist, draining some kind of liquid from her which wasn't blood, rather a strange green glow.

The scientist reached for a makeshift needle gun on the table but didn't make it far before Ryan leapt in, kicking the scientist back against the wall, aiming his gun at him.

"What. Did. You. Do to her!?" he barked "ANSWER ME SCUM!"

"Haha, yes, I've come so close yet so very far! You see, I have extracted magic from a living being using science! We can now approach this magic in a scientific sense rather than it being all so mysterious!"

"And all you had to do was torture her for it!?" he yelled. "Who put you up to this!? The Alliance!?"

"Haha, American, you should know."

The insanity, the heartless nature, the strange scientific pursuits... "You're a Nazi aren't you?"

The scientist stayed quiet.

"That's all I needed to know." Ryan said, before squeezing the trigger and tearing the Nazi's face apart with a full fifty round clip. Ryan then turned to release Falu, removing the needle in her wrist and unshackling her. He then was able to see the extent of the damage done to her.

Half her right ear was missing, having been hastily stitched over, as well as a large gash across her right eye, while her eye itself was dimmed and horribly damaged, her entire right side of her face covered in dried blood. Aside from that her lips were dry and partially cracking, she looked zoned out and to top it all off he was pretty sure her ear wound was infected.

"R-Ry...an?" she muttered softly, barely audible.

"It's ok... I'm here... we'll get you back to the Horde and get you help.

"The vial..." she whimpered.

"Vial?"

"Taken..."

"Ryan, we gotta go! Riot's starting!"

"Shit!" Ryan cursed, hoisting Falu over his shoulder.

Ryan bolted out of the cell, meeting up with Legi and Kael at the security room... Kael from the looks of it had also raided the contraband room and was holding a set of sun cured leather armor and a vial of water.

"C'mon we don't have time to waste! Alliance troops are on their way!" he said.

"Wait!" Ryan barked, shifting Falu onto Legi, who looked appalled at the damaged done to his sister, while Ryan ducked into the security room and secured one of the unconscious guard's uniforms. "

"Bring her here." Ryan waved over Legi. "Help me put this on her, we can sneak out in the middle of the riot if people don't recognize her as horde."

"Uh, dude... I don't know how I feel about seeing my sister-"

"This is life or death! C'mon man up and help me or we're all gonna die!" Ryan ordered. "I don't enjoy this any more than you! Trust me." Ryan shook his head. "I really don't."

"Fuck it, fine."

So Legi helped Ryan quickly change Falu into the guard uniform while Kael kept watch, once she was in the uniform, Ryan adjusted her bandages so they were also covering her other ear and eye. Legi when hoisted her over his shoulder while Ryan relieved one of the guards of their M9 Pistol.

"You take the lead."

"Uh..." Kael started "The other prisoners are getting out down here! If we don't hurry we'll be cut off!"

"Shit, go, go, go!" Legi, Ryan and Kael shot around the corner, Ryan sneaking a peek inside the infirmary seeing it abandoned and followed the others up the stairs.

Unsure whether or not they'd run into Alliance guards, Ryan occasionally took pot shots behind him as if shooting at the more... unstable prisoners they were keeping down there. Then of course they did come across an Alliance patrol who were attempting to keep the riot under control.

"Where do you think you're going!? We need all hands on deck here!" said one of the guards as Ryan's group ran down the hall coming from the bottom floor.

"Move aside we got wounded and I'm outta ammo, we got a bunch of lunatics coming up there, bullets just seem to piss them off!" Ryan barked. "Infirmary is overrun. We're heading to the chapel to get her help and then reloading and coming back."

"Uhh..." the guard paused "Ok, fine, whatever, we'll handle it. Just be sure to bring back help!"

"Right!"

The four passed multiple groups of guards all heading deeper into the prison, most of whom didn't even know that it was them that they were looking for. Once they reached the top and entered the courtyard, they found that both bridges were down and troops were flooding in.

"Response time was faster than I thought..." Ryan muttered, slowing down and double checking that no one was onto them while Legi, Kael and Falu made it over the bridge.

"ALERT!" Someone yelled, running out of the prison building, an Alliance soldier. "One of the guards inside is missing their uniform! Check everyone!"

"Shit." Ryan hissed under his breath, checking to make sure the others had made it... they were across the bridge at least. Ryan reached under his tabard and found the block of Semtex they had was still on him, along with the detonator. He stuck the reciving device into the explosive clay block and made his way out onto the bridge just as-

"You there! Remove your helmet!"

