Minisode: The scene opens with someone who strikes a very strong resemblance to Phoenix Winterborn picks up the phone and dials some numbers. The automated voice then picks up and says.."Hello and thank you for calling Payne Incorporated. To help expedite your call, please listen carefully to the following options; if you're calling to be trained by Ryan, press 1. If you're calling about a job, press 2. If you're calling to borrow money, press 3. If you're calling to find the nearest strip club in your area, press 4. If you're out of alcohol on a Saturday, press 5. If you need a hoe for the evening and don't mind it being Celeste Starr, press 6. If you woke up with a hangover and a pair of hairy balls on your forehead, press 7." The guy then presses a button. "You've just pressed 7, you've been victimized and introduced to a moral crime called t-baggin', we suggest you hang up the phone and beat the ass of any white guys you hung out with last night and destroy any and all pictures before they appear on the internet. By the way, if this is Phoenix Winterborn, YOU SUCK. Thank you, good bye and have a great day." A dial tone was then heard.

In this world, there are many who believe that they are the know all, be all and end all. In actuality, they are dogshit and possibly lower than that compared to Ryan. Does him having that frame of mind make him cocky? No, just extremely confident. From the moment he stepped into the company, he's noticed that it's been plagued with talent the likes of Spear, Svd, Michael James, Chris Orton and Phoenix Winterborn to name a few. So what has he done? He's began his one man crusade to help save WGEF. He's been sending messages to people as of late and the message is getting through to them loud and clear at this point. Phoenix Winterborn was the first one to really get the message, there's no such thing as an attack for no good reason. He was dropped with the Painkiller for damn good reason, he needs to seriously get his head out of the clouds and out of Mari Saito's cooch and focus on what's important here. Yeah, she's your fiancee and all that, whoop-dee-damn-doo but there's a time and place for everything. There's a big championship match you're involved in and your head is not in this game at all. The fact that he had the audacity to call Ryan Payne a rookie though, that was the funniest thing I've heard in quite some time. Fact that he believes he's the main eventer and Ryan's the rookie. Let us backtrack a little, shall we? Ryan Payne debuts with WGEF. He's hyped up heavily and thrown into the Undisputed Championship tournament. First match with the company and where is he? MAIN EVENT, hmm, what rookie you know gets main event booking on their very first night? None. Sorry chumpstain, you lose. Moving along, we've yet to hear from Deacon Havok and Drew Stevenson at this point and I don't expect much of anything to come from Havok other than the useless rambling or someone who resembles the great sayian ape. Then, we'll have Drew possibly talking about being the big jacked up nimrod he is and probably is going to come into the match and break a few bones and maybe knock a few people out. The same song and dance he's been singing and doing for years, boring. Moving along...taking this in, you may get the notion that Payne isn't exactly the nice guy he appears to be. Quite the contrary, he's still on his mission for justice. He's still on the road towards redemption(as the Myspace) says. He will become WGEF Undisputed Champion. This place needs a better class of heroes because looking around, there are very little to none and it's started to reek of losers. Having a guy like Phoenix represent the company? Bad for business. Deacon? Extremely bad, the guy looks like he could be the next pinnochio with that big ass nose of his. Bastard could be thirty minutes late to an event but I guarantee you his nose beats him there by a half hour, then of course...Drew? Eh..no. While Ryan respects Drew Stevenson for all that he's accomplished, you have to look at the facts regarding Drew. He used to be a really respectable talent and now, he's slowly dwindling down. Drew Stevenson has become father time of this business. He really needs to pass the torch on and just let go. Well, the show must and will go on...

Doo-Doo-Doo- a clock began counting down and stopped on the magical numbers that were...

Jack Bauer: "Previously, on 24..."

