Then comes anger (4)
" You mean WHAT I really am! Right?. You think I am some screwed up lab experiment! So tell me, what the hell do you get out of this, huh? What, a big scoop on the government's cover-ups, a Pulitzer prize? What?" I was so pissed, how dare this bastard, come to me and tell me this! All he wants is the publicity, my life was fine before him, fuck him! Fuck, fucking him!
"No, It is nothing like that. I am not in this for the money, or any other reason, OK? All I want is the truth."
" Why the fuck, shall I believe you? How do I know that after this, you won't just go and tell everybody, or better yet go to THEM, and sell me out." He was getting angry, his jaw kept twitching and his eyes were cold as ice.
" Because I saved your fucking ass, and nearly got mine killed."
"What?'
"Ya, well that's me, fight the downtrodden, blah blah woof woof, save your ass all in a day's work." I just looked at him, every single tensed muscle in my body relaxed, and I felt so..so ..bad.
" I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…I'm sorry. What happened?"
" Well, when I was doing my research on the names on the list, all the information I found were the same except for that one girl, that's when I knew something was wrong, so that's when I cross-referenced, the names and came up with your file. It was not very hard to see the mistake they made. I knew what they were going to do to you if they ever found you, I mean look what they did to that girl who was supposed to be you. They probably would put you in a cage and run tests on you, and god knows what else. So right then and there, I deleted any sort of record that you were ever born there. I just hope I wasn't too late. I'm sure they would have realized, by now that someone screwed up, and are looking for any more babies born that very day. Unfortunately, for my bad luck, the hospital, which does not have a lot of funding for the care of it's patients, has enough money to buy an excellent computer security system, which just happens to trace any, lets just say unauthorized access and patch it to a computer system for a government agency. But luckily I was fast enough to delete your file and get the hell out of there, before they could trace me, or detect the deleted file,….. I hope" I stood, amazed that someone would go through all that for a complete stranger, why would he risk his life for me. Why would he do it?
" Why?, why would you go through with it, for someone you don't even know. You risked your life for me. I mean if they DID trace you, they would have killed you."
" I know, but that was a risk I was willing to take. And I have been trying to track you down, you know you a very hard person to find. First after I a month of looking for you, I realize that you go by the name of Max, and not your birth name. Then I find out that you left the county when you twelve, so then I trace you here, and then after another two weeks of hacking into the computers of immigration, and tax and numerous others computer bases I finally found you." With a big smile at the end. I smile back and he continues
" I managed to make a copy of your file before I deleted it, but it doesn't say anything that you already don't know. But then I looked up the file of the other girl, and it has records of all the DNA and other traits they have implanted in you, until of course I discovered that they have been testing on others. Most of the characteristics are all the same with the names on the list, , you see, you are apart of the same DNA range with those in your group, also known as X5. So everyone on this list will have similar …abilities , But there are others, before you and after, it's like they are improving their research with every new …group. So this means that with every single group they wait until their body has started to show the effects then they capture them, I'm guessing that they find out the anomalies with the group and the next time they improve on it. It is Kinda like a sick game of tried and tested. Only much more deadly". I stare at him in disbelief , how could anyone play with a life like that, it's like all we are guinea pigs, lab rats, they use us and then they get rid of us.
After 20 questions, from me. I gather that he was indeed trying to save me, I mean he risked his life for me, I owe him. BIG. We continue to talk and he tells me what he has learned, all the 411 on X5, and the guy who is supposed to find the rest of us, some army brat called Lydecker. Logan warns me about him, and also tells me some of the stories from the family members of the X5s' who have gone missing. He says that they just vanish over night. However he did tell me that there are seven names from X5, that he know of ,who he has not been able to trace, he is pretty sure they are in hiding. But then something occurs to me, how the hell do they know that they genetically engineered. I didn't have a clue so how did they know.
" So how did they find out?, I mean it is not everyday, you get up in the morning and have an epiphany that you are genitally engineered."
"Well, at first I don't think they did realize, but soon their…abilities became more and more apparent, to them. And they probably didn't know all the details, but they definitely knew something was up. And they got scared and ran or so I think. But, there is one file case which interested me. Two years ago, the first X5 was caught, now in the file it does not say much about him except he was in their captive for 2 months , before he managed to escape. Not before finding out the truth, though. I don't know much about this guy, apart from the fact that he is impossible to find, my informant told me that this guy, Lydecker, has been trying to recapture him for the past year, but they never seem to find him. And all I know about him, is his name"
"Well, what is it?"
" um….I can't remember there are so many names on the list, oh , um…I think it's Ben. Yup, Ben."
N/A : WELL I KNOW WHO YOUR'ALL, WANTED IT TO BE, ! HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PLOT SO FAR, I KNOW I HAVE TO GET ON WITH IT, BUT I'M NOT LIKE THAT, I LIKE EXPAINING THINGS TO THE FULL. AND ALL YOU ZACK LOVERS OUT THERE, ….YOU NEVER KNOW, YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE!
