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January 2015

"Well today's the day we leave this place." Vada mused, a small smile on her face.

"Only to be going to a place exactly like it," Ash sighed, sitting beside Vada on her bunk.

"It could be better then this place." Jondy said thoughtfully.

"How could it be better?" Zane questioned. "It's going to be exactly the same as here. Except the facility's going to be bigger, at least that's the way it sounds."

"So when exactly are we leaving?" Jondy questioned, ignoring Zane's comment.

"An hour." Jack answered as he entered the barracks, Tinga right behind him.

"Ah, the two of you are back from your little meeting with Lydecker." Jess smiled. "What exactly was it about?"

"To sum it up we have an hour to be packed and ready to go." Tinga replied.

"Oh." Jess sighed. "But it's not going to take us an hour to pack. We don't have that much stuff. Just the things they supply us with."

Jondy rolled her eyes, "Jess do you really think they don't know that we "buy" souvenirs on our missions?"

"Well you never know. They can be pretty stupid sometimes." Jess said defensively.

"True. But I don't thin they're that stupid." Jondy sighed.

The room soon fell silent as they packed up what little they had in their duffle bags. "So anyone know where Maxie is?" Krit questioned, breaking the silence.

Everyone looked up from their packing, they had been to busy talking earlier no one had noticed her slip out of the room. Mainly because, Max had been unusually quiet lately that no one had thought it odd she wasn't saying anything.

All heads turned to Jondy in a questioning way. "Hey, don't look at me. Last I saw she was lying on her bunk staring at the ceiling like it was the most interesting thing in the world. She probably snuck up to the roof again. I can go get her if you guys want me to."

"Please do Jondy." Zack answered. "She needs to pack up her stuff."

Jondy nodded and left the barracks, quietly walking down the halls trying to go unnoticed as she slipped out of a window, and climbed up to the roof. Glancing around she saw Max sitting near the edge looking out at the fields and forest that was Manticore. "A part of me doesn't want to leave this place." Max whispered.

"I know what you mean." Jondy said sitting down beside Max. "This place hold a lot of memories. Both bad and good. It's hard to leave, but we have a lot ahead of us Maxie."

"I know Jondy."

"You planning on coming to the barracks anytime soon? We're leaving in a half hour, and you still have to pack your stuff up."

"I'll be there in a few minutes." Max replied, as Jondy stood up.

"Ok. Don't be long though." Jondy sighed as she headed back down.

"I won't." Max called after her. Max looked up at the sky. "Please Blue Lady take care of all of us. I don't want to loose anyone else. I don't think I can handle losing anyone else."

Sighing Max stood up. They were being moved because of too many failures, but she knew there weren't that many. Their attempt to escape. Seth's attempt and success. Her and Ben's mission that resulted in Ben's death. How was that a lot of failures? Max shook her head, maybe someone had it in for Lydecker and was trying to prove that he couldn't handle X5's using the smallest of details.

Max gave up thinking about it, and got off the roof, slowly and quietly heading back to the barracks. She quickly packed up her stuff and looked at her siblings, "So you guys ready to leave this place?"

There was a chorus of 'yes's' before the barrack doors opened and Lydecker walked in followed by two guards. Max and her siblings immediately stood at attention before Lydecker, for one last time.

"At ease soldiers." Lydecker's voice boomed. "You're transportation is ready and waiting outside. Director Renfro is the one in charge at the Seattle facility. All of you are expected to listen to her and the TAC officers there. Just because you're not here doesn't mean that your training, rules, and expectations have changed. Understood?"

"Sir, yes, sir!" Max and her siblings chorused.

Lydecker nodded, and Max could of sworn she saw a flicker of sadness in his eyes. "Pick up your things and follow the guards out to the transportation that's waiting. Now soldiers."

"Yes sir!" They replied in unison, picking up their bags, and forming two lines. One last time they filed down the halls and out the doors. They climbed onto their transportation, and quickly took their seats, as they tried to figure out what exactly the vehicle was. It looked like a bus, but it also kind of looked like a van.

"I say it's a bus." Jondy whispered to Max as they sat in one of the back seats.

"It's not big enough to be a bus." Max whispered in reply.

"Buses come in many different sizes." Jondy stated. "You can't tell me you didn't notice that on your missions."

Max rolled her eyes. "There's seatbelts. Buses don't have seatbelts."

"Most shuttle buses do." Jondy smiled. "You're not going to win this one."

"How can you be so sure?" Max questioned.

"Because I'm right about this one. It's a bus, and don't argue with me, 'cause you can't prove otherwise to me."

Max shook her head. "Whatever. I'll let you win this one, but the next one's mine."

Seattle, January 2015

"They're coming today." Emma grinned.

"You have to be the most excited out of all of us." Stu laughed.

"What can I say?" Emma said, "I'm looking forward to meeting them. Possibly some new people to hang out with. Too bad Alec, Biggs, CeCe, and Sam aren't here to be part of the welcome committee."

