The X6's Surprise Chapter 19

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: Okay, okay. This is totally an AU fan fiction. This is a summary of what's being happening, I've been messing around with the Dark Angel timeline and it's confused a few people so here's the heads up. In this Max doesn't have the virus, but her and Logan haven't really got it on they are just at the third date stage if that makes any sense. Anyway, some people who were killed weren't, Zack isn't a robot. He never shot himself in AJBAC because Max was never shot but they both were still captured. Max was shot in the leg instead of in the chest and Rachel (Max and Alec's X6 daughter) killed the X7 clone of Max. Ben and Eva are still dead though. All the rest are alive. Alec and Max are now 'friends', like they were at the end of 'She Ain't Heavy'. Oh, and Max has now found Jondy and speaks to her at least twice a week. Max still lives with Original Cindy but she doesn't go home much now, she normally is at either Logan's going over some new plan or mission or at Alec's well, not at Alec's but with him in the gym down the street. Alec is friendly with the owner and he lets them train after hours. After getting into a fight Max thought she needed to do some training so three nights a week Max goes to the gym with Alec who teaches her the things she missed out on after her escape from Manticore, then they crash at Alec's for a couple of hours before they have to go to work.

I hope all that hasn't confused you. If it has read on anyway, you should get the hang of it. Peace. Out.

At the gym.

Two motorbikes pulled up outside the gym. Max was riding her bike with Zero on the back, and Alec was riding his bike with Rachel on the back.

They both pulled up outside, the gym building. It was a dark, old building that looked like it had come off worse in the fight against the Pulse.

Max waited until Alec had caught up and then they pulled their bikes into the alley between the gym building and a strip club next door.

Zero and Rachel jumped off the bikes and stood waiting for Max and Alec to lock up their bikes.

Once that was done, Alec walked up to the side door and took his set of keys out of his pocket, there were a lot of keys for various different things on it but Alec had no problems remembering which key was which and what it was for, apart from it being written into his genetic code, he also had about five times as many keys back at Manticore for various different things, most of them for cells but a few for training rooms and places like that.

Alec opened the door and walked inside, it was a modest gym with 12 training mats on the floor in the middle arranged in a square shape with treadmills and weight training machines dotted around the room, the room itself was painted in the same grey that Manticore had been painted in and Alec wondered if they got their paint from the same person.

Rachel followed Alec inside followed by Zero with Max bringing up the rear. They all came to a stop when they reached the mats.

"Right, who's going first?" Zero asked,

"Well, we've got to warm up first, you should know that, and we can all do that together, but first we've got to get changed." Alec told them.

Max walked over to one of the machines and bent behind it, and brought out a black sports bag.

"Come on Rachel, you can borrow my spare training kit" Max told her, and lead the way into the small changing area, which was just a side of the gym that was closed off by a very untidy wall.

Rachel followed Max and they disappeared behind the wall.

Alec went over to another machine and took out a similar looking sports bag and brought it over to the mats.

"Looks like you'll be borrowing my spares then." Alec told Zero. This "Sir" business, that was Manticore, out here I'm just plain Alec, not a solider, not a C.O., but I am a genetically enhanced human, that I can't change. I also can't change that fact that Rachel is my daughter even if I want to" Alec told Zero.

Zero got the feeling that Alec was going to question him about Rachel and himself, but Zero didn't really want to go there tonight, he needed time to sort through all the things that had happened after Manticore had burned down and Rachel was just one piece of the puzzle that was his life at the moment. Of course, the fact that he was going to meet his parents in a couple of days didn't help calm his already unstable world.

Just at that moment, Alec handed Zero a pair of sweat pants and a loose fitting t shirt, which would be huge on Zero, even though Zero was already only a head shorter than Alec, he lacked a lot more in the build side of things, even though Alec was small in build Zero was even smaller. Zero quickly stripped off his black trousers and tight fitting black T-shirt and black jacket and put the clothes that Alec had lent him on.

Alec did the same and put his other clothes in the bag, he motioned for Zero to do the same and he did.

Just as Alec finished putting the bag away Max and Rachel came out in their workout gear.

Alec and Zero just stared at their girls. Max was dressed in nothing but a pair of baggy grey sweat pants and a athletic bra, Rachel was in the same get up both the girls were nearly identical in size so Max's clothes fitted perfectly.

