A/N: Alright, plz don't kill me. I know I haven't updated in a long time but I just had soooooo much homework. So I'm really sry but I hope you like this chapter. Please review, it takes 5 reviews to get me to update.

Zack hung up the phone and looked at Max with worry in his eyes. Hers mirrored his own as she had heard the conversation. One look at Alec told Zack that he had heard everything as well.

Lucy looked at each transgenic, oblivious to the reason why all of them looked tense and worried. It was Alec who broke the silence.

"I'll go around to try to find a car we can use," he said quietly. "I'll stop off at my place on the way to get some weapons, and then I'll be back." At Zack's slight nod, he turned swiftly and left.

"You're not going," Zack said forcefully to Max. "I'm not risking you and the babies getting hurt."

"No way Zack," Max argued. "Syl's my sister too. I need to be there."

"It's too dangerous!" Zack argued back.

"I'm not going to sit around on the sidelines," Max said with a determined look on her face. Unfortunately, Zack's was even more determined and she lowered her head, defeated.

"What's going on?" Lucy asked. "What's happening?"

"My sister Syl is in trouble," Max told her as Zack went into their bedroom to get his guns. "That guy who's after us and who kidnapped you? White? He's onto her. We need to get her out of there. It's even worse because she's pregnant. We don't want him to find out."

Lucy stared at her wide eyed. "Whoa. I've been here for all of what? An hour? And already something's going on."

Max laughed bitterly. "Welcome to my dramatic and action-filled life."

Syl ducked under a fruit counter, observing the soldiers all around her. At first she had thought they were Manticore, but then she realized she was being stupid.

Manticore's gone, she thought. This can't be them. Hmm. Who was that guy that Max and Zack had mentioned was after us? Whit? White? It has to be him although I've never met the guy face to face. Who else would have their own personal soldiers with military issue uniforms?

She saw another soldier come close to where she was hiding so she quickly and gracefully ran towards another food stall, packed high with cereal boxes. She checked her phone, as if staring at it would make it ring and Krit or Zack would be on the other line saying that everything would be alright. She sighed after she saw that staring wasn't going to do anything and put it on vibrate so that it wouldn't ring if she was near the soldiers.

She suddenly felt someone behind her. She whipped around and snapped the soldier's neck with ease just as he was about to radio in to White. She pulled his body to a large, open carton box and shoved his stocky body into it. She closed the flaps of the box and looked around for another hiding spot.

Max, Zack, Alec and Lucy entered T.C.'s main headquarters. Dix looked up as he saw them come in.

"Oh hello," he said cheerfully, as usual. "Come back for the translations? I'm afraid I'm not completely done, but I've gotten more solved. Have any more runes popped up?"

Max nodded and handed Dix an envelope full of pictures of her runes. "Even though I'd love to hear what those freaky black marks have to say, we're not exactly here because of that."

"Then why are you exactly here?" Mole asked gruffly as he entered HQ. "Need a place to stay or what?" He eyed Lucy. "Haven't seen you before." He studied her more closely. "You don't look like X5. Are you an ordinary?"

He quickly pointed his gun at her, making Lucy's heartbeat quicken, but at Max's stern glare, he lowered it slightly.

"Lucy," Max pressed, "Is an ordinary, but she's not judging and is like a sister to me. You will treat her with the same respect you treat a transgenic, or in your case, almost lack thereof."

"I don't have anything against you," Lucy said nervously to the lizard man.

Mole looked at her for another moment, and then finally put his gun down. "Fine, fine. Do what you want. What are you guys here for if you're not coming decode those little tattoos popping all over ya?"

Max looked at him square in the eye. "We need your help. My sister, or X5-711, is in trouble. She's an '09er like me and Zack so I know that not all the other transgenics are so accepting of us, but we all need to stick together if we're going to get rid of this White guy hunting us down. He's currently got her cornered in Philadelphia and he has a lot of soldiers, so Zack and Alec are going to need to have some other transgenics helping them get her out of there."

She walked up to him. "We may not have stuck around in '09 and felt the pain that you guys did, but we had our fair share on the outside. We're both transgenics, with the same universal blood; we're all hybrids with enhanced skills and most of all we're all human, no matter what the ordinaries say. '09ers and the rest alike, we're all the same. I as a transgenic am asking for your help now."

Mole looked at her with an annoyed look on his face. "Alright, alright, you made your point. You have one hell of a talent for making long speeches that somehow make sense. I'll see what I can do." He then turned around to round up some willing transgenics.

Dix grinned. "Well I gotta say, we should have you around here more often. No one usually ever gets Mole to back down."

"Never stand in the way of a pregnant woman with a mission," Alec muttered.

"You got that right," Zack muttered back. "But at least I got her to stay."

Max rolled her eyes but had to try hard to keep a smile off her face. Now all they had to do was get some people and go.

Max, Zack, Alec, Lucy, and several other X series stood outside Jam Pony. The anomalies couldn't come because they couldn't risk anyone seeing them. Max and Zack were surprised at how many people offered to help them. It seemed like the other transgenics had also realized that they all had to stick together so they put their grudge for the 09'ers aside for now.

Max and Lucy were about to enter Jam Pony, deciding that they would stay there until the others had gotten Syl back. Max kissed Zack quickly, and then the group of transgenics left, minus Max.

Max watched them leave, and then after she finally saw the car disappear around the bend, she pulled off her red shirt to reveal a black one underneath. With her black sweatpants on the bottom, the outfit looked like a similar version of her cat suit, just a lot less tight.

