PART 7: Bored Now
"Come on Zack! Can't we leave now?" Krit wined at him for the hundredth time.
It was really beginning to get to Zack, the way everyone was acting. They'd been here for two weeks and everyone was getting restless. "Not yet. Give it some more time.
"More time?" Krit's eyes widened. "How much more time is needed? We've been here for two weeks and if we don't get out soon, I think I'm going to go insane. So will everyone else I think."
"You won't go insane Krit." Zack said rubbing his eyes. "We're mean to be able to handle under any circumstances."
"You're not at Manticore, Zack," Angela said from across the room. "You're in the real world now. Not everything is some Manticore game. Life isn't a game."
"It's an adventure," Max put in from across where she was sitting on the floor, throwing a tennis ball against the wall in her boredom.
Angela sighed and made her way to the door. "I'm going for a walk. I need to get out of here for a little while."
Zack jumped up and met her at the door. "No you're not. Lydecker's out there looking for is and you want to go out for a stroll! I don't think so." He stood in front of the door with his arms folded.
"You're not my CO Zack. You're not anyone's CO. You're here because you asked for our help. Well we gave it and now you owe us one. So let me go for a walk or I'll move you out of the way myself." When he just stood there, not planning on moving Angela git angry. "Fine have it your way." She lifted her arm in the air and the higher they went the higher Zack went. To get him out of the way of the door Angela moved him to the other side of the room. "No one stops me from doing something I want to do." She jerked the door open but did not go outside, because she had been stopped in her tracks by the figure standing there.
"I have a feeling I'll be able to stop you." Alec said smiling.
Angela gasped, starting to back away from the door and raise her hands. "No you don't." Alec said using his sped to grab your hands with one of his. "None of your mumbo jumbo." He motioned to the soldiers behind him and they all moved forward, surrounding the others.
"What did you do to Syl?" Krit demanded as one of the soldiers carried her in and lay her on the floor.
"Nothing for you to worry about." Alec said still holding Angela's hands. "She'll wake up when we get back to Manticore. When all of us get back to Manticore."
"I'm not going back there," Max, said moving into a fighting position. "You'll have to kill me first and I don't think that any of you are capable of doing that. None of you are strong enough."
Alec tilted his head. "An interesting suggestion, but we've been given our orders already. We're going to take you back alive. They were Lydecker's orders. However he didn't say that you had to be conscious."
Four people moved to surround Max, all in experienced fighting positions. Max recognised them as being other X5's. "Jace?" She said looking directly at one of the people, who was a friend when she was at Manticore.
"No time for family reunions. Get the under control." Alec told them. He turned to Angela who seemed to be just standing there in shock. Her eyes going between him and her friends. "Don't you have anything to say babe? I would think that you would after us being apart for so long." He turned her around bringing her hands behind her back and handcuffing them. "All better now." He said turning her around and kissing her on the forehead.
Angela jerked away and started struggling. She used all of her strength pulling on the handcuffs, knowing deep down that it wouldn't work, but trying it anyway. She was pulling on them so hard that they split her skin and blood ran down her hand in a sticky trail.
Alec saw it and clicked his tongue. "Baby, you're hurting yourself." He held her hands together so she couldn't move them and placed some cloth between the cuffs and her skin. "Now you can't hurt yourself." He drew her into his arms and hugged her. He ignored the fighting that was going on around them. Instead preferring to focus on the woman in his arms.
Angela struggled against Alec's arms holding her, but he was too strong. She turned her head so it wasn't buried in his chest and yelled out to her friends. "Max! Zack! Help me please!" She knew that they were fighting and needed to concentrate, but she had to get away from Alec.
Zack's head jerked around when he heard Angela yell, momentarily distracted he almost didn't move in time to avoid someone's fist. He made quick work of the people he was fighting and ran towards Angela. He didn't like the way Alec was holding her, like she was his. Well she wasn't and Zack was going t get her away from him.
