It's only the beginning
This is the first fan-fic that I have ever posted, so be gentle with me.
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It had been only a month since the botched attempt at destroying Mantacore, and Donald Liedecker hadn't had a drink since the night he saw Max die in Logan Cale's arms.
' Oh Max, I should have seen that you and your siblings weren't meant to be killers, I gave you and the other X-5's the one thing that I had lost over my years in the military, I gave you souls.' He thought to himself, as he stared at the ceiling above his bed.
Over the past month Logan had learned to put up with Liedecker, h*ll he had the man staying in his guest room for heaven sakes.
It had been strange learning to trust this man that had tracked and slowly captured Max's siblings, the one man that had frightened her, until those last few days, when Renfro had put a price on his head as well as all of the X-5's still on the run.
Jondy had shown up almost as soon as they had gotten back to his penthouse, she had some how known that Max was gone, and she had taken Syl and Krit with her when she had left a few days ago, they were planning to connect with Tinga's husband and little boy in Mexico, they were going to send word of Jondy's baby when it came.
It had been hard to tell Original Cindy, Herbal, and Sketchy about Max, but as usual, Bling had been there to help through that.
Then there was Liedecker, he had started his own crusade against Mantacore, giving Logan all of the information he had on the facility and most importantly giving him the info, '411' as Original Cindy put it, on Renfro.
Renfro, or Madame X, just seemed to appear out of nowhere, and took over Mantacore when the board decided that Liedecker was too personally involved with the X-5s, there was no information on her from before the Pulse, it seemed she was one of those that had taken advantage of it to start a new life for herself.
Liedecker had given Logan the codes to tap into the surveillance system at Mantacore, and Renfro, or who ever was in charge out there, hadn't noticed that all of the Video feeds were being monitored, of course that wasn't entirely true, Logan hadn't been able to even look at any of it since Max had died, but his computer was storing anything on the X-5's, mostly stuff on Brin and Zach.
Mantacore was once again working like a well oiled machine, now that they had Max back, and Renfro figured that through Max they could get information on the other X-5's , and maybe even Liedecker and Eyes Only, who ever he or she was.
"How is our little Max today?" Renfro asked Brin, as the younger woman came into her office.
"She has resisted all forms of interrogation, even the drugs don't seem to be working." Brin reported, as she stood at attention.
"Show her again what her precious Zach did for her, then show her the surgery that saved her life, then tell her we can take it all back as quickly as we gave it to her." said Renfro, malice in her voice.
"I have already taken the liberty of doing that Ma'am, it had no effect on X5-975."
"Interesting, if she hasn't broken in a few days, terminate her."
"Yes Ma'am." said Brin.
"Dismissed solder." said Renfro, and Brin turned on her heal and left the office, "I will find you Liedecker and this Eye's only person who warned the others, and you will pay for going against me." she said, as she looked at the monitor, and smiled , in the corner where it should have said Max, it said Zach.
Renfro had figured that some how Liedecker had tapped into the surveillance system, but he couldn't watch all of the screens all of the time, so she had designated Max as Zach, so that unless he happened to see Brin with Max he wouldn't even know she was alive.
"Liedecker, we need to talk." said Logan, as he stood outside the door to his guest room.
"What do you want Cale?" Liedecker asked through the closed door.
"I need to look at surveillance footage from this past month, and I could use another set of eyes to help, that and the fact that you might pick-up on some thing I'd miss, being a civilian." said Logan.
"I'll be there in a few minutes." said Liedecker, as he threw some cold water on his face.
Liedecker had hardly been out of that room since they had gotten back, and he hadn't left the penthouse in the whole month since he had lost his most precious 'kids' back to Mantacore, lost them to her, Original had started calling her The She Demon.
It amazed 'Decker that Max had so many people like Logan and Cindy, who if they had to, willing to put their lives on the line for her, and her siblings. He had never seen loyalty like it in most of the civilian population, but it made him happy to know that 'his' little Maxie had had that in her life after the escape.
Cindy and Logan had filled him in on Max's early life, after the escape, but before the Pulse. They had told him about the foster home where she had been when the Pulse had occurred, the abuse she had had to suffer through, and the seizures that would wrack her body if she didn't have the triptaphan that her body didn't produce on it's own.
His heart ached, knowing that Max and the others had been through so much just to be free, free of Mantacore, free of him.
End of part one.
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