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Summary: Max, Zack, and Alec must fight for their lives if they want to stay alive. Will they survive until the end? AlecMaxZack
YOU CAN SKIP THIS AND GO TO CHP 1 IF YOU WANT.
It’s been a year since we blew up the DNA lab in good old Manticore. It went sore towards the end but we made it out okay. Minor bruises here and there but we made it. But two of our sibling wasn’t so lucky. We tried to save Tinga, to bring her back to her family, but we were too late. Brin on the other hand was killed in the explosion of the lab. Though she was our enemy at the end, she still was our sister and we will miss her. Just like the others who died. Jack, Eva, even Ben. Ben. I still haven’t told anyone about Ben, about me killing him. They know he is died but they think Manticore killed him because he went crazy once he got out. I had to stop him or else he’ll kill again and he asked me to. I’m too scared to tell them the truth because what they’ll think of me or to see the look on their faces when they know that it was me and not Manticore. I know they are my family but I don’t know if they’ll understand. Anyway, now it’s just a few of my siblings out there and I hope they are living their lives like some of my siblings I’ve meet. Jace is one. She didn’t leave with us in 09 but she is free now. With her unborn baby she promises to call Max, living in Mexico. Syl and Krit, who helped me and Zach blew up the lab are living who ever know somewhere. Zach still incises we keep a low profile and minimal communication so we won’t get caught. Since Lydecker is no long after us there still other people out there who want us for our DNA and other Manticore. Which Lydecker inform us that there indeed are other Manticores. Which lead us to another event last year.
Before Syl and Krit left us to go live their lives in the world, we got together to destroy another facility, this one here in Seattle. It was kind of ironic to have another facility so close to home but why am I not surprise. Anyway we were planning on just blowing up the lab again but Lydecker say it would be best to blow the whole facility, or else resulting in more Manticore and more running. This plan left us with a problem in our hands. This facility was filled with transgenics, people like us, who will die if we choose to blow up the entire facility. These are our kind who are living in hell and is trap in that place and killing them is not an option. But it left us with an alternative. A choice of letting them out of the hell they are living in, therefore resulting in a whole lot of us out in the world. Roaming free like us and living normal lives. So it was ride or die at this point and no one was dying. The choice was made and now thousand of us are out there. A choice with consequences.
I did think about the consequences and some of the problems the ones that got out would face. What if they get caught, what if they don’t know how to live in this world, what if they turn out like Ben? As harsh as it may sound, I had to think about it. Yeah it’s been a year since we blew up the DNA lab and blew up the Seattle’s facility but it’s been a year of fighting for acceptance. I should have known this would happen and Zach did his part of letting me not forget it. But all the same he known it would happen to and he knew it would be our responsibility. It was only twelve of who escape back in 09 and we were young and new to the world. But we learn to adapt to it as well. Just like the others have to. But they stayed longer then we did in Manticore and all they know is Manticore, which makes it hard for them to adapt. Of course some, like the X’s, relied on their training and stay low and blend in but the ones who aren’t like us can’t do that. The anomalies were too let out and it’s hard for them to adapt to a world that sees them as freaks or monsters. People are scared of what they don’t understand and with news about our kinds out there, people are even more scared of us. Disliking us because we were made in a lab and train to kill and they only see us as killing machines. No thanks to a guy name Ames White who want to see my kind wipe from the world, with his help the people are killing and fearing my kind. And since it was me and my siblings who let them out, it was me and my sibling responsibility to keep them alive.
We rescued a lot these couple of months but that didn’t deter the killings. Being that most of the anomalies are the one who being killed, me and Zach had to put aside out difference against them and save them. They deserve to live too, just like the X’s. I never realize how many different kinds of X’s there were until seeing the ones we saved. Even the experimental ones was a surprise to me. It makes me think how much I miss over the ten years being away from Manticore and how much I miss being with my own kind. It seems like its easier being with them then with the ordinary they say. We have the same past beside the ten years the others have on me and my siblings, the same fear, and the same problem, well some of have the same problem. It kind of gets me thinking about my relationship with Logan. Of course he knows about me, what I am, and he loves me but can he really understand me. Zach says we can’t be together. Heck the world and even the other transgenic say we can’t be together but I still love him. But I don’t think he will understand all of me. The 452 side of me which is all Manticore, the side of me I wish to erase from my DNA. And I think he knows that. We hardly spin time together since I am busy saving my people from the world and he is busy with his Eyes Only deal and the S1W projects. He have a woman in the S1W name Asha that works with him and I can sort see the tension between them when she’s around. They belong together just like I belong with mines. Not that I’m thrilled about this because I still love the man but with all that is going on, it’s nice for him to have someone else in his life. I just hope there is someone for me as well. To make me feel like Logan and I use to or at least makes me feel like I’m loved. I have Zach and Syl and Krit but they are my siblings.
