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PS- IF YA HAVEN'T NOTICED TINGA NEVER DIED IN SEASON 1!

The 7 busted our of the apartment and ran down the hall. Logan lead them to the stairs were they all ran down the flights of stair as fast as they could. Once on the bottom floor they busted out of the doors. "Follow me, we'll all get in my car!" Logan said. They followed Logan to his parked vehicle the street lights the only one source of light. Zack then looked around.

"Where's Max!?" he yelled at the others.

All of them looked around at each other and Max wasn't among them. Suddenly Max ramped off a trashcan on her bike, landing hard and swerving it to a stop in front of all of them. She took her sunglasses off and placed them on her head.

"I can take one, no way am I leaving my bike here." Max said.

Krit grinned and threw himself in the back seat, Tinga and Jondy following him. Logan got in the driver's seat. Alec grinned and hopped into the passenger's seat of Logan's car.

"Take a seat big bro." she said smiling.

Zack rolled his eyes but got on behind her, grabbing her waist.

"I'm afraid." he warned her.

"Just hang on tight." she ordered as she lowered her sunglasses over her eyes.

By then Logan had pulled out and was right beside her.

"Max, we're going to my uncle's cabin for now, it's the safest bet, I am telling you that just in case we get split up." Logan told her out of his window.

"Gotcha, wanna race?" she asked.

Zack groaned as Alec laughed. Logan smiled at her and pressed on the gas, getting in in front of her. Max smiled as well as she turned her bike around and went the opposite direction.

"Max, what are you doing!?" Zack shouted at her.

"Trust me." she shouted back as she drove fast in the parking garage, going up floor by floor until she reached the 7th out of 20 stories.

Max stopped and placed her feet on the ground as she looked at her watch.

"5.…4...3.…2.….1." she said then turned the handle making the engines roar.

Zack's eyes widened.

"Max, I don't think trust is a factor here!" he shouted knowing what she was going to do.

Max lifted her feet off the ground and placed them on her bike, sending it going forward fast and popping her front wheel up.

"Defiantly not a factor Maxie!" Zack shouted holding onto her.

The bike flew off the parking garage and fell down on the road, on her wheels, right in front of Logan.

"Holly crap!" Alec shouted grabbing a hold of the handle above her window as Logan slammed on the breaks.

Max grinned to herself as she pressed the gas and went speeding off. Logan looked over at Alec who grinned back. Krit laughed loudly in the back.

"Oh yea you go girl!" Jondy shouted.

Max hunched close to her bike as it went faster. She titled her body slightly to the left and the powerful machine turned left off an exit ramp and onto a highway. Max dogged vehicles that were going 'to slow' and never staying in the same lane for more than 4 minutes.

As Max passed one the man driving rolled down his window and shouted, "Bastard!" shaking his fist in the air.

Zack turned around an evil face on as he pulled out a gun and shot at his front tire, blowing it instantly. Zack turned around and heard the car swerve to a stop.

"Zack!" Max scolded.

"Nobody calls me a bastard and gets away with it, same with you." he said.

Max smiled to herself and shook her head, what could she say it's not like anything she would say would stop him or change his mind on what he's going to do. Around 20-25 miles later she got back onto a 2 lane road. Max looked to her left and saw nothing but forest. "Lt's take a detour, hang on!" she shouted turning sharply and disappearing in the forest. 5 minutes later Logan got on the same road.

"Well, either Max blasted us and got home already or she got lost, we weren't that far behind them." Logan said.

Max swerved through the woods, turning a sharp right or left in order to doge a log or a trees.

"Duck!" Max shouted to her brother.

The 2 ducked just in time as a low hanging branch whooshed over their heads. Logan turned into the long drive way seeing the cabin but not Max or her bike.

"Weird, looks like we beat them." he announced to the others.

"Well I dunno maybe it's just me, but they were in front of us and how did they not get here before us?" Alec asked.

Suddenly Max swerved her bike to a stop in front of the garage door. Logan grinned in defeat as Max smiled widely as he pulled to a stop in front of her. Logan turned his car off as the others started piling out.

"Maxie, that was awesome!" Krit said giving her a high five once he got out.

"Yea girl you know how to ride that thing!" Tinga agreed laughing.

"Thank you, thank you." Max said smiling as she lifted one leg over the bike getting off of it and putting her glasses on top of her head.

"How are you holding up Zack?" Jondy asked noticed her hadn't gotten off the bike yet.

Zack pointed at Max.

"Never again am I going on that bike with you." he said getting off slowly.

