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Two motorcycles pull inside the gates and the gates immediately shut. A man approaches as the riders were dismounting and removing their helmets. He stopped in front of them and they move to attention position. "At ease," He waited a moment for them to change positions. "Any luck?"
"No sir the lead didn't pan out, it was a dead end. Tallahassee was a dud," one of the riders said. They were clearly annoyed by this. A couple of men came up and p grabbed the bikes to take them to a garage.
"Don't worry we'll find them and bring them back. Now go shower and then return to your normal schedule. Understood?"
"Sir Yes Sir."
"Dismissed," The two saluted and then walked off. The one that spoke before seemed to be somewhere else.
"We'll get them Max. I know we will. We're better than them, better trained."
"What? Huh? Oh, I know Jace. There is no question that we will bring them back."
"Where were you just now?"
"Oh just reliving that night in '09."
FLASHBACK:
They had all decided to leave except for Jace. Max had tried to get her to come, but she didn't want to. She stayed behind. Max finally caught up with the rest of the group. Zack had told them to split up. Max disagreed. She didn't think it was a good idea at all. Nothing good could come of it. Ultimately though, Zack was their leader so she listened and did as he said. She was paired with Jondy. They had somehow made it over the fence. They started to cross the water outside the fence when a problem arose. The ice broke underneath Max and she fell in.
She swam back up to the ice. She looked through and what she saw made her blood boil. Jondy had left her. As partners they were supposed to help each other no matter what. Max started to hit the ice to try and break it. By that time the soldiers had ascended onto the ice. They heard a noise beneath their feet. They told the people on the snowmobiles and in the jeeps to turn them off. They looked down and saw Max trying to break through the ice. They grabbed a pole from the back of a jeep and smashed a hole in the ice near her. Max swam over and jumped out. There were men positioned around the hole to shoot her when she came out. They were surprised when they didn't need to.
Max had put her hands behind her head and laced her fingers. She then dropped to her knees. Lastly she lay completely down. They were trained to assess a situation and surrender if they knew that was the only possibility of making it out alive. Four men moved forward. Two held her legs and one pushed down on her midsection. The last cuffed her. They then lifted her and put her in the jeep.
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"Betrayal sucks."
"And that my sister is a lesson they need to learn."
"Oh yes we will teach those traitorous rats a lesson."
"Gods do you remember when we first had to face the Colonel?"
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The jeep pulled up to Colonel Lydecker at the same time two guards were dragging a young X5 to him. "Why did you bring her out here?"
"She didn't run with the rest of her Unit sir. She was apart of unit 1 and she alone chose to stay."
Lydecker turned to the soldier that had come out of the jeep. "Tell me; isn't this jeep supposed to be out hunting down escaped X5?" The driver gestured to the jeep and the back door opend exposing a soldier. He got out and dragged something out with him. "Tell me weren't you guys searching outside the fence?"
"Yes Sir."
"Then why the hell is she breathing and not a corpse. I thought my instructions about termination once outside the fence were clear."
"Yes Sir, however 452 is an interesting case. We found her trapped underneath the ice of that pond a mile outside the fence. We broke the ice so she could get out and we planned on shooting her the moment she came out, but then she surrendered. She got in to surrender position and didn't fight us at all when we cuffed her."
"Interesting," He turned to Max. "452 do you plan on trying to join your Unit members?"
"No Sir, they deserted from their duties. They are traitors and rats. They are nothing to me."
"Very good." He turned to his soldiers. Take them and put them in Psy-ops. Tell the doctors not to do anything until I get there. The soldiers nodded and Jace and Max were led away.
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"Yeah, I thought for sure I was going to be shot on the spot."
"I thought you were too. I was really surprised when he let us keep our identities."
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Lydecker was talking to the Psy-ops doctor. "Am I clear?" The doctor nodded. "Okay so just so we are absolutely clear. These two are to be reindoctrinated. They are to be shown that their old Unit are traitors like everyone else. However they are not to lose their individual identities they created. They are to remember exactly who they are. 494 and 522 as well, though the rest of their Unit are to lose the identities they created. I have something planned for these four. It is key that my instructions are followed exactly. This needs to work out flawlessly.
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Once they reached the barracks they went in to the female showers. "I wonder how Alec and Biggs are doing anyway."
"Oh I know it's been so long. We've been gone for awhile. Stupid dead ends."
"Relax Max we'll find them." Max nods and the two finished getting ready to train. As soon as they were ready they left and headed for the training grounds. They started searching for the other two members of their squad as soon as they got there. They found them doing crunches.
Max smirked and yelled over to them, "You two do know that no matter how hard you try Jace and I will always be more toned right?" The guys raise their heads to see who was talking. They grinned when they realized it was Max.
"How was the mission Maxie?" Alec asked as he stood up. Jace sent Alec a glare.
"A dead end once again." Biggs laughed as he realized that Alec just put Max back in to a pissy mood.
He decided to save Alec the pain of dealing with Jace, "Cheer up Maxie. We train on the bikes in a half hour."
"Really? I can't wait to ride my baby again!"
"What is ti with you and that bike Maxie? I mean it isn't even one of the best models, it's a ninja," Alec inquired. Jace and Biggs braced themselves for the tirade that was sure to come.
"It's an extension of my soul."
"I bet it is," Alec quipped. The two continued to banter as the group made their way to the bikes.
Lydecker watched this special squad of his interact. His initial battle with the committee paid off.
FLASHBACK
"Colonel, tell me this is a joke."
"I can't do that sir."
"What exactly are you attempting here?"
"To create the ultimate squad of X5 transgenics."
"How when they have a sense of being an individual?"
"Well, I believe that if they are left with this sense and trained with it in mind then it will create a superior soldier."
"Are you sure of this?"
"Fairly certain sir, before they escaped that Unit was above the rest. They will also be my personal project so if anything goes wrong I can terminate the project immediately."
"I want monthly updates until further notice."
"Yes Sir."
"Dismissed."
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Yes, it paid off indeed. Not only were they a good squad, but they were indeed the best. They had the highest success rate out of the entire project. Not to mention he has not had a single discipline issue with them since that day in '09. That was both the best and worst day for the facility he thought as he watched them ride off. Just then an office worker handed him a report. He opened the report and sighed. Time to get back to business.
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