Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Dark Angel characters. They belong to James Cameron, Charles Eglee, and Fox. But Benjamin, Mackenzie, and any other characters you are not familiar with are mine. Don't own the movies mentioned either.
AN: So here is the next chapter. Only two left after this. So sad to see it end. Buy anyway. You're going to see a side of Mackenzie you've never seen before this chapter, and hopefully you wont see it again...not that it's horrible or anything. Sorry for the long wait for this chapter too. I've had exams to study for, and my muse went on vacation without me for awhile. Since it took me so long to update I think you deserve a long chapter.
"Mackenzie time to get up." Benjamin whispered in Mackenzie's ear.
"Give me another hour." Mackenzie mumbled.
"Mackenzie you have a half hour to get ready for the supply run." Benjamin stated.
"What?" she questioned pulling the blanket over her head.
"We have to be at HQ in a half hour." Benjamin sighed, pulling the blanket away from Mackenzie.
Mackenzie groaned as the warmth left her. She reached for the blanket but Benjamin wouldn't let her have it back. "Benji." Mackenzie whined.
"Sorry, but you have to get up Kenzie. The sooner you get up, the faster the day will be over, and the sooner we'll be home. Now come on get up."
"Fine." Mackenzie mumbled sitting up. "I need coffee. Can you go get me coffee from the Mess Hall while I have a shower?"
"Sure. As long as you don't go back to bed."
"Promise I won't." Mackenzie replied, standing up. "Now go get me my coffee."
"Fine."
Mackenzie pulled some clothes from a pile on the floor and went into the bathroom, as Benjamin left the apartment to get her a coffee. Once Mackenzie finished her shower, and was dressed in her usual jeans and a tank top, she walked back into the bedroom. With a sigh she started to put all her stuff in the bag Benjamin had brought her when he came to the past.
Mackenzie put her bag on the bed once everything was in it, and walked into the living room. At the same time Benjamin walked in the door. "Coffee," Mackenzie said taking the coffee, out of Benjamin's hand.
"You do realize that it's not going to be as good as it is in the future right?" Benjamin questioned.
"I don't care." Mackenzie replied taking a sip. "Ow. I burnt my tongue."
"Smart Mackenzie. Very smart."
"Oh, shut up Benjamin." Mackenzie snapped.
"Wow someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
"No. I just haven't fully woken up yet." Mackenzie replied taking another sip of her coffee.
"Uh huh. But we better get going. They're most likely waiting on us."
"Probably." Mackenzie sighed, quickly finishing her coffee. "So lets get this over with."
As the two left the apartment, Mackenzie threw her dirty blonde hair into a high pony tail to keep it out of her face. When they were near HQ Mackenzie stopped dead in her tracks, and shuddered.
"What's wrong Mackenzie?" Benjamin questioned stopping beside her, a strong sense of deja vu sweeping over him.
"N..Nothing... I just felt a chill. That's all." Mackenzie replied, heading towards HQ again, Benjamin following her.
"You two ready to go?" Max questioned, walking out of HQ.
"Yea." Mackenzie replied, smiling at Max. "So who's all coming?"
"The two of you, Alec, and me." Max replied, getting into the truck.
"Usually more go then four, don't they?" Mackenzie questioned.
"Occasionally. When we have a big load to pick up. This one's smaller then usual, we're only going for food, and some other various things we need." Alec replied for Max as he left HQ.
Mackenzie nodded as Benjamin and herself followed Alec into the truck. Silence filled the truck as they left Terminal City. The silence was getting to Mackenzie, it made her feel more uneasy about everything. Deciding to break the silence Mackenzie said, "Benji."
"Yea?"
"I'm bored."
"Yea, well there's nothing I can do about it is there? If you really need something to do count street signs."
"God Benji that's even more boring." Mackenzie sighed. She turned to look at Alec, who was driving. "Are we there yet?"
"No." Alec replied.
"Are we going to be there soon?" Mackenzie asked next.
"In a couple minutes."Alec replied.
"Ok." Mackenzie sighed again, and started to tap her fingers on her leg.
Max couldn't help but laugh. "She does take after you quite a bit," she mused. "She get bored easily."
"Is that suppose to be a complement?" Mackenzie questioned.
"If you want it to be, then it is." Max replied.
