AN: Merry late Christmas (or whatever the heck ya celebrate)! Sorry I haven't wrote since
probably November. Holiday stress has threw me off my groove and I couldn't write. Thanks
for reviews! I definitely can't work without them! I also would like to take more ideas,
questions, and suggestions, send them to Maxcat452@aol.com. Keep Reading.
Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel.
::Chapter 8: Sasha 1.0::
It had been about two weeks since the escape, yet it felt like yesterday. The events of the
escape were engraved deep into their mind, it would probably haunt them forever, but till then
they still had a few good things to think about.
The pulse was the best thing that happened to them since they left Manticore. They really didn't
understand what the people on the outside were worried about, they still had what they needed.
Plus, since they heard computers went out for awhile Manticore wouldn't be on their track for a
few days...or hours. Also they learned how to adapt to the outside world, some more than
others. Some of the naturally light-hearted soldiers took everything in easy. Zack on the other
hand felt as if he might go crazy.
Everything was so out of order and unorganized! He wasn't used to this and totally didn't
accept that they had broke habit so easy. At least they still respected him...he hoped. Maxie
was getting defiant and stubborn and Jondy was getting herself into trouble by running off and
getting lost. Raven and Zane were play fighting to much and Krit was to curious about
everything. He kept finding small pieces of things and bringing them back, like a dog with toys.
It was just crazy. It seemed like the only sane people were Ben, Tinga, and him. No wait...Ben
started meditating and Tinga was obsessed with growing out her hair!
This was not his unit at all, he thought. But sadly enough...they were.
It seemed everyone had some kind off problem with them. Zack stopped and reflected what
might be wrong with him.
"Ha!" Syl exclaimed, interrupting Zack's thinking. Oh please no...he knew it...Syl was up to it
again...
"I fixed it...I think." She examined her contraption. Lately she had been taking things Krit
brought her and turning them into things. Just like yesterday, she was able to fix the faucet in the
shower that they used so much, it was one of the only few things that worked in the building, the
bathroom, and a few sinks on the other side of the building.
"What did you do this time?" Brin stepped around her sister who was sprawled out on the
ground surrounded by pieces of metal and a screw driver.
"I'm not sure but appears to be some a small metal gizmo of some kind..."She said looking at
her knew masterpiece.
"How do you know you fixed it if you can't identify it?" Zack asked tilting his head and
hesitating approach to it.
"Because it makes a pretty sound when I shake it!" She laughed. She hung the junk on twine
and when he wind hit it, it chimed.
"Whatever. Where is Krit?" Brin asked curiously as she stood next to Zack; for the first time
she actually felt lesser and unimportant because of her size.
"With Raven and Zane. They went down stairs into the old hall."
"Oh. Why would they go down there it smells gross like dirt and old text books." Brin's nose
wrinkled when she made a disgusted face.
"I don't know, as long as they have something to do I guess." Zack stated and walked off
leaving Brin behind.
...
"To get away." Krit answered Zane.
"If we wanted to get away from everyone couldn't we just go outside." Raven asked coming out
of an old office room door beside them.
"Not while the civilians are getting home from work and school..." Krit said gently pushing her
out of the way to enter another door.
"We haven't gone down that hall yet." Zane frowned.
"It's unexplored...we should know our terra as good as we can." Raven said walking down the
dark passage bravely leaving behind her two brothers.
"Wait up!" Krit yelled, running after her; Zane rushed after both of them.
The first thing Zane noticed was he ran straight into Krit, "Hello, move!"
Krit didn't budge, neither did Raven. Then he saw what had stopped them...
On the floor lay a tiny creature much like the ferocious attack dogs at Manticore but much
smaller.
"Its a puppy..." Krit stated the obvious. Raven, the brave, kneeled down to investigate the
creature. "German shepherd...its to dark to see it properly but it looks starved." She slowly
picked her hand up hand rubbed the creatures head.
"How did it get down here?" Krit asked no one in particular. Their eyes went to a small drain
vent that was broken open with one small spot of sunshine shining in.
