Zero was watching Sean sleep when Max found her. She shot her a smile as she came up to Max's side at the door. "What can you tell me about Sean?" Max asked her, as they looked at the boy. It was just then that Alec joined them and shot her a smile.

"He's my son," Zero said, as she turned her back away from him and she wrapped her arms around her waist. "They thought that the only good thing to come from me was that I could give birth to X-series children. Father made it so that I wasn't trained as a solider or anything that would cause me harm. But I did train, with some of them." Tears soon began to fall down her face. "They strapped me down and implanted DNA from an X-5 into me. I never meet him. Sean was my second child. They took my first child away. It was a little girl. From what I heard, she died." Zero then began so shiver from the cold and she looked back at Sean.

"I'm sorry," Alec said, as he slipped out of his coat and handed it to her, which she put on. "Manticore did a lot of horrible things. It took my meeting with Max to realize how right she was about it."

"Father did warn me about the Coming."

"Really?"

"Yes. He told me to protect my son and watch out for Ames and his Familars. They would be the end of the human race."

"We will not allow that to happen."

"I know." She then turned to face Sean and looked back at them. "You're wondering what I am. I can't be an X-5 because I have no bar code. I'm not a X-series. I was genetically enhanced while in my mother. I was sick, and Father made it so that I would live. I can do almost everything that an X-5 can, just not made like them."

"Right," Alec said, as he went to look out the window. "How are you related to White?"

"He's my brother."

"What?" Both Max and Alec turned to look at her with shocked looks on their faces. "Say again."

"Ames White is my older brother."

"This can't be good," Alec mumbled, as he leaned back against the wall and looked from Max to Zero and back to Max. "I thought he only had a brother."

That got Zero to smile. "You meet CJ. CJ was the best kind of brother you liked. He wasn't like Ames in any way. He treated me like a sister, and not like a freak." Max then frowned, and Zero shrugged her shoulders. "I'm not one of White's stupid Familars. Father trained me so that I could fight them."

"That's how you took on White," Max said, as she spun around to face Alec. "She threw him back like ten feet."

"I know. I was there too."

"We have trouble," Zero said, as she walked over to the window and looked out. "Ames is here."

"What?"

"We have to go." Zero blurred into the room and took up Sean in her arms.

TO BE CONTINUED

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