Thank you for all your encouragement! Here's chapter 2 only 1 more left for 'freak nation' before I begin 'season 3'. Give me your thoughts opinions, good or bad!
Freak nation ch. 2
"Don't blow my cover." Alec manages to say before they are safe, well as safe as it can be right now, entering Jam Pony. Joshua closes the sliding gated door to Jam Pony effectively preventing the police from coming in. Original Cindy, Sketchy, Cece and the rest of the Jam Pony employees watch on as the situation erupts before them.
Normal gets an eye full of Mole looking prideful as ever at the fear he emanates from within. While Joshua tries to look menacing as well in front of Normal only to fail at it when he sees OC trying to figure out what's going on. Knowing that the situation is getting out of control and already hating the freaks, Normal takes action while Alec, Mole and the rest head towards the back for a possible escape route. Unfortunately the cops already have it blocked.
In an attempt to get everyone back in and knowing there's a pregnant X5 with them has everyone behind him back in. Unfortunately this causes Alec to take the first of two shots fired into his left shoulder. Back door shut they all come round the front again only to be confronted with a freaked out Normal holding a gun at them.
Alec seeing that he's to scared to probably fire right figures out his odds when Normal yells out, "Hold it right there freak show!" Alec seeing as how Normal has probably never fired that gun before tries to talk him down first but before he can get a word out Normal continues on. "You're bleeding."
As Normal looks on trying to keep all of them in his sights he struggles with the concept of actually shooting the freaks in his building. Plus there's the obvious pregnant girl to consider.
Umm duhh! Alec thinks. And this isn't Saturday morning blood either, shit stings.
"Yeah bullets'll do that to you." Alec remarks gauging for the amount of blood pouring out. As Mole turns to try and figure out how many cops are now out there Normal tells Alec that he's safe. Alec, not one for letting down people who count on him especially if their being hunted down for just EXISTING, says, "No." Running up at only half speed he jerks the gun out of Normal's hand by twisting it backwards.
Once the gun is safely in Alec's hand Mole once again aims his own gun at Normal. "I'm safe now." Alec replies signaling Mole to ease down the gun. Mole obeys him seeing no real threat in the ordinary humans and proceeds to check out the cops out back through a window behind them.
Seeing a stray employee making a break for it Alec tells everyone that their stuck there and Cece comes out with a hit to the employee's face before adding, "No one moves." Alec had her call base to tell them that their in trouble while Normal looks at his once prized Golden boy who he just earlier today gave a birthday cake to.
Alec tells the Dalton kid to keep an eye on the street from the up stairs while Mole takes the back and Joshua to take the front. "My Golden Boys a mutant." Normal says astonished. "We prefer genetically empowered." Alec replies cockily.
Normal angry at himself for liking this transgenic so much, for liking what the news and the public and even the reverend Terry Caldwell called abominations of life. "Take me Jesus." Hoping he can convince himself that it'll be okay…or that nobody will know how fond he grew of Alec. "Careful what you wish for." Mole replied to him. The scaly guy already didn't like him and the feeling was overly mutual.
While a hover drone zooms by catching the footage for the folks at home Dalton races upstairs to keep an eye on the street as he was asked to do after he clears it of anyone being up there. During this a detective gets on the loud speaker and tells them to give up and throw their weapons out trying to get them to surrender and it was not going to happen. Especially when he says 'you'll be treated fairly under the law', what a load of crap.
Even if he believes it Alec, Mole and the rest inside know the truth of what would really happen if they gave up, and neither of them wanted to think of what would happen if they did that. Dalton watched as the police came up to the building one by one getting their guns set up creating a perimeter.
Max standing by on a rooftop across from the scene watches it for a few moments taking in the amount of cops, cop cars and firearms, trying to figure out if it was possible to get everyone out safely and unharmed. Seeing the hover drone pass by she takes her shot and jumps.
