AUTHOR'S NOTES-

HERE GUYS NEXT CHAOTER, NOT ALL THAT GREAT AND NOT THAT ACTION PACKED ACTUALLY TO ME KINDA BORING, NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE BETTER! I PROMISE!

THANKS

LOVE ALL,

*****CARPE DIEM*****

NaT

Max sat in the front seat next to Logan, who drove silently. Zack looked out of the side of the window as did Krit and Tinga just looked down at her feet. Alec was smashed in between Tinga and Krit, feeling very packed in there. He left his bike there, not really wanting it anymore besides, he ruined it from smashing into the wall to get Max.

"So spill." max replied breaking the ice.

All of them looked at her.

"Spill what?" Logan asked as he glanced at her before returning his eyes on the road.

"How did you guys know where I was?" Max asked.

"Well I just asked someone if some guy that looked identical to me dragging a girl came by ad he pointed me in the direction. Checking in the barn was just pure luck." Alec replied.

"Reasonable, what about you Zack? And Ting and Krit?" she asked.

"After you didn't come back for a while Zack was starting to worry, all of us were." Krit started.

"Then Logan did a surveillance check and found only records of you at the crash." Tinga added.

"Then we saw Ben drag you away. I knew he would take you there because I just know Ben." Zack ended.

Max shook her head.

"Thanks, a lot. All of you. At first I was on fire but then I started getting my ass kicked." Max admitted.

Each one of them said 'your welcome' in his or her own way and it then returned back to silence.

"You know just to point out, you guys were getting you butts kicked pretty hard too." Max said.

"Jeeze I know, Alec has such a hard head!" Krit said, making them all laugh.

"Well if I' m correct, Blade only has 2 and ½ weeks before the red solider nail kills him. So you know it might end there." Logan pointed out.

"It could……or they could just make another one, even more than one at once. They saw what it did to us, totally kicked our asses out there. No way would they stop making them if they know it works." Max said sadly.

NO one said anything, because deep down they all thought the same thing.

"They're going to be mad, when they all wake up." Max added.

"Ben's gonna kill me!" Krit said.

"I gotcha back Krit, Ben's not the one that scares me." Zack said placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Well he scares me." Krit mumbled.

"Ok, can we just drop the subject please?" Tinga asked.

Max was thankful she said that, she too wanted to drop it.

"No Tinga we just can't drop it, we gotta talk about this, we need a plan." Zack said.

"Well what, we obviously can't take him down all together." Alec said.

"I don't know!" Zack said raising his voice in frustration.

"Well if Zack doesn't know then we're screwed." Krit added.

"You'll guys think of something, your all smart. You just need to try and relax and think." Logan replied.

"We can't hide forever Zack." Krit said sadly.

"Either they'll get us or we'll crack." he added.

"Then I guess the only other option is to kill Blade and somehow stop Ames and Lydecker." Max answered.

"Like killing them. I don't have a problem with that." Tinga answered.

"Well not what I had in mind" Max said.

"Come on Max, it's the only way to end this whole thing for good." Alec said.

"They'll get someone worse." Max shot back.

"Who could possible be worse than Lydecker?" Zack asked.

"Who could possible be worse than Ames!?" Alec added.

"You can be surprised what kinda people are out there in the world." Max said turning around towards them.

"Good point." Krit said looking at Zack then at Tinga.

"Logan, stop the car." Max ordered.

Immediately Logan slammed on the brakes.

"Ow!" Krit said.

"Max, what's up?" Alec asked.

"Manticore men, we need to get out of this car now." Max said opening her door and jumping out.

Logan followed her lead, no questions asked as did the others.

"Follow me." she answered darting down an alley way, the others followed as she ran down the end of the alley and looked to her right. She then smiled as she saw a sewer lid.

"Oh no, not this crap again!" Krit whined.

"Shut up ok." Max said moving it off the top.

"Go" she ordered.

All piled down the sewer and Max covered the top and jumped down.

"Ah, too many memories." Alec replied.

