"Wha wha wha!" Eilonwy's cries echoed throughout Providence waking up most of the daytime shift who were trying to get some sleep. Most of the staff had gotten use to the three am wake up calls and simply put in some ear plugs. Only White Knight, locked away in the old extermination lab now office, refused determined to endure the sounds of the infant as some sort of rebellion. Anya called him a stubborn old man, but he called it being vigilant.

Rex groaned as he rolled out of bed and stumbled across the room to his daughter's crib. He picked up the crying eight month old and started rocking her back and forth. "Please go back to sleep little icon. Daddy has big mission tomorrow and needs his rest. Come on Eilonwy go back to sleep. What's the matter with you? Are you hungry, need your diaper changed? No oh I wish your mommy was here, but she's busy negotiating rights for EVOs in the Middle East. I wish there was someone I could ask what's wrong with you."

There was a knock on the suite door and Rex opened it expecting to deal with another angry grunt, but was surprised instead to see Ulani Holiday standing their in light blue nightgown. Since she was declared legally dead when she turned into the spider EVO it was taking a while to get through the red tape to restore her life. Until she was legally alive again she was staying here in Providence. Ulani missed teaching and was trying to find her niche. "Oh hi Ulani I'm sorry if Eilonwy woke you up. I'm trying to get her to settle down, but I think she misses Circe to much."

"Rex, let me in and I'll give you a hand." Ulani entered the suite and scooped the crying infant right out of her anxious father's arm. "You may not know this, but I was baby sitter for most of junior high and high school. Helped pay for my first car and part of school tuition with all the money I saved. Quintessa was telling me that your little girl was hitting all her milestones is that true?"

"Um yeah she's rolled over, she's babbling and starting to crawl. She's really a happy active baby. She just started sleeping through the night and now this. I wish I knew what was causing her so much distress," Rex said. He was rocking Eilonwy back and force desperate to get her to quite down.

Ulani ran her finger over the crying baby's gums and smiled. "Rex, do you have some alcohol?"

"No I'm underage! Why would I ugh there's a bottle in the fridge that was a present to Circe for doing a good job with getting EVOs to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But what does that have to do with hey you're not giving my daughter alcohol!"

"Relax Rex; your daughter is not going to swallow a drop. She's teething Rex this is a trick my mom taught me. You gently rub some alcohol on the gums to sooth the pain of the teeth cutting in and then you give her a teething ring. There see now she's okay. She should go back to sleep now," Ulani said handing the now sleeping child back to Rex.

"Thanks Ulani if I have anymore problems I'll talk to you first instead of Doc. You seem to know a whole lot more then him."

"Doc's a sufficient medical android and good protector, but sometimes the little things slip by him. Well I'm not getting back to sleep for awhile. Do you have any coco? I feel like talking and I can see by your expression you have a lot on your mind as well."

Soon the two of them were sitting at the table just chatting about inconsequential things. She would ask him about his missions and his relationship with Circe. She giggled at how upset he was that he was still not allowed to get married to her to legalize Eilonwy because White Knight didn't want his precious weapon distracted by wedding plans. She told him about how she was doing now that she was human again and that his uncle had made a tempting offer to have her teach the run away EVOs.

"It would be nice to teach again. I miss influencing young minds and helping make a difference in the world. Still I don't know Shaka and Anya make a good point that I would be the perfect teacher, but things have changed. The world's changed. I just wonder if I can fit into it again."

"Hey if I can be a magic using, machine building, EVO curing teen then I think you can teach EVOs. What else are you going to do just sit around here helping you sister look for more ways to cure EVOs?"

"It's funny sometimes when I hear you talk or watch you fight it reminds me of Wilhelmina and Kacancu so much. They were such lively and kind people. You truly are their son."

"Yeah that's what everyone says I just wish I knew if that was true," Rex admitted sadly. "I've heard stories about them from Holiday and Six, Anya and Uncle showed me pictures and he told me stories when I was little, but it doesn't seem real you know? I have no idea if they're telling the truth and when I hear these things I try to picture them in my mind, but it's always a blank. That's why I want to get married to Circe, so our daughter never has to fear that. Plus it would be easier for Circe to do her work if she was legally married to the guy who fathered her child. Not a lot of bigwigs can handle teen ambassador who has a child out of wedlock."