Struggling at first to control it she wiggles it around a bit before getting it under her control. She maintained the direction with her feet while she rides it over the police court, surprising the officers she crossed over and even nailing the closest cop's car lights on top of the car before she braced herself for crashing through the window of Jam Pony.
She scared some of the employees with the crash but once they saw it was her they relaxed, till they realized she was there to help the transgenics.
"Hey who ordered a pizza?" Her sarcastic remark did little to invite her friends around and just reminded her of how bad it was getting. With the cops mobilizing outside Cece takes Moles watch from the inside while Max and Joshua looked out through the windows. She decided to go try and maintain some amount of order so she went to go see what the situation was like with everyone else.
Upon spotting Alec and his wounded shoulder she felt a pang of anger at the ass that shot him, then squished it down once she came up to him. "What's that?" already knowing but need to know it wasn't bad would make her feel better. "It's a hole in my body made by a bullet." Hearing his sarcasm told her he'd be fine. The Dalton kid had patched him up temporarily.
It would work for a little while what wouldn't work was the crappy situation they were all in. "Been there done that…check the news." She indicates to him not letting him see the relief that only a transgenic would be able to spot, that the wound is minor. Once she sees that Gem the pregnant girl is doing fine she does notice that the girl is getting close and all the extra 'excitement' if you could call it that wasn't helpful.
OC was looking after her but there was only so much she could do and Mole was not helping. Walking around like he owned the place with the shot gun ready and willing to shot or to just scare if need be. Combine that with his hatred of most humans, mainly cause they wanted him and his kind dead, and you've got a trigger happy lizard on the scene.
"Turning into a damn pig farm out there." He states indicating the cops blocking them in outside. When Sky a fellow bike messenger and friend of Max's decides to use the rest room he gets scared off by Moles presence but Max's interference has him able to go. Seeing the interaction Sketchy takes pictures the last shot of the day, before Max takes the camera out of his hands. Mole not liking her interfering asks, "Who put you in charge?" "These people are not the enemy." She states.
"Don't be so sure." He replies. Max is taken back when she looks at the faces of her fellow co-workers and friends. Most of which are looking at her in a completely new way. She feels a wave of guilt over not telling anyone sooner, also over staying in the city to long when Zack told her before not to, and over not leaving for good a few weeks ago when she had the chance, but most of all for getting them into this jam.
Trying to rein in some amount of control and to show them that she was still their friend and co-worker she said, "Alright listen up people, I know things are really tense right now-" "Gee I wonder why." Max turns to the girl whom unbeknownst to her earlier that day Alec was flirting with. Although now it's fairly certain he won't be calling her.
Some of her co-workers can't even look at her which just hurts her that much more. Then Normal just has to try and say he knew from the start when Sketchy states that he obviously didn't.
Composing herself from the girl that smarted off at her she continues on, "But if you'll just sit tight and be patient me and mine will get out of here before you know it." However Normal doesn't care and proves it, "Well I got a hot flash for you girlfriend me and mine are getting out of here right now. Let's go people bip, bip, bip." Stand up Normal moves as Mole moves.
Max gets in the middle to stop Mole as Alec stops the bike messenger's from getting up before proceeding toward Joshua and cover the rear of the possible explosion. "Take your best shot frog boy." Normal raises his voice daring the lizard man. OC stands up having had it with Normal's attitude towards them all. "No bodies shottin at anybody so sit yo raggedy ass down."
Normal not liking that his establishments been taken over by mutant freaks finds himself in another pickle…How many of these freaks did I hire?
"Oh so not only are you one of sapho's daughters your one of them to." Thinking he's figured it out only to be proven wrong. "No but what I am, is a friend to Max, Alec, Cece and the rest of 'em. We walk out of here now and their toast." However Normal's prejudice against them now knows no limits. "Well I don't have a problem with that." "Well I do." She starts. She looks around as she says, "And I'm guessing so does anyone else here who is down with my girl. So how bout we take a moment, figure this bitch out so that no one else gets hurt?"
