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A/N: First attempt. Sorry for any spelling mistakes!

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Chapter two: Realization

When Max finally woke up, her body was aching and her leg was num

"That damn shot!" she said. She was furious at her self. How she let her guard off and got shot at the end. Her head was throbbing and it was hard just to open her eyes. When she finally did she didn't understand where she was. She was in a white room, with no windows, and apparently no door. She tried to get up, but couldn't move.

"What the…where am I?"

She thought about what happened to her. She was running with Alec and Joshua behind her. Then Alec was fighting X7s and Joshua wasn't there. She kept on running until she got to the gate. Then the strangest thing happened, the alarm went on. 'How did that happened?' she thought. And after that everything went wrong. She was shot. 'I'm going to kill whoever shot me! ', she was beaten and then lost conscious.

"Where the hell am I!" she said out loud, furious at not knowing what happened.

"You're home" said a voice in the room. Max was startled she didn't know there was someone in here.

"Home where?"

"Manticore of course, where else?"

"Manticore is not my home! Who is this? Show your face!"

A tall man came into her sight. He was taller then the average man. He was in his mid 30, but looked much older, and looked very tire. He had a black eye.

"Who the hell are you?" asked Max in disgust.

"I'm your worse nightmare" He said in a cold voice.

"Really? You don't look so intimidating to me. Although that black eye of yours really makes you look ugly. I mean, even uglier then I assume you look like without it."

"Really? Because, I don't think we ever met so you don't know a thing about my looks. And believe me, you don't want to know."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"You'll see." He said, slowly moving around her.

'O.K. this is creepy. What's up with him?' Max though, he was strange and she hasn't remembered seeing him before. Who was he?

"You and your friend will have a very good time over here, you can be sure of that." He said. 'He said 'friend' as in one, who is he talking about?' Max was worried now.

"Whatever. So, what's your name Mr. my worse nightmare, because I like to know to who I am going to kick his ass!"

"You can call me Mr. Smith. And I doubt that you can kick my ass in your position."

"Do you want to check that?"

"There will be no need of violence if you cooperate."

"Maybe when hell freezes over!"

"I see. Well, since our last treatment hasn't affected you properly we will have to use different treatments on you."

"Really, I'm so scared."

"Well, you should be." He said. Max could see the amusement in his eyes – and that was what scared her.

"Come in now" Said Mr. Smith.

Max could here the door behind her open. She then saw a few lab techs inserting her with tubes and cables. Then one of them wheeled in a TV screen, and the lazar device. Max only left psy ops a month before, after being stuck there for 4 months. 'I hate psy ops!'

The lab tech put the lazar in front of her and operated it.

Her treatment has begun.

A hour before

Alec woke up with a really bad headache, and a wounded arm because of the gun shot. 'Great, just great' He thought to himself.

He opened his eyes and tried to remember what happened. It took him a while because he was hurt pretty bad in the head but he remembered eventually.

Flashback

He was running after Max in the woods when suddenly he was kicked in the back. He turned around and saw that there were X7s chasing them. He started fighting them and then he was shot in his arm. But his injury hasn't slowed him down. But then he heard the alarm, he let his guard down for a second, but that was all that was needed for the X7s to take control of the fight. And eventually he lost conscious.

End flashback

"Those damn X7!" He said out loud.

"Now, now. No need to be mad at the X7s. you were the one running away, they were just doing their job." Said a man next to him.

"It's you." Alec said, disgust clearly in his voice.

"Now, there is no need to be rude. I think we should make sure you aren't rude to anyone anymore"

"I have only learnt from the best. You of course" Alec said in sarcasm

"Glad to see you haven't forgotten me. I'm curios to know, you chose to run away when you knew you wouldn't make it. If you wanted to see me you just had to ask." He said, disgust clearly in his voice.

"Believe me, I would rather be anywhere but near you!"

"Shame for you because we are going to spend a long time together, and I don't know about you, but I'm going to enjoy every second of it."

'I hope Max got out. At least I won't suffer for nothing' Alec thought to himself.

"So 494, are you ready to begin. I think you know what the drill is, you have been here so many times it can be called your second home, other than Manticore of course."

"You know, I'm not afraid of you."

"Really?" The man came closer to Alec. When he was two inches from Alec's face, Alec hit him in the head with his head, right in the eye. The man stumbled backwards and when he regained his balance he spoke to Alec.

"You will regret that 494!"

"I'm so scared, what can you do to me that you haven't done already?"

"You'll see. You know I have a big imagination, I'll think of something. Come in."

Alec heard people enteringthe room he was captived in -lab techs. They were installing the lazar and TV screen, and then his treatment began.

A/N: please review and let me know what you think! It really helps for the writing process!