Max scrunched her eyebrows up at her apparel, silently wishing she could still fit into her cat suit. This'll have to do, she thought. At least after I have the babies I'll be able to fit in it again. Which shouldn't be too long since I'm about six months along now.

Lucy looked at her. "Why do I get the feeling you're not sticking around? she asked.

"Because I'm not," Max answered, as she checked her backpack for knives and other things she would need to use. Satisfied, she swung it onto her shoulder with an apologetic glance toward Lucy. "Sorry I'm leaving you here all alone, but I have to go help them. I need to be there to help my sister."

"Won't Zack be mad at you?" Lucy asked.

Max paused, then answered, saying, "He'll understand." She looked up when she saw O.C. enter Jam Pony after a run and waved her over. O.C. walked towards them with an interested look on her face directed at Lucy.

Before she could even speak, Max quickly cut her off. "This is my friend Lucy. We go way back and I'll explain everything later, promise. I need her to hang with you guys for awhile until I get back, but no, sorry boo, she doesn't swing that way. I gotta do something and I promise I'll explain everything later. Oh, and she knows about what I am so you can talk to her about it if you want."

O.C. just nodded her head and Max rushed out the door, ignoring Normal's calls to get her ass back to the dispatch center.

"What did she mean when she said that I didn't swing that way?" Lucy asked curiously.

Cindy laughed and put a friendly arm around Lucy. "Let's go say hi to my idiot friend first and I'll tell you all about me."

Syl ran out from her hiding place, intending to get away from downtown when a man stepped in front of her with an evil smile on his face. Syl swallowed. This guy looked more menacing than anyone she had ever seen.

"You must be 711," the man who she guessed to be White said. He studied her. "What? Are all you filthy scum procreating just to piss me off? Or do you like to copy 452?"

This guy knows Max. He's got to be White, Syl thought. She decided to go for good old sass in a bad time so she said, "Well if it pisses you off, then I guess my goal in life is accomplished."

He regarded her with contempt. "Does everyone in your trannie family have the same sense of humour? Or should I say lack thereof?"

"What can I say?" Syl said. "My grandpa Joe was a smartass. Considering your personality, I'd say your uncle Ernie was a prick. Or was it your father was a loser? Yeah. Max told me you had some family issues," she taunted.

White's fists balled up at the mention of his father and his face contorted with anger.

Whoa, okay. I guess I pushed a few buttons. Jeez, this guy is crying out for anger management, Syl thought.

"My family is no business of yours," he snarled as he lashed out a kick which she blocked and returned.

They circled each other, and Syl thanked the Blue Lady that no one was currently in the area where they were fighting, or things could get ugly.

Both Syl and White threw their punches and kicks, blocks and sweeps, White slowly getting the upper hand because of Syl's condition. She made sure that none of White's hits came close to her stomach though, so so far she was relatively okay.

Tired, Syl didn't catch the karate chop aimed to her abdomen until someone caught it. Krit flipped White over backwards and took a fighting stance. Syl stepped back, catching her breath. She eyed Zack, Alec and many other transgenics she didn't recognize battling it out with White's soldiers. His soldiers werebetter trained than Manticore's, but they were still not even close to the transgenics' abilities.

Syl turned back to the fight in time to see Krit going flying back and hitting a wall. She ran to him and held his head in her lap, Krit looking much disoriented. White grinned triumphantly.

He looked completely unaffected by Krit's hits, Syl thought. Does he not feel pain?

Zack took Krit's spot battling it out with White.

"I think I owe you an ass-kicking for hurting Max," Zack growled. White's eyes narrowed in fury at the man who had threw him against a dumpster.

He leaped forward then both of them were almost a blur, Zack more so than White.

Max watched the fights from her hiding spot, focusing first on Krit then on Zack who seemed to be in worse shape than White who didn't even flinch when Zack's hits landed. She sighed.

"Never send men to do a woman's job," she mumbled, and then crept closer to the fights.

Both White and Zack had blood dripping from various places, but White was grinning, almost as if he was enjoying it.

Son of a bitch can't feel pain, Zack thought asthey continued to fight. How am I supposed to beat him?

Zack flipped over White's head but before he could turn around, for the first time someone who wasn't a transgenic was faster than one. White yanked out a gun from his jacket and fired. Zack tried to dodge it but the bullet still hit him in the shoulder. He grunted and went down.

Max's heart stopped as soon as she saw Zack get shot. She screamed and rushed forward, running to his side. He was conscious and although it seemed he was in pain, it didn't look serious.

"What the hell are you doing here Max!" he got out, his voice shaking more with worry than anger.

"Lay still," she said, ignoring his question, but he grabbed her arm and made her look at him.

"Get out of here now, it's dangerous!" he told her urgently.

The next thing she knew, she was yanked away from Zack and a gun was point at her head, the safety cap off. White held her so tightly she couldn't move, and she looked helplessly at the transgenics surrounding her cautiously.

"Not so sarcastic now, huh?" White whispered in her ear maliciously. He pressed the gun even harder against her head, making her shake. "Don't like guns?"

All of a sudden something strange happened. All she knew was that there was a horrible pain in her stomach, leaving her gasping for breath. She doubled over, White looking at her quizzically because he hadn't done anything yet. The pain passed and she drew in a gulp of air, but then it came again, even more forcefully then before. She screamed in agony and shook violently, her knees buckling.

Zack watched in horror as a thick, clear liquid dripped down her pants onto the ground, starting to form a pool around her and White.

Max's water had broken.

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