Chapter three
Title: and Judas Brought Dessert
Author: Drea
Summary: Post AJBAC, max and zach survived but were captured.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters and special thanx to my friend Laura for helping me post. Enjoy and please review cause a happy writer is a fast writer.! "Faster 452 if you don't get this drill down to 5 seconds your going to get very friendly with the taser." The drill sergeant stared down at her his lips curling over his teeth into a snarl as his rather pug like face bored down into hers.
Curling her own lips up to imitate the guard's face, Max straightened up and set the engine bomb device back on the table. Leaning over the table she waited for the seconds to start ticking and once the bomb hit 5 Max flew over the tiny device resetting wires in bullet breaking speed. She was done before the clock reached 2. Glaring up at the guard, she silently shifted her weight so as to have a better angle at the access card hanging from the straining belt buckle.
"Better?" she asked.
"Humph, it is suitable, for now. You will report to the debriefing room for a conference with Director Renfro and X5-599." The guard turned and walked away never realizing that the small weight that the card had possessed on him had been removed from his bulging frame and now rested in Max's concealed palm. As the X5 walked away she slipped it into the compartments of her fatigue uniform. If one was to look closely a small smile played upon her lips as the dark corridor swallowed the soldier's slim frame. *****************************************************
Zach was always tense these days. Not as if he wasn't tense when he had been free, but small rooms and waiting for Max seemed to strengthen the emotion. He was in one of the many office rooms that were used for conferences between staff and transgenics. They were built with an invisible magnetism, which if turned on, would immediately throw the offending trasgenic into a seizure. Small and gray the only sign of the wealth of tax dollars that funded the corporation was a leather chair and specialized chains that hung from the chair. These chains were so far unbreakable to a transgenic's strength.
Zach's thoughts drifted away from the room to Max. Something that seemed to be constantly happening more and more often. It was hard to imagine the changes that she had undergone to satisfy Renfro and still secretly resist the effects of reindocrtrination. Since that night when she had undergone the neobromade infusion, Zach had helped her play tricks on her own mind so as to keep herself sane during the treatments that followed that first horrific night. Now Max was able to pass any lie detectors and trust issues that Renfro threw at her. Hopefully as Max gained the committees trust she would compile privileges and conveniences that would enable her to help him formulate a plan for escape. Always they thought of escape, a place away from the dreariness and torture of the manticorian life.
As for Zach, Manticore viewed him as dry ice. He had undergone so many experiments that had failed to change his ways of thinking, that Renfro had decided that he may not be totally useless and had made him into a archive of sorts, asking for information on former techniques that Lydecker had implied on the young soldiers. Zach wasn't complaining about his new position, it gave him time to keep his mind clear and to get his body to heal after the first night they came.
Finally the door opened and in walked Max with handcuffs on and Madame X leading the way. Max seemed calm enough, a little smile played on her lips and she sat down in the chair next to Zach. Her now waist length hair trailing down her back. She turned and gave him a light nod letting him now that she had gotten the access card.
" 452, I'm glad that you have progress so nicely, but I was hoping that you might have some effect of your brother." Said Renfro.
" I was to, Ma'am, but it seems that X5-599 has chosen to remain obstinate to my helpful suggestions," max pronounced faithfully acting all the much like a good little soldier girl.
" Well, there's always tomorrow, 452, for now I have decided that since you have been such a good actress lately that maybe you and your brother have not grasped what I can do to you both." She waited enjoying the beats of tension that reverberated through the room.
" I, I am not sure what you are implying Ma'am, I have been true and loyal to manticore theses past three months I have passed all the loyalty tests that you have asked me to. Ms. Renfro if there is anything that would make you believe where my loyalty lies name it and you will see that I am not acting," Max pleaded.
Zach thought that he might actually be having a heart attack, he could not physically prove it but from the way that his heart was pounding he was pretty sure that it would come out of his chest any second. This could mean Max's death; Zach had a flash back of the night of the escape when Max had fallen down seizing. They had escaped that night because she faced certain death if they were to stay. Now it seemed that they were in the same situation again, except this time they were in no position to run away. As if to remind Zach of the danger Renfro pushed the old neobromade box toward max.
" There might be something that you could do for us, Max, to prove your loyalty." "It would require a certain amount of, lets just say imagination on your part." Renfro was smiling again.
" I won't disappoint you Madame," said Max shakily.
" I would think not." Renfro pushed a folder toward Max and Zach. "There is a man in Seattle, a particularly annoying one in fact. He goes by the name Logan Cale." " Zach looked over at Max, her expression had not changed.
" What do you want us to do?" Her voice had steadied, there was no more emotion escaping her face.
" I want you to kill him, simply kill him, or we will use the last of the neobromade and get what information you have hidden in your mind, and if it kills you, so be it." Renfro sat back in her chair and grinned as a deafening silence filled the room.
