A/N: Here we go, the not-so-long awaited to With All My Might! lol.
Hopefully this'll live up to whatever expectations yous all had. I wanna
thank all my loyal reviewers who are reading this now; I can't wait to hear
your comments again!
We're not going through any big time warp here, the story starts as Max,
Lex, and Jondy are arriving in Seattle, so only about a week has gone by
since the end of With All My Might.
And to any newcomers to my fics- as I said in my summary, you should
probably read With All My Might before reading this fic. I won't be
explaining where any new characters came from (such as Lex and Kayla) and
there were some major events in the formerly mentioned story you need to be
acquainted with before this fic can be understood.
The rating is approximate, some chapters will be more like PG, some might
turn out to be more R-ish.
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Disclaimer: If these were actually mine, do you think Dark Angel would have been cancelled? No. So their not mine. Don't sue me. I have $5.85 cents to my name, so is it really even worth it? ________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 1: Fists of Fury
Salem, Oregon Saint Andrews Academy
"Dead?" The high priest of the breeding cult clenched his fist as he was informed of White's death.
"His body is being transported here from Niagara Falls, where it was found shot several times in the chest," a priestess reiterated to him.
"What was he doing there?"
"At first the conclave thought he might have been looking for his son again, but then these were found," she said, dropping a manila folder on the desk in front of her.
As the priest opened it, a look of confusion crossed his face, "What could White have wanted with a teenager?" He asked, seeing the photo of Lex.
"Keep reading. From what we can make out, that girl is the offspring of 452. He was looking for the transgenic again."
"452 was supposed to have disappeared years ago, White was ordered to stop searching for her since she no longer posed a threat to us."
"We think there's more, something he knew that we didn't," the priestess alluded.
"Like what?" this peaked the interest of the priest.
"We don't know. A few of the documents seem incomplete, and the team White worked with didn't know exactly why he wanted 452 dead so badly."
"Did you find out who killed White?"
"We have every reason to believe it was 452."
"Find her," the priest ordered. "The girl, too. And I want them alive."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"So what are these things for again?" Jondy smirked, looking at the different cards in her hand.
"The first one is a checkpoint pass, we need that to get through the checkpoints leading up to Seattle. The other is a sector pass, you need that that to go between sectors in the city," Max explained again.
"What's the point of that?" Lex took on Jondy's attitude.
"Apparently it makes it easier to catch people or something," Max rolled her eyes, thinking back to how easy it was to sneak past the sector police.
"So when do we get to run into all your old boyfriends?" Jondy laughed.
"If I have my way, never," Max pulled out her checkpoint pass.
"Where we going first?" Lex wondered aloud.
"Ooo, I wanna see Logan's penthouse!" Jondy squealed.
Ignoring Jondy, Max turned to Lex, "First we're going to Logan's to drop off our stuff, after that, I'm not sure."
"Well, the sooner we get there, the sooner we'll figure it out," Jondy gunned her engine, getting impatient, and took off for the checkpoint ahead on the road.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Seattle, Washington
"What time's my boo gettin' here?" Original Cindy walked into Logan's kitchen.
"Nice to see you, too, Cindy," Logan laughed at her excitement. "I don't know. Max called last night saying that they'd get here sometime today."
"Well Original Cindy's right quick runnin' outta patience," she complained. "And I wanna meet baby boo."
"I'd hardly call her 'baby boo'," Logan laughed.
"Well she's gotta have some kinda nickname. And just what are you fussin' with on the computer again?"
"Oh, did I tell you that Max's sister is coming out here with them?"
"No, you did not," Cindy crossed her arms. "So you gonna spill or does Original Cindy hafta put the smack down on yo' ass?" she snapped when Logan didn't give any explanation.
"Right, sorry. Max's sister Jondy is coming here with them. They hooked up in Chicago about two months after Max left and Lex didn't want to leave without her," Logan answered.
"That still doesn't explain why you're fussin' over the computer."
