Max and Jack could hear large military truck arrive outside. Both X5's looked at each other then out to the window then back to each other.
"You lied to me, you have been turned" Max spat at him angrily
"No they should be here right now" he replied seeing the hurt look in Max's eyes.
Troops slowly made there way to the door holding their guns as usual but they wouldn't fire because one of there men were inside and they want Max alive and unhurt.
"Max get out of here" Jack shouted at her.
Max ran to the back door with Jack behind her pretending to chase her. Max turned around when the guards were out of their view.
"Come with me" Max said
"I can't" Jack said sadly
"Please" Max begged Jack just shock his head
"Max you should properly knock me out or they will know I let you go" Jack said
"Okay bye." She replied as she hugged her brother.
"Bye baby sister" Jack said and stepped back, Max punched him fast and hard and he fell to the floor.
Max pushed open the back door and ran out but she hit something or someone, Ames White. Max could feel a painful shock rushing through her body she looked down to the source of the pain to see White holding a taser against her stomach. Max fell to her knees then everything went blank.
# In an old warehouse near the coast #
Max could hear a small girl crying, smell of salty sea water and chains rattling. Max's eyes flew open and sat up quickly. Looking around her she couldn't see anyone not Ames White, soldiers not anyone. Only Two scary looking creatures and a little girl, who were also trapped in their own separate cages. The little girl had shoulder length light brown hair, bluey green eyes and had lots of small scratches on her face and arms.
A creature on Max's left hand side was asleep, then there was her cage, to Max's right was the little girl and next to the little girls cage was a rather awake and evil creature. The little girl was chained to the creature's cage and it was able to fit its claws through the gaps in the metal cage and scratch her.
"Hey leave her alone" Max shouted at the creature but it simply growled at her.
The little girl turned her head around to look at Max and said crying "Please help me it hurts"
"Pull the chains as far away from the edge of that cage as you can" Max ordered her the girl did so.
Max put her arms through the gaps in the cage and helped pull on the chains. Then the chains finally snapped and the little girl fell back into the metal bars.
"Ouch" escaped from her mouth
"Sorry I should have warned you that might happen" Max said to her
"Its okay" she replied wiping her tears away with her sleeve.
Max looked at the cage wall between her and the girl. The little girl followed her gaze.
"It's a lock" The little girl said then she screamed in pain and turned around as the creature had just made a large deep cut on her back.
"It's a door" Max whispered as she quickly pushed the wall up and then pulled the little girl into her cage as hers was slightly bigger.
"OH thank you" cried the little girl as she flung her arms around Max. Max smiled and hugged her back.
"Your gonna be okay now…how about we look after each other" Max told her
"I'd like that" replied the girl as she dried her eyes.
"What's your name?" Max asked
"X5 – 951" she replied
"No that's not your name that's your designation, you need a name can you think of one?" Max asked her
"I don't know any names just numbers. What's your name?" the girl answered
"Max"
"That's a nice name" the girl told her
"Thanks how about we call you Melinda" Max proposed
"Melinda…I like it" she answered smiling
"Hey my friend smiles like that" Max said returning the smile
"Really, who?" Melinda asked sounding interested
"Zack" Max told her
"599" Melinda whispered
"How do you know his bar code?" Max asked curiously looking down at the little girl.
"That bad man told me he was going to find my parents 599 and 452" she answered cuddling up into a ball shape next to Max and closed her eyes.
"What? ... Who told you this?" Max asked her eyes wide open longing for an answer
"I don't know his name but the soldiers follow his orders without questioning him.He gave me a folder to read it was information about all the 13 escapee's and your names , some of you even had pictures" Melinda said falling asleep
"Melinda honey please stay awake. How did this happen?" Max asked
"They mixed you and Zack's DNA which made me. He said he need the three of us for his pkan to work" Melinda told her
"What plan Melinda?" shaking her slightly
"Maaxx...i haven't slept for weeks. I don't know it's got something to do with a group of familiars and our blood makes a cure or something." Melinda moaned.
"Good girl you have shark DNA? Just you rest" Max told her and kissed her daughter on the forehead.
"Yes just like you" Melinda replied drifting off to sleep.
# Back at the bar #
"Damn i've failed her" Zack said with his eyes watering.
"No Maxie" Syl whispered
"Come on bro, lets see if they have left any clues for us to follow" Krit said to Zack.
Syl looked around them and saw Lydecker next to their hummer.
"there's abig clue"Syl said then she blurred outside and punched Lydecker in the stomach "Where's my sister?" she spat at him.
Syl had blurred out that fast Krit and Zack didn't see her leave but they could hear her shouting and followed.
