Jacen watched Wren and Terrence work with precision just as they were taught. Eighteen years, Jacen thought to himself, eighteen years of training and now it is all coming together. I'm coming for you Zack. Jacen sighed and thought back to the night of the escape. He could still hear the crash of glass as X-5 escaped. From the barracks window they watched them race across the snowy fields as search lights crisscrossed around them.

It was the only moment in Jacen's life that he thought control was out of his hands. His brothers and sisters gathered around him and watched them leave. They were all shocked that there were others but each new that it only made sense. There couldn't be an X-6 without the previous numbers already taken. The elation of there being others quickly faded as they all realized that they would no longer be with them at Manticore.

The others went to bed shortly after the sirens stopped but Jacen stayed at the window. He watched the trees shift in the wind after the soldiers had long passed through in search of the members of X-5. He could hardly believe everything that had happened. After months of planning Zack had double crossed him. Betrayed by those who knew most what their life was like. Jacen wasn't alone at the window. Seth had watched them leave and had stayed there staring off into the night sky.

Jacen and Seth's eyes locked and for a brief moment they both understood what the other knew. Each had thought they were the only ones to have made contact with the others. It was something they'd never talk about as now they felt utterly alone even though the people who mattered most were in the room with them. Seth walked to his bed and laid down staring up at the ceiling.

Jacen watched Seth in complete silence with a great feeling of sadness. Seth hadn't spoken much since Kris had died. They had been closer than anyone else but when Kris had gone into a bad case of seizures Lydecker had him taken outside of the room. Jacen could still remember hearing the shot cut into the night air and silence Kris's pleas. Seth had taken it harder than anyone else. They were family but Seth just didn't know how to handle the death.

An overwhelming sadness overtook Jacen as he realized that Seth had made a connection with someone from X-5 and now that connection had been severed. Just when Seth was opening up again Zack ruined it all. They could have all been together.

All of a sudden Jacen was no longer in the barracks but on the night street of Seattle. Jacen found his shoulders rising up and down as his breath quickened and became shallower. Zack was ten years of punishment. Ten years of grueling torture because Zack had escaped. They were forced to pay for the selfishness of X-5. Jacen knew that Zack was the only one who knew of the escape and so the others were just roadblocks to Jacen's ultimate goal.

Zack would pay for the ten years of hell that he had put Jacen's brothers and sisters through. It was then that a van arrived and the doors opened. The others made room for Jacen, Wren, and Terrence as they sped off into the night following the tracker. Jacen watched as the truck he has just been in exploded in a burst of flames that danced in the cold water of his eyes. Betrayed and forgotten. The wolves are ravenous for revenge. I'm coming Zack.