"Sh, follow me." Max ordered.

The gang crept silently down the mazes of tunnels and up one latter, back into the road right in front of Joshua's house.

"Wow, you are good." Tinga said smiling.

"Thanks" she said as they walked in Joshua's home, to the site of Joshua sitting in a chair upside down, asleep.

"Why don't we all get some sleep, deal with this in the morning." Zack suggested.

Everyone shook their head in agreement as everyone was tired. Max looked at Zack who rolled her eyes to her.

"Even you Max, can you at least try?" Zack asked once everyone left the room and headed upstairs, except for Joshua who was still sleeping upside down in a lazy boy.

"Zack, if I don't need it, I don't need it." she answered.

Zack then sat down.

"Aren't you going to go to bed?" she asked.

Zack looked at her.

"I can't sleep. I can barely close my eyes." he said sadly.

"But I bet your body needs to restore itself especially after battling Blade which I am sure we'll cross paths with again." she said sitting down next to him.

"Next time we cross paths, I'm gonna shoot him." he said taking out a gun.

"Right here." he said pointing it at the middle of her forehead.

Max shivered, she hated guns.

"And if that doesn't kill him, I'll do it again, and again, before I'm through with him, he'll look like Swiss cheese." he said.

Max looked at him and grinned as if he was some insane person.

"Max, I need to stop him before he gets someone hurt or captured." he said.

"I know, I know, I understand." Max answered.

Zack shook his head and shoved it in his jacket.

"And what about Lydecker and White?" she asked.

Zack looked into her eyes.

"I'll kill them too." he answered.

"Zack, I don't think killing them is gonna solve anything." she said sadly.

"Don't you want to be free from their trap Max?" Zack asked.

"Of course I do, it's just I'm just afraid something bad is going to happen." she said.

"You gotta take risks in life Max, if I never took risks, we would still be back at Manticore." he said.

"I know, just be careful ok, I spent 9 years looking for you and I don't wanna loose you for good when I just found you." she said.

Zack smiled and hugged her.

Zack, Tinga, Krit, Max, and Alec walked down the street.

"And what are we doing?" Tinga asked.

"Getting my bike back from the Crash." Max answered.

"And Logan's car." Alec added.

"That too. But more importantly my bike." Max said.

"And why do we all have to go together?" Tinga asked.

"We need as many people as we can get if we should run into someone we don't want to run into." Zack answered.

Tinga shook her head in agreement. Tinga glanced at the people as she walked behind Max and Zack. Suddenly someone grabbed her mouth and grabbed her and silently pulled her back into an alley. Ben shoved his back into the wall as he pulled Tinga deep into him, holding her tightly around the neck and his free hand latched over her mouth. Tinga immediately started struggling.

"Ah, Ah, Ah, Tinga, that's not smart. Don't even try. Your weak, you can't get through." he said tightening his grip.

Suddenly Tinga bit down on his palm hard, causing Ben to let go and smack her.

"ZACK! MAX! KRIT!" She screamed as loud as she possible could.

Zack turned and ran towards the voice, Krit following. Max looked at Alec the ran up to her bike.

"Time to go." Ben said then dragged her down the alleyway, Zack running not far, taking out his gun.

"SHOOT HIM ZACK!" Krit shouted.

Zack aimed and shot at Ben, but Ben dogged it.

"Don't do it Zack. I got Tinga right in front of me, I'll make you shoot her instead of me!" Ben warned shoving her on his bike that looked like Max's only, it was silver and black.

Zack withdrew his pistol, not wanting to take the chance of shooting his sister. Ben laughed then took off down the road. Alec ran up behind them.

Suddenly Max came from a turn and swerved next to him, causing the butt of her bike to knock Ben's bike over, she watched it crash to the concrete.

"Way to go Max." Zack said to himself as they all ran up to her to help her with Ben.

She set down her kickstand and looked at her bike the yanked Ben up by the collar.

"You made me scratch my bike you son of a……..you jerk!" Max shouted at him.

