Chapter 4: Designation: X9-495
Sunlight entered the living room in small bursts from the small openings in the curtains. The group had talked almost the entire night, everyone had eventually nodded off at Joshua's place. Max awoke with a start, she looked around wondering what shook her out of a rare catnap. It was all a dream she thought. That was until she saw Jesse bent over the table, resting his head on his arms, sleeping. There's Jesse, so where's Rachel? She started looking around, only to find the young X9 no where in sight. Max got up and started to look around Joshua's house. And then she heard it. It was a faint tapping at first but got louder as she got to the back door.
" How long have you been up?" asked Max sitting down beside Rachel.
"I don't know a while." She said continuing to tap her foot on the wooden step.
"It's complicated being here isn't it?" asked Max.
"You don't know the half of it, Jesse and I have to be careful so we don't make any drastic changes to the future, like telling you guys everything that's going to happen could stop a lot of things."
"Like what?"
"I can't tell you that," said Rachel, "I want to, it would make things a lot easier but at this point in time…"
"What about the virus?"
"Koiohla and Mezsima will be expecting us to go get it because we were warned not to mess things up."
"So we found the cure, and if you stop us from getting it, that's what they want."
"Exactly, so I've been thinking of ways to get the antivirus without messing up too much."
"Why couldn't we just wait then?" asked Max.
"Would you wait even if I told you to?"
"Probably not."
"It's hard to explain, huh, let's see," started Rachel, "things have to happen a certain way for certain things to happen, plus with the X38's here we don't want Logan dying sooner than he should."
"Are you and Jesse related?" questioned Max, "and what's so important about you that has the future bad guys all upset?"
"Too many questions that I can't answer yet," said Rachel getting up and retreating back into the house.
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Meanwhile at White's secret NSA warehouse….
"This is unreal," said White after Ray was finished, "I kept wondering whether the you of this time was dead or not and then here you come, with these…things (he looked at the X38's) and tell me what's going to happen in the future."
"495 and 211 aren't so lucky, they have to be careful with their parents so they don't cease to exist, I can tell you whatever I want and it can only influence things for the better on our side of course," said Ray.
"You turned out just like I wanted you too, so what's their next move?"
"They'll go to Dr. Carr's clinic for an antivirus that Manticore put into 452 to kill Eyes Only," said Ray, "They'll probably go to some deserted location, so I'm sending these two to watch Carr leave or watch for the X9's arrival."
"How dangerous is 495?" asked White.
"She's Perfection, what Manticore was striving for."
FLASHBACK
Sept. 8, 2042
Ray walks into a clearing in a park, where 452/Max, 494/Alec, 495/Rachel, and 211/Jesse were being attacked by his X7's. Familiars and Cerberus teamed up to find out what X9-495 was capable of. Whether or not she was what they had been striving for. The X7's were doing their jobs of keeping the four of them separated. 495 was thrown over in front of some parked cars and was quickly back on her feet. Ray pulled his gun and pointed it at her. She saw what he was about to do and before she could move he shot her. The force sent 495 crashing into the side of a car leaving an impressionable dent in it.
"Rachel!" screamed 452, kicking the X7 violently out of the way. 494 and 211 were at her side in an instant. 495 was breathing hard and doubled over muttering sometyhing Ray couldn't hear. 494 pulled her arm back and there was no blood. Ray had aimed at her stomach but there was no sign of injury. 494 forced opened her shaky hand and a bloody bullet fell to the ground.
END FLASHBACK
"She caught it?" asked White.
"Stopped it more likely," said Ray, "It almost went through her damn hand. Cerberus want her to study but 452 is her mother and would have to be killed along with 494 before we could get to her."
"If you're going to kill 452 anyway why not do it in your time and take in 495? I don't really see the point of you coming to past."
"Cerberus is Familiar run, we tried to get 495 but the Conclave decided it would just be easier to kill her parents here. So she dies."
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A/N and disclaimer: I hope you like it so far, this my 3rd DA fic but the other two were M/A song fics, not chapter stories. The more reviews I get the more I'll update
Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.