disclaimer: see ch 3

AN: thanks to everyone who reviewed, i know my writing is not all that great w/ alot of discription and the grammer's probably really bad, but here's another chapter, i hope you like it!



CHAPTER 4



"Lets go 452!" the drill segent was yelling at Max as she and the rest of the troops were doing push-ups, "I want to see your nose touch the ground! Put some effort in it! Lets go!" Max wasn't listening to him, she just kept doing the push-ups, 'He's so much like Normal,' Max thought to herself, 'and although I thought I'd never say this, but I'd actually be happy see Normal's face at this moment.' "Ten-hut!" the segent's call brought Max sharply out of her thoughts. The troop of X-5's got up as one body and stood, strait backed, chin and arms in, staring strait ahead. Max was one among the masses, but her mind was miles away, she couldn't stop thinking about the man she saw in the corridor. Although the logical part of her mind told her that it was just some guy, but she had to see him again, just to make sure it wasn't Logan. "About face! Forward March", at that order, all of the soldiers on the field were marched into the mess hall.

Max found herself swept along with the crowd in the mess line, when she got to the counter, a soldier who was on duty in the kitchen scooped a pile of mush, that was supposed to be oatmeal, onto a tray and handed it to her. She took her tray, and sat at an empty table in the corner of the crowded room, she was scanning the people eating, trying to find a way to get out without being noticed, but her hopes were pretty much put to rest when the guard who was assigned to watch her sat down across from her, "452", he nodded a quick acknowledgment to her before digging into the military version of oatmeal. Max picked at hers for a while, but didn't eat anything. She remembered the breakfast that Logan had made the last time she had a seizure and stayed in his guestroom. Pancakes with strawberry topping and gormet coffee, nothing like the mush and goat piss that she was getting here. 'I guess he did spoil me.' Max thought sadly 'And then I go and get him killed, I'm one in a million.'

Renfro was pacing the basement lab room, "How long will this take?" she asked the med-tech impatiently.

"Give him three more minutes before I start the laser." he answered, "It take's a little longer to take effect on humans because we have to give them the shot in a smaller dose." Renfro continued pacing for some odd minutes, while the med-tech readied the equiptment. At exactly three minutes, Renfro approached Logan and switched on the laser.

When Logan woke up he was lying in his bed at home, he sat up slowly wondering if this a dream, or if he had just woken up from a really bad dream. Max came walking into his room wearing his bathrobe, and layed down next to him, "Were you just going to sleep all day?"

"I was going to get up eventually, just briefly to save the world." he replied with a smile, just seeing her alive made him think it was a dream, but it seemed so real it was hard not to believe that she was right next to him.

"Sorry, but you cant sleep in today," Max said to him "today we're going to see Zane."

"Zane?" Logan looked at her quizically, "How would you even know where to find Zane?"

"I thought you might have his address lying around." Max said almost accusingly.

"Listen, Max, I know I told you that I would find your siblings in exchange for your help with Eyes-Only, but it's been hard. Your brothers and sisters know how to cover their tracks very well." Logan replied, thinking this whole conversation was going very strangly.

"Right." Max replied, "My help with Eyes-Only. Thats ok, that you didn't find Zane. You didn't happen to find any of the others did you?"

"No," Logan said, "Just that most of them are trying to get to Canada, remember the cable-hack that Zack had me do, to warn them?" Logan was starting to wonder about Max's sanity, when he suddenly became aware of a throbbing pain in his head and he opened his eyes. He was back in his cell at Manticore, lying on the cot and staring at the ceiling. 'What a dream.' he thought to himself, 'I only wish it were true, I'd rather have an insane Max, than no Max.'


"Listen to me carefully." Renfro was standing in the command center talking to one of the men in charge, "I want u to scan everything we have saved on any hard drive in this complex, and I want you to find an Eyes-Only bullitien about the rouge X-5's. Understood?"

"Yes ma'am." the man gave a quick salute and headed off.

'I may have gotten two birds with one stone,' Renfro thought to herself, 'The boys upstairs have been wanting to get Eyes-Only for a while.'


TBC....


AN: so what did yall think? let me know and i should have the next chapter out w/in a few days.


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