Fallen Angel
Part One - Terminal City
Chapter One - Just Another Day
"What do you mean no?" Logan demands of officer in charge Frank McNeill. "We have people inside who need medical assistance, not to mention food and water."
"I'm sorry Mr. Cale, but the Chief says the nothing and no one goes into or comes out of Terminal City."
"Yeah well we'll see about that" Logan snarls.
McNeill pulls his gun, "Mr. Cale I'll have to ask you to step away from the barricade," he raises his gun to chest level, "Now."
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"So, any luck on the front lines?" Max asks, jogging over to Logan.
"Does this look like my happy face?"
"Jeez, chill Logan. I could have told you the sector police wouldn't care."
"You know what Max, spare me the lecture."
Max stares at Logan as he walks off. What was with him lately?
"Hey Maxie, you and Virus Boy have a fight?"
Max just rolls her eyes. Could this day get any worse.
"Alec, don't you have something to steal or someone else to piss off?"
Alec smirked, "Nope. It's your lucky day."
"Yea me." Max sighs, looking out over the trash can fires and scavenging for supplies going on all over Terminal City.
"Hey Max, is everything alright?" Alec asks with concern, "Cause' you know I didn't mean anything with that whole 'Virus Boy' thing."
"What are we doing here Alec?"
"I don't follow."
"What are we doing here, why are we here?" Max demands, waving to the scene below to emphasize her point.
"We're surviving Max. Right now we don't have anything else to do."
"Yeah well it's not good enough."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't think we're gonna make it out of this one Alec. I'm scared."
Alec sighs, wrapping his arms around Max. Everyone has such high expectations of Max and sometimes even he forgets how hard things must be on her.
"We'll make it Max. We have to."
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"Max!"
Max turns in Alec's arms. "Joshua?"
Joshua runs over, panting and making a lot of unintelligible grunts.
"Whoa, easy there buddy, what's got your tail wagging?" Alec quips.
Max smacks Alec and turns to Joshua. "Hey, it's alright. Tell me what's wrong."
"Hel.." Joshua tries
"Helio.." he tries again
"Helicopter" he finally manages to blurt.
Max and Alec are instantly on the ready. "Where?" Max asks already moving.
"Over the red roof on the north side." Joshua says, pointing in the general direction of north.
Alec calls out to the group below and follows Max onto the roof.
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Meanwhile aboard the helicopter:
"I don't think this is a good idea." he says, struggling with the large bags.
"Noted. Now get your genetically engineered ass down there." snaps the pilot.
"Yes Ma'am."
Suddenly shots are fired and the helicopter drops and starts to spin out. The pilot jerks frantically on the consol, but the chopper is going down.
" We're under fire, repeat, we are under fire."
A voice crackles through the damaged com unit. "Understood. Continue with your mission."
"Aye sir." the pilot responds.
"You heard the man soldier, abandon ship."she says, turning to her partner.
The dark man nods and leaps effortlessly onto the nearest rooftop. The pilot tosses the bags down to him and prepares to jump.
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Gunfire splits the silence as Max and Alec race to the roof.
"Are we under attack?" Alec asks
Max looks around. There, off to the side was a small sector police battalion.
"They're shooting the chopper down" Max shouts as she runs ahead
Alec just shakes his head and follows.
"What the hell is that?" Alec questions aloud, seeing the dark man land without flinching.
"Well he ain't the Easter Bunny" Max quips, moving forward.
Alec grabs her arm, "We don't know if he's friendly or not. Careful Maxie."
As Max turns toward the dark man, the chopper explodes in a furious rain of fire and metal. Alec lunges forward throwing Max down and shielding her from the falling debris. As they look up they see someone falling from the wreckage. The dark man moves to catch his companion just as Alec's back-up arrives. Fully armed.
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"Don't shoot!" Max shouts, moving to put herself between the dark man and over a dozen guns. "He's on our side"
"We hope" Alec muttered as he moved to support Max.
The dark man is ignoring all this. His only focus is the limp and bloody person in his arms.
"Who are you and what the hell are you doing here?" Max demands.
The dark man simply snarles at her before laying his companion down.
"Is he alive?" Alec asks
The dark man only grunts at Alec, "You help."
Alec shrugs and moves to take head gear off. "Hey Max, wanna lend a hand here? We've got a wounded soldier."
Max moves to support the neck for Alec to remove the helmet and face gear.
A tumble of hair the colour of fresh minted pennies spills across Alec's lap.
"Oh God" Alec gasps "Lily?"