"It's to high for him to have jumped down. He must have got knocked into here by heavy rain..."
Zane sighed while examining the dog and reaching out his hand to let it sniff his hand, "Its okay,
girl." He smiled.
"Why do you assume its female?" Raven asked.
"I dunno. I just know." Zane shrugged, sitting up
"We should take him to Zack.." Krit suggested raising his eyebrows at the puppy.
"Umm. Maybe we should show someone else first...Max is CO, plus she likes animals. If we
get her to see the dog and she likes it, maybe she can persuade Zack to not make us move just
yet or make the dog leave." Zane suggested hopefully.
"You wanna keep it?" Raven asked as if Zane was insane.
"Yeah. And its not an it, she is a her." Zane smirked, petting the puppy's little head.
...
Max sat comfortably in the window overlooking several small buildings and houses. She could
see swarms of people going in an out of the stores and several of them walking on the streets
just talking to each other. It was unlike the first time they saw the people -lots of them, most
driving away in cars...screaming. In fact their was very few cars, gas prices must have risen
remarkably.
She spied at a few mischievous kids laughing at an adult who was yelling quite loudly, or maybe
it was just her good hearing. Humans with long golden hair, brown hair, even multi-color hair
walked among their friends. She saw children in the street hitting a small white ball with blunt
sticks- a game of some type- she was sure. All these things she couldn't wait to explore, if Zack
would let her.
Of course since they were out of Manticore would their ranking still matter? He'd get mad at
her is she questioned that. No doubt, since he was the oldest and the big bother, he did the
commanding and she had to respect her orders. He was the protector and his position demands
respect. Max smiled, he was definitely their protector.
"Maxie?" Her sister asked walking up the stairs in the middle of the room.
"Tinga? I'm over here." Max smiled as her older sister trudged up the last step as if stepping
through mud.
"Whats wrong?"
"Nothin. Zack wanted me to tell you that he was taking Ben out today, to get some more food,
since he couldn't find Jondy to tell you..." She smiled and sat down by her little sister.
"Watcha doin?"
"Nothin really. Just watching the outside people." She laid her head on the window frame.
"You really wanna go out there, huh?" She looked out the window.
"I guess. I mean... I would like to go out there and explore sometime..." She shrugged.
...
So what do we do with her?" Raven asked finally, leaning against the wall with her arms folded.
"Bring her over here." Krit stated, though he was younger the other two transgenics, they
obeyed him for the reason of not having any other ideas to go by.
Zane walked to where Krit stood with the puppy gently held in his arms. Then he laid her on the
floor where she stood and licked his hand.
"What's your name?" He laughed. Raven and Krit smiled. Zane really liked the dog.
"Sasha? Okay." Zane smiled.
"Sasha?" Raven bent her knees to sit like Zane's position.
"Yep. That's her name." Zane smirked and rubbed the animal's back.
"And she told you that?" She asked sarcastically.
"Of course." Zane made-up. The dog didn't say it but he was sticking to the idea.
"Whatever, Zany." Raven rolled her eyes.
"We should go find Max, now." Krit ordered, going up the stairs to the main hall.
"Why do we keep obeying him? Its not like he is our superior." Zane stated, standing to walk
with Raven.
"I dunno about you but I'm following him because I have no idea where Maxie is." She said.
...
"Ben, ready?" Zack asked leaning against one of the doors that led outside.
"Yeah." Ben grabbed a black faux leather jacket on like Zack's and followed him out the door.
The sunshine of the afternoon day hit there backs and it felt great. They hadn't had sun in awhile
because they didn't want to leave the protection of the warehouse for safety purposes. Finally
they did, they were headed for a gas station across the park to grab some junk food that keep
them full till they could move to a different city and find better food.
"Only one obstacle. Zack's non-emotional steel mask came back.
"Whats that?" Ben looked around.
Zack kept walking till the small park came into view.
"School is out and the park is full of ordinaries."
Your not a very social person, are ya? Ben thought sarcastically.
