The Reality (chapter 7)

The Reality (chapter 7)

" Is that what we were created for, to kill?"

" Pretty much! You know the Perfect Soldiers, show no emotion, no fear just do the kill. No questions asked."

"But, why?, why impregnated mothers, and then wait 18 years to recapture us? Doesn't that defy the whole no emotion, no questions point?"

" Ya, I guess, but from what I gathered when I was in there, was that they were still in the process of testing us, when we were produced, they then realized that the effects will only kick in, 18 years after, and at that point they really did not have the facilities to keep us, but I do know that they did take a baby from every group, to test on and research why it took so long for the DNA to take place in our blood."

"Do you know who the baby was?"

"Yeah,…. me!" Logan immediately turned around

"What? You told me that they captured you 2 years ago and you escaped 2 months later!" Zack turned to Logan

"Ya, well, I never knew anybody, and was never really out in the real world, and I did not trust you." Logan just looked shocked. Then it occurred to me why Zack acted the way he did, he never had a childhood, never knew the meaning of life, never had any friends or ever felt love. Apart of me felt so bad for him, we all had our freedom, well at least for the past 18 years but he never felt what it was like to be free. I felt for him, and felt bad about the way I treated him before.

" Zack, you mean you were in there all this time? What did they do to you?" He turned and faced me, and he looked mad.

" What the hell do you think they did to me, Max?, offer me cookies and a glass of milk before I went to bed?. I was their lab rat, their experiment, they took tests, and tests and tests. All I was, was another 'genetically engineered experiment'." He broke down, he didn't cry, he just stopped talking and looked down. I walked up to him, not knowing what to do, I hesitated, but then put my hand on his shoulder. He looked up at me, and pulled me towards him and hugged me.

"Max, all my life I was in there, all I thought about was getting out, and finding the rest of you. Because I knew that as soon as you turned 18 they would find you and do to you what they have been doing to me, and I promised myself I would not let that happen. You'all are the closet things I have to a family. And when I escaped that day I KNEW I had to find all of you and protect you." He let me go, and I looked him in the eyes. I saw sadness, but I also saw hope, hope for the rest of us, hope that we would never have to go through what he had to. I felt admiration towards him and I felt like I'd have known him my whole life.

Logan broke the silence.

" So, how did you know where everyone was, to contact them?

"Easy, I just stole all the files I needed before I escaped. There were others who tried to escape with me, I never knew if they made it or not, we split up, Manticore training, did them a whole a lot of good" and he smiles to himself.

" I thought you said that you were the only one from our group taken?"

"Yeah, from our group, but there were ones before us, and after us. Twelve that I knew of. They were the only ones, besides you guys that kept me going. Each one of us, took the files on our group before we escaped, to help us track down the others in our group to warn them about Manticore, I just hope they made it. It did not take me long to track you down, but it wasn't like I could go up to them and just explain who I was and what they were, so with everyone I spent about two or three months with them and I also put my 18 years of Manticore training to the test. However when I came to your name or who I thought you were, I found out that she was found dead in a gutter, somewhere, it really got me mad, and I blamed myself for her death, then I find Logan snooping around, and I thought it was one of Lydecker's men, but then Logan said he knew how to find the X5 that was missing, then he filled me in about your mix up and all, that was about 2 or 3 months back."

"So where are they now? The rest of the X5?

" I told them to spread out, they are located around the world, this why I thought it would be better as Lydecker would have a harder time finding us. And I am afraid I cannot tell you exactly where they are, as I will be putting them in danger!"

" Are you saying I cannot be trusted?"

" No, I am saying that Lydecker has ways of making people talk, torturous ways, trust me I know!. So I think everyone will be better of if I keep the locations to myself. There are ways they made you talk, Max, dangerous ways, they brainwash you, and then you see things……things that you think are there but they aren't. There were stories of what they were going to do to us, before we escaped, that's one of the reasons we escaped the night we did, because the next day they were going to teach us some serious lessons, mind lessons. They were going to brainwash us, and then make us help aid with your capture. There was one of us, that did not manage to escape, we didn't see him for a week, he was an X3. We presumed they had got to him, and we were too late to help him."

"Sick Bastards!, what the fuck is the world coming to?" I did not know what to feel, just last week my greatest worry was what to have for dinner, but now….OH God, there are men after me, actual people who want me in a cage so they can experiment on me. " Who the hell, gives them the right to do this to us?". I sat down, I could not understand. Why people would want to do this to another human being?, all this for what? The ultimate fighting machine?, the best solider?, the perfect 'killing machine'?. OH God I felt sick.

N/A : WELL WHAT DA YA THINK? THIS IS NOT WHERE I ORIGINALLY WANTED TO GO, BUT I KINDA LIKE IT, OK SO I DIDN'T WANT TO SHOW ZACK CRY OR ANYTHING, CAUSE I FELT AFTER 18+ YEARS AT MANTICORE, HE WOULD NOT BE VERY EMOTIONAL.

N/A: FINALY OK HOW ABOUT THAT ZACK LOVERS?DID YA LIKE IT? THIS WAS ONE OF MY IDEAS FOR THIS STORY, I DO HAVE ANOTHER ONE, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS ONE TELL ME AND I JUST MIGHT WRITE THE OTHER IDEA I HAD INSTEAD. BUT PLEASE SAY YOU LIKE IT CAUSE IT TOOK ME FOREVER TO WRITE IT, AS I ORIGINALLY WROTE IT AS ONE BIG CHAPTER (6 AND 7)

PS: IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS WHOLE INTERACTIVE THING, JUST TELL ME AND I WILL GO BACK TO JUST WRITING.J how the hell do you spell zack is it with a H or K at the end?