AUTHOR'S NOTE- HERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER GUYS, SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG FOR ME TO UPDATE, BUT I HAD A WRITER'S BLOCK! SO HERE IT IS, DON'T WORRY LOTS OF SCENES WITH THE SIBS TOGETH COMING UP;)
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Ames pushed Max forcefully down the hall of Manticore. She looked around the place, taking in what was offered to her eyes, getting to know the place, know where things are, when she escaped again, it would be helpful. She glanced to her right and looked through a large window, seeing into another room. Max stopped, not meaning too but the sight horrified her. She saw a transgenic on the table, being tortured, Max guessed for some reason that he knew something that Manticore wanted from him. In other words, Psyops.
Ames stopped as well, with a raised eyebrow he looked in the direction in which she was, wanting to know why she stopped and what she was looking at. A smile stretched across her face once he realized her eyes were fixed on the room.
"Better be careful 452, or you'll buy yourself a one way ticket in there." Ames whispered to her in her ear.
Then suddenly he shoved her to the ground. Max fell and knocked a tray of tools (ones that a surgeon would use) over, all of them falling to the ground, including the tray, making a loud crash. Max covered her head as the sharp tools fell. Startled, everyone looked at Max then at Ames then back at Max.
"I didn't tell you to stop 452. Get up." he ordered.
Max glared at him as she moved her hands off her head.
"I said get up." he yelled at her then grabbed the collar of her shirt and yanked her to her feet.
Once up he shoved her violently down the hall.
"Go." he barked as he led her outside.
The bright sunshine shown down on them as Ames swung the door open. Max saw all the transgenics outside. On one side of the training field, they were doing combat frightening against each other. On the other side of the field, where Lydecker was at, they were doing push ups. Ames clutched Max's arm and led her over to Lydecker who was barking,
"Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down" Lydecker saw them out of the corner of his eye and turned to greet them, the transgenics followed the rhythm even when Lydecker wasn't looking.
"Ames welcome and Max, nice to see you up and about." Lydecker said.
"I'm sure you are." she mumbled.
Ames grinned and glanced at the transgenics.
"Wow, 7 hours in Manticore and you already got 'em broke Donald, impressive." Ames admitted.
"Ah, it's fear is what does it." he shared.
"Well this is one female transgenic you won't break." she added.
Lydecker then grabbed her chin, then just chuckled.
"I can, if I hit a soft spot Max, and believe me, you have many soft spots." he said throwing her down.
"Start doing your push ups." he ordered.
Max groaned and walked beside Zack and Krit and started doing push ups, instantly getting into the rhythm that the other's where doing it as. While walking to her spot, she noticed Jace, Jondy, Alec, and all the others.
"Nice to see your up and walking." Zack shared as he pushed up and exhaled hardly.
"Tell me about it." Max mumbled.
"Didn't miss much at all." Krit said going down and pushing up.
"Yeah, well I wish I could miss a whole lot more." Max added.
"Don't we all." Alec said jumping into the conversation.
Max watched Lydecker say goodbye to Ames and watched Ames walk away to the other side of the field, to watch the other transgenics fight. They're weren't a lot there. They either killed most of them or they were on a different continent and haven't located them yet. Lydecker then returned his eyes to the group that was doing push ups and continued saying 'up, down, up, down, up down.'
Max struggled a little to maintain the rhythm of the demanding exercise. She wasn't used to doing this many pushups in a row and it was beginning to take a toll on her body, as she felt her biceps and her abs burn, saying they were tired already. Lydecker glanced from transgenic to transgenic watching them as he yelled his command. He then saw Max and grinned.
He walked down the line of transgenic, stopping next to Max. He then placed his right foot on her back, putting all his weight on it, pushing on it as hard as he could. Max groaned as she continued as best as she could to the exercise. She came up more slowly and weaker as she felt the weight on her back.
"Come on MAX! PUSH THROUGH IT! I don't want your chest to touch the ground, understand solider!? If it does, your going to be in a world of trouble!" Lydecker shouted at her.
Max let herself down and then tried as hard as she could to push up, trying to push through his force he was putting against her. Not able to take it, her arms gave way and she fell to the ground. Lydecker shook his head in shame as he looked at her. Flipped on her back, her elbows holding her up, looking at him, frightened, waiting on what he was going to do, the same face Max gave Brin when she and Zack got Tinga and her family out of Lydecker clutches.
Lydecker the sent his fist towards her. Zack glanced up, saw the action, jumped up, ran in front of her and caught his fist in his left hand, just in time.
