"What do you think you're doing", asked Original Cindy as she walked over to the locker area at Jam pony
"Boss told me to get a locker, this one's free", answered the new rider
"No it ain't, try one of those", replied Original Cindy as she pointed to some other lockers
"Fine", answered the guy as he moved
"Poor Maxie please be the same Boo I knew when you come back", whispered Original Cindy as she ran her fingers over Maxs name on the locker
"What happen to Max, you haven't told us, so tell", stated Sketchy as he and Herbal walked over to her
"Fine if you want to know just listen to Eyes", answered Original Cindy as Eyes Only appeared on the TV
"Since the early 1990's billions of your tax dollars have been diverted from legitimate government programs to fund secret experiments on genetic engineering. It's goal to create the perfect soldier, genetically enhanced for superior strength and speed. These children are subjected to relentless training and propaganda. The winter of 2009 twelve of them escaped from a facility in Gillette, Wyoming and another escaped a year ago. After ten years of freedom the twelve still alive were captured and tortured into submission, to remember their soldier training. Forced to used numbers instead of named these children who are now nineteen to twenty one are the only thing Eyes Only will focused on until their release from Manticore", said Eyes Only over the TV
"What you talkin abou", asked Herbal as the link ended
"Genetically revved up female, remember those wanted posters that you thought looked like Max. It was Manticore trying to find her. She and her brothers and sisters were sick of running they decided to take the bad guys down and got taken down themselves. My Boos locked in a three by seven foot cell at night then during the day she gets her brain picked at so she forgets her time of freedom", answered Original Cindy as she wiped at her tears
"Damn, why would she want to escape if that's all she knew", whispered Sketchy
"Because Manticore messed up, their soldiers are flawed, they have seizures and they didn't know why so if someone showed signs they were killed and autopsied. They found this out when it happened to a ten year old named Jack, he had a seizure during morning line up, a few days later a nine year old Max went into seizures and the guards saw, her siblings wanted to protect her so they bit the hand that beat them", explained Original Cindy
"The most high has got to have a purpose, he must", said Herbal as all three were crying
Logans Apartment
"Yoh Logan anything added to the site about my girl", asked Original Cindy as she entered the computer room
"She, she's pregnant", whispered Logan
"You mean when you two banged the gong", asked Original Cindy
"She's three months along, there are also other notes Tinga's also pregnant and the other females are going to be inseminated since the unit is basically out of commission", answered Logan as he took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes
"Those idiots are so sick", yelled Original Cindy as a phone began to ring
"That's Zacks", whispered Logan as he rolled over to the shelf that it was sitting on
"Are you going to answer, it could be Manticore, if they got the number out of Zack", replied Original Cindy as Logan answered any way
"Sam", came a soft elderly female voice over the phone
"No but I'm a friend of his, could I help you", asked Logan
"It's about his son", answered the Woman
"Son", asked Logan in disbelief
Two hours later
"Yes his son, I can't take care of him and his Mother died in a food riot. Sam use to come and visit and he gave Jenny his cell phone number. I thought maybe he could take the boy in but he's not here, yet you say you can help", asked the woman as she sat on Logans couch and a seven year old boy played with a warn out deck of cards
"Well Mrs. Palas, Sam and his brothers and sisters had a hard life and they were taken back to a very bad place, I was entrusted with their children, I'd be willing to take Danny in as well", answered Logan
"Do you have any proof, I don't want Danny to wind up in some hell hole", replied Mrs. Palas
"Sam, Brin, Jondy, Krit, Max, Syl, Tinga, Zane, Jace, Sarah, Bryce and Cara", pointed Logan as he handed Mrs. Palas a picture frame containing an image of the brothers and sisters standing next to the window
"Uncle Logan, look what I made in school", yelled Ali as he, Biana and Case ran into the Penthouse
"It's a picture of the park, it's wonderful", smiled Logan as the three climbed onto his lap
"Who's this", asked Biana as she looked at Mrs. Palas and Danny