"You should bring up these points to White Knight. Fight for what you want, your more then a weapon you know. Then again White Knight is a zealot who beliefs will get us all killed one day. One of the reasons I've put off telling my sister about Van Kliess offer is because I would have to go through White Knight to leave this place. When I was an EVO he legally owned me and in way still does because of my status."

"Stupid White Knight. He's always been a prick ever sense I met him. He thinks just because he doesn't have nanites he's better then everyone."

"I think it's a bit more complicated then that. Anya told me how dedicated her grandfather was to keeping people safe. He's just afraid because he doesn't understand what its like for us who have active nanites. All he's ever seen is that they're a danger to the world when they were meant to be a gift to unite the world and help it. I truly believe if some day if a person was able to restore the original programming of the nanites then everything would be okay. Just food for thought and on that note you better get ready for bed. I'll see you at tomorrow's briefing. Good night Rex."

"Good night Ulani and thank you," Rex told her. He smiled as she left and headed back to his bed silently praying to whatever God or Goddess there was to let him sleep in peace. For several nights he had been having strange dreams. He hadn't told anyone about the dreams for fear they lock him up thinking he was crazy.

His dreams started off normal enough with him finally beating Noah in basketball and Circe giving him a victory kiss. Then he saw his daughter sitting up all by herself in her playpen waving her rattle and trying to speak. He was so hoping that her first words would be daddy when the dream suddenly shifted and he was terrified.

Rex found himself floating in a sea of nanites. He could hear them talking and watched as they moved about in agitated pattern. As they surrounded him he started speaking out loud what they were saying.

"System error, malfunction. Attempting to correct, abort, new program, help us, help us, ah stop your hurting my head!" Rex screamed. He created his slam hands and pushed them away from him. He watched with suspicions as the nanites connected with one another forming a mini globe. A weird flash of light blinded him and when Rex could see again there was some sort of sphere inside the globe. "What does this mean? What are you trying to tell me?"

"Rex, can you hear us? We need your help!" A female voice called from the sphere. It was so familiar! Creating his boogypack he flew closer and pressed his hand against the sphere. He was startled when two others joined his. "Rex."

"What the mom?" he whispered. He was stunned as the face of his mother appeared on the other side of the sphere soon joined by her was a man who looked remarkably like him save for his eyes which were green. He smiled at Rex. "Dad? Ron?" he asked as a smaller shape appeared next to the man, a boy who looked like him except he had long auburn hair.

"How where are you guys? What's going on?"

"Rex, we need you. The nanites need you. They're dying," Wilhelmina pleaded with her son.

"If they die we all die. You have to fix what is broken. Restore the project to what it was meant to be," Kacancu told his son.

"If you don't big bro all will be lost. Both worlds will die. Come to us big brother and help us," Ron said.

"What are you talking about? I don't understand! Wait don't go!" Rex shouted as sphere containing his family vanished. The nanites around him turned black and started dissolving. He was caught in the muck being dragged down screaming when the sound of an alarm woke him up.

Rex shot up in bed sweating profusely. His alarm read six thirty and he could hear Eilonwy wailing and banging her rattle against the bars of her crib. "Man what a strange dream. Okay little icon daddy's up. I'll be with you in a few minutes. Man White Knight's going to chew me out if I'm late again to another meeting."

In Ops Six was sipping his coffee as he watched the two twins talking with each other. He was glad that Quintessa had Ulani back, but was wondering what would happen when the time came for Ulani to leave. After all what place was there for a teacher here in Providence? The only pupils she would have would be Rex and Circe if White Knight would even allow them to receive a proper education.

"I'm just saying sis that it would be a great opportunity for me. More then half the people living in Abysus are teenage EVOs without proper education. Even the adults don't have access to proper education. It would benefit everyone. You know I'm right and besides White Knight has been trying to thwart any effort I make to reestablish my life. I need students to teach just as you need EVOs to study sis."

"You could teach here! Rex needs a proper education that he's not getting and so does Circe. In a few years so will Eilonwy. I just got you back sis I don't want to lose you again."

"You won't Quintessa, but I have to think about my future. Is staying here treated like a freak really the best thing for me?"

