Every one stared at Joshua to the man then back to Joshua,
"Father" He repeated, Max then noticed the necklace around his neck, it was identical to Joshua's
"Is it true" Max said to the man "are you Sandeman"
"I am" he replied
"well in that case thanks for the message you left, on me, Although it would have been easier to understand in English" She turned around and walked away from the group, Logan followed her "I want you to check anything you can to make sure he is who he says he is" Logan nodded his reply then went over to his computer, Max turned back to the man, More transgenics had gathered around this new person, who was suppose to the one who created them all. She joined the group again
"So you must be 452," the man said to her, "Max"
"So I must be," she nodded to the X6's who still had a hold of him, they dropped his arms but still stood by his side, "keep an eye on him," she said to Alec as she pulled Joshua away from the group "Joshua are sure this is Sandeman"
"Yes, father sure," he sniffed the air, and then pointed to his dogged nose "smell"
"Alright big fella," Max sighed patting him on the shoulder; Joshua seemed to know the most about him than anyone in the group
"Alright little fella," he smiled at her, excitement showing on his face.
"I ran his picture threw the net and came up with a match," Logan spoke Max stood over his shoulder looking at the computer screen, "A James Sandeman, he disappeared from all records in 2011, it looks like he checks out" Max tried to hide the excitement she felt, this man could be there cure to the virus, but with excitement came other emotions, fear, concern and confusion,
"But why has he only just shown up after all theses years, why now," Max straightened up, and sat on the chair next to Logan's, He turned to face her, his hands where gloveless so he couldn't reach out and touch her,
"We'll why don't you ask him," Logan removed his glasses from his face and cleaned them with his shirt, Max bit her lower lip, her brows knotted she had been waiting a long time for the answers to the questions she had been carrying most of her life, she should just go over to him and demand he tell her everything, but something was holding her back,
"Sir we just received these images, from a hover drone positioned just outside of Terminal city" Otto handed the A4 size photos to White "He got in" the photos where of Sandeman and the X6's
"Excellent," White replied "send a unit down to stand watch let me know when he comes out again,"
"Sir who is this man," Otto asked
"lets just leave it as someone who will help us bring these transgenics down," Otto left again confusion writing clearly on his face, he was starting to doubt his boss, he had become to secretive, bringing in people from other agencies, not filling him in on details, Ames phone rang again, he answered it "…he made it in, now we just have to wait until holds up his end of the deal… I can't see it being too much off a problem…"he said rolling a small ball of metal between his fingers "…Fe'nos tol" slipping the phone back into his jacket pocket, he walked out of the small office
"So you managed to create all these supper humans but you couldn't figure out a better way to send me a message,"
"I wanted to make sure that it didn't fall into the wrong hands,"
"Well I'd say that your psychotic son and his familiars are the wrong hands"
"I was still apart of the conclave when I created you, it was the only symbols I could think of to use at that time, I had no idea that they would make trouble" he told her "How much do you know about the markings?"
"Just that some thing bad is gonna go down and you seem to think that I'm the one that's gonna kick ass, right"
"yeah, something like that," He said a small smile playing on his lips, he looked around at all his creations, Glad that when the time had come they had all stuck together, Just like he had hoped that they would.
It was dark inside and out of there dwellings, most of the transgenics sprawled out on old torn mattresses or any other soft padding they could find and a few slept on the hard dirty floor, not showing any signs of discomfort, Max sat watching, trying to detect any sign of unwanted movement, She was about to get up and walk to the other side of the building when she spied Sandeman creeping out, her Feline DNA kicked in and she curiosity followed him, He walked out of terminal City sticking to the shadows until he had passed the cop cars that held sleeping officers, Max followed him about three blocks, then keeping out of view watching as he came face to face with a man that she had come to know very well, Even though they where standing meters away from her she could still see and hear everything
"Well Dad, what can you tell me," Ames said to older man
"They have deciphered the message, well most of it, they don't know exactly what it means but they have a fair idea" Ames put his arm around his father,
"I knew you would eventually come back to our side, keep this up and we may be able to set you loose," The older man kept his eyes on the floor, Ames dropped his arm to his side and walked back to his car, "same time tomorrow, see if you cant come up with some more information" Sandeman watched as the car drove out of sight, then turned and started to walk back to Terminal City, As he walked past Max, she grabbed him around the throat and pinned him to the wall
"Care to explain" She hissed at him
"I can't" the man replied, Fear sounded in his voice Max punched him with her free hand, her knuckles cracked as they hit his cheek
"You sure about that,"
"Max, please,"
"Only my friends call me that," she snapped back
"Please believe me, I don't mean any harm,"
"Oh, please, that's why you're working with the man who wants to see us all dead"
"I had no choice, Max" she hit him again
"I told you not to call me that," She grabbed him by the back of his shirt, "well we'll just have to see about that," the sun was beginning to rise and soon police officers and people will be filling the streets, she practically dragged him back to Terminal city.
She threw him to the floor, most of the transgenics where awake those who weren't must have sensed to the tension in the air as they opened there eyes and raised to there feet, Joshua came running over
"Max why you hurting Father," He asked her, a hand on the trembling mans shoulder
"Father here is working with White," A chorus of growls and guns clicking echoed though out the building,
"I can explain," he said genuine panic in his voice
"Well you better do it quickly,"
"Ames and the other members of Conclave have had me locked up in that asylum of there's," He began nervously looking around at the guns pointed at him "they made me come here out find out how much you knew about the tattoo's, find away in, so they could attack," Logan was standing behind Sandeman, he motioned for Max to stand beside him, Sandeman paused and watched her walk around the group to stand be hind him,
"Keep talking" Max snapped, and he turned back and continued to tell the others about his deal with White
"Look at the back of his neck," she could see a small piece of metal just inside the tiny hole, she had seen the same thing on Alec when White had sent him to kill Transgenics,
"Ok that's enough," Max cut off Sandeman, "someone tie him up," one of the X6's that had escorted him in tied him up to a chair, Max grabbed a chair placed it in front of it, she flung one leg over it and sat down facing him, her hands resting on the back of it "you have a lot of questions to answer and you better do it quickly, how long do you have until the microexplosive goes off,"
"How did you know about them," He asked shocked
"I ask the questions first, now answer,"
"Ah, I have 52 hours to find out all that I can"
"Luke," Max called out the bald white transgenic, who was always wearing a headset, "See if you can find someone who was trained in Tech weaponry,"
"Sure thing Max" He hurried off to fulfill the request
"Now where gonna try and get that thing out of you, but you have to help us, and if you double cross me, I swear creator or not I will kill you," Max told him, Sandeman nodded at her fully understanding, he created her he knew what she was capable of.
"Ma…452" Sandeman's voice was small, "So can you untie me now?" he asked
"I'll think about it," She stood up and walked off, "Alec, I need you to run an errand," After the showdown at Jam Pony, it had been difficult for max to go out of Terminal City, having to rely on Logan, Alec or Original Cindy.
"Yeah Maxie," She glared at him, but didn't hit him, truth was she was warming up to the name
"Whites up to something big, maybe even an attack, Where going to need more ammo,"
"And I need more cigars" Mole said to them as he walked past,
"Logan says that Eyes Only has been looking into a Arms Dealer, working in sector 5, I want you and a couple of the other X5's to go and pay him a little visit,"
"Do you want a receipt," he smiled at her then went and arranged a team, no matter how much they wanted to leave manticore behind them, Because of white, the have been force to remember what they where taught. They where back to taking and giving orders, a mutual unwritten understanding of who outranked who, and using there skills to get what they need.
i know the chapters are short but hopefully as i get more of a grip on the story i can write longer chapters