Title: Fallen Angels
From series: Dark Angel
Author: hotaru anne
Email: silentsenshi@hotmail.com
Date started: 01/31/2001
Date accomplished: 04/16/2001
Genre of fiction: science fiction/dark angel
Major characters: Max Guevera, Logan Cale, Brin, Zack, Mugen Nagosaki, Lydecker, Madame x, Bling
Summary: Manticore has created a new type of soldiers which even the X5 members can't beat. They lure Max, Brin and Zack out from hiding while Logan gets a visit from an unexpected visitor who could be the key to defeating this new army...
Note: This is my first Dark Angel fic. I hope you enjoy it. I'm thinking of making sequel following this, so, hang tight!
Timeline set on: Sometime between Season 1 and Season 2. ^^
Disclaimer: None of these characters, or the show belong to me except for Mugen Nagosaki, her guardian (which is mentioned countless of times in the story and all those people who doesn't sound like part of the series. The rest belongs to the creators of Dark Angel and (I guess) Fox Network.
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Prologue
They were crawling all over the place. The whole lot of them.
She turned around slowly. She had to watch her back otherwise she just might be backstabbed. Hah. It was good to know she hadn't lost her sense of humour. Not yet, anyways. In a world like this, it was easy to lose a part of you. Especially in Seattle.
Blast these military jarheads, she thought as she gripped the rifle she stole off a fallen soldier tightly. They're getting better by the second. If I haven't known, they probably are all genetically engineered or something! Thank goodness I'm in dark clothing.
But that didn't exactly made her feel better. She was still rampaging about the perimeter of the military establishment of Manticore. They would probably be wondering what the hell a teenager like her was walking about the perimeters of a military establishment. Better yet, why was this strange teenager holding a rifle? Or maybe, why did that teenager just knock down a security GROPO from the back gate? Maybe they were philosophers, she didn't know. One thing was for sure; she had to know their capabilities.
Too late. They knew their buddy at the back gate was down and now where on the hunt for someone. Maybe for one of the gifted children. They weren't really going to be expecting some teenager stalking about. A girl teenager with some trump cards up her sleeve.
They're security is too tight, she thought as she started running down an alleyway. This is going to be tougher than I initially thought. Damn...so much for being smart.
But that wasn't the last thing. Someone saw her. Some tall, tough dude. He shouted something, but she didn't pay attention to him for she had already dashed to a sprint. She didn't remember much about the layout of the outer districts, and now was certainly not the time to contemplate about, either.
The guy pursuing her was ever inch as fast, but she knew she could outwit him. She had done it before. In a world of chaos and danger lurking, she had to learn to act smart. There was no more time for naive ness. This was it. The real world.
Or what had become of the real world.
She looked at her digital watch, a special watch given to her before she left to her mission. A rough outline of the city map was on it, as she squinted at it. A red dot flashed brilliantly at the upper part of her watch. Her destination.
She looked back. She was still being pursued. Somehow, she had to lose him somewhere in the city before she reaches her destination. If not, she might blow the entire gig, and that would not be a wise thing to do. Plus, it would endanger those she had to meet up with. She couldn't allow that to happen. She had to fight this guy off.
I have to make it, or die trying to reach...
...Logan Cale.
Chapter One
"Anyone home?"
Logan craned his neck, trying to get rid of the tension he could feel coming up from his spine as a young woman peered from the glass walls. Gosh, did she always have to look so...beautiful? he asked himself as he said, "Hey, Max."
Max tipped her head and strode in. "Busy?" she asked.
She was glaring at the computer screen. He smiled, obviously humiliated at the fact that he was almost always busy. He shrugged as he shut off the computer monitor, and said, "Not anymore."
That brought a ghost of a smile on her lips.
"So, what's up?"
"Actually," she began, "I was going to talk to you about my next escapade. As you already know countless of times, I'm going to be trying to infiltrate my anti-Christ, right? Well, I thought, better yet, let me find my other siblings before blowing Lydecker once and for all. Everyone lives happily ever after."
