CHAPTER THREE
White sits in his car watching the commotion that's going on inside from outside, a soldier runs up to him and salutes.
SOLDIER: We checked the house sir, we can't find anything.
WHITE: They are in there.
SOLDIER: We can't see them.
WHITE: If the house is filled with smoke you won't be able to, will you?
SOLDIER: No sir.
WHITE: Run a thermal scan on the house, and tell you're men to thoroughly check the surrounding area...I want those X-5's.
SOLDIER: Yes sir.
WHITE: Then what are you waiting for? Go!
The soldier runs back towards the house, White slams the car door shut.
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Max, Logan, Alec and Jesse move quietly out of the alley and slip past the soldiers that are running all over the place.
MAX: We need to get the chip out before they find us again.
ALEC: (To Jesse) did you know about the chip?
She shakes her head.
JESSE: They must've put it in me when I was unconscious.
ALEC: I thought you where dead.
JESSE: All the time I spent at that place I wished I was.
LOGAN: How are you feeling?
JESSE: Crappy.
They start to move out when Jesse grabs her head in pain and falls to her knee's, she cries out.
MAX: She's gonna give us away!
They shift into the sadows and Alec puts his hand over her mouth, three soldiers run past surveying the area. Jesse flips Alec over onto his back, he recovers and stands up straight away.
ALEC: What the hell was that for?
Her nails grow into three inch claws and she lashes out at them.
JESSE: (Shouts) there over here! Send an X-5 to catch and X-5.
ALEC: What did they do to you?
She grabs hold of him by the neck and places one of the claws to his throat. Max kicks her in the back and she let's go of Alec.
LOGAN: Their coming.
Max knocks Jesse out with a roundhouse kick to the head, Jesse falls forward the claws disappear, her neck twitches and she looks up at Alec.
JESSE: I can't help it.
Her eyes roll to the back of her head and she lies still on the floor.
MAX: Here we go again.
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Doctor Jones steps out of the examining bay; he looks from Logan to Max then Alec.
ALEC: What's wrong with her?
JONES: If I get caught in here I'll lose my licensce to practice...
ALEC: The I guess for you're sake you'd better not get caught.
MAX: Do you know what's wrong with her?
JONES: It's nothing I've ever seen before...
ALEC: I coulda told you that.
LOGAN: Alec! (To Jones) go on.
JONES: I've seen samples of an X-5's blood and this is completely different...Whatever the people at Manticore did to her, it's gone wrong and her body is fighting off the changes they've made, and it's killing her. I don't know how to stop it.
LOGAN: What about the headaches she was talking about?
JONES: I'm not sure but from what she told me it sounds like she's been given some kind of post hypnotic suggestion; every two hours or so she has to report back to whoever gave her the suggestion in the first place and tell him where you're hiding out
ALEC: And incase that doesn't work they put a tracker on her?
JONES: So it would seem. If she tries to fight of the suggestion her brain recieves a message telling her she's in pain. The 'headache' is artificially induced and she reacts how one would act if they had serious head trauma.
MAX: How do we help her?
JONES: I don't know, but if she isn't helped, soon...she will die.
TBC