"We can avoid them easily." Ben stated but not before seeing kids on the streets surrounding the
park playing a strange games. "Or. not." They kept walking through the park avoiding everyone
possible. But Zack got tapped on the back and both boys quickly turned to see a young girl
about Max's age in a yellow and violet sun dress, with long curly blonde hair.
"Oops, sorry, I thought you were my big brother." She frowned, her eyes the same color as
Max's blinked in embarrassment.
Zack nodded. What else was he suppose to do? He could see Ben looking at him out
of the corner of his eye. The girl was silent but still watched them. What to do, what to do...
Zack tried to walk on.
"I'm Alaina" She smiled.
Ben smiled and nodded. Zack replied before Ben could.
"I'm um, Sam." He lied, using the name of a janitor of Manticore.
He took a minute but Ben understood Zack didn't want them to use there real names.
Then he noticed the girl, Alaina, staring at him in question.
"I'm uh, Zack." He accidentally stated, looking at Zack curiously and speaking to quick.
The blonde girl just smiled. They tried to walk on again.
"Where do you go to school?" She asked.
"Um. Far away..."Zack said in a fake cool voice in a hoping chance to loose her.
"Then what are you doing all the way over in this park?" She interrogated.
"We're on vacation." Ben nodded.
Alaina nodded, "So you two are brothers?"
What was this? Why the heck was she bothering them?
"Yeah." Zack looked to Ben who gave him the same look. The one that said: can we
please go now?
"Neat. I don't have two brothers. Just one. And his name is Evan. And he looks
just like you, Sam. I thought that Zack here was his friend." The talkative young girl explained.
"Nice to meet you, Alaina. But we gotta go to the store." Ben said politely, turning to Zack
who looked glad at the fact they could leave now.
"Okay. See ya later." She smiled and tossed her blonde hair behind her shoulder.
The boys tried to leave as soon as possible and succeeded.
"What the hell was that?" Zack asked Ben.
"A young ordinary girl with curly blonde hair, wearing a yellow and violet sun dress." Ben
stated. Zack rolled his eyes. Was that sarcasm he heard?"
FN: All right part two of this chapter asap. Thanks for reading now please review!!!
Happy New Years~!
probably November. Holiday stress has threw me off my groove and I couldn't write. Thanks
for reviews! I definitely can't work without them! I also would like to take more ideas,
questions, and suggestions, send them to Maxcat452@aol.com. Keep Reading.
Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel.
::Chapter 8: Sasha 1.0::
It had been about two weeks since the escape, yet it felt like yesterday. The events of the
escape were engraved deep into their mind, it would probably haunt them forever, but till then
they still had a few good things to think about.
The pulse was the best thing that happened to them since they left Manticore. They really didn't
understand what the people on the outside were worried about, they still had what they needed.
Plus, since they heard computers went out for awhile Manticore wouldn't be on their track for a
few days...or hours. Also they learned how to adapt to the outside world, some more than
others. Some of the naturally light-hearted soldiers took everything in easy. Zack on the other
hand felt as if he might go crazy.
Everything was so out of order and unorganized! He wasn't used to this and totally didn't
accept that they had broke habit so easy. At least they still respected him...he hoped. Maxie
was getting defiant and stubborn and Jondy was getting herself into trouble by running off and
getting lost. Raven and Zane were play fighting to much and Krit was to curious about
everything. He kept finding small pieces of things and bringing them back, like a dog with toys.
It was just crazy. It seemed like the only sane people were Ben, Tinga, and him. No wait...Ben
started meditating and Tinga was obsessed with growing out her hair!
This was not his unit at all, he thought. But sadly enough...they were.
It seemed everyone had some kind off problem with them. Zack stopped and reflected what
might be wrong with him.
"Ha!" Syl exclaimed, interrupting Zack's thinking. Oh please no...he knew it...Syl was up to it
again...
"I fixed it...I think." She examined her contraption. Lately she had been taking things Krit
brought her and turning them into things. Just like yesterday, she was able to fix the faucet in the
shower that they used so much, it was one of the only few things that worked in the building, the
bathroom, and a few sinks on the other side of the building.
