Chapter 5
Trigs returns.
The trip to Wyoming was made in silence. Carn and Renz were shocked at their friend. Trigs had told them she had no feelings for her sisters, yet here she was, with her baby sister's head on her lap. She was stroking Kiri's hair, her slim fingers tracing the fine curls of her hair. She had a look in her eyes they had never seen before, a look of love and affection, a look of longing.
"Ben's dead," said Renz when they reached the state line for Wyoming, "You okay?"
"Yeah," said Trigs, "I'm as okay as I can be. I know what I now have to do."
"You mean we're not going to dump her and go to Canada?"
"No. That's something Zack would do. I am not Zack. I'm Trigs. I'm going to get Brin out of there."
"What about your siblings, Max and Zack? Igen said they were in there."
"You help them Carn. Renz and I will go get Brin."
"The X5 we just fought?"
"Yes."
"Oh fun," said Carn, turning the wheel onto the small back road only a few miles from Manticore.
"How's your shoulder?" asked Renz.
"For once, I thank Renfro," she answered, "All those drugs she gave me seem to have improved my immune system to a point where I no longer need to be stitched."
"It's healed?" asked Carn.
"Yeah. She did say my potential would be reached at about twenty-two. I guess this is one of the things she did to me."
"Well it's a blessing in disguise."
"It hurts, but I think I could still take down Brin with it."
"Trigs, you were shot. You're good, but not a god."
"I said I can take her down with this. Now give me those smelling salts so I can get Kiri up, then get out."
"Trigs, I'm not going to let you kill yourself."
"Carn, you can't stop me."
"Trigs, we don't know what she's done to you. That time she got you back Trigs, you know I worry."
"Don't worry about me. I'm a soldier. If I die, big deal."
"If you die, I lose the woman I love. I watched my family die when I was fourteen, Trigs. I won't lose you too."
"Carn, trust me."
"Isn't that was Ben said when he left us and said he was going to come back. Isn't that what Tinga said when she said she was going to get her son and Husband."
"This is no time to be quarreling," said Renz, "Trigs, unless you want to see your siblings, get out of the car now!"
"I bounce," said Trigs, glaring at Carn and jumping from the moving car, rolling easily and dashing into the woods. Renz and Carn knew she would follow them, and watch from the trees outside the house. They knew she wouldn't be caught. Trigs was like that.
"Why do you do that?" asked Renz, "You and her quarrel worse than I did with my siblings."
"I don't want to talk about it."
"You love her, she loves you. WHY DON'T YOU GET ALONG."
"Where am I?" asked a groggy Kiri from the backseat.
"We're friends," said Renz instantly, "We're taking you to Igen."
"Who are you?"
"We just got you away from Brin and Renfro."
"I need to get to the others. They've got Max and Zack."
"We know. They know. You're going to be there in a few minutes."
"How long have I been out?"
"We don't know. You were out cold in that backseat for hours."
"I had a dream."
"A dream?"
"My sister was here. She had long red hair and violet eyes."
"Nope. No one was here. Just us two X series."
"X series?"
"I'm X4-237. Renz. This is my friend Carn."
"I'm X5 437."
"Kiri. We know."
"How did you get me out? Brin caught me, she beat me."
"We're going to get her out of there. Me and Carn are going to get her and bring her back to her X5 family."
"You think you can take down Brin? Which of my siblings have you been talking too?"
"Mostly Ben. Carn's spoken to Igen a few times. Tinga talked to us a few times."
"And yet never Zack?"
"Zack's back in Manticore."
"I know. Brin told me, and she threw off my concentration. It's how she caught me."
"We're almost to the building. Carn'll carry you in."
"Who's there?"
"Jondy, Syl, Krit, Zane, Igen, and someone neither of us want to see."
"Who?" she asked, sitting up and looking ahead.
"Lyedecker. He's on your side now."
"Our side you mean."
"Carn and I have our own agenda. We aren't X5's, and we don't need to get mixed up in this. Ben was our friend, and we'll get Brin out for him."
"He died too soon."
"And so will Max and Zack and Brin if we don't help them Kiri."
"I'll do it, but there are people who need more saving than Max and Zack."
"Like who?"
"Like my little sister Trigsie."
"Trigsie?"
"She's locked in the basement with the Nomolies."
"She's dead," said Renz, "We knew her. X5-631 died a few years back."
"Trigs isn't dead. I saw Renfro take her a few years ago."
"Yes, and she died, but keep it quiet. No one else knows she lived past the fire, including Lyedecker."
"I won't trust him."
"We don't either, but we have to. We have to get Brin, and you need your CO back."
"Fine!"
"We're here," said Carn, stopping the car, and getting out, stretching in the moonlight before going around and picking up Kiri. Renz jumped out of the hummer and walked towards the small house, his even footsteps the only sound in the darkness. Renz was cautious, even though he knew it was safe. The thought of Lyedecker, and all the things Trigs had told him about the man, scared him. He wondered why he was scared, considering her could snap Lyedecker's neck in an instant, but he realized it was because it was how he was. He was authority, and he was trained to fear authority.
