Title-X9
Author-Fearia
Summary-Oh just read it!
Rating-PG-13
Max waited patiently for the phone to pick up. She knew it wasn't wise anyone, but she just had to hear a friendly voice again. Those endless nights at Manticore had made her mind float back to Logan, especially the fact that they had just realized the mutual feelings of love the night before her capture. And then the dream floated back into her mind. The dream that they had saved the day and she and Logan had…*ahem*.
Cossette found a place to sit and pulled her book bag off her shoulders. She smiled when she realized that Max stood out like a sore thumb. She was still wearing her camouflage suit and combat boots. Then she thought that a girl like that could make something out of that, such as a "fashion statement". Cossette pulled out a notebook and a pen that was held in the rings. Even though she was designed and trained to be a weapon of mass destruction, she still had her creative side! She wrote the stories her mother and father had told her when she was a child. She wrote them down from memory for the day that they would escape her.
Her favorite wasn't made up by her parents, but it was written by Rudyard Kipling, a very talented English writer. It was entitled "How Fear Came" and was special to her because her name was Fearia, of Fear. It spoke about how the creator of all things gave the millions of creatures their place. But the tiger disobeyed and did what he was not allowed to do. So, in the form of a man, the creator made Fear. Fear would always chase the tiger around wherever he went for all but one day in the year, but that one day was when Fear was afraid of the tiger, and the tiger unafraid of Fear.
Logan waited by his phone for the X5s to call. So far, the only calls he had gotten were Original Cindy, a confirmation call for Bling's pizza, and a wrong number. He resorted to playing solitare to pass the time. Bling ate his pizza at the kitchen table. Logan said, "Bling, thanks for hanging around. I don't know what would happen if I was left alone.
"What are friends for?" Bling smiled. "You want a piece?"
"Don't mind if I do!" Logan stood up to walk over, but was interrupted by the telephone ringing. "Oh please be an X5!!" Logan prayed. He picked up the phone and said, "Hello?"
It was an X5, one that he thought was gone. "You know, you should have really left me up to finding the others, Logan!" Guess who…
"Nice to hear from you too Zack. Did you get any calls?" Logan responded.
"All of them. That is why you should leave me MY priorities!"
"At least HE is polite as ever…" Logan thought.
"All the X5s are okay, all but Max. Manticore has her. We're staging another attack on them to get her back."
"Zack, that is not a good idea. She's gone anyway."
"That's another thing you got wrong, Logan. She is alive and well, but being taken care of by Lydecker's daughter. Nothing good can come of that."
"How can she be? I watched her die!"
"That's the amazing thing about Max." With that Zack hung up the phone.
Logan followed suit and leaned back into his chair. Bling swallowed his bite of pizza and asked, "So?"
"All the X5s are checked in. And…"
"And what?"
"Max is alive." Logan sat up straight. "Max? Alive?" He went over to the table that Bling was sitting at and said over and over, "Max is alive!"
"Logan, sit down and relax," Bling advised.
"But Max is ALIVE! Do you know what this means?"
"She is alive?"
"EXACTLY!"
Original Cindy picked up the ringing phone. "Yellow."
"Cindy, it's me!" Max said breathlessly.
"Girl!" she exclaimed. "Where the hell are you?"
"Long story, I just gotta tell you something."
"Shoot."
"I'm going to be back tomorrow morning, but not a word to ANYONE, you hear?"
"If you don't want anyone to know, why are to telling me?"
"Because I don't wanna scare the shit out of my roommate."
"Aiight. You can trust me boo."
"Thanks boo," Max said before she hung up the phone.
Cossette smiled and shut her notebook when Max came over. "Making a fashion statement?"
Max merely glared at her and sat next to her. "Like a gray hooded sweatshirt and old jeans are better?" Max grabbed a magazine from off an end table and opened it. She pointed to a picture of a bum. "HE looks better than you!"
Cossette grabbed the mag and looked at it. "Ya know he looks kinda cute!" She smiled her evil smile right before Max snagged the magazine back.
Do not attempt to adjust your set this is a streaming freedom video bulletin. It cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped, and is the only free voice left in the city. Dreamer had done it! All the plushies in the world are snagged and in the hands of her minions. She has been last spotted en route to Gillette, Wyoming to supposively "pay back" an old friend. Seattle is at a standstill with this terrorist, for now. This has been eyes only, over and out.
Two hours and seven magazines later, the bus rolled in. Now for a six hour trip to Seattle. Cossette and Max climbed aboard and each found a seat that was big enough to curl up on, seeing as there was hardly anyone on the bus. When everyone was boarded and situated, the bus took off.
Cossette thought grumpily, "And people ENJOY riding these things?"
Max looked over at Cossette and asked, "You don't get out much, do ya?"
"I'm Lydecker's daughter, an X9 and a nurse, you do the math." Cossette rested her head against the back of her seat.
"That's the other thing I don't get is how you are an X9 and your are older than the newest ones. What are they X11s or something?" Max asked.
"No, X9 is the top right now. X10 is under construction. That was supposed to be my next mission, but I was 'terminated' as my father was. You saw what happened to my newest car! That was my sweet sixteen present." Cossette smiled.
"Sweet sixteen? If you are a prototype, how could you know anything about birthdays or family?"
"That's the thing about X8 and X9. X8 completely failed and X9 almost did as well. I am, or was, the only one loyal to Manticore. Now, it is a failure. They believe everyone but me is dead, and now everyone is dead, to them. But I found out that Dreamer, my only friend, is still alive. They were ordered to terminate her, but knowing her, she got out of it some way. I also hear that she is terrorizing the northwest area of America." On that note, the bus stopped.
A small green-haired, clear-eyed, and very curious-looking girl climbed aboard the bus. She took the mic and said, "Hello everybody, this is your new captain speaking. Please relax while my minions take over the bus!"
Cossette stood up and yelled, "DREAMER!"
"Fear?" the girl asked.
Hehehehe, Fear made a cliffhanger! Well, just wait for chapter 4!!! As always, R&R!!!