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A/N: Thanks for all those who reviewed
***** EP2 CHAPTER 3: FAMILY ENCOUNTER
Max had heard as skin connected with skin. "Logan!" she shouted. She could not hear any response and so she said more calmly, "Logan. You there?" Panicking due to Logan's lack of response, Max scrambled towards the cabin, careful not to be seen by whoever is inside. She pleaded for Logan to be okay as she raced towards the house as silently as she could, trying to listen carefully to the sounds of the people inside. There were two of them, she now knew. Logan must be unconscious. Bracing herself, she walked up the stairs - the same route that Logan took - and kicked the door Logan opened a while ago. A fist would have collided on Max's face had she not anticipated it. Catching the fist, she turned, twisting the arms of her assailant as she kicked the girl aiming to punch her. The girl fell before she gasped, "Max!"
At that Max took her eyes off Logan, who was lying unconscious on the floor, already tied up. She looked at the girl and a look of recognition came over her face, "Jhondy!" She immediately let go of the arm she has been twisting and faced the guy whose arms are hurting by now. "Zane!" Max hugged him and then Johndy.
They all said simultaneously, "What are you doing here?" and laughed.
Then Max, whose thoughts are still on Logan despite seeing 2 of her siblings, ran towards Logan. "Oh God, Logan!" she said as a look of pain crossed her face. She opened his jacket and looked through his shirt. "Jhondy! I need you here. Fast."
Jhondy was immediately beside her followed by Zane. "You know this guy?" she asked as Max started lifting Logan's shirt with her leather gloved hands.
"Check his stitches. Check for any sign of bleeding."
Johndy's hands closed over Max's frantic ones. "Max." Max was still checking Logan's wound. "Max!" Max looked up as Jhondy said, "Zane only hit him on the face. It's okay." She noticed a bullet wound was stitched up at Logan's lower rib.
Max brought Logan's shirt down on his chest and immediately walked over to Johndy and Zane. "Been here long?" she asked.
"Long enough, sis." Zane replied. He hugged Max again as he said, "it's nice to see you again."
"Same here."
"What are you doing here Max?" Jhondy asked curiously.
She motioned towards Logan, "I. We. we're looking for this cabin. Some things that might be helpful to us."
"What's up?" asked Zane.
Max repelled his question with another of her own, "Been here long?"
Jhondy replied, "No."
Zane picked it up from there, "We've been on the move soon people became aware of transgenics. The barcode's been harder to keep. We met each other a few miles from here when we were on our way to Canada. Police are all over the border and we just couldn't risk it so we had decided to camp here for a while. until this all dies down."
"Who's the guy?" Jhondy asked.
Max looked momentarily at Logan, her eyes softening as she does so. This did not go by Jhondy and Zane unnoticed, "Logan. We've been trying to track some leads and well. it led us here. Do you have an ice pack in here?"
Zane and Jhondy looked at each other and Jhondy motioned at Zane who volunteered, "I'll get it!" he ran down as Jhondy looked at Max, waiting for her to say something.
"Do you mind if we lift him up towards the bed? I can do it on my own, but the wound and all."
Jhondy replied, "Not a damn bit." They carried Logan, careful not to cause any more damage to his stitches.
Zane emerged with an icepack and carried it over as Jhondy invited Max to go outside and into the living room, "Zane can take care of him. He's the one who gave him that whack in the head, after all." Max nodded in understanding as she went down with Jhondy.
LIVING ROOM DOWNSTAIRS
"This lead that you were talking about, what is it?" Jhondy asked.
Max walked over the window and saw the same horses that she saw that morning. "Those yours? They're beautiful. We've been trying to track a guy named Sandeman. He was from Manticore and he -"
"I don't wanna talk about it." With that, Jhondy stood up
"We can't escape it, Jhondy." Was Max's calm reply. She turned to look at Jhondy. "We've tried. And look at us now, we're all on the run just as we were in '09."
"Damn the place!"
max let the silence hang before she continued. "Sandeman was in Manticore. He made us. he placed something in me in particular. Something weird in my freakin' genes. But that's not all..." She sat in front of Jhondy and proceeded to tell her about Ames White and the breeding cult, including the selective breeding to which White subjected his son to. "This cult is the one responsible for all this bitch against transgenics. They're out to kill us. to kill me. and I have to find out why."
