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A/N: Flashbacks in story come from Undercover Agent. The conversation between Lexa and Max though has changed.
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Chapter 2: The Return
"Hey Shal, Dasi just called me on the cell phone, don't ask me why she didn't use the com-ring, She is bringing two people instead of one." said Lexa as she came through the doorway with her two friends
"Cool, the more the merrier."
"That what I was thinking."
Lexa sat on the couch next to her two friends Lulu and Shelly. Shal sat at the kitchen bar with Rosalie. In the Haven, you could see the kitchen, just to the side of the living room, so they could carry on a conversation, no matter where they were. They were all talking waiting for the others to show up.
"OK, from what you guys are telling me, the Dominion are some real hard core bad guys." said Rosalie.
"Yeah, and we have to stop them. Cause as bad as you think they are, they are worse." answered Shalimar.
Lexa added, "Yeah, 100 times worse."
Mari entered the room, and sat down on the chairs and the kitchen table. "OK, my friend will be here in 10 minutes. I e-mailed her the location," she said catching the glare from Lexa." I e-mailed it over the secure line, don't worry."
"Sorry, just can't be too careful," said Lexa. She liked Mari, her only problem with the girl was that she seemed to have away to get the boys to do whatever she wanted, especially Brennan. A fact that hadn't escaped Shalimar either.
Jesse entered the room with a pretty blonde girl following him, "Sorry, took so long to get here, you wouldn't believe where I accidentally drove too."
"Where?" asked Shal, her curiosity was always her weakness.
"Sanctuary!"
"What?!" asked Shal as she started to laugh, "And I thought Brennan was the directionally challenged one."
"Funny! I guess I am just used to going that way, so if I ever go out for pizza, and don't come back real fast, you know where I went." he as he smirked at Shalimar.
"Yeah, and I will come after you, we can half the pizza." answered Shal.
"Sounds good to me," he said as he sat down on the couch with Melodie, across from Lexa and two girls he didn't know. "So we introduce now, or after everyone gets back together?"
"I guess, it would be easier if we just do it when we all get back together. Just one quick intro, right?" answered Lexa. Her curiosity was peeked about the blonde to his right, who was she to him, had they been involved, and why did she care?
"Yeah, sounds good." answered Jesse.
The cell phone in Mari's pocket starting ringing, "Sorry everyone, let me take this and I will be right back." she said as she got up, and walked out of the room.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mari, it's me, Tara. I can't come."
"What?! Why not?"
"Cause, I don't belong to the life anymore. I have moved on, I have a family now!"
"Tara? Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, I want to join the fight, really I do, but my family is more important right now. I can't put them in danger."
"I understand, sometimes I wonder if I am making the right decision staying. But it is a choice I made, and right now, for better or for worse, I'm staying."
"Good luck Mari. I mean it. I hope you can find someone else."
"Thanks, take care." she said as she turned off her phone. She leaned up against the wall, and leaned her head back, now she had no one to bring into the war. Tara was her oldest friend, and one of few she trusted. For her there was no one else she could think of.
The phone call had left her wondering something though, 'Am I making a mistake by staying? I left my family to join Mutant X, my mom, my brother, and my little baby sister. Maybe I will just finish this mission, and go home. After all, there is nothing here for me, right?'
Just then Brennan walked into the room. He noticed Mari leaning against the wall, almost decided to turn and leave her alone, but couldn't. "Mari? You alright?"
"Yes and no. My friend bailed on me, so I have no one I can asked to help us."
"Well, you might think of someone else later, after all, it took me 20 minutes of watching you all run around a few hours about, to figure out who I could ask." said Brennan as he moved closer to Mari.
The last few weeks since she had become a member of Mutant X, he had been drawn to her, for some reason, he didn't know. The only thing he did know, was that Shal was picking up on it, and it was killing their relationship. If they even had one left to kill, she wasn't even sleeping in the same room with him, much less the same bed.
"Hey look on the bright side," said Brennan as he lead her down the hallway, back to the living room. "At least you don't have to explain them," he pointing to his 3 friends, Zack, Zane, and Gage, all dressed in black leather.
Mari could help but crack up at that. Brennan had really gone a step beyond to make her feel welcome. But she tried to stay her distance, cause she didn't want to make Shal think she was trying to steal Brennan from her, cause she wasn't. "Hey guys! That was my friend Tara, she can't help us, so I guess I won't be able to contribute a friend here, but I promise to my share of butt-kicking in order to cover for that."
"Why don't you call Max? asked Lexa. "You are probably the only one he would say yes too." she said, knowing full well, that he would say no to her, he was still pissed at her for betraying Mutant X-1. Max Laken was a Wolf Feral(feral canine). He had known before any of the rest of them that day, that Lexa had lead them into a trap.
(((Flashback)))
"Dasi, you go around back, Max, you go up on the roof, and come in through here," Lexa said pointing at the map. "Mari, you come in through the side door here. Gerald, your with me, we will go in the front, and take out the guards here and here. We meet here!"
"Got it!" Dasi, Max and Gerald said in unison.
"Yea, me too. Let's go!" said Mari.
As Lexa entered the warehouse, she took out the two guards to her left, and Gerald took out the last one to her right. "Next time leave me more!" he said jokingly.
"Yeah, next time."
"Wait!" Gerald said holding up his hand. "Move over there behind those crates, someones coming."
