It was true, no one really noticed Flagg never came back, or even noticed Flagg leaving, Dark was having such a good time, that he forgot he was going to need to leave for Dallbow the next morning. It was sometime around 3:30 am when Dark, Sam and Scott left the party, Dark and Sam feeling the buzz of the alcohol, but Scot, who Dark knew liked his beer, seemed normal. The dim lights that were hung around the outpost lit up the streets as the three men told each other jokes, not noticing until they were standing directly in front of them, two men, each armed and apparently waiting for the DPD members to arrive.

One was tall, skinny and pale, with short dark brown hair. He was dressed in dark gray camo pants, wearing black combat boots, his shirt resembling something of a robe top, covered by a well cleaned suit of XR22 mesh, embroidered with the symbol of the Ascending Dawn. Strapped to his back was two polished katanas, each appearing to be master crafted in make, a raging bull strapped to a holster on his side. The other man was also tall, with buzz cut brown hair. He wore green camo pants and slick leather boots that seemed to be worn for show rather than footing, as well as wearing a long sleeve t shirt, the sleeves being crimson, underneath another well cared for set of XR22 mesh, this one with a bright red "A" embroidered on the center. In a holster on his side was a Desert Eagle, which distracted none from the menacing chainsaw on his back, the company who made its logo scratched out and replaced with a carving that read, "Sawsome."

Dark reached for his holster but remembered that Xim had a no weapon policy for the party, and thus his Colt Anaconda was not there. The five men starred at each other until the one with the "A" on his armor said," Dark, please come with us, our leader would like to talk to you." Dark remained silent as he felt like backing up only stopping as Scott burst out saying, "You bastard!" to the man with the two katanas, "You’re the one who killed Z! Are you proud! Look who they replaced him with!" the man chuckled and replied, "I will not deny it, I was not expecting Vora to send Blaqk to replace Z, but yes, I am proud! My name is Zan, and this Captain Awesome." "Awesome?" said Sam as he looked the man with the A across his chest up and down, stopping as the man replied with some anger, "CAPTAIN Awesome, now getting back on topic, Dark, our leader would like a word with you."

Dark paused and thought for a few seconds before he said, "No, I am not going to risk my men's lives getting tangled in your war. You stirred the hornets’ nest, big surprise that they in turn sting you?" Dark prepared to turn but stopped as Zan drew one of his blades with lightning speed and held it to his throat saying, "You can come with us, or we can make you." Scott prepared to strike at Zan, but Dark put up his hand in objection, stepping back and saying, "Lead the way, O Captain, my captain."

15 minutes later, after criss-crossing the outpost in an apparent attempt to throw anyone following them off their trail, Zan and Captain Awesome lead Dark and his company to one of the small, rundown buildings that rested against the walls of Nastya's, opening the door, and nodding to two men, each dressed in red hoodies under XR22 mesh, holding an MP5 in their hands. Slowly Zan and Captain Awesome took them down some stairs into a basement of sorts and stopped before a door, opening it a crack, and Zan saying, "Please enter." Dark did not object, him, Sam and Scott each entered, one after the other, and listened as the door closed behind them.

They were now standing in an office, a large desk at its center, and three chairs facing it. Sitting at the desk were two people, one being a man dressed in a black wind breaker over the established norm of XR22 mesh, he had tan skin, short blond hair, blue eyes and a scar running from his right eye to his right ear. A Glock 17 holstered on his person, but no other weapons in sight. The other occupant sat next to the man, and was a woman, short, with pale skin; her eyes were blue and her hair jet black. She wore a blue sweater under her own set of XR22, a combat knife obviously strapped into her right arm. Dark easily knew who these two people were, the man was Jake, and the woman was Katejina.