"Well, Jondy's not going to live here. And finding a decent apartment in Seattle isn't exactly easy."
"Well, you can play knight-in-shining-armor, Original Cindy sees food with her name on it," Cindy smirked.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Got urban decay?" Lex grimaced as she looked around sector five from the checkpoint.
"Hey, I used to live in this sector," Max stuck her tongue out in mock defense.
"I have never felt more sorry for you," Jondy laughed at Max.
"Are you two done yet?" Max rolled her eyes.
"No, we could keep going," Jondy nudged Lex.
"You do that. I'll meet you Logan's," Max gunned her engine and moved up in the line.
"Wait, we don't know sector he lives in!" Lex called.
"Exactly," Max shouted over her shoulder.
Jondy smirked at Max's back as she and Lex gunned their engines and followed Max through the sector checkpoint.
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Manhattan, New York
"Hello?" Otto picked up the phone in his office.
"Otto Velasquez?" he heard a woman's voice ask.
"Who's asking?"
"I knew Ames White. You worked for him," the woman returned.
"Who is this?" Otto was slightly freaked out by the phone call.
"You don't need to know that. I need to know where he kept his files on 452." The priestess pressed.
"How do you know about 452?" Otto's face paled a bit.
"I said I knew White. Now where would those files be located?" she was getting slightly agitated at Otto's hesitation.
"Agent White kept them in his office here. I don't know where exactly, he never told us," Otto was unsure how much to tell the woman.
"There, that's all I need to know," was the last thing he heard her say before she ended the call.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Now this is more like it," Jondy gaped as she looked up at Foggle Towers.
"Yup, right up there," Max pointed to the penthouse.
"No wonder you liked him," Lex laughed, pulling out her most angelic smile as Max shot her a death glare.
"Ok, who's scaling the outside with me? Max?" Jondy raised her eyebrows.
"Yeah, for old time's sake," Lex chimed in.
"Just try and keep up," Max challenged as she ran out towards the back of the building where nobody would see them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Amateurs," Max remarked with a smile as she dropped through the skylight.
Looking around, she smiled contently at how little had changed. The same paintings were still hanging on the walls, all the furniture was exactly where she remembered it to be, and she could hear the ever-present hum of Logan's computers filling her ears. Drawing upon her feline abilities, she listened in on the sound Logan talking.
"Leave some for the rest of us," she heard Logan laugh as his fingers clicked away at the keyboard.
Max crept closer to the office, confused, "He can't know I'm here; he could never hear me before," she tried to reason in her head.
"Oh please, like Original Cindy could eat that much."
Max couldn't contain the gleeful squeal that escaped her lips at hearing Cindy's voice after fifteen years, "Cindy!"
"Max?!" Cindy whirled around. "My god, I missed you so much!" As they looked at each for the first time in fifteen years, their eyes began to water simultaneously.
Logan emerged from his office to see the two women run towards each other.
"C'mon, you can't cry or you'll make me cry," Max hopelessly pleaded as she tightly hugged her best friend.
"Ok, you're gonna tell Original Cindy everything whether you like it or not, ya hear," Cindy demanded as they walked back towards the kitchen.
"Hey," Logan stopped them.
"Right," Max smiled as she walked over to him locked her lips with his. "Hey."
"Hey yourself," Logan smiled back. "Where are Lex and Jondy anyway?" He asked as he looked around the hallway.
"Oh they're outside trying to push each other off a ledge," Max explained casually. As Cindy shot her a 'come again' look, Max added, "They wanted to scale the outside of the building rather then using the elevator and they turned it into a race. When we got about halfway up, they started trying to push each other off the ledge they were on."
"Why do I get the feeling that race was all Jondy's idea," Logan laughed and shook his head.
"Cuz it was," Max winked.
"You talking about me behind my back?" Jondy feigned being offended as she and Lex came down through the skylight.
"Score! Look at this place!" Lex gushed as she surveyed the penthouse. "Do you realize how much we could get if we hocked all this crap?"