Max and Rachel walked over to the mat Rachel went up to Zero,

"Come on, it's not like you haven't seen me without my clothes on." She whispered, but it was loud enough for Max and Alec to hear them, but Rachel hadn't finished.

"I mean, when they put us together as breeding partners we couldn't exactly switch off the lights could we, we have night vision." Rachel told him.

Max and Alec who had started to warm up on the mats just stopped and stared at the couple.

They both walked over to where Rachel and Zero were standing,

"Transgenic hearing guys, we could hear everything." Alec reminded them, Rachel started to go bright red and Zero looked like he had just been caught without his clothes on.

"Oops, Rachel said, as she turned round to face Alec and Max, her parents.

"Alec, I'm sorry I just, I wanted, I wasn't" Zero kept trying to say something but he just couldn't get it out.

"It's okay, I know what you mean" he told Zero,

"Would you like to enlighten us then" Max told Alec pointing to herself and Rachel.

"No, it's a guy thing." Alec told her.

"Well, shouldn't we be getting warmed up, we only have about 5 hours before work starts Alec, and do need a couple of hours sleep, even with my shark DNA." Max told him.

"Yeah okay, you joining us guys" Alec asked Rachel and Zero

"Yeah, okay." Rachel answered.

Alec looked deep in conversation with Zero while they walked over to a couple of seats in the far corner.

Zero was nodding and not saying much but Alec looked in full flow about something.

Max turned to face Rachel, "So, you two were together in the breeding program?" Max asked

"Yeah, but we only had a week before you blew it up." Rachel told her, "and I didn't go into heat so it wasn't very likely that I would get pregnant anyway." Rachel told her.

"How do you know that?" Max asked her

"Oh, because we were taught it, you broke out otherwise you would know it as well."

"I suppose Alec knows about this."

"Yeah, as you know" Rachel trailed off, "or didn't, Manticore were very big on equal opportunities and they didn't want males and females to be unconformable

around each other because you can't have modesty when your on a battle field or on a deep cover mission or something like that. We had showers together, we got

dressed together, we slept together, and we had sex together. It was just another part of Manticore to us. We didn't know any different, it was funny though." Rachel told her.

"What was funny?" Max asked,

"Two things, the first time we all had sex. It was a lot like yours there was one person who you couldn't have sex with, cousins, and we were given manuals and told to just get on with it. Zero was my first." She confessed.

"Your first should be with somebody you trust."

"Was your first with Alec?"

"No, my first was with Zack, X5-599, he was our C.O. and I was SIC so Lydecker paired us off together; Alec wasn't even in my unit."

"Oh, but there are pictures of him lined up with your unit, there was no names or numbers so I thought that was him."

"No, for somebody who had access to all Manticore's files, you don't know much about us do you?"

"I wasn't allowed access to most files, only ones that concerned us the rest I had to hack into or steal. I got caught a couple of times. I've been in phys-ops about as much as dad." Rachel confessed.

"I don't know much about Alec's time in phys-ops, he doesn't like to talk about it and we're not close enough for him to confess every secret to me yet." Max told her.

"Yet?"

Max blushed, she hadn't meant to say that, "Yeah, I want us to be closer than we are now. One day we will be and you can be the trigger"

"Well, the guy you saw lined up was my brother, though not biologically, but our whole unit was taught to treat each other like siblings, we were one of the

strongest in Manticore history, that guy was Ben, Alec's twin, we don't know who came first but they are identical in every physical way," Max paused and smiled "but complete opposites mentally."

"I understand." Rachel told her.

"What was the second thing?" Max asked

"Second thing?" Rachel asked, she had totally lost the tread of the conversation

"Yeah, the second thing you thought was funny."

"Oh yeah, the first time I went into heat." Rachel smiled just at the memory.

