Haplo
	Haplo growled at the girl, "Kid, I ain't got time ta mess with Jen an 
her damn crackpot ideas, I gots me some women ta kill, so back off," he finished
with a roar.  Almost shoving her out of his Hole, Haplo went and grabbed his
pulse rifle, a rail gun of his own design, and took look at himself in the mirror.  
The man he saw there at least 10 years older than he was, grief having taken it's 
toll on him.  Rage began to twist his features, pure, animalistic rage for  the 
women of the Red Ajah.  Not caring for  his own welfare he grabbed a few clips for 
his rifle and jumped into his car, peeling out of the Tower grounds and out onto 
the street, his destination the White Tower...he would make them pay. 


Lia
	The entire Annex was in chaos, The Tower, and home, and family she
fought for, worked for, everything was balanced on the razor's edge, and Lia
was finally sick of it.  She stood up, cursing at the pain that was in her
stomach and strengthened the barrier that once was used to hold off Perhto's
thoughts, and now kept the pain of his loss from her mind.....  Her head
raised, eyes blaring, and visions flashed through her mind.   Some her's
others Illyena's....   Visions of a castle tumbling around her, as the man she
loved destroyed her, Visions of a loving mother being burned by her daughter's
anger, Visions of a Lover, being drawn apart be Trolloc's and eyeless men.
Visions of lonliness, isolation, pain, fear, and above all else, Hatred.
      Throwing open each door she came to, she strode to her mausoleum.   It
seemed the Crystal walls and rose garden had scarce been touched, other than a
few tire tracks through a few white roses.    The mausoleum stood, untouched
and pristine...
      Passing the bar, she grabbed a bottle of Jack Daniel's and slugged half
of it, the whiskey fueling her rage, but not dampening her mind.   She turned,
Threw open a closet, and wrenched open a dusty trunk.   Inside lay forgotten
Armour, long used in a battles against Whitecloaks, the Rose sword lay
untarnished and the armour white as freshly fallen snow.   She left these
untouched and removed another outfit, hiding beneath.   
      Removing her clothes, she put each article of her "Battle Armor" on...
The Black leather sleeveless bodysuit lined with flak that no bullets could
pierce...  The Pants of the same matierial that hugged her body and allowed
free movement, the Thigh high black boots with their silver points and studs,
hiding Daggers in each leg,  The Elbow-length gloves that doubled as
gauntlets, The Black Leather Flak Trenchcoat...  Made with the properties of
both Warder and Myrddraal.        The Battle Armor of a Black Ajah Assassin....
     Lia attached her chakram to her hip, her wristbow to her wrist, fastened
the Silver belt around her waist, and checked that each bolt was in place.
Slipping the communicator on her head, she fastened the mouthpiece in place,
and picked up a shotgun, sliding it into the holster lined in the Trenchcoat.
and finally loaded each of the two Barretta's in the holsters on her hips.   
     She took once last swig from her bottle and walked by her vanity grabbing
the keys to her other Bike,  The EX 500, complete with battle armor of it's
own...  and slipped a necklace about her neck.. the pendant showed a rose and
star entwined  through a crossbow...  Glancing into the mirror, she could see
what everyone else would see, Her Silver eyes blazed with the fire within her,
Her Silver-streaked black hair was wild about her shoulders and back, not
pinned up as usual, and her face showed clearly the burns she'd recieved in
her fall, along with a cut that ran the length of her right cheek.
     Turning the key she blared out of the mausoleum, and into the chaos of
the Annex...
   A red and blue sister stood arguing not far from the west exit.   Lia's
Silver lightning stuck the ground all around her, and the sisters looked up in
wonder and shock...  
      Lia burst upon them like Hellfire on a sinner, and both lie motionless
as she pivoted and spun towards the front of what had once been Moiriane
Damodred High School...  
 Firing her shotgun in the air once, she got the attention she needed,
Dropping a finished cigarette to the ground, and smothering it with her spiked
heel, silver and black lightning crashed down around her , and she turned her
Angry eyes to them all.....  
      "  You cannot win this false battle you strive for,  You try your
foolish games on one who has killed the immortal, who has gained all and lost
it, You Think you can better us because we are few and you are many,  We have
one thing you will never attain, Freedom, the Freedom to choose our own paths
and not be Aes Sedai Puppets, The Freedom to use our experiences to our
benefit and not our demise,   You Try your Tricks on Those who were once
Beaten and burned and will not go back to the ways you will try to take us....
