Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Angel or anything related to it. Dark Angel is owned by other people and they're stupid because they didn't give us more than two seasons. Of course they at least gave us those, which is good.

Disclaimer Part Two: I do however own Blaze, Heresy, Leo, Anubis, Blaze's pack/unit and other things that might seem unfamiliar.

A/N: Heire is short for Heresy – it's the only way I can write it without it actually meaning something else

If you want to complain about my characters, please don't. I love all of my characters a lot. If you want to complain, tell me the story sucks. And if you do that, tell me exactly why you didn't like it.

Pairing: Logan/Max, Alec/Heresy, Alec/Blaze, Alec/Luxie…

Gotta Blaze

1

It was kinda nerve wrecking sitting on the bus to Seattle. I was afraid that any moment someone would turn around and notice I was a transgenic. I knew people didn't like us so, I expected that person would try and shoot me. I'd have to break his wrist in taking away the gun and take the bus hostage. Hostage situations were not my thing and I really hoped no one would notice the barcode that was hopefully well hidden beneath by red-black hair and the collar of my black hooded jacket. It wasn't completely black but more of a black, grey and white camouflage style. I suffered greatly under my love for military clothing and couldn't help buying a piece when I saw one.

When I finally arrived in Seattle I had to gape at the situation there. I had thought Portland was bad but Seattle was much worse. I expected because it was directly under the pulse block out and right near that hell called Manticore.

Of course, Manticore didn't exist anymore and there were transgenics all over the city, which should have made me feel better, but it made me feel slightly uncomfortable. I knew that my flight had cost my team much training and torture and that they would maul me as soon as they spotted me.

I took a deep breath of the polluted air and coughed. My lungs enjoyed fresh forest air and even after 12 years I still wasn't used to the disgusting smell of city life.

How would I find them? I wanted to find Zack. Zack was my idol and I would have worshipped him, had Manticore not taught us to keep them as our superiors, always. I suspected Zack had grown into a tall, respectable man, who was always running around looking after his siblings. Zack was that kinda guy. He was that kinda kid from what I remember and he pulled things through. So maybe if I found one of his brothers or sisters, I would find him. I knew that most of his unit came here or passed through here to go to Canada.

"You're just jealous, cause you can't get any," Alec sneered and did a few pelvis thrusts to enrage Max even more. He had just come back from a successful night of 'hunting' and been reprimanded by the girl.

"I am not jealous," she hissed although everyone in Terminal City knew she was. "I just find it totally indecent of you to not have been here. White sent a few goons over and we had to kill them."

"And you didn't call me?" Alec gasped in outrage. He had always enjoyed hurting people and White's goons, despite the fact that they always got up, were the best to beat up.

"You were busy having sex! Remember?" hissed Heresy. Heresy was a new Terminal City member and also one of Max's sisters. She was tall and lean and had coloured her deep dark brown bangs in bright green. She wore provocative clothing and tried her best to taunt Alec into have sex with her. Although she hated his guts, her cat genes were much more concentrated than those of Max's and instead of having a strong heat three times a year, Heresy had a slightly over average lust for sex for most of the year except around November/December when she abhorred even the sight of a male. Just as Heresy enjoyed taunting Alec, he enjoyed doing the same.

"Well… at least I had a good night," he retorted lamely. "Without any blood and guts." He sighed.

"Max, Max!" Joshua called running over to the group of X5s. "Logan found something. New transgenic." Max's face brightened over the news. Despite her sister being a slutty whore and constantly arguing with Alec, there were a few things that made the day better.

"So?" she asked once they had arrived at Logan's little personal area. She sat down next to him, far away enough not to touch him, but still close enough to be able to breath in his scent and feel his warmth.

"Someone saw a transgenic getting out of a bus from Portland," Logan reported.

"Portland?" Heresy asked. Her tracking skills were what Alec loved calling 'a blind man trying to find a red needle in a bunch of other needles' – lacking any purpose at all. Luckily Heresy had a great sense of finding people that need to be kicked in the ass. She kicked Alec in the ass.

"That means it's one of us," Max said with a smile.

"Why?"

"Because in three months, no transgenic could have gotten to Portland and want to come back to Seattle, no way. But who?" she asked slowly.

"Zack gave told you about all of you he'd had contact with. The only one in Portland was Tinga and…" Alec stopped before coming across as tactless. "What else have you got, Eyes?"

"She has two stripes tattooed on her face and black hair that shines red," Logan said. "We've only got a profile image," he said and pulled the picture up from his files.

"She seems… no, I have no idea whatsoever. Max?" Heresy asked and turned to her sister. Max shook her head.

"I think I know her," Alec said and leaned in closer. "She was… I think she broke out shortly after you guys did and her unit was trained to kill her on sight."

"Dontcha love Manticore's ways of forgive and forget?" Max muttered sarcastically. She looked at the image again. "Where is she?"

"Last seen at the bus station, but the source said she went off towards… Sector 4," Logan said. "JamPony, huh?"

"Wanna come Heresy?" Max asked and the girl shivered in return.

"I don't like cities, reason I stayed out in the country. Plus, where you have no problem butting up against White's men, I've had my share for the day. Take Alec," she said and nodded towards the young man. "I pray he runs into one of them."

"Thanks, Heire, I'll take that into consideration," he said with a smirk and him and Max took off.

"I really do," Heresy said watching him leave. "That and have sex with that godly body." Logan shivered and made retching sounds. "What!"

"Are you sure she'll be off to JamPony?" Alec asked. "I mean she could just be passing through."

"I have a feeling," Max said as the two of them walked casually along 39th. "You, Zack and Sam all ended up there, didn't you?"

"That is true. I just came cause I knew you'd be there," he said. "Come to think about it, I think Heire would have come here too, if it hadn't been for our little run in," he said with a wide grin. Max shivered in disgust.