"What did you do this time?" Brin stepped around her sister who was sprawled out on the
ground surrounded by pieces of metal and a screw driver.
"I'm not sure but appears to be some a small metal gizmo of some kind..."She said looking at
her knew masterpiece.
"How do you know you fixed it if you can't identify it?" Zack asked tilting his head and
hesitating approach to it.
"Because it makes a pretty sound when I shake it!" She laughed. She hung the junk on twine
and when he wind hit it, it chimed.
"Whatever. Where is Krit?" Brin asked curiously as she stood next to Zack; for the first time
she actually felt lesser and unimportant because of her size.
"With Raven and Zane. They went down stairs into the old hall."
"Oh. Why would they go down there it smells gross like dirt and old text books." Brin's nose
wrinkled when she made a disgusted face.
"I don't know, as long as they have something to do I guess." Zack stated and walked off
leaving Brin behind.
...
"To get away." Krit answered Zane.
"If we wanted to get away from everyone couldn't we just go outside." Raven asked coming out
of an old office room door beside them.
"Not while the civilians are getting home from work and school..." Krit said gently pushing her
out of the way to enter another door.
"We haven't gone down that hall yet." Zane frowned.
"It's unexplored...we should know our terra as good as we can." Raven said walking down the
dark passage bravely leaving behind her two brothers.
"Wait up!" Krit yelled, running after her; Zane rushed after both of them.
The first thing Zane noticed was he ran straight into Krit, "Hello, move!"
Krit didn't budge, neither did Raven. Then he saw what had stopped them...
On the floor lay a tiny creature much like the ferocious attack dogs at Manticore but much
smaller.
"Its a puppy..." Krit stated the obvious. Raven, the brave, kneeled down to investigate the
creature. "German shepherd...its to dark to see it properly but it looks starved." She slowly
picked her hand up hand rubbed the creatures head.
"How did it get down here?" Krit asked no one in particular. Their eyes went to a small drain
vent that was broken open with one small spot of sunshine shining in.
"It's to high for him to have jumped down. He must have got knocked into here by heavy rain..."
Zane sighed while examining the dog and reaching out his hand to let it sniff his hand, "Its okay,
girl." He smiled.
"Why do you assume its female?" Raven asked.
"I dunno. I just know." Zane shrugged, sitting up
"We should take him to Zack.." Krit suggested raising his eyebrows at the puppy.
"Umm. Maybe we should show someone else first...Max is CO, plus she likes animals. If we
get her to see the dog and she likes it, maybe she can persuade Zack to not make us move just
yet or make the dog leave." Zane suggested hopefully.
"You wanna keep it?" Raven asked as if Zane was insane.
"Yeah. And its not an it, she is a her." Zane smirked, petting the puppy's little head.
...
Max sat comfortably in the window overlooking several small buildings and houses. She could
see swarms of people going in an out of the stores and several of them walking on the streets
just talking to each other. It was unlike the first time they saw the people -lots of them, most
driving away in cars...screaming. In fact their was very few cars, gas prices must have risen
remarkably.
She spied at a few mischievous kids laughing at an adult who was yelling quite loudly, or maybe
it was just her good hearing. Humans with long golden hair, brown hair, even multi-color hair
walked among their friends. She saw children in the street hitting a small white ball with blunt
sticks- a game of some type- she was sure. All these things she couldn't wait to explore, if Zack
would let her.
Of course since they were out of Manticore would their ranking still matter? He'd get mad at
her is she questioned that. No doubt, since he was the oldest and the big bother, he did the
commanding and she had to respect her orders. He was the protector and his position demands
respect. Max smiled, he was definitely their protector.
"Maxie?" Her sister asked walking up the stairs in the middle of the room.
"Tinga? I'm over here." Max smiled as her older sister trudged up the last step as if stepping
through mud.
"Whats wrong?"
"Nothin. Zack wanted me to tell you that he was taking Ben out today, to get some more food,
since he couldn't find Jondy to tell you..." She smiled and sat down by her little sister.
"Watcha doin?"
"Nothin really. Just watching the outside people." She laid her head on the window frame.
