Dressed in black the two figures stood among the ruins of once was the
great Manticore. A few months ago they had gotten ride of Manticore for
good. They kicked around the charred remains hoping that anything was
salvageable.
A brief smile passed Logan's lips as the irony of the situation seeped into his brain. The place that they had demolished assumingly able solve most of their problems seemed to be the one place that had the key to save him.
"There is nothing here, Logan. We did our job well when we blew this shit hole up." Alec said. Logan looked at the ground with bafflement etched on his face. He bent down and swept away some rubble to reveal a steel door in the ground. Logan looked up at Alec.
"Looks like we didn't do as well a job as we thought." He went back to studying to door like safe. The lock on it looked positively unfeasible to open. Logan studied a bit longer than drew back his arm. With a swiftly executed blow his hand beat the steel and managed a huge dent. A second clout and his hand went straight through. He pulled back his bloodied hand and shook it out while peering into the hole. Logan reached in the hole with his good hand and pulled the latch from the inside, which opened the door.
Alec crouched beside Logan and looked into the compartment, which was no deeper than 24 inches deep. Inside was nothing.
"Someone has already been here." Alec commented. "Came to pick up whatever important information was kept in here and got the hell out of here."
"That's bad news." Logan said. " Means that not only have we not found anything about my little problem but it means Manticore information is loose and undoubtedly in abusive hands." Alec shook his head despondently.
"Just when we thought the crisis was over."
"Eye of the storm right?" Logan said while pulling out his cell phone. "I'm going to have to talk to Max about this."
Logan called Max where he had her agree to come to his apartment and him and Alec parted ways.
LOGAN'S APARTMENT
"Hey there stranger." Max got up from the couch she was lounging on and went over to Logan and promptly gave him a kiss. Logan smiled wryly then it faded.
"We need to talk." Max took on a nervous edge at that.
"What is it?" She tried to act casual about it but the way he looked and the way his voice sounded definitely did not lead to hugs and bunnies. He led them over to the couch.
"A few months ago when we blew up Manticore and we were in the basement with Renfro." Logan had a hard time getting this out. "When I started to freak out and Alec had to put me down? I told you about the trigger effect after that and it didn't seem it would be a problem again." Logan paused.
"But." Max encouraged him on.
"But apparently it seems to have a time limit. Like a timer is counting down before I go into complete meltdown and everything I was meant to do would kick in, like a machine turning on."
"Like a genetically revved up killing machine." Max finished for him. He slowly nodded his head as his gaze averted to the ground. A long silence filled the room.
"It doesn't end there however." Max looked up at him. "I went back with Alec tonight to see if anything might be of use but we thoroughly demolished the place. Nevertheless something was left. There was a steel compartment in the ground and when we opened it up" Max glanced at his hand that was wrapped up but stained with blood, "it was apparent, information was removed from it. In other words someone probably has key information to launch a new Manticore."
Max had a swell of anger at the fact he told Alec before he told her about what was happening but she let it go because there were other things she had to deal with now.
SPACE NEEDLE
My life isn't complicated at all. Oh heck my boyfriend could snap and kill my and everyone involved with Manticore at any second, the place that made me and kept me from living a life wasn't completely destroyed and would probably start hunting for me and Logan to remove the threat but people had problems worse than mine. ... Right?
A/N Yeah does this storyline suck? Hmmm. Anyways still working on this monster fic. Anyone like the Kendra Zack scenes or did I bite the big one? Anyways I know I made Alec a bit buddy buddy in this and I didn't give him too good of a justification for helping Logan in the other fic but I'm just a writer, a novice at that and I'm working on it. Anyways R&R cause I'm like a junky for reviews. Say whatever suites your fancy even if it doesn't concern the story.
A brief smile passed Logan's lips as the irony of the situation seeped into his brain. The place that they had demolished assumingly able solve most of their problems seemed to be the one place that had the key to save him.
"There is nothing here, Logan. We did our job well when we blew this shit hole up." Alec said. Logan looked at the ground with bafflement etched on his face. He bent down and swept away some rubble to reveal a steel door in the ground. Logan looked up at Alec.
"Looks like we didn't do as well a job as we thought." He went back to studying to door like safe. The lock on it looked positively unfeasible to open. Logan studied a bit longer than drew back his arm. With a swiftly executed blow his hand beat the steel and managed a huge dent. A second clout and his hand went straight through. He pulled back his bloodied hand and shook it out while peering into the hole. Logan reached in the hole with his good hand and pulled the latch from the inside, which opened the door.
Alec crouched beside Logan and looked into the compartment, which was no deeper than 24 inches deep. Inside was nothing.
"Someone has already been here." Alec commented. "Came to pick up whatever important information was kept in here and got the hell out of here."
"That's bad news." Logan said. " Means that not only have we not found anything about my little problem but it means Manticore information is loose and undoubtedly in abusive hands." Alec shook his head despondently.
"Just when we thought the crisis was over."
"Eye of the storm right?" Logan said while pulling out his cell phone. "I'm going to have to talk to Max about this."
Logan called Max where he had her agree to come to his apartment and him and Alec parted ways.
LOGAN'S APARTMENT
"Hey there stranger." Max got up from the couch she was lounging on and went over to Logan and promptly gave him a kiss. Logan smiled wryly then it faded.
"We need to talk." Max took on a nervous edge at that.
"What is it?" She tried to act casual about it but the way he looked and the way his voice sounded definitely did not lead to hugs and bunnies. He led them over to the couch.
"A few months ago when we blew up Manticore and we were in the basement with Renfro." Logan had a hard time getting this out. "When I started to freak out and Alec had to put me down? I told you about the trigger effect after that and it didn't seem it would be a problem again." Logan paused.
"But." Max encouraged him on.
"But apparently it seems to have a time limit. Like a timer is counting down before I go into complete meltdown and everything I was meant to do would kick in, like a machine turning on."
"Like a genetically revved up killing machine." Max finished for him. He slowly nodded his head as his gaze averted to the ground. A long silence filled the room.
"It doesn't end there however." Max looked up at him. "I went back with Alec tonight to see if anything might be of use but we thoroughly demolished the place. Nevertheless something was left. There was a steel compartment in the ground and when we opened it up" Max glanced at his hand that was wrapped up but stained with blood, "it was apparent, information was removed from it. In other words someone probably has key information to launch a new Manticore."
Max had a swell of anger at the fact he told Alec before he told her about what was happening but she let it go because there were other things she had to deal with now.
SPACE NEEDLE
My life isn't complicated at all. Oh heck my boyfriend could snap and kill my and everyone involved with Manticore at any second, the place that made me and kept me from living a life wasn't completely destroyed and would probably start hunting for me and Logan to remove the threat but people had problems worse than mine. ... Right?
A/N Yeah does this storyline suck? Hmmm. Anyways still working on this monster fic. Anyone like the Kendra Zack scenes or did I bite the big one? Anyways I know I made Alec a bit buddy buddy in this and I didn't give him too good of a justification for helping Logan in the other fic but I'm just a writer, a novice at that and I'm working on it. Anyways R&R cause I'm like a junky for reviews. Say whatever suites your fancy even if it doesn't concern the story.