When he was about ten feet away from them Alec looked him directly in the eyes and pulled out a taser gun. Without blinking, he shot Zack in the chest.
Zack fell to the ground gasping. Pain was all that he could feel. It hurt worse than being shot. He felt the world going dark around him, but he tried to fight it. He could and he felt him limbs start to go slack as his vision went black. Before he lost consciousness he felt someone tying up his arms and legs. "Last one." Were the last words he heard before surrendering to the black.
"Zack!" Angela cried trying to pull away from Alec as he put the gun back in his pocket. "You shot him, you bastard!"
"Calm down baby," Alec said stroking her hair. "Get them in the car." He told the other X5's. "I want to be out of this dumb ASAP." He started to pull Angela towards some cars lined up outside the warehouse.
Angela struggled and managed to move away far enough to kick Alec in the shin. Hard. She turned and started to run back into the warehouse, but was stopped by another male X5, who picked her up and took her back to Alec.
"Good work X5-156," Alec rubbed his shin and winced. He took Angela from him and threw her over his shoulder. "Still got those strong legs I see." He said hitting her on the bottom when she struggled. He walked out to the dark cars and climbed in the back seat. He placed Angela in one of the seat and did up the seatbelt. "Can't have you flying through a window now can we?" He shut the door and sat down, not putting on a seatbelt himself. "Let's go." He told to the driver.
Angela sat back in her seat trying to move her hands without being noticed. If she could just get them to the front of her body, she could use her powers. She wasn't paying attention to anyone else so she didn't notice Alec preparing a needle. She did, however notice when he injected it into her arm. "Hey!" She said jerking back, but it was too late, Alec was finished injecting the liquid into hr arm.
"Sorry I have to do this baby, but it'll be easier on you if you sleep through out little trip. He placed her head in his should he held it there when she tried to pull away.
She tried, she really did try to pull away from Alec, but she was so tired. She drifted off to sleep, her last thought wondering what would happen to her and the others.
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Angela woke up just as they were pulling into the gates of Manticore. Her head was still resting on Alec's shoulder. She stayed very still; hoping that Alec and the others hadn't noticed that she was awake.
"Where do you want me to put the rogue X5's sir?" A dark voice said from outside the car.
"Put them in the holding cells and then report to Col. Lydecker to further orders." Alec got out of the car, taking Angela with him. "I know you're away." He said as they walked into one of the buildings. "You've never been able to pretend around me."
Angela started struggling violently, but Ale held her easily. She gave up after a few minutes when it was obvious that he wasn't going to let her go. "What am I doing here Alec?"
"You know the answer to that."
"I guess I just want to hear you say it."
"You're here because I want you to be here, for me. And Lydecker wants you here for other purposes."
"So where are e going now?"
"To see Lydecker."
"You always were a man of many words weren't you." Angela said sarcastically. "I can walk you know."
"I'm aware of that Angela, but at the moment I want to hold you. I always liked holding you, and if I recall, you like it too. Now is that too much to ask?"
"It is as a matter of fact." She sighed. "You know this is one of the reasons we broke up."
Alec stopped. "You broke up with me because I liked to hold you?"
Angela shook her head. "Not that, you were too controlling, too possessive. Look I don't think this is the place to be having this conversation."
Alec resumed walking "You're right, we'll have it somewhere else later. When Lydecker finishes with you we're going to talk about what happened between us."
"No we're not."
"Yes we are." Alec argued. He stopped in front of a large door and knocked. He opened the door when they were bid entry. When they entered Alec put Angela's feet on the ground and released her. He stood at attention and saluted. "Reporting in sir."
"Was the capture successful X5-494?"
"Yes sir it was. We captured all nine rogue X5's with minimal difficulties. They were very surprised to see us sir."
"I'm sure they were soldier." Lydecker went and stood in front of Angela. "This is the subject you failed to capture the first time." He looked her up and down and smiled, he had a very pleased look on his face.
"Yes sir." Alec's jaw was rigid.
"She doesn't seem like a challenge soldier. What was the problem again?"