A rundown of everything that was going on was taking place, for those not familiar with the show, there's generally some form of Terrorism going on with the show and this season would be no different. This season, a group of Terrorists who had come together for the greater good planned an attack on the United States. The remaining members of the CTU(Counter Terrorist Unit)[Bill Buchanan, Chloe O'Brian, Tony Almeida and Jack Bauer] unit were currently in process of trying to stop them. Demands had been sent to the President of the United States and if they were not met, this terrorist unit that consisted of Drew Stevenson, Deacon Havok and Phoenix Winterborn would launch an attack upon the United States that would kill hundreds of thousands of Americans. Seemed that the world's greatest country was in need of a savior.

The following takes place between 3:00pm and 4:00pm.

In the middle of an undisclosed area sat Jack, Chloe, Tony and Bill. "Jack, we have to do something, we're running out of time." Bill said in a worried manner.

"Damn it, Bill! Just give me a moment to think." Jack responded. "Drew, Deacon and Phoenix are all working together. What information do we have on them that could help us find them?"

"We don't much of anything, Jack." Chloe responded. "If we did, we wouldn't be sitting here with our thumbs up our assess." She said in a rather sarcastic tone as she did just about 99.9% of the time. Tony stood there with his arms crossed looking around and Jack was just getting plain frustrated right now. "Jack, what about your contact from years ago?" Chloe asked.

"No, you can't possibly mean who I think you mean." Jack responded and judging by the response, it's not someone he was too thrilled to be working with. He couldn't even mention his/her name for crying out loud.

"I think at this point, Jack. You should make the call, if this can bring us any help what so ever...we could definitely use it. With CTU being disbanded, our resources are quite limited." Bill explained. "Put whatever differences you have with the person aside and do what needs to be done."

"You don't understand. This man nearly single handedly killed millions of Americans for his own selfish reasons. He was granted immunity for his crimes and has claimed to have turned over this new leaf." Jack responded

Tony sighed. "Jack, I know you hate him but if he can help...you have to call him." Tony said in agreeance with Bill and Chloe now.

Jack looked at all three of them and scoffed. "Fine." He said as he pulled his cell phone out and dialed the number. The person on the other end picked up and before he could even speak, Jack began the dialogue of their conversation. "Listen to me you son of a bitch, I didn't want to have to make this call in the first place but we're in desperate need of your help if you can even help us. If you can't, then just say so because I'd rather not waste either of our time."

"Nice to talk to you too, Jack." The person on the other end of the phone said. "Why so hostile though?"

"Are you able to help or not?"

"I don't even know what I'm helping with or not helping with." The person stated

"There's a terrorist organization that we need to break down any way we can. The names consist of Drew Stevenson, Deacon Havok and Phoenix Winterborn." Jack said, pausing to see if his contact had anything to say on the men.

"Well, Jack...I do believe I can help out. I happen to know those three men very well. But what guarantee do I have that you won't try to pull one of your moves and take me out once the deed is done?" The person questioned

"You don't." Jack simply responded.

The person laughed. "Anything for my country, I'm in. Where do we meet?" The person asked, and paused awaiting the location from Bauer. "Great, well I'll see you soon, Bauer." The person on the other end of the phone said hanging up.

Jack clenched his fist closing his phone and walked back over to Bill, Tony and Chloe. "He's in, he should be here soon."

"So, who is this guy? Anybody I know?" Tony asked.

"More than likely, yes." Jack responded. "The name Ryan Payne ring any bells?"

Tony sighed loudly and unfolded his hands and placed them upon his head almost in disbelief as to the fact that he was the person that they now had to work with. "Holy shit, are you kidding me? Him of all people?" Tony questioned shaking his head. "Now I'm second guessing this, Jack. If I had known it was him, I would've told you not to make the call. He's a snake in the grass, he can't be trusted. And do I need to mention that his name is tied in with Michelle's death? If I saw him, I can't guarantee that I won't try to break his damn neck." Tony said in a fit of rage, of course Michelle was Tony's wife that died some odd three years ago as someone rigged her car, when she turned it on, it blew up.

"Tony, you have to control yourself. Look at the bigger picture here, we have to stop these terrorists. Please, put all your differences aside and make this work." Bill pleaded with Tony and Jack too for that matter.

