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"That little BRAT!!!" Blade yelled infuriated as he paced back and forth in front of Ben who casually ate an apple.

"Catching her is going to be harder than I thought. She's quick on her feet, and uses everything around and available to her. Something Manticore defiantly did not teach her." Blade admitted.

"Well no duh, the only thing Manticore taught us to do is sneak around and fight, oh and kill." Ben answered.

"When Lydecker told us that I was going to try and track down a bunch of measly kids younger than me I thought it would be easier than this." Blade said.

"Well Jondy was." Ben said looking on the bright side.

Ben sighed.

"Lydecker is gonna what an explanation." Ben shared.

"You think I don't know that?" Blade snapped at him.

Ben grinned and jumped off his seat, he walked up beside the taller transgenic.

"Tell him, Ben's taking care of it." he said then walked away.

Blade raised an eyebrow, wondering what he meant by that.

Max sighed annoyingly as she leaned her back against a wall.

"Ok, and the point of this is………." Max asked.

Alec rolled his eyes and looked at her.

"You roll your eyes at me again I'll smack 'em out of your head." she warned pointing at him.

"We need to score this so we can sell it on the black market and get some money, considering we need food and well we don't work at Jampony any more." Alec said showing her a picture of the miniature table statue that she and Alec were suppose to steal.

Max sighed as she pulled her hair into a low ponytail and looked up.

"Whatever." she mumbled then threw up a piece of rope with a hook at the end. She pulled it on hard and noticing it was secure she quickly climbed up. Alec watched her reach the top within seconds and he ran up the building as well. Alec jumped on top of the flat roof and pulled the rope up so no one could sneak up on them. Max looked down at her waist and unzipped a pocket and took out a knife. A strand of hair escaped from the tie and was flying everywhere. But Max didn't care about it, she was too focused on what she was doing. It was surprisingly chilly and very windy.

Alec followed Max to a large window in the center of the building. Max cut a large square, big enough for them to fit through, and pulled the glass out and gently set it aside. Max then stood up and walked over to the edge, tying the end of a rope tightly and securely around a pole, she did the same with Alec's.

"Now, your sure where this thing is?" Max asked.

Alec shook his head and he rolled out the blue prints of the building.

"Once we hint the floor in there, we will need to take a right and it should be there." Alec said.

"Gotcha." she said hooking the other end of the tied rope around her waist.

"Let's go." she replied then jumped through the square.

She fell fast yet silent until the rope tightened and she stopped halfway down. Max looked around, to the left then slowly moved her lazy eyes to the right. Nothing was there. She unhooked the tied rope and she fell rest of the way down. She landed in silence in a squatting position, like a cat. She was an expert at this sort of stuff considering how many years of cat burglary she done. Her sharp eyes continued to dart across the room as she slowly stood up, pushing the loose strand of hair behind her ear.

She moved out of the way as Alec slide down the rope to come to a stop on his feet. Max made a hand motion that meant come on and she sneaked over to the corner. Her knees bent and arms out ready to fight if she had too. She peered around the corner and looked back at Alec and nodded her head yes. Alec returned the nod and then walked fast up to her and around the corner.

Alec grinned once he saw what he was looking for. He grabbed it and just waited for a siren. But to his amazement there was none. He quickly stuffed it in his jacket and ran past Max. Max watched Alec start pulling himself up with the rope. Max did the same and Alec helped her up on the roof.

"Let's jet." Max said gathering her stuff up quickly.

"But there was no alarm." Alec said confused why she was so paranoid.

"So that doesn't mean you didn't trick a silent alarm. Now let's go!" she scolded.

Alec moaned and quickly followed her down the latter and they ran all the way to Crash.

"Let me change real quick then we'll head down to South market and score some cash off this baby." he said walking into the crash.

"Whatever, don't take all day." she warned shoving her back in a bored manner up against the alley wall.

Ben sat in the Crash having a drink but originally spying. He got word that this place was the hangout spot of most young people and frankly, he could see why. Ben glanced to his right.

Suddenly he thought his heart skipped a beat as he thought he saw Max. He turned his head completely to the right and saw her, standing outside. A smile slowly stretched across his lips then he shook the gel from his hair, but it still stuck up on it's own, got from the table and walked over and out the door. Ben walked out, Max's bored eyes met his.

"Can we go now?" she asked still annoyed.

Ben looked at her weirdly.

"I guess." he answered.

"You got the statue rat looking thing?" she asked.

Ben touched his chest, the pocket inside his black leather coat and smiled.

"In my coat." he answered playing along.

"Good, now let's get the hell out of here, sell the crapy thing and get back home ok?" Max asked.

"Ok." Ben agreed.

Max made a notion to walk and suddenly Ben grabbed her by the back of the neck and rammed her into a light post. Max's head ricochet off of it and she fell unconscious to the ground. Ben grinned and looked to the left then picked her up and jolted off.

Couple minutes later Alec walked out. Noticing Max was gone he looked around confused. Fear then took him, so bad his heart started racing.

"Uh oh." Alec said.