Normal seems to accept this response as he goes back to his previous seat. OC looks at Max who gives a silent thanks.
Back at Joshua's old place as Logan tries to work when he sees the news report of Max entering at the Jam Pony which is now being called the 'Siege at Jam Pony'. While the news reporter goes on he gets the exoskeleton prepped up. On his way out he calls Max, "Max I just heard what happened I'm on my-" He starts but she cuts him off.
"Logan now really isn't a good time we've got a lot going on right now and I need my lines clear so Dix and Luke can call in to help us." Startled that she cut him off first of all he can only manage to get out, "Max I want to help you-" "Then help by staying off the phone. We've got this one Logan." She replies. But before she hangs up he makes one last statement.
"He's helping you there to isn't he?" thrown by the question Max is temped to ask what he means but can't afford Dix or Luke not to get through so she cuts the conversation to an end finalizing it out. "Logan I need the line clear so please don't call again till I either call you or this whole ordeal is done." After that she hangs up.
Alec looks to her in assurance that she's fine. 'As fine I'll be right now'. He holds his post from across the room but still tells her it'll be ok. She's surprised how easy she can read Alec's eyes right now. They make her feel more reassured that it'll all be ok, she just hoped it would.
Logan perplexed by her abrupt end figures she will call within the hour to tell him she needed his help, not knowing she never would.
Dix and Luke ended up sending another X5 to help them out at the scene, keeping a close watch of the cops. They would keep in contact through him with a com-link while they'd talk to Max via her cell. Max made sure they have a plan of attack if anything were to happen; she didn't want to loose anybody today.
Whilst they were doing that White contacted the phalanx bitch who was training with her 'troops' to update her on where their target was. After the call ended and after he told her to be ready she proved it by ending the call and nailing Max's photo a good 11-12 times, all in the head.
While outside watching the protestors set up 'anti-transgenic' signs and telling the cops to get the freaks out of the city White was almost amused.
Idiots. He thought.
Bringing Otto with him he tried to take over the scene but Det. Clemente, as he revealed himself, wasn't leaving till everyone was out of there safely. "You aren't dealing with a bunch of thugged out punks who boost t.v.'s for a living-these are highly trained genetically engineered killing machines." White said trying to scare some sense into him. No chance, Clemente stood him ground (asking for his phone the whole time) as White made a call to have him removed.
Inside the tension rises as the JP employees watch the news of what's going on outside, listening to all the negativity about transgenics and seeing Joshua and Mole within their view isn't helping their point of view. Max tries to comfort Joshua but the attempt is in vain as she herself sees the looks he is gaining. Hear the JP phone go off she thinks to herself….bout damn time…
Picking it up she goes straight to the point. "Start talking." "Detective Ramon Clement of the Seattle PD and who is this?" Not one to giving out to much she settles with her designation. "Lets just keep things simple and you call me 452." A little perplexed he says, "Ok, 452.." before he can get much more out she rattles off what they, need, a ride for starters, and safe passage out of there.
He tries to get her to let a few out or at least let the ones out who need medical help but sticking to her guns she says, "Just the van we'll take care of our own." She didn't want to think about what would happen if those people got a hold of Gem…
"If I agree to your terms when do a get my hostages?" he asks.
She can't help but ask herself…when did they become his hostages? Wouldn't they be free after this mess?
Shaking the thought from her head she says, "Half when the van arrives half when we get to our destination." She knows she needs to cut this short Luke is calling. "Which would be where?" he asks.
Like I'm telling you, you'll have people ready to take us away.
"Its not far they'll be home for dinner." I hope…
She shuts the phone off to talk to Luke about a strategy that will work. They just need to make sure they've got things covered. Mole makes a comment about 'not letting them just drive off into the sunset, that they just want to see them dead'. Max shuts his voice out as she listens to Luke.