"Alright, alright!" Ryan replied, reaching up to his helmed with his free hand, removing his helmet and turned his head ninety degrees, checking behind him with his peripheral vision.

"Identify yourself." Said the soldier.

"Calm down man, I'm just getting ammo."

"We've got ammo here now, just got dropped off, so why don't you just turn around."

So close... just one more step and he'd bee of the bridge... "Alright you got me, I don't need ammo..." he stalled for time, letting the guard get closer. "I just have to drop a package off."

"A package? Hmm... why don't you give it to me then and I'll deliver it?"

Ryan smirked and turned around. "Ok, sure, special delivery!" he stuck the Semtex to the guard and kicked him onto his back on the bridge and made a beeline for the motor pool.

"W-what!? You're not, OVER-"

The small explosion was enough to silence the guard and destroy the bridge, buying them some time at least. Probably only an extra five minutes but it was enough to dash to the motor pool and escape... especially since there were almost not guards patrolling the street as most had seemed to have been called to help with the riot.

Once they reached the motor pool, there were only a handful of guards still stationed there. Four in total outside... then it was that Ryan realized that these four were different.

"Walker..." Ryan muttered. "Wonder what he's doing here.

Ryan saw Walker look their way but he didn't react, the other three with him were the ones he'd seen before. The draenei girl, human veteran and the middle aged dwarf. When he looked away from Ryan's squad, he just shrugged at his own squad and dropped something on the ground before the four headed elsewhere.

Ryan hastily crept over to where Walker had been, seeing what had been dropped and picking up a key and a note.

Ramirez, this key is for the Humvee closest to where I was standing, also, I've found you an exit. Head to the docks, modernized section, pier 3. I spoke to Col. Burton earlier and gotten myself and my squad an excuse if caught, which is good cuz I think the Alliance section is onto us.

Ryan motioned for the others to get into the Humvee, "As much as I want to blow up the rest of these vehicles I've direct orders not to get overly involved... just hope they didn't identify me..."

"Pfft, wouldn't surprise me." Said Legi "I mean this wasn't exactly the pinnacle of tactical espionage like you'd hoped for... rather we kinda Leeroy'd it in here."

"Ugh... please don't compare me with him..." Ryan groaned. "Well then, let's do this, LEEROOOOOOOY... JEEEEEEENKIIIIIINNNNSS!"

Legi sighed and Ryan put the pedal to the medal, taking off towards the docks, narrowly avoiding Alliance patrols, weaving between streets and alleyways to take not necessarily the shortest route but the one of least resistance.

Once they were in the Cathedral district Ryan heard Legi mutter something... "What? Speak up!" Ryan said.

"Falu ain't lookin so good..." he repeated. He put a hand to her head. "She's heating up and going a bit pale."

"Shit... her wound was infected... I knew it! Do we have any med supplies?"

"N-no... nothing that will help anyways..." Legi said. "I could clean the wound, but it would be to late..."

"Wait." Said Kael reaching into his satchel, pulling out a shimmering vial of water.

"What's that?" Asked Legi

"A... Agent of Eternity I guess they were calling it, it's a technologically diluted vial of the waters of eternity that I had. The Nazis, while I was working with them took my vial and experimented on the waters, creating this substance which improved their soldiers stamina, endurance, strength, perception, magical prowess and more... like a kind of super drug... then... they found a way to artificially replicate their work."

"You might have mentioned we'd be facing super soldiers in the near future a while ago couldn't you!?" Ryan barked.

"We... had more pressing matters..." Kael faltered. "Anyways... it's no healing potion, but it should improve her immune system and buy us some time.

"Try it... not like we have many options..." Ryan said.

"Ok." Kael popped the vial open and handed it back to Legi who opened Falu's mouth and trickled the water in.

Once the vial was empty, Falu coughed and sputtered, her eyes fluttering open and staying open for a while before she weakly asked. "W-what happened?" her voice quiet and raspy.

"Shh..." Legi whispered. "Save your strength..." Legi turned to the front. "Are we almost there?"

"Just about" Ryan replied. "We're heading down the ramps towards the piers."

The Humvee passed several piers, both old fashioned and modern with peasants unloading cargo onto wagons and trucks to be taken to wherever they were needed, seagulls swooped in and stole fishers prizes and the air smelt of sea water. It would have been a normal day at the docks if not for the absence of the guards.