"Ok. Then I'll take it as a complement." Mackenzie smiled, as the others laughed.
"We're here." Alec stated as the truck was pulled to a stop.
"It's about time." Mackenzie sighed scanning the place, before getting out of the truck.
"Jeez Kenzie, you are so impatient." Benjamin said following her out.
"Can't help it." Mackenzie replied.
Max and Alec soon got out of the truck as well, and went over to the supplier. They talked for a couple of minutes before they started to load things from the suppliers truck, to their own. Mackenzie smiled at Benjamin as she lifted a box into the back of the truck. Benjamin nodded and the two walked over to the supplier. "Can we talk to you?" Mackenzie questioned.
The supplier looked at her with a smile, "Sure."
"We don't want Max and Alec to hear, so do you think the three of us could go somewhere and talk?" Mackenzie asked next.
"Um..." The supplier looked around. "How 'bout over there," he said pointing to the warehouse that stood only a few feet away.
"Lead the way." Mackenzie smiled at him.
Mackenzie and Benjamin followed the supplier to the warehouse, before they went in the supplier stopped, and said, "I'm sorry."
Mackenzie glanced at Benjamin, and then looked at the supplier, "I'm confused. What are you sorry about?"
"This." The supplier said, as he opened the door to the warehouse.
Alec glanced over to where Mackenzie and Benjamin had gone. He watched as they followed the supplier to the warehouse. When they stopped he looked at Max, "It doesn't look like things are going as planned."
"What do you mean?"
"Well they stopped walking, for one thing."
"So what? Maybe they didn't want to go into the warehouse." Max replied.
"True, but Mackenzie and Benjamin look confused. Why don't we go see how things are going over there."
"Do you really want to interfere with what they're doing?" Max questioned.
"No, but it looks like they could use some help. They probably can't convince him to leave town."
"Fine lets go over there." Max sighed.
As the two got closer they heard the supplier say, "This."
Mackenzie and Benjamin looked into the warehouse, "I don't see anything." Mackenzie mused. "I don't think anything or anyone is in there."
"That's where you're wrong Mackenzie." Mackenzie shuddered at the voice, and watched as the cause of some of her horrible memories walked out from the shadows.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Mackenzie spat out.
Her cold and harsh words made Max and Alec stop dead in their tracks, behind a dumpster. That didn't sound like something Mackenzie would say. Alec may have only known his future daughter for almost two months, but never would he of thought that she had it in her to use such harsh words, and such a cold voice.
"Is that a way to greet a friend who stopped by for a visit Mackenzie?" The man standing before her questioned.
"Friend? You wish Ray. Now tell me how you got here, and why you're here. And you better do it fast, because I have no patience right now." Mackenzie growled.
"Well Mackenzie I got here the same way you did. I actually used the same time machine you did."
"What did you do?" Benjamin questioned, entering the conversation.
"Did you know that time goes faster in the future?" Ray questioned, a sly grin taking over his face. "It's been about two years since you guys came here. Boy did things fall apart. All for the better for me and my people. Should of stayed maybe your people, if you can call them people, would of stood a chance with you there. It all worked out for me, we found the time machine, and I came here to get rid of a major problem."
"You son of a bitch." Mackenzie growled advancing towards him.
"Uh huh. I wouldn't do that if I were you Mackenzie. My people are all over the place." Ray laughed, pointing his gun at her. Mackenzie stopped at the sight of another gun appearing beside Ray, as well as a familiar face.
"What Andrew, tired of following Daddy White around? Decided to follow Son White in hopes he'd be nicer?"
"It's nothing like that." Andrew said harshly.
"You know Mackenzie with you and your little buddy out of my way. I could end the transgenic population here in Seattle once and for all." Ray mused, his eyes connecting with Mackenzie's.
"You really think you'll be able to do that?" Mackenzie questioned. "You'll never be able to get of the transgenic population here. There's one around every corner."
"I managed to in the future over the course of the two years you and Benny Boy here were gone."
'He's trying to mess with you Mackenzie.' Mackenzie told herself. 'It's not possible to get rid of the entire population of transgenics in Terminal City. There's too many.' Mackenzie looked at Ray and asked, "So what are you going to do? Kill me?"
"That's the plan." Ray replied.
"Then why haven't you pulled the trigger yet?" She questioned him, searching his eyes for the answer.