"It was the first time anyone of the X6's had gone into heat and the scientists had thought they had cured it, they cured the seizures and they had thought they had cured heat as well. Well they didn't, one minute I was feeling like somebody had turned up the heat. Which was impossible in Manticore because it was all computer controlled. So, I went over and told Zero, we were about 15 years old and we had already been taught about sex but nothing about the heat cycles because they thought that we didn't need it, so I went into heat and I started getting really hot and the males in my unit started to go crazy, a couple nearly killed each other because they fighting over me and I was trying my best to get Zero," Rachel paused; "'under the covers' you could say. So the guard notices what's happening and goes and alerts Lydecker, while we are left alone with only one human guard, one female in heat and five males who had no control over themselves." Rachel laughed, "so, the other girls are trying very hard to keep the males apart and away from me, and Zero was trying his best to stop himself from

doing what I wanted. He was just about to break when Lydecker walked in, well with that all the girls let go of the guys as they stood to attention, I was at nearly the peak of my heat now and the guys didn't have any control and they all just came round the bed I was on and start to try and rip my clothes off." Max gasped, Rachel laughed. "It was really funny actually, but at the time I wanted nothing more than them all together. Luckily, well for them anyway, Lydecker had brought with him about 20 guards their was now five guys all with transgenic strength and training trying to get with one female who was their C.O. and wasn't doing anything about it. So there were 4 guards to every guy and Lydecker got me, he dragged me into a cell which was just next door and shoved me in it." Rachel cringed at the next thought.

"What happened then, was that it?" Max asked, she hadn't been inside long enough to experience this inside Manticore but she had been around Alec a couple of times when she had been in heat and she knew what it had done to him.

"Well, this was because I was in heat, I didn't have the slightest thought about it before and I was disgusted with myself after so don't think I have this strange fantasy about it because I don't, I don't even like the guy even thought he was nicer to me than the others in the unit. Which I still don't understand but," Rachel paused, "I DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING BY IT." Rachel screamed.

It was loud enough for Zero and Alec to come running over at full speed.

"Didn't mean what Rachel?" Alec asked.

Rachel looked at Zero, he got what she was talking about, "She's telling Max about the first time she went into heat." Zero told Alec,

Rachel blushed; she didn't mind talking about it with Max or even Zero but not in front of Alec, he was her dad.

"What didn't you mean?" Alec asked again,

Rachel hung her head in shame, and sighed, she would have to tell them; otherwise it would probably come up at some really awkward time.

"I came onto Lydecker." Rachel told them in a sad voice, "but it didn't work, he doesn't have transgenic sense so he couldn't smell my pheromones so he just put me in the cell which was sound proof and had it's own ventilation so soon, I was told, it was calmed down in the barracks, Zero was told he'd 'done well' by resisting me that long, the others were stunned and shocked, none of us knew what had just happened. The next day they stopped all our classes apart from fight

training and gave us a crash course on heat and what it could do and how to stop it. I don't know anything else after that, it's just what I've heard from other

people Zero you'll have to fill in the blanks." Rachel told Zero.

Max and Alec were now smiling; they couldn't believe their daughter had actually come on to Lydecker, even if she was in heat.

"Well, after they gave the 'crash course' as you call it, about heat and what it will do to us, we were paired off male female apart from me. I was told to stand with Lydecker at the sides. The girls were taken off to one corner but I could still hear them, they were told by a nurse to act like they were in heat and do everything that they had seen Rachel do. We had also seen videos of female X5's in heat." Zero told them and turned to Max, "Your clone was a right one for heat, she got it really bad." Zero told Max.

"Yeah well, I get it quite bad as well so I guess it's in the genes." Max told him. Zero nodded,

"Anyway, so they were told to act like they were in heat and then they were told to stand opposite their partner, at this moment Lydecker gave me a mask and told me to put it so I wasn't affect. Then they pumped enough pheromones in that room it was intoxicating, the males instantly reacted to it and started to move towards the girls, Lydecker then told that they would have to resist as long as possible, so the guys were just stood with the most peculiar expressions on their faces, most were like pain a couple were of joy, those seemed to be the ones that lasted the longest. After about half an hour the guys started to get tired, they had the pheromones around them trying to get them to do it and they also had the girls acting like their life depended on it, but Tinga and Adam were the first ones to go, but we found out later that Tinga had also gone into Heat so Adam was excused from punishment, and Tinga was put into the cell with Rachel." Zero told them

"Yeah, that was funny, all we could talk about was sex, and who we would do and why and all the pro's and con's of sex with different people, and with mine and Tinga's shark DNA we basically talked for two days striate about sex, until we cooled down and then we started talking about other things like missions and how awful heat was, they made us stay in there for another couple of days just to be sure but then we went back into the unit. That's the story." Rachel finished,

"Well, at least it wasn't as bad as mine." Max told her, "You were lucky you had people around you at the time of your first heat. Well people who knew what was happening, I ended doing some unknown guy that I'd found outside a video shop and we ended up doing it in the back of his dad's car. I moved out of town as soon as I had cooled down." Max confessed.

