A/N: I'll post every three days, since school over here in Hong Kong is pretty loose with the homework..

Disclaimer: I own dark angel, dark angel is mine.I said, wishing upon a star.

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.They were all too involved with their happy little reunion to notice the cop creep over to them until the guard pointed his rifle at the back of Alec's neck. "Nobody move!" He shouted..

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Max turned around, shock and surprise registered on her genetically engineered face. Before the guard had any time to react, she had moved behind him, and put him into a headlock. Alec whipped around and knocked the poor guard out in a single blow to the temple. As he sank to the floor, Alec grabbed the ring of keys that hung around his waist. He then proceeded to let Buglar, Zero, Ralph, Fixit, and Bullet out, while Max went around the corner to make sure it was all clear.

"Let's go," She whispered, making sure that the guards were still knocked out. They were. She lightly stepped over them, and made her way back down the stairs where she had come.

** "Thanks again for saving our butts," Zero said for the fifth time tonight.

"No, problem." Max replied lightly. "Its makes a nice change to save somebody ELSE'S ass every once and a while." She stared pointedly at Alec, who looked away with a slight smile, suddenly very interested in the cockroach that was crawling above their heads on the ceiling.

"Well, if there is anything we can do."Ralph offered. The rest of the group nodded their agreement.

Max smiled. "You guys traveled through the country because your family was in trouble. That's the best thing you could ever do for all of us." She gave an extra smile to Buglar as she walked out of the room, to run her thoughts over the next bunch of problems.

**

"Logan!"

Logan looked up from the laptop he had managed to salvage from the old buildings here and there. Max stood in the doorway.

"What's up?" He asked happily, glad for any reason to see her.

"Can you see if you can find something for me?"

"Yeah sure, but just remember that I don't have all the stuff I used to-" Logan replied, turning his attention back onto the computer.

"I know, but see if you can find the sewer maps to this place. I need a way out. The transgenics need food."

Logan nodded. "Well, I see what I can find, and page you later." "Thanks." Max replied quietly. The pain in her heart-made her want to die right there and then. She often wondered how she'd managed to keep the secret from him this long, but then she remembered. To protect him. So he wouldn't die. It was that simple. She walked quietly away, not noticing how Logan was shaking lightly with sobs and hurt.

Max walked along the edge of the perimeter of TC, but still careful to stay out of sight of the angry citizens of Seattle. She checked every single part of the fencing around the place, but the chain of guards and snipers was unbroken. She watched quietly as anti-transgenic slogans were still being shouted at anyone who cared enough to listen.

"Max,"

Max jumped lightly. She hadn't heard anyone coming. "Alec, don't every do that again."

Alec held his hands up defensively. "Just seeing if you needed any help, Max. And I brought along a few friends, 'cause it seems to me your looking for a way out."

Max looked over Alec's shoulder to see Bullet, Zero, Ralph and Fixit creep up behind him. She smiled her hello.

"Not really looking for a way out to use now.. Just waiting for Logan to hit me back."

"Oh?" Alec asked, his voice going ever so slightly cold.

Max didn't notice. "Yeah, asked him to find us a way out, you know, so we can EAT."

The pager that hung from Max's waist bleeped. "Logan," she said in answer to Alec's quizzical look. She smiled to the other Xs that were crouched behind him. "Ready for another mission?" she asked.

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.. "and here's the entrance." Logan said, pointing to a sewer grate that was green from the grime and organic matter. Max tried her best not to throw up as the strong smell of sewer met her extra sensitive nostrils. Ralph backed away in disgust, before recollecting herself and moving forward. Max sighed, took a deep breath, and dropped into the sewer. "Ugh," she said to herself, moving out of the way as the rest of the X's dropped in. Zero dropped in last, holding a blueprint of the sewers.

They followed the map for exactly 20 minutes, traveling through muck and grime and the occasional 'flushed toilet' matter, before they -finally- reached the opening. One by one, they each climbed through it, once again taking in the fresh air, and enjoying their change of scenery, from old, crumbling buildings to the fresh new woodland. The birds chirped and a stream gargled nearby. She smiled at Alec, who had a little boy's grin pasted to his face. Then she remembered their mission.

"Come on, lets go see if there is anything we can get for TC." She whispered.

**

The plan was indeed going perfectly. Less than 40 minutes and they had already found a perfect target for acquiring a few bites for dinner.a food processing plant. Max crouched behind the bushes as she processed the details of the plant, from what time the delivery trucks left the area to deliver the food to how many guards were on duty.

Bullet crept quietly behind the delivery truck, which had just been stocked full of food and getting ready to make its rounds to the local supermarket. He watched as Ralph and Max headed over to the first guard, Max knocking him out with a single punch, and Ralph tying him up with a length of cord she had found. His eyes darted over to the other side of the fenced in area, where Alec and bullet had just managed to subdue one of the drivers, and were preparing to leave. In the next 2 minutes, every single driver and guard went down, one by one. Bullet gave the signal - a short and high pitched whistle to show it was all clear, before each of the transgenics separated to take one delivery truck each.

They had been driving under the night sky for around 15 minutes before Max started wondering how in the world she was supposed to get the food back to TC. They couldn't drive right through fence - there were too many snipers around the perimeter of the place. The only way, was to go back through the sewer, and take the food through there. It was a sick idea, but the only possible way. She hurriedly signaled to the others what they were going to do.

Zero climbed out of his truck to meet the others. They had stolen 7 trucks in total, and each was full of food. How 7 transgenics were going to take all of that back through the sewer in less than 4 hours was beyond him, unless of course they enlisted help. That, however, was something he would leave to Max to decide. He owed Max a lot, for first rescuing him the first time, and then just two days ago, and would do just about anything for her.

"I've just paged Mole, and he agreed to round up volunteers to help us with the food. So for now, just be on you constant alert, I'm going back in to lead them out to this opening." Max said decisively, and without a word, headed back into the dark depths of the sewer.

Zero stared quietly into the woods, waiting for Max to come back up with a team of volunteers to help with the food. He was at least glad that he'd managed to help keep Max's promise of seeing them again. He had spent many days in a week wishing he might see her again, maybe to thank her for saving his life, and for saving the lives of his family.

Footsteps behind him told him that Max was on her way back. He signaled to Alec to let him know, and Alec began to unload the food so that the team could just take it and go.

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Alec grinned as Max walked into Terminal City's own HQ. He had yet to thank her about organizing the food collection so well. But then he noticed Logan also making his way to Max and stopped. But something was wrong. Logan suddenly clutched his chest, then fell backwards on the floor. He began to shake. Seizures. What was happening?

**

Fixit laughed as Original Cindy recounted tale after tale of funny stories about Max, Alec and her, and sometimes, the occasional slightly less funny story, at which Fixit would adopt a sympathetic look. . "Free beer. Just flat out - " O.C stopped talking. Something hurt. Suddenly, a sharp pain erupted in her chest. She doubled over in pain, before a wave of uncontrollable shaking took over that.. "Cindy! Cindy?" Fixit cried. To poor Cindy, lying on the floor, the voices seemed far away.. things began to fade.. Cindy's head dropped to the floor as her world went black.

A/N: I just fixed the setting that didn't allow anonymous reviews, so please continue. Constructive criticism, but please let me know if it sucks, because I really think so. Any ideas for the next chapter?