On route to Ciarán’s Warehouse:
“This is a nice ride.” Rose couldn’t believe that Sasha picked her up in a blackout Corvette.

When she got inside the car, she couldn’t believe how hi-tech it looked. It was like someone took the inside of KITT from Nightrider and placed it inside a Corvette. The Corvette itself didn’t look like a normal vette.

“Thanks. It used to be my mother’s car before she passed the baton to me.” Sasha was following the directions towards Ciarán’s warehouse.

“Did your mother pay someone to design & build this car for her?” Rose looked at Sasha while she drove.

“My aunt built it for her. My aunt is my mother’s twin sister and she specializes in medical research, aircraft, and weapons.” Sasha knew her aunt was extremely smart and specialized in other fields of research as well.

“Medical research and weapons research? Isn’t that the opposite of each other?” Rose was still looking at Sasha when she asked that.

“My aunt inherited the weapon company from her husband. Besides, with her high intelligence, it fits her. She has her fingers in a bunch of things.” Sasha knew her aunt was very diverse.

“Your family sounds interesting.” Rose sat back and relaxed as Sasha drove.

After thirty minutes, Sasha stops near a used car lot to hide her car. Rose looks towards Sasha “Are you sure your car is going to be fine here?”

“Yeah, I’ve used this used car lot before.” Sasha grabs her utility belt and hands her spare one to Rose.

“Here, if you run into trouble, like before. There are a few nasty surprises in the pouches that you can use to distract and escape.”

“Thanks.” Rose switches out her normal utility belt with the one Sasha is giving her.

“Let’s be careful and see if we can find where Ciarán is hiding the cabinet.” Sasha starts hiding in the shadows.

“I agree.” Rose closes the visor on her helmet.

Rose leads Sasha through another entrance she had scouted out. She watches Sasha disarm the security system in record time. She follows behind Sasha as they enter Ciarán’s place. Since Rose has already scouted the place out before, she takes the lead.

Sasha stops all of a sudden as a crossbow bolt flies by her head. She palms a throwing knife and throws it back in the direction the bolt came from. She hears the knife miss its target as it embeds itself in the wall.

Rose saw the crossbow bolt fly by Sasha. She figures Sasha could have caught it if she wanted to. She moves quietly throughout the place. The optic systems inside her helmet pick up a thermal difference against one wall.

“Sasha, over here.” Rose points towards the wall.

Sasha retrieves her knife and tucks it away. She had a feeling that they were being watched.

“Be careful and alert, Rose. I have a sneaking suspicion we are being watched.”

“I think you’re right.” Rose moves silently as they head down a secret corridor.

The corridor led to a workroom with a bunch of woodworking machines and such. Near the machines looked to be two objects covered by a sheet.

“I’m going to go over and check those things out.”

“Alright, be careful.” Rose moves over to check the objects out.

Something didn’t seem right to Saha. As she slowly looked around, she saw something move and there was a whooshing sound.

“DUCK!” Sasha drops one of her specialized golf balls into her hands and ignites it, just as she throws it to intercept the object going toward Rose.

Rose drops to the floor, as an explosion goes off above her head. She feels little bits of debris raining down on her suit. She looks towards the cabinets and notices two figures dressed in full black body suits. Even their heads and eyes were covered. Rose figures the goggles either were enhanced optics or polarized lenses.

Ciarán smiles beneath his mask. He was hoping Sasha Wolfhart would make an appearance. Now he would show her who the most powerful magician was. He mumbles a few words and a glowing blueish ball with crackling energy appears. He tosses the ball toward Sasha, while his brother deals with whoever the other person is.

The tiny hairs on Sasha’s arms start standing up, as a blueish energy ball appears between Ciarán’s hands. She knew this was real magic, from the times she trained with her mother. She palms one of the four tennis balls she normally carries with her. She tries not to use them because they carry a lot of powerful explosives in them.

When Ciarán releases the ball of energy towards Sasha. He watches as she tosses something towards it. He braces for whatever she is doing.

Sasha tosses the tennis ball towards the blueish energy and steps back a few steps. She gets ready to shield her eyes as the tennis ball intercepts the energy ball. There is a powerful explosion from the two different items meeting each other. The resulting explosion nearly knocks down both combatants.

Rose felt the explosion as she blocked an attack from the person attacking her. The sais Sasha gave her were coming in handy. The person had drawn a sword and she had blocked the attack with the sais.

The person attacking her pulled back and separated his sword, so he had one in each hand. Both swords develop flames along the blades. He springs forward and starts attacking Rose.

Roses use what she was taught with her sais to block and parry the attacks. When she traps the blades, she uses the secret weapons the sais had built into them. She presses the hidden switch and sends 120,000 volts through the sais and into the swords. Just before her attacker feels the jolt from the attack. He manages to nick her outfit, leaving behind a burning cut on her shoulder.

Rose was thankful, that her outfit was fireproof. A smile appears on her face when she watches her mysterious attacker start dancing from the 120,000 volts travel throughout his body. She watches as her attacker jumps backward and tries to shack off the effects of the shock.

Ciarán grabs two rods from the workbench and twists their crystal handles. Blueish energy emerges and covers the rod in the middle. He parries Sasha’s attack when she moves in to strike with the sword.

Sasha felt a numbing sensation when the energy from the blade nicked her body. Normally, she wouldn’t feel anything because of how her suits were constructed, but it was like the energy of the blade passed through the material of the suit, without damaging it.

She couldn’t use some of her nasty tricks because Ciarán was covered from head to toe. She starts using her hand-to-hand training while avoiding the blades. She noticed that Ciarán was coming at her faster and faster, but she had a few tricks up her sleeve.

Rose was being pushed to her limit as her attacker increased his attacks against her. There were several slashes on her outfit where his blades managed to cut into the material. She was being pushed towards a corner that had a few wielding tanks.