Logan frowned slightly, making her think again. "What about me?"
She frowned too. "What about you?"
"Oh, geez, don't tell me you're getting all selfish on me!" he cried with fake hurtfulness. "I was going to uncover the government's conspiracy, remember? Don't tell me you forgot already..." Seeing her sheepish look, he let himself ease up and say, "I was only joking. I'm sure you'll be able to kick his ass soon enough. But how do you know where to look, I mean..."
"It's a big city, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy, yah, I know," she finished for him, leaning on the table and pouting. I wish she didn't have to pout like that, he thought. It makes her look like a puppy. She shrugged helplessly. "Mind you, though, it may be a big city, but I have the abilities of a cat."
Right; she was genetically enhanced.
He shrugged. "Okay. Okay. I give up already. You can go about searching for your siblings," he said, feeling like he had lost when there was no battle to be fought. He wheeled his way back to his computer. "Leave me here to sit, mope about and worry whether Lydecker's jarhead goofballs are after you."
He made it look like she had hurt his feelings. Those made her mind sudden crouch over in guilt. I wish he didn't have to give me the hurtful expression, she thought guiltily. Now I feel totally human again. But not the good side, though. Seeing him sort of daze off made her push down her training and walk up to him. She bent down.
"Who said I was leaving you behind?" she asked.
He flinched. "C'mon, Max," he said sceptically. "You know I can't go about in the condition that I'm in. I'll just get in your way. As usual," he added sombrely as he turned away from her brown eyes. It was hurting his, with or without glasses.
She took his hand. "You never are, Eyes Only. Never."
That seemed to make him feel better. The moment would even be romantic if not the window crashed from outside.
Max instinctively got to her feet to protect Logan, who wheeled slowly behind her. Charred glass was on his carpeted floor from the large window, and two bodies were on the floor, one clad in black and the other was in military garb.
Max flinched inwardly. Military.
The military guy groaned as the figure in clad black got to their feet, to reveal and young woman, long dark hair, almond eyes. Logan knew instantly that she was Asian, though she wasn't acting much like one. As soon as she reached her feet, the military man was on his as well.
"What the hell---" the military guy asked. "You!" He pointed to the girl. "You're one of those genetically enhanced kids Colonel Lydecker is looking for! Smart move, busting one of our men, but you aren't getting away that easily!"
The girl didn't respond except for a surprising kick that also freaked out the soldier. A blow to the chest. He stumbled back as she said, "Number one, I am not one of the gifted kids that that fool Lydecker decided to mess around with." She did another sidekick. "Number two, I already did." Another blow to the face this time.
He stumbled back to the open window.
She dazed back as she lifted the rifle from her back slung over to the soldier's bruised face. She did not flinch, which surprised both Max and Logan, as she gripped the rifle. "You were wrong to even try and stop me," she said coolly. "You shouldn't try fighting someone unless you know you can win."
"You won't get away---"
"I already have---"
Logan wheeled beyond Max, much to her protest. "No, don't do it!"
She turned. Her dark eyes pierced against his for a split second. He could see everything. She didn't want to do it, but she had to. She had no choice. In a way, she reminded him of Max. But in the fraction of the second, her head jolted as the powerful kick threw her to the glass wall with a bam.
Max walked up to the soldier and launched a full assault, a sidekick to the left, a hook punch to the cheek, an apricot punch to the chin and an elbow to the belly. He slammed into a lampshade and slid backward, hitting the floor.
Logan wheeled to the fallen girl. "Are you okay?" he asked.
She nodded as she grimaced. Max was standing directly before her and the big glassy hole behind her. She noticed immediately that the officer was standing up now and was ready to attack Max full speed ahead. Without thinking, she charged, ignoring the pain to her belly, and slammed the officer full-speed.
She caught her balance before the edge of the floor, but the GROPO unfortunately did not. He kept sliding back till he was mid-air. In a desperate attempt to fly, gravity caught him and he screamed high-pitched as he was pulled down to the earth. She didn't keep looking; she could already see the outcome.