"Oh my god." Max whispered. "That's Ray."
"Oh that wasn't obvious at all." Alec muttered, watching his future daughter.
At the sight of the two guns aimed at her Alec moved to run over there, but Max grabbed his arm to stop him, "Just wait, you don't want to blow our cover over here. When we're definitely needed, then we'll help."
From where Alec stood behind the dumpster he could see the fear Mackenzie was trying to hide. All Alec wanted to do now was get rid of that fear he knew she felt.
"That's the plan." Ray's voice echoed around him.
"Then why haven't you pulled the trigger yet?" Mackenzie's voice sounded almost taunting to Alec.
"Does she have a death wish?" Alec mumbled to himself.
"Yet another example of how she's like you Alec." Max commented.
"That's an awfully good question Mackenzie." Ray replied, his finger tightening around the trigger, but before he could pull it, the gun was kicked out of his hand, as well as the one in Andrew's. He glared at Mackenzie.
"What? Forget how fast I was?"
"No." Ray replied, a small grin playing on his lips. Mackenzie looked at Ray suspiciously, and that was when she felt it, something cold against the back of her neck. From the corner of her eye she could see Benjamin in the same predicament, a gun against his neck. "You move Mackenzie, and both you and your boyfriend here are dead."
"I thought the plan was to kill me." Mackenzie stated.
"That it is." Ray replied.
"Your confusing me. You want me dead, yet you don't shoot me, and then you threaten me with my death. If you don't hurry and make up your mind I'll die of confusion."
"Mackenzie now is not a time to joke around." Benjamin said through gritted teeth, a plan slowly forming in his head, he was hoping it was the same that he could tell Mackenzie was slowly coming up with.
"Who says I'm joking around?" Mackenzie questioned swinging her body around to look at Benjamin, who at the same moment kicked his leg behind him to kick the person who had the gun pointed at him. Mackenzie's sudden movement had gone unsuspected by the guy with the gun behind her, enabling her to punch him in the face as she swung to face Benjamin.
With that minor distraction Mackenzie was able to hit the gun out of the guys hand, and out of his reach. Benjamin did this as well, and turned to smile at Mackenzie quickly, who winked back at him.
"Oh. Sorry. My bad." Mackenzie told the guy who had been behind her, pulling out her own gun, that had been concealed in the waist of her jeans. She aimed the gun at the guys feet and took a shot. When all he did was flinch at the pain, and looked down at his foot, she said, "Right, you're one of those who don't feel pain. But I bet you're going to feel this." Before the guy had a chance to move she shot her gun, for only the fourth time to kill.
Before the guy hit the ground Mackenzie had her gun trained on Ray and Andrew, hoping Benjamin could take care of himself. She chanced a glance at him, and saw he was in need of some help. "Benjamin!" She shouted, kicking one of the guns near her to him, before turning her gaze back to Ray and Andrew. "What was that? A game to mess with my mind or something? Wanted to see if I'd use the gun you obviously knew I had?"
"Not at all Mackenzie." Ray replied with a grin.
"You know you should just hurry up and kill me already." Mackenzie mumbled, as Benjamin joined her again.
"How can I do that when you're the one with the gun?" Ray questioned.
"Come on Ray I know you're just itching to fight me." Mackenzie replied. "I know you just can't wait to finish the job you started before I came here."
"How can you be sure about that?" Ray asked with a raised eyebrow.
"You are just like your father." Mackenzie replied before asking, "Is that all the men you have with you here?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out."
"Only people in movies say that." Mackenzie mused, before she was kicked forward. She hit the ground with a 'thud', and turned to see Benjamin hit the ground and roll before a boot collided with his throat.
"Mackenzie!" She heard her father's voice yell at her, glancing over her shoulder as she lay on the ground she saw a chick, who looked familiar to her, about ready to pull the trigger of the gun she had in her hand.
Mackenzie kicked her foot backward, hitting the chick in the knee, as she pulled the trigger. The bullet hit the warehouse just missing the side of Ray's face. Mackenzie laughed at the look on his face, rage, humor, and was that a glimpse of fear she saw? She pushed herself up, and turned to see the chick fall to the ground as a bullet flew through her body. Mackenzie's head snapped over to Ray who held a gun in his hand.
"Why the hell are you killing your own people?" Mackenzie questioned him.
