A truly freak nation
"Uhh, how much further" Alec moaned as they were crawling though the knee deep water in the sewer beneath Seattle"
"Stop complaining" Mole grunted "it's better than being shot to pieces"
Max, who was in front of the transgenics spoke up. "Guess this is it" she said through gritted teeth as they approached a rusty, broken ladder leading to the street above. Max began to climb up as Logan once again pulled out his cell phone "Bling you ready?"
"Sure am" Bling replied
Max pushed the drain cover aside and emerged, followed by Logan. Max began to shake, then stamp her feet on the ground, followed by a little screaming "uhh!"
"What's wrong? Miss hard-ass Max Guevara afraid of getting a little dirty" Logan grinned
"Shut up Logan or I'll kick your ass" max growled, trying to stay calm Just as black car screeched around the corner and came to a stop in front of the trangenics .
Logan hopped in the front followed by the rest of the transgenics who squeezed into the back. Bling had already set off before the had chance to shut the doors, He took a right out of the parking lot, then took a look in the rear view mirror to see who was in the car, he glanced over at max instantly recognising her but she's dead? He thought to himself, and then there was a young man, about the same age as max next to her, then a teenage boy who looked about 13. He then looked behind them to see a claw like hand push the hair out of his face to reveal what looked like a half-man half-dog, and if that wasn't freaky enough, next to him was a lizard-like creature chewing on a cigar "Holy freain' Jesus" Bling blurted out.
"Hey Bling" Logan began, "as you know this is max, that's Alec, and Dalton, then at the back there's mole with the cigar, and the other guy is Joshua"
"Hey there Bling" Joshua said in a friendly, child-like manner
"Hey, um Joshua, and the rest of you" Bling replied trying to hide his anxiety
"Great to see you again Bling" max smiled "so you're finally back from you undercover mission for eyes only, you've been away for ages, well over a year" it was more of an attempt to calm Bling, rather than an attempt to start conversation
"Great to see you too max, especially as I thought you were dead"
"What I can say, do you really think id let big bad Manticore take me down? I decided to take them down instead, so I decided to destroy their data base, escape then free the rest of the transgenics while I was there, just the usual"
"You never fail to amaze me Max, and I see you still looking as beautiful as ever, even when you have been crawling through the sewers" at that point Logan took a glance at Bling, although Bling wasn't sure what it meant "and I guess these are some of your transgenic friends" he finished off
"Yeah, Thanks Bling max replied"
"So Logan, where to" Bling asked
"Terminal city, take a left here"
Back at Jam pony
"Ok, MOVE IN" White said grinning "Time to exterminate the filth"
The familiars moved to the back of the building and climbed the wall onto the roof of jam pony "Prepare for entry" Thula said levelly. The familiars broke the glass out of the sky lights, then gracefully and silently dropped through into jam pony, they then took cover behind a pillar. Thula then made a hand gesture signalling two of the familiars to move over to a door leading to an old unused room. They took place at each side of the door before one of the men nodded then raised his gun and effortlessly kicked the door off its hinges and both men simultaneously opened fire into the cloud of dust, but hit nothing but an old table an and a crumbling wall. Thula and the other familiar had a similar experience in the side room at the other side. She signalled for them to regroup. They split then carefully, and silently searched the rest of the upper floor of jam pony, And still found no transgenics. Thula then signalled for them to move down the stairs.
White entered Jam pony just as the other familiars did, he was ordered to stay out of this, but he wasn't going to let them have all the glory was he? The familiars filed down the stairs to find a group of ordinary humans bound by Jam pony parcel tape. One of the men inhaled "filth" he spat looking disgustedly at the hostages. The other three familiars ditched their stealth tactics, and this time began to shoot the place up not caring what they hit. White descended the stairs in a similar manner to the other transgenics, however he went straight over to normal, who was now sitting with gem and cradling her child in her arms. White grabbed normal by the neck and slammed him against the wall with super-human strength. Normal winced with the pain. "Where are they" white snarled emotionlessly"
"I, I dddon't know Normal cowered" White said nothing, but tightened his already vice-like grip. "I last saw them going upstairs" he choked "Why do you think I would cover up for them, I want them dead just as much as you do" He said struggling to breath, all color had now gone from his face
"You have no idea" white whispered, before releasing Normal, white was about to leave, but then turned and spat on Normal.
White walked over to the front doors of jam pony and kicked them open, almost kicking the doors of the hinges. Sure he was pissed because they had escaped, but he did still have a chance to redeem himself he thought. He was closely followed by the rest of the familiars. White marched over to Clemente. He stopped in front of him, but did not look at his face. Emotionlessly he said "they escaped, go rescue your precious hostages"
"Told ya so" Clemente Smiled, by which time white had disappeared.
"Where the hell is Otto?" he muttered to him self
Clemente began to issue orders into his radio, at which point he was interrupted by a voice "Sir"
"Detective Sung, about time"
"Sorry Sir, Its chaos over at sector 8"
"Whatever, you're here now. I've blocked every checkpoint in the city; there is no chance in hell these trangenics are getting away. You're coming with me to sort out the hostages"
The two men walked into Jam pony to find the hostages tied up. "Is anyone hurt?" Clemente said. They all shook their heads
"How come they didn't tie you up?" Clemente enquired looking at Gem And Normal
"She Was Having a baby, officer, they let me help deliver it, they're not all monsters you know, some of them even tried to help her, even the half animal ones.