The time was now 3:16 (as shown above), Jack, Tony, Bill and Chloe were waiting on the arrival of the infamous Ryan Payne but they wouldn't have to wait much longer it seemed. "Jack, how long will we be waiting on this Ryan Payne?" Bill asked.

"I hear someone say my name?" Ryan said as he just walked in removing his glasses. "I should've waited until the third time I heard it to make my entrance." He said with a smile, but Jack and Tony were hardly amused by him at all. He looked at Bill and walked over with a ridiculous grin and extended his hand to him. "Hi there, I'm Ryan Payne." He said, quite possibly reminding people of that stupid thing done in WWE with Dolph Ziggler. Bill reluctantly shook his head and Ryan turned looking at Jack and Tony. "Whoa, why the long faces? You two don't look happy to see me at all." He stated. "What's the matter, Tony? You look like you just got punked, beyotch?" As he said that, Tony lunged at him and Jack held him back. "Whoa...tiger's all riled up today." He said as he turned around and looked at Chloe. "Well, hello there darling, don't believe we've met. I'm Ryan Payne."

"Hi, I'm Chloe O'Brian. You're cute."

"Thanks toots, you're not bad yourself." He said winking then turned back toward Jack and Tony. "Okay, in all seriousness, I came here to help you guys out. But first, let's clear the air. I know I did some bad things in the past and I'm truly sorry for that but I am not the same guy I was before. I'm sure you won't believe that at all but when the time is right, I'll prove it to you. As far as your wife goes Tony..I'm sorry, but I really had nothing to do with her dying."

"You shut your mouth about her!" Tony shouted at him.

"Tony, calm down." Bill said.

Ryan turned towards Bill. "No, no, no...it's okay. It's best he gets this out later so that it does not affect the mission later on." He then turned back towards Tony. "So, you really believe that I'm the cause of her death, know what? I'll give you a free shot...if that'll make you feel better. Come on Tony, give me your best shot." Ryan said as he put his face out there ready to take a shot from Tony and Tony didn't hesitate one bit as he nailed the hell out of Ryan with a right, he tried to punch him more but Jack held him back. Ryan stumbled back and grabbed his jaw spitting out blood. "You pack quite the punch, that's for damn sure but listen here Almeida. For the last damn time, I didn't have a damn thing to do with your wife's death. You want to blame me though and kick my ass? Do it later. Lives are at stake here, so let's get with the program shall we?" Ryan said to him trying to get them all on the same page. "Now, Jack our issues are very much different and we can talk about that later on. Right now, I need to know that we're all here on the same level because we aren't then we won't succeed at this mission. We either go into this solidly or not at all." Jack and Tony nodded, Ryan nodded back. "Great...now, separately, I can tell you that these men have done some questionable things and now that they've all come together, it's time we strike them hard and fast. I think if we can get them to set up a meeting with the President, we should be able to hit them and hit them hard." Ryan said.

"How do you propose we go about setting this meeting up and taking them down without hurting the President?" Jack asked

"We'd have to carefully plan this out, the President would definitely be put into the crossfire. Maybe if we can get a vest on him and inform him of this plan so that when he hears the gunshots, he hits the deck immediately. It's probably not the best plan out there but at this point, I think we need to do whatever it takes in order to take these terrorists out before they take innocent lives." Ryan stated. "So, what do you think?"

"That's risky, Ryan. Extremely risky." Bill said. "There's no guarantee that it will work and if it doesn't, we'll be sacrificing lives for no reason what so ever."

"Well, one thing is for sure. We can't just sit around and hope they slip up because the longer we sit here, the more time they have to devise their plan to take American lives. I sincerely believe we don't want or need anymore incidents like with Ike Dubaku and how he created that CIP device and crashed two planes together in the sky over Washington, killing over ten thousand people." Ryan said. "We don't want that, do we?" He asked as he looked at Bill, Jack, Tony then Chloe. "Think of the children here, who knows what the hell they're planning. They could be formulating some bio-weapons or something, we need to stop them and shut them down now."

Tony sighed yet again and shook his head. "I hate to admit this but he's right. We have to make a move now."