"ZACK!" Lydecker said amazed yet infuriated.
Zack let go and stood in alert.
"Permission to explain sir." he said.
"Please do!" Lydecker said in anger.
"Sir, my sis- 452, has not been in Manticore in 5 months sir, she is not used to the expectations of you sir, allow her to get her feet on the ground, before I or you lay any physical punishment on her, I ask of you." he said, keeping his gaze straight ahead.
"So your asking me not to hit her because she has failed to accomplish what I am telling her to do?" Lydecker asked stepping closer to him.
"Just this one time sir." he answered.
Lydecker looked at Max who froze and just looked at him back.
"Ok, fine, but just this once. You get a life line Max, next you won't be so lucky, that's a warning." Lydecker said pointing at her.
"Get in formation" he barked then turned and walked over to Ames on the other side of the field.
Zack realized and breathed easy, then turned around and held out his hand for Max. Max took it and Zack helped her to her feet.
"You have to be strong Max, and careful. I can't defend you much longer against them, for right now, it's best if you just listen to them and do as they say, until I figure a way to get us out, ok?" he asked.
Max shook her head yes in understanding. Krit jumped up and ran up to them.
"Max, you ok?" he asked.
Max shook her head yes. Jondy then ran up to her and hugged her tightly, happy to see her again. As did all the others including Alec, Zane, Jace, and everyone.
"Ok, come on people, get in formation!" Zack shouted at them.
All ran to their places and stood in attention, hands at side, back straight, feet together and chin up and looking straight. Max stood where she was and looked hopelessly at Zack.
Zack walked up to her and put his arms on her shoulders and her back and gently pushed her to the spot where she was suppose to stand. Zack was about ready to take his position back in the front, but he then stopped. He straightened up her back and placed a finger under her chin and rose her head up higher. Zack grinned.
"No matter what they do or say Max, just don't stop looking forward. Ok, NO MATTER what. And don't take back. Just agree with everything." he whispered to her then walked in front of his group and stood straight.
Lydecker and Ames then walked up beside Zack.
"Mr. White and I have decided to send you on a little game." he replied. "In the woods, your mission, to kill your enemies and make it back here. Your enemy will be more than one and they are X7 kids, but that doesn't mean they aren't as fast as you, as athletic as you and as smart as you. You are to kill all 6. Under no circumstances should any be living by the time you are finished. Understood?" he asked.
"Yes sir!" all of them shouted.
Ames walked up beside Max.
"Favorite game huh 452?" he asked, knowing she HATED this game. Max looked at him but said nothing.
And saying nothing back was one of the hardest things she had done.
Lydecker walked down the row of them, it was nightfall and pitch dark besides the spots where there were big streetlights on the woods. The only light source besides the moon they had.
"The 6 are out there, hiding and waiting. Like I said I want them dead, all of them. If you fail, let's just say I'll make it so you never want to fail again. And don't bother trying to escape. The anklet you have around your ankle is a teaser, it'll paralyze you and give a warning to us on our main computer, tells us you location and everything, so don't try." he said looking at Max.
{So that was what that gay thing was that the guard put on} Max thought to herself.
Lydecker walked up to Max and held a gun to her. Max glanced at it then took it.
"Ok, go." he ordered. Zack took off with the others, including Max, following, on her way she hurled the gun over a fence. Lydecker laughed at it as he watched them disappear into the forest. They ran over a bridge like thing over a series of sharp rocks onto a back of a hillside. Zack held out his fist, telling them to stop.
Zack turned around and did a series of hand motions, splitting them up. Zack then pointed at Max and then pointed straight ahead. Max nodded telling him she got it. He then did one hand motion that meant to meet back here in 15 minutes no matter what. All of them nodded and soon they split up, running in every direction.
Max ran straight and then slowed her pace once she heard everything go to silence almost. Max looked around, seeing the Manticore facility in front/ under her. Max looked around and just saw trees. Max then shoved her elbow behind her, feeling it hit something. Max spun around and saw one of the little kids. The kid threw it's leg at her which she caught and them punched her in the face and spun around and kicked her in the stomach.
The kid then hit the ground and tried to whip Max's feet out from underneath of her. But Max jumped up and grabbed a tree branch and pulled herself up and flipped over it, landing on her feet behind the kid. Max then kicked her hard in the chest and the girl stumbled back into a tree. Max pinned her there by the shoulders.
"Your going to kill me aren't you? Lydecker said this was a game with teasers, but he sent you to kill us didn't he?" she asked sadly.
