Guess what peeps? I DON'T OWN DARK ANGEL. But James Camron does (lucky him).

I Just own the characters of this fic. K? Cool. Later dudes.

Excape and Envade

Ten children in military camouflage was running through a forest in the cold raining

night surroundered by a electric fence outside a large military building, called Manticore, owned by a corporate businessman named Renfro. The children had shaved heads that gave them a look of miniature soldiers. They ran quickly and gracefully jumped over logs, rocks, and deadly traps that littered the clearing waiting for someone to be foolish enough to fall in. Even though the soldiers had a look of cold nothingness, they were afraid. Afraid to be caught by their older superiors, to be

punished, and taken away never to be seen again. These were the things that could happen if you were caught. Especially if you were from the X-7's group .

The X-7's were sopposed to be hive-minded & emotionless soldiers. They followed orders, went to their morning classes, and unwillingly participated in sparring and training exercises. Yet nine years after they were created, White started to kill them off like flys. At first there were thirty-two, now there were eighteen. Eight died during an underwater exercise, where the children had to try to attack people from underwater, three from progeria, and three to extermination for unknown reasons. After losing fourteen soldiers from their group most of them were going to run away, eight stayed behind because they did not believe that Renfro wanted them dead, and threated to help capture and/or kill them if needed.

The leader of the X-7's, Ari, was a small twelve year old boy with black hair, dark

piercing eyes that could be easily mistaken for being black, skin was pale but littered with bruises from sparring with the older leaders which made him look like a dirty snow leopard. He signaled the other soldiers with sonar to split up in groups of two and meet at the river in four minutes. As soon as they separated, bullets and tranquilizer darts whizzed past the escapees. Ari mentally slapped his forehead as he tried to run faster, he forgot that Renfro would want them dead or alive.

It seemed like forever until Ari reached the dark, near-flooded waters of the

river that was the barrier between life or death, living or dying, and as the rest of the soldiers walked up to the murky waters they mentally prepared themselves for what laid ahead. The young leader counted off what should have been eight, but there were seven. He looked at a seven year old girl who had black coal hair and hazel colored eyes and asked, "Ærin*, where's Scout she was with you?" Ærin looked down and responded "KIA: dead bullet wound to the head and upper back."Russel, a ten year old black child with white eyes (supposedly he was possessed by a X5 named Jack) growled "Those assholes! She was just a baby, a five year old baby!" "Guys! We have to get moving!" Said Audrey, an eleven year old girl with blond hair and kiwi green colored eyes, "Or we're next!"

Then all of the X7's jumped in the water and swam down the river stopping only

for air until they reached a forest thirty miles from Manticore at dawn. All the soldiers climbed out of the water, and laid on the grass tired, cold, and finally free.

*-Pronounced: Ar-rin