The Chronicles of Freak Nation
Story 1: New Beginnings
Chapter 1: Arrivals and Returns
A/N: Max's hair is like it was in the first season.
The Real Prophesy
When the shroud of death
Covers the earth
The ones whose power is hidden
Shall deliver the helpless.
One has sworn to protect,
One has had two hearts,
One has searched far and wide for purpose.
Four will be in love
One will find the truth
One shall break an age old vow to save a life
One has lost a child but not hope
Six shall stare the devil in the face
The Strong,
He Cunning,
The Wise,
The Protector
The Survivor,
And the Seeker
Must unite to fight the evil
That threatens all life.
October 12th, 2021
Seattle, Washington
Terminal City- rooftop
Max, Alec, Gem, Biggs, Cece, Mole, Dix, and several other transgenics stood on the roof, watching as Joshua and two other anomilies lifted the flag Joshua had made into the air, and pressed it into the hole they had made for it.
Max watched as it began to blow in the wind, and grasped Alec's hand. Alec looked at her.
"What is it?" He asked
"Did we make the right choice in staying here?" Max whispered the question. "With everyone here like this, it's gonna make us an open target. At least Logan, Sketchy and Cindy were able to sneak out the back."
"Even though it may put us at risk, I think you made the right decision. Besides, maybe some of your siblings watch the news." Alec told her.
"You think they'll come here?" Max asked hopefully.
Terminal City- outskirts
"On this the third day of the siege at Terminal City, the situation still remains unchanged. We have visual confirmation that at least twenty transgenics are inside the toxic waste dump. They currently appear to be raising some kind of flag. Yes, I do believe that they have proclaimed themselves a new nation. A freak nation. We will bring you more on the ongoing standoff as it develops. For WYTS, this is… Wait a minute, whats that?" The newswoman was cut off as two motorcycles came roaring into sight about fifty feet away. They pulled to a momentary stop. "Oh god, not again." She spat out, recalling how a transgenic had pulled this stunt only a few days prior. The two masked riders looked between the two of them for a moment then nodded, and slammed their feet down on the gas petal at the same time. The sector police leveled their guns at them, but with the whole thing being recorded, they couldn't take the chance that the riders were just a couple of crazies, and not transgenics. Their question was soon answered, cause both riders used the same jump that Max had utilized only a couple days before and jumped the fence into Terminal City.
Terminal City
The two motorcycles hit the ground and the riders pilot the bikes over to the garage where Max and the others made their stand. Dalton is standing there with several anomalies and X series, all of whom are pointing guns at the newcomers. The riders see Mole and glance at eachother.
"Who are you?" Dalton demands. "You better not be White's guys or you just made your last mistake."
"Relax kid, I can assure you we're not with that sadist." One of the riders says, pulling off her helmet. It's Syl. Her hair has grown out considerably since the last time we saw her. The other rider takes off his helmet and it's Krit. "We're here to see Max."
"Nobody gets in until we know that they're cool." Dalton says.
"Listen kid, tell Max that Krit and Syl just pulled in and would like to see their sister." Krit told him.
Dalton picked up his walkie talkie and pressed the send button. "Hey Mole."
"What is it Dalton?" Mole's voice came over the transmitter.
"We got a couple of people that just pulled in, saying that their Max's brother and sister." Dalton repiled.
"What?" Max's voice replaced Mole. "Who is it!"
"What are your names?" Dalton asked.
"X5-701. But you can call me Syl." Syl introduced.
"I'm Krit." Krit announced.
"They said their names are Krit and Syl." Dalton told Max.
"Oh my god! Send them up!" Max exclaimed over the walkie talkie.
Joshua's Old House
Logan, Original Cindy and Sketchy are all standing around Logan's Eyes Only command center as Logan typed away, getting ready to do another hack.
"Do you really think this a good idea? We could be just making things worse for them." Cindy asked, uncertainly.
"No. I think this is what Max would want. She's been waiting years for her siblings." Logan assured her. "Besides, only an transgenic will be able to decipher the message anyway."
He pressed a button on the keyboard and a message popped up saying that it was connecting to a satelite uplink. A few moments later, the Eyes Only banner came up onto the television screen.
