Please, Stay Until I Fall Asleep
Krit slumped as he saw Zack climb into the truck. Two soldiers chained him to the walls and then another came with a fallen figure. It was Max. They dropped her to the floor and Zack glared at them. After chaining her into the wall, they jumped out and shut the doors leaving no light for even them to see.
"Shit!" Zack yelled as loud as he could making the words echo against the metal walls. His fists slammed against the wall. "What the hell happened?"
"They trapped us. Genetically altered dogs and genetically engineered soldiers." Krit sighed. "We decided to go with them instead of being eatin alive. They said they wanted you two, not us. They didn't care if we became dog meat."
"Why's that?" Zack asked mostly towards himself because he knew that nobody knew.
"Because... Lydecker said we're different." Max's voice was hoarse and groggy. "So is Chris, but they can't find him, so they'll take us instead. They slipped up on the engineering only to find that the mess up was actually very good."
"So your saying, they messed up on you guys, but it was a good mess up?" Sly asked. No reply. "Max?"
"I guess." Max said as if she were half asleep.
"So why did they take us?" Krit asked.
"The more the merrier." Sly replied. She shifted trying to get feeling back into her arms, but failing miserably. The truck began to move and Max groaned with every bump which came as often as a stick in the woods. Sly sighed wanting all this to be over. The thing that scared her most was that Manticore didn't want her, so what would they do to her?
* * * * *
"I sort of have to use the bathroom. When do you think they'll stop?" Krit asked.
"Not until night fall." Max replied heavily. "They don't like stops."
"So what do they do when they have to piss?" Krit growled with an impatient tone. He really had to use the bathroom and the nasty bumps really did not help. If he couldn't go soon, then he'd go in his pants.
"They probable have a bathroom in this monster." Zack winced as another bump made him go up in the air and fall. He could tell from his voice, how bad he had to go, it wouldn't be a fun ride. "Krit, you might as well go."
"Hell no!" Krit replied. "I'm not wetting my pants! I'm not letting them have the pleasure of me peeing in my pants. I'll just hold it and hope they'll stop. Damn, I'm losing feeling in my ass anyway." He shifted and leaned his head against the wall. He was scared, the first time he had ever been this scared. If Max was broken when they had saved her, what would he do? Probable be with them as a soldier. He wasn't very strong minded, he'd be in big trouble. "So uh, what they gunna do when we get there?"
Zack waited and was hesitant to listen, but he waited. After what seemed like hours, Max let out a deep sigh. "They put you in a line and ask your designation, then if you don't answer correctly, they beat you until you do or until your unconscious, they do that until you answer with what they want you to say. Then you go to classes and they do some rehab thing and sometimes they'll do some test on you, but they're really just punishment. If your good, they'll let you stay with other X5's. I was never good enough, so I was put in a holding cell."
"Ya know what, that wasn't my idea of a fun time." Krit replied.
"You know what Krit? Would you just shut up?" Sly growled and then closed her eyes. How long would this trip be? She was starting to get tired of the dark and the hunger. All she wanted was a nice bath, some food, and a bed. Was that to much to ask for? Now she would be lucky to get either of the three.
"Why, you scared?" Krit taunted as if he were an eight year old boy.
"Would both of you just keep quiet?" Max growled. Sobs were building, but she didn't want to let the others hear them. She was scared shit less. All she could do was let anger out, then she'd only be left with fright, and sadness which would probable take her over. Where was Logan? Who is Logan? A picture came to her, a man with blue eyes that she could get lost in and blondish hair that was so soft. He was the only thing that had kept her alive in Manticore. Now she could barley remember who he was. She needed to remember or else she'd crumble under hopelessness and depression. Logan, she loved him. He was Eyes Only. The picture was soon pushed away as the vehicle slowed to a stop.
The doors opened and Zack squinted at the light. Three figures came through the doors, as his eyes cleared, he saw they all wore cameo that had the symbol Manticore slapped on their chest. They started undoing the chains and led them out of the truck. Zack stiffly got out and he was soon knocked to the ground.
"You call that fast? The world has slowed you down 599. That is unfortunate and will have to be fixed by training, but don't worry, if your as fast as 452, you'll be in the habit right quick." Lydecker barked and then grinned.
"I have no clue who your talking about." Zack replied staring into his eyes. Lydecker threw a punch, which Zack ducked only to be hit in the back with a butt of a rifle from one of the men who had fried him. He watched as Lydecker's face went into joy as Max quickly got out of the truck.