"And this guy. Logan. Where does he fit in in all of this?" Jhondy looked intently at her sister, the subtle flicker of Max's eyes at the mention of Logan's name making her wonder just how much this guy is important to her sister.
"He. he's helping me. has been for two years now. I was caught. We had this mission of bringing down Manticore a year ago - Syl and Krit were there," Max's eyes flickered for another instant, "Zack too. and Lydecker." She told Jhondy about how they blew up the gene lab, about how they had to get away due to a breech in the security system. how she got shot and so did Zack. how she was taken back by Manticore and stayed there for three months till she escaped. how Logan was exposing Manticore throughout that time. Max started fidgeting with her hands, ".They injected a virus into me targeted to his DNA - to kill him."
"Oh God!" A look of understanding came across Jhondy's face. "Almost two years ago. there was this guy who warned us. It was him, wasn't he?" Jhondy stared at Max, "You don't have to answer that, I already know." Max smiled up at Jhondy gratefully. "This Sandeman. what exactly are you looking for?"
"We don't know. Notes? Experiments? He left Manticore in a hurry. He also left his house in Seattle in a hurry."
"Wait. There is a laboratory down the basement - second basement actually. Looked pretty much like Manticore stuff, but it's a bit too old now. Zane saw it when we checked out the place."
Max stood up, "Can we go?" Jhondy led the way towards the basement.
Max and Jhondy went down into the basement. A normal person would not have seen anything, but the two transgenics scanned the dark, musky room. Looking around, Max could see nothing of significance inside the room so she looked questioningly at Jhondy. Jhondy, motioned for her to follow her and they went at the back of the stairs where Jhondy pushed the wall slowly and they heard the faint click to indicate a lock had been opened. Hondy opened the wall to reveal a large metal door guarded by a traditional bank vault. Using their enhanced hearing abilities, Jhondy turned the clock as the two listened carefully to the clicking sound. After turning the wheel 3 times to opposite directions, a gust of wind indicated that the pressure from the big vault had been released and they were now free to enter. At that, Jhondy pushed the door open and turned on the light as Max stared in amazement at the laboratory equipment present in this personal laboratory. Test tubes could be found everywhere, including preservation machines housing different kinds of genes, gene splicing machines, microscopes, a table, papers scattered everywhere - preserved for 22 years. The room looked like it had never been touched. Max went to walk around the room scanning each equipment as Jhondy went onto the board to stare at the matrix drawn on it. It had the Manticore symbol and the Breeding cult symbols, which Jhondy naturally did not recognize. Between these two symbols were designations - Zach's were the first and then the rest of the X5 escapees were there, even Eva and Jack -, but what caught her eye was that Max's designation was encircled. with arrows joining the breeding cult and Manticore.
"Max!" Jhondy called out. Max, who was nearing the table turned to walk over to Jhondy hearing the urgency and the surprise on her voice. "We're all here. What does this mean?" Scanned the board and saw her designation encircled in red ink.
"I think we've found our link."
----------------------------------- Author's Notes: Again I'dlike to remind everyone that they can get the fic (just in case ff.net doesn't work at www.geocities.com/drey_c21/index.html. It works. I usually do the updating in the mornings so if it's down it means that I am currently updating it.
*MISS LARA I'm sure your fic will be great too. Thanks for reading and bothering with the review. *JOJO As usual, thanks for the review. *MUDPIE I am so, so, sooooo sorry for forgetting to mention you in my previous note. I was rushing to get it posted! But I am very thankful for your reviews. It helps keep me working. In which case, I actually started with writing episode 3 because of those reviews. *KRISTI hmmm. when do we get a sequel to your fic? I'm sorry about the cliffhanger. My mind just ended with it when I was writing that part of the ep. ( *MARGARET no problem for not reviewing. With ff.net having problems, I totally understood. Hope you'll review more. About posting the chapters immediately, you knowme. I post the chapters for the ep everyday and have 2 weeks interval per ep so. here's the third chapter!
For suggestions, comments and whatnots, Please review or email me at drey_c21@yahoo.com (in case ff.net won't work). You could also visit the web site for the fic. I always appreciate your comments.