"Even with the riot, you'd think that the pier guard would still be here, hell you think they'd be on high alert." Ryan muttered. "Ah, Pier 3, the modern version of it."

Ryan pulled up on the curb of the road next to the pier, letting everyone get out and heading down towards it, a small Alliance boat waiting for them with cargo crates waiting alongside it on the pier, ready to be loaded.

Then a lone alliance soldier stepped out from behind the crates furthest down the dock, followed by another and another before a squad of six stood in their way. These guys wore the Alliance crest on their ballistics armor and wielded more modern firearms consisting of MP5s and USP 45s.

"Cover! Now!" Ryan barked as everyone ducked behind the crates as the Alliance troops opened fire, the horde squad just hoping that whatever was in the crates was bulletproof.

One of the crates broke open from the gunfire. Scrap metal looked to be the contents of the boxes, though not very tightly packed... however since they were dealing with 9mm round, the crates could still stop the bullets with some measure of consistency. In fact even if a single bullet were to make it through it would likely be absorbed by the Nano-weave vests the horde soldiers wore... still if the Alliance troops wised up to that and switched to their heavier 45. Pistols... well Ryan just wanted to end this firefight before then.

The horde soldiers own P90s however used 5.7mm which was designed to be more piercing, the actual projectile being much more pointy then the slightly rounded 9mm.

"Legi, take the one on the left, Kael, suppress the ones on the right, I'll take the left as well... our clips are bigger so fire in short controlled bursts to outlast their clips! Ready? Suppressing fire!"

Ryan peeked out from cover and fired a few bursts at the three soldiers on the left while Kael took aim at the ones on the right. Legi on the other hand was able to zero in on one of the enemy soldiers and pop a few rounds in his leg and midsection, downing him.

"Target down!" Legi shouted.

"This is a waste of time, I could just burn them!" Kael exclaimed.

"Think you could control it so it's not overkill?!"

"Uh... maybe... I mean since my implants I haven't really gotten the chance to test what I can do magicwise..."

"Probably not a good idea then! Beside's we can handle these guys, right Legilas!?"

"Right!"

A few exchanges later and only one more Alliance soldier had been downed while their shots were getting more and more accurate. "Think we can keep this up?"

"Sure, hold on..." a canister rolled in between the horde soldiers. "Flashbang!" Ryan yelled, looking away and covering his ears, muffling the effect. The others hadn't been quite so lucky, getting disoriented by the blast.

Ryan spun back around to see the remaining alliance soldiers advancing on them while the others were blinded by the light. Ryan returned fire as they advanced, hitting one in the leg a few times, knocking him down but as he was taking aim at the next he fell over onto his left shoulder.

"GAH! FUCK!" a 9mm round had passed clean through his thigh but it caused enough pain to cause him to tumble over. Before he could regain his sights his gun was knocked out of his hand and the remaining three active alliance soldiers were aiming their weapons at them.

"R-Ryan!" Falu sputtered out. "No!"

"We've got you now Horde scum. This time you won't be escaping."

Ryan saw Falu struggling to her feet. 'No, Falu stay down!' his mind shouted, remembering how defensive she'd gotten of him back in New West.

"Stay down bitch, or we'll put you down!" barked one of the soldiers.

"N-no..."

"I warned you!"

"I... I'll put you down!" a blast of arcane energy blasted back the soldier throwing him back into one of the boxes so hard it broke open, sending splinters everywhere and impaling the guard on a sharp piece of scrap metal.

"What!? Damnit!"

The second soldier got picked up and slammed into the ground hard like a rag doll, snapping every bone in his body before his lifeless corpse was tossed into the bay.

The third soldier opened fire but as the bullets approached Falu, each bullet began to glow with a green aura, it was almost as if time slowed down and the bullets missed her, but rather than keep going they swerved around and came right back at the soldier, hitting him five times in the gut putting him down.

"I don't know what was in that water..." Falu said. "But damn... I've never felt so alive! Hahaha!" and she proceeded finish off the last soldier by burning his face off.

Ryan struggled to his feet. "Fal...?" he started, her mad cackling interrupted. "Are... you alright?"

"Oh, Ryan, I'm better than great! If I'd known that vial could do this I'd have taken it sooner! Haha!"

"You need to calm down Fal, we don't know how long that vial will last."

"Last? What do you mean, this is temporary?"

