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HEY guys I will be posting on the group now so I can communicate with you guys more personally;) I updated it with some pics tooJ Nothing really to announce so let's just go to the chapter! Enjoy and R/R!!!
Love all!
********************Natasha*****************
Pryce walked into the Manticore facility from the parking lot. Another thought of work made him sigh. It was still dark, around 3:30 am, the X5's get up at 4:30. He walked in, his boots echoing through the empty halls, his chain hanging from the pocket and belt loop of his blue jeans also made a rattling noise. His sharp experienced eyes looked around a black leather jacket over his black t-shirt and his hair wet looking because he had just recently gelled it and the spikes were still wet from the gel.
Pryce walked up to Renfro's office door which was opened, reveling Renfro sitting behind her desk and Ames in front of her, having coffee and talking about business. Pryce knocked on the door, grabbing their attention.
"Sorry to interrupt, just checkin' in." Pryce greeted them then continued walking.
He walked down to the small office he called his own. He unlocked it and walked in, flipping the lights on it. Ames then appeared in his doorway. Pryce caught a glimpse of him as he pulled out a drawer.
"Help you with anything boss?" Pryce asked fishing around in the drawer.
"Just seeing what's going on." Ames said observing him.
Pryce nodded and grabbed a needle and a bottle of a neon blue substance.
"I need you to do me a favor." Ames began.
"Uh huh." Pryce said measuring carefully out the correct amount in the needle.
"One, I need you to go get 452 out of the psy ops room, she's been in there the whole night and I think she might be too weak to walk." Ames replied.
"Ouch, in there all night?" Pryce asked putting the bottle away.
"She made me mad." Ames explained.
"Uh huh, ok done." Pryce replied sticking him with the needle and pushed the liquid through, then threw the needle away.
"And I need you to retrieve someone for me." Ames began.
Pryce slowly raised his eyes to Ames's, telling him he was listening.
Pryce walked into the psy ops room, his jacket now off. He saw Max chained to the wall and sighed. He walked up in front of her then punched in a code on the chain and they hissed and released her. Max fell limply into Pryce who caught her.
Suddenly Max punched him hard in the face and kneed him in the stomach. Pryce hunched over in pain. Max grabbed the back of his shirt and rammed him head first into the wall. Then bolted to the door, closing it behind her, locking it.
She ran as fast as she possibly could down the hall. Pryce groaned in anger and then kicked a tile out of the ceiling and jumped up in it. Max ran down a series of halls, thankful that she hadn't ran into any guards yet. Suddenly she arrived at the door she was looking for. She grabbed the bars on the small window on the door and tugged on them violently.
"Guys!" Max whispered loudly.
She heard everyone get up and run over to it.
"Max!" Zack's voice said reaching through the bars and grabbing her arm.
"I'm gonna get you out of here." Max said then looked around, trying to find a way to open it.
She looked at the code box on it and ripped half of it open. Max grabbed the series of wires and ripped them all out, sparks flew and it smoked as the door came open.
"Max!" Zack said running up to her hugging her tightly.
Krit followed hugging her right after Zack, a stilt around his broken wrist, then Biggs, Jondy and finally Tinga.
"I missed all of you, but we have to get out of here now." Max said leading them down the hall.
All of them ran as fast as they could.
"Alright, if we get split up, we meet at the needle in Seattle, got it?" Zack asked running along side of his family.
All nodded in response.
"There's someone I know that we have to get out, I'll meet you outside." Zack said then took a left.
"Zack!" Max hissed not wanting them to get separated.
"Max, forget it, he'll be out there! Come on!" Jondy said.
Max hesitated but continued running just the same. They ran into a few guards but they weren't a problem at all.
"There's the double doors." Biggs said happily.
Biggs and the rest flew to the doors basically and busted out of the building, they ran for it. Max stopped and looked around to see if Zack was there, seeing he wasn't in the halls she ran for the doors as well.
Suddenly Pryce busted from the ceiling, hanging from a pole, kicking her hard in the face. Max flew backwards onto the hard cold tiles. Pryce jumped out from the ceiling then slammed his elbow back into a glass box and pressed the button on it, causing to set off an alarm.