"They get back today." Lane stated. "I actually think they'll be getting in the same time the Gillette group comes in."

"This is going to be quite the interesting day." Emma mused.

"I'll say." Zoey laughed. "I just hope they aren't mindless drones like Sam thinks they'll be."

"You never know." Luke replied.

"For all we know they could think we're the mindless drones." Keema sighed.

"We'll just have to prove that thought wrong." Zoey grinned.

"I'm with you there." Kade pipped up. "Does anyone know what wing they're being put in?"

"The one next to our." Emma replied. "The X6's are being moved."

"Oh..." Kade trailed off.

"So what did we miss?" Alec's voice floated over the table.

All head's shot up to see Alec, Biggs, CeCe, and Sam standing there. "Thought you wouldn't be back till later." Lane mused.

"We finished early." Sam stated sitting down. "So like Alec asked, what did we miss?"

"The Gillette group's coming later today." Emma replied.

"Huh," Biggs said, "That's pretty interesting news."

"I heard there's a few of our 'twins' in the Gillette group." Sam said, as she took a bun from Emma's tray.

Emma slapped Sam's hand away and asked, "Where exactly did you hear that?"

"One of Alec's many sources." Sam grinned.

"I talk to Alec's sources all the time." Emma stated. "And not once have they told me anything about twins being in the Gillette group."

Alec looked from Sam to Emma, and back again. "How exactly do you know about my sources?"

"How do you think smart aleck?" Sam questioned in response.

"We have our own sources." Emma grinned

Alec shook his head and sighed, "When are they going to be here?"

"I thought they were going to be getting here, the same time you four got back." Lane replied. "I guess I was wrong."

"So we have no clue when they're going to be here?" Alec asked next.

"Nope." Biff spoke up. "Why do you want to know anyway Alec?"

"He just wants to chat up the new females." Biggs replied for Alec.

"And you don't'?" Alec questioned, looking at Biggs with a raised eyebrow

"I do. But I'm not the one asking all the questions." Biggs replied.

"Males." Keema said, rolling her eyes.

"What?" Alec grinned.

"You're all the same." Keema sighed. "You only have on thing on you're mind."

"Another way of putting it is, they think with what's between their legs, and not with what's in their heads." Jewel laughed.

"And they weren't that way two years ago." Gem mused.

"Guess that's what happens when guys grow up. If you can call it that." Kee sighed. "I personally think they got more immature."

"You ladies do realize we're all still here right?" Alec questioned.

"Oh, sorry Alec." Jewel smiled. "Forgot you guys were there for a moment."

"Is it pick on the guys day or something?" Luke questioned.

"Um...no?" CeCe replied, a smile on her face.

"Let's just hope there's more males in the Gillette group." Biggs sighed. "It would be great to finally outnumber the females here."

"Biggs, hun, you males do outnumber us females." CeCe smirked. "Or do you not know how to count?"

We outnumber you guys by one CeCe, that's not a lot." Biggs replied. "Well it's not enough to actually count around here anyway."

"Aw is poor Biggsy jealous about the power us females hold over you males?" Sam questioned.

"Jealous? Yea right." Biggs laughed.

"Keep telling yourself that." Sam smiled.

"I will." Biggs mumbled.

"Guys, hate to interrupt, but we're going to be late for our afternoon training." Devon voiced. "And I personally can't afford being late again. Especially since I was told if I managed to be late again I'd be sent to Psy Ops."

"You're right Devon. We should probably get going." Gem sighed.

They all got up and left the Mess Hall to go to their afternoon classes. All of them thinking about the changes going on around them. There was going to be a whole bunch of new X5's in the facility, and they were all curious about what this new bunch was going to be like.

AN: So I just wanted to say, while you're waiting for me to update you should check out calistra's fic "who loves the teacher" if you haven't already. It's awesome. And Dory Shotgun asked if I could put their ages, so I'll just put the age range for now, 'cause listing everyone and their ages will take awhile, and I'll just leave that for another chapter. But anyway as of this chapter, which takes place in the year 2015, the age range is 15-17. Max being the youngest, Zack being the oldest. Hope that helps for now. And next chapter I'll put who's who's clone, 'cause there's a few of them.

meri24: You'll have to wait for the next chapter for the reaction. It was going to be in this one... but I thought I'd be cruel.

calistra: Well they meet their counterparts in the next chapter. :)

Angel Of Darkness231: I had fun writing Emma, she's an awesome character, kinda based on one of my friends in a way. Yup Devon's Krit's clone... or twin. Whatever you want to call him.

Sarah: Yes I killed Ben. It pained me to do, but it had to be done to make things go the way I wanted them to.

Dory Shotgun: Hope you read the AN, it's go the age range. I'm glad I proved you right. It makes my day.

Alana84: Next chapter shall be the meeting. I'm glad you're liking it so far. :D

Lotamoxie: Hope I explained the failures part ok, in the beginning of the chapter, if not tell me and I'll explain.

L80bug: Glad you love it. :D