"Well, you know mine." Zero told them, "Alec."

"Well, it was different for me, you understand, I was male, so I didn't have heat cycles but I also never got to experience pheromones straight from the girl either, they had their cycles mapped out as soon as the first one hit and made sure they were in lock down before they even got slightly hot. I was C.O. of my unit and I had to do some extra training for the job, so I was at one of these classes when the word came through that one of the units females had gone into heat, I knew what heat was since we had been taught about it because they knew about our clones," and he motioned to Max, "you wouldn't have know this but I'm a clone of male in Maxie's old unit; her whole unit was cloned, not just Max. They were cloned in the X5's, X6's and even X7's, because that X5 unit were suppose to be perfect apart from seizures which Max has a problem with," Alec trailed off, he didn't want to tell them about his own position on that subject. "And heat, so, they sent me back to my unit knowing full well I would pick up the pheromones, anyway, once I was about a couple of corridors away I picked up the scent and ignored it, I came back into the barracks and there was 702, I believe that's Jondy's clone, laid on the bed with all these guys around her and the females of the group trying to stop them from tearing each other apart trying to win the lady's affections. I fought it and helped the girls trying to get the guys off her and off each other, then about 40 ordinary guards came in and took 702 away to another part of the building and it took 5 of them just to do that, the other 35 were left with 6 highly trained, genially engineered killing machines who wanted to get laid really badly and they had just taken away their mate, as you can guess, it wasn't pretty, the guys charged at them, not including me may I add, and also 205 for some reason." Alec was about to continue when Max interrupted.

"I can answer that, 702 was Jondy's twin and 205 was Zane's twin, Jondy and Zane are biological brother and sister, they made us so that each of us in the unit would have a biological brother, or sister, but it was boy, girl. See mine is Krit. Syl and Zero are brother and sister, so are Lee and Ben, Eva and Casey, Brin and Jack, and also Zack and Tinga, which is why they are so close." Max told them.

"Well, that explains a hell of a lot, why didn't you tell me this before?" Alec asked.

"I thought you were C.O. of everything and you didn't know that 727 was your biological sister?" Max asked,

"No, I didn't I thought it was just coincidence that we looked alike. That's why 453 and 472 also looked so much alike, they were the most alike of the unit at first when we were very young, and we all wore the same things and we all had the same haircuts, and everything 453 and 472 decided to swap beds to see if anyone noticed and they didn't, none of the nurses or anyone could tell them apart until Lydecker came in and saw that they had swapped and told them to swap back. They were given two days solitary confinement for that, but it was funny to see the nurses' faces when they found out they had switched."

"I bet it was, me and Krit did that as well, but Lydecker didn't find out cause we were more careful, one of the nurses had to tell him which is why he must have picked it up so quick with your unit." Max explained,

"Yeah, must be." Alec told her.

"Right are we going to do some fighting or not?" Rachel asked, "Cause it's been a while since I kicked Zero's ass."

"Hey, back at Manticore I always held back you would never be able to take me full strength." Zero told her. Max and Alec looked at each other, if she were truly their child nobody should ever issue a challenge like that, Max or Alec are bad enough on their own but combined, they didn't know what she could do.

"Come on then, I want to see what Rachel can do" Alec told them.

"Okay" Zero told them, "No holding back, lets do some jujitsu training, how about the theme of yondan?" Zero asked, he knew this was street fighting with jujitsu techniques, one of the areas in which he excelled in his class.

"Okay" Rachel told him;

they walked up to the mats. They bowed once to symbolize respect for their country, then again to symbolize respect for the sensei, they bowed a third time to symbolize respect to the other black belts, (Max and Alec), they bowed a fourth time to yourself and your fellow karatekas, then finally they bowed towards to mats to symbolize respect for having a place to train.

