Max was going nuts outside. "We shouldn't have let them go," she said, as she began to pace. "We never leave out people behind." She ran a hand through her hair. "She won't make it through that...we all know that."
"Maxie, calm down," Jondy whispered to her, as she came up and slid an arm around her. "It's going to be okay."
"How?" she asked in a harsher tone than she wanted. "I didn't mean to snap. But I don't really see how this is going to turn out any better. Krit and Pip are gone. How is this better?"
"It's really not," Zane said, as he tapped them on the arm. "We got company. Seems that guy didn't keep his part of the bargain." Max and Alec looked up to see a group of soldiers coming towards them. "And to think we just wiped their butts just a minute ago. We gotta teach them, yet again."
"One problem with that statement," Biggs said, as he turned to look over at Max and Alec. "Those aren't the ones we just fought."
"Yeah, I see that," both Max and Alec muttered. "Those are White's play toys."
"As in?" Zane asked, as he looked over the newcomers. "They look like us...kinda."
"But they're not. They're familiars."
"A what?" Zane looked over at Max. "I take it they're not nice and friendly folk either."
"452, prepare to die," one of them called out to Max, causing Zane to turn to look at them.
"I take that as a no." Zane turned to look back at the others. "So what you guys think we should do?"
"We fight," Max said, as she moved past him. "They took Pip and Krit away. We fight. It's what we were born and trained to do. They want a fight, let's give them one."
"All right, Maxie," Jondy said, as she joined her side. "We're with you."
"Let's do this." They then got ready to fight the Familiars. "You guys didn't bring your baby-sitter, I'm shocked." The one who had called her out, growled as he launched at her. "Ah, and I didn't think you wanted to play." The fight then broke, as the others started into it as well.
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Ames was walking down the hallway, when he turned a corner and came across a scared 946. "Ah, there you are," he said, as he reached out for her, only to be knocked down by an X5. He looked up as the X5 quickly picked up 946. "This isn't over, 946." The X5 shot him a harsh glare, as two more came around the corner and shot him a look of pure annoyance, before moving past him. "Stupid, X5's."
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"Who the hell was that?" Brin asked Krit, as they rushed down a corridor. "He seemed to know the child."
"That was Ames White," Pip replied for Krit, as they stopped at a secured door, and Zach swiped a security badge to open the door. "He's a bad guy." She then took off through it only to take a tazer to the chest. She fell back to the floor. All three X5s looked up to see a familiar in his hands.
"Freaks," the man hissed as them, as his eyes went to Pip on the ground. "Child located. East corridor."
"Get her out of here," Zach ordered Krit, as he pushed Pip towards him. "That's an order."
"You've never fought them," Krit reminded him, as he quickly positioned Pip in his arms. "You don't know how to take them down. How will you be able to take them down?'
"Go!" Zach snapped, causing Krit to jump slightly at the tone Zach used. He then turned and fled down another corridor. He had to get Pip out of here before he ran into any more of those things came across them. He was almost to a door when he heard a noise behind him and turned to see Zach and Brin running towards him. "Just go."
"Right..." Krit muttered, as they took off down another corridor to a door which lead them outside. Krit blinked after being blinded for a few seconds. "Now what?"
"We find the others," Zach replied, as he paused a gun to Brin and looked down at Pip. "Let's go."
"I wish she hadn't been tazered," Krit said, as they started around the corner and froze at the sight before them. Their X5 comrades in arms were in hand to hand combat with the enemy, like they had faced in the hallway. "Oh, that's nice."
"Krit, shut up!" both Zach and Brin snapped at him. "We help them out, and then go back to our old lives. Simple as that."
"And what about her?" Krit asked, as he gestured towards the young one in his arms. "You're just gonna forget about her. She's part of the family now. You can't walk out on her."
"She's not a part of us," Brin said, as she turned her back to them. "She's not X5." She then was gone.
"But she is one of us," Krit mouthed, as he looked down at Pip. "You guys just don't see it."
"Krit, get your head back in the game," Zach snapped. "Or go back inside. We can't have your feelings be involved in this part. Got it?"
"Yes, sir," Krit replied, as he looked down at Pip. "I know where I'm at in this." He then took up Pip and blurred off before Zach could say another word.
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Max and Alec ended back to back with each other. "How you doing, Maxie?" he asked her, as one of the familiars came towards them, only to be taken down by a very familiar X5. "Zach?"
"Hey," he said to them both. "Couldn't let you both have all the fun, could I?"
"Where's Krit?" Max asked, as she looked up at him. "You didn't leave him in there."
Zach motioned over his shoulder where Krit was fighting alongside Zane and Syl. "Nope, not my style, little Sister," he replied, as he gazed down at her. "You should really know that by now."
Alec's eyes drifted over to Zane, Syl, and Krit. "Where's Pip?" he asked the question that was clearly on Max's mind as well. He looked up at Zach as Brin came over to Zach's side after finishing up with her familiar. "Where's my daughter?"
TBC
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Author's Note.
I know, get to writting, don't keep us dragging in the dirt. I'm going I'm going. I'm writing, as we speak. I'm getting over this serious writer's block that I have...it's killing me...I mean...Pip's bugging me...cause she's bored..and that's not good...and x5 who's bored can only mean one thing...Major trouble... gotta get back to writing. Luve ya all...Zip..