Out of the Future
Chapter 7: Daddy don't Die.
"Alec!"
Max was the first one to him when he fell. Alec was out cold and barely breathing.
"What's wrong with him?" questioned Max.
"His hand," said Jesse noticing the cut, "when you were fighting what hit him?"
"That steroid pusher, she must've scratched him."
"Jesse?" asked Rachel her voice higher than normal, "Jesse what''s wrong? Tell me what''s wrong!"
"It's the bio-agent," said Jesse, "A new version of the one they put in Max to kill Dad -- Logan,
and they fixed it so the transgenics aren't immune," he explained to Max and Logan.
"When did you plan on telling us that?!" demanded Max.
"I didn't plan on facing them this soon though," said Jesse throwing his shirt back on, "we have to
get him to the hospital, he's got 20 minutes tops."
"This isn't happening, this isn't happening, this isn't happening!"" repeated loudly Rachel going
into hysterics.
^^^
"We lost them," said White looking down at Meszima's dead body, "I thought these things were
top of the line."
"Cerberus implanted a chip in their heads to make them do only what they're told," said Ray.
"So what are we going to do now?"
"I tell her to kill 452 at all costs, transform if need be."
"Transform?"
"This isn't what she really looks like, with all the things Cerberus have done to these models
they're monsters in a human guise. Highly dangerous. Cerberus implanted a chip into them to keep
them in line, make sure they follow orders. But with any luck," said Ray walking to Koiohla, "my
problem could be over within the next few minutes, look at this."
"What?" asked White.
Ray held up Koiohla's unsheathed hand, her fingers were long, sharp, and metallic, "she was
holding 494 so it's more than likely his blood. With any luck he'll drop dead from the bio-agent."
"Is there a cure?"
"If he does get cured 495 could die anyway," said Ray, "She's trapped either way. Good thing it
wasn't 452 that was infected, she already knows that 495 is her daughter."
^^^
"What happened to him?" asked Dr. Shankar
"A new version of what Max was infected with," Logan whispered to her, "got in through the cut
on his hand."
"We'll see what we can do."
"You only have 10 minutes by the way."
"This is timed?"
"Guess so."
Alec was taken somewhere in the hospital as everyone else was forced to wait. Rachel was
hunched over gasping for air. Jesse was the only thing holding her up.
"Rachel?" asked Max rushing over to her, "what's wrong? Was she hit too?"
"This is different," said Jesse sitting Rachel on a chair.
"This……isn't……ha……happening," she said through tears, "Jesse." She gripped his hand
tightly as he smoothed back her hair.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Logan as he watched her shudder and cough up some blood.
"She''s dying," said Jesse.
"Logan," Shankar was running back, "Max, he's getting worse, a blood transfusion seems to be
our only option."
"I'm not immune," said Max watching Rachel growing more and more worried.
"I am, use mine," said Rachel with some difficulty, "for some reason I am."
"I don't think I can, this is more complicated than Logan's was."
"How?" asked Max.
"We need a family member," she said, "mother, father, brother, sister, a blood tie."
"We don''t have that." said Max.
"Wai---t" started Rachel
"Rachel," said Jesse.
"I''m going to die either way!" she said, "He's my father!"
"Rachel."
"Jesse, help me up."
"Well that'll work I'll get a gurney.."
"No, I'll carry her," said Jesse, "let''s go."
They ran down the hall leaving a very shocked Max and Logan behind.
"Oh," said Max
"My," said Logan
"God," they both finished watching the three disappear down the hall.
Time is growing short and Rachel is struggling to stay conscious without choking on her own
blood, while Alec is barely hanging on.
~*~*~*~*
A/N: this is a re-post of Chapter 7, how those weird symbols made it in I'll never know...
And about the X38's nails - has anyone seen Osmosis Jones? Koiohla's hands look like Thrax's
when they're unsheathed.
Sorry this chapter was so short!
Disc.: Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.