Disclaimer: This is tiresome, everybody already knows that I don't own DA or its characters.
Summary: After the events in "Hello/Goodbye", Max's wish is granted and she gets to taste life without Logan.
Rating: PG-13
A/N: I really wanna thank you guys very much for all the kind reviews, you people are way too kind :P, this way you will boost my ego, but in no way stop :D.
Chapter 7: The Final Blow*****
[6 months since Logan's death]
Riding through the streets of Seattle is a very distracted Max, delivering her daily packages, people and obstacles are avoided by pure instincts while her mind wanders through her memories. Since Terminal City was blown up Max thought about skipping Seattle for good, but she decided that if she did that White would win and she couldn't allow that, Original Cindy was a factor too, she was another human that knew her and nowadays she has been a great help to Max, keeping her sane. Max and Alec as well as all the transgenics that work at Jam Pony (the ones that weren't killed on the explosion at Terminal City), are keeping a low profile to keep White off their back, but Max can't help but feel that something is going to go down, //And these freaking runes keep showing up at my freak show of a body and I have no idea of their meaning and it looks like there's no way I am gonna find out...\\
While passing through a store, something on the TV catches her attention, a very familiar set of blue eyes, so long gone that looks like a legend, Max stops in front of the TV set and focus her attention, it's a report about Eyes Only, on the top left side of the screen is a picture of the Eyes Only logo and a message over it "Eyes Only dead?",
...more than six months has passed since the last Eyes Only report, what happened to Seattle's peacekeeper cyber hack journalist? That's the question that many citizens have been asking. Since people started to miss Eyes Only and rumors of his extinction came to surface, Seattle's crime rate increased 75%. It looks like all the bad guys decided to come up now that Eyes Only does not make any more appearances. If Eyes Only is indeed dead, than it seens the bad guys at Seattle will have free ruin over the city once again and the citizens will be in a even worst condition...
Max watches the report with full attention and every word of the reporter ripes open barely closed wounds, making Max realizes how much she misses him and apparently, it's not only her...
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Trough a manhole, three cloaked guys comes out and quickly starts walking with hurry, using the shadows as shield. Passing through a straight street two guys crash with them and one of the group's cloak falls down revealing his unusual face, a mutant with lizard-like features. The two guys freak out and charge the three transgenics which run as fast as possible. They manage to get the two humans behind as they take a turn on a corner, ending up on a street with too much movement they get inside the first open building they find, a place named Jam Pony.
"Hurry, close and lock the door!" – says the lizard guy as they get inside.
Another guy that takes his hood off and reveals his snake face approaches one of Jam Pony's worker, puts a knife on his throat and screams,
"Okay nobody moves!! This is a hostage situation!",
a big commotion falls upon Jam Pony and Alec who is next to his locker buries his head on his arm and whispers,
"Oh my god, here we go."
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"Place snipers around the whole building, I don't want a single soul out of that place!!",
White's angry voice comes through the phone. The hostage situation is already all over the news and White's people of course came up with a plan to deal with the situation,
"Yes sir, snipers team is already on the way. Do you give the green light to eliminate any and every form of movement inside the building?",
the agent on the phone repplies for which White says,
"Negative! Let the police deals with the situation for now, hold position 'till they leave the building and then fire at will.",
"But sir, what if they have someone on the outside and we are spotted?",
"Well, so you will have to make sure not to be spotted but I don't think they have.",
the agent sighs and nods,
"Very well sir.",
"Agent. Don't fail me, I want every transgenic dead!" – White says before hanging up with a smik of victory on his face.
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Max also gets to know about the situation at Jam Pony and as fast as she manages she heads to Jam Pony, there she finds the whole place surrounded by dozens of police officers and hundreds of people. The front entrance not being an option Max heads to the top of the building across the street, there she spots a hoverdome and when it gets on the right position she hops on it and rides it through a window to the inside of Jam Pony.
"Okay people...let's negotiate."
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"Okay everyone, there's a bus parked outside waiting for us to get the hell outta here, use the people as shields and they won't shoot at us, let's go.",
Max says to the crowd, a mix of mutants, X series and ordinaries.
"They saw you, boo--flyin' right over their heads. I got you.",
Original Cindy says approuching Max. Max only nods and puts her arm around her. All the other transgenics get someone as shield. One of the mutants uses Alec, another one gets Sketchy and the last one Normal, Max got OC and a couple other X series got some employee.
Slowly the group walks outside, led by one mutant and Alec. As they walk around the front of the bus, headed for its door, White who is standing on the middle of the crowd says over his radio to the snipers.
"Take the shot.",
as the order is out all the snipers take several shots. Just as Max's hears the first gunshot the action seens to unfold on slowmotion and she manages the watch with perfect clarity the snipers on the building across the street firing the deadly projectiles, and watch its course 'till it hits its target, the first one hitting Alec square on the chest making him fall to his knees, the second bullet hitting Original Cindy, who was using her own body to cover Max, deadly on the middle of the forehead, and the third piercing right through Sketchy's skull. As the snipers were shooting the police mistook the shoots for enemy fire and begins to fire their weapons, turning the episode into a massacre. Max takes a dive and roll on the ground to escape the several bullets travelling through the air, she lands near Alec who is crouching down with his hand on his chest trying in vain to hold the immense flow of blood,
"Alec! Oh my god, Alec, come on we gotta get outta here.",
Max screams to make herself audible through the loud sound of machine guns being fired. Alec with a tremendous effort manages to choke out,
"No Max...you get out. There's no hope for me...for any of us, take a look...around, Max...there's...nothing left....save....your...self...",
with that he collapses to the ground with a last moan of pain before leaving this world. Max takes a look around and sees OC and Sketchy down, dead with the first shot, Normal and one of the X series with severe enjuries, just suffering before the cold death finally embraces them, and the three mutants, the main target of all the shots, totally desfigurated by dozens of shots through their entire bodies. The cruel reality finally sunk in on Max and she realizes that really there's nothing left, so with her enhanced skills she manages to leave the scene unseen, leaving behind the lifeless shells of the last of her friends...
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Max sought reefuge on the last safe place known to her, the top of the Space Needle, there she allows herself to go over the events of this most tragedy day, losing only to the fateful day that her life began to crumble, the day she lost him...//Once again my life managed to get even more screwed up, in fact, I think now it's totally screwed up, after all there's nothing left for me to lose, nothing worst could ever happen to screw my life even more. If there's indeed someone up there with some higher power that controls our life, this someone is evil and sadistic, 'cause it looks like losing my important ones is not enough, I have to feel guilty in every single tragedy. Today for once, while everyone was being shoot down to death I was fleeing, running from danger like a chicken... Maybe this is all some kind of divine punishment for the things I did, maybe I deserve to live the rest of my life like this, haunted by the death of everyone I once cared, involved by loneless and burdened with this heavy guilty...for eternity.\\
TBC...
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OBS: between // \\ are Max's thoughts.
OBS2: Okay so I think next chapter is the final one, be ready for surprises, you may think that nothing more can go wrong but you may be wrong, or maybe what seens bad may be good...who knows? :D