Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel and if I did I would have probably messed it up though I would have put Max and Alec together (they sooo belong together).

A/N: This is my first fanfic so please review and this is only a summary of everything that happened before my actual story (my version of it anyway). I may or may not end up writing more expansive details of this in other stories. I could always use ideas about my story. Any ideas are welcome.

Max had collapsed in a grand mal seizure before her unit escaped. Everyone else including Jace escaped after Eva and Jack were killed. Max was taken to the infirmary and treated for her seizure instead of being taken away like Jack. After she got out of the infirmary the rest of her unit was either dead or escaped, but she was told that they had been killed while trying to betray Manticore. She didn't believe them but after 6 months of psy- ops and brain washing she just dropped into the dead soldier routine never truly believe that all of them were killed.

She was trained alone for a while and then partnered with X5- 494 (they never tried the breeding- partners), when they first met they clashed, and she named him Alec as in smart aleck. After awhile they tolerated each other and were the best there.

She was sent after X5- 493 (Ben) to stop the killings. In order to find him she went deep undercover (since Ben and Alec are clones it would be too hard to explain and after the Berrisford mission he wasn't trusted so he wasn't sent with her).

When she went under cover she met OC, Sketchy, Herbal and Logan. She had a cover as a reporter. She was there for a long time before Ben resurfaced. She got used to the life and liked OC and the others after she met them at Crash. She met Logan when she broke into his apartment looking for something to fence. He didn't find out about her because of her extra training she concealed it better.

Original Cindy found out after Max stopped some people from killing her (not the reds), when Max found Ben they were fighting in the woods. She broke his leg, but didn't call Manticore in. Somehow Manticore found out and they were close. Ben finally got through to her and told her that she shouldn't go back and to just kill him. Since she had been at Manticore longer she was harder and was able to do what he wanted, though she hid his body so Manticore couldn't find him.

OC told her to find a new alias, get a job at Jam Pony and blend in. So after she went back and buried Ben that's what she did. She always regretted leaving Alec behind though. So when Zack and the others found out that she had escaped later they found her and convinced her to help them bring down Manticore.

When Zack tried pulling rank on her (he knew that she was more soldier than the rest of them) she didn't respond as well as he thought she would because she had been a unit leader in drills. Instead she did the exact opposite and challenged him to a fight. The others were surprised, even more so when she had him on his back with her foot over his throat. "When you left things changed Zack, you're not my CO. When you left I was put in a new unit, I share CO with Alec and only Alec and he's the only reason I'm letting this slide. I don't leave my men behind."

Her words surprised them even more. They knew she still thought of them as family, but apparently she had another family, if not her entire unit obviously in Alec. After that Zack treated her with a lot more respect and was more cautious around her. Since she had more experience inside Manticore she was taking point and Zack realized that she had obviously done it many times before.

When they got to Manticore Renfro was already starting to destroy the evidence that it ever existed. When Max saw this she went straight to the control room to let everybody out and sent out the message to go to ground that their creators had turned on them and all of the rules went out the window. Zack had been outside trying to control them and was amazed at how well they reacted to her voice and commands (she was a CO after all). She sent out a phone number in code and told them to call if they needed. After that was done she got out right before the building collapsed, taking all of the genetic information (including her no- junk DNA files) with it.

When she got out she checked in with Zack and the others and then started running up a hill. The others started to question her but she was already gone so they followed her instead. When she got to the top of the hill she ran over and hugged somebody. Then they all got out of there. They went to Max & OC's apartment and "debriefed." Alec had gone to a hotel when he saw the hostile glares pointed in his direction. Max had protested until he pointed that out and said that she would get things sorted out with them and then call him. He had said to take her time. It was the first time in a while that he had been out and he was planning on enjoying that.

When Max's phone started ringing she started getting addresses and decided to deliver papers to leave Seattle to all of them through the Jam Pony messenger service and she put some money in too (stolen from Manticore before it went down). Then she made plans with all of them to get a bus and ship the transhumans out the next day. (Most had stayed with Joshua, whom she had met at Manticore when she was thinking of escaping.) The next day she did all of the deliveries to the transgenics and talked over her plan with each of them. Then she had one last night at Crash and told her friends goodbye. Most of the X5's,X6's, and X7's got out that night and the transhumans would get out on the bus the later that night. After Crash closed she went home with Original Cindy, packed all of her stuff, and loaded it on her baby (ninja 1200 the big stuff was going in the back of the bus she had bought (Manticore money), said another goodbye to Original Cindy, and then drove to the meet place.

The bus was ready to go and some of the transhumans were arriving and getting settled on the bus. Alec drove up on his motorcycle that he had stolen from Manticore and said hello to her. He and Max were driving in front of the bus, two other transgenics were driving behind the bus and Biggs was driving the bus incase they got into any trouble. (Zack and the others had already left.) When all of the transhumans got there they left the city without any problems and drove for hours until they got out into the country. Eventually it got to the point that they didn't see anybody. This was the place that Max had bought. She had houses already built and the place was entirely self- sufficient. It even had electricity and TV. She had it arranged so that they can call somebody and they would deliver anything without any questions asked. After everybody was settled including the two transgenics that had followed and Biggs (they decided to stay with the transhumans incase anything came up that somebody had to look normal to do) she and Alec drove out. Alec was headed to Metropolis. She wanted something that wasn't too exciting and at the same time she could still meet up with Alec to beat him up. After she dropped Alec off at his apartment in Metropolis and started looking for someplace small and uneventful outside of city limits. When she saw the Welcome sign for Smallville, Kansas she decided that this was the perfect place to start over.

It was time to stop her life as Anita Blake (her alias, everybody had just called her Ace) and time to start over as Max Guevera….