They both hide behind the pile of crates to Lexa's left. As the guard entered the room, Lexa held up her hand ready to strike him, but Gerald stopped her, "Let me." he whispered. Then he focused on some boxes up stacked up behind the guard, concentrating, he slowly used his telekinetic power, slowly lifting one of the boxes that was on top, and moving slowly to the left of the stack, and right over the guard, releasing the box. The guard fell to the floor unconscious. "See, I can do it, if you let me!" he said aggravated. He was tired of being treated like he couldn't help on these missions.
"Fine, let's go!"
"Shouldn't we wait till we hear from the others, that they are in?"
"If they have trouble getting in, then we will hear from them, not the other way around."
"OK, then let's get to our meeting spot then shall we?"
"Yes, let's!"
20 minutes later at the assigned destination point ........
All five members of Mutant X made it to the assigned meeting point with only a few minor bumps and bruises. "OK, Lexa where do we go now?" asked Dasi. This was her first mission since getting hurt at Sanctuary, and she was in a hurry to kick some more butt.
"This way!" she said, and they all headed down a very long hallway, it was poorly lit, so they couldn't see the end of the hallway clearly. "Wait!" Max said, his Canine Feral senses kicking in. " We aren't going the right way, this hall is a dead end."
"According to the map, there is a door."
"Well maybe you have a old map, buildings change you know."
"It is a new map!"
"OK, fine you continue going this way, I am going this way!" he said pointing behind him, back the way they came. "Hold it! Someone coming!"
"And we have no where to hide!" said Dasi, "Looks like we are going to have to fight our ways out." Her happiness over getting the chance to kick butt was short lived, when about 50 GSA armed soldiers turned the corner. "What the he..."
"Put you hands up!!!" the soldier in front yelled. The Mutant X team had no choice, they were outnumbered. 10 soldiers came forth knocking each mutant to the floor, putting sub-dermal governors into the bass of their necks. "Let's move out men!"
Each mutant was hulled to their feet, and forced to march out the door with the soldiers.
What the other 4 members didn't know, was that Lexa wasn't wearing a sub-dermal governor. And as they were put into the van, they came face to face with the man that they had been fighting against, Mason Eckhart!
(((End of Flashback)))
Lexa could easily remember how close her and Max had been before that day. She was normal teenager, despite being a mutant. They had been best friends, even joked of getting married someday.
(((Flashback)))
"Lexa, it's not the end of the world. There will be other guys." Max said as he sat on the end of Lexa's bed, as she laid there crying. Lexa sat up and slide her self to the end of the bed, "I know, I have no idea why I am crying over him."
"Me either, wasn't that great looking. Unlike me, of course!" he said, making Lexa laugh out loud. "Hey! Was it something I said?"
"Yeah, but thanks. I needed to laugh."
"I was serious! Hey I have an idea, when we get older, how about we get married?"
"What?"
"M-a-r-r-i-e-d, Married, you know I mean if we get to age 25, without being married to someone else, let's get married."
"Deal," Lexa leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Is there any dinner left?"
"Food? Hey that reminds me, I haven't eaten dinner yet. It would just be me and you."
"Cool, let's go!"
(((End of Flashback)))
"Yeah, I could call him. Hopefully he will come, and it would be a bonus if you two could talk." she said looking at Lexa seriously. For the most part she felt sorry for Lexa. She was forced to betray them, Mari knew that. And even though she had forgiven Lexa, Lexa was nowhere near forgiven herself. "I'll go call him."
Mari walked back down the hallway, and picked up her cell phone of the table. She quickly dialed the number for her friend, " Hey Max! What's up buddy?"
"Hey Mari, alls good, how about yourself?"
"Good. "Look I wouldn't be calling so late, but I need a favor."
"Name it!"
"Help me take down the Dominion!"
"When and where baby?"
"Was hoping you would say that. Check your e-mail, it's the new location for Mutant X, can you be here in an hour?"
"Sure thing."
Below in the underground of the Haven, a woman stepped out of her car. This place looked very different from the Sanctuary she remembered, but yet, eerily similar. She walked toward the back entrance. A man stepped out of the shadows, and scared the young woman.
"Adam?! You almost scared me to death."
"Sorry, Are you ready for this?"
"As ready as I will ever be."
"Let's go, everyone is waiting in the livingroom."
"OK."
Everyone had gotten there, and were all seated. Shalimar stood up, "OK, everyone my name is Shalimar, I am one of the members of Mutant X. We have all gathered here for a common goal, to rid the world of the Dominion. But before we discuss that, we need to get better acquainted, so I will begin by introducing my friend, Rosalie."
"Hi, everyone!" said Rosalie. Shalimar then handed it off to Brennan, "Brennan, you turn, please introduce your friends."
"OK, This is Zack, Zane, and Gage. Jesse your turn."
"Thanks, OK everyone, this is Melodie, Lexa your turn."
"This is Lulu and Shelly. Mari the floors yours."
Mari couldn't help but get tickled by the introductions, they all sounded like computers spitting out information instead of friends introducing each other. Her turn to sound that way, "This is Max." she glancing toward Lexa. Both her and Max were just staring at each other. "Dasi, your turn."
"Thanks, this is Skylar and Joshene, but we call her Josh everyone." she said as she and everyone else noticed Adam coming into the room, "Everyone who might not know, this is Adam Kane."
"Thank you, Dasi. Everyone I would like to introduce to you ......"
Shalimar glanced behind Adam before he could say anything. "Emma!"
"On my God!" said Brennan.
"It can't be." said Jesse. "I watched them cover you .....I watched you die!"
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