Out of the Future

Chapter 12: Reunited

CRASH!

Rachel was sent flying into a metal table and went rolling as she landed back on the ground with a thud. Everything was spinning, Koiohla now able to think on her own was proving to be quite a match.

"Cerberus has finally made something that even you can't beat 495," said Koiohla, "You may be Manticore's Perfection but you're now out-matched and out-classed."

Her fingers grew into metallic claws as she spoke, her eyes starting to glow red.

"Come and get it," said Rachel standing up and moving into a fighting stance. Koiohla just laughed and attacked.

^^^

Alec and Ray had tossed each other into the kitchen where Koiohla and Rachel were fighting. They had stopped long enough to glance up and catch Koiohla's first stage transformation.

"Your daughter won't be able to save you this time if you get scratched 494," said Ray fumbling with something around his neck, "gotta go."

"What? Hey! What the fuck?!" said Alec watching Ray disappear in a flash of blue light, "These past few days have been a

freak show."

^^^

"This sucks," said Jesse looking into what appeared to be the millionth room he had checked for a staircase.

"No really? We're stranded up here."

"Fuck let's just go back and move the debris."

"And how far back is that do you suppose?" asked Logan.

"Right there," said Jesse pointing twenty feet behind him.

"Don't be cute," said Logan.

^^^

"Any last words 452?" asked White aiming his gun at them.

"Yeah one," said Max.

"Which is?"

"GO!" yelled Asha grabbing the medical tray off it's stand beside her and throwing it at White's arm. A shot went off and the bullet lodged itself in the wall right near Max''s head, the next thing she new she was being shoved down the hallway and shot at as White recovered.

"What the hell'd you do that for?" yelled Max.

"Like you had a better plan?"

They ran down the hall at an amazing speed. Max was thinking so hard about their current situation that she didn't even notice how easily Asha was keeping up with her.

^^^

"Did you heard that?" asked Logan.

"Gun shots," said Jesse listening carefully.

"Let's go," said Logan kicking the last bit of debris out of the way. The two of them ran down the staircase quickly noticing that the 4th floor stairs above them had been……removed. Lucky for them they were on the third floor and ran down to the 2nd, Jesse getting in front of Logan.

^^^

"Dead End," said Max as she and Asha ran into a solid wall.

"Any vents? Doors?"

"Nothing."

"There was a door back a bit, it's the only way," said Asha.

Max nodded and the two of them raced back to the last door they had seen but White was standing there right beside it.

"Well now, aren't we trapped?" said White, "I have been wait……"

SLAM!

White never got to finish his sentence when the door he was standing beside burst open and slammed him to the ground

unconscious.

"Oh God I hit something!"

"What do you mean you hit something?" asked Logan coming out behind Jesse.

"Oh nevermind it's White."

"JESSE! LOGAN!" cried Max and Asha together.

Jesse and Logan looked over at the two cornered women and then back at White.

"I'm such a hero," said Jesse shaking his head and smiling.

"Good job," said Asha

"Has anyone seen Alec or Rachel?" asked Max.

"Uh, no we've been stuck on the 3rd floor they went west didn't they?"" asked Jesse.

"Let's go then."

"What about him?" asked Logan pointing to White

"Find something to tie him up with," said Max.

^^^

This isn't good thought Rachel as she was thrown over a counter. During the scuffle she had received several cuts on her arms and stomach from Koiohla, the bullet wound in her hand was already throbbing making it pretty much impossible to make a fist.

"You can't win 495, so just come on out," said Koiohla taking off her torn up jacket revealing a black tank top. She didn't even move when Alec somehow managed to get behind her and break a metal chair over her head.

"Super soldier huh?" he said watching her stand there unmoving.

"Yeah,""she said slamming her open hand against his chest sending him flying back to the hole in the wall.

"RUN!" yelled Rachel sprinting out from behind the counter and grabbing his arm as he quickly stood to follow her out the

hole.

They ran all out down the halls hoping that they wouldn't go in a circle.

