Previously on New Addition
Pip blurred until she couldn't blur anymore and dropped hard onto the ground. She looked up and found herself in a strange place. "Oh, this isn't good," she said, as she slowly got up, her body screaming out in pain. She started to walk, when she heard the sound of footsteps behind her and she froze. She then spun around in an attack position, and a soft chuckle entered her ears.
"Hello, 946. It's good to see you again."
Pip looked up at the man in fear, and she backed away from him. "Leave me be," she cried out in fear. "I don't want to go back. I want my Daddy." She turned to run, only to have two X5s stopped her. "Oh, that's not far. Using them to stop me. They're bigger than me." She then turned around to face the man with tears in her eyes. "Please don't make me go back there. I want to stay with my parents."
"I'm sorry 946, but that's not an option," the man said, as he made a motion with his hand and one of the X5's grabbed onto Pip from behind. She let out a scream, as she began to struggle against him. "You belong with us. Not those traitors."
Pip's head snapped up at the mentions of her parents and the others. "They are not traitors," she snarled, as she fought against the X5 who held her. "They are good. You're evil."
"We're not evil, 946, we're the good guys."
"Let me go, please. I don't want to go back. I want to go home."
"You are going home." The man came towards her with a needle. "Where you belong."
"NO!" Pip tried to fight against the X5 again, as the man came closer with the needle. "Biggs, CeCe, Zero, somebody, help!" But her cries reached deaf ears and she flinched as the needle went into her skin. "No...not fair. My name is Pip. Not 946. I have a name, I'm not a number." Tears ran down her face. You don't owned me." Her world then went black and she sagged in the X5's arms.
"Yes, 946, we do," the man said, as he looked up at the X5 who was holding her. "Let's go. They are waiting for her."
Logan walked into TC to find a dreadful sight. It looked like a funral. "Okay, who got snatched?" he joked, as he looked around, as he set his package down on the table, only to have Biggs and CeCe look up at him with hurtful eyes. "Oh God, I was joking. Who?"
"Pip," Biggs answered, as he got to his feet. "She ran off, but we're thinking she got snatched by someone on the way back."
"Where's Max?" Logan asked, as he looked around.
"Taking it not to well," CeCe replied, as she looked up at him. "It probably isn't a good time for you to want to have a talk with her."
"But I have some information about 946's background."
"Her name is Pip," Joshua snapped, as he came up to them, causing Logan to jump, causing Biggs to reach out and put a reassuring hand on his arm. "She's not a number. She has a name." There were tears running down his face. "You need to remember that, Logan."
"I know that she's got a name, Joshua," Logan said, as he turned to watch him leave. "I just have important information about her past, before she came to us and got her name. That's all."
"What do you have for us, Logan?" Max's voice called out from behind them, cutting through the tension in the room. Logan turn on his heels to face her and Alec to see that they had dark circles under their eyes. "Spit it out, Logan. We don't have time for this. Pip is missing. You are wasting our time. We need to be out looking for her, while we still can."
"Here," Logan said, as he handed the file to her. "It's important testing information that I got on 'Pip' from the facility that had her before Manticore."
"Before Manticore?"Alec said, as he began to skim the stuff, over Max's shoulder. "I thought she was born in Manticore's labs."
"Yeah, she wasn't born in the labs. She had to have something special done to her before she was taken back to Manticore."
"Like what?" CeCe and Biggs asked at the same time.
"Like have her DNA put back," Max said, as she slapped the file shut. "Those bastards. Pip's even lucky to have survived. Now they have her again."
"Max, it'll be fine, you'll get her back," Logan said, as he took a step towards her, only to have her brush past him out of the room. "You always know what to do."
"Logan, now isn't the time to talk," Alec said, as he followed Max out of the room.
"Yeah, kinda figured that one out for myself," Logan muttered, as he watched them leave. "I'm not as dumb as you think I am."
Pip woke up with a splitting headache to find herself in a small room and quickly sat up to find herself chained to a bed. "Oh, no," she cried out, as she tried to get to her feet, but found she couldn't. "No...I have to get away." She tried to free from the chains and found that she couldn't. "They're gonna kill me." A single tear ran down the side of hear face. "I shouldn't have run away."
"That's true, you shouldn't have," a soft voice called out, and Pip's head snapped up. "You should have stayed where you were safe. Stayed with Maxie. She would have kept you safe. Here you're not safe. Here they'll surely kill you."
"Who are you?" Pip asked, her voice full of fear.
The figure chuckled, as they stayed in the shadows. "You don't need to fear me. I'm an old friend of Maxie's. I'll be around. Don't you worry." The figure then slid away into the shadows before Pip could say another word, leaving her alone.
Author's Note:
Here's the thing...You guys can help me figure out who the figure is. It's an '09er. But I don't know which one yet. Choose your favorite.
TBC
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