Logan looked at the bare walls of his once luxurious apartment. Whatever wasn't important to Eyes Only was sold to further his cause. He sighed as he looked at the spot on the wall where his favorite painting used to be. Suddenly the beauty was gone and all he could see was the drab paint on the wall. He sighed and rolled over into the kitchen and away from the exoskeleton that he spent most of his time working on.

It was then he heard the knock on the door and he knew it could only be Max. With a smile on his face he rolled to the hallway and was already calling out, "So how did tonight go. Any new le...." he stopped short when he saw Zack standing in the doorway next to Max. "Hey Zack," Logan trailed off as his new good mood left him.

Zack just walked right by him and into the living room and sat on the couch. It was then that Logan noticed the handcuffs around Max's wrists and the look on her face. It had been a trap.

"Little help here?" Max smiled.

Logan smiled briefly and brought her a paper clip and watched her quickly remove the handcuffs and toss them on the counter. "So what's Mr. Sunshine doing here?"

Max sighed and whispered back hoping Zack couldn't hear, "You were right. It was a trap and apparently not the first. They have Syl and Zane. Zack blames himself."

"Manticore?" Logan asked.

"Yeah, but not the jugheads we're used to."

This got Logan's attention as Max wheeled him into the living room, "So who were they?"

Max stopped and let Logan push himself over to his computer and turn facing Max as Zack sat in the corner, "They were X-6."

Logan looked up at Max, "X-6?"

"Yeah, apparently we weren't alone at Manticore," Max replied.

"How many were there?" Logan asked.

"Only three but apparently there are more. Probably thirty or more if it's anything like X-5."

All this time Zack stayed silent as he watched the two of them talk. He hated that Max needed to cling onto Logan like she did. He had taught her better than that. He watched Max sit across from both Logan and himself. She was trying desperately to show that she wasn't siding with anyone but Zack knew from experience that she cared for Logan.

Logan and Max continued going over the nights events when finally Zack interrupted, "What are we going to do about this?"

Logan looked over at Zack trying to brush off that he had been interrupted. He had almost forgotten Zack was there with Max in the room. Logan looked over at Max before turning back to Zack and responding, "I think your best bet is to get out of here. You might want to warn the others that haven't already met with these guys. Where is Krit now?"

Zack looked from Logan to Max and sat back, "Finally something I agree with. Krit is in a safe place in Seattle and I've already sent out messages to the others. Any who aren't already captured will be on their way here."

Logan looked back at Zack, "Here? Where the X-6 are? That's a genius plan."

Zack shot a glare over at Logan, "It wasn't much of a choice. They're reported to follow the origin of the call. If it wasn't for Max blindly walking into a trap then I would have had the others go elsewhere. There's only time to do so much."

Max finally shouted above the arguing, "Alright that's enough. We're not going to get anywhere arguing. We need to get Krit here and keep together."

Zack stood up and grabbed Max's arm and headed for the door, "No, we need to go to Krit and get out of here."

Max pulled her arm away from Zack, "I'm not going anywhere until I know what's going on. I know you know more than you're telling. You always know what is going on."

Zack looked at Max for several moments and glanced at Logan who shrugged and gestured to Max.

Zack sat down on the couch in front of Max and sighed, "You may or may not remember but we were not alone at Manticore. In fact we were supposed to believe that we were but near our barracks was another group known as X-6. They were one of three other groups at Manticore. It was through their leader Jacen that we made a plan of escape."

Max sat down on the table trying to stay between Zack and Logan in case anything started again, "If Jacen was in on it then why weren't they involved?"

Zack suddenly went cold and stated, "It was too much of a risk. There were just too many of us. So the night before we were supposed to leave we escaped."

Logan suddenly added another reason to his "despise Zack" list, "So you left them. They helped you plan to escape and you just left them?"

Zack almost stood up but tried to control himself in front of Max, "I was thinking about Max and the others. If all of us tried to escape than some of us would surely be tracked down and I didn't want that being one of us."

Max suddenly realized why there had been so much pain and hate in Jacen's eyes. He had once had the same dreams for freedom that they had had but were betrayed by their own. Max suddenly didn't recognize Zack. She knew that he was just being the protecting older brother he had always been but suddenly it was like he was a stranger who frightened her. It was then that she first heard the sound. It was almost like the sound of a zipper but louder and there were several of them. In a split second the windows crashed in and a blinding light flashed in front of her.