2009, Gillette Wyoming, Manticore secret base.

We had to escape there was no other way. We'd seen what happened to our brothers and sisters who started with the shakes. They had taken Jack away when he fell from those seizures. So there was no other choice, we were sick and tired and scared of Lydecker and we wanted out. Zack led the way we busted through one of the windows and out to the snow below. We had nothing but our gowns and we were barefooted. We split in twos. Zack motioning me and Ben one way so we ran to the next rendezvous point.

Ben and I reached it first; we crouched by a fallen tree and waited. Though the snow was cold at our feet and the wind was icy against our skin, I was happy. We were so close to freedom. Then I noticed the shakes in my hand. A slight vibration, Ben noticed straight away.

"Luna…" I looked at Ben and smiled.

"I'll be ok Ben; we just gotta get out of here." And with that he grabbed my shaking hand as if to stop them. Not long after the others have all arrived. So far we'd lost no one. We all wait patiently for Zack's command. He was the unit leader after all and I his second. As he signals for Max and Jondy to go Max shakes her head. She didn't want to split nor did I, but it was best, better chance of escape and evading capture. Zack motions for Ben and I to go and we go I spare one look back at my brother and sisters, before we disappear through the trees.

Our genetically altered bodies made us fast, super human fast. We zigzagged through the trees, but I could hear the snow mobiles and the hummers getting closer. The fence is within reach when a seizure takes me and I fall to the floor.

"Luna!" My entire body convulses on the snow covered ground and Ben drops besides me lifting me. "Come one, the fence is there, right there! The Blue Lady she'll protect us, help us over it."

"Ben go, go," Another convulsion grips me. "They'll catch us both. Get out of here. I'll buy you time." I panted as I stood with Ben's help.

"Luna we go together."

"No. If another seizure comes I'm done for. I won't take you with me." He grabbed my arm pulling me to the fence. "NO! Ben I'm giving you an order, go!"

"You aren't Zack,"

"No, but he isn't here, so I'm giving the order." I shoved him hard to the fence he looked hurt and I spared a small smile for him. "I'll find you Ben, I promise!"

I scrambled up a tree just in time for the first soldiers to reach us. They have stun guns aimed on Ben as he makes to jump the fence. I dropped down on them knocking them to the ground, quickly breaking both their necks, just like we'd been trained to do. I couldn't lead them to Ben and follow him now. I grabbed a stun gun and hid back in the tree and waited as the soldiers exited the newly arrived hummer.

"They took out two of our guys, confirmed, both dead." One of the soldiers spoke into his comms. I couldn't quite hear the response. "OK men we move out, there's a gas station south west of here. They may have gone that way." The soldier shouted to his men. I had once chance of getting out of here. I descended quietly from the tree and crawled under the hummer and held on tightly.

For over an hour I clung to the under carriage of the hummer as the soldiers checked out the gas station. When I heard the door close and the engine start on the hummer, I dropped and rolled quickly under the parked car they had parked next to. I was so very cold. But I couldn't find warmth yet. Soon the car I was under was on the move. No doubt Manticore would have set up containment road blocks. I heard it before the car stopped as it slowly came to a stop I let go hitting the road and earning a road rash. I rolled four times and looked up seeing the road block. I crawled fast and in moments I was in the tree line and on my feet. I couldn't stop I had to keep running. Always running Manticore would never stop looking for us.

I finally found a town, I was tired and hungry, and my feet were cut and swollen. I stuck to the shadows hoping I could find a small shelter. That's when I saw her. Our Lady, Our Blue Lady. Beautiful as she had been in that photo Ben always carried. I was drawn to her, perhaps even Ben was here. He would have not been able to stop himself. She was a life size statue. I walked to her and stood at her feet looking up. I no longer felt afraid. A smile graced my face and warmth flooded over me with an orange glow which I realised was in fact the door to the building opening.

"Oh my, you poor thing." I froze, stood in the light from the door was an elderly woman. I backed up fast and tripped over my sore and swollen feet. "You poor dear, its ok I won't hurt you. Come inside. It's cold and you must be in pain." I couldn't feel my feet and even if I could the pain would not have bothered me. This woman seemed sincere, what could she do to me? I stood gingerly and stepped towards her. She held out her hand which I slowly took and went inside with her.

2019, present day, Seattle.

Almost ten years ago I ran away from Manticore and for ten long years I have searched for my brothers and sisters. The only one I've found so far is Zack, but only as he was looking for me to. He had found most of the others. He didn't say so, but I knew he had. I knew how to cover my tracks better than almost anyone so I must have been one of the last he found, but when I asked if he'd found Ben, I knew he was telling me the truth when he said no. So here I was in Seattle starting a new search to find him, to find Ben. First step, plan escape routes should Manticore and Lydecker locate me, second step get a job to feed me, third step find someone that can help me in my search for Ben. Thing is step two was going to be hard in post pulse America. Terrorists had hit us with an electromagnetic pulse eighty miles up and well that just ruined everything. No computers, no data, no nothing so America went from the biggest superpower in the world to a joke in minutes. So now we were in a depression. Boo-hoo, life goes on just ain't all that easy for some anymore.

So I found myself at this messenger service place called Jam Pony. They seemed real busy, lots of parcels, not that many staff; maybe it was going to be easier than I thought.

"Excuse me Sir." I flashed a smile at the guy behind the dispatch counter.

"What you want delivering, where to and when do you want it to arrive?" The guy was tall, maybe thirty, glasses with a bored and fed up look on his face.

"Ah no Sir, I wondered if you had any positions going. I'm seeking employment sir." He peered down at me over his glasses smiling.

"Sir huh, ok fill in this form and be back here tomorrow, you'll need a bike too." I smiled.

"That mean I got the job Sir?" He smirked; guess he liked being called Sir.

"Yes it does. Now go these parcels ain't going to deliver themselves. Bip bip bip." He shooed me off throwing a parcel to a messenger. That could get annoying, though I wouldn't be around for long.