Anyway, it’s been a year and we are still fighting for acceptance in this world. We have a home now, well sort of a home for my kind to stay. It’s an old bio-toxic place where humans can’t live in or else they die. It’s not much but its all we got. It’s looking homey now that we’re working together to make it a home. I have to say with all that is going on, the X’s and anomalies are getting along great. I think Zach and I are even moving away from our fear of the anomalies. I met Joshua, an anomaly with too much canine in his thingytail, who I consider as a brother to me. He’s really nice, a heart of a child but with the way he looks no one will ever see him for that. Yeah life has change for me since the blow out of Manticore. I don’t live with OC any more because I always out or at Terminal City, but I do snick out and see her. I don’t work at Jam Pony any more either due to the same reason why I don’t live with OC. I snick out sometime to hang a little but that’s it. I can’t risks getting caught by White’s men or any other people who is after me and my kind. To hang around Logan I do some Eyes Only work for him. The only thing that helps is letting me know how much I can’t be with him. Zach stay at TC also and he helps out with EO’s project as well but his main focus is TC, trying to help out as much as he can there. The people there don’t see him as much of a leader as I see him. He does a good job giving orders and stuff but they still see him as a 09er like me. They don’t trust us yet for that but they are getting to trust us. It’s hard to believe it’s been a year, give or take a month or two. So much has happened. But it’s my life and what can I do but to live it.
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Chapter 1- Caught
Max was sitting on the Space Needle looking down at city she once consider her home. Still her home if you think about where she stays and who her friends are. But not when you think about the people living in the city who doesn’t want her and her people around. The cool breeze blew through her hair as she gives a once over look over the city. Standing up she made her way inside. A presence some where in the use to be restaurant made it self known and Max scan the area over. In the shadows a figure moves toward her and she quickly got into a fighting stance. Zach walks out into the open with his hands up in defense and Max relaxes.
“Nice that you are on the alert baby sister,” he said with a smile.
“Nice of you to snick up on me, what are you doing here?”
“Just checking up on you and making sure you are okay. I just got in touch with Krit and he says Syl and he made it home safely.”
“Any chance you’re going to tell me where home is?”
“Not a chance. Besides it good to have them on the outside, in case something should happen. At least they’ll be safe and some of the others they have with them. You know that say they have a place being built just in case something should happen here.”
“All for the best to let me know where they are. We’re not alone any more and we need to stick together in this. What if something should happen to them and you and we have no way of communicating with each other.”
“Nothing will happen to me Maxie or Syl or Krit. You worry too much and it’s that, that’s going to get you killed. I know what I’m doing.”
Max rolled her eyes and walks pass him to leave the Needle with Zach right behind her.
“So any word from Logan about the extra money we need?”
“He’s working on it. You know it’s not easy for him either being it’s a broken world and all. He needs the money more then we do.”
“Yeah but he is not the one with a thousand and so hungry and cold transgenics to worry about.”
“He’s helping isn’t he? Besides we can always pull off some heist to get some extra money.”
“That’ll be too dangerous.”
“I had done it before.”
They reached the bottom and move to their bikes tied next to a fence in the back of the Needle.
“And you don’t need to be doing it without me or someone else with you Max. It’s dangerous for you to be going out alone, especially with White after you.”
“You think the guy will give up after you save his son from his father,” Max said straddling her bike.
“I mean it Max.”
“You think I don’t know that Zach. I know alright.”
It went silent between them as they sat on the bikes in thought.
“I’m sorry Zach but I just got a lot on my mind and it helps when I’m up there by myself. I can think well when I’m up there.”
“I know Maxie,” he said giving her a hug. “But a lot of us are dying and I don’t want anything to happen to you.”
“I know Zach.”
They parted and drove off on their bikes back to TC.
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The next day Max received a call from Logan to meet him over to his place. From the call it sounds very important, so after her quick bath over at OC she went over to Logan’s.
“Logan I’m here,” she yells opening the door without knocking. She shrugs out of her jacket and heads in the room she knows he’ll be at. “Hey.”
“Hey Max glad you can make. I hope I didn’t interrupt anything.”
“No just a quick dip over at OC nothing new. What you got?”
Logan walks over to his computer and grabs a print out off his computer’s desk and give it to Max. She looks down at a picture with a transgenic with several bruises on him. His skin was pale and his lips and eye lids were blue from what looks like from drowning, or by looking closely strangulation. The marks around his next prove just that. He must have been dump in the water afterwards.
“He was floating in the water when Sector cops found him in the water last night next to grand factor in sector 5. They believe it to be homicide but being he’s transgenic I don’t think they’ll be looking for who killed him.”
“I don’t think normal people killed him. I don’t think he would have let them strangle him to death. Even with a mob after him they have a better chance of beating him then strangling. Have to be White’s men.”
