Chapter 4: The Reunion

Chapter 4: The Reunion

There was another silence. Nobody spoke. No one else in the room had heard what Logan had said. Normal opened his mouth to say something,

"What, what, is Man, Manticore?"

Logan then remembered that Normal was never told about Manticore. Why should he have been? Logan knew that one of the last people that needed to know about Max's past was most likely Normal. Sketch opened his mouth to answer Normal's question when instead he said,

"Ouch! Herb, why are you elbowing me?"

Herbal rolled his eyes. Logan merely said, "Never mind, forget that I ever said anything."

Just then, a woman walked through the doors. She was wearing a long black trench coat and had short blond hair. Beside her was another figure in black with a facemask. The two of them walked up to the wall that Logan and the others were up against. She said,

"Are these them?"

The black figure nodded. The blond woman turned to the dark figure and said, "you know what you must do."

Then turning to the remaining people, which were actually only about ten or fifteen people she called up a soldier. She looked at him and said, "proceed with the injections." The soldier then gave a sign in the air. The men in black from every direction shot off a gun. A sort of tranquilizer bullet hit every person that remained. The people that were hit fell to the floor, completely unconscious.

With that, the blond woman walked away. The figure turned towards the group and lifted a hand. Grabbing Cindy by the hair she yanked her towards a clear part of the floor. Cindy, trying as she might, could not fight off the figure. The person in black threw Cindy up against a wall. There was a sickening crack that rung through the air, Cindy's nose had broken. The figure said in an eerily calm voice, "Lets go."

Logan then understood and whispered to the others, "This person, this person is going to fight us one by one. Guys, they are going to take us down."

Normal answered, "But why?"

Logan replied, "I don't know."

Just then, a noise of breaking glass was heard. Everyone turned to look where it had come from. Syl and Krit had arrived. Krit asked without looking at Logan, "You guys ok?"

Logan answered, "yes."

No one knew whom these two were except for Logan and apparently the figure in black. For at that moment, the figure screamed, "TRAITORS!"

The fighting had begun. Syl took on the other black soldiers; one by one they hit the ground. Finally the blond women's voice was heard, "Retreat, come back! Soldier get back here, get back here!" But it was out of control. The blond woman couldn't bring the figure to her. Letting out a breath in frustration she yelled, "Soldier, I am speaking to you, I order you to leave immediately." The fighting continued. The blond left with the rest of the soldiers. Now both Syl and Krit turned to face the figure. They fought. And they won. Krit jumped, doing a flip in the air, landing behind the figure and grabbing their arms. The one in black yelled in anger, the opponent that no one knew attempted to do a flip over Krit to release his firm grip on their arms. But Syl was too quick. The moment the figure threw their legs in the air, Syl grabbed their feet.

The tree of them did a 360 in mid air and landed on the ground. There was a lot of struggling to get the unknown character pinned to the ground.

Logan glanced over at the people that were lying on the ground asleep. One of them stirred. He turned to Normal and said, "quick, act like nothing happened. Make something up ok? Just do it."

Normal swallowed and nodded his head. Sticking his headset back on he went to his desk and pulled a bunch of empty doughnut boxes out of the trash. Logan had no idea what he was doing, he didn't care. Those people would wake up any minute. They had to get Syl and Krit and whomever it was that they were pinning down out of there. Herbal seemed to have realized this, he muttered to Logan, "go out the back, we'll stay here." Logan nodded.

Krit and Syl must have heard Herbal to, because they had already started to drag the person out to the back. Logan followed. Cindy, holding her nose, now angrier than scared headed towards the back with Logan. Sketch took a deep breath and ran a hand through his hair. Just then one of the people laying on the floor said, "h, h, how did I get here?" Normal answered shortly, "I told you to quit eating on the job! Come on! Everybody get up! Go home, you probably all got food poisoning. That is the last time that I leave this place for more than ten minutes! Jeez, I get back here and everyone is sick on the floor." He shot a look at Herbal and Sketch. They palyed along to. Sketch moaned, "aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh, my stomach. Man, I don't want to see another jelly filled doughnut in my life again."

The door to the back had closed. While Herbal, Sketch, and Normal were continuing with the sherade inside Logan was already outside with the others. Logan soon realized that he should have restrained Cindy when he had the chance. For as soon as the back door had shut Cindy went off on the anemones character.

"You broke my nose you stupid ass! How would you like it if I broke your face," Cindy's foot hit the figures face. There was another crack, for a moment, as Logan now grabbed Cindy by the arms, he thought she had broken the attackers nose. But then he heard it,

"Ow! Damn it! My toe! Son of a Bi!!!"

"Hang on Cindy," Logan had cut her off.

"First we should find out who this person is before we do anything. They could be valuable."

Cindy answered, "Fine."

With that Cindy went back inside limping on her now broken toe and holding her bleeding nose. Logan turned now to Syl and Krit. They had successfully tied the person in black to a street light pole by using a chain they had found. Logan asked, "shall we?"

Syl and Krit agreed. They had to know who this was. Logan turned to Syl, "would you like to do the honors?"

Syl grabbed the top of the black mask that held the attackers identity. Slowly Syl pulled the black fabric off of the face. Syl dropped the mask and took a step back.

Logan than asked in a voice of bewilderment, "Max?"