Paddle out

"We both want the same thing out of this Donald. I could be a bigger asset than you think"

Lydecker moved his hand over to his pistol, but didn't pull it out "And what would that be?"

"452. Alive" White replied getting back up on his feet

"Why should I trust you?" Lydecker cautiously asked, his and still hovering over his gun

"Things have changed Lydecker. Things are on a more personal level now. I can give you what you want Deck. We can make a deal here"

"Yes" Lydecker asked, dropping his guard a little. White laughed before he fell to the ground once more.

Terminal city: command center

Joshua tilted his head and began to read a set of runes on Sam's arm "12th October"

"Its too easy" Max spoke up "A location and date, it's too easy. Hell this could be some trap by Whites cult buddies"

"I know but it's all that we have Max. This is our best shot"

"I guess so. But I'm not leaving here until we have this mess sorted out here Logan"

"Joshua coming" Joshua stated

"No Josh. I've told you. You are safe here"

"No Max. I need to see father. And I need to protect you. Like you said Whites buddies" Joshua said with authority in his voice. Max was about to say something back when Logan began to speak

"He's right Max. How will we know if it is Sandeman and anyway? and Zack said Sandeman wanted Josh as well"

"Fine, we will take him to see the man who put his 'son' in a basement for most of his life" She reluctantly agreed.

Sandeman's place

Sandeman was hunched over a desk covered in papers and books. He was scribbling numbers down. He was looking very flustered and stressed. The sound of a door opening disrupted his concentration causing him to snap his pencil. He took hold of his cane and stood up "Otto? Krit?" He then saw something blur in the other room it moved to fast to be an ordinary, but too silently and eerily to be a transgenic. Sandeman began to panic; he picked to phone up from his desk and called the only person that could truly help him now.

Max, Sam and Joshua had just begun to leave as Logan received a call. He took out his phone. It was that number again "Yes" He answered sharply

"Logan. They're here! They have found me! Listen Logan you need to…….." There was a crunching sound as the phone went dead.

"Herman" Logan muttered under is breath

Sandeman tried to run but the familiar pinned him against the wall. Both men grinned at each other. "Brother" Sandeman began "I Always thought it would be Ames that caught up with me"

"Ames has made some foolish choices, just like you, and look at where you are now" The door could be heard once more as two more people walked in. Sandeman straightened himself

"Ben! Krit! Help!" The two transgenics Turned to see a familiar hit sandeman across the head knocking him out. They both flew towards him. Krit was grabbed from behind. Ben leapt into the air and kicked the attacker in the face, but the familiar just shook it off. Krit was being punched into the ground while Ben found himself being lifted into the air, then just as quickly falling through a pane of glass then breaking a desk. Otto appeared with two other men, all three of them armed with guns. Bullets began to fly across the room, some made contact, and others didn't, none of them slowed the familiars down. One of the familiars scooped sandman from the ground. They both ran straight into Otto and his accomplices knocking them out of the way and blurred through the door.

Seattle police headquarters

Lydecker and white who was struggling to walk, and had blisters beginning to appear on his face entered a room full of military personnel, Police and politicians. They both took a seat at the top of the table. "There is no chance in hell that these transgenics will return to a military facility" Lydecker began.

"Well then we make them" A woman spoke up

"We can't do that, these kids may not be looking for trouble but"

"Yes they are" A man with a name tag displaying sergeant Huggins interrupted, Lydecker ignored him.

"I know my kids, they will die before they go back to Manticore and if they need to, they will take out who ever they need to in order to stay alive"

"You're kids?" the sergeant asked, Lydecker continued, still ignoring him.

"They are however" Lydecker paused for a second "reasonable people, and far more intelligent than you or I. They will make a deal with us, meet us half way if they benefit from it. And they will still be very useful to the military"

"What exactly is your plan colonel?" An army officer asked. This time White began to speak.

"We let them go, they will be free citizens"

Terminal city command center

"Who was that?" Max asked Logan as he put his phone away

"Umm don't know, wrong number" He answered

"Right" Max said slowly, feeling that he wasn't telling her something when Dix approached them, along with Clemente

"They want to talk" Clemente said coolly He handed the phone to max

"452 I presume?" a voice asked

"What do you want?"

"We would like to make a compromise. We let you go. You will all be free citizens. All we ask is that you work for the military"

"Umm, how about NO" Max retorted

"Let me finish 452. We won't be sending you to a military facility you will be free to live and do as you want. When we have any missions that require you're………. Specialities we will contact you, you decide who goes, and you even get to plan the mission"

"And" Max asked knowing that there was more to this

"The only other thing is that you must all have a tracking device implanted, to make sure there are no problems, so we can keep an eye on you. What do you say 452?"

"I need to speak with my people" She then handed the phone back to Clemente

"Sounds reasonable to me" he added

"We need to have a meeting, now. Josh, Alec Tell everyone to be in the mess hall in half an hour" She turned to Logan. "I don't like this"

The next day

Most of the population of terminal city were stood near the front gate, as were the police, military and general public at the other side. The 5 hostages were being led to the gate by Zack, Alec, Max and Joshua. Alec spoke into his radio "How is it looking" he said to Logan and Dix who were watching through a series of monitors in the command centre

"Can't see anything" Dix looked over to another monitor to see a group of transgenics with guns pointing through the window of a building near the front gate "Alpha team" Dix spoke into the radio

"In place" a single voice replied

"Delta?" he spoke into the radio to a group of transgenics in a building at the other side of the gates

"In place and ready"

"Open up" Alec ordered. Dix hit a button and the gates slid open. Clemente turned to Max

"If you ever need my help….. I'll do what I can"

"Thank you detective, I'll remember that" She replied smiling

"Ok, they're coming out!" Zack shouted. He nudged the hostages indicating for them to walk forward. Their walk quickly turned into a run, apart from Clemente Who stopped and turned around. He simply said "Good luck" Then walked in to the crowd of people behind him. A black SUV approached the gates.

"This is Delta, Alpha there is something coming your way!" alpha team raised their guns. Vin Looked down his scope. The window was down. He tried to take aim at the two figures in the car, but the blacked out window rolled up and the SUV drove away.

"They're leaving" Dix hit the button once more and the gates closed

Max looked up at Zack, Alec and Joshua "I still don't like this"

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