Montana
Hutch's Tavern
A man about 22 years old is sitting on a barstool, waiting for his drink. The bartender turns away from him for a moment to pour the tequila. The eyes only banner comes up on the screen briefly and emits a short, highpitched noise before going away. The bartender stares at the screen for a moment.
"That has to be the strangest one he's done yet." The bartender notes, turning to face the man with his drink. The man is gone and the bartender hears a motorcycle revving up outside. "Now that was weird."
San Francisco
P3
A woman with long red hair is cleaning up a couple of glasses from an empty table. Her boss, Ryan Snider leaves to go into the backroom to get a bottle of wine, leaving her alone in the room. The Eyes Only broadcast comes on and she looks at it for a quick moment, then drops the bottles she's holding. They fall to the ground with a crash. Ryan comes back in a couple of seconds later.
"Hey Dee, I had a question for you." He says and looks around. "Dee?"
She's gone.
Some where in New Mexico
Jace is watching tv with little Maxwell. It's an old prepulse show called Boy Meets World. The Eyes Only hack comes on and Jace leans forward, slightly panicked. After a moment she relaxes and looks at her son.
"Looks like we're going on a roadtrip."
Terminal City
Command Center
Max looks over at Syl and Krit as they enter, and a huge grin appears on her face. She makes her way over to them. Max wraps Syl in a firm hug, then gives Krit the same treatment.
"Why didn't you have Logan contact us to let us know that you were alive?" Krit asked after Max released him.
"Logan has your number?" Max asked surprised. "He never told me that."
"We gave it to him before we took off for Atlanta after the raid." Syl told her. "Maybe he lost it."
"He better have, our fragile friendship is over if he kept that from me." Max snarled and Alec pulled her into his arms for comfort.
"I take it that you and Logan are history then." Syl smirked
"For about three months now." Max answered. "With the virus and everything, it just wasn't working."
"The virus?" Krit and Syl chorused, confused.
"Long story." Max said, then gestured to Alec. "His fault." She told them with a grin on her face.
"I can never win." Alec murmured as he held Max tighter.
San Francisco
Warehouse.
Four People, two male and two female are standing around a table. Looking around, we recognize two of them. One is Druid, a former employee of Jam Pony and a friend of Max's. Another is Asha, a member of the S1W. The other two are Sean Griffin and Sarah Richards.
"I just got a call from Logan, he could really use our help up in Seattle, so I say we head up there and help." Asha says.
"That's where all those transgenics were, right?" Sarah asks. She has long dark brown hair and brown eyes.
"Yeah, Sarah. That's why we're going. To help them out." Asha replies. "Nobody has anything against the transgenics right?"
Both Druid and Sean shake their heads no. After a moment Sarah does the same and Asha grins. "Well it looks like we've got our first mission as a team."
Seattle
Jam Pony
Normal is sitting at the dispatch desk of Jam Pony as always. He shouts out a couple of runs, tosses packages to Sky and a couple of the other employees. The phone rings and he swiftly picks it up, secretly hoping it's Max or Alec.
"Hello?" Normal says into the phone.
"Ah Normal, Its been a while, my brother." The disembodied voice of Herbal Thought comes over the reciever.
"Herbal? Is that you?" Normal asks, incredulously. Nobody had heard from the Rastafarian since shortly after Max disappeared the first time last year.
"I's needs to talk to Max." Herbal drawled.
"Max isn't here. She and Golden boy are holed up in Terminal City." Normal replied.
"Who is in charge of the movement I've been hearing about? I'm back in Seattle and I's is looking to join."
"I can get you in contact with Original Cindy and Logan Cale, they're spearheading the movement." Normal replied. "I've got the number here somewhere."
He shuffles through some papers, searching. Finally he pulls out a document with a triumphant grin.
"Okay, the number is….."
TerminaL City
Bar
Three X5s, one male, two female enter the bar and look around. The male is african american with no hair. The taller of the two women is light skinned, with light reddish-brown hair. The shorter female is exotically honey skinned with dark hair. The bartender looks up as the three enter, and grins.
"Hey Cora, Faith." He greets, then regards the male. "Davitz."
"Hey Ryu." Cora and Faith reply. Davitz says nothing.
"What'll it be tonight?" Ryu asks jovially. "The usual?"
All three nod affirmatively.
"So did you hear the latest news?" Ryu inquired.
"What's that?" Cora answered.