"You really wanna go out there, huh?" She looked out the window.
"I guess. I mean... I would like to go out there and explore sometime..." She shrugged.
...
So what do we do with her?" Raven asked finally, leaning against the wall with her arms folded.
"Bring her over here." Krit stated, though he was younger the other two transgenics, they
obeyed him for the reason of not having any other ideas to go by.
Zane walked to where Krit stood with the puppy gently held in his arms. Then he laid her on the
floor where she stood and licked his hand.
"What's your name?" He laughed. Raven and Krit smiled. Zane really liked the dog.
"Sasha? Okay." Zane smiled.
"Sasha?" Raven bent her knees to sit like Zane's position.
"Yep. That's her name." Zane smirked and rubbed the animal's back.
"And she told you that?" She asked sarcastically.
"Of course." Zane made-up. The dog didn't say it but he was sticking to the idea.
"Whatever, Zany." Raven rolled her eyes.
"We should go find Max, now." Krit ordered, going up the stairs to the main hall.
"Why do we keep obeying him? Its not like he is our superior." Zane stated, standing to walk
with Raven.
"I dunno about you but I'm following him because I have no idea where Maxie is." She said.
...
"Ben, ready?" Zack asked leaning against one of the doors that led outside.
"Yeah." Ben grabbed a black faux leather jacket on like Zack's and followed him out the door.
The sunshine of the afternoon day hit there backs and it felt great. They hadn't had sun in awhile
because they didn't want to leave the protection of the warehouse for safety purposes. Finally
they did, they were headed for a gas station across the park to grab some junk food that keep
them full till they could move to a different city and find better food.
"Only one obstacle. Zack's non-emotional steel mask came back.
"Whats that?" Ben looked around.
Zack kept walking till the small park came into view.
"School is out and the park is full of ordinaries."
Your not a very social person, are ya? Ben thought sarcastically.
"We can avoid them easily." Ben stated but not before seeing kids on the streets surrounding the
park playing a strange games. "Or. not." They kept walking through the park avoiding everyone
possible. But Zack got tapped on the back and both boys quickly turned to see a young girl
about Max's age in a yellow and violet sun dress, with long curly blonde hair.
"Oops, sorry, I thought you were my big brother." She frowned, her eyes the same color as
Max's blinked in embarrassment.
Zack nodded. What else was he suppose to do? He could see Ben looking at him out
of the corner of his eye. The girl was silent but still watched them. What to do, what to do...
Zack tried to walk on.
"I'm Alaina" She smiled.
Ben smiled and nodded. Zack replied before Ben could.
"I'm um, Sam." He lied, using the name of a janitor of Manticore.
He took a minute but Ben understood Zack didn't want them to use there real names.
Then he noticed the girl, Alaina, staring at him in question.
"I'm uh, Zack." He accidentally stated, looking at Zack curiously and speaking to quick.
The blonde girl just smiled. They tried to walk on again.
"Where do you go to school?" She asked.
"Um. Far away..."Zack said in a fake cool voice in a hoping chance to loose her.
"Then what are you doing all the way over in this park?" She interrogated.
"We're on vacation." Ben nodded.
Alaina nodded, "So you two are brothers?"
What was this? Why the heck was she bothering them?
"Yeah." Zack looked to Ben who gave him the same look. The one that said: can we
please go now?
"Neat. I don't have two brothers. Just one. And his name is Evan. And he looks
just like you, Sam. I thought that Zack here was his friend." The talkative young girl explained.
"Nice to meet you, Alaina. But we gotta go to the store." Ben said politely, turning to Zack
who looked glad at the fact they could leave now.
"Okay. See ya later." She smiled and tossed her blonde hair behind her shoulder.
The boys tried to leave as soon as possible and succeeded.
"What the hell was that?" Zack asked Ben.
"A young ordinary girl with curly blonde hair, wearing a yellow and violet sun dress." Ben
stated. Zack rolled his eyes. Was that sarcasm he heard?"
FN: All right part two of this chapter asap. Thanks for reading now please review!!!
Happy New Years~!