Rose parries an attack and the sword swing hits the wielding tanks.

“OH SHIT!” The sword strike hit the cylinder and caused a huge explosion.

The explosion brings the ceiling down and sends the cabinets flying towards Sasha. One slams into her and pins her up against the wall. The second one opens up and Ciarán falls into it. It lands on its face, sealing Ciarán inside the cabinet.

Rose gets blown under a workbench, but her shoulder is dislocated. She screams from pain as the workbench above her protects her from debris from the ceiling collapsing in the room. The person she was fighting got caught in the explosion and was killed by the cylinder exploding.

Dust filled the air, along with smoke and fumes from burning paint and materials. The cabinet pinning Sasha against the wall, had her arms pinned. She could feel something hard that penetrated her suit and went through her body.

She wiggles her right arm and manages to get it free. The smoke was making it hard to breathe, but she used her ability to extinguish the flames.

“Sasha, are you alright?” Rose was in pain from her shoulder being dislocated.

“I’m fine, I think. I just can’t get free.” She was hurting from whatever impaled her. The cabinet was pressing against whatever the object was that penetrated her suit.

She manages to get her other arm free and pushes the cabinet off her. When Sasha looked at what went through her suit and body, it was one of the strange weapons Ciarán had grabbed. It went through her body and into the wall behind her. She knew it was going to hurt when she went to break it.

Sasha screams out in pain, as she drops to the floor from breaking the damn thing. She felt whatever energy had been stored in it, travel into her body. Her skin felt like it was on fire. She was feeling weak as well. She presses her belt buckle to summon help.

Rose manages to remove debris that had her pinned underneath the workbench. She moves over to where Sasha is on the ground on all fours. The optics in her helmet showed Sasha’s body temperature was extremely high.

She searched Sash's body and saw a weird object that had a crystal on the bottom of a copper handle. It had a handguard and then a strange-looking copper rod in the middle with pieces of crystals embedded in the copper shaft.

“Sasha, you’re running a high fever.” Rose wonders what could be causing Sasha’s body to be burning up.

“I’ll be fine. How are you?” Sasha sat up using her training to control the pain she was feeling.

“I think my left shoulder is dislocated.” Rose had her visor up so she could talk with Sasha.

“Here, let me fix it.” Sasha manages to focus through the pain. She checked Rose’s left shoulder and had to agree that it was dislocated.

Rose winces when she feels Sasha probing her left shoulder. She clinches her teeth as she tries to ignore the pain.

“This is going to hurt, Rose” Sasha prepares to set Rose’s shoulder.

“Do it.”

“Okay.” Sasha puts Rose’s shoulder back in place.

“GOD, THAT FUCKING HURT!” Rose felt her shoulder go back into place.

“Here, take this. It will kill the pain.” Sasha reaches into one of her pouches on the right-hand side of her belt.

Rose accepts the light pink pill from Sasha. She looks at it “What is it?”

“It’s a fast-acting pain killer. My mother makes them for us.” Sasha knew her mother made them.

“Is it safe for me to take?” Rose wonders if Sasha’s mother made them strictly for Sasha’s body chemistry.

“It’s safe for you.” Sasha knew what Rose was thinking about.

Rose pops the pill in her mouth and swallows. She hopes the pill works as fast as Sasha told her.

Thirty minutes go by, by the time Sasha starts receiving a message from their rescuers. While they were waiting, and with Sasha’s help. They managed to lift the cabinet that Ciarán fell into.

When Rose opened the door of the cabinet, there was a naked woman inside with oversized breasts. She stumbles out of the cabinet and looks at them.

“Where am I?” She had a confused look on her face.

“You’re in a ruined worked room. Do you remember who you are?” Rose looks into the sapphire color eyes of the woman.

The woman shakes her head back and forth. She had no idea who she was or why she was down here with the two other women.

“Oh, boy. I think Ciarán got a taste of his own medicine.”

“I think you are right.” Rose couldn’t believe the woman standing in front of her. She was the exotic dream image of every perverted man.

It takes the team sent to recover Sasha and Rose at least two hours to remove the debris above them. Sasha was holding out as long as she could. She wasn’t feeling that well when the rescue crew found them and lifted them out of the sub-basement.

Rose was worried about Sasha by the time the rescue crew dug them out. She kept track of Sasha’s temperature. Also, the pain she had been feeling from her injured shoulder had gone numb. The rescue team consisted of members from a crew of people dressed as playing card characters.

One of them had been Ace, Sasha’s daughter. There was also a medical team there to help them as well. The woman who used to be Ciarán was escorted away to be helped.

Robyn walks over to Rose to see what happened. As she approached Rose, she saw the medical team from her grandmother taking care of her injured shoulder.

“Rose, can you tell me what happened down there with you and my mom?” Ace was concerned about her mother.

“Sure,” Rose informs Ace about what happened.

Several Days Later:
Rose was back at work and had made up an excuse for why she wasn’t using her left arm that much. Her people were a little concerned, but they knew she would recover. While Rose was sitting in her office, she received an email from Susan informing her that Sasha was fine.

As for Ciarán himself, he was a she now and was being examined by Blake Medical to see what exactly was done to her. As for Sasha, she was slowly recovering from what was done to her. The email didn’t go into details of what happened to Sasha.

As for Sasha, she was as weak as a kitten. The magical energies in the strange rod weapon had entered her body and messed with her natural abilities. The two energies in her body were fighting for control and she needed to find a balance. Her mother showed her how to ground the excess energies in her body.

It was going to sideline Sasha for a while until she could balance the two energies in her body. Which meant Sasha was going to be spending a lot of time with her mother. As for Rose, her mother was going to send Rose to her aunt’s training center to receive additional training.