Prequel To X5-402 AKA Lex: Max's Baby Sister

Summary: Lex after escaping the government facility Manticore finds her biological family. Now she has to survive high school, being enhanced in a lab, and Lydecker; the man that wants to throw her Back to hell.

Title: Everyone Has their Secrets.

Prologue

Everyone has their secrets, maybe not a secret government agency on their ass looking to throw them back in a cage, but secrets that get heavier and heavier. I wish in some ways I could spare myself of having my secret, being a DNA enhanced girl isn't all that it's cracked up to be, especially when you escaped from the training facility; And when you have a man that ruined your life, pushing you until you were off the cliff; hunting you down like an animal. A life so unbearable that you and your brothers and sisters ran for your lives, And now today you are living with you're biological family who even though you have affection for, doesn't seem too be your real family.

I remember the running, the helicopters, getting to the local hospital; Hearing a man and a woman fighting with someone about their daughter, with a barcode on her neck. I figured seeing as everyone at Manticore had barcodes, they could help me: And they did. They told me I looked like their other two daughters, they figured anything was possible. So they brought me to the hospital near their home which was indeed several states away ( the hospital near Manticore was one of the best for when the egg was fertilized, inserting it into the body. Lydecker stole it, and put into my mother, taking me when I was born) and it turns out I was their daughter. I usually isolated my self from my family, except from my cousin, Kelsey. She was only two years younger but somehow, I knew that I could trust her, and I can.

" We have leave" Zack announced in the barracks " we can't stay here"

"How will we get out?" I asked.

"Jumping threw the windows, and running until we are over the perimeter fence" He stated.

"What if we get separated" Max asked

"We will find each other some day, our memories will live on" Zack said, not sounding to sure.

"When will we go?" Jondy asked.

"Tomorrow night" Zack announced.

"We should pair up" Ben chimed in.

"Good idea" Zack said. " okay, Max and Jondy, Krit and Syl , Ben and Lex, Jace and Zane, Tinga and I………" he went on.

Ben and I got separated right after we got over the perimeter fence, he saved my life that night. He risked his own for mine. The guard dogs were coming at us, he pushed me down a hill and kept running so I'd be safe, and Ben just kept running taking their attention away from me. Ben was a lot older than me, seven or eight years I believe. When I was five I was tortured by his clone,, but it never ruined the way I looked at Ben, he was always my big Brother and always there for me. The reason for my being tortured is ironic, I saved my sister, well I only added a few months to her life. I had killed scientists to save her. I was tortured to be told I was a bad X5, I didn't care because I saved Eva, only to have her shot by the damn gun in Lydecker's Hands.

I have not seen any of my brothers or sisters since and it kills me inside. I have had contact with Zack, he still looks out for us. But he wont let me in on the others saying I am way to reckless and I always was, and always will be. It's hard wondering if they are all ok, or not. It's Hard to not know if they remember me, like I remember them. I guess I am just paranoid.

I walk down the street, looking at everyone wondering what their lives are like. I know people may have bad lives, but no life is worse than the torture received at that god awful place I once unfortunately called home. It's annoying sometimes, how people go on and on about life before the pulse, so it sucks, but honey it would suck worse back at Manticore.

It's funny on how all the adults say how before the pulse the legal drinking age was 20 or something and now it's 17, only if you have some type of license though. The Legal age is 17as well. My biological family is always on my case for not driving a car, but hey I can't help it if I prefer motorcycles now can I?

But hey, Being a transgenic girl who kicks ass, has it's benefits, As the Hero in the Night.