Max blinked at the girl. Who is she? she wondered. Could she be part of Manticore? No...Although she possesses the inertial speed and attack, she doesn't appear to be under control. Maybe she's another one of us from another group who escaped Lydecker. She took a glance at Logan. "You okay?"
"Yah. Are you?"
"No sweat." She turned back to the girl, who was now fiddling with the bullet pocket of the rifle she was holding. Max grimaced; that was state of the art, hi-tech rifles. Top of the line, only that military personnel can handle one. It was worth a lot of money...so why was this kid holding one? "Why was he after you?"
The girl looked at her. Max suddenly felt a bit woozy. The way the girl looked at her was driving her nauseous, as if she were going into another attack of the seizures, only it wasn't hurting. She looked sort of afraid...no, doubtful of her capabilities, but yet she was bold enough to go through it all. She looked peculiar..."I did something that I wasn't supposed to be doing."
Logan rode his way to where they stood. "Who are you?"
She blinked, as if out of a trance. "Oh, I am terribly sorry about your window, Mr. Cale," she stammered, as if a child again. "I didn't mean to crash through like that. I'll make sure that it is repaired at once." With a shrug, she turned around.
"Wait a minute!" Logan called, making her spin around coolly, gracefully. "Okay, you crash into my window, chased by a military officer, throw him out of my window, and you leave as if nothing really happened?"
Leave it to Logan to get cynical, Max thought.
"Pretty much."
This girl can even it up, she thought, frowning.
"Aren't you at least going to tell me your name?" he asked.
She considered it, and it showed. Then, she turned away from his piercing blue eyes and faced Max. "Take care of him," she said simply but seriously. She then tipped her head, turned on her heel and looked down from the gaping hole. With a leap, she disappeared.
Logan blinked as he looked up at Max. "What was that about?"
"I don't know," she responded. "But I do know one thing...she knows something and she probably came here to tell us something, but she was obviously stopped. She'll come back again..."
From series: Dark Angel
Author: hotaru anne
Email: silentsenshi@hotmail.com
Date started: 01/31/2001
Date accomplished: 04/16/2001
Genre of fiction: science fiction/dark angel
Major characters: Max Guevera, Logan Cale, Brin, Zack, Mugen Nagosaki, Lydecker, Madame x, Bling
Summary: Manticore has created a new type of soldiers which even the X5 members can't beat. They lure Max, Brin and Zack out from hiding while Logan gets a visit from an unexpected visitor who could be the key to defeating this new army...
Note: This is my first Dark Angel fic. I hope you enjoy it. I'm thinking of making sequel following this, so, hang tight!
Timeline set on: Sometime between Season 1 and Season 2. ^^
Disclaimer: None of these characters, or the show belong to me except for Mugen Nagosaki, her guardian (which is mentioned countless of times in the story and all those people who doesn't sound like part of the series. The rest belongs to the creators of Dark Angel and (I guess) Fox Network.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Prologue
They were crawling all over the place. The whole lot of them.
She turned around slowly. She had to watch her back otherwise she just might be backstabbed. Hah. It was good to know she hadn't lost her sense of humour. Not yet, anyways. In a world like this, it was easy to lose a part of you. Especially in Seattle.
Blast these military jarheads, she thought as she gripped the rifle she stole off a fallen soldier tightly. They're getting better by the second. If I haven't known, they probably are all genetically engineered or something! Thank goodness I'm in dark clothing.
But that didn't exactly made her feel better. She was still rampaging about the perimeter of the military establishment of Manticore. They would probably be wondering what the hell a teenager like her was walking about the perimeters of a military establishment. Better yet, why was this strange teenager holding a rifle? Or maybe, why did that teenager just knock down a security GROPO from the back gate? Maybe they were philosophers, she didn't know. One thing was for sure; she had to know their capabilities.
