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AN: sorry these last few chapters took so long. i've been on vacation for the past two weeks and didnt have acsess to a computer.
CHAPTER 4
After work Max walked into Logan's penthouse "Logan, you around?" she called. When she recieved no answer she started to get worried. When she walked into the living room, she saw bullet shells on the floor and a few spots of blood. She also noticed that Logan's wheelchair was tipped over against the wall. Manticore, she thought no one else would take such care to pick the lock and not take anything. The first thought she had was that she had to rescue Logan. But then she remembered the list with Krit, Syl, and Zane's addresses on it. She figured that she should go and tell them that their position had been comprimised and then they could help her rescue Logan. She ran down stairs to her motorcycle and raced across the border to get her siblings. They didn't question her, they followed speechlessly to Logan's penthouse. When they walked in Zane was the first to speak "Wow! Nice place. You either robbed a millionair or married one."
"It's a friend's house." Max said "Which is why I need your help. He was taken to Manticore because of me and I need to get him out of there before Lydecker kills him.
"How are we going to get him out?" Krit asked
"I'm not sure yet." Max said "But we can start by hacking into the Manticore mainframe and finding out exactly where they're keeping him."
"We can't do that." Syl said "Their security system is too good."
"We can't," Max agreed "but I know who can." She picked up the phone and dialed Sebastian's number.
"Hello." he answered
"Hey, it's Max. Logan's friend."
"I remember you. What can I do for you?"
"I need you to hack into the Manticore mainframe for me. Logan is in there and I need you to find out where."
"Okay, I can have the information to you in a few hours."
"Thanks." When Max hung up the phone, Krit asked
"Don't you think that we should tell Zach that we are going into Manticore?"
"I would," Max said "but I don't know how to reach him."
"Didn't he give you his contact number?" Krit asked
"No," Max said "he said that I couldn't be trusted because I wouldn't listen to him."
"He was always overly cautious." Syl said
"Why did Lydecker take your friend to Manticore anyway?" Zane asked
"He was helping me find the rest of you. So basically, it's my fault that he's in there, thats why I have to help get him out before Lydecker kills him." Not for the first time since Logan had been taken to Manticore, Max felt like crying at the thought that she might never see Logan again. "As soon as we get the information from Sebastian we'll formulate a plan to get him and the two FBI agents out of there."
"Until then," Krit said "does Logan have anything to eat?"
"Fridge." Max said. She watched her siblings go off the the kitchen, she was too worried about Logan to eat so she went into the computer room. She was looking through Logan's stuff, trying to figure out what Lydecker had taken when Zach entered from the window behind her.
"Hi Maxie." he said
She turned around, suprised "Zach, what are you doing here?"
"I need your help. I can't find Zane. He called my contact number and then disappeared." he was obviously concerned
"Did I hear my name mentioned?" Zane asked, as he walked into the room holding a dish of ice cream and a bottle of beer. "Logan's got Canadian beer." he told Max "That stuff is hard to find."
"Where the fuck have you been?! You called my contact number and then disappeared! What the hell am I supposed to think!" Zach yelled
"Calm down." Zane said "I'm right here."
"What's going on here?" Syl asked as she walked into the room, followed by Krit
"Zach's here." Zane said, annnouncing the obvious
"Oh." Krit said "That explains alot."
The apperance of more X-5's made Zach even more angry. "Why the hell are all of you at Logan's house? Didn't I tell all of you that it's not safe for us to be around each other. If Lydecker is set up on one of you then he gets four instead of one!" he was still yelling
"Calm down." Max said "Ms. Morano will get worried."
"I bet Logan gathered all of you to go on one of his little Eyes-Only missions. He just thinks whenever he needs something done, you can do the dirty work for him." as soon as Zach said that he regreted it because Max hit him in the jaw, hard.
"Your boyfriend is eyes-only?" Zane asked
Max ignored him and spoke to Zach "Logan has been taken to Manticore because of me and I'm going to get him out. He put his ass on the line for us hundreds of times and I'm not leaving him in there. None of you have to come with me, I can go in by myself."
"What's your plan?" Zach asked, he had calmed down and felt somewhat sorry for all that he said.
"We don't know yet. We're waiting for a friend to hack into surrveilence system." Syl said. as if on cue, the phone rang.
"Hey." Max answered
"Hi." Sebastian said "I have a floorplan of Manticore and the location of Logan and Agents Mulder and Scully."
"How is Logan?" Max asked, worried.
"He is being tortured and beaten. He's holding up, but I don't know for how long. He wont be able to walk out of Manticore, obviously, but both agent Mulder and agent Scully can walk, even though they were shot, thanks to Manticore technology."
"I'll come and pick up the map of the floorplan and whatever other information you have. Okay."
"You had better get here soon, because the sooner you get Logan out of there, the more chance he has to recover from the beatings." he said, max couldn't tell if he was worried because of the computer simulated voice, but she was pretty sure that he was.
"I'll be right over." Max said, as she hung up the phone. She turned to the others and said "I'm going to Sebastian's to get the information. Why don't you go to my place and wait for me there.
"I'll go with you." Zach said, and then they both left.
Max's apartment 20 min. later
Cindy was sitting on the couch, listening to her discman, when Zane, Krit, and Syl walked in arguing "I could've picked that lock ten times faster than you."
"Yeah, right." they stopped when they saw Cindy sitting on the couch looking at them surprised.
"Is this Max's apartment?" Krit asked
"Yeah, who're you?" Cindy said
"She told us to meet her here." Zane said avoiding the question
"Good for you, but that wasn't the answer to my question. Who are you?"
"We're her brothers and sister." Zane said
"She didn't have no brothers or sisters, unless..." Cindy walked behind Krit and looked at the back of his neck. "Your from Manticore."
"She told you about Manticore." Syl said
"Yeah." Cindy said " Do you want something to drink?"
"Sure," they replied
"So," Syl asked Cindy "what's going on between Max and this guy named Logan? We're all going out to Manticore to save his ass and we don't even know who he is."
"Don't even get me started on that whole situation." Cindy said " They are so in love with each other. You should see the way that they look at each other. It's pathetic that neither will admit it."
"Oh." Syl said. Any further discussion on the topic was stopped because Max and Zach walked into the door.
"We got the floorplan and Zach has gotten us a foolproof plan." Max said as she laid the floorplan down on the kitchen table.
"Before I go into details about the plan, we need some equitment." Zach said "Zane, I need you to aqquire a jeep or Hummer somehow."
"I can hotwire one in five minutes." Zane replied
"Krit, you can come with me to steal some weapons and ammunition from the gunshop down the street. We'll meet back here in an hour, and then leave for Wyoming."
A/N: I know that this chapter is the longest one that I have written yet, but it's the second to last chapter in the story. I have the last chapter half done, it should be out within the next two days. please read and review.