"Because I only needed her to get 494 and 452 out of hiding." Ray replied with a grin.
Mackenzie quickly glanced over her shoulder to see her father and Max surrounded by familiars. Her heart almost stopped, they didn't stand a chance against all of them. "What is it that you want Ray? 'Cause if you want me dead then shoot me now, and leave my father, Max, and Benjamin out of it." Mackenzie said glancing over at Benjamin who had just got rid of the familiar he was fighting, and was on his way to help Alec and Max.
"Now why would I do that when I could get rid of a major threat to me now?" Ray questioned.
"Because I know somewhere deep down you have a heart. And I know where ever that heart of yours is you have feelings for me."
Ray laughed, "That's a joke. Me? A familiar. Have feelings for you? A transgenic."
"I can see it in your eyes Ray." Mackenzie said walking closer to him and Andrew. "I can see the exact same thing I saw the day you tried to kill me as an order from your father. I may have been a 'mission' for you, but along the way you fell in love with me. Like my dad did with Rachel Berrisford oh so many years ago." Mackenzie was now as close she could be to Ray White without touching him. "Try and tell me Ray that you don't have feelings for me." She whispered in his ear as she leaned closer.
"I... I don't have feelings for you." Ray replied, unaware of what Mackenzie was planning to do.
With a grin Mackenzie pushed the side of his coat away and pulled the gun he had hidden in the waist of his pants out shooting Andrew, and moving the gun to Ray's chest. "You don't think I'm that stupid do you? I knew you had a gun, I just don't understand why you didn't pull it on me. Or was your master plan to kill Max and my father and see what would happen to me as a result of losing him before I'm even born?"
Ray said nothing in reply, and Mackenzie was beginning to feel like Ray had no clue what he was actually doing here. "Call off your men." Mackenzie growled through gritted teeth. "As I said before this is between me and you."
"Now why would I do a thing like that?" Ray questioned.
"Because at the moment I have the upper hand." Mackenzie replied. That was when Ray did something Mackenzie hadn't expected him to do. He lifted his knee fast hitting Mackenzie in the stomach, hard. As she doubled over in pain, he elbowed her in the back, 'causing her to land on the ground, and release the gun.
Ray bent over and picked it up, kicking Mackenzie in the side, as he did so. "Looks like I'm the one with the upper hand now." He gloated looking down at her. "Now I have two choices kill you now, or kill everyone else, and then you."
"That's quite the dilemma you got there Ray." Mackenzie muttered, going to stand up, only to get a boot in her back. She groaned as she hit the ground agin, she didn't want to know how many bruises she had, at least she was transgenic and they'd disappear sooner rather then later.
"That's what you get for killing one of my best." Ray said, glaring at her.
"Then you really have to teach your people to stop aiming guns at me. 'Cause once they do that sooner or later they are going to die." Mackenzie shot back.
"And as soon as you kill one of my men, I kill your entire population." Ray laughed.
Mackenzie was about to reply when the sound of a gun shot echoed to her ears. The sound distracted Ray long enough to allow Mackenzie to jump up and not get hit to the ground again. Kicking Ray in the stomach, causing him to collide with the wall, she turned to see where the sound and come from, and all she could do was smile. Biggs. Her father's best friend. The guy who took it upon himself to try and take care of her, on top of his own family when her father was killed. Even though she had made it hard for him to do that, he was always there for her, like her mother's family was, even though she wasn't as close to them as Benjamin had been.
Turning to face Ray again she grinned, "Man my family's got perfect timing. Don't you think?"
"He's not the one from the future you know." Ray said with a sly grin.
"Oh I know. Because if it was the Biggs from the future he would of shot you first instead of one of your men."
"Well you're never going to see that Biggs again, I watched him die in front of me along with his family." Ray taunted Mackenzie, getting closer to her.
'Watched him die?' Mackenzie thought. 'This son of a bitch killed him. It's because of him and his asshole father that her family kept dying.' With a low growl Mackenzie blurred towards him, throwing him against the outside wall of the warehouse. Pressing her arm against Ray's throat she asked, "Why? Why the hell did you have to play with my heart and then try to kill me? Why the hell did you have to kill almost everyone I love? Why the hell did you have to come here and taunt me with it? Why did you have to come into my life?"
