Title: Unknowingly Drawn Home

By: messymissy

(For other information, go to part 1.)

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MAIN BUILDING OF TERMINAL CITY

They had nearly reached the main building when Krit told them that it was said on the news that Max was dead.

Brin and Alec screeched to a stop right then and there as they heard what Krit said.

"What! What do you mean?" Alec exclaimed in surprise. "How would they know if Max is dead or not?"

"Are you sure, Krit?" Brin asked her brother.

Krit just turned his head towards the building and said sadly, "As much as I don't want to believe it's her, I think that it just might be. What they have on the news is very convincing. I left to find you two when I first heard that they've got information on Max. I only stayed long enough know that she's dead so I don't know the details. They're probably still at the beginning of their broadcast right now on what happened to her. Go in there and take a look for yourselves."

Brin just stared at Krit for a moment in shock. She then bolted towards the main building. She had to see for herself whether Max was truly dead or not.

Krit and Alec just watched her for a few seconds. They then followed her lead and headed quickly back to the building. They were not far from it when they saw that she had reached it and ran through the open doors. Seconds later, the two transgenics were also speeding through the doors. As they went through, they had to quickly stop themselves in their tracks to avoid running into Brin for she had stopped only a few paces right in front of the door.

"Why did you..." Alec started to ask Brin, but his voice trailed as he saw what had stopped her so near the door.

Brin was standing in a rigid stance and looked as if she had just frozen in her tracks as she entered the building and hadn't moved from her position. All she was doing now was staring directly at the closest television in her sight with a pale and grave face.

Everyone in the building was also staring at whichever one of the many televisions that were in the building that was the nearest to them and they too were watching and listening to what the humans had on the news in a solemn silence. All of the televisions were now no longer muted and was turned to the same channel to receive the coverage of what is happening outside the Terminal City perimeter from all of the points of the room.

What was showing on the televisions at the moment was just horrible to watch because even though what was shown was plainly cruel torture, it also brought back sorrowful memories for Alec. The footage of what was going on the outside of Terminal City was like a reminder for him of what had happened to a good friend of his, Biggs, just a few years ago.

Everyone was watching what was going on with grim expressions on their faces with a mixture of other emotions that were of fear, anger, and grief among others of a similar sort.

~*~ON THE TELEVISION~*~

A huge crowd of the screaming ordinary people was gathered around a fire that engulfed a frame of an X, which had a dark-haired woman tied to it. The woman looked as if she was unconscious for her head was drooped and not a sound could be heard from her through the bellowing crowd of people who were cheering on the burning of the person. The fire was growing and growing and the flames were enveloping her body so that only her head of dark hair was only to be seen.

Through the time in which the footage of the burning was shown, a newscaster's voice was inserted into the footage and they were giving explanations about what was going on at the scene of the fire.

The newscaster was saying, "People from all over the city have gathered here to this location to witness the burning of one of the most vicious of the population of the freaky world of transgenics. This transgenic had been found not that long ago in the streets by a couple of cops in a beaten condition. It looked as though someone had found her and had tried to give her what she deserved in a good beating, but had done so unsuccessfully so that she was still alive, but unconscious, when she was found. Finding that she hadn't been killed, the cops, along with others who had gathered around the transgenic, decided to put the transgenic to its end for good. As the news spread about the transgenic, crowds of people who wanted the transgenic fiasco to end started to gather from all through the city to see what was to be done to the transgenic that was found."

"Without much thought of what to do, the angry people of the city along with the cops decided to, as you can see, burn the transgenic to its death in the same way as how many of them were killed before. This burning of all of the transgenics of the past and at the moment is a statement that things are still being done about the transgenic problems and that the people of this city are still trying to free themselves from the danger of the population of the killing race of transgenics that reside so near to them."

The footage then moved away from the fire and panned out into the crowd of hollering people. It stopped as the view showed a man with a microphone who was obviously the newscaster for this report. He now asked the people that were around him of their opinions of the transgenics and of what was being done to one of them now.

About five people rushed forward to state their opinions and they managed to get the microphone away from the newscaster after a while of wrestling with him. Then the group of people gathered around the microphone battling amongst themselves for the use of the microphone while they shoved the newscaster out of the way.

"I think that it's great that something's being done to that transgenic over there. It shows those other freaks that they don't belong here and that we're still serious about taking them out!" yelled a giant sized man that looked as if he was part of a really obnoxious gang that does all sorts of drugs with many tattoos and piercings, and he looked crazy enough for people to think that he was ready to rip the head off of someone.