"Maybe?"

"Nooo! I don't want it to be temporary! I want more of it! More, more, more!" she whined, sounding like a child.

"Fal, c'mon lets just focus on getting outta here, look the boat is clear and we're good to go."

"But Ryan wh-... where... can..." she stumbled. "I... I feel dizzy now..."

"That would be the side effects..." Kael said. "Warning, side effects may include, nausea, heartburn, indigestion, vomiting, water retention, painful rectal itch, dry mouth, hallucination, dementia, psychosis, coma, death and halitosis. Eternity Agent is not for everyone consult your local Nazis before use."

"That... sounds kinda bad..."

"Don't worry, the more severe effects only come into play after vast quantities are consumed, a single use a day will only result in minor effects."

"I... uhh..." Falu tumbled over, being caught by Ryan who cringed and yelped as he caught her as he put weight on his injured leg.

"Ryan... carry me..."

"I've been shot in the leg... but dammit fine I can't say no to you."

Ryan hoisted her over his shoulder, on the side with his good leg and headed towards the boat. "Will the vial last us till we reach Orgrimmar?" Ryan asked.

"I'm not sure... we might not have much time."

"Shit... I hope this boat is fast."

They all boarded the boat which surprisingly... had only two people crewing the boat. A small gnome woman and a blonde human woman, everything else on the boat seemed to work by magic."

"I heard you needed help." Said the blonde. "After hearing what happened in the prison, I couldn't say no."

"Hmm?" Ryan mused. "You look familiar. Are you the help Walker told me about?"

"Ryan Ramirez, has it really been that long?"

"Wait a second..." the blonde hair, the purple robes, the cute curiosity that shone in those blue eyes. "Jaina?"

"Well... it seems you do remember."

"Well, well... Jaina Proudmoore... it's been a while."

"Aye, it has been." Jaina replied, looking over the Elf on Ryan's shoulder. "I take it this is your friend you were rescuing. My apologize for the ambush, they insisted I stay on the ship while they dealt with some things, I had no idea they meant to jump you like that..."

"Who were they anyways?"

"Members of the AART, that's Alliance Advance Recon Team. From what I hear they're our equivalent to the Horde's SHOT. They fall out of my jurisdiction so there wasn't much I could do... sorry again."

"Apparently not equal... they shoot like stormtroopers..."

Jaina walked to the edge of the boat and looked back at Stormwind. "I can help clear up the trouble you caused while... visiting..." she said, "But... I have one condition. In addition to my helping you escape."

"What's that?"

"Come by Theramoore some time, show me around Earth."

"W-what?"

"You know, Earth. I didn't get to go with Varian and the others so I have yet to see it... and you told me so much about it when you first arrived and... well... I'm curious."

"Uh... uh... I mean... uh..."

"Uh?" Jaina offered.

"Y-yeah..." Ryan stuttered. He really couldn't tell if Jaina was hitting on him or not... He already had Falu so it's not like he was interested... well... that'd be a lie but he was more interested in Falu.

"I... I guess so. I mean I dunno how I'd manage it but I could..."

"Splendid!" Jaina chirped. "Now then, you two are injured and I suspect you want to get to Orgrimmar as soon as possible?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Well..." Jaina put forth both her hands. "Azeroth portalus Orgrimmar" she chanted opening a portal to just outside Orgrimmar's front gates.

"I look forward to our next meeting." Jaina smirked.

"R-right." Ryan replied, stepping through the portal awkwardly, being followed by Legi and Kael with Falu.

Kael dropped Falu into his arms, giving her to Ryan. "And this is where we part ways." He said.

"Huh?"

"I've done terrible things, things I think that prevent me from being the father she expected, she'd hoped for and deserved. I'll be going now... and I won't be back until I think I'm ready."

Ryan shot a glance at Legi who just shrugged. "Alright... if that's what you want... I won't stop you."

"Thank you... I'm sure our paths will cross again."

Ryan stood there for a while, watching the elder elf walk away before getting far enough to become a mere spot in the distance. He looked down at Falu, who was passed out in his arms. "We should get her to a medical centre... probably on Earth... the portal is just in the base outside the gates, not far now."

"Right, c'mon then man... I'd like to be able to see my sister on her own two feet again, rather than us carrying her around all the time."

Ryan humorlessly chuckled. "Homeward bound again it is, I'll drop off my report to Macmillan on the way."