"Tony, you're agreeing to putting the President's life in the balance in hopes of taking down these men?" Jack asked, to which Tony simply nodded yes to. Jack then looked at Ryan. "You'd better do whatever it takes to protect the President's life."

"Of course." Ryan responded, this is the point where the commercial break occurred and we'll fast forward this a bit for you. No need to keep sitting through the talking and all that, right? So basically to summarize this up for you; Jack, Tony and Bill were able to get President Richards to agree to the meeting with the three men in a location that they set up. They had plans of their own it seemed as they had their weapons in place to go off with their touch of their detonator. A viral gas would be released into the air and instantly kill anyone who breathes in the toxic air. Now that you're all caught up with the basic knowledge, we resume the program.

[03:40:29]

Now it was time for the meeting, the black SUV's pulled up and out stepped Phoenix Winterborn, Drew Stevenson and Deacon Havok as they prepared their meeting with the President. "President Richards, I assume that you've done as we asked and have come alone? If we feel something is off, we will detonate the bomb and won't hesitate to do so." Drew said to him.

President Richards nodded. "Yes, please...let's go over your demands." He said, as they walked over to begin the meeting.

Ryan was watching from a safe distance. "Tony, do you have a visual?"

"Confirmed." Tony responded looking at the President with the Terrorist through the sniper scope as he was in the tower that was a distance away from them(not too far away though).

"Jack, you in place?" Ryan asked.

"Yes." He responded.

"Nobody move until I make the call for it." Ryan said, the meeting between the President and the Terrorists continued to go on and at a point, it seemed that things were going according to plan. There was another SUV that pulled up that Jack spotted. "Tony, you see this? We have another truck. What the hell is going on?"

"I'm locked in it Jack, looks like Stevenson, Winterborn and Havok's crew. Meeting has been compromised." Tony stated.

"Definitely, are you ready to move? Tony, on my call, take out the guards at the truck. Jack, you try to take out as many of them you can, I'm going to go for the three amigos and protect the President." Ryan stated, the men were now getting out of their cars, Ryan and Jack both drew their guns cocking them as the camera show the various split screens showing what each men were doing. "Now!" Ryan shouted as he came out of cover, Tony stated taking out the men from the truck sniping them with great precision. Jack came out of his cover taking out the men at the truck as well, Ryan went over firing cover shots at Drew, Phoenix and Deacon trying his hardest to protect the President and he was doing quite a good job at it. The three men retreated away from the President. "Mr. President, stay here." Ryan said to the President, Jack and Tony continued to lay waste to the men within the terrorist cell. It was then, that Deacon seemed to have a clear shot at Bauer. Ryan spotted it and ran over. "JACK!" He shouted and in slow motion foremat, Deacon fired the shot as Ryan leapt pushing Jack out of the way taking the bullet for him, it caught him in the midsection.

"Tony, take him out!" Jack yelled.

"Already on it." Tony responded as he had a lock on Deacon and sniped catching him in the neck.

"Are you okay?" Jack asked as he kneeled down checking on Ryan.

"I'll be fine, go get those sons of bitches." He responded holding his midsection.

"Jack, they needed north on foot." Tony said

"Copy that." Jack responded and stated running into that direction chasing after Drew and Phoenix now.

It seemed that both men had split up now and in the direction Jack was heading, which was the for the subway was Phoenix, he was down hiding behind one of the walls. Jack made his way down the stairs looking past all the people trying to spot out Phoenix but it was rather hard, once he went back, Phoenix kicked the gun out of his hand and then punched Bauer in the face, to which Bauer struck back with a right of his own. Phoenix then grabbed Bauer and slammed him against the wall and punched him again and tried to deliver a knee right to the midsection but Jack blocked it and punched him in the face, then again and kicked him in the midsection that caused him to stumble back some. Jack then grabbed him and slammed him against the wall holding him in place. "Where's Stevenson?!" Jack asked him demanding an answer with the tone in which he asked.