"I hate to interrupt this stimulating conversation, but we have a briefing to get underway. We can discuss your career plans later Ms. Holiday, but for now we would benefit from you contributing to the latest reports on incurable EVOs," White Knight said appearing on the screen. Ulani glared and stuck her tongue at him, but settled down next her sister. Callan got up and ready to give his report when White stopped him. "Where's our weapon Six? If he's skipping out of morning briefings again I'll"

The doors opened and in rushed a haggard Rex with Eilonwy strapped to his back carrying a diaper bag and playpen. "Sorry, Eilonwy was being fussy this morning. Just give me a minute okay?" Rex said setting up the playpen, putting a nice blanket and her toys in there. Carefully extracting his daughter he placed her in the pen with a bottle of juice. "Please be quite for a little while okay icon? Daddy has an important meeting to attend."

"Coo ca coo" Eilonwy giggled and clapped her hands.

"I thought I made it clear that your child wasn't allowed to attend briefings," White Knight said frowning.

"What do you want me to do White? Doc's currently back in Abysus getting an upgrade, Circe's in the Middle East, and none of the grunts know anything about infants. I couldn't very well leave her alone. You're always going on about how irresponsible I am well here I am taking responsibility for what's mine! Now unless you want my child to get a major case of stranger anxiety I suggest you quite down and just tell me what's going on," Rex said defiantly.

White Knight was frustrated. Over the course of the last year and half he had lost most of his control over Providence weapon. He considered the benefits of having Abysus and Haven as allies instead of enemies insignificant in the war against the nanites. The infant in question shouldn't exist yet she was alive and well being used as propaganda and showing the public they were sincere in their efforts to make restitutions for the sterilization. His granddaughter's little protégé Circe was making strides in the political world. He couldn't understand how anyone much less governments were willing to discuss EVO rights ad use them to clean up environmental hazards. The point of Providence was to eliminate the threat not treat it and help them figure out life plans! Still his hands were tied, he grudgingly admitted his granddaughter had too much on him and support to ruin him so he decided to bide his time until he could figure out what do.

"Very well, but keep her quite. We have a lot to discuss about the rise in incurable EVOs and what are options are when dealing with them due to their mental status. Captain Callan if you would."

The briefing continued without any interruptions unless you counted Rex quieting his daughter a few times and wiping the gunk off her face. Really he had been paying more attention to the briefings lately. Callan was just getting the part where he was discussing the sudden surge of incurables in North America when Rex fell out his chair screaming in pain as he felt like a thousand drills were trying to bust open his skull.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Make it stop ah!"

"Rex!"

"If this is some kind of joke to get out of briefings,"

"White he's not faking this. He's really in pain. Holiday what's wrong him?" Six questioned as Rex started clawing his head drawing blood. The earth trembled beneath him as roots wrapped themselves around the boy holding him down and Holiday attempted to assess the problem. Little Eilonwy was screaming her first word "dada" over and over again as she reached for her daddy. Ulani scooped up the little girl as everyone watched in disbelief as Rex touched a computer counsel. Instantly it lit up and White Knight vanished from the main screen. He reappeared on another and watched in the same stunned disbelief as a staticy image appeared on screen.

There was lot of fuzz and the sound quality was poor, but they soon saw the outline of lovely women appeared. Callan and Six quickly tried to clean up the image and manage to stabilize it, but they still were losing sound.

"Can….hear…? Rex….need….hel….Time is run… ut… Nanites are...ing… People are dy…. Re…need… please. Bring…. Fam….friends…. quickly… The world is….depe….on…you…save….it. I'll….try to con… again…. I love you my son," Wilhelmina said before vanishing. Rex slumped to the floor unconscious.

"He's in shock! Help me get him to the lab!" Holiday shouted. The grunts helped her with Ulani following close behind with Eilonwy. White Knight looked at Six the unspoken question hanging in the air.

"Sir that was Wilhelmina nee Stylana Van Kliess. She's been missing along with her husband and almost everyone who worked on the nanite project for 5 years. I don't what just happened, but I don't think it was a hoax. What do you want to do?"

"This is new territory for us Agent Six. We need to know where the message came from and how it relates to our weapon. As much as I hate to admit it we can't do this on our own. Call in help from Abysus and Haven if you can reach them. Something tells me that this beginning of a whole new set of problems."