"Rumor has it that two more of the '09ers' showed up today." Ryu announced.
"Great, with 452 in charge, we're gonna be answering to people that don't have half of the training that we do." Faith grimaced. She had nothing against them, but she believed that someone like Alec, Biggs, or Mole should be in charge, not Max.
"Which ones? 210? 205? 471? 599? 701? 688?" Cora asked.
"I think it was 471 and 701."
"Interesting." Davitz finally spoke up.
Ryu didn't know why Cora and Faith hung out with him, he was extremely unnerving to be around. He would tell them that though, what they wanted to do was their business, he was just hiding out here for his own safety.
Residential Center
Max led Syl and Krit down a long hallway, then turned to the right at the end. She opened a door and led them into a block of five apartments.
"You can stay in one of these, except those two." She said, indicating the apartment she and Alec shared, and the apartment Biggs and Cece occupied.
Syl and Krit nodded and after a few moments chose the on next to Max and Alec's apartment. They dropped their stuff off and then the three siblings headed to the Mess Hall to get something to eat.
"So what have you two been up to since the raid on Manticore?" Max asked.
"Well we seperated for a few months, until the heat died down. I went to Chicago." Krit said.
"I went to San Francisco to visit Jondy." Syl told her.
"You've seen Jondy?" Max exclaimed. "How is she?"
"Good, I don't know if she knows that you're alive though. I kinda told her that you had been killed when I last saw her. Sorry." Syl apologized.
"That's okay, I'm sure that she'll hear about us on the news eventually and come up." Max said with hope glimmering in her eyes.
"Anyways, we reunited in September, ran into Lydecker around mid-October and…." Krit said before Max cut him off.
"Lydecker's still alive?" She said, surprise evident in her voice.
"Yeah, he was when we left him anyways. The familiars, namely White, tried to kill him." Syl continued.
"Big surprise there. I'm starting to think that White has everyone's number." Max jibed. "So where did Lydecker go?"
"He said something about some guy named Sandeman or something like that and said that he was gonna go bring him back to America to help us out. I don't know if bringing him here is such a good idea though." Syl answered.
"Why not?" Krit and Max chorused.
"Well we were only there for nine years. The majority of the others were there for over twenty. Don't you think that they'd feel just a little bit of resentment for the man who made them, then dumped them off, property of the US government?" Syl questioned. "Hell, I have resentment for the man and I don't even remember him at all."
Max and Krit nodded in silent agreement.
Sandeman's house
Logan was alone in the old house, now. Both Cindy and Sketchy had left for their own apartments about a half hour ago. He sat quietly, and flipped through an old copy of Little Women that Joshua had left when he vacated the premises for Terminal City.
He jumped in surprise when his cell phone broke the relaxing silence. He flipped it open and held it up to his face.
"Hello?" Logan asked.
"Logan? Is that you?" a female voice asked.
"Yes this is Logan. Whom am I speaking to?"
"Oh come on Logan, you remember me, I'm sure."
Logan frowned in thought for a few moments, then grinned like a cheshire cat.
"Michelle Cooper. How have you been?" Logan replied after a moment.
"I've been great, went down to Texas for a while. I heard about your buddy Herrero, Sorry for your loss."
Michelle said, with condolences.
"That was almost two years ago." Logan recalled
"I only just found out from the Freedom Press."
"Oh so, you're back in Seattle then." Logan asked
"Yeah I heard about the transgenics congregating her, and I thought that I might try to get an interview with one of them to let them get their side of the story out." Michelle told him.
"Uh. Michelle, why don't you come here first. There's some things we should probably discuss."
"Okay, I can be at Foggle Towers in twenty minutes." Michelle told him.
"Yeah, I… uh huh… I don't live at Foggle Towers anymore."
"Why not, what happened." Michelle questioned with surprise.
"It's a very long story. A story that begins and ends with a good friend of mine named Max……"
To Be Continued
A/N: Biggs and Cece are not a couple, at least not yet. I wanted to pair Biggs with Jondy, and Cece with Zane. Should I put Logan and Michelle together. I brought back Herbal, should I bring back Bling?
What about Matt Sung and Clemente? I'm gonna bring Zack in soon as well, I'm just not sure how to do it.
Tell me what you think I should do in your reviews.
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As always it has been a pleasure to write on this website.
- Schizm -