"Welcome back 452." Lydecker grinned.
"My name is Max and I wouldn't give a rats ass for your welcoming speech." Max replied whipping her mouth from blood that was running from her lower lip. A soldier raised his gun but Lydecker quickly stopped him and looked at her with his ugly smile.
"Oh, I thought we had gone through this already, you were so far and so much improved, I almost had you break your potential that you had before you ran the first time and now sadly we have to go through it yet again. Seems like a sad waste of time, you've never reached your full potential 452, but soon. Hopefully it wont take to long to get you back to where you were." He motioned them to take her and watched as she struggled back into the gates of which the rogues called Hell. Turning back to the others, he felt Zack spit on him. "Ah, I see we have to work on you 599. There's a lot of work to be done. Take him with her. Take the others to the cells, we'll reintroduce them later, now I want to focus on getting back these two."
"Fuck you!" Zack screamed at him struggling with three soldiers that had obviously been trained to handle the transgenics.
* * * * *
Ten Days of hell. That's what it had been and now he got a break. A break from seeing his sister be tortured, a break from getting tortured with Max's blank eyes staring at him. She had already put a wall up, one that she wasn't to unfamiliar with since she had just gotten out. He had failed miserable and now it was time to pay. He slid down the wall and ignored the pain in his back. He learned quickly that screaming in pain didn't help, in fact you got punished if you did. Max was on the other side of the room staring into space without much care of what was happening. "Max?"
She looked up and stared at him in silence. Then looking from side to side she grinned almost as if she had lost it, but inside, she had already been through this shit, she was finally calm about it and took everything that came. If someone rescued them, then she'd came back out, stronger then ever. Zack didn't seem to understand and he seemed worried. He shouldn't worry about her, he was the one who was about to go for the worst ride of his life. "Yeah?"
"Are you... Ok?" Zack asked.
"Yeah. I'm ok." She said trying to reassure him, trying to get his to build strength. He needed strength to survive. Suddenly she felt as though she had grown, that she now could face anything. Now she had to help Zack get there before it was to late. "You got to fight it Zack. Don't worry about me, I'm going to be ok. I figured it out, I figured their crazy Devil's game. Follow the rules, you'll win over."
"Are you saying to say your designation?:" Zack asked confused letting out a quiet moan of pain that had washed over him. He wondered how Krit and Sly were doing.
"Zack, don't worry about the others, first you have to climb your own mountain. I just figured that out." She grinned. He looked at her as if she were crazy. "You have to figure yourself out. Once you have achieved that, you can play anyone's game and beat it. But you can't do that now. Focus on yourself for a moment, look into yourself, then you'll understand. It took me awhile, but your stronger. You have to figure it out on your own. Then. Then you can help the others."
He sighed, had she gone crazy or was she telling the truth. He looked at her and saw the sparkle in her eye, the one he hadn't seen since, well since they were listening to Ben and his wild stories. Look inside himself? What did that mean and how could he not worry about the others? They were his responsibility. He watched as Max stood up slowly and limped towards him. Sitting next to him, she let out a grunt and then grinned at him.
"I feel like a ninety year old women trying to sit down." she laughed and it echoed through the room.
The laughter told him that she was telling the truth, she had found something in herself. The walls were now down and a defiant Max was in it's place. He shook his head when he couldn't find anything, he even felt stupid for trying. How did Max know that this part was in everyone, maybe it was just something that she hide away when she started training at the age of two, before everyone else. This was him, he was nothing more. "I don't see it Max, I don't think it's in everyone."
"Zack, for a CO, you sure give up quickly. Remind me not to play checkers with you." She sighed and leaned on her knees, which ached but became numb soon after she moved into a new position.
"When do you think they'll feed us?" he asked deciding to give it up for now and think about other things. Things that would keep them alive.
"Maybe soon, maybe never. Who knows, might as well ignore it. I've gone for two weeks without food, one day wont kill you." she replied. "So how you feeling? Any pain? Betcha we could get a guard to rustle up some medicine if you need it. Don't do a tough stuff thing to me. I just heard you groan."
"Nah, I'll be ok." Zack replied quickly. She looked at him and let out another sigh. Getting up she limped back to the other side of the room and sat down in the spot she had been. It was time to wait and see.
* * * * *
"Designation?" Lydecker barked at Max. She looked at him and stayed silent. Something had changed when she was in the cell, her posture and her attitude had changed, almost as if she challenged him. "I repeat, what is your designation? Would you rather go to the experiment room?"