Around 2-3 hours later she again tries to numb out the sound of a 'church lady' basically saying there are an abomination to God, while Sketchy tries to ask for an interview. After getting a no, Mole walks by Gem while OC jokes that she hopes Mole is not the 'baby's daddy and Gem informs her that the baby's daddy wasn't a romantic and this is due because of the mandatory 'copulation'.
Max over hearing this remembers that Alec didn't do anything during their stint together and now wonders if maybe he had different orders, cause while he didn't force her he clearly could have. He was/is an alpha male, which she's seen and heard from around TC occupants. Before she has a chance to venture further into those thoughts the phone rings. Looks like out ride is here…
Picking it up she answers, "What do you got?" Apparently a headache along with the vehicle. Now its time to move out before someone gets even more hurt. Fleeting thoughts of Alec run through her head before she hangs up and yells, "It's on!" with the vehicle in place, Max calls up Dix and Luke for Intel from the outside while they talk to their outside man.
The X5 looks around at any point of entry he can see. Locating guys on the roof and the ones sticking their pieces out of the broken window pieces he informs Luke and Dix whom then inform Max. Putting them on pause she yells out, "Clemente I'm going to need the snipers on the roof and in the building pulled back or no deal."
Clemente not remembered putting snipers in the building looks back himself to see the guns sticking out and seeing Agent White still within the area. Having a gut feeling he pulls his men back still seeing the guns poking out now like a sore thumb through the broken window pieces. Once again he orders his team to pull back but the guns in the windows remain.
Confirming that all his men are back he goes to where Agent White is and tells him, "Get your men out if there Special Agent White, or I'll have my men do it for you. This is still my scene." White acting like his has no clue says, "The only men I have with me is right next to me." "Those are your men up there and we both know it now pull them back or I will." White continues to act like he has no clue.
"Sniper team search the building for other personnel within the building, repeat we have possible unauthorized personnel in the building remove them at once!" Clemente orders. Max focuses all of her hypersensitive hearing on the radio conversation between Clemente and the one he just had with White. Hypersensitive hearing really comes in handy you just really have to focus especially with all the garbage outside…
Talking over the phone line she informs Luke and Dix of White out in the area, they then inform the X5 of who to look for. Finding him, he keeps a watchful eye while slowly getting within hearing range for orders executed by White. "Team pull back until I say go in." the X5 relays the Intel to Dix and from Dix to Max.
Alec looks down to her from the metal gate he has propped open hearing the bits and pieces of what she has a direct line for, she explains, "White is out there with his men." Alec knowing puts him in the loop so he looks at the scene himself, while Joshua hears who is out there and growling a bit then he turns around. Once Clemente hears from his snipers that the building is clear he surmises that White pulled them out before any action could be dealt.
Looking back up and there's nothing. "452 the keys are in the vehicle, your ball!" the X5 informs them that the bus doors on the exposed side, not giving a lot of room for cover. Max does the one thing she really doesn't want to do…use the messengers as shields…
After notifying Clemente of the first group coming out, and home free the rest are to be taken on the bus with them.
"Be careful." She says as they leave, they were after all her co-workers. Rounding up the last ones she says, "Ok guys their not going to shoot at us, we got a kid and a pregnant girl, they don't know which ones are transgenic and which aren't." Mole speaks up however while grabbing Normal for cover. "Yeah well a couple of us they've got a pretty good idea."
Going towards the back OC grabs her arm, "Come on…they saw you boo flying right over they heads…I got you." OC swung Max's arm around her neck. Max can only thank her. "They don't know about me." Cece stated. "Then help me protect my girl." OC said. It was a statement not a question and Cece followed.
As Joshua used Sketchy as cover Max said, "Alright lets file in guys come on. Let's do this." "This is my cover story man." Sketchy says, though to Joshua or himself he doesn't know. After Alec lifts the gate up the rest of the way they slowly start to come out, then he makes his way behind Max trying to cover her without conveying it.