Too late. They knew their buddy at the back gate was down and now where on the hunt for someone. Maybe for one of the gifted children. They weren't really going to be expecting some teenager stalking about. A girl teenager with some trump cards up her sleeve.
They're security is too tight, she thought as she started running down an alleyway. This is going to be tougher than I initially thought. Damn...so much for being smart.
But that wasn't the last thing. Someone saw her. Some tall, tough dude. He shouted something, but she didn't pay attention to him for she had already dashed to a sprint. She didn't remember much about the layout of the outer districts, and now was certainly not the time to contemplate about, either.
The guy pursuing her was ever inch as fast, but she knew she could outwit him. She had done it before. In a world of chaos and danger lurking, she had to learn to act smart. There was no more time for naive ness. This was it. The real world.
Or what had become of the real world.
She looked at her digital watch, a special watch given to her before she left to her mission. A rough outline of the city map was on it, as she squinted at it. A red dot flashed brilliantly at the upper part of her watch. Her destination.
She looked back. She was still being pursued. Somehow, she had to lose him somewhere in the city before she reaches her destination. If not, she might blow the entire gig, and that would not be a wise thing to do. Plus, it would endanger those she had to meet up with. She couldn't allow that to happen. She had to fight this guy off.
I have to make it, or die trying to reach...
...Logan Cale.
Chapter One
"Anyone home?"
Logan craned his neck, trying to get rid of the tension he could feel coming up from his spine as a young woman peered from the glass walls. Gosh, did she always have to look so...beautiful? he asked himself as he said, "Hey, Max."
Max tipped her head and strode in. "Busy?" she asked.
She was glaring at the computer screen. He smiled, obviously humiliated at the fact that he was almost always busy. He shrugged as he shut off the computer monitor, and said, "Not anymore."
That brought a ghost of a smile on her lips.
"So, what's up?"
"Actually," she began, "I was going to talk to you about my next escapade. As you already know countless of times, I'm going to be trying to infiltrate my anti-Christ, right? Well, I thought, better yet, let me find my other siblings before blowing Lydecker once and for all. Everyone lives happily ever after."
Logan frowned slightly, making her think again. "What about me?"
She frowned too. "What about you?"
"Oh, geez, don't tell me you're getting all selfish on me!" he cried with fake hurtfulness. "I was going to uncover the government's conspiracy, remember? Don't tell me you forgot already..." Seeing her sheepish look, he let himself ease up and say, "I was only joking. I'm sure you'll be able to kick his ass soon enough. But how do you know where to look, I mean..."
"It's a big city, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy, yah, I know," she finished for him, leaning on the table and pouting. I wish she didn't have to pout like that, he thought. It makes her look like a puppy. She shrugged helplessly. "Mind you, though, it may be a big city, but I have the abilities of a cat."
Right; she was genetically enhanced.
He shrugged. "Okay. Okay. I give up already. You can go about searching for your siblings," he said, feeling like he had lost when there was no battle to be fought. He wheeled his way back to his computer. "Leave me here to sit, mope about and worry whether Lydecker's jarhead goofballs are after you."
He made it look like she had hurt his feelings. Those made her mind sudden crouch over in guilt. I wish he didn't have to give me the hurtful expression, she thought guiltily. Now I feel totally human again. But not the good side, though. Seeing him sort of daze off made her push down her training and walk up to him. She bent down.
"Who said I was leaving you behind?" she asked.
He flinched. "C'mon, Max," he said sceptically. "You know I can't go about in the condition that I'm in. I'll just get in your way. As usual," he added sombrely as he turned away from her brown eyes. It was hurting his, with or without glasses.
She took his hand. "You never are, Eyes Only. Never."
That seemed to make him feel better. The moment would even be romantic if not the window crashed from outside.
Max instinctively got to her feet to protect Logan, who wheeled slowly behind her. Charred glass was on his carpeted floor from the large window, and two bodies were on the floor, one clad in black and the other was in military garb.
Max flinched inwardly. Military.