You try to puppet a Patryn, " Haplo appeared of his own will, and Lia tossed
him a Headset, and smiled, " on a Gholam, on a Woman who fought you once to
attain the Purple Stole, then again to attain her freedom, The only woman in
Tar Valon to Ever earn the Name Mother...   Ayende Jennaea.. and a Woman who
was raised Black Ajah, who lived Black Ajah, and who left the Dark side of her
own free will, and lived to tell about it...     In case you haven't Noticed,
I am Liandryn Blayde ~ Rose, Ayende Lia, Daughter of Elisabet Rose and
Cristiam Blayde,   Niece of Liandrin Sedai of the Red Ajah... !
THIS.......ENDS.......NOW......!"   
 The women stood, too shocked either that one woman and one man would stand
alone against them and sound so sure they would win, or at who that woman and
man were... and in that brief moment of hesitation, Lia Looked at Haplo, and
Saw the reason she could always forgive him for his hurtful remarks, saw the
fire behind the eyes in his scarred face....  and she Knew...  Haplo, She
thought, If we live through this, I'm going to bond you again, that was
right, and this time.. it will be forever....  Illyena just started her
hysterical laughter.....


Sonja
	Sonja entered the School, sneaking in around flashing red and blue lights,
intending to head right for the other studè,  but saw something more to her
liking, Lia, her old friend and former leader, with an odd looking man, in
front of a number of Aes Sedai, Same old Lia though, with her lightning
trademark crashing all around her, and her assassin's armor, Looking down at
her own outfit, exactly like Lia's only with purple instead of silver, she
smiled.   Switching on her Headset, she spoke the name Lia, and watched her
friend's eyes shimmer in recognation... Calling out loudly, in her soft voice,
Sonja said, "  Make that two women who left de Black Ajah, and were nae
killed, and lived to tell de story, and two woman who were very good at de art"   
	Sonja Smiled


Kat 
	"Right now, let's get everyone together like we planned.  Whatever we
do is going to affect everyone, so we need to do this together."
	Patty poked her head into the hall, scanning for people. Her eyes landed
on Kat, just out of her rooms with a knife at her waist and a jacket in
place of her fancloth apron. "Kat, we need to rally the Tower. Find whoever you 
can and tell them to meet in the Studio!" 
	"Anima, is it safe to go there? There's Red Police all over the place!"
She felt her knife for reassurance. "Is there a place we can go where they won't 
find us? We're most vulnerable all in one spot." 
	Patty nodded thoughtfully. "There's always that empty lot behind the
7-11." Kat could tell what she was thinking: But do we have no other
choice than deserting our home?
	Light-forsaken Reds, thought Kat. 
	Patty's face hardened. "No, we can't ditch it now. Go and find all the
Warders, or people handy with a gun. Tell anyone else to meet in the main office,
and don't announce it over the intercom!" 
	Kat nodded and took off at a jog down the corridor.


Sredny
      Sredny woke up, and groaned. He felt like the ghul warmed over.  He
noted he was still glowing slightly, and limped over to the nearby pond. He
shoved his hand down in it and watched the ripple that spread, felt the energy
drain from him, and the grass blacken slightly. He collapsed again, but stayed
concious. He lay there for a while then edged forward, so that he could get a
drink. He did so then lay back again.
      "Stupid gholam. Whatever possessed you to do think you juice twice in
one day and battle the entire Tower?" he muttered. Groaning he pushed himself
back up. He stumbled a few steps, then a few more. Eventually he half walked,
half oozed to where the front door should be, only to see two assassin clad
figures and Haplo. He noted the dog was not to be found. How curious. He
caught the tail-end of the conversation between one of the assains and and two
Aes Sedai:  
 "--on a Gholam, on a Woman who fought you once to attain the Purple Stole,
then again to attain her freedom, The only woman in Tar Valon to Ever earn the
Name Mother...   Ayende Jennaea.. and a Woman who was raised Black Ajah, who
lived Black Ajah, and who left the Dark side of her own free will, and lived
to tell about it...     In case you haven't Noticed, I am Liandryn Blayde ~
Rose, Ayende Lia, Daughter of Elisabet Rose and  Cristiam Blayde,   Niece of
Liandrin Sedai of the Red Ajah... !    THIS.......ENDS.......NOW......!"  
        He moaned, but realized he had to help in this. He drew himself back
up, and clutched the source. He let the trenchcoat flow out behind him, a
black wave. And he drew the two guns, and quickly slid two special clips from
inside wrist pockets in..
        "Speaking of gholams and people who have escaped the dark side and
lived.. . ." The golden dragon engraved weapons pointed, one at the Blue, one
at the Red. Lia threw him a headset, he twisted and bent his neck in a postion
no boned creature could obtain, so that it slid right on, the guns remained
trained on the Aes Sedai. "Anyone else care to join this little party?"
