Okay people, this part is going to be a shocker for a few of you and what
I think us going to be a nice twist. Caution: I have a writer's block for
what could happen next and I might need some ideas. Please review what you
think about it, how I did, and maybe some ideas. Thanks, now, enjoy.
Part 25
Matt and I just sat in silence for a few minutes. What were you supposed to say when you see your lover for the first time in five years? It's not one of those things where you go through the front door and say "honey I'm home". Things just didn't work like that.
The funny part was, well it wasn't really funny, but it felt like I wasn't even alive. It was like I was watching in though a TV. I felt the emotions but not as strong as I remembered. The reprogramming worked all right. Not only did it deprive me of my memories but also it deprived me from most emotions.
My eyes were drooping from the exhaustion of running from the Manticore compound to Mount Vernon. Soldiers needed to rest. Wait. No, everyone needed to rest, not just soldiers. I was about to drift to sleep when I heard Matt join me on the couch. I reached an arm around his shoulders and pulled him closer to me.
"You came back to me." He said swallowing a lump in his throat.
"That I did." I said and began to think.
We sat there in a silence so think it was like it was humming.
"452." I said at last.
"What?" he asked sitting up.
"Max." I explained, "I know where she is."
"Really? What about anyone else?" he asked.
"Brin, she's reprogrammed. Zack," I sighed, "Zack killed himself for Max. Max was shot in the heart and needed an X5 heart. As far as I know he's an organ donor."
He was silent, so I continued.
"They destroyed the Seattle lab and not too long later she escaped. Something I couldn't do. Anyway, she burned down the compound and freed all the transgenics."
Still, he didn't say anything.
"Logan. Or Eyes Only, he and Max had a thing or something. They put a virus in her targeted to his DNA and any contact they made, he would die. Originally I was the one who was to take EO out but they didn't know I knew him from before..."
"Why would you have even thought about killing Logan?" Matt asked at last.
"I-" I thought about telling him the truth but it would destroy him, "I had to play the part of the reprogrammed soldier."
He nodded.
"Lydecker was there."
Matt looked up at me with a small smile, "Tell me you kicked his ass."
"I did." I paused, "At first anyway."
Flashback
All these fluids and vitamins pumped into my body as I lay there in the infirmary bed. Three days. I had been there three days and I wasn't feeling any better. I hear a door open and I pass it off as a doctor. I would have opened my eyes but I was too tired. Life here was hard, yet so simple and easy. Free food, free clothes, and sure they worked us hard hours of the day but it was better than being a dead "old" lady.
The doctor came in and felt my forehead. I assumed that they were checking to see if my fever had gone down but then they said something.
"I never meant for it to be this way."
That familiar voice, so full of regret and something that almost sounded like love, filled my ears and my eyes snapped open. Rage and hate filled through my body and I launched myself at my CO and father, Lydecker.
I gripped my hands in fists around the collar of his shirt. I felt a growl free its self from the back of my throat as I shoved him against the wall with more force then I've ever shown anyone.
"Give me one good reason not to kill you." I said with a raspy voice.
"I have none." He said sadly.
If anything had ever caught me off guard, that did. I felt my anger subside and be replaced with confusion. With less anger than it took me to fuel me with energy I felt myself collapse only to be caught by Lydecker. I tried to shove him away but I was about as powerful as a girl of the age of twelve was. Lydecker picked me up and put me back into the bed about the time two doctors rushed in. Of course. The damn things they had hooked onto me would alert them of any change in my body from hormonal to cardiovascular. I growled at them and they looked my way in warning.
"Sir?" the first one asked.
Lydecker shook his head, "She's just having a hard time."
The doctor nodded and left. Lydecker turned to me and as he pulled the blankets over me he said, "We never should have done it to you. You could have just grown up to be a beautiful young woman."
"Well it's a little late for that dumb ass." I coughed out.
End flashback
"Some while later the TAC officers were pushing me and I was about to knock their faces in but Lydecker saw my temper about to be blown and let me take a personal day. Renfro back when she was alive and gaining power, she said it was showing favoritism. 'Deck and I told her it was how to get best results from me."
"You and Lydecker were what? On the same side?" Matt asked.
"Well, Renfro was a bitch. And over time Lydecker became my friend. But then they tried to kill him and he teamed up with Max, Zack, Syl, and Krit and took down the lab in Manticore. So I guess in a part he got me out of there."
"Oh. I still don't understand, but I guess you had to be there to become his friend."
"I-over time, I-he became almost a dad or a big brother to me. I can't explain it, really but when we were alone he treated me like a father to a daughter. Only it wasn't like he read me bedtime stories or anything. I'm too old for them but.... It's complicated."
