disclaimer- i wish i did but i dont own them
chapter 1
Jam pony
Max and OC stood at their lockers talking and getting ready for their day. Hearing laughter they turned around to see it coming from Alec and the group surrounding him.
"they all seem to know each other very well, they manticore too?" OC asked
"Yeah" was Max's short reply
"They seem to get along with alec pretty well"
"Heard they were in the same unit" she shrugged her shoulders appearing not to care, OC seeing her friends reactions asked "you don't like them do you?"
"they're just really rude to me, they don't even wanna get to know me they seem to think the world shines on Alec's butt
"Why'd u say that?"
"They only listen to him, what he tells them to do they do, they refuse to listen to anyone else."
"Boo don't sweat it you said it yourself they were in the same unit, they've know each other since they were young, they just trust each other that's all" OC comforted her friend
"I know its just I wished they'd talk to me and give me some respect, I am their leader after all,
Plus its not just them its quite a few of the other transgenic's in TC. They seem to think Alec's the CO and im just his friend, the 09 escape.
OC looked thoughtful for a few moments "maybe he was their CO?"
Max looked at her in disbelief and burst out laughing "yeah right OC your joking right? Alec a CO? huh as if, he's a total screw up"
"I dunno Max I mean if you say they only listen to him and seek his approval then he's gotta be something to them"
"No" Max said shaking her head- "he's too much of a screw up, CO's are the best of the best, there's just no way!"
"Hey ladies" Sketchy said to them putting an arm on each of their shoulder's "look at those fine ladies Alec's taking to..damn.. Alec's the man!"
"Urgh Sketch" Max said disgustedly shrugging his arm off "don't you have anything better to do?"
Sketch looked at her sceptically "im a bike messenger Max what do you think?
"im with sugah on this white boy, get a life and stop tryna pick up Alec's girls OC reprimanded
"I know I know Alec would probably kill me but they're just so fine its real hard not to want them"
"Why would Alec kill you?" OC asked
"Oh they were in his unit and he was their CO so he's very protective of them, if only I could get with Cece or Chrissy but I think she's into Biggs and Lexy is definitely with Steve- he'll rip my body piece by piece if I said anything to her." Sketchy said sadly.
"Hold up did you just say Alec was their CO?" Max asked incredulously
"yeah I was surprised at first too he doesn't really seem the CO type I means he's always at strip joints and picking up girls but apparently he was the shit back in Manticore."
"what! who told you that?" OC asked curiously
"Cece, yeah she said he was Manticore's finest, he was the best at everything no-one could beat him" Sketchy went on
"Yeah right" Max laughed "Alec? Manticore's finest? Whatever, the guy can't even keep out of trouble for a few minutes"
Sketchy shrugged "that's what I was told" he replied
"Ok whatever I gotta blaze"
"where you going boo, you aint got a package?" OC asked
"I've got some new runes that I gotta show Logan catch you later boo" she said and walked out the building.
Note - I don't want to repeat the script so everything that happened in freak nation before Cece's death happened (apart from the very beginning where max jumps the fence into TC)
Jam pony (hostage crisis)
Alec was in the corner talking to his unit while Cece fixed his bullet wound. The place was quiet except for Gem's whimpers and her hard breathing, the air thick with tension.
"Alec why don't you take charge, you know what your doing she doesn't, she's too absorbed with the ordinaries to think straight." Steve told Alec
"Come on give her a break she may not have our training but she knows the ordinaries so she knows what to do when it comes to them"
"yeah but if that doesn't work?" Cece asked anxiously "don't get me wrong I like her she's a nice person but her mind's clouded when it comes to the ordinaries"
"Then I'll take over" Alec signed, silently hoping that things would go smoothly when the van arrived, but deep down knowing it wasn't going to work out that way , they all nodded at him, relieved that Alec would soon have control of the situation.
Clemente calls Jam Pony again and Max answers.)
MAX: What do you got?
CLEMENTE: A headache. And I got the vehicle. Now send out the hostages.
(A bus bearing the words SEATTLE METRO POLICE arrives. Max hangs up the phone.)
MAX: It's on.
(Outside, White sees the bus pull up.)
WHITE (to Otto): Get our people in position.
(NSA snipers stand at the windows of a nearby building and point their guns out small holes in the window panes. Police snipers take aim from the rooftop.)
(Logan arrives on the scene, walking through the crowd and adjusting an earpiece.)
(Alec partly opens the front door of Jam Pony. Everybody inside is gathered around the door, but nobody is visible from the outside. Max peers out and speaks into her cell phone.)
MAX: How's it look?
LOGAN (into the microphone attached to his earpiece): I don't know; it's dicey. We got shooters on the roof and the bus door's on the exposed side.
MAX: Yeah, looks pretty messy.
LOGAN: All right, you're going to have to use the messengers as shields.
MAX (sighing): Okay. (Yelling outside) Clemente! I'm gonna need the snipers on the roof pulled back, or no deal!
CLEMENTE (into radio): Sniper team, pull back. Pull back.
(The police snipers step back from the rooftop edge.)
LOGAN: All right, you're clear.
MAX: Wish me luck. (Hangs up, then yells outside) First group's coming out!
