Out of the Future
Chapter 24: Home Coming
One week has passed since the events in "Phoenix Tears"
Jesse has regained his strength and has healed up quite nicely with the help of his transgenic DNA, he was released from the hospital on the twelfth of the month.
Jesse and Rachel have still not found a way home. It's seems they've all hit a dead end. Cerberus won't rise until after the battle between Transgenics and Familiars. Time travel won't be thought possible for another few years. And even then, Time Travel won't be certain for another twenty odd years with Cerberus in control of the technology. There's only so much Eyes Only could do. Rachel and Jesse were stuck.
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May 14th, 2022
Logan's Penthouse
The Present
" 'We're going to get home Rachel.' Where have I heard that before?" asked Rachel.
"They wouldn't forget about us, and besides twelve days to us could be twelve minutes to them. So if they left us here for…"
"So one hour to them could be…sixty days for us," said Rachel spacing out..
"Maybe we should stop talking, we're going to scare each other," said Jesse
The two X9's were sitting in Logan's living room; he had gotten a lot of it redone after Koiohla trashed the place when they first met.
"What if the leave us here for a day and then find out we've been here for 10 years?"
"Rachel what did I say about talking?" said Jesse, "and besides it wouldn't be ten years it would be three and a half"
"I'm scared now," she said.
"Let's talk about something else?"
"Like what? Your five day hospital stay?"
"Kudos to Carr and Shankar for keeping my blood away from the Labs."
"Yeah, then we'd have White coming at us with a vengeance, it didn't help that you slammed a door in his face either."
"That was an accident! I didn't know he was there! And besides it saved our Moms," he said quietly.
"Why are you talking so quiet? We're the only ones here."
"And why are we the only ones here?"
"Jesse."
"Yes?"
"I don't know; I want to go home."
"I know."
"Do you think that if I clicked my heels together three times I'll wake up and find out that this was all a dream?" asked Rachel hopefully.
"Try it, it's as good idea as the next."
"Does your stomach hurt anymore?"
"Tingles sometimes but it's fine. Why?" he asked.
"Because."
Rachel got up off one of the couches and sat down on the other one across from her that Jesse was on. The X9 plopped down and hugged him.
"We're going to be fine," said Jesse wrapping his arms around her and hugged her back.
"Why aren't you scared?"
"Stereo-typical male wiring."
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May 14, 2042
Logan's Penthouse
The Future
"Got it yet?"
"Well I'd have it sooner if you'd stop peering over my shoulder and asking me that question every twenty seconds Max," said Logan as he finished screwing in the final component of the device he was working on.
"Fine," said Max giving up, she ran her hands through her short hair.
"Yo Logan you done yet?"
"That's it! Max and now Alec get out, I'll tell you when I'm done and you don't have to go on again about how worried you are about Rachel because Jesse, MY SON, is with her and I'm well aware that they could be getting themselves killed-it's been almost two weeks since they left and Cerberus exploding didn't help any. Just get OUT and let me finish!"
"Okay, okay jeez, he didn't have to get all huffy about," said Alec as the door to Logan's computer room slammed in their faces.
"It's your fault we were kicked out!" said Max hitting him upside the head.
"You two need to get out," said Asha coming up to them, her long brown hair was tied up in a ponytail.
"That's my daughter," said Max.
"And that's my son, Max. Logan will get the palm pilot working and then we can go get them."
"We would have gotten them back sooner if someone hadn't blown up Cerberus," said Alec
"That wasn't me!" said Max defensively.
"Didn't say it was-I just said it was 'someone'."
"Then quit looking at me when you emphasize the 'someone'!"
"I wasn't."
"You were Alec, I didn't do it! They did."
"They blew up their own facility. Losers."
"Well they'll still have it if the X30-whatever completes its mission, which it hasn't by the way, I'm fine."
"Why is it always about you?" said Alec.
"Why can't we be left alone?" asked Max, "they always go away and then come back I'm getting sick of it."
"Look, Max, if Rachel and Jesse win then they won't let Cerberus play out like it did, our past selves will know where to go."
"Even then it could create an alternate reality and we could still be stuck with Cerberus, but since they got blown up…they had so better not have another facility!"
"And if they do, we'll just blow it up!" said Alec enthusiastically.
"I want my daughter back," said Max walking away from the door and over to a window.
"We'll get her back," said Alec, "and say this device does work."
"It will work."
"Okay say it works, who goes to get them?"
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May 14th, 2022
Logan's Penthouse
The Present
"Full House I win!" said Rachel as she dragged a pile of cookies towards her.
"How'd you get…I taught you how to play poker?" asked Alec.
