Disclaimer: Can be found on previous chapters, unless you insist, in which case Dark Angel does not belong to me, although the gorgeous Scooter is mine, all mine! As are Lexy, Catch and Dione.

Thick N Thin

Previously. . . . Scott admitted her liked Jondy. Scott thought it impossible Jondy would ever like him. Lexy yelled at him. Jondy sat in the rain. She didn't admit she liked Scott but she MAY be attracted to his type, that's all she'd tell me, however she knows he likes her. Max, Alec and Joshua ran off to go fix a problem with stoopid ordinaries being mean while Jondy didn't go so she could get settled in, and Logan did some computer stuff. Now you're all up to date.

A/N~~~ Thankyou to Nitemare for the particularly inspirational review! (

A/N~~~ Okay, this chapter may (DOES) contain some fight scenes, as requested! ( I can't help the fight scenes, sorry, they were Matrix Reloaded: Flight of the Osiris inspired, as I saw that (AGAIN) today. Gotta love it, I'm soo gonna see it again at the movies. Or maybe I'll wait til' it comes out of video. Meh.

*****

Alec, Joshua, Glen, Ike and Dane crowded around Max as they listened to her plan.

"Okay, Mole's team are going to attempt to bring the National Guard's attention back to those annoying people trying to bring down our fence, on my signal. We have to go out there, get the girl while dodging bullets from people AND the national guard. Remember, we're under strict order not to go out there, even if one of our own has been caught. So the sector cops and the guards are gladly gonna try to take us out. Kapische?"

Everyone nodded.

"Okay, Alec and Dane, I need you guys to work your way into the crowd surrounding the X6, try to create havoc, y'know, attention seek, exactly what Ake'c good at." She teased, smiling at Alec.

He threw up his hands in mock defeat. Max looked back to the others, retuning serious to get the job done.

"Ike and Glen, you guys are quick and agile, and responsible for for annoying the authorities long enough for them to shoot at you, which you dodge, and give Joshua and I enough time to get the girl. Aiight?"

They nodded again, helping each other over the fence with silent jumps and movements, working as a stealth team. Once over the fence, they split up into their three assigned partners, Joshua and Max moving to the top of a close building, hooking up an abseiling cord and clipping it to their belts. Alec and Dane moved around the front, near to where people were crowding with the X6 and Ike and Glen took their positions behind the sector police.

Max signalled the okay as Glen and Ike barged through the sector cops, taking them out one by one, starting at the back. The sector cops began to realise what was happening and one turned around and almost clocked Ike, but fortunatley he predicted it and blocked in time. He ducked and sent the cop spinning with a flying roundhouse kick to the pelvis, and another one to the po-po next to him. Glen, wasn't having as much luck. He was bleeding from the lip, but steadily taking on three at a time, ducking and dodging them like no one ever had. Alec and Dane had already noticed the distraction and were working on distracting the crowd, who had surrounded the young X6 and were pointing and jeering at her.

"Hey, I have an idea with what to do to this one!" Alec yelled loudly and a few interested people turned to look.

"Yeah!" Dane joined in. "Do we have any helpful volunteers to show the freaks how much we don't like em'?" He yelled, getting ihnto character. More people truned around and about a dozen put their hands into the air, cheering.

"Anyone got any ideas? Come on, who hates the freaks?" Alec yelled, causing the entire crowd into applause.

*****

Joshua watched sadly from the roof as Max pulled on a harness, identical to the one Joshua was sporting and clipping it on to the cable she had rigged to one of the smaller buildings inside Terminal City.

"You okay Josh?" She asked concerned.

"People. Cruel. To us, the freaks." He looked at her sadly.

Max felt her heart go out to him. "Yeah, they are. But we can't really change that. Instead we have to stand strong, and not back down. Only guilty people back down. And we aren't guilty of anything. They think they're so great, the 'ordinairies', but, they kill each other! They torture their kind, and us transgenics never hurt each other, except if we've got some kind of bet, y'know?"

Joshua nodded. "But, Logan. Logan's, nice?"

Max smiled. "Yeah. Logan's one of the few good ones."

"Why do they hurt each other?"

"The ordinairies? The humans? I dunno. Scared I guess. Don't think about it too much big fella, it'll just give you a headache." She patted his back comfortingly. "Let's go. Alec and Dane are doing a good job with the crowd, but the few at the front are still keeping their eyes on our friend. We'll have to dodge em. You up for that?"