Max looked into her sad blue eyes. How could she kill this person? This KID? Suddenly a fire went off that made Max jump. She saw the girl fall dead to the ground and Max turned around in full alert. She saw Zack lower his gun.
"Zack-" she said sadly.
"Max, I know what you are going to say, ok. It's hard for me too which is exactly why I followed you, I know you can't use guns anyway, and you hardly ever kill anybody. I knew this would happen. That's why I followed, I saved you ok." he whispered to her.
Max shook her head, agreeing with every word he said.
"Come on, let's go." he said seeing someone coming towards them.
Zack grabbed Max's bicep and the 2 ran through the woods. Max glance back and saw mutants chasing them.
"What's going on!?" Max yelled at Zack as the 2 ran as fast as they could dogging trees and ducking under limbs.
"Lydecker might be testing us and sent something extra that he didn't tell us about! Just run Maxie!' he yelled back.
They saw the rest of their group ahead.
"ON YOUR FEET WE GOT MUTANTS AFTER US, GO BACK WHERE WE STARED NOW!!!!" Zack shouted running.
All jumped to their feet and followed Zack. Max ran beside Alec in the back across the bridge.
Ames grinned.
"Now." he said into his walki talky.
Suddenly something exploded, blowing a chunk out of it, throwing Max off balance. Max waved her arms in every direction trying to stay on the bridge. It didn't work and she fell over the edge. But while Max was on the bridge fiddling, around trying to maintain her balance, a piece of rope used to keep the boards together wrapped around her ankle and stopped her from falling.
"GUYS!" Max screamed trying to pull herself up, but the rope was digging into her skin, hurting it.
Zack stopped and closed his eyes in pain as he hear Max scream for him.
"Zack, don't, you know you'll get in trouble with Lydecker if you stop. Max will be ok, she recovers fast and can take care of herself. Just go," Zane said.
Zack thought then turned around and ran back for Max. Zane rolled his eyes and ran to catch up with the others. Zack ran as fast as he could and ran to the middle of the bridge and hit on his stomach, looking over the edge.
"Max!" Zack shouted.
"Zack! What are you doing here!" she scolded him.
Zack grabbed a hold of the rope used as a guardrail and leaned as far as he could over the edge, grabbing Max's wrist.
"Undo the rope Max." he ordered.
Max was in a sitting position so she could untie the knot from her ankle with her free arm. Max then was free from it, when suddenly the bridge fell. Zack jumped up and grabbed the edge of the back with his hand. Zack looked down to see Max holding on. Zack them pulled her up with his one hand until she was hugging him basically.
"Go Max." he said placing a hand on her butt and pushing her over the edge and on top of the bank.
Max rolled to a stop as Zack placed his other had on the side and easily rose himself up, to safety.
"Max, are you ok?" he asked running over to her and looking at her ankle.
"It feels bruised or sprained." she answered.
"Yea, might wanna stay off it for a little while. Come on we got to get back." he answered pulling her right arm around her neck and taking her by the waist and walked slowly as she limped back.
Lydecker was pacing impatiently as the others stood in alert. Soon Zack and Max emerged from the forest.
"Where the hell where you!" he screamed at them.
"Fallen solider sir." he answered as he sit her down on the ground.
"She messed up, and what are YOU going to do about it Zack?" he asked.
Zack looked at him.
"Punish her." he ordered.
Zack looked at Lydecker blankly then at Ames who was studying him.
"Sir, I think-"
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK SOLDER! Do it now!" He shouted at him.
Zack slowly turned around and walked up to Max. She saw his hand make a fist. Max closed her eyes, expecting a beating. Zack saw her do this and he couldn't. Zack turned back around.
"I can't sir." he answered.
Lydecker rose his eyebrows in amazement.
"What?" he asked.
"I can't." Zack answered.
Krit closed his eyes slowly knowing Zack was getting himself in hot water.
"I want you in my office now solider." Lydecker ordered then walked away.
Zack turned towards her.
"Zack, why didn't you just do it!?" max scolded hating that he gets himself in trouble for her.
"Maxi, I couldn't hurt you, even if I tried." he answered, then smiled softly and touched her face.
"Max, I never realized what a true family was. Now I look back at our younger years and we just lived a solider CO relationship, I thought that was how a family lived. But being in the world, I realized it's a lot more deep than that. Max, I'm not your CO, that's not what I want to be to you, that's not my job. My job in your life, is your big brother and nothings going to change that." he said then kissed her on the forehead and started walking back inside, the others following him except for Alec.