"No!" Max called out trying to warn her brothers and sisters who were still running out side, but Pryce blocked her path.
Max tried to punch him but he caught her arm and with her arm threw her hard into the glass double doors. Max slammed through it head first and tumbled out into the cold wet grass. Max covered her face with her hands so no glass would go in her eyes or cut her.
Spotlights waved everywhere trying to find the escaping transgenics. Pryce walked through the broken doors up to Max and slammed his hands down on her chest, grabbing the collar of her t-shirt.
"You are going to be a pain in my ass!" Pryce replied picking her up off the ground.
Max gritted her teeth trying to break his grip. Max kneed him in the stomach, which caused him to flinch. Max then head butted him, causing him to stumble back, dropping Max. Max looked over and saw Ames take down Biggs with a teaser.
"Oh no." Max said helplessly.
"Tinga! Behind you!" Max called out.
She saw her sister spin around and saw a guard punch her hardly in the face and Max didn't see her get up from the ground. Max then rolled on her back, just enough time to grab Pryce's boot. Max tried her hardest to hold it up, but slowly his boot seemed to get closer and closer to her neck. Max panicked and then with her right leg, kicked up and made Pryce's knees buckle.
Pryce hint the grass as well, but he made sure he grabbed her ankle. Max kicked hardly trying to buck his hand off her ankle. It didn't work instead he yanked her down so her body was lying right next to his. Pryce then pinned her down, digging Max's chest into the ground. Max tried to get up, but it was the push up nightmare all over again. Pryce then sat on her back like a horse and he wrapped his right arm around her throat and pulled her throat towards him, causing Max to bend backwards. Her upper body off the ground and bent back, while her waist and down was on the ground.
"You think it's funny Max? Huh? HUH!?" Pryce said breathlessly but making it clear that he was furious.
Max looked and saw Krit get taken down but her hopes raised once she saw Jondy jump the fence. Max's heart stopped, though, when she saw Jondy turn around and look at her family who were all caught.
"GO JONDY!!!" Max screamed to her.
"Go!" Krit shouted as loud as he could.
"GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!" Biggs agreed yelling.
Suddenly Max saw Zack caught by Ames.
"GO JONDY! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Zack shouted as Ames pushed him down to the ground.
Jondy looked at all of them sadly but turned around and ran none the less. Ames looked at the ground in anger then slowly turned his head and eyes straight into Max's eyes.
"Great." Max mumbled to herself, feeling Pryce's bicep tighten against her throat.
Alec shook the thoughts of every possible event that happened that morning out of his head. About Pryce and Max and Ames and Manticore all together. He wore a dark green t-shirt with his black leather jacket covering his shoulders with loose faded blue jeans. What was he going to do?
Who knows when Logan could finally find out where the Manticore is. Yesterday was stressful because he couldn't think of anything else BUT Max and what she could be possibly going through. He had to get her back, he missed her truthfully, he missed picking on her. Yesterday morning is when he found out that Pryce took Max and that thought haunted him every second yesterday and it still does. He sighed loudly as he looked around.
Alec went to a café, got a coffee and met his 2 other friends he made, Cindy and Sketchy.
"Hey guys." Alec said sighing.
Cindy watched Alec sit down.
"Hey man." Sketchy replied stirring his coffee.
"Please tell me Eyes Only told Logan something about where Max is at." Cindy pleaded.
Alec looked at OC, he could tell she looked tired she probably hasn't been sleeping too well thanks to Max's disappearance.
"No, nothing yet OC." Alec said softly.
Cindy looked down into her mug, trying to keep tears in.
"Maybe he isn't looking hard enough." Sketchy said groaning, also worried and aggravated that Max was missing.
"Eyes Only is trying his best." Alec said trying to settle the score then took a drink.
"What'd Joshua have to say bout it?" Cindy asked.
"Oh nothing he growled at Ames's name and now he sits in front of the painting he painted of Max and cries, sits there all day. Every time I visit he wants to know if I found 'lil fella.'" Alec explained.