"This is you're Uncle Sams son and his Grandma Mrs. Palas", answered Logan
"Hay Wheels thanks for letting me walk the little one home from school, I'll see you munchkins tomorrow", smiled Original Cindy as she pushed a stroller with Maxima and Mia in it
"So Sam and his family will one day come back here and Danny will be able to go to school", asked Mrs. Palas
"I assure you I'm doing everything in my power to get them back and I will take care of their children until they come back", swore Logan
"Okay", whispered Mrs. Palas
Manticore
"So tell me why are you so sure they wont betray us again", asked Renfro as she and Lydecker sat across from one another
"I taught these kids to think of the unit as their family and it was apparently family that made them betray us, X5 734 was swayed by X5 656 and X5 798 by X5 452. They are meant to be a unit and now that they're together again we should have no problem. Also X5 656 husband is dead and we've convinced her that her son is also", answered Lydecker
"Well their training re begins", smiled Renfro as the twelve X5s marched into the room
"Now that you've been brought back to your Manticore training you will be allowed to be a unit again, X5 599 your orders are to take your unit to barracks 16", stated Lydecker as he stood in front of the X5s
"Yes sir", yelled Zack as he turned around and the others followed
"Lights out X5s", screamed a guard as the twelve marched into the barracks and the guard locked the door shut
"This might be interesting if Ben was here telling stories", stated Zane as each took a cot
"So how'd you survive", asked Max
"Thinking about Pixie", answered Zane
"Get some rest we're stuck here and training starts tomorrow", whispered Zack
"Why don't we just give up", asked Tinga as she started crying
"I know they said they killed Case like Charlie, they also said they found Eyes One and killed him, they tried to get me to say his name. Which means they didn't get to him but he's layin on the heat about us in his hacks", comforted Max as she crawled over to Tingas cot
"You really thinks that was what they were doing trying to find where they were", asked Jondy as she, Sarah and Jace also went over to Tingas cot
"They're fine and we'll get out of here before these babies are born", stated Max as the girls huddled together
Logans Penthouse
"Hell dude, cool place", stated Sketchy as he, Herbal and Cindy approached Logan in his computer room
"Five months ago Original Cindy told you the truth about Max and her family, they are still securely within Manticore but Manticore has sent their babies to another compound along with a unit of younger clones. I need your help to save them", stated Logan as he turned around from the computer
"We's can't take on the government", replied Herbal
"Just watch this it happened three days ago and tell me you want innocent kids that can be saved to go through the same thing", answered Logan and started a video feed
"Start", stated Lydecker as a tank with the X5s in it filled with water
"What are they doing to my Boo, she's eight months pregnant", asked Original Cindy
"They've been in there for five minutes why won't they let the girls out", added Sketchy as Jondy and Max started struggling but they're ankle straps kept them under the water
"X5 452, X5 210 start over this time with out struggling", instructed Lydecker after seven minutes when the girls were finally let up
"For your info X5 452 is Max and do you want others to suffer through that or how about this when they were first brought there", asked Logan as he changed the video
"State your designation", asked Renfro as Max was in the shrink box
"My name's Max", answered Max as the room shrank three feet
"State your designation", retorted Renfro
"Kiss my transgenic ass", yelled Max as the room shrunk to two feet
"How long can an X5 last without food or water", asked Renfro to the lab tech
"Six days, maybe", replied the Lab tech
"Call me in a week", stated Renfro as the wall closed hiding Max
"Stop this", whispered Original Cindy as Logan fast forward to seven days later
"What is your designation", asked Renfro as Maxs limp body was dragged out of the shrink box
"X5 452", whispered Max as she hung her head
"Say again soldier", said Renfro as she roughly grabbed Maxs head looking her straight in the eye
"My designation is X5 452, Ma'am", yelled Max
"Okay we'll help", whispered Sketchy as Logan turned off the video
"The most high must have a reason for you coming to us, so okay", added Herbal
"How we do this bitch", asked Original Cindy