“We have to take that weapon and blow it up. Quiet and fast. We want to be in there before anyone has a chance to react.”

There was a moment of expectant silence. Then Marco said, “Rachel! What's keeping you?”

“Oh, I forgot,” she said. And then, in true Rachel style, she yelled, “Let's do it!”

“Thank you,” Marco said. “We can't run off on another idiot suicide mission without the blessings of the always insane Xena, Warrior Princess.”