"Poor thing." Cindy said shaking her head in sadness.
"Yea, I-" Alec's words were cut off thanks to his genetic vision. He saw a blonde haired girl, in a Manticore uniform. Alec raised his neck slightly. Cindy turned her head and looked at her.
"Why does that outfit look familiar?" Cindy asked herself puzzled.
"Because it's Manticore's uniform." Alec mumbled and jumped up jogging up to the girl. Alec turned her around.
"Hey what are you doing out here?" Alec demanded.
The girl looked at him, her face dirty, torn, and exhausted.
"What do you mean?" Jondy demanded.
"Your Manticore." Alec said telling her he knew.
Jondy's eyes widened and she made a notion to run but Alec grabbed her and pulled her into an abandoned building. Jondy immediately attacked him trying to kick him. Alec blocked it.
"Hey, hey, hey easy, easy, I'm X5." Alec said turning around and showing her his barcode.
Jondy relaxed and allowed her fightening stance to drop. Alec looked at her.
"Your in uniform, which means you know where Manticore is, tell me where it is." Alec begged her.
"Why do you want to know? You better stay far away from it." Jondy advised as she sat down, her face troubled for leaving her family behind.
"I don't care, your advice was heard but I'm not buying it. Look, please, tell me one of my friends is in there and I need to get her out." Alec explained.
"Her?" Jondy asked wrinkling her nose.
Suddenly her mouth dropped finally looking at his face.
"Ben!?" Jondy asked standing up.
"No but it's ok, I get that a lot. I'm 494." Alec said.
"Oh, so you're Ben's clone huh?" Jondy pointed out.
"Yeah. Now how about that Manticore address?" Alec asked smiling widely.
"Oh you're 494, I'm Jondy. Do you have a name?" Jondy asked.
"Yea Alec. Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone, hold the phone. You're name is Jondy?" Alec asked.
Jondy shook her head yes.
"Oh Lord, your Max's sister!" Alec said recognizing that name.
Jondy's eyes lit up.
"Yea how'd you know that!? Do you know Max?" Jondy asked.
"Know her, she's the one I am trying to get out of Manticore! She broke all of us out almost a year ago and I've been friends with her ever since." Alec said grinning.
"But how did you meet her?" Jondy asked.
"We were breeding partners." Alec mumbled.
"Oh, interesting! Very interesting!" Jondy said laughing.
"Now how about that location?" Alec said grinning.
"Of course." Jondy said.
"Get my baby sister out please." Jondy replied.
"Ok, but after you give me this address I think you should get out of town. I'll give you Max's cell phone number so you can keep in touch with her." Alec said. Jondy smiled.
"Thanks Alec." she replied.
Alec walked back to the table smiling widely as he took his seat next to OC and Sketchy.
"Alec, you look like you have a cloths hanger in yo mouth, what's up wich you?" Cindy asked.
Alec smiled wider.
"Got the place where Manticore is, now all I have to do is get a plan and get Max out." Alec said smiling.
Cindy's face lit up and she hugged Alec tightly, so did Sketchy.
"Well hurry up boy so you can get my girl outta there!" Cindy replied.
"Ok, ok, I'll skip work and head over to Logan's place and try and think of a WAY TO GET Max out of there." Alec admitted.
"As long as you cover for me." Alec added.
"UMM, don't worry boy Original Cindy got you covered like foundation on a drag queen." Cindy said happily.
"And I'll take care of all your runs today." Sketchy replied.
"Cool thanks guys." Alec said taking another drink.
A silence fell between them.
"Man some people are SO rude." Sketchy said.
"Oh? How's that Sketch?" Alec asked.
"That guy has done nothing but stare at us for the past 3 minutes." Sketchy said looking back at the guy.
Alec looked up and over where Sketchy was looking. Alec felt like someone kicked the breath out of him as chills went down his spin and his whole body went limb.
Pryce was leaning against a building, sunglasses covering his eyes. Pryce smiled evilly at Alec and waved.
"Of all the nerve." Sketchy growled as Alec looked at the man in fear.