An awkward silence clouded the room for the next few minutes before Dark said, "Are you going to tell me why we are here? Or shall we just sit here, admiring your beautiful wall for the next few hours." Jake gave a chuckle before he said, "Very well, Dark, I have brought you here to ask you a favor. Ever since the skism, and Ria's death, I lost 1/4Th of my men, and am as of now, having my ass handed to me in one of the BDs souvenir baskets. I need your help." Dark looked at Sam and Scott, both nodded in approval before Dark replied, "Go on...." Kat spoke up this time, "Somehow the BD is amassing more supplies then they could possible collect in their territory with their current numbers, someone here is helping to supply them, thus they are able to continue their march into our territory." "So you want my men to collect supplies for you?" asked Dark puzzled, he had never been much of a looter, and thus didn’t think the job would suit him. Jake chuckled and replied, "God no, we have already amassed over 3000 boxes of ammunition and 43 crates of grenades here, your friend Sam was able to hook us up with the supplies being brought in by the independent shop owners, as well as to ensure that they are in a trade embargo with the BD."

Dark turned and looked at Sam, who smiled and put up his hands before saying, "It gets very, VERY, boring sitting at that radio all day." Dark shook his head, and returned to Kat and Jake asking, "So what do you need me for?" Kat responded with, "We need you and your men to smuggle our supplies into Dallbow, and keep them at your base until we can pick them up later. The BD has started posting snipers in the neutral zone and thus is killing most of our men, who don't move fast enough." "That is in violation of Neil's law..." began Scott, but was silenced as Jake said bluntly, " Neil, the genius that he is, issued the law, but the OG is too busy keeping order here to actually enforce it, thus as long as the BD stay hush-hush, they can place Snipers where ever they damn well please."

Another silence followed before Dark said, "I will only do this once, and realize that by doing this for you I endanger not only myself, and my team, but any of the Independent looters and OG members Neil send my way to use my facility. Send your team to retrieve the ammo in the night, I will have Sam send for you when we return, pick it up that night, no later." Jake agreed and shook Dark's hand and escorted him and his team to Zan and Captain Awesome, who took them back to the DPD building, unaware that Blaqk prowled the roof tops, watching them, finally stopping as he saw Zan and Captain Awesome turn back, then looking at the DPD building and smiling, "Interesting....." he said, as he dropped into the alley below.

It was the next morning that Dark and his team planned to leave; all the team that had come from the inner city outpost was equipped and prepared, everyone except Flagg. Ryan was soon seen running towards them, stopping in front of Dark as he tried to catch his breath saying, "Dark, Flagg is dead." "You know, just because he is new to the OG does not give you the right to...." began Jill, stopping as Ryan shouted, "Shut the fuck up women!" to her and looked Dark in the eye and said, "Flagg is dead."

Dark, Sean, Jill, Scott and Sam each stood over the partially eaten remains of Flagg, Ryan and Jarki both standing by as Dark asked, "What happened?" Ryan shrugged as he said,"We still don't know, an OG watchman named Defense found him in the Junkyard half eaten, he must have wandered in there drunk after the party...." Dark was now kneeling next to Flagg as he felt sorrow well up inside him, all though the kid was a klutz, and was the definition of the term rookie, he was a good friend. Dark looked up at Sam and said,"He had family here, will you..." Sam nodded.Dark stood up and said, "We need to go, please bury him with the honors of a regular OG. "Ryan nodded and as Dark turned he saw Jarki toss him a sandwich and say, "Sorry...." As Dark, Sean and Jill walked away Dark looked at Jill and said,"Looks like you will not get that money after all, Jill."

They arrived at the main gate and were preparing to exit when they saw Scott running to meet them, when he caught up he was seen with a pack over his shoulder and said,"You’re down a man, and they can always find a new sniper to replace me, I am coming to Dallbow with you."Dark smiled and nodded, the gate was open and then walked into the fields surrounding the outpost, heading towards Fairview proper.

Blaqk stood on one of the empty watchtowers, watching them walk away, reaching for his radio and saying into it, "Rez, this is Blaqk, you're close to Dallbow right? Pop in there and pay a little visit to our friends at the DPD."