"I'll bet Max knows," Jondy teased, referring to the night Max and Logan met.
"Guess I'll handle the introductions," Logan piped. "Cindy, this is Jondy, Max's sister. Jondy, this is Original Cindy. And this," he pointed to Lex, "is mini-Max."
"Hey I ditched that nickname years ago. I'm just as tall as her," Lex stuck her tongue out.
"Sweet baby Jesus. Boo, she looks just like you. And acts just like you," Cindy could hardly believe her eyes and ears.
"You're the girl from one of the pictures," Lex remarked to herself than to Original Cindy.
"Come again?" Cindy asked.
"Oh, just this shoebox Mom had with stuff from when she lived here. There was a picture of you and her in it; I just always wondered who you were, that's all," Lex explained.
"Who wants continue this in where there's food?" Jondy followed her nose into the kitchen.
"Me!" Lex took off behind her.
"Damn, it's unreal hearing a teenager call you Mom," Cindy shook her head at Max as Lex and Jondy dashed off.
"I know. But it's all good, this mom thing isn't so bad," Max smiled.
"Well, I got a niece I gotta go learn everything about," Cindy put her arm around Max's shoulders and led her towards the kitchen. "Logan, you go back to your computers, this is girl time," she teased.
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Olympia, Washington
"Hello?" Senator McKinley answered the phone in his office.
"Fe'nos tol," came the voice of the priestess.
"Fe'nos tol," McKinley's own tone of voice changed.
"We may have a situation concerning one of the transgenics again, 452."
"452? I thought she was done with years ago," McKinley readjusted his glasses.
"She's wanted by the conclave for the murder of Ames White," the priestess informed him.
McKinley could hardly believe what he was hearing, "What? Why does this involve me?"
"452 was always in Seattle. She left fifteen years ago but now we think we know why. There was a photo of a girl in White's file who we believe is 452's offspring."
"And what can I do about it?" McKinley asked.
" We think she may have ran back to Seattle. Find her." ________________________________________________________________________
A/N: Ok- good start, sucky start? Yes, I'm still gonna beg for reviews. So show the wonderful little purple button some love. Because if something sucks, and you don't point it out to me, well then it's just gonna keep sucking. But if you tell be, I can make it good. Ok, that's enough begging for one author's note. The next chapter should be up in a week. unless you don't you-know-what. and I didn't say the r-word so that didn't count as more begging.
Disclaimer: If these were actually mine, do you think Dark Angel would have been cancelled? No. So their not mine. Don't sue me. I have $5.85 cents to my name, so is it really even worth it? ________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 1: Fists of Fury
Salem, Oregon Saint Andrews Academy
"Dead?" The high priest of the breeding cult clenched his fist as he was informed of White's death.
"His body is being transported here from Niagara Falls, where it was found shot several times in the chest," a priestess reiterated to him.
"What was he doing there?"
"At first the conclave thought he might have been looking for his son again, but then these were found," she said, dropping a manila folder on the desk in front of her.
As the priest opened it, a look of confusion crossed his face, "What could White have wanted with a teenager?" He asked, seeing the photo of Lex.
"Keep reading. From what we can make out, that girl is the offspring of 452. He was looking for the transgenic again."
"452 was supposed to have disappeared years ago, White was ordered to stop searching for her since she no longer posed a threat to us."
"We think there's more, something he knew that we didn't," the priestess alluded.
"Like what?" this peaked the interest of the priest.
"We don't know. A few of the documents seem incomplete, and the team White worked with didn't know exactly why he wanted 452 dead so badly."
"Did you find out who killed White?"
"We have every reason to believe it was 452."
"Find her," the priest ordered. "The girl, too. And I want them alive."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"So what are these things for again?" Jondy smirked, looking at the different cards in her hand.
"The first one is a checkpoint pass, we need that to get through the checkpoints leading up to Seattle. The other is a sector pass, you need that that to go between sectors in the city," Max explained again.
"What's the point of that?" Lex took on Jondy's attitude.
