The X6's Surprise Chapter 22

When they arrived at base they saw another four bikes sat outside the warehouse that Rachel called base camp.

"I found this place when I was searching for a place to live before we found out where you two were." Rachel told Max and Alec.

"I thought it would be a good base camp, it was on electrical company before the pulse, so it has lots of offices that we have turned into sleeping quarters and a big open space where all the machinery was, we use that for training and talking." Rachel told them. Max and Alec were impressed on how quickly Rachel had got the camp up and running, they even had limited power.

They all walked in, Rachel nodding to the X6 on guard and motioning for her to follow them in.

They walked into the build from the front entrance, down a long corridor to a door marked 'Construction Area'.

Just as they walked in everyone froze, there were another five X6's in here, it seems all of them had made it to Seattle in record time and were now waiting for their parents to arrive so they could meet them.

All of a sudden the X6's formed a line, not one stood to attention but more like a greeting committee would do when someone important is here, the other X6's that had come with them also joined the line apart from Rachel who stayed with Max and Alec.

"Well done." She told them, and then she walked down the line.

"Bullet, X6-705, parents Zero X5-692 and Lee X5-726, Firewall, X6-450, parents Shaun X5-572 and Mia X5-328, Speedo, X6-546, parents Brin X5-734 and Casey X5-358, Cass, X6-607, parents Jack X5-417 and Jace X5-798, Leather, X6-629, parents Ben X5-493 and Eva X5-766, Tinga, X6-616, parents Zack X5-599 and Ce-Ce X5-634, Adam, X6-430, parents Tinga X5-656 and Zane X5-204, Ben, X6-589, parents Krit X5-471 and Sly X5-701, Zero, X6-360, parents Jondy X5-210 and Biggs X5-511, and myself Rachel, CO of the unit, X6-473, parents Max X5-452 and Alec X5-494." Rachel finished and stopped at the end of the line.

"These are our children?" Tinga asked.

"Yeah, Manticore decided it would do a bit of genetic in breeding between the X5's when they made the X6's, even thought they have been mixed through scientist they are 100% your children, no tampering." Alec told them all before walking over to Rachel and giving her a big hug.

Krit and Sly walked over to Ben, "so your our child?" she asked.

"Yes ma'am." Ben answered back.

"No, it's not ma'am, it's mum." Sly told him.

"Yes mum." Ben said is sounded strange but oddly comforting saying those words, like now he belonged.

Zane and Tinga were also with Adam, asking him questions getting to know him, all of a sudden Max heard gun fire outside the building. She instantly out the door with Rachel and Alec.

Max got herself ready to fight what ever was out there, se opened the door and found Zack holding a gun surrounded by all the other 09er's,

"I thought that would get your attention" Zack told her. (A/N: I know it's totally out of character for Zack but I wanted to get this in here.)

Max ran up to him and gave him a big hug.

"Zack!" she shouted when she had finished hugging him.

"Hey sis, how are you?" he asked.

"Fine, fine." She told him and looked around him to see that he'd brought the rest of Max's unit.

Max suddenly leapt from Zack's arms and ran towards the others, hugging and kissing each and everyone of them before moving onto the next one, the other X5's had come out as well and were now either introducing themselves (Alec) or hugging each other like there was no tomorrow.

Finally once everyone had finished hugging, kissing and talking everyone became quiet.

"Max, it's lovely to see you and all but why are we here?" Zack asked, Max had forgotten all about the X6's.

Max nodded, "Rachel!" she shouted, knowing that Rachel and Zero would come running, neither of them went anywhere without the other.

Max walked over and stood next to Alec, he was stood next to Jondy and Biggs. Suddenly the door of the warehouse slammed open and Rachel ran out closely followed by zero, she stopped when she saw all the new X5's.

"Mum, what's going on?" Rachel asked, knowing exactly what was going on but playing the part just as Max had told her.

"It's okay honey, come here a second." Alec told her and she walked over to Max and Alec, zero had walked over to Jondy and Biggs and now stood between them.

"Mum?" Zack echoed.

Rachel now 'finally' gaining her confidence broke away from Max and Alec and walked over to Zack.

"Are you C.O. of this unit?" Rachel asked.

"Yeah, who are you?" Zack asked,

"C.O. of X6-5 alpha team." Rachel answered,

"What the hell is the X6-5 alpha team?" Zack asked confused.

"Well sir, it's a group of X6's that." Rachel stopped when she felt Alec walk up behind her.

"It's okay honey, you don't have to tell him, just go back to your mum and I'll explain okay?" Alec told her.

"Yes dad." Rachel told him and walked back to where Max was stood, Max hoped that this would go the way they planned, otherwise the X6's wouldn't every know their parents.

"Dad?" echoed Zack once again.

"Yeah, Rachel is mine and Max's 17-year-old daughter." Alec told him.

"What?" Zack stated, how could Max have a daughter with Alec, how could she have a 17-year-old daughter at all.

"I think we have a lot of explaining to do but first I'd like you to meet someone." Alec told him and turned round and made two short whistles. Suddenly the door slammed open again and eight 16/17-year-old X6's ran out and lined up in front of Max, Jondy and Biggs, Zero and Rachel joined the ranks.