"Where are we going?" asked Alec as the sound of high heels followed them down the corridor.

"To find the others and get the hell out of here!"

"How? We're surrounded!"

"We'll find a way, a quick way, to the parkade and knock all the officers out that White undoubtedly posted there and steal their clothes," said Rachel, "Brilliant huh?"

"That's a stolen idea," he said, "we did that last year at Jam Pony."

"Well, duh," said Rachel.

The two of them continued down the hall at top speed hoping to find the others before Koiohla did. The sound of high heels slowly dying away…….

^^^

"Okay we're back on the first floor," said Logan, "this way should take us back to the main entrance and over to where Rachel and Alec headed."

"Okay one question," said Jesse, "once we get to the main entrance there are either going to be guards there waiting to kill us, or police outside the building ready to kill us, or snipers there waiting to kill us, or it's an ambush who will then be ready to kill us, you can see my concern here."

"That wasn't a question."

"…………..it was if I say it was…….."

"What''s your IQ?"

"512 what''s it to you?"

"You're joking!" said Logan in disbelief

"Maybe I am, maybe I''m not, but from what I've researched X10's with one human parent are usually smarter than they are tough, just look at Case and well I guess Max is more of a toughy but look who she was named after."

"Max?" asked Logan looking at Max in confusion.

"Jeice's daughter," said Jesse, "Okay well maybe it depends on parenting like everything else but Tansly's smarter and she's pure so……"

"Pure?" asked Max.

"An X-series with two transgenic parents like Rachel."

"Who's Tansly?" asked Logan.

"Krit and Syl's daughter and I really shouldn't have said that!"

"Krit and Syl?" asked Max, "they're family!"

"Well group wise I guess not biologically so..……and well Alec's Ben's twin sorry to bring it up and I have really got to stop talking before I mess things up, and it's not like your genetically brothers and sisters but well hey, it's their lives and I'm just going to shut up now."

"Does Zack ever remember?" asked Max.

"I'm really going to get in trouble for this,"said Jesse, "you saw how pissed Rachel was when I told you Logan was my father but what was I supposed to say about my last name?"

"Just tell me!"

"Look even if I tell you it's not a sure thing, Rachel and I come from a POSSIBLE future, meaning it's not written in stone or anything, and further more none of you should even know any of this in the first place and with all the meddling Rachel and I have already done here you're not even going to find out about Mom the way you should have and I really, really shouldn't have said that."



"What about your Mo……" started Max.

"While we're on the subject of things we shouldn't know, how about you tell us what's so special about Rachel that has the future bad guys so worked up that they travel back through time just to kill Max?" asked Logan, interrupting her

"Well……oof!" Jesse almost knocked over when Rachel came running into him, "Rachel!"

"Jesse? Ah!" she said hugging him tightly, "we have to go, we have to get out of here."

"Hey," said Alec coming up behind Rachel.

"Hey," said Max, "Where's that thing and Ray?"

"He's gone," said Alec, "just disappeared right in front me."

"Koiohla started to transform I……I don't know if I can beat her," panted Rachel.

"You don't what?" asked Jesse, "this coming from the girl who is so stuck- up and confident in her fighting abilities and who beat my ass down just last month is telling me that she 'thinks' she can't beat something? Who are you and what the hell did you do with Rachel?"

"Jess I mean it."

"They've never built anything that you can't toss around."

"Well they did, they finally did, I'm not indestructible you know, or immortal or……"

"You're Perfect and right now you're all we've got."

"Perfect?" asked Logan.

"Uh guys?" said Alec, "we have to move."

"What why?" asked Max.

"Max we have to go NOW!"

"What? Alec!"

"No, do what he says now! We have to go, where's the closest staircase? Let's MOVE!" Rachel and Alec then started to shove, pull, and push, everyone down the hall. They had both heard it.

High Heels.



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A/N: I really hope you guys are enjoying this so far. So what's Perfection and why's Rachel so important? Does Koiohla catch up with them?