"Joshua, up for anything!" He told her proudly, breaking into an infectious grin.

"Let's go then."

Max clipped their harnesses onto the cable and held tightly felt Joshua's arms wrap around her. They pulled their feet off the ground, testing the ropes. It barely moved at all, and Max silently thanked Logan for being able to find the best high tension rope in the city. Max gave Joshua the 'okay' nod and they jumped off the dge together, parasailing into the crowd as a few people screamed, and the last four sector police that were standing shot at them, before their guns were kicked out of their hands.

"Okay, we only have one chance to do this!" Max yelled, as they reached the bottom and lifted their feet up so that the cable kept carrying them. As they reached the crowd, Max saw Alec and Dane had done a good job of moving the people back so that the path was clear. The X6 had obviously worked out what they were doing and was ready for them. As they reached the bottom, she ran to them and they three of them kept running as Max unhooked herself and Joshua held the X6, running and jumping about three metres before the compund fence so that had enough of a push-off to land the fence. Max helped Alec and Dane take out the rest of the crowd as she saw Mole and his team in the distance preventing the gate from being pushed down. She delivered a sliding heel puch to a scetor cop and neatly somersaulted over him so that she was behind him, where she kicked him from behind and then cleanly broke the nose of another sector cop before running and jumping the compound fence, leaving Alec to knee the last sector cop in the groin and he jumped over to join them as they ran as blurs to the cover of the buildings, where Joshua and the X6 awaited them. Max watched Mole's team disappearing back inside the compound and then nodded a thanks at Alec as they ran to catch up with the others, who had already reached the safety of the control center.

*****

Jondy looked up as Scott came walking towards her, slowly, as though not to disturb her in case she was asleep, for whatever reason she would be in the light Seattle rain.

"Hey." He greeted, seeing her look up at him with the deep blue eyes that could tell if you were lying, the ones that looked into his soul, and could see his every thought, the ones that drove him crazy.

She smiled, returning the greeting and patting the spot next to her, the one Lexy had vacated only a few minutes ago to leave Jondy in her thoughts.

"So are you glad we came now?" Scott asked, looking up to meet her smiling eyes.

"Definitely. Thanks for convincing me."

"No problem." He smiled back, and she couldn't help but feel her heart flutter. "So how's your sister going?"

"Well, an hour ago she was going good, so. . . yeah."

"I guess it was good to see her again?"

"You have no idea. Suddenly I just felt like everything was gonna be okay. And then of course Lexy came and had this long talk, and now I'm not so certain anymore."

"Yeah, she does have that affect on people."

Jondy grinned at him. He smiled back, poking her mouth affectionately with his finger.

"Aha. There, there's that smile I haven't seen in ages. You're really pretty when you smile." He complimented.

Jondy's cheeks became coloured as she blushed slightly. "Thanks. And in case you don't already hear it from your constant string of girls, you can be cute too, y'know sometimes."

He frowned. "I'm not really like that, you know. I don't always constantly sleep with girls. I mean, sure, it's fun, but if I found one I actually cared about, I wouldn't dump her. I don't pursue women for sport, I'm looking for the right woman, and if that means I have to go through all the wrong ones to get to her, so be it."

"I know." Jondy said seriously. "It's just something to tease you about." She added lightly.

Scott smiled, hooking his arm roughly but affectionately around her neck and gave her a soft kiss on her shiny blonde hair. He stopped for a minute and smelt it, it melt like watermelon. He inhaled the smell, then quickly drew back as Jondy turned to face him, a surprised look on her face. His smiled faltered, but then he started smiling again as he replayed the last few seconds in his mind. Even the smell of her hair made him happy. He stood up and then reached out with his hands to pull her up, as she dusted dirt off the back of her green cargo pants. He ruffled her hair gently, still smiling at the thought and they walked comfortably inside, Jondy's head tucked into the nook of Scott's shoulder where he had his arm loosly around her. It wasn't a romantic gesture, that was the type of friends they were, affectionate.

Once inside the command centre, they stood comfortably in the midst of chaos, as it was becoming familiar to Jondy. Organised chaos, but she wouldn't expect anything else from Maxie. They stood there, feeling totally at ease with each other, not noticing the smiles they were getting from each of their sister's, who knew how they really felt about each other.

How was the action scene? Good, or too brief? Hope you liked it! R &R!! (