HEY guys I will be posting on the group now so I can communicate with you guys more personally;) I updated it with some pics tooJ Nothing really to announce so let's just go to the chapter! Enjoy and R/R!!!
Love all!
********************Natasha*****************
Pryce walked into the Manticore facility from the parking lot. Another thought of work made him sigh. It was still dark, around 3:30 am, the X5's get up at 4:30. He walked in, his boots echoing through the empty halls, his chain hanging from the pocket and belt loop of his blue jeans also made a rattling noise. His sharp experienced eyes looked around a black leather jacket over his black t-shirt and his hair wet looking because he had just recently gelled it and the spikes were still wet from the gel.
Pryce walked up to Renfro's office door which was opened, reveling Renfro sitting behind her desk and Ames in front of her, having coffee and talking about business. Pryce knocked on the door, grabbing their attention.
"Sorry to interrupt, just checkin' in." Pryce greeted them then continued walking.
He walked down to the small office he called his own. He unlocked it and walked in, flipping the lights on it. Ames then appeared in his doorway. Pryce caught a glimpse of him as he pulled out a drawer.
"Help you with anything boss?" Pryce asked fishing around in the drawer.
"Just seeing what's going on." Ames said observing him.
Pryce nodded and grabbed a needle and a bottle of a neon blue substance.
"I need you to do me a favor." Ames began.
"Uh huh." Pryce said measuring carefully out the correct amount in the needle.
"One, I need you to go get 452 out of the psy ops room, she's been in there the whole night and I think she might be too weak to walk." Ames replied.
"Ouch, in there all night?" Pryce asked putting the bottle away.
"She made me mad." Ames explained.
"Uh huh, ok done." Pryce replied sticking him with the needle and pushed the liquid through, then threw the needle away.
"And I need you to retrieve someone for me." Ames began.
Pryce slowly raised his eyes to Ames's, telling him he was listening.
Pryce walked into the psy ops room, his jacket now off. He saw Max chained to the wall and sighed. He walked up in front of her then punched in a code on the chain and they hissed and released her. Max fell limply into Pryce who caught her.
Suddenly Max punched him hard in the face and kneed him in the stomach. Pryce hunched over in pain. Max grabbed the back of his shirt and rammed him head first into the wall. Then bolted to the door, closing it behind her, locking it.
She ran as fast as she possibly could down the hall. Pryce groaned in anger and then kicked a tile out of the ceiling and jumped up in it. Max ran down a series of halls, thankful that she hadn't ran into any guards yet. Suddenly she arrived at the door she was looking for. She grabbed the bars on the small window on the door and tugged on them violently.
"Guys!" Max whispered loudly.
She heard everyone get up and run over to it.
"Max!" Zack's voice said reaching through the bars and grabbing her arm.
"I'm gonna get you out of here." Max said then looked around, trying to find a way to open it.
She looked at the code box on it and ripped half of it open. Max grabbed the series of wires and ripped them all out, sparks flew and it smoked as the door came open.
"Max!" Zack said running up to her hugging her tightly.
Krit followed hugging her right after Zack, a stilt around his broken wrist, then Biggs, Jondy and finally Tinga.
"I missed all of you, but we have to get out of here now." Max said leading them down the hall.
All of them ran as fast as they could.
"Alright, if we get split up, we meet at the needle in Seattle, got it?" Zack asked running along side of his family.
All nodded in response.
"There's someone I know that we have to get out, I'll meet you outside." Zack said then took a left.
"Zack!" Max hissed not wanting them to get separated.
"Max, forget it, he'll be out there! Come on!" Jondy said.
Max hesitated but continued running just the same. They ran into a few guards but they weren't a problem at all.
"There's the double doors." Biggs said happily.
Biggs and the rest flew to the doors basically and busted out of the building, they ran for it. Max stopped and looked around to see if Zack was there, seeing he wasn't in the halls she ran for the doors as well.
Suddenly Pryce busted from the ceiling, hanging from a pole, kicking her hard in the face. Max flew backwards onto the hard cold tiles. Pryce jumped out from the ceiling then slammed his elbow back into a glass box and pressed the button on it, causing to set off an alarm.