"Kiri!' came a loud call. Jondy, the pretty girl from the bar, came racing across the ground to where Carn held her. She took her weak sister, and hugged her tightly. Carn moved forward and walked into the cabin alongside Renz with no afterthought. He was trained to forget emotions, he was a soldier.
He had always been a soldier, but Trigs made him a person.
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"It's murder to go back in there," said Lyedecker to Logan and Igen and Zane, both of whom were sitting in the back room of the safe house. Syl had been with them, but had left when Jondy called her.
"We need to save Max," insisted Logan.
"Not at the expense of our lives!" said Lyedecker; "Anyone with half a mind would not go back in there."
"That's why you've got reinforcements like me and Carn," said Renz, walking into the back room with Carn right behind him.
"Who's this?" asked Logan, looking to the older men.
"Friends," said Igen, looking happy to see Renz, and almost not unhappy to see Carn at the same time.
"Friends?" said Lyedecker, "Why friends? We're going into a war."
"And both of us have seen war," said Renz, "We were trained to fight."
"And as much as I hate you," said Carn, "You always taught me that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Renz and I promised to get Brin out, and we'll do it, even if we have to pair up with you."
"Who are these people?" asked Logan and Zane at the same time.
"These two just broke Kiri out of Renfro's grasp. This is X4 237, Renz and his partner Carn."
"He's an X series too," said Renz, "He just doesn't like to talk."
"He's an X2," said Lyedecker, "Why are you helping us?"
"We promised we'd free Brin," said Renz, "And we know how."
"It's suicide," said Lyedecker.
"So is letting them reprogram Max and Zack. Zack knows where everyone is, and how he or she moves. It would be like locking someone in a room with someone mentally unstable."
"Like I did to Trigs," said Lyedecker, "X2 045."
"Sir."
"You're dead."
"Only X5 631 died in that fire. Renz and I got away. I became sane when Renfro stopped giving me those drugs."
"The drugs?" said Logan, "Explain this to me again, from the beginning."
"I'd like to hear this," said Lyedecker, "Although I wouldn't trust these two. One's a raving Lunatic who was taken away for being delusional, while the other was a monster."
"You ever wonder why the X2's went mad only after Renfro took us over. She tried to mess with us, and ended up destroying our minds."
"She did it to me too," said Renz, looking angrily at Lyedecker as Jondy, Kiri, Syl and Krit walked to the doorway.
"And she did it to Trigs. She made X5 631 into something better than the X7's. She was faster, strong, smarter, sturdier, better than the X7's. She resisted conditioning, as you know, and Renfro assumed she must be just a deviant. That's why she went so nuts so quickly," explained Carn.
"Trigs wasn't a Nomolie?" asked Kiri.
"Never," said Carn, "And I'm afraid she'll do to X5 734 what she did to X5 631, and I don't want to deal with a pumped up Brin."
"More reasons for going in," said Logan, "I think I can hack into the files again, so I'll take care of security. You guys figure out the plan. I think I need some fresh air."
"Kay Logan," said Jondy, smiling as he walked slowly out of the room. Max being caught had taken its toll on him. He was very depressed, and moody.
"I thought she said," whispered Igen to Renz, who smacked the X5 upside the head.
"She's out of her mind right now. She's fresh out of heat, one brother's dead, her favourite sister's dead, one sister is captured, one brother is captured, and her other sister just tried to kill her. Not to mention the fact she's not all there in the first place. I think she has a right to want to be on her own."
"We need her."
"She'll be there for you. She's the one who'll be getting Brin. Carn and I will just be her support."
"Fine."
"She'll be there for you guys."
"Did Kiri?"
"No. Kiri doesn't know she's alive. She's likely outside watching us now."
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Logan sat alone outside. He had walked far enough away that the building couldn't see him, and he couldn't see it. He didn't want to see them. He was sick of Manticore, and X5's, and Lyedecker and war. He wanted Max back. Max and only Max.
"This shattered dream I cannot justify. We're gonna scream until we're statisfied. What we waiting for? We've got the right to be angry? When theres no where we can run to anymore," sang a voice from beyond where Logan stood.
"Who's there?" he asked, the words seeming awfully familer.
"We can't afford to be innocent. Stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation we will be invincible."
"Who's there?"
"And with the power of convicition, there is no sacrifice. It's a do or die situation we will be invincible."
"I'm coming over," he said, and he walked forward. He caught a glimpse of something backflipping into the trees, and nothing. He figured that it might have just been the wind, or maybe he wanted to see Max too badly. He remembered her telling him the story of the sister who sang, but he couldn't remember exactly who it was, or what the kids name was. He remembered the Max claimed she couldn't sing, that it wasn't in her genes, and that reminded Logan that she wasn't perfect, just perfect for him.
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Up in her tree, Trigs watched sadly as Max's boyfriend walked sadly away. She scolded herself for singing, and made a promise then to bring back Max for Logan.
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