"Let me introduce you to X6-5 alpha. The only X6's to be created purely from two X5 parents." Alec told him.

"What are you saying, that these X6's are like our children?" Zack asked.

"No Zack, these are our children." Alec told him and turned around, "Tinga!" Alec shouted, and a girl that looked just barley 17 walked towards him. Zack looked at her as if she were some high dangerous poison.

"Yes Alec." Tinga answered.

"Tinga, I'd like you to meet your dad, X5-599 aka Zack." Alec told them and stepped back to allow both father and daughter to fully look at each other.

After half a minute of silence that seemed like an eternity to Max Tinga finally spoke, "Your bigger than in your pictures da. Zack." Tinga told him.

Zack smiled, "Yeah a lot people say that." Zack stopped,

Tinga smiled up at him, "Are you really my father?" she asked with a childlike innocence around her.

"Yeah Tinga, I am your father." Zack told her. Tinga smiled and reached up to hug him. Zack took her into the hug and Max swore she could see Zack's eyes filling up with unshed tears.

"Come and meet my cousin dad." Tinga told him, and she turned round and shouted, "Adam!" and young boy who look to be just before his 18th birthday ran up behind Tinga.

"Hey Zack, I'm Adam, Zane and your Tinga's child." Adam told him as he ran up.

"Nice to meet you Adam." Zack told him. He had always liked the name Adam.

After that all the other X6's ran up to their own parents and introduced themselves, and then dragged one parent over to the other. Some surprises were made, some good, some bad, but all the X6's were welcomed into the gang.

After everyone had met their own children and each other's children they all started to walk back into the warehouse, but one child was left there stood. Max told Alec and Rachel to go in and that she would be there in a minute.

Max walked up to them, "Come on Leather, I know it's hard but your parents died in battle for the good of each one of us." Max told her, "Your parents were brave soldiers who risked their lives for their family, and unfortunately Manticore killed them." Max explained. Leather nodded and started to walk back into the warehouse with Leather.

Just then they heard the sound of two motorbikes riding towards the warehouse,

"There no one else to come is there?" Leather asked Max.

Max shook her head, Leather reached under her shirt and brought out her AK- 47 gun and held in close to her chest like a lifeline.

Max and Leather turned around slowly to see what the noise was.

Two motorbikes pulled up, one green and one red both ninja's. The riders turned the engines off and walked over to the two females standing in front of the warehouse.

Leather turned around and brought up her gun, "Take your helmets off now or I will shoot you." She said her voice giving the impression of more confidence then she was feeling.

"She's defiantly yours." A voice from the green helmet said.

"Yeah well she get's it from you." The red helmet said.

"Yeah well." the green helmet stopped when they looked at Max,

"Ben! Eva!" Max whispered not wanting to believe it.

"Oh hell, she found us out." The red helmet teased.

"Yeah well, it's your fault." The green helmet told them.

"Yeah well, lets just take our helmets off." The red helmet told them and they proceed to undo the straps that held the helmet on their head, the person wearing the green helmet did the same.

"Ben! Eva!" Max shouted as they took their helmets off and she ran towards them (again) but stopped before she got to them.

"You're supposed to be dead." Max told them.

"Yeah we know, but you don't think a bullet to the chest and a snapped neck would stop those guys at Manticore do you?" Eva told her as she walked towards her sister.

Max shook her head. No. She turned round,

"Alec, Rachel. Get your butts out here now." Max shouted before turning back to Eva and Ben.

"I guess you know about Leather?" she asked,

"Know her, she's been living with us for the past year." Ben told Max. Max looked at Leather,

"You knew they were alive?" Max asked, getting angry

"Yeah, but mum and dad told me that they would come soon so I wouldn't have to lie for long." Leather told her.

"Why Ben?" she asked,

"Well, I didn't think you would believe her even if she is my daughter." Ben confessed, Max thought about it and she knew in her heart of hearts that she wouldn't have believed Leather if she had told her.

"No you're right, I wouldn't have believe her." Max confessed, just at that moment Alec and Rachel came blurring at full speed out of the warehouse to where they were standing, they stopped just before they got to Max.

"Ben" Alec whispered, he thought Max had told him she had killed his twin, he didn't know who the person standing next to him was though.

"Yeah my names Ben, who are you?" Ben asked, while he walked up to him, Max looked from one to the other, she could tell who was who by the clothes they were wearing but apart from that they looked the same.

"I'm Alec, your twin." He stated clearly.

"Twin?" Ben asked, he hadn't known about any twins.

"Yeah they cloned our entire unit, I've met mine Sam. She's something else and has a killer left hook." Max told him. "Her designation was 453"

"453, so that must mean you're..." Ben trailed off.

"494" Alec told him, "Yeah, that's my designation don't wear it out." Alec told him.

Ben smiled and nodded, "Good to see my clone has a sense of humour." Ben laughed.

"Yeah, he does have one of those." Max agreed.

"Come on, let's go inside and tell everyone." Eva told them.

"Yeah lets." Max agreed and they all walked towards the warehouse, she had her family back together, all of them and she couldn't be happier.