"Have to admit Maxie, impressive." he said.

"Yea well if you think I'm gonna just let you prance off into the sunset with my sister your wrong." she said angrily.

Suddenly Max heard a gun being cocked and felt something cold on her right temple. Zack stopped dead in his tracks as did Alec and Krit, who ran into them.

"Let him go now 452." a raspy voice said.

Max kept her eyes glued on Ben and slowly released him. Ben smiled at her and kicked her in the chest, causing her to stumble back into her bike, the bike tipped over and crashed to the ground as did Max.

"Uh oh now she'll be pissed." Krit whispered to Alec and Zack.

Max clenched her teeth together, forcing herself to maintain control of her temper.

"Stand up slowly and place your hands behind your head." Ames ordered.

Max didn't take her death stare face off of Ben as she slowly got to her feet and placed her hands behind her head.

"Good girl." Ames said grabbing her bicep and yanking her towards him.

Max then elbowed him in the face and kneed him in the stomach. Ames ignored it and grabbed her chin and back handed her in the face. Zack then raised his gun at Ames.

"Max are you ok?" Zack asked her while she was on the ground.

Max got on her hands and knees and spit out some blood.

"Yea." she said.

Ben then kicked her in the side, causing her to fall to the ground again.

"No!" she said clutching her stomach.

Zack then shot at Ben's tires, deflating it.

"Want that to be your head Ben?" Zack asked him.

Ben only smiled at him.

Suddenly a car swerved around, shooting bullets at them. Zack hit the ground for cover and covered Max's body with his so no bullets hit her.

"Zack." Max cried scared.

Krit did the same to Tinga and Alec just hit the ground. Zack closed his eyes tight and prayed no one got shot. Suddenly Krit felt someone kick him off and grab Tinga. Once the shooting was over Zack looked up as did everyone else seeing the car drive away.

"DAMIT!" Zack shouted as he stood up.

"Tinga, no!" Krit shouted as well.

Max jumped up and got on her bike, starting the engines, hearing them roar.

"Max no!" Zack shouted but it was too late and all that heard him was the others and Max's dust.

Max ganged up on them in the highway. She clenched her teeth and leaned closer to her bike, hoping that her will power was helping her bike go faster.

"Go, Go, Go, Go!" she told her bike.

Once close enough she jumped off her bike and onto the rook of their car. She turned her head and saw her bike loose balance and fall to the ground. Hating that she did that to her 'baby' she then plunged her fist through the roof. She then grabbed someone's hair and yanked it up. She came face to face with Ben.

"This is for putting that scratch on my bike!" she shouted at him then punched him hard in the face.

"And this, is for kicking me and probably getting another scratch on it!" She shouted and then punched him out of the hole in the roof and onto the hood of the car. Which he just simply crawled back in the car though a window.

"Tinga! Hold on, I'll get you out!" she called.

"Hurry Max PLEASE!" Tinga said lifting her hand up.

Max grabbed it and yanked her up. She got Tinga half way up before someone pulled her back down.

"TINGA!" Max shouted as she pushed her hair out of her way.

"MAX!" Tinga screamed.

Suddenly Ames popped out of the hole and grabbed her by the collar of her jacket.

"Don't worry 452, you'll get your turn soon enough." he hissed at her then jabbed her with a teaser.

Max groaned and then fell backwards off the car, landing hard on the ground, shaking as the electricity ran through her. Max looked at the car disappear.

"Tinga." she whispered to herself.

"MAX!" Alec screamed as they ran up to her.

Krit hit his knees, cradling her head and Zack did as well.

"Oh my gosh." Zack said gently taking her arms and legs and moving them, to see if anything was broken.

"I can't feel my body, those dam teasers, he hit me with one, and they got away, with her." Max said starting to cry.

Alec looked sadly at Max then in the direction of the car went.

"Welcome to the club." Krit shared.

"Nothing's broken, your lucky." Zack said.

"THIS SUCKS!" Max screamed.