They then stepped onto the mats and turned to face each other. Just before they were about to being Max asked,

"What are the two most important aspects of self defence?"

Rachel and Zero answered automatically "awareness and self control" Max nodded and stepped closer to Alec.

Rachel and Zero bowed towards each other and took up their fighting stances; Rachel was in the Heike Dacha stance (Ready Stance - feet parallel) while Zero had taken the Hatch Dacha stance (Ready Stance -toes outward).

Rachel bent her head a bit to signal that Zero should make the first move, didn't disappoint, he came at her with Jun-Tsuki (a forward lead punch) which she blocked easily with a Jodan Uke (a High Seikan Block), Zero countered this with a Gyaku-Tsuki (a Reverse Punch) which Rachel blocked with an Empi Uke (an elbow block).

They went on like this for a couple of minutes, Zero sneaking in some Mae Ashi Geri's (Roundhouse kicks) and a keta gyaku-tsuki no tsukomi (a kick reverse lunch punch) or two. Rachel easily blocking them with Ude Uke (an Inward Seikan Block) and a Morote Soe Uke (an Augmented Double Block).

Zero looked like he wasn't holding back but Rachel didn't break a sweat, she looked cool and calm like she knew she was going to win this.

"I've had enough of this now." Rachel told anybody who was listening, she launched herself at Zero using a Nodo Tsukami (a Throat Grab) before Zero could even react and brought Zero into a headlock that he couldn't escape from.

"Zero, you know you can't escape from the double whammy Rachel special now be a good little solider and play dead so I don't have to starve you of oxygen long enough for you to pass out." Rachel told him. Zero made a small sound of agreement and Rachel let go of him, he sunk to the floor and started to message his neck where Rachel had held him.

"Wow, you're good." Alec told Rachel, which was high praise coming off Alec, Max thought.

"What's a 'double whammy Rachel special'?" Max asked.

"Oh, something I made up during training one day, they were teaching, us headlocks and I thought that if you combined different aspects of seven headlocks, that you could make an impressive piece of fighting knowledge. The first person I used it on was in medical for two weeks because I had held on too tight and too long, he collapsed from lack of oxygen and I crushed windpipe." Rachel told them. Max looked impressed, Alec looked, Max didn't know what he looked like, if she didn't say any better she would say that he was scared, but Alec was never scared of anything.

Alec chose that moment to finally speak, "So you're the X6's death ray." Alec told her, Max looked from one to the other, 'death ray'???

"What?" Max asked,

"Well, 'cause I was C.O. of everything I got to hear about all the things that happened in the other units, especially the X5's children, of course it wasn't always through Manticore approved channels, if you get what I'm saying. Anyway, I was talking to Gary, one of the guards that walked my cell block and the children's cell block, when he came up to me and said that he had heard something that I should maybe know about." Alec paused,

FLASHBACK

"Hey, I hear those X5 brats have been at it again, the way I hear it, they were in fighting class, being taught those headlocks, you lot are so fond of." Gary paused, "one of them invented this headlock mixture of seven different ones that they had been taught, used it in a battle and nearly killed the solider they used it on." Gary looked at 494, "They're calling them the death ray because that solider going to be in medical for at least 10 days, two weeks at the least." Gary told him. 494 nodded,

"Thanks Gary I won't forget this" 494 told him and Gary went on his way.

PRESENT

"Gary got some nice cigars out of that deal." Alec told them. "Anyway, after that more and more people kept coming up to me telling me about this death ray person in the 5's brats." Alec told them, he laughed, "You got quite a rep at Manticore, Rachel." Alec told her.

"Thank you, I just wanted to follow in the footsteps of my parents." Rachel told them,

"What?" said Max.

"Well, you Max were famous in Manticore for being one of the 09er's and add to that you were Lydecker favourite, SIC of your unit, SIC of the whole of Manticore and also had no junk DNA you caused quite a stir. Alec you know had connections all over, he knew almost everybody in Manticore from cleaning staff to DNA specialists who had top secret clearance, everybody knew who X5-494 was. Now their daughter, everybody knew her as well but they only knew her as the death ray." Rachel smiled.