“Yeah but would White dump two more bodies there, he seem to me more of a show then tell kind of guy.” He handed her two more print outs with two pictures of two other transgenics with bruises on them. They seem to have died in different ways, one look like his body is badly broken and the other, a transhuman, with a big hole on the side of his head. “They all were found in sector 5 in the water by the grand factor.”
“You’re right, White would want the people to see the transgenic not send them off in the water and wait for them to be found. When were they found,” she asks handing him back the papers.
“Two weeks away from each other.”
“Then this means someone else is doing this. Great if it’s not White it someone else. It can’t be Manticore they wouldn’t want to kill us.”
“The cops didn’t find any evidence to lead them to anything.”
“They probably weren’t looking hard enough. I guess I have to go there myself to check it out.”
“I’m having Sung check it out and he said he’ll get back to me if he finds anything.”
“Tonight then, Zach and I can check it out after I fill him in.”
“You sure that is wise I mean it transgenics that are being killed. Let Sung check it out first before you go.”
“He’ll probably find nothing. It’s best for us to go. We can probably find something he can’t find.”
“Okay but be careful Max.”
“I will.”
She went to leave but Logan stops her. Their eyes connect in unspoken words and the stood close to feel each other breath on their skin. Max broke the eye contact and looks away.
“I have to go Logan.”
“Max…”
“I have to go,” she said looking up at him with pleading eyes.
He let her go and she hurried out the door.
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Max and Zach squat down low behind some empty barrels beside a dock and boat. They watch as the two sector cops greet each other as the walk to head in the other direction, away from the grand factory. Max and Zach blur their way across the muddy ground, over the fence, and climb their way on top of the roof of the factory. Pulling off their bags, they pull out the long black rope and secure it to a metal pole. Opening the top window on the roof, they swung themselves down to the bottom of the factory. They checked every exit points and any signs of presence before they begin their search.
“The detective couldn’t find anything outside so maybe there could be something in here to track our killer,” Max said searching around.
“How are we supposed to know they didn’t just dump the body in the water in boats,” Zack ask looking around himself.
“Logan cop friend checked the surveillance tapes and there was nothing. Unless they were far away from the camera to see or they were inside.” She stops in front of a manhole and look down. “They could of walk in and dump the body through here.”
“But why waste their time dumping the body here if the current just going to push they back here. No I think the bodies were dump somewhere else. Not here. That’ll probably explain why the cops didn’t find any evidences.”
Max stop to think for a minute.
“I think you are right but the currents flow south west. I don’t think the bodies would have floated here unless someone drop them off here. This isn’t making any sense. Why drop off a body to find if you don’t want anyone to find it?”
“My thoughts exactly,” a voice said above them.
They looked up just as the light cut on to find a man in black. Five men stood at his side with guns pointed at them up on the second floor. The door to the factory open and four guys walk in, two carry what look like two dead cops and dump them off to the side as the made their way to Zach and Max. They surround them and stood in fight stance.
“Who are you,’ Zack yells.
“You can call me the collector. Now if you don’t mine I would like to see what you’re made off.”
At that the four guys attack. Max and Zach both took on two against one as the fought the four men. Zack pushed his two a little away from Max’s and punch one in the face before pin one to the wall and punch him in the face. The other guy recovered from his punch and grab Zach by the shoulders to pull him off his friend. With one big leap, Zach flip over the guy behind him head and in the process kick the guy on the wall in the face. They didn’t know what hit them.
Max on the other side had one in a head lock while the other one recovered from his blow to the knees and face. The guy her arms head was slam against the wall and knock unconscious before she turns her attention to the other guy. This guy was a lot taller and bigger then she is but she been through worst. The guy charges at her and she steps to the side, yanking him down by his collar. With one solid punch to face the guy was out like a light. She looks up just as Zach was through with his guys and moves toward him.
“That’s good enough for you,” Max said to the smiling guy.
“Very,” he said and nod his head for the five guys beside him to fire.
They blur out of the fire range of the shooters to jump behind some crates. The door open and some more guys with guns came in. They were surrounded. Zach got Max attention to signal to the man hole to the water below. With a nod, Max and Zach blur again pass the fires and jump into the water. Surfacing above the water, they were once again surrounded. It was a trap. They were yank out of the water and thrown into the black raft and brought to shore. With their wrists and ankles cuffed, they were dragged in front of a black SUV with the man in black standing in front of it. Lying flat on their stomach they look up at the man. Another nod was given by the man and two guys push their face in the mud and lift their hair up to see their barcode.
“They’re one of them sir,” one of the men said.
“Good, I knew they were transgenic. Put them in the truck but make sure they are out. I don’t want them remembering our location.”
“Yes sir.”
The man turn to walk away and Zach and Max struggle against their bond. Two armed man moved in front of them and aim their guns. Two shots were fired and Max and Zach convulse from the electricity flowing through them. Blackness took them and they were out.
“Two more worthy transgenics to add to my collection,” the man whispered as he got in the truck and it pulled away with the two unconscious transgenics.
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