Slowly they make it outside, the X5 out there keeps his tabs on White never moving from his spot and only watching. Not liking it he looks around the scene for anything that could possibly make the situation any worse than what it is. Knowing he's been ordered to keep a low profile he calls Dix and Luke up saying something's not right but that he doesn't see anything.
Then he hears a faint noise in the back, undetectable to the human ear. He looks for it and finds the source; one of White's men is still active. The sound was his gun; all he needed was to pull the trigger. He immediately told Dix and Luke of this situation but without Max on her phone there was no way of knowing.
'One on one' he thought. He went for the man and started picking a fight hoping the action would deter any other gun men out there. It caused the crowd around him to fight to see what was going on. Max noticing this signaled for them to board the bus when a shot rang out and hit Cece in the arm, causing Mole to fire back, causing the sector police to start shooting at them.
Knowing they weren't getting to the bus anytime soon Max ordered them all back in and to shut the door. Thankful it was only a graze Cece said she was grateful she'd moved the whole foot to her right when Max gave the order to make them move back inside, else it'd be a different story for her. Max was just thankful there was no more innocent blood spilled.
However the 'excitement' was a heavy weight on Gem as she was struggling with her overdue pregnancy.
Max called Dix and Luke informing them of what happened, the X5 was glad as hell that he'd just got his barcode lasered off, otherwise he'd have a hell of trouble explaining why he picked a fight. His explanation, he quote was a 'tipsy trannie hater and saw a guy with a gun. He wanted to shot a trannie himself so he made a grab for the gun'.
The attempt had been purposefully crappy to show that he couldn't do it completely but hoping that the guy wouldn't shot a civil. He'd been lucky though afterwards the crowd yelled at him for ruining the main moment. Otherwise he'd gotten out with only a bruise and a scrap. Back inside with Max…
When Max patched Cece's up arm in the 'dispatch area', Alec followed them to see if she was ok. "How you holding up?" he asked. Cece looked between the 2 seeing they needed a moment said, "O.k., I'll get back to my post. Thanks for the patch up Max."
Max leaned on the wall taking in the last few hours…how the hell am I going to get us out of this? Alec sensing her need for comfort went up to her and put his arm around her, practically forcing her into a hug. Knowing that she needed to know that she's human too, despite what the protestors on the news say.
Max, despite herself accepts the hug and clutches onto him like a lifeline for a few minutes. "If you ever tell anyone I-" Max started, "Max just relax for a moment. You know I wouldn't say a word…though…maybe I should, just to give our 'boyfriend/girlfriend' status more validity." He'd meant it as a joke…most of it that is, and Max caught it.
Pulling away a little bit she looked into his eyes, for what she wasn't sure, at least not till she'd find it. "I let these people out into the world but there's no place for us out here…there's no place for us anywhere…" She had honestly thought that by saving everyone they could lay low and lead normal lives as she had been.
She didn't know that White would be sent to hunt them down, to turn the public against them, to make them out to be the 'monsters under the bed'. She just wanted them to experience freedom same as she had, and in turn it had come with a HUGE price tag she hadn't seen coming or thought about till now.
She didn't feel the lone tear leave her eye till Alec wiped it away with his thumb. Looking into his own eyes she see mirroring thoughts then Alec voiced himself, "Max, don't you for a second regret what you did…you gave everyone here the chance for freedom, to have a LIFE outside of Manticore." She went to bend her head down when he pulled it back up.
Now her chin firmly in his grasp he continued on to a very surprised Max, "I love my life. I have friends, I have a family…"At that he caught her confused expression. "Max you, OC, Joshua, Sketchy and even Mole are my family. Of course while I do think of OC as a sister you I definitely don't…your more than that to me…closer…and not in a sister or…cousin sense."
She was shocked by this revelation. "You're my family to Alec, and as bad as it sounds I tried so hard to see you as a brother, but I never could. Your not Ben, I don't see him when I look at you." Now it was he who was shocked.