"Oh and Pool too, Mom taught me to play basketball," she said taking a bite of one of her cookies, "want one?"
"Why not?" Alec shrugged and grabbed a cookie.
"So no luck yet huh?"
"No, nothing yet."
"I shouldn't be surprised, what with there being no such thing as time travel, and hopefully there never will be."
"What?"
"Jesse and I want you guys to terminate Cerberus before it becomes like Manticore. Koiohla was hard enough to handle, I don't want to see the X40's, they'll keep coming so they can test me and cut me open to figure out how to make Perfect soldiers of their own. There's still a lot of Familiars out there and with Ray White's crusade against us it's only a matter of time."
"Like Max already said," said Alec, "give us the time and place."
Rachel smiled and took another bite of her cookie.
"Oh dear God what have you done to my coffee table?"
Logan and Jesse had just come back from wherever they went off to and were staring at the cookie mess that covered the table. Logan was horrified at the mess and Jesse was smiling, trying desperately not to laugh.
"What coffee table?" asked Alec innocently.
"The one that…were you playing poker?"
"Um…no?"
"I just got that table in and polished and you have cookie crumbs all over it and I MEAN all over, that was brand new."
"Well at least we didn't break it," said Rachel brightly.
"Hey yeah that's right, it's not broke," said Alec grinning, he then hit the top of the table to show Logan that it was, indeed, not broke.
"What are you smirking at?"
"Logan I don't smirk, I grin happily and yes we were playing cookie poker."
"Cookie Poker?" asked Jesse.
"Uh huh, instead of money we use cookies," said Rachel
"They're now raiding my cupboards," said Logan, "why can I say I'm not surprised."
"It was all a matter of time," said Alec.
Logan sighed and went to his computer muttering all the way, "no plates, no napkins, no nothing, this is my house, what are they even doing in my house?"
"Does Jesse want to play too?" asked Rachel.
"Nah, I'm good, I will steal a cookie though," he said grabbing a cookie and sitting down on the couch, "you are going to clean that up right?"
"He really is a Logan Jr. isn't he?" said Alec, "Except without the stick up…"
"Hey," said Rachel kicking him with her foot.
Jesse rolled his eyes got up and went into the kitchen.
"We should go out somewhere," said Rachel, "get out of Logan's apartment."
"Penthouse," came Jesse's voice from the kitchen.
"The magazine? I didn't know Logan was into that kind of thing," said Alec.
"You know what I meant."
"Yeah I know, so where do you want to go and who's all invited?"
"Everyone is and we could maybe go to Crash? I want to see if it's changed any in the last twenty years."
"OC and Sketch will probably be there," said Alec.
"Sketchy just found out about you and Mom being transgenics didn't he?"
"Yup, and if he asks you're family-which you are-we don't have to go into the whole time travel thing because that's a long story."
"Perfect, so we're going," said Rachel.
"Where are we going?" asked Logan who just walked back into the living room.
"To Crash, tonight, I guess you can come too," said Alec.
"Good, it's settled, we're going, call everyone up!" said Rachel.
^^^
May 14th, 2022
Crash
"There they be," said Original Cindy indicating towards the door. Rachel, Jesse, Logan, and Alec had just come down the stairs. OC waved them over to the table.
"So who're the chick and the blonde?" asked Sketchy.
"Rachel and Jesse," said Max, "they're family."
"Well the more the merrier, Hey Alec! Buddy, pool?"
"What happened to his resolution of never-playing-Alec-at-pool-ever-again?" asked Original Cindy.
"Well Logan beat him once."
"You think he meant to miss that ball?"
"Knowing Alec that's probably what he'd say."
"Look at that fool," said Original Cindy as she and Max started to watch the No Mercy pool match.
"'Lo," said Rachel as she sat down; Jesse and Logan were behind her with a few pitchers of beer.
"Just a little bit?" asked Jesse
"No, drink your water," said Logan.
"He won't even let me get away with it here, go figure."
"Jesse's going to stop complaining and give you guys a little present we've been working on isn't he?" said Rachel.
"What? Oh yeah!"
"What'd you get us?" asked Max.
"This," said Jesse taking a disc out of his back pocket and holding it up, "my Dad downloaded everything we had on Cerberus super quick for us just before we came here, Rachel and I went through it, added and reorganized some things."
"Hopefully all of the information here will help you bring them down before they get too big."
Jesse handed the disc to Logan who looked at it then pocketed it.
"I'll boot it up when we get home," he said.
"Oh you'll need these too," said Jesse handing him some folded up papers, "it's the passwords and encryptions I used to safeguard it. I wrote it so you'd know how to read it. Anyone else would have an aneurysm."
"Good to know," said Logan unfolding the papers, "wow, this is really high tech."
