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Max and Zack crept through the night to Terminal City, where they were welcomed with a gun in their faces.

They looked up and saw this lizard man who was smoking a cigar, and didn't look very friendly.

"Who are you?" the lizard man asked gruffly.

"We're X series," Max said. "My designation is X5-452 and my boyfriend's is X5-599."

The anomaly studied them for a moment then said, "You're 09'ers."

'Please don't hold that against us,' Max prayed. "That's right."

The lizard man lowered his gun a bit but still kept it on them. "Show me your barcodes."

Max and Zack turned around and Max moved her hair out of the way, hoping that the lizard man wouldn't shoot them while they had their backs turned.

"Alright," he said, and they turned back to face him. "Uh, welcome to Terminal City."

They nodded their thanks to him and kept going towards the building.

"And what a welcome that was," Zack muttered, making Max laugh.

"Have you found out any more information on the girl transgenic?" White asked his assistant, Otto.

"No Sir. I'm sorry Sir but I couldn't find any more information on why she was so special to Director Renfro or her whereabouts," he said nervously.

White punched a hole in the wall. "Damn!"

He motioned to Otto to leave him, and smirked when he heard his assistant's sigh of relief on the other sigh of the door. 'So, I make him uncomfortable, huh?'

He flipped open his phone, and dialed the number of one of his friends in the Conclave.

"From my father before me, for my sons," White said into the phone.

"From my father before me, for my sons," the voice repeated. "It's good to hear from you, Brother White."

"You too, Brother Jackson," White said. "I need a favor."

"Anything for a fellow Familiar," Jackson said.

"There's a transgenic girl. Designation 452. She has no junk DNA and somehow, she was important to Director Renfro," White said.

"So you want me to find her or find out about her," Jackson said.

"Precisely," White answered.

"Okay, sure, but why is this transgenic so important? So maybe Renfro favoured her."

White laughed cruelly. "Renfro favoured no one. She was a stony bitch. It's just that this transgenic has no junk DNA as I mentioned earlier. Every person on the planet has at least a little junk DNA, even transgenics do or should and we Familiars do as well. It's not normal."

"Hmm. I see your point." Jackson paused. "Well, I'll dig up whatever I can and get back to you as soon as possible."

"Thank you. Goodbye Brother Jackson," White said.

"Goodbye Brother White," he said, and he hung up.

'My idiot father supposedly created someone to stop the Coming," White thought. 'Could it be her?'

Max and Zack walked into Terminal City's Headquarters and were greeted, yes, greeted, by a nice anomaly named Dix.

"Welcome to Terminal City," the shy anomaly greeted warmly. "Anything we can do for you? Do you need a place to stay?"

"No, thanks, but it's something else," Zack said. He pulled Max towards him and Dix and rolled up her sleeve where more runes had appeared on her wrist.

"A little while ago, these marks showed up completely out of the blue on her skin. We have no idea what they are, or what they mean, and we were wondering if someone here knows what it means or could translate it because it's obviously in some kind of language," Zack explained.

Dix peered curiously at the marks. "Well, I recognize the language. It's ancient Minoan."

"Riight," Max dragged out. "But do you know what it means?"

"Nope, sorry, I can recognize it but I can't read it," Dix said, apologetically.

"Oh," Max said, looking disappointed.

"But if you give me some time," Dix started slowly, "I might be able to find something on how to decode it."

Max looked up excitedly. "Oh, that's great Dix! Thanks!"

"If you can just take some pictures of the marks and send them to me," Dix said, "I'll try to work it out. I like challenges."

"Thanks Dix," Zack said, and Max leant forward and gave the anomaly a quick kiss on the cheek, making him blush. Zack chuckled and took her arm.

"Let's go Max, it's late and Normal will be on our asses if we get to work late."

They waved goodbye and left.

When they got home, Max tugged on Zack's arm.

"What do you think it means Zack?" she asked him. "Why is it only happening to me?"

"I don't know, Maxie," he said, shrugging. "Hopefully Dix will decode them and we'll find out soon."

Max nodded and kissed him. "I'm just going to take a shower. Terminal City isn't exactly the cleanest place. Care to join me?" she asked suggestively.

Zack laughed. "Now how could I refuse an offer like that?"

They walked towards the bathroom, clothes trailing.

A/N: Again, sorry for this being a little short. I'm concentrating a little more on my other fic, "Together We'll Fight", but don't worry, I'm going to try to write longer chapters from now on. BTW, Alec's not in their apartment because he found his own place to stay. Sorry, for not mentioning that and again sorry for the short chapter.

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