"Yes." Max replied seeing that she had gotten to him. She didn't dare smile even though she had won. She wouldn't push it.
"Take her to the burn room. You know what to do." Lydecker growled turning his attention to X5-494. "State your designation." The boy had anger flaring in his eyes, ah maybe he should send him to see the one he loves so much get tortured. Anger brought out frustration and then that broke them down into soldiers. Then he could work him onto the quest that he was trying to get Max on, the one to make them better then all the others, but he couldn't risk it while they had free mind. They'd be able to escape.
"Stuff the designation into your ass." Zack growled glaring at the man only to see that his anger bounced right off the man.
"Take him to the room, make him watch what he is doing to his 'sister' for not cooperating. I'm sure then you'll be wiser." Lydecker signaled the guards and waved as Zack went through the door. Time to deal with the others. He couldn't waste money on them, maybe he'll use them targets, use them for the other two's training. "Feed the other two, I want them alive for future use."
"Yes sir!" a soldier replied and marched to the cells underneath Manticore.
* * * * *
She waited for the first part to begin. It'd start off only as a shock and then it'd go into a sort of burn mode where it basically made her skin into bacon. None of these things fazed her anymore, she was glad. At first she had started slipping back into a drone like thing that she had been the second time she had been in Manticore, but she had caught her self. Even seeing her brother's pained eyes didn't faze her. Max had told him not to worry. All she had to do was hide and then she wouldn't feel a thing. She crawled into the deeps of her mind and waited till the hole thing was over.
"You can stop this all by saying you designation Max." the lab tech said quietly looking at the girl. He hated to do this to her or any of the soldiers. He would be killed if he didn't do his work, threats came everyday. Once they had broken his arm when he tried to run. One thing he noticed about her was her resilience to everything, how she seemed to block it all off and go into another world until it was all over. It was like he was just shocking a dead body. She had already left when he pleaded with her, he smiled in triumph and then looked at another soldier who had just come in. The soldiers face showed concern on his rocky features.
"Start." Lydecker said coming into the room.
"Yes sir." he pushed the button on the machine that at first sent short shocks through the wires into her body. Each minute the shocks would get stronger until Lydecker said stop right before the machine killed her. He shook his head knowing that there was no point in this, she wasn't even there. After two minutes, the smell of burning flesh filled the room making him want to puke, but Lydecker just stood staring every now and then telling her it could all be over if she just said her designation. The soldier shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot. He had never seen a soldier do that, he must be one of the Rogues.
"X5-599, you can stop this, you can help her. Just designate yourself." Lydecker looked at the young man, his face contorted in anger and grief. He was braking the soldier down, it wouldn't take long until he would become a Manticore Soldier again. "All you have to do is say your designation."
"You can stuff my designation up your short little ass." Zack spat without looking at his sister. He couldn't watch her get tortured like this, but he also knew that she could handle it. Ever since two nights ago, Max seemed more confident, more alert. Something had radically changed in her and suddenly he didn't have to worry so much.
"Thirty!" Lydecker growled seeing that neither one of them budged. The Tech looked at him in surprise, he knew that none of the other X5's had ever survived thirty, most went brain dead at twenty nine. "Do it now!"
"But sir, that'll kill her." he replied looking cautiously at Lydecker. "I thought you wanted her alive."
"I don't care anymore. They want to be stubborn, then they'll pay for it. I'll just use the organs for an X5 that can be useful, not some X5 who wont do anything but waste money. Do it now or do I need to get a soldier to straighten you up?" Lydecker asked and saw the fear in the man's eyes. That's all it took, the lab tech pulled the lever up to thirty and Max's body started to shake, her eyes went wide and she silently screamed. Her skin started turning black and then suddenly the machine stopped. Lydecker looked over at the lab tech who stood innocently next to him. Max's body went limp and her eyes were still wide open. "What happened?"
"It seemed to have broken sir, I'll have to look at it." the lab tech replied, a sudden relief came out of him as Lydecker stomped out.
"Try and revive her, if you can't, send her to the organ plant. I'll be in the office. Report in an hour to tell me her condition." Lydecker growled passing a doctor who stood near the door. The doctor nodded and headed over to the table where an X5 lay dead. The same X5 that he had made after his wife and that looked so much like her in everyway. He stormed into his office and slammed the door behind him. He had lost control and he might have just wasted millions of dollars in research. The government would not be happy to hear that he failed with one of the soldiers. He might be sent back to his dark cell that they had put him in after he lost a hole section of the X5 unit. His best soldiers.