        The Aes Sedai stared at him, and the the others, then back at him.
"Yo. . You are supp..suppos..supposed to be...to be..."
        "Ah? Did mommy tell you she would take care of the mean old gholam? I
tell you what, after you all lie dead and rotting I'll do for you what I did
for her. She was," he paused a moment to lick his lips and run his tounge
along his teeth, "delicious. Though I imagine your corpse won't be anywhere
near as hot as she was."
       "You sick bastard! You lie! You wouldn't have... You couldn't have... 
You wouldn't...You won't!" it was the Red.
      "Think about it little girl! What was I made and trained for? Where were
the guns and coat? What official mental state am I in?"
       "What the ghul? What kind of sick...? What are you doing?" came Lia's
voice over the headset
       "Simple statistics. 1 out of 3 Reds discover the power while being...
mistreated.. by men. It's a desperate situation that they want to end more
than anything. And it gives them a hate of men, which the red ajah isn't
supposed to really have anymore, but does. They provide conseuling, but if you
push them they freak, loose control and become easy targets. Watch."  he
answered.
        The red was screaming at him "You sick bastard! I'll find a way to
kill you!"
        "Ohh, you've got a mouth. I bet it works well. Maybe I won't kill you
before hand after all."
        That did it. The red screached and lashed out at him. non thinking, it
was a direct weave simply leaving him cold. However the instant after it
started, it stopped, and the Red's Head exploded, compliments of Haplo's
rifle. The Blue screeched and Sredny fired. The screech stopped as armor
piercing bullets, each with a tiny little weave in them hit. Tiny holes in the
wall behind her appeared, and chunks were missing from her body.
        "Blood and ashes! You've got bale-bullets in there! Those areillegal!"
        "So...am...I!" he tried to hold onto sanity but he could feel the
thrill building, and finally it was there. He turned with a wicked grin to
face three AS and two warders running towards him. He laughed as the first
ones head blew open. "Lesson 1 for today is in abstract art." He weaved
through the bullets. and into the fray "Our second lesson is in dance." He
stopped for a moment to dip his finger in an Aes Sedai's blood, and wrote
"Sredny was here" on her forehead. "Finally, a refresher course in creative
writing." 


Haplo
	As Lia finished her speech, resplendant in her...outfit, Haplo raised his 
gun and shot the red, then looked to the blue, "Darlin, run, tell ya friends at
the Tower, ya tell them that I'm comin with bells on an I'm gonna kill all the
damn reds.  This is retribution, pure an simple, ain't got nothin ta do with
the Purple Tower, so don't y'all be gettin any ideas bout comin for  them,
cause then I'll become less picky an start killin all women with the shawl."
Realizing the danger  she was in, the blue started running towards the Tower,
even forgetting her vehicle.  Turning to face Lia, "Nice outfit," he said
sarcastically,  "just what the hell do ya think ya doin, this ain't ya
problem, its mine, so go back ta the school an wait, I'll probably need some
help  gettin out, that's where ya come in.  An this idea bout bondin me again,
what makes ya think I'll let ya, we're gonna have ta talk bout this.  I'll say
this again, go home, I've got some work ta do."  With that,  he walked off,
leaving a stunned Lia behind.  "Women," he sighed, "damn me, don't think I'll
ever understand them, give some some outlet like theater an they go nuts,
can't be nice  an simple like men, no they gotta be all complicated as hell,
an make it so my life ain't worth shit."  He continued grumbling all the way
to the Tower, walking in the shadows so that he wouldn't be detected.   
	A couple of hours later, Haplo stood in the shadows of one of the Tower
annexes, getting ready for his night's work.  A full moon was out tonight, so
he had to be secretive, if he didn't watch himself he would be caught, and
then the shit would hit the fan.  He decided to hunt, in the way of his
people, the survivors of the Labyrinth...he stripped his uniform from him and
donned a simple pullover and breeches, wearing no boots.  At his hip hung a
simple rune knife and his rifle slung over his shoulder.  His runes began to
glow softly, alerting him to another search of the compound using the power.