(Alec opens the door the rest of the way. Max talks to some of the messengers.)
MAX: Okay, guys, come on. Keep your arms in the air and go slow, all right? Be careful.
(That group of messengers walks outside with their hands up.)
CLEMENTE: This way. Come this way. Keep your hands in the air. Come towards the barricades. (After those messengers have left) Okay, 452, the keys are in the vehicle. Your ball.
(Max waves the transgenics and the rest of the messengers to the door.)
MAX: Okay, guys. They're not going to shoot at us. We got a kid and a pregnant girl. They don't know which ones are transgenic and which aren't.
MOLE: Yeah, well, a couple of us they got a pretty good idea.
(Mole grabs Normal to use as a shield.)
MAX: Come on.
ORIGINAL CINDY: They saw you, boo--flyin' right over their heads. I got you.
(Original Cindy puts Max's arm around her so it looks like Max is using Original Cindy as a shield.)
MAX: Thanks.
CECE: They don't know about me.
ORIGINAL CINDY: Then help me protect my girl.
MAX: All right, let's file in, guys. Come on.
(Joshua uses Sketchy as a shield.)
SKETCHY: This is my cover story, man.
MAX: Let's do this.
"Be careful and stay vigilant" Alec warned the transgenic's, as he, Biggs and Steve moved to cover Gem and Dalton. They all acknowledged him but Max.
(White speaks into a microphone so the NSA snipers can hear him on their earpieces.)
WHITE: Wait for my command.
(Slowly the group walks outside, led by Mole and Normal. As they walk around the front of the bus, headed for its door, Logan notices White and Otto standing in the crowd. He follows their gaze to the building nearby. The police snipers from the roof are still gone, but now Logan sees the guns pointing out the windows.)
WHITE (to the snipers): Take the shot.
(Logan pulls out his gun and shouts a warning to Max.)
LOGAN: Max!
(He uses the exoskeleton to jump onto the roof of a nearby police car.)
MAX (to the others): Go!
(They turn back and start to run for the door of Jam Pony, but one of the snipers gets off a shot. It hits Cece and she goes down.)
MAX: Get back!
(Logan fires several times at the windows as he jumps off the car. Logan, Mole, and Alec exchange gunfire with the snipers as the group runs inside.)
CLEMENTE (into radio): Cease fire! (Shooting continues) Cease fire!
(Max and Mole drag Cece inside.)
MAX (to the group): Move! Move! Move! Move!
(Once everybody else is inside, Logan runs in and Joshua closes the door behind them all.)
MAX: Fall back! Cover the door! Anyone else hit?
OTHERS: No.
Max and Logan tried to check Cece over but got pushed out of the way by Alec followed by the others.
"Cece?" Chrissy whispered kneeling down to her fallen pack mate, putting a hand on her cheek. Alec and Lexy drop to the floor searching desperately for a pulse. She is dead.
"No no no" Chrissy and Lexy sobbed each on Cece's side rocking her back and forth. Tears racking their small bodies. Biggs and Steve slid to the floor and grabbed Cece's legs, holding on to any part of her as they tried to control their emotions so not to breakdown.
Alec hung his head shame, pain and guilt cursing through his veins, tears in his eyes threatened to fall from the corners. He had failed- he had failed to protect his pack, Cece was dead because of him. Wrapping his arms around her waist and dropping his head on her stomach he whispered hoarsely "I'm sorry Cece, I'm so sorry I didn't protect you, please forgive me" he repeated over and over again to the silent room.
The room had gone dead as the occupants watched the emotional scene before them. No-one said a word as they all watched the transgenic's cry for their fallen soldier.
Original Cindy's heart broke as she heard Alec's words filled with pain; she had never seen Alec this way before. She looked around the room blinking back the tears that threatened to fall. All the messengers seemed shocked and sorry heck even Normal seemed upset as he watched the 'mutants' cry and in pain. She saw Logan try and talk to Max in the corner he seemed to be the only person in the room who wasn't affected. Shaking her head sadly OC turned back to the scene in front of her.
MOLE (to the messengers): All right, get down. I want everybody on the floor, now. Get down. Stay there. Stay down.
ORIGINAL CINDY: They killed her.
MAX: Go take care of Gem.
(Original Cindy sits with Gem, whose labor has grown more intense.)
JOSHUA: Why did they do this? We did everything they wanted.
MOLE (pointing at Max): This is on you. I told you not to trust the cops.
LOGAN: It wasn't the cops. It was White.
(The others look surprised.)
JOSHUA: White is out there?
LOGAN: Yeah, White's guys did this. They killed Cece.
(Joshua growls.)
"It doesn't matter who did it Cece's dead and that doesn't work for me" Alec spoke for the first time. Standing up he put his arms under Cece and picked her up and walked into Normal's office. Laying her down on the desk he kissed her forehead and whispered "I'm sorry" again.
Stepping out of the office his cold eyes swept the room, Steve and Biggs looked at him and jumped up causing Lexy and Chrissy to look up. Once they saw his face they stood up, sucked up their sobs and wiped their tears. They knew that Alec had walked into the office but 494 had stepped out.