The military guy groaned as the figure in clad black got to their feet, to reveal and young woman, long dark hair, almond eyes. Logan knew instantly that she was Asian, though she wasn't acting much like one. As soon as she reached her feet, the military man was on his as well.
"What the hell---" the military guy asked. "You!" He pointed to the girl. "You're one of those genetically enhanced kids Colonel Lydecker is looking for! Smart move, busting one of our men, but you aren't getting away that easily!"
The girl didn't respond except for a surprising kick that also freaked out the soldier. A blow to the chest. He stumbled back as she said, "Number one, I am not one of the gifted kids that that fool Lydecker decided to mess around with." She did another sidekick. "Number two, I already did." Another blow to the face this time.
He stumbled back to the open window.
She dazed back as she lifted the rifle from her back slung over to the soldier's bruised face. She did not flinch, which surprised both Max and Logan, as she gripped the rifle. "You were wrong to even try and stop me," she said coolly. "You shouldn't try fighting someone unless you know you can win."
"You won't get away---"
"I already have---"
Logan wheeled beyond Max, much to her protest. "No, don't do it!"
She turned. Her dark eyes pierced against his for a split second. He could see everything. She didn't want to do it, but she had to. She had no choice. In a way, she reminded him of Max. But in the fraction of the second, her head jolted as the powerful kick threw her to the glass wall with a bam.
Max walked up to the soldier and launched a full assault, a sidekick to the left, a hook punch to the cheek, an apricot punch to the chin and an elbow to the belly. He slammed into a lampshade and slid backward, hitting the floor.
Logan wheeled to the fallen girl. "Are you okay?" he asked.
She nodded as she grimaced. Max was standing directly before her and the big glassy hole behind her. She noticed immediately that the officer was standing up now and was ready to attack Max full speed ahead. Without thinking, she charged, ignoring the pain to her belly, and slammed the officer full-speed.
She caught her balance before the edge of the floor, but the GROPO unfortunately did not. He kept sliding back till he was mid-air. In a desperate attempt to fly, gravity caught him and he screamed high-pitched as he was pulled down to the earth. She didn't keep looking; she could already see the outcome.
Max blinked at the girl. Who is she? she wondered. Could she be part of Manticore? No...Although she possesses the inertial speed and attack, she doesn't appear to be under control. Maybe she's another one of us from another group who escaped Lydecker. She took a glance at Logan. "You okay?"
"Yah. Are you?"
"No sweat." She turned back to the girl, who was now fiddling with the bullet pocket of the rifle she was holding. Max grimaced; that was state of the art, hi-tech rifles. Top of the line, only that military personnel can handle one. It was worth a lot of money...so why was this kid holding one? "Why was he after you?"
The girl looked at her. Max suddenly felt a bit woozy. The way the girl looked at her was driving her nauseous, as if she were going into another attack of the seizures, only it wasn't hurting. She looked sort of afraid...no, doubtful of her capabilities, but yet she was bold enough to go through it all. She looked peculiar..."I did something that I wasn't supposed to be doing."
Logan rode his way to where they stood. "Who are you?"
She blinked, as if out of a trance. "Oh, I am terribly sorry about your window, Mr. Cale," she stammered, as if a child again. "I didn't mean to crash through like that. I'll make sure that it is repaired at once." With a shrug, she turned around.
"Wait a minute!" Logan called, making her spin around coolly, gracefully. "Okay, you crash into my window, chased by a military officer, throw him out of my window, and you leave as if nothing really happened?"
Leave it to Logan to get cynical, Max thought.
"Pretty much."
This girl can even it up, she thought, frowning.
"Aren't you at least going to tell me your name?" he asked.
She considered it, and it showed. Then, she turned away from his piercing blue eyes and faced Max. "Take care of him," she said simply but seriously. She then tipped her head, turned on her heel and looked down from the gaping hole. With a leap, she disappeared.
Logan blinked as he looked up at Max. "What was that about?"
"I don't know," she responded. "But I do know one thing...she knows something and she probably came here to tell us something, but she was obviously stopped. She'll come back again..."