"I don't know" Lydecker said to her. Syl punched him again this time in the face.
"Well your the one who took her" Syl shouted at him.
Krit and Zack blurred over to her side. Krit grabbed Syl as she went to hit him again and turned her round "Syl becareful remember the baby you'll stress her out"
"Okay i'll stop" she told Krit
While Zack walked up to Lydecker, put his hand around his neck and held Lydecker up in the air.
"Where's Max?" Zack asked
"White took her" Lydecker replied struggeling to breath.
"where?" Krit asked
"i don't know" he answered
"Well think you idiot" Syl shouted at him.He
"Proberly somewhere he can hide them from Manticore before he takes them to the familiars" Lydecker said
"Who's them? He's part of Manticore" Syl stated
"Let me down Zack and i'll tell you everything you want to know" Lydecker said
Zack turned to Syl and Krit for their approval they noddedand took out hand guns that they had hided in the back of their jeans waistband. Aimed them at Lydecker Zack let him got and brought out his own gun.
"Lets go inside the bar it's to open out here" Syl said
They walked into the bar and threw Lydecker into a chair.
"Who's 'they'? Isn't white part of Manticore? Why do they want Max?" Syl asked
"Max and X5 – 951. Zack and Max's daughter she was created at Manticore with your DNA. She is like Max she has no junk DNA. Yes White is part of Manticore but he is also a familiar. Thats how he new about 951. He believes in a prophesy the only thing that the familiars virus can be destroyed with is an antidote. Which he believes to be Max, Zack and 951 blood combined will save the human race"Lydecker said looking at Zack
"You made a child out of Max and Zacks DNA, thats sick" Syl commented
"Why didn't to tell us sooner before they came to get Max?" Zack questioned
"I did... I came to warn you when you were in Seattle. I sent those posters out to try and find Max then i got a tip you were hiding in that cabin. Only by the time i reached you Whites men were already there and you just assumed they were with me an i was going to take you back to Manticore." Lydecker told them.
"We need to get Max and the kid away from them. Let me help you" Lydecker said
"How can you? You don't even know where she is?" Krit said to him.He
"Wait Max has her mobile with her. Call her" Syl suggested
" Oh yeah i totally forgot" Zack said as her brought out his mobile and dialled Max's number.
Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
"Hello" said Melinda
"Why are you answering Max's phone? Who are you?" Zack questioned sounding worried
"She's asleep, I'm Melinda" She replied
"X5 – 951" Zack whispered
"No Melinda i have a name now" Melinda answered slightly annoyed
"You sound like Max,I'm Zack can you wake Max up for me please so i can get the two of you out of ther" He told here's
"Zack" Melinda whispered
Max woke up straight away and looked at Melinda who handed her the mobile.
"Hey get me out of here" Max said to him
"Where are you?" Zack asked
"Erm.. near the sea in an old factory building, sorry thats all i know" She answered
"On the way here i saw a sign saying something about ship building" Melinda said to Max
"Melinda your a genius, Zack member that old ship building firm that got shut down a few months ago it was in that newspaper article Krit was reading. Thats where we are." Max told him.
"Ok we will be there as soon as we can" Zack said
"Becareful it might be a trap no one has come to check on us since i've been here and the same with Melinda she's been in her for about two weeks" Max said over the phone.
"Is she okay? Do you know she's our daughter?" Zack asked Max
"She's in bad shape, covered in scratches, she's really tired even though she has shark DNA. Yeah i did she looks a bit like me but with your eyes and smile. She knew my barcode even though i didn't tell her or show her." Max replied
"Really she has both our strengths with no weaknesses and no junk DNA" Zack informed her.
"Cool. Well i have to go cause i've nearly got a flat battery." Max told him.
"Max wait.. Where is the warehouse's weak points?" Zack asked
"The roof there's no guards there, it's made of glass and some of the panels are missing. The front door cause there's only two guards and two guards on either side of thw warehouse. There security is pretty crap you wont have any bother getting in" Max said
"Well why cant you get out?" Zack teased
"Cause i'm lock in a cage with a padlock on it stupid" Max said in a mocking tone.
"Okay hang in there we won't be long, bye." Zack told her
"Bye" Max repeated
"Bye Zack" Melinda said into the phone
"Bye Melinda see you soon" Zack replied to her
"Okay soldiers lets make a plan i suggest..." Lydeck was cut off.
"No" said the 3 X5's in unison
"Not your plan" Syl said to Lydecker
"Were not your little soldiers anymore" Zack spat at him.
"Zack can make the plan" Krit stated
"Listen in here's what we are going to do" Zack said to Syl and Krit.