We sat in silence for a few minutes after I tried to explain what was what. Sitting there with him it was almost like the only feelings I could get was from memories of the time before I was reprogrammed. Even then it was like a really dramatic movie or TV show. Lydecker was something that kept me from going psycho almost like X5-493 or Ben.
"I'm going to find him." I decided out loud.
"What? How?" Matt sat up to look at me.
"I'm going to find him and thank him. And forgive him. As for how, I think we need to visit our old buddy Logan." I paused a second thinking about any ting I might need to get this done without getting caught by Manticore, "You still have my motorcycle?" I grinned.
Matt nodded with a small smile mirroring my own and we got up off the couch.
The shed door swung open and hit the wall with a bang. I turned the light on and looked at it. It was dusty in some spots but not in others. Like someone visited it frequently but never took it for a ride. My guess was that Matt came out in the middle of the night while Ella slept soundly in her bed.
I wheeled it out and got on. It almost felt like it was back to before Manticore. Thinking about nothing in particular I asked Matt one question, "Where's Ella?"
"Down at the Penguin Coffee place."
"Great." I turned the engine on and let it roar to life.
I peeled out of there but not before Matt literally jumped on behind me.
"Nice to see you can still move fast and jump far." I said going faster than I should have been.
I peeled around the corner and stopped at the beginning of L Avenue. If memory served correct.... I grinned then peeled off. Zero to forty-five in ten seconds flat. About halfway to 20th street I turned back to Matt.
"Hold on. This is hopefully going to be fun." I laughed and sped up.
When I hit the intersection I held on tight and because there's two tiny hills there we were air born! I mean we were flying. Those two little hills and the speed we were going was fast enough to get both wheels in the air.
It gave me an adrenaline rush but it wasn't the fun I was going for. It was rather disappointed. To get the thing I was looking for I would have to up the danger and thrill and extremeness. I just wanted to feel something even if it was adrenaline rush.
"Did you go insane while you were there?!" Matt screamed at me.
"Chill out. And I told you, I almost did go insane. I'm just lucky there wasn't any cops around. I would have had to give them a chase." I said and screeched to a stop in front of the Penguin Coffee.
I went through the doors followed by a Matt who couldn't believe what I had done. Well better believe it Matt, in order to get the ya-ya I needed I was going to be Extreme Sports Geneva until I finally felt some kind of emotion.
Part 25
Matt and I just sat in silence for a few minutes. What were you supposed to say when you see your lover for the first time in five years? It's not one of those things where you go through the front door and say "honey I'm home". Things just didn't work like that.
The funny part was, well it wasn't really funny, but it felt like I wasn't even alive. It was like I was watching in though a TV. I felt the emotions but not as strong as I remembered. The reprogramming worked all right. Not only did it deprive me of my memories but also it deprived me from most emotions.
My eyes were drooping from the exhaustion of running from the Manticore compound to Mount Vernon. Soldiers needed to rest. Wait. No, everyone needed to rest, not just soldiers. I was about to drift to sleep when I heard Matt join me on the couch. I reached an arm around his shoulders and pulled him closer to me.
"You came back to me." He said swallowing a lump in his throat.
"That I did." I said and began to think.
We sat there in a silence so think it was like it was humming.
"452." I said at last.
"What?" he asked sitting up.
"Max." I explained, "I know where she is."
"Really? What about anyone else?" he asked.
"Brin, she's reprogrammed. Zack," I sighed, "Zack killed himself for Max. Max was shot in the heart and needed an X5 heart. As far as I know he's an organ donor."
He was silent, so I continued.
"They destroyed the Seattle lab and not too long later she escaped. Something I couldn't do. Anyway, she burned down the compound and freed all the transgenics."
Still, he didn't say anything.
"Logan. Or Eyes Only, he and Max had a thing or something. They put a virus in her targeted to his DNA and any contact they made, he would die. Originally I was the one who was to take EO out but they didn't know I knew him from before..."
"Why would you have even thought about killing Logan?" Matt asked at last.
"I-" I thought about telling him the truth but it would destroy him, "I had to play the part of the reprogrammed soldier."
He nodded.
"Lydecker was there."
Matt looked up at me with a small smile, "Tell me you kicked his ass."
"I did." I paused, "At first anyway."
Flashback
All these fluids and vitamins pumped into my body as I lay there in the infirmary bed. Three days. I had been there three days and I wasn't feeling any better. I hear a door open and I pass it off as a doctor. I would have opened my eyes but I was too tired. Life here was hard, yet so simple and easy. Free food, free clothes, and sure they worked us hard hours of the day but it was better than being a dead "old" lady.