"No!" Max called out trying to warn her brothers and sisters who were still running out side, but Pryce blocked her path.
Max tried to punch him but he caught her arm and with her arm threw her hard into the glass double doors. Max slammed through it head first and tumbled out into the cold wet grass. Max covered her face with her hands so no glass would go in her eyes or cut her.
Spotlights waved everywhere trying to find the escaping transgenics. Pryce walked through the broken doors up to Max and slammed his hands down on her chest, grabbing the collar of her t-shirt.
"You are going to be a pain in my ass!" Pryce replied picking her up off the ground.
Max gritted her teeth trying to break his grip. Max kneed him in the stomach, which caused him to flinch. Max then head butted him, causing him to stumble back, dropping Max. Max looked over and saw Ames take down Biggs with a teaser.
"Oh no." Max said helplessly.
"Tinga! Behind you!" Max called out.
She saw her sister spin around and saw a guard punch her hardly in the face and Max didn't see her get up from the ground. Max then rolled on her back, just enough time to grab Pryce's boot. Max tried her hardest to hold it up, but slowly his boot seemed to get closer and closer to her neck. Max panicked and then with her right leg, kicked up and made Pryce's knees buckle.
Pryce hint the grass as well, but he made sure he grabbed her ankle. Max kicked hardly trying to buck his hand off her ankle. It didn't work instead he yanked her down so her body was lying right next to his. Pryce then pinned her down, digging Max's chest into the ground. Max tried to get up, but it was the push up nightmare all over again. Pryce then sat on her back like a horse and he wrapped his right arm around her throat and pulled her throat towards him, causing Max to bend backwards. Her upper body off the ground and bent back, while her waist and down was on the ground.
"You think it's funny Max? Huh? HUH!?" Pryce said breathlessly but making it clear that he was furious.
Max looked and saw Krit get taken down but her hopes raised once she saw Jondy jump the fence. Max's heart stopped, though, when she saw Jondy turn around and look at her family who were all caught.
"GO JONDY!!!" Max screamed to her.
"Go!" Krit shouted as loud as he could.
"GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!" Biggs agreed yelling.
Suddenly Max saw Zack caught by Ames.
"GO JONDY! THAT'S AN ORDER!" Zack shouted as Ames pushed him down to the ground.
Jondy looked at all of them sadly but turned around and ran none the less. Ames looked at the ground in anger then slowly turned his head and eyes straight into Max's eyes.
"Great." Max mumbled to herself, feeling Pryce's bicep tighten against her throat.
Alec shook the thoughts of every possible event that happened that morning out of his head. About Pryce and Max and Ames and Manticore all together. He wore a dark green t-shirt with his black leather jacket covering his shoulders with loose faded blue jeans. What was he going to do?
Who knows when Logan could finally find out where the Manticore is. Yesterday was stressful because he couldn't think of anything else BUT Max and what she could be possibly going through. He had to get her back, he missed her truthfully, he missed picking on her. Yesterday morning is when he found out that Pryce took Max and that thought haunted him every second yesterday and it still does. He sighed loudly as he looked around.
Alec went to a café, got a coffee and met his 2 other friends he made, Cindy and Sketchy.
"Hey guys." Alec said sighing.
Cindy watched Alec sit down.
"Hey man." Sketchy replied stirring his coffee.
"Please tell me Eyes Only told Logan something about where Max is at." Cindy pleaded.
Alec looked at OC, he could tell she looked tired she probably hasn't been sleeping too well thanks to Max's disappearance.
"No, nothing yet OC." Alec said softly.
Cindy looked down into her mug, trying to keep tears in.
"Maybe he isn't looking hard enough." Sketchy said groaning, also worried and aggravated that Max was missing.
"Eyes Only is trying his best." Alec said trying to settle the score then took a drink.
"What'd Joshua have to say bout it?" Cindy asked.
"Oh nothing he growled at Ames's name and now he sits in front of the painting he painted of Max and cries, sits there all day. Every time I visit he wants to know if I found 'lil fella.'" Alec explained.