Who only watched the tears swell up in her eyes.
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Ames pushed Max forcefully down the hall of Manticore. She looked around the place, taking in what was offered to her eyes, getting to know the place, know where things are, when she escaped again, it would be helpful. She glanced to her right and looked through a large window, seeing into another room. Max stopped, not meaning too but the sight horrified her. She saw a transgenic on the table, being tortured, Max guessed for some reason that he knew something that Manticore wanted from him. In other words, Psyops.
Ames stopped as well, with a raised eyebrow he looked in the direction in which she was, wanting to know why she stopped and what she was looking at. A smile stretched across her face once he realized her eyes were fixed on the room.
"Better be careful 452, or you'll buy yourself a one way ticket in there." Ames whispered to her in her ear.
Then suddenly he shoved her to the ground. Max fell and knocked a tray of tools (ones that a surgeon would use) over, all of them falling to the ground, including the tray, making a loud crash. Max covered her head as the sharp tools fell. Startled, everyone looked at Max then at Ames then back at Max.
"I didn't tell you to stop 452. Get up." he ordered.
Max glared at him as she moved her hands off her head.
"I said get up." he yelled at her then grabbed the collar of her shirt and yanked her to her feet.
Once up he shoved her violently down the hall.
"Go." he barked as he led her outside.
The bright sunshine shown down on them as Ames swung the door open. Max saw all the transgenics outside. On one side of the training field, they were doing combat frightening against each other. On the other side of the field, where Lydecker was at, they were doing push ups. Ames clutched Max's arm and led her over to Lydecker who was barking,
"Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down" Lydecker saw them out of the corner of his eye and turned to greet them, the transgenics followed the rhythm even when Lydecker wasn't looking.
"Ames welcome and Max, nice to see you up and about." Lydecker said.
"I'm sure you are." she mumbled.
Ames grinned and glanced at the transgenics.
"Wow, 7 hours in Manticore and you already got 'em broke Donald, impressive." Ames admitted.
"Ah, it's fear is what does it." he shared.
"Well this is one female transgenic you won't break." she added.
Lydecker then grabbed her chin, then just chuckled.
"I can, if I hit a soft spot Max, and believe me, you have many soft spots." he said throwing her down.
"Start doing your push ups." he ordered.
Max groaned and walked beside Zack and Krit and started doing push ups, instantly getting into the rhythm that the other's where doing it as. While walking to her spot, she noticed Jace, Jondy, Alec, and all the others.
"Nice to see your up and walking." Zack shared as he pushed up and exhaled hardly.
"Tell me about it." Max mumbled.
"Didn't miss much at all." Krit said going down and pushing up.
"Yeah, well I wish I could miss a whole lot more." Max added.
"Don't we all." Alec said jumping into the conversation.
Max watched Lydecker say goodbye to Ames and watched Ames walk away to the other side of the field, to watch the other transgenics fight. They're weren't a lot there. They either killed most of them or they were on a different continent and haven't located them yet. Lydecker then returned his eyes to the group that was doing push ups and continued saying 'up, down, up, down, up down.'
Max struggled a little to maintain the rhythm of the demanding exercise. She wasn't used to doing this many pushups in a row and it was beginning to take a toll on her body, as she felt her biceps and her abs burn, saying they were tired already. Lydecker glanced from transgenic to transgenic watching them as he yelled his command. He then saw Max and grinned.
He walked down the line of transgenic, stopping next to Max. He then placed his right foot on her back, putting all his weight on it, pushing on it as hard as he could. Max groaned as she continued as best as she could to the exercise. She came up more slowly and weaker as she felt the weight on her back.
"Come on MAX! PUSH THROUGH IT! I don't want your chest to touch the ground, understand solider!? If it does, your going to be in a world of trouble!" Lydecker shouted at her.
Max let herself down and then tried as hard as she could to push up, trying to push through his force he was putting against her. Not able to take it, her arms gave way and she fell to the ground. Lydecker shook his head in shame as he looked at her. Flipped on her back, her elbows holding her up, looking at him, frightened, waiting on what he was going to do, the same face Max gave Brin when she and Zack got Tinga and her family out of Lydecker clutches.
Lydecker the sent his fist towards her. Zack glanced up, saw the action, jumped up, ran in front of her and caught his fist in his left hand, just in time.
"ZACK!" Lydecker said amazed yet infuriated.
Zack let go and stood in alert.