"It was also the name you fought under when you tried cage fighting." Zero told them and looked at Rachel.

"I wasn't going to tell them yet." Rachel protested.

"Yeah, well since Monty Cora was so popular I was sure he would have heard of Zero Hero and Death Ray, I mean we heard of Curvaceous Killer and she only fought once." Zero told them.

Alec looked stunned, "You two were Zero Hero and Death Ray?" Alec asked them

Rachel and Zero looked at each other, "Yeah" they said together.

Max looked puzzled, "Okay, you're going to have to explain this to me." She told them.

"Well, when you're a fighter, you hear certain things about other fighters, what they've done and who they've beaten and stuff like that so when you come up against them you know who you're dealing with."

Alec explained, Max nodded she got that bit, "Well, when I was fighting I heard about these two cage fighters, I kept hearing about them over and over and I didn't know who they were, they always fought together, they did a lot of double team events, they beat everyone who they came up against one day they just disappeared off the cage fighting radar never to be heard from again." Alec told her.

"Right, so who was Curvaceous Killer?" Max asked,

"Maxie, Maxie, Maxie. That was you when we were fighting that night for Mia, remember?" Alec told her,

"So, you're telling me that my cage fighting name was Curvaceous Killer?"

"Yeah, it was Curvaceous Killer." Alec told her, "and by the sounds of it, you caused quite a stir cause these guys heard of you." He told her pointing to Rachel and Zero.

"Okay, I've had enough story telling for one night. I'm going home." Max stopped herself, "I mean I'm going back to your place Alec." Max corrected but it was too late, the damage was already done and Alec was grinning like a Cheshire cat.

"Max, your there so much why don't you just move in?" Alec asked. "I mean you keep half your clothes there and your morning stuff and your toothbrush is even in the same spot as mine is." Alec told her.

"Yeah, but then who will OC depend on?" she asked.

Alec shrugged, he didn't know the answer to that, "she'll find somebody, you know, that's home a lot more than you." Alec carefully hinted.

"Alright, when do you want me?" Max asked, she was too tired for all of this, she suddenly had become very tired and she didn't know why. All of a sudden the world became black.

Max had the biggest headache on earth; she felt like she had a huge hangover, but then that wasn't really possible for a transgenic. Max looked around the room and noticed she was in Alec's bedroom. 'How did I get here?' she wondered, the last thing she remembered was that she was in the gym and they were talking about her moving in with Alec and then nothing.

Max got up and noticed that she was still in her gym clothes although her sweat pants had been removed and all she had on was her athletic bra and a pair of yellow coloured knickers.

She looked around the room and saw her sweats on a chair beside the bed she put them on and walked into the living area of the apartment.

"'Morning, sleepy head." Alec called out from the kitchen. "How are you feeling?" he asked.

"Okay, I've got the worst head ache though." She told him as she looked around the apartment, Alec noticed this.

"Rachel and Zero are in their own apartment." He told her, Max nodded.

"You gave us quite a scare, good job Zero has some field training otherwise you would be in hospital right now." Alec told her.

"Why?" she asked.

"You collapsed, stopped breathing for a few seconds. I was going to take you to hospital but Zero said he'd seen this before back at Manticore, it was from information overload." Alec told her

"How that could be, that we were designed to take in lots of information in a short space of time." Max asked

"Well, he told me that it wasn't just the information but also the emotions, all this information is linked into your emotions and it cause your brain to overload and that's why you blackout. Alec told her.

"Oh" Max said as she drank the coffee that had appeared in her hand.

"Come on, we've got to get ready for work, we're meeting Rachel and zero downstairs in 15 minutes." Alec told her.

Max nodded and walked back into the bedroom and shut the door.

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They entered through the door of Jam Pony and Alec went up to the desk with Rachel and Zero and Max went over to talk to OC.

"Hey Boo" Cindy told her when she came up to the lockers.

"Hey" Max told her, she was tired from all that had happened last night

"What's up Boo?"

"Rough night." Max told her, she wasn't about to go into a full explanation in the middle of Jam Pony, and she would talk with Cindy later.

"What's the dealio with those two you came in with 'cause Original Cindy thinks that's one fine honey." She told her looking at Rachel.

Just then they walked away from the desk and towards Cindy and herself.

