**Okay, in this story Max still lives with OC, Alec still lives in his apartment and… that's about it**
Ren
"Sector pass?" the guard asked dully. Ren looked at him confusedly.
"I don't have one." She said innocently, widening her eyes for effect. The guard smirked a little.
"Then you're not getting through baby" She momentarily thought about snapping his neck, but decided she didn't really want to kill anyone if she didn't have to. She moved forward like a cat slinking through the grass toward its prey.
"I could make it worth your while" she purred. He was surprised by her offer and responded quickly by moving closer to her. She glanced at his gun, which was hanging loosely in his hands. In one swift, swooping motion Ren grabbed the gun and aimed it at him. His eyes widened as his hand moved to the radio on his vest.
"Ah ah! I wouldn't do that if I were you" Ren suggested firmly and he stopped. She raised the gun as if she were going to shoot him, but instead did a roundhouse kick to his head and watched as the man fell with a thud to the ground, unconscious. She dragged his limp body behind a nearby dumpster, took his wallet and tossed his gun in the garbage. Ren peered out from behind the dumpster making sure no one saw her. Satisfied that no one would come around for a while she easily passed through the gate and ran off into the darkness in a blur.
**
Ren entered the city at dawn, warily walking along the sidewalk, sidestepping people sleeping along the buildings and piles of garbage littering the streets.
"So this is Seattle," she thought, "At least it's not Manticore" she muttered as she moved aside to allow a cop get by. Suddenly she felt a pair of strong arms grab her around the waist. Her assailant dragged her into the alley she had been in front of and behind a row of rusted dumpsters. Her reaction once she had assessed the situation was to kick her attackers' shins and smash her head backwards, into the mans face. The large muscular arms released her and she turned to see a big bald man holding his very bloody nose.
"Oops, my bad" she commented sarcastically. She turned to leave, but was surprised to see four other men of the same size, if not bigger emerging from behind a dumpster. Ren backed up cautiously and made a break for the other end of the alley, blocked off by a ten-foot chain link fence. As she ran, the man who she'd hit before stuck his leg out, tripping her and sending her flying into a cluster of metal garbage cans. 'Ow' Ren thought as the shadows of five pissed off men covered her.
"Crap".
**
"I was not." Alec defended himself. Max rolled her eyes, as the two transgenics walked down the street on their way to work arguing.
"Don't even try to tell me you weren't checking that girl out! Alec, she was probably not even sixteen!"
"No she was older than that… wasn't she?" Max shook her head. Alex shrugged his shoulders, "oh well, I was just lookin' anyways, no harm done."
*CRASH!!*
"What the hell was that?" Alec wondered aloud, looking in the direction of the noise. Max shook her head, not knowing.
"Let's check it out" she said and they crossed the street cautiously entering the alley the noise had originated from. They crouched behind some garbage cans and saw a girl with shoulder length blond hair, who looked about fifteen, getting up off the ground; five big, burly men menacingly encircling her.
"Come on sweetie, we just wanna play a bit" one of the men leered, his eyes roaming on the girl where they shouldn't be.
The girl made a face showing her disgust and, surprising both Max and Alec, she charged at the closest man, punching him in the gut and ramming his head into her knee. Both max and Alec raised their eyebrows.
"Transgenic?" Alec more stated then asked.
"Prob'ly" Max said, "We should help her out". With a nod from Alec, they sprinted out from their hiding place and took down a man each sending them into painful darkness. They 'disabled' the remaining men, earning a bewildered look from the girl standing in front of them.
**
"Whoa! What the-?" Ren's eyes widened and her jaw dropped as two people came into the alley knocking out two men. The woman who had long black hair crashed a mans head into the wall while the man who was tall with light brown hair, took out the last man. Ren looked around at her attackers, scattered on the ground and then back up to the two people in front of her.
"Uh, thanks" she said, shifting uncomfortably under their stares.
TBC…