"Just don't kill yourselves trying to get rid of them, you'll have baby me to take care of when they start to surface," said Rachel
"So what about Original Cindy? Does she find herself a honey?" asked OC.
"She finds a honey," said Rachel.
"A pretty fine honey," said Jesse *thwack*
"Loser," muttered Rachel as she watched Jesse hold his head in pain.
"First I'm shot, then blown up, then stabbed, and now I'm getting hit."
"Aw poor baby."
"That's not funny Rache."
"Whatever," she smiled moving his hands and ruffling his hair playfully.
"And now she's manhandling me."
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"Damn X-series I'll get them if it's the last thing I do," muttered White, he took out his gun and shot the annoying informant he was just talking to. He was in a bad mood. Not surprising really.
His week started out great, he found his son, well future son to be more exact, met something that could possibly kill 452, and learned about the wonderful Cerberus, he was on a roll. But it started to go downhill from there when he and Ray cornered the transgenics at that warehouse, he was sure he had them then. But they escaped. And then the hospital; oh how Ames hated the hospital.
They were cornered. 452 and some blonde chick; the blonde tossed a tray at him and they both took off down the hallway. She was an X5 no doubt about it at the speed she was running at. He had caught up to them only to get a close up of a door in his face. When White woke up he was tied up for the umpteenth time. Upon getting loose he found Ray to be nowhere, the X38 was missing, 452 and her friends had escaped yet again and his entire squad were all unconscious. But things were now starting to look up, 452 had been spotted at a local hangout, some sort of "Crash" it was the same place Otto had picked up a guy who got some pictures of a capture. Well, this time he was going to get them. Wait in the alley and just shoot them all at once when they came out. Yes, it may sound like a stupid plan and that the good agent may just get his ass kicked but he didn't really care. His stress level had been skyrocketing for the past eight days, and he had to shoot something. White kicked the dead informant off the dock and into the water, he then went back to his car and drove off towards Crash, calling his Delta Squad now that Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie were gone.
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"…then the guy just disappeared," finished Alec.
"Freaky," said Sketchy.
"How could Ray just disappear?" asked Max.
"He did he just *poof* vanished in a blaze of blue light, Rachel was there and could back me up if she wasn't busy with Koiohla."
"I was wondering where he went," said Rachel, "Maybe he was a hologram?"
"Well if he was he sure hit pretty hard."
"Yeah well, it's all over," said Max.
"Or maybe not," said Logan pointing to the entrance, "aren't those White's men?"
"We're never going to be left alone are we?" asked Alec.
"Not in our lifetime," said Rachel watching White's men descend the steps; they were now scanning the crowd.
"Go," said Original Cindy, "out the side door, they'll be more expectin' ya to go for the back."
"Come on," said Rachel. The five of them tried slipping unnoticed through the crowd, each taking a different direction to the side of the club.
"Sir, target spotted, heading towards the side door," said one of the men to his jacket, White got the message and told them to stay put inside. Help was offered to him but was declined.
^^^
"One," said Max.
"Two."
"Three," said Alec.
"Four," said Logan looking around, "where's Jesse?"
"Five," said the youngest finally coming out the door and joining the group outside.
"Let's go," said Max, the group followed her down the alley towards the street. They had only gone a few feet when White stepped out in front of them. Gun raised.
"Well isn't this a lovely night to be killed on," he said.
"Don't you people ever give up?" asked Max, "we got rid of your Familiar version of a Manticore soldier and oh! Still alive, sorry to disappoint."
"Well you know what 452 you…"
White felt a tap on his shoulder. When he turned around his brows furrowed in confusion.
"453?"
"Wrong," said the woman. The next thing he saw was a close up of her fist.
"I miss doing that," she said to herself.
"Mom?" said Rachel
"Max?" said Jesse
"Seattle sure hasn't changed much, do I even get a hug?"
"Mom!" yelled Rachel and ran towards Ft. Max making sure she ran over top of White's unconscious body before pulling her mother into a big hug.
Everyone besides Jesse, who was smiling like crazy, just stared at the scene before them. Another version of Max, and not a clone like 453, but her future self; alive and well. Her style was still black. Her hair was cropped short and layered and she was smiling, hugging her daughter with a force that would have crushed her ribs if she hadn't been a transgenic.
"We're going home," said Jesse.
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A/N: Ft. stands for 'future' just in case any of you were wondering. Muahahaha!
Well there's chapter 24, it's seven pages long on Word.
Only one more chapter left! I hope you've all enjoyed this fic so far, it's my most successful story.
Chapter 25: All's Well That Ends Well
Disclaimer: DA belong 2 Cameron/Eglee