"Hey baby Boo." Cindy told Alec.

"Hey Cindy. Cindy I would like you to meet Rachel and Zero." He told her.

Rachel stepped forward and shook her hand and Zero took her hand and kissed it.

"Hey, we will have none of that, Original Cindy doesn't like the three legged kind my man." She told Zero. Zero looked confused and looked at Alec who was trying to suppress a smile. Alec lent forward and whispered something to Zero and then Zero smiled and nodded.

"Nice to meet you, Cindy." He told her.

"You too Boo." She told them. Alec walked over to Rachel and stood next to her, next to her was Max. Cindy looked from one to the other.

"You know, if Original Cindy didn't know any better, she would say that Rachel was." Cindy stopped when she looked at Max who was nodding. Cindy knew at that point, she knew all about Max and Alec. She also knew about Biggs and Ce-Ce as well.

"Oh, I get you." She told them and Alec quickly moved away, he didn't want anyone spotting and similarities between himself and Max's "sister".

"Rachel is my sister and Zero is Biggs's brother." Max told Cindy.

"Original Cindy gets you Boo," she told her, nodding.

Just at that moment Biggs rode in ignoring the calls from Normal about not riding indoors, he parked his bike up and walked over to Alec. He stopped when he saw Zero.

"Hey Biggs." Alec told him.

Biggs was speechless, he was looking at his son and he could totally tell that they were related, but he had Jondy's hair and eyes.

"Biggs, did you forget that your brother was coming today?" Alec told him trying to get it through to him that Alec was pretending Zero was his brother.

"Zero?" Biggs asked.

"Yeah, da-" Zero stopped, "Yeah, bro, how's it going?" he asked as he caught him in a bear hug.

"Yeah, I'm your son, but Alec's told everyone that I'm your brother and Rachel is Max's sister. Play along and we will talk tonight." Zero whispered so that only Biggs could hear.

Biggs smiled, as they broke apart, he turned to face Rachel.

"So, you're Max's sister, nice to meet you." Biggs put his hand out; Rachel took it and shook it.

"You too, it's nice to finally meet you Biggs." Rachel told him.

"Hey, why don't Cindy, Max and Rachel go and do their runs together and me, Biggs and Zero will do ours and it will give us time to talk." Alec suggested, "I mean they need to know the layout of the city if they are going to be bike messengers." Alec told them

"Yeah, that's a good idea." Max told him.

"Wow, praise from Max." Alec joked.

"Don't get used to it or I might just have to kick your ass." She told him.

"What's with your obsession with my ass, Max?" Alec asked.

She hit him in the shoulder,

Biggs cleared his throat, "There's other people here guys." He told them meaning Rachel and Zero. "Don't worry guys, they are like this all the time. They fight like cat and dog but they love each other really." That snapped them out of it.

"We don't" Alec started

"We're not like that," Max told them at the same time.

"Now where have I heard that before?" Cindy told her. Max knew what she had just done, she had just admitted that she liked Alec, she had

used the same term as she had used when her and Logan 'we're like that'.

Max didn't say anything; the silence was broken by Normal,

"Hot run to sector 9" he shouted,

"Come on Zero, let's show you the town" Alec told him, and he Biggs and Zero walked over to Normal, took the package, grab their bikes and rode out of there leaving OC, Rachel and Max stood by the lockers,

"Come on, missy miss, not a country club. Hot run to sector 13. Come on Bip Bip Bip." He told her and threw a package at her. The three of them headed out of Jam

Pony and started the ride to sector 13, taking it slow.

A/N2: Sorry this chapter has taken so long but it has been a bitch to write, it's been rewritten three times already, this is the first try rewritten again and added to, it's a wonder this came out before Christmas.

A/N3: Sorry if any of the terms are wrong but I don't do martial arts myself so all this was taken off a website, thank you to them (I can't remember the website but if you know which one it is email it to me and I'll mention it in the next chapter.) Please tell me if any of these terms are wrong or they are used in the wrong terms (sorry), but if you just review and tell me what's wrong I'll gladly put it right.

A/N4: Thank you to my muse and thank you to everyone who has reviewed and helped me along especially Reily who has been very helpful throughout writing this chapter and also has been a great Beta. Thank you.