A/N: Thanks for all those who reviewed
***** EP2 CHAPTER 3: FAMILY ENCOUNTER
Max had heard as skin connected with skin. "Logan!" she shouted. She could not hear any response and so she said more calmly, "Logan. You there?" Panicking due to Logan's lack of response, Max scrambled towards the cabin, careful not to be seen by whoever is inside. She pleaded for Logan to be okay as she raced towards the house as silently as she could, trying to listen carefully to the sounds of the people inside. There were two of them, she now knew. Logan must be unconscious. Bracing herself, she walked up the stairs - the same route that Logan took - and kicked the door Logan opened a while ago. A fist would have collided on Max's face had she not anticipated it. Catching the fist, she turned, twisting the arms of her assailant as she kicked the girl aiming to punch her. The girl fell before she gasped, "Max!"
At that Max took her eyes off Logan, who was lying unconscious on the floor, already tied up. She looked at the girl and a look of recognition came over her face, "Jhondy!" She immediately let go of the arm she has been twisting and faced the guy whose arms are hurting by now. "Zane!" Max hugged him and then Johndy.
They all said simultaneously, "What are you doing here?" and laughed.
Then Max, whose thoughts are still on Logan despite seeing 2 of her siblings, ran towards Logan. "Oh God, Logan!" she said as a look of pain crossed her face. She opened his jacket and looked through his shirt. "Jhondy! I need you here. Fast."
Jhondy was immediately beside her followed by Zane. "You know this guy?" she asked as Max started lifting Logan's shirt with her leather gloved hands.
"Check his stitches. Check for any sign of bleeding."
Johndy's hands closed over Max's frantic ones. "Max." Max was still checking Logan's wound. "Max!" Max looked up as Jhondy said, "Zane only hit him on the face. It's okay." She noticed a bullet wound was stitched up at Logan's lower rib.
Max brought Logan's shirt down on his chest and immediately walked over to Johndy and Zane. "Been here long?" she asked.
"Long enough, sis." Zane replied. He hugged Max again as he said, "it's nice to see you again."
"Same here."
"What are you doing here Max?" Jhondy asked curiously.
She motioned towards Logan, "I. We. we're looking for this cabin. Some things that might be helpful to us."
"What's up?" asked Zane.
Max repelled his question with another of her own, "Been here long?"
Jhondy replied, "No."
Zane picked it up from there, "We've been on the move soon people became aware of transgenics. The barcode's been harder to keep. We met each other a few miles from here when we were on our way to Canada. Police are all over the border and we just couldn't risk it so we had decided to camp here for a while. until this all dies down."
"Who's the guy?" Jhondy asked.
Max looked momentarily at Logan, her eyes softening as she does so. This did not go by Jhondy and Zane unnoticed, "Logan. We've been trying to track some leads and well. it led us here. Do you have an ice pack in here?"
Zane and Jhondy looked at each other and Jhondy motioned at Zane who volunteered, "I'll get it!" he ran down as Jhondy looked at Max, waiting for her to say something.
"Do you mind if we lift him up towards the bed? I can do it on my own, but the wound and all."
Jhondy replied, "Not a damn bit." They carried Logan, careful not to cause any more damage to his stitches.
Zane emerged with an icepack and carried it over as Jhondy invited Max to go outside and into the living room, "Zane can take care of him. He's the one who gave him that whack in the head, after all." Max nodded in understanding as she went down with Jhondy.
LIVING ROOM DOWNSTAIRS
"This lead that you were talking about, what is it?" Jhondy asked.
Max walked over the window and saw the same horses that she saw that morning. "Those yours? They're beautiful. We've been trying to track a guy named Sandeman. He was from Manticore and he -"
"I don't wanna talk about it." With that, Jhondy stood up
"We can't escape it, Jhondy." Was Max's calm reply. She turned to look at Jhondy. "We've tried. And look at us now, we're all on the run just as we were in '09."
"Damn the place!"
max let the silence hang before she continued. "Sandeman was in Manticore. He made us. he placed something in me in particular. Something weird in my freakin' genes. But that's not all..." She sat in front of Jhondy and proceeded to tell her about Ames White and the breeding cult, including the selective breeding to which White subjected his son to. "This cult is the one responsible for all this bitch against transgenics. They're out to kill us. to kill me. and I have to find out why."