"Permission to explain sir." he said.
"Please do!" Lydecker said in anger.
"Sir, my sis- 452, has not been in Manticore in 5 months sir, she is not used to the expectations of you sir, allow her to get her feet on the ground, before I or you lay any physical punishment on her, I ask of you." he said, keeping his gaze straight ahead.
"So your asking me not to hit her because she has failed to accomplish what I am telling her to do?" Lydecker asked stepping closer to him.
"Just this one time sir." he answered.
Lydecker looked at Max who froze and just looked at him back.
"Ok, fine, but just this once. You get a life line Max, next you won't be so lucky, that's a warning." Lydecker said pointing at her.
"Get in formation" he barked then turned and walked over to Ames on the other side of the field.
Zack realized and breathed easy, then turned around and held out his hand for Max. Max took it and Zack helped her to her feet.
"You have to be strong Max, and careful. I can't defend you much longer against them, for right now, it's best if you just listen to them and do as they say, until I figure a way to get us out, ok?" he asked.
Max shook her head yes in understanding. Krit jumped up and ran up to them.
"Max, you ok?" he asked.
Max shook her head yes. Jondy then ran up to her and hugged her tightly, happy to see her again. As did all the others including Alec, Zane, Jace, and everyone.
"Ok, come on people, get in formation!" Zack shouted at them.
All ran to their places and stood in attention, hands at side, back straight, feet together and chin up and looking straight. Max stood where she was and looked hopelessly at Zack.
Zack walked up to her and put his arms on her shoulders and her back and gently pushed her to the spot where she was suppose to stand. Zack was about ready to take his position back in the front, but he then stopped. He straightened up her back and placed a finger under her chin and rose her head up higher. Zack grinned.
"No matter what they do or say Max, just don't stop looking forward. Ok, NO MATTER what. And don't take back. Just agree with everything." he whispered to her then walked in front of his group and stood straight.
Lydecker and Ames then walked up beside Zack.
"Mr. White and I have decided to send you on a little game." he replied. "In the woods, your mission, to kill your enemies and make it back here. Your enemy will be more than one and they are X7 kids, but that doesn't mean they aren't as fast as you, as athletic as you and as smart as you. You are to kill all 6. Under no circumstances should any be living by the time you are finished. Understood?" he asked.
"Yes sir!" all of them shouted.
Ames walked up beside Max.
"Favorite game huh 452?" he asked, knowing she HATED this game. Max looked at him but said nothing.
And saying nothing back was one of the hardest things she had done.
Lydecker walked down the row of them, it was nightfall and pitch dark besides the spots where there were big streetlights on the woods. The only light source besides the moon they had.
"The 6 are out there, hiding and waiting. Like I said I want them dead, all of them. If you fail, let's just say I'll make it so you never want to fail again. And don't bother trying to escape. The anklet you have around your ankle is a teaser, it'll paralyze you and give a warning to us on our main computer, tells us you location and everything, so don't try." he said looking at Max.
{So that was what that gay thing was that the guard put on} Max thought to herself.
Lydecker walked up to Max and held a gun to her. Max glanced at it then took it.
"Ok, go." he ordered. Zack took off with the others, including Max, following, on her way she hurled the gun over a fence. Lydecker laughed at it as he watched them disappear into the forest. They ran over a bridge like thing over a series of sharp rocks onto a back of a hillside. Zack held out his fist, telling them to stop.
Zack turned around and did a series of hand motions, splitting them up. Zack then pointed at Max and then pointed straight ahead. Max nodded telling him she got it. He then did one hand motion that meant to meet back here in 15 minutes no matter what. All of them nodded and soon they split up, running in every direction.
Max ran straight and then slowed her pace once she heard everything go to silence almost. Max looked around, seeing the Manticore facility in front/ under her. Max looked around and just saw trees. Max then shoved her elbow behind her, feeling it hit something. Max spun around and saw one of the little kids. The kid threw it's leg at her which she caught and them punched her in the face and spun around and kicked her in the stomach.
The kid then hit the ground and tried to whip Max's feet out from underneath of her. But Max jumped up and grabbed a tree branch and pulled herself up and flipped over it, landing on her feet behind the kid. Max then kicked her hard in the chest and the girl stumbled back into a tree. Max pinned her there by the shoulders.
"Your going to kill me aren't you? Lydecker said this was a game with teasers, but he sent you to kill us didn't he?" she asked sadly.
