Max got out of the room to go to the bathroom, she wanted to shower before going to bed. She felt like the Manticore smell was all over her and it
made her want to puke. Logan and Bella were talking to each other in the kitchen, and Brin was asleep on the couch in the living room. Original
Cindy had left a while ago.

"I'm gonna shower if you don't mind." She said to Logan.

"Of course not." He said back, staring at her with concern because she didn't seem very confident with her walk. Logan glanced at
Bella, and made her a head sign.

"Do you need some help Max?" She asked her, just before Max's legs couldn't hold her anymore and fell down, facing the floor. Bella
jumped on her feet and went to help Max, who was hysterically laughing. "Are you okay?" Asked Bella, smiling at Max, who couldn't stop
herself from laughing.

" I'm fine," She said between laughs, "I just lost my strength for a sec." She stood up holding on to Isabella. "Maybe
you should come with me." She said to her.

"Sure." The two woman got into the bathroom.

Logan went near the window and looked outside, thinking about things he didn't really want to face, but couldn't NOT face them tomorrow, after
everything that happened today. 'Zack's been right all along.' He thought.

*******

Lydecker was standing up in front of his superior, with all his men behind him. She had asked to see all of them 'right away' when she heard what has
been going on here tonight.

" As I can see Lydecker, you've failed me, AGAIN." She said to him, not in a very good mood. "We did not just lost the new girl, but
we lost Brin too." She walked near him, staring at him right into his eyes. "And YOU lied to ME. Big mistake Deck. Big big mistake! There
are people here that saw Zack, who was SUPPOSED to be DEAD? If I recall right? But maybe, MAYBE, I didn't read RIGHT in your report. Huh?"
She was furious, but calm anyway. That was what frightened him the most. Her calmness. But he didn't say anything back, he knew that there was no
answer that could satisfy the Lady at the moment. "Do you know what's really pissing me off Deck? After all those years, you never once
succeeded to the damn mission of finding those X5, not ONCE did it go right! Not once! Everytime something came up, and every damn time we lost
them!" Now she was talking louder. She stoped right in front of him, calmed herself, and smiled at him. "Now, can you tell me why I
shouldn't kill you?"

"There is absolutely nothing I could say to defend myself, M'mam, that will change what you already know you'll do with me." He
answered her.

"What a smarta$$ you think you are Lydecker!" She took the gun from a soldier that was behind him. "Why do I keep spending my time
with such morons? Not ONE of you were able to stop them? Not one!" She yelled in disbelief. "Even if I had let you go after them, you
wouldn't have succeeded, because you never DID!" She went in front of Lydecker and put the gun to his face, and pulled the trigger without
moving an inch. She even smiled at him. Lydecker fell down, dead. She looked at all of them, defying anyone to to say a word. "Now, I'm the
ONLY one in charge as of today, and I AM going to take them BACK! All of them, one by one, it that clear for everybody?" She took a pause,
looking at those soldiers who were standing strait in front of her, and saw a woman in the back. "You, the woman, come over here." Sera
began to walk near her, afraid to end up like her uncle. 'God I'm glad I took my mother's name, she thought, because right now, having Lydecker
written on my badge would give me a bullet in the head.' She stoped in front of her.

"Yes Madam?" She looked at Sera and read her name.

"Dr. Sera Dwain." She said looking at her in the eyes. "Maybe a woman will be smarter than a man, since it seems that I've
been working with morons!" She said the last part staring at the crowd of soldiers who weren't moving until she told them to. "Can you
tell me what happen Dr. Dwain?" Sera took a deep breath.

" I can tell you what I SAW, but as for the rest, I don't know."

"Fair enough." Said she. "I can't expect from you to know everything since you're not a soldier, but a doctor. Now spill it!"

"Lydecker came to me towards midnight, telling me that Max and Brin were trying to get out of here, and that Zack was there helping them. I
was very surprised to hear him talk of Zack, since I thought he was dead, well, we all thought he was." She took a pause, her mouth was the
Sahara Desert. "So I came down with him, and there was Brin, Zack, Max and another girl I've never seen before. They started fighting, and
Lydecker ordered his men to neutralized them, but Zack was able to took the weapon off Lydecker's hand, and then Brin knocked me unconscious. I
can't tell you more." She stared at her without blinking, knowing that if she blinked, the woman was going to be suspicious. 'Always tell
the truth or a lie without blinking!' Sera remembered her uncle telling her, when she was younger. 'People who blinks are always suspected to
lie.'

"Okay, so you all go to your respective assignment, and I'll see what I can do with those dumba$$ soldiers of mine. As for you Doctor, you can
go back to your work." Sera turned around and got out of the room as fast as she could. 'I gotta get the hell away from here!'