Author: Drea
Summary: Post AJBAC, max and zach survived but were captured.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters and special thanx to my friend Laura for helping me post. Enjoy and please review cause a happy writer is a fast writer.! "Faster 452 if you don't get this drill down to 5 seconds your going to get very friendly with the taser." The drill sergeant stared down at her his lips curling over his teeth into a snarl as his rather pug like face bored down into hers.
Curling her own lips up to imitate the guard's face, Max straightened up and set the engine bomb device back on the table. Leaning over the table she waited for the seconds to start ticking and once the bomb hit 5 Max flew over the tiny device resetting wires in bullet breaking speed. She was done before the clock reached 2. Glaring up at the guard, she silently shifted her weight so as to have a better angle at the access card hanging from the straining belt buckle.
"Better?" she asked.
"Humph, it is suitable, for now. You will report to the debriefing room for a conference with Director Renfro and X5-599." The guard turned and walked away never realizing that the small weight that the card had possessed on him had been removed from his bulging frame and now rested in Max's concealed palm. As the X5 walked away she slipped it into the compartments of her fatigue uniform. If one was to look closely a small smile played upon her lips as the dark corridor swallowed the soldier's slim frame. *****************************************************
Zach was always tense these days. Not as if he wasn't tense when he had been free, but small rooms and waiting for Max seemed to strengthen the emotion. He was in one of the many office rooms that were used for conferences between staff and transgenics. They were built with an invisible magnetism, which if turned on, would immediately throw the offending trasgenic into a seizure. Small and gray the only sign of the wealth of tax dollars that funded the corporation was a leather chair and specialized chains that hung from the chair. These chains were so far unbreakable to a transgenic's strength.
Zach's thoughts drifted away from the room to Max. Something that seemed to be constantly happening more and more often. It was hard to imagine the changes that she had undergone to satisfy Renfro and still secretly resist the effects of reindocrtrination. Since that night when she had undergone the neobromade infusion, Zach had helped her play tricks on her own mind so as to keep herself sane during the treatments that followed that first horrific night. Now Max was able to pass any lie detectors and trust issues that Renfro threw at her. Hopefully as Max gained the committees trust she would compile privileges and conveniences that would enable her to help him formulate a plan for escape. Always they thought of escape, a place away from the dreariness and torture of the manticorian life.
As for Zach, Manticore viewed him as dry ice. He had undergone so many experiments that had failed to change his ways of thinking, that Renfro had decided that he may not be totally useless and had made him into a archive of sorts, asking for information on former techniques that Lydecker had implied on the young soldiers. Zach wasn't complaining about his new position, it gave him time to keep his mind clear and to get his body to heal after the first night they came.
Finally the door opened and in walked Max with handcuffs on and Madame X leading the way. Max seemed calm enough, a little smile played on her lips and she sat down in the chair next to Zach. Her now waist length hair trailing down her back. She turned and gave him a light nod letting him now that she had gotten the access card.
" 452, I'm glad that you have progress so nicely, but I was hoping that you might have some effect of your brother." Said Renfro.
" I was to, Ma'am, but it seems that X5-599 has chosen to remain obstinate to my helpful suggestions," max pronounced faithfully acting all the much like a good little soldier girl.
" Well, there's always tomorrow, 452, for now I have decided that since you have been such a good actress lately that maybe you and your brother have not grasped what I can do to you both." She waited enjoying the beats of tension that reverberated through the room.
" I, I am not sure what you are implying Ma'am, I have been true and loyal to manticore theses past three months I have passed all the loyalty tests that you have asked me to. Ms. Renfro if there is anything that would make you believe where my loyalty lies name it and you will see that I am not acting," Max pleaded.
Zach thought that he might actually be having a heart attack, he could not physically prove it but from the way that his heart was pounding he was pretty sure that it would come out of his chest any second. This could mean Max's death; Zach had a flash back of the night of the escape when Max had fallen down seizing. They had escaped that night because she faced certain death if they were to stay. Now it seemed that they were in the same situation again, except this time they were in no position to run away. As if to remind Zach of the danger Renfro pushed the old neobromade box toward max.
" There might be something that you could do for us, Max, to prove your loyalty." "It would require a certain amount of, lets just say imagination on your part." Renfro was smiling again.
" I won't disappoint you Madame," said Max shakily.
" I would think not." Renfro pushed a folder toward Max and Zach. "There is a man in Seattle, a particularly annoying one in fact. He goes by the name Logan Cale." " Zach looked over at Max, her expression had not changed.
" What do you want us to do?" Her voice had steadied, there was no more emotion escaping her face.
" I want you to kill him, simply kill him, or we will use the last of the neobromade and get what information you have hidden in your mind, and if it kills you, so be it." Renfro sat back in her chair and grinned as a deafening silence filled the room.