Part 5
"Ok listen carefully aiight! I'll give you guys instructions but I want you to wait till I've finished before you go. Okay Psy-ops are on guard duty I want you equally spread around the whole perimeter you catch me? Science people and doctors you guys are to go to that building over there," said Zane pointing out a large concrete building in the distance.
"That used to be science labs and the like. Start with the lower levels and we'll work our way up. I want you to clean the place up figure out what works and what doesn't. Telecommunications I have an amazing computer system for you to set up and at least several dozen programs to install. Luke you go with them and supervise. Mechanics or anything similar you guys stay in the parking garage and I'll bring over equipment so you can build a list of stuff I'll give you and anything else you think we might need and Dix you're in charge over there. Though I have to say ask me before you start building tanks aiight? Weapons I want you guys to find and organize, buy and create weapons. There's some contacts I have been given that could probably supply us with anything you might want, Mole you are in charge," Zane continued. He wasn't ordering more asking and the transgenics found themselves obeying falling back into the routine they were so used to.
"Now Max is coming back and I want to have everything under way by the time she gets here. The rest of the adults are to go and look around every nook and cranny of this place and bring back anything and everything we could use. Whether it's a commode or a pair of socks or a busted microwave aiight, everything. CD's, beer whatever. Bring it back to the garage. X7's and X8's you are gonna be my little messengers. I want the six youngest to stay behind while the rest of you will run around and look for any rat holes, air vents, sewers or ways to escape outta this place. Anyone who can't work for some reason stay behind along with X6's. You can go," In a matter of moments everyone dispersed and Zane was left.
He looked at the remaining transgenics and smiled. A dozen women obviously pregnant stood in front of him. He'd been told of the breeding program and he was guessing these women were the last left of the seventeen in total who had gotten pregnant, "I guess it's obvious why you ladies can't work. God I wouldn't even get out of bed if I was your size," he said chuckling as he walked around one of them.
"I'm joking before you kill me. Good thing Jondy isn't here she would have hit me for that remark. Okay you girls have it easy. You get to go and sit at some tables already set up in headquarters and wait there with pen and paper. I'll start sending people to you and I'd like it if you wrote down their barcode number, designation, their names; if they don't have one tell me and I'll get someone to help me pick them, specialties, photo and physical data and their group. Stuff like that," he finished sitting down on a crate.
"I think he likes this power trip. He's a bit like Alec," one of the women said to another.
Zane laughed and the woman's eyes widened realizing he'd heard her, "Must be one hell of a guy."
The woman relaxed visibly at his words and he assured her it was fine. He liked some teasing once in awhile.
The women waddled away much to the amusement of everyone else still there.
"X8's you stay with me unless I send you on a message and the rest of you probably have the best job. After you clean those up that is."
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Max watched Spartacus as she tied the button to her trousers and slipped on some gloves. Cus smiled at her showing as much teeth as possible and Max couldn't help but smile as well and shake her head.
"See, someone smiles then it's not so bad," she said opening her window and stepping out onto the thin windowsill.
Max looked at her alarmed, "What the hell are you doing you're two stories up, you're not transgenic!" She hissed trying to pull her back inside.
Cus chuckled, "No but I have my doubts on my origins. Might as well find out."
With that said she grabbed hold of the gutter that ran along the length of the roof and released her foothold. Max closed her eyes as Spartacus swung gently back and forth, "Get down now! Are you completely insane? Don't tell me you have a death wish!"
Max followed Spartacus out the window as she started moving sideways hand by hand with seemingly not much difficulty for an ordinary.
"C'mon Max think about it," she said while continuing to move along.
"What? How high you can fall before you kill yourself?" she said gaining on Spartacus.
"How many ordinary humans have you met that can read minds and know nearly everything huh? Ok so I don't have a barcode but neither does Gem's baby!" she argued.
Max saw where Spartacus was heading now as they turned the corner of the roof. There was a garage behind the house that seemed to be a smaller barn that had been adapted. The transgenics were hauling boxes from the garage into a truck; probably provisions but below them sat in messy mounds large amounts of hay and she realized the younger girl was planning on jumping onto it to soften her landing.
The others still hadn't noticed or if they had they were ignoring them but Max guessed it was the first, as a whole heap of noise seemed to be coming from the garage.