Krit slumped as he saw Zack climb into the truck. Two soldiers chained him to the walls and then another came with a fallen figure. It was Max. They dropped her to the floor and Zack glared at them. After chaining her into the wall, they jumped out and shut the doors leaving no light for even them to see.
"Shit!" Zack yelled as loud as he could making the words echo against the metal walls. His fists slammed against the wall. "What the hell happened?"
"They trapped us. Genetically altered dogs and genetically engineered soldiers." Krit sighed. "We decided to go with them instead of being eatin alive. They said they wanted you two, not us. They didn't care if we became dog meat."
"Why's that?" Zack asked mostly towards himself because he knew that nobody knew.
"Because... Lydecker said we're different." Max's voice was hoarse and groggy. "So is Chris, but they can't find him, so they'll take us instead. They slipped up on the engineering only to find that the mess up was actually very good."
"So your saying, they messed up on you guys, but it was a good mess up?" Sly asked. No reply. "Max?"
"I guess." Max said as if she were half asleep.
"So why did they take us?" Krit asked.
"The more the merrier." Sly replied. She shifted trying to get feeling back into her arms, but failing miserably. The truck began to move and Max groaned with every bump which came as often as a stick in the woods. Sly sighed wanting all this to be over. The thing that scared her most was that Manticore didn't want her, so what would they do to her?
* * * * *
"I sort of have to use the bathroom. When do you think they'll stop?" Krit asked.
"Not until night fall." Max replied heavily. "They don't like stops."
"So what do they do when they have to piss?" Krit growled with an impatient tone. He really had to use the bathroom and the nasty bumps really did not help. If he couldn't go soon, then he'd go in his pants.
"They probable have a bathroom in this monster." Zack winced as another bump made him go up in the air and fall. He could tell from his voice, how bad he had to go, it wouldn't be a fun ride. "Krit, you might as well go."
"Hell no!" Krit replied. "I'm not wetting my pants! I'm not letting them have the pleasure of me peeing in my pants. I'll just hold it and hope they'll stop. Damn, I'm losing feeling in my ass anyway." He shifted and leaned his head against the wall. He was scared, the first time he had ever been this scared. If Max was broken when they had saved her, what would he do? Probable be with them as a soldier. He wasn't very strong minded, he'd be in big trouble. "So uh, what they gunna do when we get there?"
Zack waited and was hesitant to listen, but he waited. After what seemed like hours, Max let out a deep sigh. "They put you in a line and ask your designation, then if you don't answer correctly, they beat you until you do or until your unconscious, they do that until you answer with what they want you to say. Then you go to classes and they do some rehab thing and sometimes they'll do some test on you, but they're really just punishment. If your good, they'll let you stay with other X5's. I was never good enough, so I was put in a holding cell."
"Ya know what, that wasn't my idea of a fun time." Krit replied.
"You know what Krit? Would you just shut up?" Sly growled and then closed her eyes. How long would this trip be? She was starting to get tired of the dark and the hunger. All she wanted was a nice bath, some food, and a bed. Was that to much to ask for? Now she would be lucky to get either of the three.
"Why, you scared?" Krit taunted as if he were an eight year old boy.
"Would both of you just keep quiet?" Max growled. Sobs were building, but she didn't want to let the others hear them. She was scared shit less. All she could do was let anger out, then she'd only be left with fright, and sadness which would probable take her over. Where was Logan? Who is Logan? A picture came to her, a man with blue eyes that she could get lost in and blondish hair that was so soft. He was the only thing that had kept her alive in Manticore. Now she could barley remember who he was. She needed to remember or else she'd crumble under hopelessness and depression. Logan, she loved him. He was Eyes Only. The picture was soon pushed away as the vehicle slowed to a stop.
The doors opened and Zack squinted at the light. Three figures came through the doors, as his eyes cleared, he saw they all wore cameo that had the symbol Manticore slapped on their chest. They started undoing the chains and led them out of the truck. Zack stiffly got out and he was soon knocked to the ground.
"You call that fast? The world has slowed you down 599. That is unfortunate and will have to be fixed by training, but don't worry, if your as fast as 452, you'll be in the habit right quick." Lydecker barked and then grinned.
"I have no clue who your talking about." Zack replied staring into his eyes. Lydecker threw a punch, which Zack ducked only to be hit in the back with a butt of a rifle from one of the men who had fried him. He watched as Lydecker's face went into joy as Max quickly got out of the truck.
"Welcome back 452." Lydecker grinned.