"Poor thing." Cindy said shaking her head in sadness.
"Yea, I-" Alec's words were cut off thanks to his genetic vision. He saw a blonde haired girl, in a Manticore uniform. Alec raised his neck slightly. Cindy turned her head and looked at her.
"Why does that outfit look familiar?" Cindy asked herself puzzled.
"Because it's Manticore's uniform." Alec mumbled and jumped up jogging up to the girl. Alec turned her around.
"Hey what are you doing out here?" Alec demanded.
The girl looked at him, her face dirty, torn, and exhausted.
"What do you mean?" Jondy demanded.
"Your Manticore." Alec said telling her he knew.
Jondy's eyes widened and she made a notion to run but Alec grabbed her and pulled her into an abandoned building. Jondy immediately attacked him trying to kick him. Alec blocked it.
"Hey, hey, hey easy, easy, I'm X5." Alec said turning around and showing her his barcode.
Jondy relaxed and allowed her fightening stance to drop. Alec looked at her.
"Your in uniform, which means you know where Manticore is, tell me where it is." Alec begged her.
"Why do you want to know? You better stay far away from it." Jondy advised as she sat down, her face troubled for leaving her family behind.
"I don't care, your advice was heard but I'm not buying it. Look, please, tell me one of my friends is in there and I need to get her out." Alec explained.
"Her?" Jondy asked wrinkling her nose.
Suddenly her mouth dropped finally looking at his face.
"Ben!?" Jondy asked standing up.
"No but it's ok, I get that a lot. I'm 494." Alec said.
"Oh, so you're Ben's clone huh?" Jondy pointed out.
"Yeah. Now how about that Manticore address?" Alec asked smiling widely.
"Oh you're 494, I'm Jondy. Do you have a name?" Jondy asked.
"Yea Alec. Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone, hold the phone. You're name is Jondy?" Alec asked.
Jondy shook her head yes.
"Oh Lord, your Max's sister!" Alec said recognizing that name.
Jondy's eyes lit up.
"Yea how'd you know that!? Do you know Max?" Jondy asked.
"Know her, she's the one I am trying to get out of Manticore! She broke all of us out almost a year ago and I've been friends with her ever since." Alec said grinning.
"But how did you meet her?" Jondy asked.
"We were breeding partners." Alec mumbled.
"Oh, interesting! Very interesting!" Jondy said laughing.
"Now how about that location?" Alec said grinning.
"Of course." Jondy said.
"Get my baby sister out please." Jondy replied.
"Ok, but after you give me this address I think you should get out of town. I'll give you Max's cell phone number so you can keep in touch with her." Alec said. Jondy smiled.
"Thanks Alec." she replied.
Alec walked back to the table smiling widely as he took his seat next to OC and Sketchy.
"Alec, you look like you have a cloths hanger in yo mouth, what's up wich you?" Cindy asked.
Alec smiled wider.
"Got the place where Manticore is, now all I have to do is get a plan and get Max out." Alec said smiling.
Cindy's face lit up and she hugged Alec tightly, so did Sketchy.
"Well hurry up boy so you can get my girl outta there!" Cindy replied.
"Ok, ok, I'll skip work and head over to Logan's place and try and think of a WAY TO GET Max out of there." Alec admitted.
"As long as you cover for me." Alec added.
"UMM, don't worry boy Original Cindy got you covered like foundation on a drag queen." Cindy said happily.
"And I'll take care of all your runs today." Sketchy replied.
"Cool thanks guys." Alec said taking another drink.
A silence fell between them.
"Man some people are SO rude." Sketchy said.
"Oh? How's that Sketch?" Alec asked.
"That guy has done nothing but stare at us for the past 3 minutes." Sketchy said looking back at the guy.
Alec looked up and over where Sketchy was looking. Alec felt like someone kicked the breath out of him as chills went down his spin and his whole body went limb.
Pryce was leaning against a building, sunglasses covering his eyes. Pryce smiled evilly at Alec and waved.
"Of all the nerve." Sketchy growled as Alec looked at the man in fear.