"Well, I never expected to hear Normal there say that" O.C said to Sketchy
"I guess he's done with his kill the freaks crusade then?" Sketchy added
Clemente, like everyone else was scared of the whole transgenic thing when it was first exposed. But he too was beginning to see it differently. They could talk couldn't they, they must have souls, emotions, just like us its not there fault that they are who they are is it? Did they ask to be created? They were just kids that were tortured and made to do things that are unthinkable, just like Eyes only said…………..Even the half animal ones. If they were monsters all of these people would have been dead, there just trying to survive
"Sir, SIR" Matt Sung interrupted Clemente's thoughts "I need to get her and the child to a hospital, Moore is here to assist you, is that ok sir?"
"Yea, we need to make sure that baby is healthy, get going" Matt led Gem out of Jam pony and through the crowd into his car. He noticed the apprehensive look on her face. "You're gonna be ok, I'm a friend of Logan's. I'm taking you to Terminal city" He said as he helped her into the car.
About 2 hours later: Unknown location
An old man with Graying hair and a worn out face made his way over to an armchair and sat down with the hot drink he had just made himself. He switched on the T.V and turned to channel 6 news
The transgenics have somehow escaped the heavily guarded scene with out a trace. All check points and roads out of the city have been blocked, but they have not yet been found.
Otto walked over to the old man as he switched the T.V off "well, that turned out pretty good sir"
"It did indeed Otto, we still have a chance. Did you manage to follow them?"
"Yes sir, they are in terminal city as we speak. They should be safe there for quite a while. The transgenics have it heavily guarded and, to be honest the police are terrified of them, and the bio-hazard is a huge deterrent"
"Good, good" The old man sighed with relief "We do however need them to be free people, and not for them to be imprisoned in terminal city. There was only one news crew with a camera, and the police prevented the public from taking any photos. If we can get hold of the camera there should be no record of who they are. Otto I need you to destroy any hoverdrone footage of the whole of Seattle for the whole day. Can you do that?"
"Right on it sir" Otto replied and started issuing orders into his radio
"Donald" the old man shouted. Another man walked through the door. He was in his mid 50's, had dyed blonde hair, and a hard expression on his face
"Yea?" he replied casually
"I need someone to get to the news crew and make sure the footage does not make it onto the T.V, or that the police get it can you take care of that?"
"Yes, ill deploy 493"
"Donald, is that such a good idea? Is he stable enough already, And what if he comes into contact with 452, or even his twin, or anyone else that knows 494? And that's ignoring the fact that the city will be crawling with white an his men"
"There is that risk, but the only other available man is 599, and I believe he would create too much attention. 493 excelled at stealth as a child, he should be able to do this almost silently"
"Very well, just hurry the old man concluded"
Terminal city command center
Max, Logan, Alec, Joshua and Bling were sat around a makeshift table playing cards, while Dix, mole and a few others were all watching the news broadcasts when Luke, who had been on gate duty came over and interrupted them, "Logan" he began "There's a guy at the gates by the name of Matt Sung, says he's got a transgenic with him too"
"Gem and baby" Joshua cheerfully added. Logan, Bling , Max And Joshua followed Luke to the gates.
"Hey Matt, thanks a lot" Logan Smiled as Joshua helped Gem Out of the car
"Hey" Max added
"Hey Max, its No problem", Matt continued "I really do owe you Logan"
"That's good then, because there is still one more thing I need you to take care of" Logan laughed" There was a news crew that caught most of us on camera, it would be really helpful if the footage disappeared"
"Can do" Matt smiled "I had better be going anyway. Clemente will be wondering where I got to "see ya later" he added
Back in the command center max and Joshua were with Gem and her baby. Logan and Bling were with Dix at a computer terminal. Logan was tapping away at the keyboard. He scrunched his face up in confusion. "Someone has already deleted the hoverdrone footage" He said to every one
"White?" Alec suggested
"No, he wants you all dead; he wouldn't try cover up for you" "I guess matt could have done it, he does have access to the server"
"Who cares" Mole growled "I still can't leave this beautiful place known as terminal city"
Oddly enough they all turned to another news broadcast.
It has been 5 hours since the transgenics escaped the scene. The identity of the transgenics is still unknown. The city has been reopened. Remember to stay vigilant and that the transgenics are very dangerous
No one said anything, but they all just sighed with relief.
Joshua began to speak "Max, come see" "everybody come. I want to show you"
"Show me what" Max asked patiently. Joshua just gestured for her to follow him. He led them through the streets of terminal city and up a damaged fire escape onto the roof of the tallest building of terminal city over looking the chaos in the streets of Seattle around them. The majority of terminal city had now followed them up. He moved over to a rusting pole and began to pull on a rope raising his flag
"Freak nation" Joshua declared when his masterpiece reached the top of the pole
"What, do you mean out there or in here?" mole said almost smiling
Max said nothing but just smiled at Joshua. She could see the pride in his face. She then noticed that Logan had just put a white surgical glove on his left hand. Max did the same with a black leather glove and smiled at Logan as he took her hand.
"Freak nation huh, more like freak world" Logan thought out loud
TBC
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