Dark-Supernatural-Angel: just to clarify Dean did get infected with the snake blood as for whether Alec just sees the girls as sisters well, just because their 'his girls' doesn't mean he means that in any brotherly way...maybe. Thanks for the review.
timetowaste247: this is definitely post Freak-Nation, I'm thinking about four months after it, thanks for the review.
throwerpro: thanks for the review again, they boost my morale.
Anyway, here's the next chapter for you all.
Castiel sighed as looked at the compound that was home to the transgenics, Dean had been kidnapped by a member of the familiars, and he was not allowed to aid his charge. It had been planned for years while Castiel and his garrison battled the full force of hell just to drag the eldest Winchester out of it. Dean's father John, hadn't just been a hunter, he had once been a member of the familiars and therefore both Dean and Sam had been bred to be perfect, however when Mary had been chosen to marry John he chose to abandon those who had raised him. Mary, at that time, was of course a hunter and had truly loved her husband, asking only that he left the familiars and in return she would stop hunting. John agreed and had never rejoined the familiars, even after his wife's untimely death, instead choosing to follow in his wife's footsteps to become a hunter himself. In doing so, neither Sam nor Dean were initiated into the fold, meaning that any abilities that they may have had were never activated. The angels knew that Lucifer had a 'Plan B' so to speak, in the event Dean didn't succumb to the torture that was being inflicted upon him, and they also knew that in order for Dean to stop the apocalypse, in order for him to kill Lucifer, he needed to have those powers activated. But with Samuel 'dropping of the map' to the angels at least, Castiel knew that Dean would need help from another Winchester, his genetic twin X5-494 now known as Alec McDowell, but he also needed that twin to be infected with the snake blood. If Alec possessed powers then it would make defeating Lucifer slightly easier for Dean. And that was why Castiel was now in Seattle, just outside of Terminal City as it was now called, the transgenics needed to be the ones to rescue Dean, his twin in particular.
"Alright alright give it rest!" Mole yelled out to the crowd that had gathered in HQ, when they didn't respond he growled and fired a shot into the air, "I said shut up!" once they had quietened he looked to Phoenix to speak.
"Alright, you all know that we're here to officially pick our CO seeing as how lately we've been having some issues as to who's in command here. Now Max here believes that she should be in control here, and well a lot of us believe that it should be Alec." Phoenix paused and looked over at Max, out of she and Ayden, she was the most reasonable, "No disrespect meant Max," because she really did respect Max, she was after all supposed to be the chosen one, the saviour of mankind, but practically she hadn't had enough training to be in command. "But you've been out of Manticore for over half your life, whereas the rest of us have only been out for just over a year. You expect us to act like Ordinaries but we don't know how, all we've ever known is how to be soldiers. And because you haven't spent as much time at Manticore as the rest of us, you lack a helluva lot of training compared to the rest of us. No one here is questioning your ability to lead," there was a snort of disbelief from behind her Phoenix, "except Ayden but she's always had a problem with authority figures. But practically speaking Alec is better suited to the role of leader." Max clenched her fists, stopping herself from saying something she may regret later on. "So we're gonna have a vote!" Phoenix yelled out to the crowd. "We'll do this legitimately; there are boxes on either side of the room with paper and pens next to them. You will right the name of the...cantidate?" she looked over at Ayden for conformation who in turn shrugged her shoulders. "On the paper and put them into the boxes and Dix has kindly agreed to count up the ballots for us. Alec, Max, if you two will head the main office we'll call you when it's done." Alec smiled at Phoenix and headed into the back and Max followed.
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When Alec switched on the light in the office he pulled out his gun and pointed it at the man standing behind the desk, he wore a suit topped off with a brown Trench coat. "Who the hell are you?" he asked. Max took up a position beside him ready for any sudden movements.
"My name is Castiel, and your gun won't do anything to me. I'm here to give you a message."
"A message from who?" Max asked.
Castiel contemplated his answer for a moment before replying, "From my father, it has to do with the familiars."
"Sit," Alec growled.
Castiel made no move to comply, "I told you that your gun will do nothing to me."
"Yeah well I'm pretty sure after a bullet in the brain you'll be thinking differently...actually you won't be thinking at all." Alec replied, he not only had no idea who Castiel was, but he didn't know how he got in, which made him a threat.
"If you really believe that then shoot me, but I will not give you my message, and your brother will die at the hands of Ames White and others like him." He looked at Alec who looked back puzzled.
"What are you talking about? I don't have a brother."
"Put your gun away and I will tell you what I know."
Alec hesitated, looking at Max to see what she thought, when she nodded he lowered his weapon, "So talk."
"Technically you do have brother, every X5 was based off an existing human, genetically speaking, the human part of you is identical to the human you were based on. Ames White has kidnapped a man called Dean Winchester thinking that he was you Alec, and if you don't get him out of there tonight, he will die."
Max raised an eyebrow, "If he's in so much danger then why don't you save him, after all, apparently bullets don't do a thing to you."
"The Familiars have...taken steps to ensure that I cannot save Dean." Castiel replied it wasn;t necessarily true but he figured that would be better than telling the two X5s that he was an angel of the lord who couldn't interfere in this process.
"How do we know you're telling the truth? This could just another trap that White's concocted."
