Title: The X6's surprise

Author: Gamegirl 452

Pairings: Max/Alec I would tell you the rest of them but that would spoil my fun!

Rating: PG-13 (for violence, swearing and sexual content that comes later).

Summary: What if not all of the X6's were not originals? Then what would they be? Where do they come from? And what will it do to the X5's who find out?

Disclaimer: I do not own Dark Angel or any of its characters. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this I would be writing the scripts for the fourth series because by now that's what we would be on because I would have never taken off air. I would have put Max and Alec together a looooooong time ago. Alec would have had a much bigger role in the second series. Alec would now be in my house instead of off somewhere.

But I don't own them James Cameron, Fox and the rest of those lot do. Shame.

A/N: This is only my second fan fiction ever so please read and review and please be gentle.

A/N2: Thank you to everyone who has reviewed, you have been a great confidence boost and it has helped me continue writing this story, so thank you to everyone who has reviewed, keep doing it.

Back at Logan's

They all walked into the penthouse apartment, Logan took the backpack that Max had put the files they had taken in and went over to his computer to try and put them like pieces into the bigger jigsaw puzzle that was Manticore.

Max had gone into the kitchen to make some supper for herself, Alec and their new houseguest.

Max knew that she wasn't up to the standard of the Cale's especially Logan in the cooking department but she knew that she was better than Alec at cooking.

At least she THOUGHT she was, Max thought back and if she was honest with herself she had never seen Alec cook anything or even tasted anything that he had coked, so she couldn't make assumptions, perhaps Alec was a very good cook.

Max shook her head, Alec being a good cook would be as ridiculous as Alec leading Manticore, it would never happen.

Finally she finished the sandwiches and proceeded into the lounge area where Alec and the new X6 were.

'She hasn't even told us her designation' Max thought that was odd because one of the first things most of the soldiers they saw do when they saw her and Alec was recite their designations. Soldiers they encountered were starting to call Alec 'sir' more and more now and it was scaring her. She could never call Alec 'sir'; it would be just too stupid.

Max entered the lounge area and saw Alec shouting at the new X6.

"What's going on in here?" she asked, but she didn't have time to get an answer, the new X6 was nearly on top of her before Alec managed to pull her away from Max.

"Don't you ever do that again soldier, otherwise you will be reprimanded to within an inch of your life." Alec shouted at the new X6.

Max noticed that Alec's voice had changed; it wasn't the normal Smart-Alec teasing tone. This one was harsh, cold voice of a superior talking to a solider ho had done something wrong. From a very early age Max was taught to link that kind of voice to pain and suffering, namely her own. Max couldn't think, she was so scared at the tone of voice Alec was using.

FLASHBACK

"You will complete Assault Course Number 3-Alpha/6" Lydecker shouted at the 15 X5's that were stood to attention in front of him in two neat rows of seven with their CO stood to attention next to them. They were all facing Lydecker hoping that he wasn't going to punish them.

"Yes Sir" 15 voices shouted beck in perfect harmony.

PRESENT

"Yes Sir" the new X6 shouted.

Max now noticed that the new solider was stood to attention and that Alec was stood in front of her in the 'at ease' position.

If anyone other than a fellow solider had called that position 'at ease' then she would have laughed in their face, it was one of the hardest positions you had to stand in when you were at Manticore second only to the attention stance.

This was not to the fact it was an uncomfortable position, it was just that it was difficult to get right. Your feet had to be exactly 12 inches apart, they had to be equal to your shoulders, your head had to be facing forward at all time and your arms had to be at perfect right angels to the ground and your hand had to be holding your arms at exactly the right position otherwise it would mean no R&R time for the day, you would be made to run drills in that time instead.

Max had tried to forget all that along with everything else Manticore had taught her, she had wanted to separate herself from her 'childhood' if you could call it that.

Max was jarred out of her thoughts by Alec's next question to the new X6.