"My name is Max and I wouldn't give a rats ass for your welcoming speech." Max replied whipping her mouth from blood that was running from her lower lip. A soldier raised his gun but Lydecker quickly stopped him and looked at her with his ugly smile.
"Oh, I thought we had gone through this already, you were so far and so much improved, I almost had you break your potential that you had before you ran the first time and now sadly we have to go through it yet again. Seems like a sad waste of time, you've never reached your full potential 452, but soon. Hopefully it wont take to long to get you back to where you were." He motioned them to take her and watched as she struggled back into the gates of which the rogues called Hell. Turning back to the others, he felt Zack spit on him. "Ah, I see we have to work on you 599. There's a lot of work to be done. Take him with her. Take the others to the cells, we'll reintroduce them later, now I want to focus on getting back these two."
"Fuck you!" Zack screamed at him struggling with three soldiers that had obviously been trained to handle the transgenics.
* * * * *
Ten Days of hell. That's what it had been and now he got a break. A break from seeing his sister be tortured, a break from getting tortured with Max's blank eyes staring at him. She had already put a wall up, one that she wasn't to unfamiliar with since she had just gotten out. He had failed miserable and now it was time to pay. He slid down the wall and ignored the pain in his back. He learned quickly that screaming in pain didn't help, in fact you got punished if you did. Max was on the other side of the room staring into space without much care of what was happening. "Max?"
She looked up and stared at him in silence. Then looking from side to side she grinned almost as if she had lost it, but inside, she had already been through this shit, she was finally calm about it and took everything that came. If someone rescued them, then she'd came back out, stronger then ever. Zack didn't seem to understand and he seemed worried. He shouldn't worry about her, he was the one who was about to go for the worst ride of his life. "Yeah?"
"Are you... Ok?" Zack asked.
"Yeah. I'm ok." She said trying to reassure him, trying to get his to build strength. He needed strength to survive. Suddenly she felt as though she had grown, that she now could face anything. Now she had to help Zack get there before it was to late. "You got to fight it Zack. Don't worry about me, I'm going to be ok. I figured it out, I figured their crazy Devil's game. Follow the rules, you'll win over."
"Are you saying to say your designation?:" Zack asked confused letting out a quiet moan of pain that had washed over him. He wondered how Krit and Sly were doing.
"Zack, don't worry about the others, first you have to climb your own mountain. I just figured that out." She grinned. He looked at her as if she were crazy. "You have to figure yourself out. Once you have achieved that, you can play anyone's game and beat it. But you can't do that now. Focus on yourself for a moment, look into yourself, then you'll understand. It took me awhile, but your stronger. You have to figure it out on your own. Then. Then you can help the others."
He sighed, had she gone crazy or was she telling the truth. He looked at her and saw the sparkle in her eye, the one he hadn't seen since, well since they were listening to Ben and his wild stories. Look inside himself? What did that mean and how could he not worry about the others? They were his responsibility. He watched as Max stood up slowly and limped towards him. Sitting next to him, she let out a grunt and then grinned at him.
"I feel like a ninety year old women trying to sit down." she laughed and it echoed through the room.
The laughter told him that she was telling the truth, she had found something in herself. The walls were now down and a defiant Max was in it's place. He shook his head when he couldn't find anything, he even felt stupid for trying. How did Max know that this part was in everyone, maybe it was just something that she hide away when she started training at the age of two, before everyone else. This was him, he was nothing more. "I don't see it Max, I don't think it's in everyone."
"Zack, for a CO, you sure give up quickly. Remind me not to play checkers with you." She sighed and leaned on her knees, which ached but became numb soon after she moved into a new position.
"When do you think they'll feed us?" he asked deciding to give it up for now and think about other things. Things that would keep them alive.
"Maybe soon, maybe never. Who knows, might as well ignore it. I've gone for two weeks without food, one day wont kill you." she replied. "So how you feeling? Any pain? Betcha we could get a guard to rustle up some medicine if you need it. Don't do a tough stuff thing to me. I just heard you groan."
"Nah, I'll be ok." Zack replied quickly. She looked at him and let out another sigh. Getting up she limped back to the other side of the room and sat down in the spot she had been. It was time to wait and see.
* * * * *
"Designation?" Lydecker barked at Max. She looked at him and stayed silent. Something had changed when she was in the cell, her posture and her attitude had changed, almost as if she challenged him. "I repeat, what is your designation? Would you rather go to the experiment room?"