"Max, I care about you, and I know you, which is why I know that you'll find a way out of this. Because you have me, Mole, OC, Joshua and you have Dalton here. We're all here to help you out. This isn't just your burden to bear…its ours to bear. Those people outside, they don't know you; they see what they want to explain away their own fears of us and to appear better than they really are, when in truth we are. But we can't help that and we do what we can to live and to be free."
Feeling a bit relieved Max once again lets him embrace her. For a moment she swears she feels him kiss her hair but sweeps away the thought as they compose themselves to walk back out. Feeling a bit refreshed she grabs her phone and gets Dix and Luke on the line for a plan B only to have Mole start yelling at her.
"This is on you! That out there is why I told you not to trust the cops!"
Alec came to her defense, "Mole relax it wasn't the pigs it was White. I got the sitrep from Dix. The X5 we have out there spotted one of his gunmen and gotten into it with him. A shot was fired out then YOU shot, then the cops!" Joshua growled again at hearing White's name.
"They tried to screw things up to escalate the situation…"Max said. "Yeah well it only half worked." Alec said. Mole grasping at anything now threw out his cigar and said, "I'm not going to wait around for White to try anything again, or for those pigs to do the same." He grabbed Sketchy. "Whoa what are you doing?" Both Max and Alec yelled at the same time.
Ignoring that Mole continues on, "Until we get safe passage we kill one hostage every hour starting now!" Max and Alec both grab Sketchy effectively pulling him free of Moles grasp. "That's not going to happen Mole. You need to calm down and prioritize yourself." Alec said effectively pulling Sketchy behind him. "We've got to show them we mean business or we're dead." Mole was desperate for an excuse.
"We're not going to start shooting innocent people! They already think the worst of us; you want to give them MORE AMMO to WANT TO KILL US…then fine! SHOOT HIM!" Max grabs Sketchy before he can make it back to a seat and throws him at Mole. Mole surprised by her statement, takes a moment looking between her and Sketchy. Growling he shoves Sketchy away before angrily saying, "Fine…but if they come near the building I start taking them out."
He walks away telling Joshua to come with him. Joshua follows much to Max's dismay and her shout of protest. Sketchy thankful to Alec asks Max what that was for. "It was…necessary, sorry Sketch, I had to. You know I'd never let him actually do it right?"
He smiles half way and replies, "Yeah I know. You had a point to prove, and it worked. You calmed him and angered him at the same time. Only you could do that Max." With that he walked off.
Once gone Alec took her hand in support before signaling that he was going back to his post. "Was I right in what I did?" She asked him. Surprised she asked him of his opinion he replied, "Umm, aahh….Max you did what need to be done for Mole to get things through his lizard brain. We both know that you wouldn't have let any harm come to Sketchy." Feeling better and more reassured about her decision they continued to wait the police out. Hoping they'd get a chance to make it to that bus again.
Outside while protestors try to incite people. White comes back on the scene only to be met with an angry Clemente. "You interfering son of a bitch, you drop my scene right now or I swear I will kick you to the curb myself!" White not seemingly one bit phased by his anger, shoves his pristine white paper into his face.
"Seems your men got carried away detective." That was your MAN back there and we both know it!" "Is that what we know?" White riddles were getting annoying and so was the finger he was pointing at the particular section of the paper. "This was just faxed in from the governor's office."
Not impressed Clemente asks, "So you've friends in high places am I supposed to be impressed?" "I draw your attention to the part where I'm given overriding jurisdiction. You screwed up detective." White says, smug as ever. I'll beat you yet 452… seeing the section and reading it Clemente has no choice but to accept it.
"Yeah when I voted for this nimrod." Smashing the paper in his hands Clemente steps down while White tells him what he's going to do. "Now my tactical team is going to go in and get this thing done. And you are going to stay out of my way. But thanks for coming out." Then he walks towards the building past Clemente.
As the evening comes the police still stand out and guard while inside tension is high though for Gem it's even worse as OC tries to help her give birth. Normal seeing this comes over and surprisingly helps out. "Breath from your diaphragm, ok." He takes a look under her skirt gaining attention from OC and Max. "You're fully dilated. You're in a late second stage it won't be long so just breathe and relax, breath and relax."