Wild shouts of agreement could be heard all around him as he stated his opinion.

The microphone then was grabbed out of his hand and another man with bloodshot eyes and a harsh demeanor said, "Yeah! Those freaks don't belong here! We need to get them off the streets! We've been letting them run around here for too long now! We need to put an end to all of them! I wish that all of the freaks were here right now so we can throw them all into the fire!"

A bunch of whoops and excited hollers of agreement followed what the man said.

After the loud cheering had died down, a microphone went to a strict looking woman with an aristocratic air about her and she said, "After all these years these horrible creatures are still running around! We need to get them off our streets for our children and our own safety! They might think that staying in that dumb city of theirs is safe now after all these years and they might think that us humans have gotten and forgotten about them, but we haven't! One of these days we'll be able to get rid of them for good! No one's safe until all of the transgenics are gone!"

All of the people that had heard what the woman had said started to clap and whistle.

The microphone then somehow returned to the newscaster and it showed him protecting himself and the microphone from others who tried to get it from him.

"You've just received three quite popular views about the transgenics by three of the this city's people. All of their views were agreed with by a large majority of the people here today, as you can see and hear," the newscaster said as the camera panned the crowd of people. He then continued, "Transgenics are still a major threat to us today and even though we've tried in the past to get rid of them, none of our attempts have been successful. Through the last few years, many of the freaks have been killed and many of our forces have tried to continuously to take them out. This burning of this transgenic is just one out of the many of them that have been gotten rid of and there are most likely more deaths of these freaks to come. From the feel of what is happening at the moment, there is most likely going to be another attack on the city of the transgenics and from what we know of the transgenic that's burning nearby, this attack most likely is not going to be an easy one."

Just after the newscaster's last comment, everyone that was watching the burning suddenly erupted and even though the newscaster had a microphone, his voice was drowned out. This time the crowd's reaction wasn't to what was said about the transgenics because the noise broke out from all of those who had gathered, not just those who were near the microphone and camera.

The camera then searched for the cause of the uproar and it stopped at where the fire had been.

The fire had gone out and all that was left was a pile of ruin.

The crowd of people were celebrating the fact that the transgenic that was tied to the X had been turned into ash and that the fire had completely burnt itself out.

As the camera shot that scene, the newsman said, "One transgenic down, many more to go. At least we no longer need to worry about the X-5 that had been of great importance to the city of transgenic anymore. We have finally put the X-5 with the barcode of 332960073452 to her death..."

After that the screen turned to an indoors scene and another newscaster began their report.

~*~OFF THE TELEVISION~*~

Seconds after the shocking broadcast of the burning, all of the televisions were switched off as if it were planned.

Heavy silence followed as the inhabitants of Terminal City took in what they had all just heard.

Soon everyone broke out in hysteria. Questions flew about mixed in with many emotions.

"Oh, man, this just can't be happening," Syl said in a trembling voice as she plopped down in a chair. "This just can't be happening."

Zane then faced Alec, Brin, Krit, and the others that were out on the rescue mission. They hadn't moved much from their positions and were still standing not that far from the door. He said in an emotionless voice, "Missing, huh? Well, it turns out that what you say is no longer valid even though that was our hope. It's been now confirmed that Maxie's dead, not missing."

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Yay! I've got another part up!

What do you think about this?

Thanks for reviewing Rosie, Sohna, 4J5A2, and Mel!

A QUESTION FROM THE AUTHOR: SHOULD I WRITE A PREQUEL TO THIS? I'M KIND OF WONDERING IF ANYONE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN IT IF I WRITE IT. I REALIZED THAT I KIND OF MADE A JUMP IN TIME A FEW YEARS WHEN I STARTED THIS, SO SHOULD I WRITE A PREQUEL WHEN I HAVE THE TIME OR WHEN I FINISH THIS? IF YOU WANT ME TO WRITE IT, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE IN IT? I'M OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS.

sohna: As you can see, your review kind of made me wonder about a prequel. Zack's reaction will be coming soon.

Rosie: I know that I kind had Alec out of character. Are any of the others out of character? Would you mind telling me how to maybe improve with them? I just tend to just write out my ideas without actually trying to make what I write fit into how the character is actually like so there might be some errors in how the characters are portrayed.

4JA2: *smiles and shrugs about the cliff hanger* I'm glad that you like the story! Here's the next part!

Mel: Yep, what an ending huh?

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