He sat down to wait for the sweep to finish, wouldn't do for them to detect
his movement.  He began to think about his life, his adopted family, one
brother and two sisters.  Jak had betrayed him, turned out to be a Sartan,
what a joke, to think he could ever accept  one of that "superior" race as a
brother.  There was Lissy, who always obsessed with changing who he was, never
truly accepting his way of life, always hurt him when he found she never would
understand.  The last of his siblings was Kat, the Mistress of the Kitchens,
and Lissy's Warder, he never knew what she was thinking, she was the one he
trusted most.  After his family came Lia, and even if he could understand
women, at least some part of them, he would never understand her.  At one time
he would  have welcomed her into his embrace without any hesitation, but she
had driven him away, virtually left him for dead.  Now she wanted him back,
did he dare go to her,  there was only so much one man could take.  Lastly,
there was the dog, the only one who had always been there for him.  So he
wasn't the best soul out there, but he was all Haplo's.  Now that he was gone,
Haplo had lost his way, his identity.... 
	The sweep past, and Haplo turned back to the matter at hand.  Slinking
through the shadows, he waited as a Tower patrol marched past him, not
noticing him through his magic, "Damn me, seems like they took my warnin
seriously, looks like the reserves are out....what a bunch of pendejos."   He
held in his laughter, and climbed up the smooth stone, using his sigla to melt
holes in the stone, and pulled himself inside an open window.  He noticed the
room inside was empty, and considering how  late it was that was strange.
This was a novice bedroom, it shouldn't be like this.  The hairs on the back
of his neck began to rise, and his sigla weren't even itching, yet he knew he
was in trouble.  He opened the door tentatively, and looked out into the hall.
His eyes went wide as 20 separate sights were placed on him, followed by the
icy stares of several Aes Sedai.  Slamming the door shut, he barely had time
to dive towards the far wall when the door was blown to pieces by gunfire.
Swinging his pulse rifle around, he flipped it into full auto mode and
unloaded the clip of explosive bullets into the hall.  Several warders went
down, but Haplo's defensive sigla were eventually pierced by the gunfire, his
right shoulder penetrated by the shells.  His gun went flying from grasp and
he staggered back to the window.  "Ah, it seems I've met the welcomin
committee,  how y'all doin, as ya may have noticed, I've been shot....that's
never happened ta me before."  The warders stepped into the room, guns leveled
at Haplo's unprotected forehead, then the Aes Sedai walked in, most from the
Red Ajah.  The one he could only assume was the Sitter walked up to him, "How
the mighty have fallen, tell me, Haplo Gaidin, how does it feel to be our
captive?"  Haplo laughed at her, " Captive, me, darlin, ya got it all wrong,
y'all are my captives, so put ya hands behind ya heads an face down on the
floor."  A slap caught him in the face, "You are our captive, Haplo, and to
show you that you can't  escape us, we're going to use our newly found
knowledge to cripple you.  You see, we've found out that you are not immune to
every form of the Power, for example..."  A beam of light shot from her
outstretched hand, striking Haplo's heartrune.  A cry of extreme pain exploded
from Haplo as he fell through the open window.  He landed  with a thump, his
body broken, his heartrune fading away, the magic that sustained him dying
away.....he was now a captive of the White Tower.


Lia
	Lia stood Proudly as Sredny appeared, and joined them, tossing him the
headset, and almost laughing as he twisted to catch it, but then somethign
changed, Haplo's gun blew the head off an aes Sedai... The Gholam killed
another one.. Haplo screamed at her to run along back to the school.... like
she was some kind of child, She wanted to scream at him.. I'm not doing this
for you you moron, I'm doing it for the Tower...  but she didn't, and she
didn't know why...     She noticed Sonja, standing, holding her laser rifle
with both gloved hands, and for a moment she felt it again.....  Thsi was it,
and it was going to work, with or without Haplo....   " Sonja, Battle
formation Lia-Alpha... remember...? "  Sonja nodded, and disappeared off tothe
left, Lia herself ran off to the right, leaving Sredny in the front, with his
dragon marked Guns,   Lia's shotgun rested comfortably un her shoulder as she
appeared behind the women...   " Looks like we got you ladies surrounded......
and Quite frankly... looks like we're gonna have to kill ya.." 
	Sonja smiled at her friend and Lowered her Laser rifle.. "Really,
Liandryn, are we really gonna kill them....  finally.... "  
	"Yeah.. and Jen will sure get us for it later.....  " And she opened fire
on the Women, as Sonja let out purple laser blast after purple laser blast,
adn Sredny fired liek mad... It was a massacre.... women tried to channel
freedom as they wer cut off from their lifelines, Lia's lightnign hitting and
instantly stillinga few.... Torching their warders....  Soon, the front of the
building looked like world war three.. after the fact, Lia and Sonja High-
fived, and Sredny looked up wearily....  " Congratulations Gholam, " Lia
smiled, " Welcome to the Purple Tower's renegade squad...  Let's get you
rested.."
	" Welcome aboard... " Sonja laughed....