Out of the Future

Chapter 6: Escape route 101

"It can't be," said Logan in disbelief, "Ray White?"

"Do you have to look so surprised?" he asked.

"There's no way," said Max.

"Where there's a will there's a way and I have been looking for you two for quite a long time," he turned to address Rachel and an injured Jesse, "Rachel Guevara and Jesse Cale the most annoying X10's in the face of Transgenic history."

"Cale?" asked Logan.

"What, he didn't tell you he was your son?" asked Ames, "Ray came straight to me the minute he arrived."

"What the hell did you have to shoot him for?" demanded Rachel

"I thought you'd be the first one out," said Ray, "you're boyfriend will live."

"He's not my boyfriend!"

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"We have to break their grip," said Max .

"What do you think I''ve been trying to do?""snapped Alec struggling against Koiohla, "so you ladies from around here?" he asked changing his approach.

"Alec!"

"What? They don't respond, Kind of reminds me of X7's."

"X7's talk to each other but these two? I don''t know. Hey uh, lady? Can you let me go?" Max asked Mezsima. No answer.

"Like Rachel said. Puppets."

"So they only do what they're told?" asked Max.

"Looks that way."

"How?"

"I dunno."

"You''re a big help, Alec."

"I know," he said, "so are we forming a plan?"

"Like what?"

"Don''t ask me, didn't they talk to you before?" asked Alec.

"Yeah, back at Logan''s they were really animated," said Max confused, "After we escaped I guess Manticore tried to create things without free will so they wouldn't rebel."

"Strong yet under control I see where you're going, again like X7's," said Alec, "But Manticore didn't create these two -- Cerberus did."

"Everything has a weakness don't they?"" asked Max.

"Well it's not struggling," said Alec, "what if we played dead?"

"Dammit Alec, now''s not the time for----wait a minute, no that it wouldn't work it's too stupid."

"Or would it?"" asked Alec, "you know what they say about the braun/brain equation."

"All braun and no brain, kinda like you," said Max.

"Exactly----HEY!"

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"The thing is I don't know which of you I want to see die first," said Ray, "but you know, No wait, yeah nevermind, I know what I'm going to do----I'll kill 211 first so you have to watch him die."

"Now this is what I call father-son bonding," said Ames.

Rachel tensed as Ray cocked his gun, she was about to move when a slamming sound was heard from behind. Everyone looked to see Koiohla slammed against the wall as Max flipped backwards over Meszima. Ray shot at Max only to hit Meszima through the neck. This gave Rachel the chance to move in on him quickly and kick the gun out of his grip. She then kicked him in the stomach and kneed him in the head, sending him to the floor. Ames was about to shoot her when he was hit hard from behind and fell to the ground.

"What?" asked Jesse from behind Ames as Rachel gave him a startled look, "It was just a graze, someone needs to teach that guy how to shoot."

"Where'd it hit you?"

"Top of the shoulder, hurts like a bitch, Rachel watch it!" he yelled. Rachel turned in time to jump out of the way as Koiohla went down.

"We make a pretty good team," said Alec.

"Shut up that was weird," was Max's answer, "you're bleeding." She looked at his hand.

"Since when do you care?"

"I don''t!"

"Okay then."

"Fine."

""Good.""

"Shut up."

"Sorry to interrupt this moment but shouldn't we be running?" asked Jesse as he saw Koiohla getting up.

"Good idea," said Rachel, "everyone move!"

The five of them headed off in the direction of Logan''s car, hoping that White hadn't brought an ambush.

"I think you two have been leaving out pieces of who you are," Logan said to the X10's.

They all piled in the car and took off. Jesse was up front with Logan and the other three were in the back.

"What are you talking about?" asked Alec once they were driving to Joshua's..

"While you two were busy I heard some pretty interesting things."

"But not that interesting," covered Rachel, "I mean nothing……"

"Well I found it interesting, stop me if I''m wrong……"

"You're wrong,"

"Rachel,"said Jesse, he had taken off his jacket and was holding it against his shoulder.

"What are you three getting at?" asked Alec.

"Cale?" Logan asked Jesse, "You're a Cale? H……"

""I''m your son," Jesse said.

Rachel kicked the back of his seat. Hard. "Rachel!"

"We're gonna die," she said.

"No one's dying."

"Well not yet we aren't."

"You are such a brat!"

"What did you just call me?!"

"I think you heard me!"

"We're here," said Logan stopping in front of Joshua's. He, Max, and Alec got out of the car and left the children to fight. They went into Joshua's place and crashed in the living room.

"Ok, ok, let me see if I got this," said Alec, "while me and Max were with the X38's White told you that Jesse was your son?"

"Yeah."

"This makes absolutely no sense."

"And why not?" asked Max.

"Fine, YOU make sense of it then," said Alec.

"I can't even make sense of what you just said."

"Jesse and Rachel, they don't look related and I know that's where you were going to go."

"Why not?" asked Max, "you saw the way he moved! Jesse's an X-series that's for damn sure."

"They don't look alike!"

"Would they have barcodes?" asked Logan.

"Well, it's written into our DNA so they would most likely have a barcode or a faded one at least." guessed Alec

Logan, Max, and Alec turned around to see Rachel and Jesse, who were coming up noisily behind them.

"Jesse sit the hell down and let me fix your stupid shoulder," said Rachel

"You're not touching me when you're in a bad mood!"

"I said SIT!"She kicked his legs out from under him and violently forced him into a sitting position.

"Aren't we feeling dominant today."

"Do the world a favour and shut up!"

"She got that from you," Alec whispered to Max, who then cuffed him upside the head.

"Get me something to wrap this with," she snapped at them, finally getting Jesse's shirt over his head.

"You're a very evil gir……ow!" he winced as she put a cloth loaded with antiseptic on his shoulder, "you sure got that to her in a hurry," he told Max who just shrugged.

"You have a silver barcode,"said Max furrowing her eyebrows. 211? she thought.

"Check Rachel's while you're at it," he said.

"Are you two related, because you're both X10's"

"I'm better," said Rachel

"Oh right you're perfect. How foolish of me to forget," said Jesse.

"I don't want to fight with you!"

"Well you started it."

"Isn't that a bit childish?" asked Rachel wrapping his arm more gently then before.

"This is my life Rache," said Jesse, "If I don''t exist it's no big deal, you''e all that matters, they're going to find out anyway, sooner or later, later would be better, but we're playing with time here."

"We are still here you know," said Alec, his vision was getting a bit blurry, so he shook his head to try and clear it.

"You okay?" asked Max.

"I'm fine," he said feeling dizzy What the hell? His mind was getting cloudy.

"Here," said Rachel moving her hair for Max to see her barcode. It was solid black.

"Why are your barcodes so different?"" asked Max reading it, "495?"

"Imagine that," said Alec before finally collapsing into unconsciousness.

The cut on his hand from Koiohla's unsheathed nails, was turning slightly blue around the broken skin.



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A/N: Will Alec live? will he die? Will the mystery of Jesse being an X9 ever be revealed? Are Rachel and Jesse related? Stay tuned for Ch. 7: Daddy Don't Die

Disc.: Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.