Partners In Crime

It's been two months since Lucky escaped from Manticore. Since then he has changed his look. He got his hair cut shorter and bleached it. Lucky moved to Orlando. He went under the name Matt Spencer.

In Orlando, Lucky got a job at Disney World playing a Prince in the Magic Kingdom during the weekdays and The Tower of Terror character on weekends. He felt safe here and this place would be a good place to settle down for awhile before he decides to move on.

One day, Lucky had a day off so he decided to watch the auditions for the new Cinderella. Lucky was invited because she will be his partner in the parade and in and around the Magical Kingdom.

All the applicants were boring and didn't look the part until the last one came. Lucky sat up at once. It was Jondy. He waited and watched her audition. At the end she won the job. Just as everyone was leaving, Lucky caught up with her.

"Jondy!" he called.

She spun around to she who it was. Jondy instantly recognized him and a smile came to her face. "Lucky!" She ran up and hugged him. Lucky hugged back.

"I missed you so much," she told him. "I was worried those guys were going to kill you."

"I'm okay now." Lucky told her.

Jondy eyes moved to the back of Lucky's neck and she sees the bar code tattoo. "I guess you know about Manticore now," she whispered as she withdrew from him. "What did that do to you? Where are Brandon, Angel, Colin, and Amanda?"

Lucky found a private place to talk about what happened to him over the past year. Jondy told Lucky how she escaped the X5s that went after her.

"I spotted the Manticore road block long before Colin did." she began. "I jumped off the truck when no one was looking and disappeared into the woods."

"It was sort of my fault that the X5s when after you." Lucky interrupted. "I was the one that asked where you went."

"I reached another highway and it was lucky enough that one of my 'siblings' was driving down there." Jondy continued. "He got me out there and dropped me off in Boston. What gets on my nerves about Ben is that he talks about the 'Blue Lady.' The rest of us stopped believing in her after Jack was taken."

"He must of been the one that Joshua was talking about." Lucky added.

"You know about Joshua?"

"Yeah, I met him the first time I woke up in that hell-hole. How do you know about Joshua? He told me he didn't go near the X5s because they will fear him."

"I was the only X5 that knew he existed." Jondy explained. "After Jack was gone, Ben was so angry with the Blue Lady and the Nomlies that during a training period, he lead me and the rest of the X5s into killing a man. Ben called the man a Nomlie because of a tattoo on a bloody heart with a knife going through it was on his chest."

Lucky invited Jondy to live with him in his apartment. It was in the city centre with a good view of the city especially the sector entrances. Jondy made herself at home. She didn't have much with her. Everything she owned was in the back of a van she owned.

Some of the equipment she owned with mostly used he theives and the military.

"I made some of the equipment myself." Jondy said as Lucky helped her unload some of the equipment for her van. "If one of my sibs needs equipment, they contact Zack and he picks it up and gives it to them."

"I got to meet this Zack." Lucky said.

"Maybe someday you will." Jondy said as picked up a bag.

"This apartment building will be our base of operations." a voice said from the other side of the parking garage.

Lucky and Jondy turn toward the voice and using their telescopic vision, they saw who it was.

"Lydecker." Jondy whispered as she and Lucky both jumped into the van and slowly closed the door.

Through the tinted window of the van, they both watched and listened to Lydecker commanding his officers.

"Once the subject XH-298 is located he is to be brought back alive." Lydecker commanded. "XH-298 important to Manticore research."

"Yes, sir." the officers answered as they left the area.

Jondy and Lucky got out of the van.

"They are after you, Lucky." Jondy began. "You got to leave Orlando."

She paused for a moment as a woman and a child walks by.

"Your bar code is in clear view." Jondy continued. "You could get it removed but it is a waste of money and it comes back in a few weeks. But would it buy you and I a few weeks while Lydecker and the GI Joe squad is in the city."

That night they went to the tattoo parlour to get their bar codes removed. Jondy was pretty much used to getting her bar code removed and she acted like if she was like getting a haircut. This was Lucky's first time. To Lucky it felt like someone was pouring hot burning acid on his neck.

After the tattoos were removed, they went to the park to talk to form a plan.

"After a few times you will be used to it." Jondy comforted him after it was over with.

"I will never get used to it," Lucky said as his neck hurt. "At least this will buy us some time. If we leave too quickly, they will be on to us."

"Lucky, Lydecker doesn't know what I look like." Jondy continued. "That's a good thing. I can make it past him and his goon squad."

"I don't know what I am going to do." Lucky complained. "He will recognize me in a second. There is something you don't know, Jondy. He does know what you look like. When they show the pictures of you and your 'sibs' for the programming thing, they showed a young picture of you one day and a updated picture the week after."

"That's a problem." She mumbled. "Now we have to leave ASAP."

"We will go tonight."

That night, Jondy helped get Lucky's most need belongings to her van by lowering them from window into the alley below. They had to be quiet about because Lydecker's goons were in the apartment above them. After the last one piece was down, Lucky attached himself to the rope and began to climb down.

He slowly made his down the building. Once he was down on the ground, he loaded his bags into the van just as Jondy was coming down. He looked up at Jondy once it was loaded then he looked toward the apartment where Lydecker and his men were.

He sees movement. Lucky signals to Jondy to warn her to back into the ledge but it was too late, she was spotted.

Jondy quickly moved down the side of the building now dodging bullets. Lucky jumped into the van and started it up. Jondy finally made it to the bottom of the building, as the soldiers were moving toward the van.

She jumps in and Lucky drove off running over several Special Ops officers in the process. They cheered once they were out of the city.

"That was a close one." Jondy sighed with relief.

"That for sure." Lucky said.

Lucky drove until they reached Ocala. They found an ATM and Lucky withdrew all his money while Jondy stocked up on supplies. Once they ready that left the city.

"Do you wish I wasn't in the truck with you?" Jondy said.

"What brought that up?" Lucky asked.

"I was doing some thinking Lucky. If I wasn't in Colin's truck, you and the others won't be involved in any of this. It's all my fault."

"What happened, happened, Jondy." Explained Lucky. "It's all fate. Everything happens for a propose."

"I don't believe in that stuff."

"It doesn't mean it's not true."

Jondy smiles. "You are starting to sound like Zack."

Lucky smiles back. "Maybe I will meet him some day."

"I hate it to break it to you, Lucky." Jondy suddenly frown. "Zack won't like someone traveling with me. He even made me change my mind about finding you and the others."

"You were looking for me and the others?"

"When I first found out you were missing since the incident. Zack told me to back off."

"Do you do everything Zack says?" Lucky asked with a frown.

"Yes." Jondy admitted. "He wants all of us to be safe."

"You shouldn't let Zack run your life," Lucky told her. "You are thinking like one those other X5s back at Manticore. 'Do this!' 'Do that!' If you want to have a normal life, start doing thing your own way. You take your own chances. Do you really want to find the others?"

"Yes." Jondy said with a smile.

"Then lets go!"
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Jondy and Lucky go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Lucky runs into his brother, who unknown by Lucky, has plans for him and Jondy.
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