"Circumstances forced me to pull out of the assignment. I explained all of this in my report, sir."
"Yes you did soldier." He looked Angela in the eye. "So you're the girl that has stirred so much interest in the ranks." He looked her up and down. "For what you seem capable of you're not very big. If I had never seen you before this moment, I would assume you were taller."
"Sorry to disappoint," Angela said sarcastically. His remark about seeing her before disturbed Angela a bit. How long had they been watching her? "Why am I here?" Angela demanded, knowing that if she showed any weakness, Lydecker would use it against her.
"You're a very unique person." Lydecker started to explain. "Our scientists want to find out more about you. What your power is capable of."
"What power?" Angela asked frowning. She wasn't sure how much they knew about her gift, but she wasn't going to hand out any information.
"Don't play dumb with us. We know about your telekinesis. We know more about you than you do. We made your father in hopes that he would have the power you have. When it was evident that he wasn't going to develop them., the scientists worked out that even though he had the potential, he wouldn't receive the power. His offspring would. So we brought in a female and he impregnated her. We monitored her progress along with those of the baby X5's that had been born not long before. The higher powers decided that your power mixed with that of a X5 would be unstoppable. So at a very young age you were paired of with X5-494, who you know as Alec." Lydecker walked over to his window and looked out. "It was going to be brilliant, but we ran into one problem. Your mother ran away with you just after your birth. We don't know how she did it, she was extremely weak from the birth, but she vanished, disappeared.
"It wasn't 'till a few years ago that we found you. It was decided not to bring you in right away, but to put you and Alec together and see what developed." He looked at Alec reproachfully. "But when the mission was unsuccessful, we decided to take a different approach."
"But why did you wait this long?" Angela asked a bit unnerved at the fact that she had just found out how she had got her powers. And that she had been made. Not made in the way as the others, but similar. It made her flesh creep. "Alec and I broke up months ago. Why wait until now to do something?"
"Because we found the rogue X5's. We thought it would be easier to get them all at once. Rather than having to go around the country for them. Sort of like getting two birds with one stone.
Angela shook her head. "Why couldn't you just leave them alone? They weren't doing anything to expose you. Why not just let them live out their lives?"
"I could not allow any breach of protocol. What they did was inexcusable and they will be dealt with accordingly. As for you, Alec will take you to the labs and you will beā¦changed. All for the better I am sure." Lydecker said smiling. "You're dismissed soldier."
Angela's eyes widened and shr turned to run out the door, but Alec grabbed her arm before she got three feet away from him. "Look, you don't have to do this." She looked at Lydecker, panicked. "I'll do whatever you want, okay? Just please don't do this."
"It'll be okay." Alec whispered softly in her ear and stroked her hair. "You won't even know what happened afterwards. You'll just remember all the important things. You're loyalty to Manticore and me." He grinned. "What could be better than that?"
"My freedom." She looked at Alec, pleading. "Alec please, if you have any feelings for me at all, then get me out of here."
"I'm doing this because of my feelings for you." Alec said softly, leading her out the door. "It's going to be great. You'll see."
"Tell the doctors to proceed without me X5." Lydecker said. "I have some other business yo attend to first."
"Yes sir." Alec responded saluting and took Angela to one of the labs.
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Lydecker walked down the halls of Manticore, barely able to contain his excitement. After ten years he had finally found and brought them back. He nodded to the guard standing at the door. The large steel door was opened and Lydecker entered, looking into the ten individual cells. Nine of the were occupied."
"Lydecker," Max hissed. "How did you find us?"
"That is none of your concern soldier." He responded. "You should be concerned about what I am going to do to you. You all escaped, ran away. That caused major concerns with the people of Manticore. Now that we have you back, you will be dealt with accordingly.
"What do you mean accordingly?" Jondy asked.
"Your minds will be altered to the proper way of thinking. Eventually, that is. While you wait, make yourselves comfortable, you might be here for a while." He turned and walked out of the room, leaving them there in shocked silence.