The doctor came in and felt my forehead. I assumed that they were checking to see if my fever had gone down but then they said something.
"I never meant for it to be this way."
That familiar voice, so full of regret and something that almost sounded like love, filled my ears and my eyes snapped open. Rage and hate filled through my body and I launched myself at my CO and father, Lydecker.
I gripped my hands in fists around the collar of his shirt. I felt a growl free its self from the back of my throat as I shoved him against the wall with more force then I've ever shown anyone.
"Give me one good reason not to kill you." I said with a raspy voice.
"I have none." He said sadly.
If anything had ever caught me off guard, that did. I felt my anger subside and be replaced with confusion. With less anger than it took me to fuel me with energy I felt myself collapse only to be caught by Lydecker. I tried to shove him away but I was about as powerful as a girl of the age of twelve was. Lydecker picked me up and put me back into the bed about the time two doctors rushed in. Of course. The damn things they had hooked onto me would alert them of any change in my body from hormonal to cardiovascular. I growled at them and they looked my way in warning.
"Sir?" the first one asked.
Lydecker shook his head, "She's just having a hard time."
The doctor nodded and left. Lydecker turned to me and as he pulled the blankets over me he said, "We never should have done it to you. You could have just grown up to be a beautiful young woman."
"Well it's a little late for that dumb ass." I coughed out.
End flashback
"Some while later the TAC officers were pushing me and I was about to knock their faces in but Lydecker saw my temper about to be blown and let me take a personal day. Renfro back when she was alive and gaining power, she said it was showing favoritism. 'Deck and I told her it was how to get best results from me."
"You and Lydecker were what? On the same side?" Matt asked.
"Well, Renfro was a bitch. And over time Lydecker became my friend. But then they tried to kill him and he teamed up with Max, Zack, Syl, and Krit and took down the lab in Manticore. So I guess in a part he got me out of there."
"Oh. I still don't understand, but I guess you had to be there to become his friend."
"I-over time, I-he became almost a dad or a big brother to me. I can't explain it, really but when we were alone he treated me like a father to a daughter. Only it wasn't like he read me bedtime stories or anything. I'm too old for them but.... It's complicated."
We sat in silence for a few minutes after I tried to explain what was what. Sitting there with him it was almost like the only feelings I could get was from memories of the time before I was reprogrammed. Even then it was like a really dramatic movie or TV show. Lydecker was something that kept me from going psycho almost like X5-493 or Ben.
"I'm going to find him." I decided out loud.
"What? How?" Matt sat up to look at me.
"I'm going to find him and thank him. And forgive him. As for how, I think we need to visit our old buddy Logan." I paused a second thinking about any ting I might need to get this done without getting caught by Manticore, "You still have my motorcycle?" I grinned.
Matt nodded with a small smile mirroring my own and we got up off the couch.
The shed door swung open and hit the wall with a bang. I turned the light on and looked at it. It was dusty in some spots but not in others. Like someone visited it frequently but never took it for a ride. My guess was that Matt came out in the middle of the night while Ella slept soundly in her bed.
I wheeled it out and got on. It almost felt like it was back to before Manticore. Thinking about nothing in particular I asked Matt one question, "Where's Ella?"
"Down at the Penguin Coffee place."
"Great." I turned the engine on and let it roar to life.
I peeled out of there but not before Matt literally jumped on behind me.
"Nice to see you can still move fast and jump far." I said going faster than I should have been.
I peeled around the corner and stopped at the beginning of L Avenue. If memory served correct.... I grinned then peeled off. Zero to forty-five in ten seconds flat. About halfway to 20th street I turned back to Matt.
"Hold on. This is hopefully going to be fun." I laughed and sped up.
When I hit the intersection I held on tight and because there's two tiny hills there we were air born! I mean we were flying. Those two little hills and the speed we were going was fast enough to get both wheels in the air.
It gave me an adrenaline rush but it wasn't the fun I was going for. It was rather disappointed. To get the thing I was looking for I would have to up the danger and thrill and extremeness. I just wanted to feel something even if it was adrenaline rush.
"Did you go insane while you were there?!" Matt screamed at me.
"Chill out. And I told you, I almost did go insane. I'm just lucky there wasn't any cops around. I would have had to give them a chase." I said and screeched to a stop in front of the Penguin Coffee.
I went through the doors followed by a Matt who couldn't believe what I had done. Well better believe it Matt, in order to get the ya-ya I needed I was going to be Extreme Sports Geneva until I finally felt some kind of emotion.