Max's POV

"Max, how nice to see you again." The voice of the one and only Sandeman. Leader of Manticore.

"Wish I could say the same,Sandy."

"I shut you guys down once, I'll do it again."

"Not this time,Maxine."

Loads of Manticore guards came out with guns. I was completely surrounded. Nowhere to jump,run or hide. three shot me all at once. my body dropped to the ground. I blacked out for a while.

I wake up in a cold steel table. My chest is covered on gauges they experimented on me. I feel different. I jumped from the table to the wardrobe. My abilities are still here, but what's so different?I grabbed my clothes, and put them on, and made my escape.

"X5! Get her!" Before I could react, a bullet, went racing towards me. A figure tackles me to the ground.

"Blake!"

"Are you crazy? You don't just stand there when people are shooting at you!"

"Nice to see you too."

He helped me up, and we found an opening, and went straight through it.

When we were out, we ran straight through, just to be surrounded by more Manticore agents.

One of the agents shot me square in the stomach. "You idiot! You weren't supposed to kill her,retreat!"

They ran off! The pain was unbearable, my pupils are dilating.

Blake opened my shirt, and blushed and froze, when he saw my gauged chest, but then pressed his hands on my wound.

Blake's eyes were closed,like he was constipated.

"Okay, Jack, and Kim are coming."

"You have telepathy, lucky.."

Jack, and Kim quickly came.

"what happened!?"

"They shot her."

Kim reached in the bag,and handed Blake a towel wiping off his blood soaked hands, and resting the towel on my wound.

"Stop,stop!" I yelled.

"We can't."

I pushed Blake gently to show him I wasn't bleeding anymore.

That's why I feel so different. My bullet popped out of my wound, and my wound closed.

"That's not fair.. You get to have cellular regeneration!"

I smiled. "Do you have an idea where Sandeman might be?"

"I have an idea."

I got in the Jeep, and drove off.

There was a cabin in the middle of the woods.

I took out all the guards, and made my way for Sandeman. I walked inside, and made my way upstairs. He was sitting in front of the fire. He knew I was there,and attacked.

He was drunk, his movement was kind of sloppy, he looked like he wasn't going to remember this at all. I pushed him, and a wine bottle fell into the fire, and the fire grew bigger, and began to spread. I'm not trying to die, and I'm not letting anyone die, but he kept fighting me.

"Come on! I'm not letting you die!" I yelled.

The fire spread further, and further. he tackled me, and we fell through the ground, I cracked my spine. The fire was all over, and Sandeman was nowhere to be found.

I pulled myself up, and anxiously look for an exit, it burns, the smoke is getting thicker, and piece of the floor that was on fire, fell onto my back, and made me fall to the ground.

I push the wood off me, I ran in one direction, and luckily, found an exit, right before the whole cabin burst into flames. I came out burned, and coughing my lungs out, I found Sandeman unconscious on the ground, then he was gone right before my eyes, all of a sudden a burning sensation hits me in the back. I look up to see Lydecker(Sandeman) with a wine bottle, he dumped it all over me, the fire spread. I kicked the bottle out of his hand, and knocked him unconscious.

I was freaking out, I did stop, drop and roll, but I was still burning.

Everything hurts, I can't breathe. A figure comes and wraps a blanket around me, then removes my shirt,and looks at my now healing wounds.

"You need to stop appearing out of nowhere."

"Sorry." Blake hugged me, even with my scorched, but still whole gauges around my chest.

"Uh, could you give me your shirt please?"

"Oh yeah." He took off his shirt, and handed it to me. I put on the shirt, and examined his toned abs.

He came close, and whispered in my ear, "You like what you see?"

"Shut up!" I said pushing him.

"Come on." he said. I grabbed his hand, and we started walking, while carrying Sandeman, at our side. We put Lydecker in the back seat of the Jeep, we drove back to the warehouse, then drove to the police station, and turned him in.

I really don't want to move away again, but Manticore is dead. Donna Tobin has nothing to threaten me with anymore.

I finally shut them down, and they'll stay that way.

~NEXT DAY~

I walk through the school doors along with Blake, and the Wasabi Warriors. Everyone stared at us, before cheering. I opened my locker, and a note fell out.

I opened it, in bright pink letters it spelled out FREAK.

I smiled confidently, and walked over to Donna,and put the note in her hand.

"At least, I'm not fake, and a skank."

her face turned red, I turned on my heels, and walked away.

"Bye Donna!"

I think I'm going to like this school.

Its finally over! :D wooo!