"Look I can understand your suspicions and I know how you feel. Not knowing your parents, where you came from but even if you were the daughter of a transgenic it doesn't mean that they passed on all of their abilities. I mean you don't have freaky strength or cat vision," Max tried to reason.
"No I don't but maybe it hasn't shown yet. I have a way above average IQ for a human and Case, Tinga's son is the same but now he seems to be developing better eyesight and agility. Maybe it's just a matter of time," Spartacus whined.
"Well don't you think there's slightly less psychopathic ways to find out. You could get Sandeman to do your DNA work up," Max said. But Spartacus didn't have a chance to reply as Max all of a sudden let go, spinning mid air and landing straight on top of whatever was below the hay.
She'd spotted the movement with the back of her eye and not willing to risk anything she'd jumped. It was definitely human, as no animal that wasn't at least the size of a full-grown man could have caused that much movement.
A loud oomph was heard as Max straddled the intruder and put her hands to his neck in a chokehold.
"Max." came the strangled croak in a, though distorted, familiar voice. Max rolled her eyes and released her grip and brushing the hay away came face to face with Alec.
"What the hell are you doing in the hay," she snapped hitting him across the shoulder.
"I'm hiding from Jondy. I sort of accidentally pushed her into a puddle and then made it worse by laughing," he said guiltily making Max roll her eyes again a small chuckle escaping from her lips this time.
"That was not a smart." but she never finished her sentence as Spartacus, who'd been trying to hold on as her landing spot was occupied, fell.
Alec had seen the falling object though hadn't had time to recognize that it was in fact Spartacus; he'd spun them reversing their positions so that he shielded her body with his.
He grunted when she fell on top of him and he kept the weight on his elbows so that Max wouldn't be crushed.
The three lied there, all of their breathing ragged as each tried to absorb what had just happened.
Max looked up at Alec and he stared straight back as they regained their breath. Immobilized by each others gaze; their lips were only inches apart.
"DOGPILE!" The loud voice broke the spell and as another series of bodies joined the pile Alec's elbows gave way and his face found Max's shoulder, as everyone became a mad tangle of bodies and limbs.
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"Ok listen carefully aiight! I'll give you guys instructions but I want you to wait till I've finished before you go. Okay Psy-ops are on guard duty I want you equally spread around the whole perimeter you catch me? Science people and doctors you guys are to go to that building over there," said Zane pointing out a large concrete building in the distance.
"That used to be science labs and the like. Start with the lower levels and we'll work our way up. I want you to clean the place up figure out what works and what doesn't. Telecommunications I have an amazing computer system for you to set up and at least several dozen programs to install. Luke you go with them and supervise. Mechanics or anything similar you guys stay in the parking garage and I'll bring over equipment so you can build a list of stuff I'll give you and anything else you think we might need and Dix you're in charge over there. Though I have to say ask me before you start building tanks aiight? Weapons I want you guys to find and organize, buy and create weapons. There's some contacts I have been given that could probably supply us with anything you might want, Mole you are in charge," Zane continued. He wasn't ordering more asking and the transgenics found themselves obeying falling back into the routine they were so used to.
"Now Max is coming back and I want to have everything under way by the time she gets here. The rest of the adults are to go and look around every nook and cranny of this place and bring back anything and everything we could use. Whether it's a commode or a pair of socks or a busted microwave aiight, everything. CD's, beer whatever. Bring it back to the garage. X7's and X8's you are gonna be my little messengers. I want the six youngest to stay behind while the rest of you will run around and look for any rat holes, air vents, sewers or ways to escape outta this place. Anyone who can't work for some reason stay behind along with X6's. You can go," In a matter of moments everyone dispersed and Zane was left.
He looked at the remaining transgenics and smiled. A dozen women obviously pregnant stood in front of him. He'd been told of the breeding program and he was guessing these women were the last left of the seventeen in total who had gotten pregnant, "I guess it's obvious why you ladies can't work. God I wouldn't even get out of bed if I was your size," he said chuckling as he walked around one of them.
"I'm joking before you kill me. Good thing Jondy isn't here she would have hit me for that remark. Okay you girls have it easy. You get to go and sit at some tables already set up in headquarters and wait there with pen and paper. I'll start sending people to you and I'd like it if you wrote down their barcode number, designation, their names; if they don't have one tell me and I'll get someone to help me pick them, specialties, photo and physical data and their group. Stuff like that," he finished sitting down on a crate.