"I'll never tell you." Phoenix responded

"I'll make you talk, damn it." Jack said as he started to choke Phoenix, cutting off his oxygen, Phoenix's face started to turn blue and he was struggling to speak. "Tell me! WHERE IS STEVENSON?!"

Phoenix coughed. "I--I will never tell you."

"You think about this...when your precious girlfriend is begging for her life, I won't stop." Jack said threatening him.

"No, wait..I'll tell you." Phoenix said quickly changing his tune up when his girlfriend(Mari Saito) was now mentioned in this. It was actually kind of funny that he changed his tune so fast but I guess he cared about her that much. "He should be near or on his way to the pier. Our boat was waiting there and it has the detonator onboard, once he sets it off, people will start to die at a rapid pace. I'll give you the location if you just leave her alone." Phoenix said and Jack nodded, Phoenix sang like a bird giving the location and Jack would then give it to Tony who was in pursuit heading to the location now.

Jack looked at Phoenix. "You'd better hope that everything checks out or she won't be the only thing you lose." Jack said as he picked up and then dragged him off as the show took another commercial break.

[03:51:57]

With the final minutes of the hour drawing near, Stevenson made it to the boat but Tony got to him in time before he could pull off. "Hands in the air!" Tony shouted at him, Stevenson turned facing him with his hands up.

"It's a shame you continue to work for this government after what they've done to you. They've taken everything you hold near and dear to your heart away. Join me, Almeida." Stevenson suggested. "Let's teach this country that they don't always know what's best for everyone else."

"Shut your mouth." Tony said to him.

"Figures, another stubborn person. Too bad you didn't stay dead like you should have." He said as he immediately pulled his gun and fired as Tony, but Tony ducked and got into cover and fired back from behind cover. "You're going to die, Almeida! You'll join your dead wife among millions of Americans." Stevenson shouted firing more shouts, he then emptied his clip and went to reload, Tony then quickly got up and dove onto the boat and onto Stevenson knocking the gun down out of his hands just as he loaded it, he then started to punch Stevenson as he was full of rage due to the comments that he just said. So much fire, emotion and some of everything else was behind the punches to Stevenson, until he delivered a headbutt to Tony knocked him off him, he then got up and kicked Tony hard in the ribs probably breaking a few.

He then measured him up and punched him a few times and then picked up the gun. "Goodbye, Almeida." Stevenson said and pulled the trigger but it was just a click, click. Tony got up and tackled him knocking the gun from his hand again, he started to punch Stevenson again then got up.

"Next time, learn to work the safety bitch!" Tony said and in that moment where you should be taking care of action and not speaking, he made that little mistake and Drew took advantage, he grabbed him and pulled him causing him to go face first into the metal bar of the boat. Tony's head was busted up and he was sitting there, Drew was up now and had the gun in hand again, this time the safety was off.

He stood over him. "Now for the last time you cockroach. Goodbye." Stevenson said

BANG!

The shot was fired, Tony sat there looking at himself, it was not him that had gotten shot. He looked at Drew who was bleeding, he dropped to his knees and standing behind up holding the smoking gun was Ryan. Ryan walked over putting his gun back in it's holster, he extended his hand to Tony who looked reluctant at first but took his hand as he helped him up. "I hope you know this doesn't make us even." Tony stated

"Tony, I get you hate me, but you've got to believe me. I seriously had nothing to do with your wife. If you think I did it, shoot me right now." Ryan stated putting it on the line. "I don't know what you want from me. Want blood? Break out the needle, I'll give it."

"I don't doubt you anymore but still...we'll settle this at a later date." Tony said, if he believes that Ryan had nothing to do with it, what more do they have to work with? Confusing but okay. The two left and met up with Bauer.

"Winterborn is in custody working out a deal now to get less time in exchange for giving up Stevenson and the location of the weapon. I guess we owe it to you." Jack said looking at Ryan. "The President is safe as is the United States. I'll admit, I had my doubts in you and I still do but thank you for everything you did today, especially taking the bullet for me." Jack said extended his hand to Ryan, Ryan shook his hand.