Max giggled as she looked down at the ground. Zack smiled as well and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"But I am glad to know that you know how to get away on that thing. You pull half the crap you did tonight you'll be able to stay away from Manticore." Zack replied.

Jondy laughed as did Max as Logan opened the door and allowed everybody to enter.

Zack looked at his watch it was 4:30 am, not yet light. He looked at Logan knocked out on the couch. A fire was the only thing that filled the room with light. He stood up and looked out the window then looked down at his baby brothers and sisters. They all slept on the floor. He smiled as he watched each of them sleep. Even Alec, he reminded Zack greatly of Ben. Zack sat on a chair still watching over them. He couldn't believe Lydecker would go this low to get them back. One thing was for sure he wasn't going to let him have them if he had anything to do with it. He then looked at Max. "Come here girly, there's a couple of people waiting at home for you." "I bet they are." Those words echoed in Zack's head, banging against his brain. Someone in that place wanted Max, he didn't know who, maybe Lydecker or maybe that guy Max was telling him about that was giving her trouble for a while, Ames White, or maybe both. Zack shook his head no. No, if he wants her badly, it can't be good. And he wasn't going to let him get her, or any of them.

The Zack look alike stood up straight, chest out, hands at his side, feet together, and his eyes looking straight. Lydecker and Ames walked into the room.

"Welcome back solider you said you caught one of the 12?" Lydecker asked getting to the point.

"Yes sir." he said.

"Show me." Lydecker answered.

The Zack look alike looked towards of the Manticore men and shook his head yes, who nodded in response and opened the car door and dragged a girl and a toddler out, throwing the woman into another solider who held her. Lydecker walked up to her.

"Ah, Jace is it?" he asked grinning.

Jace looked meanly at him and struggled violently against the guard.

"We missed you, you know." Lydecker said.

"Go to hell Lydecker!" Jace shouted at him.

"You know you were such a good solider, but they brainwashed you." Lydecker told himself.

"No, they showed me that I am more than a solider and an experiment, I am a living breathing human." she hissed at him.

Ames laughed.

"You are far from human miss." Ames said meanly.

"And who is this?" Lydecker asked pointing at her kid.

"Leave her alone, it's me you want not her." she told him.

Ames then grabbed the girl and yanked her towards him.

"NO! Leave Max ALONE!" she screamed at him.

Lydecker looked at Jace then at the child.

"Max, you called her Max? After the MAX that is your sister, the MAX that is the one who turned you against Manticore. How sweet." Lydecker replied.

"And yet very sickening, let's teach you a lesson 'Jace' never to leave Manticore." Ames replied then pulled out a pistol and shot the young girl in the chest.

"NOOO!" Jace screamed at the top of her lungs struggling against the guards grip.

The Zack looking transgenic jumped and blinked at the response of the sound but still keeping a straight face.

"Take her away." Ames ordered.

The soldier nodded and took the screaming, and crying Jace away.

"Speaking of Max Blade, what's your status on her?" Lydecker asked.

Lydecker had named the transgenic Blade because he considered him the blade that represented Manticore, sharp, cunning and merciless.

"I had her sir but…"

"But what solider!!! Why ISN'T SHE HERE!?" Lydecker shouted.

"Sir, they ganged up against me sir, I almost had her until someone banged me with a teaser sir!" Blade shouted.

"Ganged up? Who?" Ames asked.

"Do you want designations or names sir!?" Blade shouted.

"Designations" Ames said. "Names" Lydecker said at the same time.

Ames and Lydecker looked at each other.

"Names solider." Lydecker finalized.

"Tinga, Krit, Alec, Zack-" Lydecker raised a hand telling him to stop. Following the command he quickly shut up.

"Zack is with her?" he asked him.

"Sir yes he is sir." Blade responded.

"Figures." he said.

"Listen up solider, I am giving you one top thing here. Besides the fact that I want that girl FOUND and back in MANTICORE if you are able to snatch her, Zack will come crashing down like a burning rocket ship. And once he comes down, the others will be easier to catch because they don't have their older brother there telling them what to do or protecting them. They are out of Manticore, yes, but they still all listen to Zack, because they love him. It's like a chain reaction. Look if you can catch all of them at the same time or 2 at the same time, great, but if all else fails go for her. Do I make myself understandable?" Lydecker asked.

"Perfectly sir." Blade answered.

"You do understand what will happen to you if you don't get them all?" Ames double checked.

"Yes sir." Blade answered.

"Good, dismissed." Lydecker ordered.

Blade saluted and then made his way off into the night.