"And this guy. Logan. Where does he fit in in all of this?" Jhondy looked intently at her sister, the subtle flicker of Max's eyes at the mention of Logan's name making her wonder just how much this guy is important to her sister.
"He. he's helping me. has been for two years now. I was caught. We had this mission of bringing down Manticore a year ago - Syl and Krit were there," Max's eyes flickered for another instant, "Zack too. and Lydecker." She told Jhondy about how they blew up the gene lab, about how they had to get away due to a breech in the security system. how she got shot and so did Zack. how she was taken back by Manticore and stayed there for three months till she escaped. how Logan was exposing Manticore throughout that time. Max started fidgeting with her hands, ".They injected a virus into me targeted to his DNA - to kill him."
"Oh God!" A look of understanding came across Jhondy's face. "Almost two years ago. there was this guy who warned us. It was him, wasn't he?" Jhondy stared at Max, "You don't have to answer that, I already know." Max smiled up at Jhondy gratefully. "This Sandeman. what exactly are you looking for?"
"We don't know. Notes? Experiments? He left Manticore in a hurry. He also left his house in Seattle in a hurry."
"Wait. There is a laboratory down the basement - second basement actually. Looked pretty much like Manticore stuff, but it's a bit too old now. Zane saw it when we checked out the place."
Max stood up, "Can we go?" Jhondy led the way towards the basement.
Max and Jhondy went down into the basement. A normal person would not have seen anything, but the two transgenics scanned the dark, musky room. Looking around, Max could see nothing of significance inside the room so she looked questioningly at Jhondy. Jhondy, motioned for her to follow her and they went at the back of the stairs where Jhondy pushed the wall slowly and they heard the faint click to indicate a lock had been opened. Hondy opened the wall to reveal a large metal door guarded by a traditional bank vault. Using their enhanced hearing abilities, Jhondy turned the clock as the two listened carefully to the clicking sound. After turning the wheel 3 times to opposite directions, a gust of wind indicated that the pressure from the big vault had been released and they were now free to enter. At that, Jhondy pushed the door open and turned on the light as Max stared in amazement at the laboratory equipment present in this personal laboratory. Test tubes could be found everywhere, including preservation machines housing different kinds of genes, gene splicing machines, microscopes, a table, papers scattered everywhere - preserved for 22 years. The room looked like it had never been touched. Max went to walk around the room scanning each equipment as Jhondy went onto the board to stare at the matrix drawn on it. It had the Manticore symbol and the Breeding cult symbols, which Jhondy naturally did not recognize. Between these two symbols were designations - Zach's were the first and then the rest of the X5 escapees were there, even Eva and Jack -, but what caught her eye was that Max's designation was encircled. with arrows joining the breeding cult and Manticore.
"Max!" Jhondy called out. Max, who was nearing the table turned to walk over to Jhondy hearing the urgency and the surprise on her voice. "We're all here. What does this mean?" Scanned the board and saw her designation encircled in red ink.
"I think we've found our link."
----------------------------------- Author's Notes: Again I'dlike to remind everyone that they can get the fic (just in case ff.net doesn't work at www.geocities.com/drey_c21/index.html. It works. I usually do the updating in the mornings so if it's down it means that I am currently updating it.
*MISS LARA I'm sure your fic will be great too. Thanks for reading and bothering with the review. *JOJO As usual, thanks for the review. *MUDPIE I am so, so, sooooo sorry for forgetting to mention you in my previous note. I was rushing to get it posted! But I am very thankful for your reviews. It helps keep me working. In which case, I actually started with writing episode 3 because of those reviews. *KRISTI hmmm. when do we get a sequel to your fic? I'm sorry about the cliffhanger. My mind just ended with it when I was writing that part of the ep. ( *MARGARET no problem for not reviewing. With ff.net having problems, I totally understood. Hope you'll review more. About posting the chapters immediately, you knowme. I post the chapters for the ep everyday and have 2 weeks interval per ep so. here's the third chapter!
For suggestions, comments and whatnots, Please review or email me at drey_c21@yahoo.com (in case ff.net won't work). You could also visit the web site for the fic. I always appreciate your comments.