"It completely passes me how you two dislike each other but still end up having sex together every now and then," Max said and walked into JamPony. The place was close down for the night but Normal had been letting down security with all the threats he'd been getting.

"It just… she has that body and who would want to deny this?" he asked a pulled his shirt up. Max sighed and looked around. She'd done a good enough job refusing it. Suddenly the two of them tensed. They felt danger coming up and whipped around into a defensive stance.

The girl with the red-black hair walked into the place carefully and then straightened.

"What a welcome committee, huh?" she asked.

"The girl," said the guy on the left. From their defensive positions I guessed they'd been expecting me and would probably be X-series.

"My name's Blaze," I introduced myself. "Or X5-628 if you like."

"Max," the girl introduced herself and straightened up. She wasn't particularly tall but her looks made up for it. She had beautiful dark hair. She was attractive and had I been introduced to the prospect of same sex love, I might have thought about it. However, the X-series to her left looked kinda hot. I scolded myself at the thought of his naked body. Would have liked him as a breeding partner when I got older.

"This is Alec," Max said pointing to him. "And yeah, we're the welcome committee. Would you like to join us as HQ?" I shivered. The word reminded me too much of Manticore. I nodded and the two of them walked up towards me. I noticed Alec inspecting my body and those cat genes I sensed made me feel slightly uncomfortable.

When the three of us were leaving the postage service place, which I'd found by pure coincidence, Max began telling me how she'd guessed I'd be here.

"All of our X5 friends seem to end up here," she said with a grin. "I met Alec here, after our first encounter at Manticore."

"Manticore killed my pack," I said sadly.

"Pack?" Alec and Max asked simultaneously.

"Uh… I have wolf genes and instead of calling our units units, we call them packs. I was the alpha." After a pause I clarified: "The leader."

"And you've been out here for 12 years too?" Max asked. I nodded. It seemed she knew were I was from so I felt no need to clarify.

"Can I just ask your designation?" I asked carefully. I knew Zack's teams designations off by heart and hopefully one of them was a perfect match.

"494," Alec said. "I'm just Ben's clone," he added with a sigh.

"Not just a clone, Alec," Max said. "You're a whole person on your own. I'm 452," she added in passing. I choked on my saliva and stopped to cough. "Is that a bad thing?"

"You're in Zack's unit," I noted with glee in my voice.

"Was. We're not a unit anymore. And… he's dead," she said her voice full of sadness. It struck me hard and as she continued her journey in silence, so did eye a single tear running down my left cheek.

"Found her!" Alec announced when we entered a place the two of them called Terminal City.

"Wow," I said slowly and looked around. I jumped when a dog-faced transgenic bound out at his. "Uh, sorry," I mumbled apologetically but he smiled at me never the less.

"Wolf," he said happily. I grinned. I was packed to the rim with wolf genes and as an ancestor of the dog it was obvious he liked me.

"Joshua, this is Blaze," Max introduced us. "Blaze, Joshua is the first ever transgenic. He's special."

"Joshua special," the dog-man repeated. "Blaze wolf," he added and stroked his face alongside mine. I did the same letting a low growl from the back of my throat. I had instinctively told him I was the leader and although he might not have understood it, he gave me a big hug.

"Looks like she's making friends already," I heard Alec comment from behind me.

"Lemme see, Josh!" I heard a female voice and I turned. I was confronted by hordes of transgenics, mostly however humanoid ones.

"Uh… Blaze," Max said slowly. "These are Heresy, she's 419." I smiled. Two of my beloved Zack's unit in one day. Technically three since Alec looked like and had the same DNA as 493. "This is Logan. He's the one who tracked you down." He held his hand out and I jumped back instinctively at the virus that coursed through his veins. He looked hurt by my action but I quickly apologized.

"That virus you have. Is it contagious?" I asked carefully and he looked at me confused. "I… track disease," I told him slowly and he smiled, now that he knew it wasn't his fault I jumped.

"No. Just for Max," he told me sadly.

"Could… have you got papers on it?" I asked carefully. Confused Logan nodded and moved off. I heard a mechanical sound coming from it but decided not give any heed to it.

"She seems kinda strange, that Blaze chick," Heresy started.

"At least she's more polite than you," Alec said with a snort. Heresy glared at him and then she grinned. Alec leaned back stretching his arms out behind him which Heresy found unbelievably rude of him.

"She's got wolf in her, you know," Heresy told him trying to restrain herself. "That's why we're so tense."

"I ain't tense," Alec protests. Heresy snorted.

"Please. She walks past and your spine snaps straight. Trust me, I watch you," she told him. "And don't worry. Max and I have the same problem. She's a threat and that's a problem."

"So what are you saying? Kick her out?" Alec asked. "She's alone. Her whole unit is dead."

"She survived the 12 years. If she hides away for a while, while Max goes and slaughters White with her non-existent junk DNA, she'll be fine and dandy for the rest of her life," Heresy argued. Alec fell forward and leaned across the table. Heresy watching him licking his lips for moisture and cursed her constant heat.

"That's a bit…," Alec watching Heresy stretch as if she'd just woken up pushing her breasts out forward and turned her closed eyes aside. "Cruel," he muttered staring at her chest. He shook his head. Gotta stay calm, Alec! "Just because she's part canine, doesn't mean you have to set her free." Heresy gave a deep sigh while moving forward too. Her face was inches from Alec's.

"I guess you're right. I mean, they didn't kick your stray cat ass out now, did they?" she asked with a grin.

"We even kept you," Alec said and grinned right back at her. For a few moments the two of them sat across from each other staring into each others eyes with a ferocity that could have kill a White goon a piece and then they lunged at each other, lips locked and bodies entwined on the table.

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