Out of the Future
Chapter 5: A Tricky Situation
"Ten bucks says they followed him," said Jesse as they watched Dr. Carr pull up. Jesse, Rachel, Max, Alec, and Logan had decided to meet Carr at a secluded location to prevent any casualties if the X38's attacked them at his office.
"They're not that smart Jesse," said Rachel.
"Well if they knew that we'd go to him to stop from screwing up time too much then maybe they'd follow him!"
"Well I don't think they're that smart! They're puppets."
"Question is where's the puppetmaster?"
"Both of you stop it!" hissed Max trying to stop their bickering as Carr came through the door.
"Hey Sam, glad you could make it," said Logan.
"Right," he said, "I just need a sample to test this and if it works then we have the antivirus." He started to unpack his case on the desk.
"Roll up your sleeve," Carr said to Max as he took the sample.
"Now what?" she asked.
"We wait," Dr. Carr put her blood under a microscope and injected a green substance into it.
"How long until you know?" asked Logan.
"Any minute now," he said, "hold on. It's working, the antibody is not only containing the virus but destroying it as well."
"This is good," said Alec, "now the only way she can kill you is by throwing you out a window, shooting you, breaking your neck, strangaling you, smothering you, or any other horrible techniques we learned back in Manticore." He said to Logan all of which sounded overly cheerful.
"Shut up Alec," said Max, "so give it to me already."
"Here," said Carr injecting her with the antivirus, "let's just hope there aren't any side effects."
"Like what?"
"With luck there won't be any."
"Whatever."
"So if we're done here I have to get back to the clinic," he said.
"Thanks Sam," said Logan.
"No problem."
They watched him leave through the window and saw him drive off safely.
"Did it work?" asked Max.
"I heard it did," said Rachel.
"What do you mean 'heard'?"
"Bedtime stories."
"Oh. So?" she asked holding her hand out to Logan. He took it and waited.
"Well I'm not dropping dead so I'll take this as a good sign."
"Can I go now?" asked Alec.
"You sure know how to ruin a moment don't you?"
"Just doing my job Maxie."
"I told you they didn't follow him," Rachel gloated going out the door, "let's get outta here."
Rachel was the first one outside. She took three steps and stopped dead. The others bumped into her and looked up to see why she stopped.
"You owe me ten bucks if we live through this," said Jesse.
Mezsima and Koiohla stood in front of them with their weapons drawn.
"Why aren't they shooting us?" asked Alec looking around for possible escape routes, "It's like there waiting for an order."
"Theyr should have gotten all their orders back and Cerberus," said Rachel, "there wasn't enough transporters! There was only enough for two groups of two to get through."
"Kind of makes you wonder who else they were planning on sending back," said Jesse backing up, "that extra machine wasn't for us Rach."
"Fall back!" Yelled Rachel pushing everyone back inside the building when she heard the click of the X38's guns.
They all managed to get inside before a tirade of bullets pounded mercilessly on the now closed door that everyone was safely behind—for now.
"I told you! Didn't I? Why can't you ever listen to me?" asked Jesse.
"I do," whined Rachel, "bits and pieces."
"You're your own woman that's for sure."
"Shut up!" she shouted at him as all five of them ran further into the warehouse.
"Did you even plan an escape route in case this happened?"
"Did you ever learn to shut up?"
"Hate to interupt but we need a way out!" said Max.
"There's two possibilities," said Jesse, "I always plan for every situation." He led them down a couple of hallways, they could here Meszima and Koiohla's footsteps a few seconds behind them. Jesse led them out a door and out of the warehouse. A shot rang out in front of them and Jesse who was in the lead, took a bullet in the shoulder.
"JESSE!" Rachel screamed and ran to where he had fallen.
"Every situation…bu…but this one," he stared at the man who had shot him.
Max and Alec were grabbed from behind by the X38's who had caught up to them, during their momentary pause. Ames White had his gun trained on Logan and the man beside him had his pointed at Rachel and Jesse.
"The puppetmaster," said Jesse wincing.
"How did you follow us?" asked Rachel.
"You didn't actually think that was the only way to hop through time did you?" said the man.
"Who the hell are you?" snapped Max continuing to struggle against Koiohla's iron grip.
"I'm surprised you don't know 452,"said White, "after you kidnapped him and sent him to god-knows-where."
"What?"
"It can't be," said Logan, "Ray White?"
~*~*~*~*~
A/N: end of ch.5, what's going to happen? Please r/r.
Disclaimer: Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.