"Yes." Max replied seeing that she had gotten to him. She didn't dare smile even though she had won. She wouldn't push it.
"Take her to the burn room. You know what to do." Lydecker growled turning his attention to X5-494. "State your designation." The boy had anger flaring in his eyes, ah maybe he should send him to see the one he loves so much get tortured. Anger brought out frustration and then that broke them down into soldiers. Then he could work him onto the quest that he was trying to get Max on, the one to make them better then all the others, but he couldn't risk it while they had free mind. They'd be able to escape.
"Stuff the designation into your ass." Zack growled glaring at the man only to see that his anger bounced right off the man.
"Take him to the room, make him watch what he is doing to his 'sister' for not cooperating. I'm sure then you'll be wiser." Lydecker signaled the guards and waved as Zack went through the door. Time to deal with the others. He couldn't waste money on them, maybe he'll use them targets, use them for the other two's training. "Feed the other two, I want them alive for future use."
"Yes sir!" a soldier replied and marched to the cells underneath Manticore.
* * * * *
She waited for the first part to begin. It'd start off only as a shock and then it'd go into a sort of burn mode where it basically made her skin into bacon. None of these things fazed her anymore, she was glad. At first she had started slipping back into a drone like thing that she had been the second time she had been in Manticore, but she had caught her self. Even seeing her brother's pained eyes didn't faze her. Max had told him not to worry. All she had to do was hide and then she wouldn't feel a thing. She crawled into the deeps of her mind and waited till the hole thing was over.
"You can stop this all by saying you designation Max." the lab tech said quietly looking at the girl. He hated to do this to her or any of the soldiers. He would be killed if he didn't do his work, threats came everyday. Once they had broken his arm when he tried to run. One thing he noticed about her was her resilience to everything, how she seemed to block it all off and go into another world until it was all over. It was like he was just shocking a dead body. She had already left when he pleaded with her, he smiled in triumph and then looked at another soldier who had just come in. The soldiers face showed concern on his rocky features.
"Start." Lydecker said coming into the room.
"Yes sir." he pushed the button on the machine that at first sent short shocks through the wires into her body. Each minute the shocks would get stronger until Lydecker said stop right before the machine killed her. He shook his head knowing that there was no point in this, she wasn't even there. After two minutes, the smell of burning flesh filled the room making him want to puke, but Lydecker just stood staring every now and then telling her it could all be over if she just said her designation. The soldier shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot. He had never seen a soldier do that, he must be one of the Rogues.
"X5-599, you can stop this, you can help her. Just designate yourself." Lydecker looked at the young man, his face contorted in anger and grief. He was braking the soldier down, it wouldn't take long until he would become a Manticore Soldier again. "All you have to do is say your designation."
"You can stuff my designation up your short little ass." Zack spat without looking at his sister. He couldn't watch her get tortured like this, but he also knew that she could handle it. Ever since two nights ago, Max seemed more confident, more alert. Something had radically changed in her and suddenly he didn't have to worry so much.
"Thirty!" Lydecker growled seeing that neither one of them budged. The Tech looked at him in surprise, he knew that none of the other X5's had ever survived thirty, most went brain dead at twenty nine. "Do it now!"
"But sir, that'll kill her." he replied looking cautiously at Lydecker. "I thought you wanted her alive."
"I don't care anymore. They want to be stubborn, then they'll pay for it. I'll just use the organs for an X5 that can be useful, not some X5 who wont do anything but waste money. Do it now or do I need to get a soldier to straighten you up?" Lydecker asked and saw the fear in the man's eyes. That's all it took, the lab tech pulled the lever up to thirty and Max's body started to shake, her eyes went wide and she silently screamed. Her skin started turning black and then suddenly the machine stopped. Lydecker looked over at the lab tech who stood innocently next to him. Max's body went limp and her eyes were still wide open. "What happened?"
"It seemed to have broken sir, I'll have to look at it." the lab tech replied, a sudden relief came out of him as Lydecker stomped out.
"Try and revive her, if you can't, send her to the organ plant. I'll be in the office. Report in an hour to tell me her condition." Lydecker growled passing a doctor who stood near the door. The doctor nodded and headed over to the table where an X5 lay dead. The same X5 that he had made after his wife and that looked so much like her in everyway. He stormed into his office and slammed the door behind him. He had lost control and he might have just wasted millions of dollars in research. The government would not be happy to hear that he failed with one of the soldiers. He might be sent back to his dark cell that they had put him in after he lost a hole section of the X5 unit. His best soldiers.