OC shocked as his Intel on the situation with birth babies asks, "And you know this how?" "My dad was a dairy farmer, I know my way inside and around a heifer better than you do." Once said Gem bats his hands away temporarily getting fed up with the baby not coming out. "Ok, ok." He says before they settle back down.
Max comes around to tell the girl obviously won't be able to fight. Before she can get a word out Gem gets out, "I need a weapon." At her statement the way she says it almost makes Max laugh, but Gem needs to be realistic about this. "You're out of this fight soldier." "Me and my baby are getting out of here alive!" Gem states, no kidding around in her voice.
"You get that baby into this world we got your back…ok?" Settling with that Gem lets her head fall back to the couch and moans in pain.
As one last trannie hater gets his say at the scene White's phalanx team comes in fully armored. Coming out of the van Thula, or as White as dubbed, the bitch comes out signaling for the familiar's trademark. White rolls his eyes as the obvious idiocy of doing that in public.
"I'm sending in my team in now, remember zero interference." White says to Clemente. "It's your world." Is his only reply. Otto seeing these people he's never met before comes up and asks to know who they are and where their from. White tells him another agency, that's he's not cleared for the op.
When Otto still stands there White simply says, "Move the men back and secure the perimeter…walk away do it now." Once Otto walks White and the other phalanx members look at the protestors, the trannie haters wanting transgenic blood. "Look at them…when we carry her out in a body bag they'll be clapping, cheering; they'll never know she was their only hope."
The rest of the member smirk at what they know is to come as they walk towards the building. Meanwhile tension rises up on the inside as Max decides to make a break for it, thinking White will just chase her and then rest will make a break for it. Alec's not fond of the idea however.
"Max there's too much of a chance that one of those DOZENS of sector cops will put a bullet in you. You're not going out there. We're fast Max but were not bulletproof." Mole comes in before Max has a chance to retort. "If all he really wants is Max, then I think she should go out, then he'll leave us alone and we'll just have the regular cops to deal with. Just as she said."
Alec wasn't having it but her cell going off from TC stopped all talking. "Dix, Luke what's up?" "We have the translated ruins that Alec sent to us this morning Max." Upon hearing this Alec leans over to hear it. "The symbols have multiple means but it goes like this 'when the shroud of death covers the face of the earth, the one whose power is hidden will deliver the helpless'."
Max not having a clue asks, "What does that mean?" "It means something bad is going down, something the humans would call 'biblically' bad. And you somehow are going to stop it. It's all we got but Luke said we'd better tell you ASAP." Shutting her phone off Max suddenly gets a feeling, a very, very bad vibe.
While Alec explains to them what the convo was about when Max suddenly discovers what the feeling is. She can feel them coming-now! "Their coming." Is all she says as she tells everyone to get upstairs. Mole follows anyways as Alec helps get everyone upstairs. Joshua carries Gem since she's no long able to walk.
Once up there she orders Sketchy to keep the rest of the messengers quite and down. While Joshua preps Gem in a room that only has a window and a desk. OC, Dalton and Normal stay with her to help her out.
Meanwhile White starts to send in the phalanx members. "Remember our primary target is 452." Like they'd forget… "What about the hostages?" Thula asks, for a moment her voice is almost concerned. "Let's show the viewers at home what our mutant menace does to innocent people. Take out the hostages, the freaks, and the kid; take out anything with a pulse." And then their off and up the building.
Once the downstairs is empty Alec and Mole rush up stairs as White's people also hit them from ground level too, and blow up the entrance way. Getting off a few shots they rush upstairs and lock the door behind them. Once behind pillars up there Alec and Mole check their guns for rounds left. Alec's is out and Mole doesn't have enough to even try. Once Alec suggests stealth they automatically tense up for stealth mode. Let the games begin…