Max looked into her sad blue eyes. How could she kill this person? This KID? Suddenly a fire went off that made Max jump. She saw the girl fall dead to the ground and Max turned around in full alert. She saw Zack lower his gun.
"Zack-" she said sadly.
"Max, I know what you are going to say, ok. It's hard for me too which is exactly why I followed you, I know you can't use guns anyway, and you hardly ever kill anybody. I knew this would happen. That's why I followed, I saved you ok." he whispered to her.
Max shook her head, agreeing with every word he said.
"Come on, let's go." he said seeing someone coming towards them.
Zack grabbed Max's bicep and the 2 ran through the woods. Max glance back and saw mutants chasing them.
"What's going on!?" Max yelled at Zack as the 2 ran as fast as they could dogging trees and ducking under limbs.
"Lydecker might be testing us and sent something extra that he didn't tell us about! Just run Maxie!' he yelled back.
They saw the rest of their group ahead.
"ON YOUR FEET WE GOT MUTANTS AFTER US, GO BACK WHERE WE STARED NOW!!!!" Zack shouted running.
All jumped to their feet and followed Zack. Max ran beside Alec in the back across the bridge.
Ames grinned.
"Now." he said into his walki talky.
Suddenly something exploded, blowing a chunk out of it, throwing Max off balance. Max waved her arms in every direction trying to stay on the bridge. It didn't work and she fell over the edge. But while Max was on the bridge fiddling, around trying to maintain her balance, a piece of rope used to keep the boards together wrapped around her ankle and stopped her from falling.
"GUYS!" Max screamed trying to pull herself up, but the rope was digging into her skin, hurting it.
Zack stopped and closed his eyes in pain as he hear Max scream for him.
"Zack, don't, you know you'll get in trouble with Lydecker if you stop. Max will be ok, she recovers fast and can take care of herself. Just go," Zane said.
Zack thought then turned around and ran back for Max. Zane rolled his eyes and ran to catch up with the others. Zack ran as fast as he could and ran to the middle of the bridge and hit on his stomach, looking over the edge.
"Max!" Zack shouted.
"Zack! What are you doing here!" she scolded him.
Zack grabbed a hold of the rope used as a guardrail and leaned as far as he could over the edge, grabbing Max's wrist.
"Undo the rope Max." he ordered.
Max was in a sitting position so she could untie the knot from her ankle with her free arm. Max then was free from it, when suddenly the bridge fell. Zack jumped up and grabbed the edge of the back with his hand. Zack looked down to see Max holding on. Zack them pulled her up with his one hand until she was hugging him basically.
"Go Max." he said placing a hand on her butt and pushing her over the edge and on top of the bank.
Max rolled to a stop as Zack placed his other had on the side and easily rose himself up, to safety.
"Max, are you ok?" he asked running over to her and looking at her ankle.
"It feels bruised or sprained." she answered.
"Yea, might wanna stay off it for a little while. Come on we got to get back." he answered pulling her right arm around her neck and taking her by the waist and walked slowly as she limped back.
Lydecker was pacing impatiently as the others stood in alert. Soon Zack and Max emerged from the forest.
"Where the hell where you!" he screamed at them.
"Fallen solider sir." he answered as he sit her down on the ground.
"She messed up, and what are YOU going to do about it Zack?" he asked.
Zack looked at him.
"Punish her." he ordered.
Zack looked at Lydecker blankly then at Ames who was studying him.
"Sir, I think-"
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK SOLDER! Do it now!" He shouted at him.
Zack slowly turned around and walked up to Max. She saw his hand make a fist. Max closed her eyes, expecting a beating. Zack saw her do this and he couldn't. Zack turned back around.
"I can't sir." he answered.
Lydecker rose his eyebrows in amazement.
"What?" he asked.
"I can't." Zack answered.
Krit closed his eyes slowly knowing Zack was getting himself in hot water.
"I want you in my office now solider." Lydecker ordered then walked away.
Zack turned towards her.
"Zack, why didn't you just do it!?" max scolded hating that he gets himself in trouble for her.
"Maxi, I couldn't hurt you, even if I tried." he answered, then smiled softly and touched her face.
"Max, I never realized what a true family was. Now I look back at our younger years and we just lived a solider CO relationship, I thought that was how a family lived. But being in the world, I realized it's a lot more deep than that. Max, I'm not your CO, that's not what I want to be to you, that's not my job. My job in your life, is your big brother and nothings going to change that." he said then kissed her on the forehead and started walking back inside, the others following him except for Alec.
Who only watched the tears swell up in her eyes.