"I think he likes this power trip. He's a bit like Alec," one of the women said to another.
Zane laughed and the woman's eyes widened realizing he'd heard her, "Must be one hell of a guy."
The woman relaxed visibly at his words and he assured her it was fine. He liked some teasing once in awhile.
The women waddled away much to the amusement of everyone else still there.
"X8's you stay with me unless I send you on a message and the rest of you probably have the best job. After you clean those up that is."
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Max watched Spartacus as she tied the button to her trousers and slipped on some gloves. Cus smiled at her showing as much teeth as possible and Max couldn't help but smile as well and shake her head.
"See, someone smiles then it's not so bad," she said opening her window and stepping out onto the thin windowsill.
Max looked at her alarmed, "What the hell are you doing you're two stories up, you're not transgenic!" She hissed trying to pull her back inside.
Cus chuckled, "No but I have my doubts on my origins. Might as well find out."
With that said she grabbed hold of the gutter that ran along the length of the roof and released her foothold. Max closed her eyes as Spartacus swung gently back and forth, "Get down now! Are you completely insane? Don't tell me you have a death wish!"
Max followed Spartacus out the window as she started moving sideways hand by hand with seemingly not much difficulty for an ordinary.
"C'mon Max think about it," she said while continuing to move along.
"What? How high you can fall before you kill yourself?" she said gaining on Spartacus.
"How many ordinary humans have you met that can read minds and know nearly everything huh? Ok so I don't have a barcode but neither does Gem's baby!" she argued.
Max saw where Spartacus was heading now as they turned the corner of the roof. There was a garage behind the house that seemed to be a smaller barn that had been adapted. The transgenics were hauling boxes from the garage into a truck; probably provisions but below them sat in messy mounds large amounts of hay and she realized the younger girl was planning on jumping onto it to soften her landing.
The others still hadn't noticed or if they had they were ignoring them but Max guessed it was the first, as a whole heap of noise seemed to be coming from the garage.
"Look I can understand your suspicions and I know how you feel. Not knowing your parents, where you came from but even if you were the daughter of a transgenic it doesn't mean that they passed on all of their abilities. I mean you don't have freaky strength or cat vision," Max tried to reason.
"No I don't but maybe it hasn't shown yet. I have a way above average IQ for a human and Case, Tinga's son is the same but now he seems to be developing better eyesight and agility. Maybe it's just a matter of time," Spartacus whined.
"Well don't you think there's slightly less psychopathic ways to find out. You could get Sandeman to do your DNA work up," Max said. But Spartacus didn't have a chance to reply as Max all of a sudden let go, spinning mid air and landing straight on top of whatever was below the hay.
She'd spotted the movement with the back of her eye and not willing to risk anything she'd jumped. It was definitely human, as no animal that wasn't at least the size of a full-grown man could have caused that much movement.
A loud oomph was heard as Max straddled the intruder and put her hands to his neck in a chokehold.
"Max." came the strangled croak in a, though distorted, familiar voice. Max rolled her eyes and released her grip and brushing the hay away came face to face with Alec.
"What the hell are you doing in the hay," she snapped hitting him across the shoulder.
"I'm hiding from Jondy. I sort of accidentally pushed her into a puddle and then made it worse by laughing," he said guiltily making Max roll her eyes again a small chuckle escaping from her lips this time.
"That was not a smart." but she never finished her sentence as Spartacus, who'd been trying to hold on as her landing spot was occupied, fell.
Alec had seen the falling object though hadn't had time to recognize that it was in fact Spartacus; he'd spun them reversing their positions so that he shielded her body with his.
He grunted when she fell on top of him and he kept the weight on his elbows so that Max wouldn't be crushed.
The three lied there, all of their breathing ragged as each tried to absorb what had just happened.
Max looked up at Alec and he stared straight back as they regained their breath. Immobilized by each others gaze; their lips were only inches apart.
"DOGPILE!" The loud voice broke the spell and as another series of bodies joined the pile Alec's elbows gave way and his face found Max's shoulder, as everyone became a mad tangle of bodies and limbs.
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