Title: Breaking 181
Author: Faline
Rating: M
Spoilers: Seasons 1 and 2
Summary: More than one Manticorian isn't pleased that their 'home' has been burned to the ground. Max et all meet one such unhappy transgenic and try to show her the err of her ways. Meant to read like an episode.
Prologue
Command had been silent for over five months before it crossed her mind something might be wrong. On a deep cover mission like this one, it was common for her to go without hearing them for longer than that. However, the timeline demanded her next directive come from above.
She was successfully inserted in the corporation, situated in Lab 5-D. The biological contaminate division. It was of course an easy assignment. Being what she was, biological contaminates were somewhat of a specialty.
When the call came in from Seattle about the virus, she knew what it was and she knew where it had come from. It was one of the earlier designs that they'd tested with her five years ago. She still had the cells inside of her, and they would still be able to kill her target, long ago dead.
It didn't take much to get on the wagon headed for the rainy city. It was harder to accept that she should change locations without alerting her superiors first. She ducked out of transport after landing in Seattle. It was easier than she could have imagined to get a car and get to base.
When she arrived at her home, she knew why security was non-existent. Surveying the burned remains of where she'd spent the first fifteen years of her life, anger bubbled up within her that she wasn't expecting. Couldn't have expected. Her home was gone. Someone had taken the one thing that she'd always had. The place that had made her, raised her, trained her, and given her the opportunity to do so much good in the world.
She heard a twig snap behind her and she twirled, immediately falling in to combat stance. It was an X-7. She smiled. At least a few good soldiers remained behind.
"Who did this?"