"Apparently it makes it easier to catch people or something," Max rolled her eyes, thinking back to how easy it was to sneak past the sector police.
"So when do we get to run into all your old boyfriends?" Jondy laughed.
"If I have my way, never," Max pulled out her checkpoint pass.
"Where we going first?" Lex wondered aloud.
"Ooo, I wanna see Logan's penthouse!" Jondy squealed.
Ignoring Jondy, Max turned to Lex, "First we're going to Logan's to drop off our stuff, after that, I'm not sure."
"Well, the sooner we get there, the sooner we'll figure it out," Jondy gunned her engine, getting impatient, and took off for the checkpoint ahead on the road.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Seattle, Washington
"What time's my boo gettin' here?" Original Cindy walked into Logan's kitchen.
"Nice to see you, too, Cindy," Logan laughed at her excitement. "I don't know. Max called last night saying that they'd get here sometime today."
"Well Original Cindy's right quick runnin' outta patience," she complained. "And I wanna meet baby boo."
"I'd hardly call her 'baby boo'," Logan laughed.
"Well she's gotta have some kinda nickname. And just what are you fussin' with on the computer again?"
"Oh, did I tell you that Max's sister is coming out here with them?"
"No, you did not," Cindy crossed her arms. "So you gonna spill or does Original Cindy hafta put the smack down on yo' ass?" she snapped when Logan didn't give any explanation.
"Right, sorry. Max's sister Jondy is coming here with them. They hooked up in Chicago about two months after Max left and Lex didn't want to leave without her," Logan answered.
"That still doesn't explain why you're fussin' over the computer."
"Well, Jondy's not going to live here. And finding a decent apartment in Seattle isn't exactly easy."
"Well, you can play knight-in-shining-armor, Original Cindy sees food with her name on it," Cindy smirked.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Got urban decay?" Lex grimaced as she looked around sector five from the checkpoint.
"Hey, I used to live in this sector," Max stuck her tongue out in mock defense.
"I have never felt more sorry for you," Jondy laughed at Max.
"Are you two done yet?" Max rolled her eyes.
"No, we could keep going," Jondy nudged Lex.
"You do that. I'll meet you Logan's," Max gunned her engine and moved up in the line.
"Wait, we don't know sector he lives in!" Lex called.
"Exactly," Max shouted over her shoulder.
Jondy smirked at Max's back as she and Lex gunned their engines and followed Max through the sector checkpoint.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Manhattan, New York
"Hello?" Otto picked up the phone in his office.
"Otto Velasquez?" he heard a woman's voice ask.
"Who's asking?"
"I knew Ames White. You worked for him," the woman returned.
"Who is this?" Otto was slightly freaked out by the phone call.
"You don't need to know that. I need to know where he kept his files on 452." The priestess pressed.
"How do you know about 452?" Otto's face paled a bit.
"I said I knew White. Now where would those files be located?" she was getting slightly agitated at Otto's hesitation.
"Agent White kept them in his office here. I don't know where exactly, he never told us," Otto was unsure how much to tell the woman.
"There, that's all I need to know," was the last thing he heard her say before she ended the call.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Now this is more like it," Jondy gaped as she looked up at Foggle Towers.
"Yup, right up there," Max pointed to the penthouse.
"No wonder you liked him," Lex laughed, pulling out her most angelic smile as Max shot her a death glare.
"Ok, who's scaling the outside with me? Max?" Jondy raised her eyebrows.
"Yeah, for old time's sake," Lex chimed in.
"Just try and keep up," Max challenged as she ran out towards the back of the building where nobody would see them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Amateurs," Max remarked with a smile as she dropped through the skylight.
Looking around, she smiled contently at how little had changed. The same paintings were still hanging on the walls, all the furniture was exactly where she remembered it to be, and she could hear the ever-present hum of Logan's computers filling her ears. Drawing upon her feline abilities, she listened in on the sound Logan talking.
"Leave some for the rest of us," she heard Logan laugh as his fingers clicked away at the keyboard.