"You don't even deserve to be alive." Ray's voice sounded rugged.
"Why? Because I have more sanity then you?" Mackenzie questioned, pressing her arm against his neck even harder.
"No." Ray managed to get out. "Because you're transgenic filth. Just like your parents."
Mackenzie moved her arm off his throat, and slapped Ray, before grabbing him by the collar and throwing him over her head. She turned around and glanced where most of the action was going on, and was happy to see most of the familiars were down, and those who weren't were surprisingly retreating. She smiled as she watched Benjamin, Alec, Max, and Biggs heading her way. But with that minor distraction Ray managed to kick her legs out from under her, causing her to fall on her ass.
Both Ray and herself jumped up at the same time and took fighting stances, both have losing their guns and in no time to pick them up. They both began throwing punches and kicks at each other, both blocking the kicks and punches thrown at them. "Take some energy boost pills or something Ray?" Mackenzie questioned, blocking one of his punches. "If I remember correctly I was always better then you."
"Two years helps a lot." Ray replied finally able to land a punch to her face.
Mackenzie's head snapped to the right, if she didn't have a bruise from that hit, she was going to suffering from extreme whiplash.
Benjamin hit a familiar in the back of the head with his elbow, and watched him fall to the ground. He smiled at his mother and Alec and said, "Thought you could use some help."
"Help would be nice." Alec replied.
The three did the best they could, after all eight familiars and three transgenics not matter how good they were, was unfair. Benjamin heard a gun shot, and watched as the familiar before him fell to the ground, and then there was another gun shot and another. His head turned to see a familiar face and all he good do was smile. Biggs. The guy always knew when it was the right time to show up.
"Biggs?" he heard Alec say from behind him.
"I was driving by, saw a party going on. Didn't want to miss it." Biggs replied with a smile.
"But...but your dead...we saw you-"
"I'm not dead I'm standing right here aren't I?" Biggs said cutting Max off. "I'll tell you guys the whole story later."
"That might be a good idea. Mackenzie looks like she could use our help you guys." Benjamin said, heading towards Mackenzie and Ray. He watched as she smiled at them, only to get her feet kicked out from under her, and fall on her ass.
The group watched as Mackenzie and Ray exchanged and blocked punches and kicks. They watched as Ray managed to land a punch to Mackenzie's face, and as her head snapped to the right, they could of sworn they heard something snap. "That's gotta hurt." Benjamin mused, as he watched anger fill Mackenzie's eyes.
"Ok, now it's on asshole." Mackenzie said before lifting her leg and kicking Ray in a spot that made the rest of the males there wince. "Now you can't tell me you didn't feel that." Mackenzie said as he fell to the ground.
Ray glared at Mackenzie as she grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up. "That is what happens when you hit a girl." Mackenzie informed him, unaware of what he was getting ready to do.
"And this is what happens when you hit a White." Ray muttered.
Mackenzie tilted her head and looked at him trying to figure out what he meant. Before she could ask, she felt a stabbing pain in her stomach. Looking down she saw a knife protruding from her stomach, and as Ray pulled the knife out of her, she let out a scream in pain, and fell to her knees. Ray just grinned.
Mackenzie pressed her hands against her stomach trying to get the bleeding to stop, and she watched as Ray backed up and picked up a gun. Ray checked to see if the gun was loaded before pointing it at Mackenzie. She tried to will herself to move, but the pain was to unbearable. Instead Mackenzie closed her eyes waiting for the gun to go off, and the bullet to hit her.
Mackenzie heard two guns go off, but didn't feel a single bullet hit her. In fact the only thing she had felt was the searing pain in her stomach and a gust of air rush past her. Opening her eyes Mackenzie saw two bodies laying before her. One was that of her enemy. The other one was that of her best friend, her boyfriend, her soul mate.
Ignoring her wound Mackenzie crawled to Benjamin, beginning to feel real dizzy. She rolled im onto his back, and saw the bullet wound. 'Please let it of missed his, heart. God., please let it of missed his heart.' Before Mackenzie could do anything else she was met by blackness.
AN: Sorry that it sucks, I've never been good with action scenes. Like that's the understatement of the year...lol.
Maria656: I'm a big M/A fan but writing this fic as an M/L just works better. Hope you enjoyed the chapter!
jess: Here's the update!