"Whether you believe it or not, it is the truth, the question is, are you really willing to risk an innocent human being just because you think it's a trap?" Castiel asked.
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Neither Max nor Alec had an answer to that question and when there was a knock at the door of the office, both were startled out of their contemplation, they turned for just a moment to look at the door, but when they turned back to Castiel they were stunned to find to him gone. All that was left in his place was an address, and Alec was willing to bet that it was the address where Dean Winchester was supposed to be. Max was the first to recover and opened the door to see Ayden, "We have the results," she said spinning on her heel and heading back the way she came.
"Alec," Max said, "we need to go out there, we'll deal with this afterwards." Alec nodded and headed back out to the front.
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Dix stood up and everyone was silent, "The new leader of TC...is Alec." The silence remained, everyone waiting to see Max's reaction to the news.
Max buried her anger for the moment; they had bigger things to deal with and nodded at Alec, "Congratulations Alec," with that she headed back to the office, waiting for her new...CO to follow.
Once Max was gone there were applause and cheers as other transgenics and transhumans congratulated their new leader. Alec smiled "Well we all know I hate speeches so I'll make this short...and in conclusion I'd like to thank all of you who voted for me, you can go back to doing what you were doing before you got dragged in here." He smirked and most of the transgenics and transhumans dispersed.
When they were gone both Phoenix and Ayden gave him a hug, "I told you so," Phoenix smirked at him and he smiled.
"Well there's no time for celebration," he said, suddenly serious, "we've got a problem, come with me, Mole, Dix you too." Mole recognised that voice, he'd worked with Alec once on a desert op. and understood that it was his serious voice.
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"What's wrong Boss Man?" Ayden asked when they were all seated in the CO's office along with Max. Quickly he explained his and Max's encounter with the vanishing man and what they had been told, "Dix I want you to pull as much information about this place as you can in the next thirty minutes," he said to the transhuman, handing him the address. Nodding Dix left the room and headed straight to his station.
"It's got to be a trap Princess," Mole grumbled lighting his cigar, Alec knew he was running out of cigars and made a mental note to swipe some more for Mole, after all the guy wasn't exactly pleasant to be around in general, but a Mole in withdrawal was not something he wanted to think about, ever. "The guy's probably one of White's men trying to draw us into a trap, probably to grab Max."
"I agree with Mole, Alec," Phoenix said, "I mean there's no way that White could have your genetic twin, Manticore only made one other person that looked like you and he's gone."
"I know," Alec replied, "it's probably a trap, but what if they really do have the guy I'm based off of? If White does have him, then it's my fault that he's there, it's my fault that he'll die."
Ayden decided to give her opinion, "Even if it's a trap, they won't know how many of us are coming, they can't prepare for us. I say we go in, it'll be chance to kick some Familiar ass, and maybe we can kill White." Ayden was always the most reckless of Alec's old unit, always rearing for a fight.
"We're not going in there without any tactical advantage," Max cut in, glaring at Ayden, the two transgenic girls really didn't like each other. They never had.
"That's why Dix is getting information on the building I'm not an idiot, and I didn't miss out on tactics 101 like some people." Ayden sneered.
"No you're the one that wasn't smart enough to get the hell out of dodge when you had the chance," Max sneered right back referring to the fact that she'd jumped the fence at Manticore before their treatment got any worse.
"Ayden, Max that's enough," Alec ordered, "if we're going in there tonight then I won't have us arguing at all. If you can't get along you're not going," he shot a look at Ayden and when Max smirked he looked at her, "I'm talking to you too Max. You forget I'm in charge now." Max scowled at him and Ayden grinned at her CO.
"I'll be good as gold Boss Man," she replied.
"Max?" Alec asked.
"Fine."
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Alec rolled his eyes at the two and was about to continue when Dix rushed back in, "Alec you have to see this!" he headed back the way he came and the group followed.
"What is it Dix?" Alec asked.
"Well I'm still getting the blueprints on the address but I ran a search on the surrounding area and found this hover-drone picture..." he moved the picture to the HUD that Logan had set up for him and zoomed in. There on the screen was White standing over the body of someone that looked exactly like Alec, smirking as he ordered his men to move the body. It was at that point that Alec put on a mask of cold indifference, Castiel hadn't been lying and now an innocent civilian was going to die because of him.
"Well I'll be damned," Mole muttered, "looks like the vanishing man really was telling the truth, about something at least."
Alec looked at Dix, "find the blueprints to the place, we move out in an hour.
Well there you have it. Anyway before you review for me, the subject has already been broached so I figure why not go with it. This is going to be Dean/OFC Alec/OFC M/L fic and my problem is that there are of course subtle differences between Alec so their taste in women, while similar, won't be identical. So Ayden and Phoenix, who do you think should go with who? Phoenix is the more reasonable of the two, the one that plans first before rushing headfirst into everything. I guess she's the nicer of the two. But Ayden is reckless, she isn't the type to make plans, she prefers to just react to the situation really, and she's much more temperamentel than Phoenix, she can also be really mean when she wants to be. So I just wanted to get your thoughts on who should be paired up, I already have an idea, but I just want to see what you think... So anyway, thanks for taking the time to read, could you just take a little more time to review?