Max crept closer to the office, confused, "He can't know I'm here; he could never hear me before," she tried to reason in her head.
"Oh please, like Original Cindy could eat that much."
Max couldn't contain the gleeful squeal that escaped her lips at hearing Cindy's voice after fifteen years, "Cindy!"
"Max?!" Cindy whirled around. "My god, I missed you so much!" As they looked at each for the first time in fifteen years, their eyes began to water simultaneously.
Logan emerged from his office to see the two women run towards each other.
"C'mon, you can't cry or you'll make me cry," Max hopelessly pleaded as she tightly hugged her best friend.
"Ok, you're gonna tell Original Cindy everything whether you like it or not, ya hear," Cindy demanded as they walked back towards the kitchen.
"Hey," Logan stopped them.
"Right," Max smiled as she walked over to him locked her lips with his. "Hey."
"Hey yourself," Logan smiled back. "Where are Lex and Jondy anyway?" He asked as he looked around the hallway.
"Oh they're outside trying to push each other off a ledge," Max explained casually. As Cindy shot her a 'come again' look, Max added, "They wanted to scale the outside of the building rather then using the elevator and they turned it into a race. When we got about halfway up, they started trying to push each other off the ledge they were on."
"Why do I get the feeling that race was all Jondy's idea," Logan laughed and shook his head.
"Cuz it was," Max winked.
"You talking about me behind my back?" Jondy feigned being offended as she and Lex came down through the skylight.
"Score! Look at this place!" Lex gushed as she surveyed the penthouse. "Do you realize how much we could get if we hocked all this crap?"
"I'll bet Max knows," Jondy teased, referring to the night Max and Logan met.
"Guess I'll handle the introductions," Logan piped. "Cindy, this is Jondy, Max's sister. Jondy, this is Original Cindy. And this," he pointed to Lex, "is mini-Max."
"Hey I ditched that nickname years ago. I'm just as tall as her," Lex stuck her tongue out.
"Sweet baby Jesus. Boo, she looks just like you. And acts just like you," Cindy could hardly believe her eyes and ears.
"You're the girl from one of the pictures," Lex remarked to herself than to Original Cindy.
"Come again?" Cindy asked.
"Oh, just this shoebox Mom had with stuff from when she lived here. There was a picture of you and her in it; I just always wondered who you were, that's all," Lex explained.
"Who wants continue this in where there's food?" Jondy followed her nose into the kitchen.
"Me!" Lex took off behind her.
"Damn, it's unreal hearing a teenager call you Mom," Cindy shook her head at Max as Lex and Jondy dashed off.
"I know. But it's all good, this mom thing isn't so bad," Max smiled.
"Well, I got a niece I gotta go learn everything about," Cindy put her arm around Max's shoulders and led her towards the kitchen. "Logan, you go back to your computers, this is girl time," she teased.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Olympia, Washington
"Hello?" Senator McKinley answered the phone in his office.
"Fe'nos tol," came the voice of the priestess.
"Fe'nos tol," McKinley's own tone of voice changed.
"We may have a situation concerning one of the transgenics again, 452."
"452? I thought she was done with years ago," McKinley readjusted his glasses.
"She's wanted by the conclave for the murder of Ames White," the priestess informed him.
McKinley could hardly believe what he was hearing, "What? Why does this involve me?"
"452 was always in Seattle. She left fifteen years ago but now we think we know why. There was a photo of a girl in White's file who we believe is 452's offspring."
"And what can I do about it?" McKinley asked.
" We think she may have ran back to Seattle. Find her." ________________________________________________________________________
A/N: Ok- good start, sucky start? Yes, I'm still gonna beg for reviews. So show the wonderful little purple button some love. Because if something sucks, and you don't point it out to me, well then it's just gonna keep sucking. But if you tell be, I can make it good. Ok, that's enough begging for one author's note. The next chapter should be up in a week. unless you don't you-know-what. and I didn't say the r-word so that didn't count as more begging.