Disclaimer: DA belongs to James Cameron, Charles Eglee, Fox, etc. I only own Suki and Sun. Well, I don't even own Sun, she's Babe's character… but Suki is mine!

A/N1: I kinda changed Mole's character a bit, I made him a bit nicer =)

CHAPTER 12: Terminal City

November 21st, 2021. 14.30h

Terminal City

Suki followed Sun through the lifeless streets of Terminal City. She felt the presence of other people, transgenics but she couldn't see any.

"Why are they hiding?", she finally asked.

"Who? The transhumans you mean?", Sun answered.

"There are transhumans here?", Suki asked back. She had heard a lot of these creatures, half animal and half human but she had never actually seen one of them. Back at Manticore, the guards would threaten them to put them to the transhumans if they weren't obeying orders. And she remembered the terrible fear they all had. But nothing of that seemed to be left, referring to Sun's behavior.

"Sure. There are more of them here than X series", Sun told her, "the X series try to make it out there, the transhumans can't. Even here, they're hiding. They seem to be afraid of us as we look like humans. But not all of them are like that. Some of them are co-operating with us X series. I'll take you to our HQ, you'll see some of them there." Sun looked over at Suki and saw her slightly frightened look. "Don't tell me you're still afraid of them?", she asked her sister.

Suki was surprised. "So, they're not dangerous and wild like animals?"

"No, they're not", Sun rolled her eyes, "actually, they're quite okay."

Suki just nodded in response. She hoped that the other transgenics had answers to at least some of her many questions.

Five minutes later the two girls arrived at what seemed like an old warehouse or a factory building. Sun pushed some garbage aside and opened a heavy door made of iron.

"Welcome to Terminal City HQ", Sun announced.

Suki was quite surprised when she stepped inside the large building. There were at least 100 transgenics, most of them X series but also some transhumans. They all seemed to be busy working, they even had computers. Suki wondered where they got the electricity, but Sun didn't give her too much time to wonder about things.

"Hey Mole!", Sun shouted over the room and waved at a lizard-like looking transhuman, "let me introduce you to someone."

The guy walked over to them and critically looked at Suki. "Another X6… Don't you guys think that we have already enough of here?", he said and grinned.

"Very funny", Sun answered, "but Suki isn't gonna stay here. She's living outside. She's just here to… let's call it get some gossip."

November 21st, 2021. 14.10h

White's office

Ames White paced around in his office furiously. "What do you mean you've lost her?!", he shouted at one of his employees.

"I can't hear anything. She must be somewhere where our systems don't work…", the man tried to defend himself.

"Our systems work everywhere! There is no place where they don't work! You've messed something up!"

White had no idea that the electronics weren't working due to the radiation in Terminal City.

November, 21st, 2021. 20.00h

Max' and OC's apartment

Max woke up and found herself lying in her bed. She couldn't remember how she'd gotten there. She figured she'd fallen asleep and Alec had carried her into her bedroom. But Alec was probably not there anymore. She looked at the watch, 20.02h. She'd slept for over 10 hours. Then she heard that the TV was switched on. Maybe Alec's still here.

Max decided to get up and get something to drink. Her headache was better now, at least she wasn't dizzy anymore. Her foot wasn't aching at all, Max even forgot that her ankle was sprained. So she got out of the bed quickly, but when her foot touched the ground, she remembered her sprained ankle painfully. She immediately sat down on her bed again.

"Cindy?", she called out into the apartment, "are you at home?"

The door opened and Alec came into the room. "To answer your question: No, OC's not here. She wanted to stay but I told her to go. She's on a date with that girl… what was her name again?"

"Jennifer."

"Right. So, how are you? Feeling better?"

"Yeah, I'm better", Max said and smiled at Alec, "thanks."

"Thanks for what?"

"For staying here."

"Oh, that's no big deal. I didn't have anything to do tonight anyway", Alec said.

"Yeah, right. I should've known it. If you wanted to go out tonight you would've gone and OC would be here", Max said ironically.

"Exactly", Alec answered grinning, "so, wanna get up and watch TV with me? I rented some videos yesterday…"

Max nodded. "Okay. I've been in this bed long enough anyway."

A/N2: That was a fast upload wasn't it? Tell me what you think about this.