They just keep on coming

"Alec?" Vin blurted out as he was about to lunge at his attacker. They both stood down.

"What? I'm 493, Ben"

Images of Bens face flashed through Vins mind. Traitor. Deserter. His Manticore training still buried deep inside him. "You're one of the 09'ers"

"That's right" Ben pushed Vin into the wall. He searched his neck for a barcode "899 so what are you doing here"

"Eyes sent me" Vin squirmed trying to free himself. He could feel something about Ben, something he didn't like.

"Who is Eyes?"

"He sent me to look for this guy. In my bag there's a photo" Ben hooked the bag with his foot and kicked it into the air catching it in one hand still jabbing his elbow into Vins back. He removed the photo and threw the bag aside. He quickly grabbed Vins neck tightening his grip. How the hell did he get so strong? he's just an X5 like me

"What do you want with Sandeman?" Ben shouted

"Sandeman" Vins mind flashed back to a conversation he had with Joshua, and he had overheard Max and a few others saying the name before "Whoa man. I want nothing to do with the whole cult situation I didn't know what this was about. Just let me go"

Ben finally released Vin "Too bad, because you have just got your self involved" Krit and Otto appeared dragging Kat and Tom with them "Let them Go. I think we need to explain a few things"

Familiar headquarters

A man wearing a lab coat stood up and snapped his pencil. He let out a scream and pushed all of the papers off his desk. He pushed the desk over then kicked it breaking it in two. He moved over to a rack of test tubes and threw them to the ground. A woman dressed in a black cloak entered the laboratory and lowered her hood. "Not going well?" she asked with fear in her voice. The man turned away he couldn't look at her face because of the embarrassment that Sandeman had brought upon his family. He didn't even deserve to be in the same room as her.

"It's not possible. "I can't make a vaccine without a sample of the virus" He spat towards the ground. "We need to get hold of this creature he made"

"We will take care of that doctor. Concentrate on preparing what we started for the moment. We need to make the first move"

"Yes priestess Fe'nos tol"

Max began to wake up; where ever she was it was cold. She hugged her knees to try warm herself up. She could hear voices echoing in the distance. When she came round she noticed that she was locked up in a cell, very similar to what she had back at Manticore. She looked through the bars to find White sitting on a stool. He noticed that she had come around then stood up with the aid of his cane and grinned "452"

"White" She replied cockily. Max waited for a response but white remained silent. Max suddenly noticed that white looked terrible. He was struggling to stand. His face was red and blistered, it reminded her of Logan when he had contracted the 'virus'. She could hear his heavy breathing. "What do you want?" she simply asked.

"I need your help 4" white began "I need your help Max" White looked away feeling disgusted that he referred to this thing as Max, as though it was a person.

"Why the hell would I ever help you!" Max asked with outrage

"You have something I want, and I have something you want. The situation has changed"

Flashback

Familiar headquaters

White was lying on a hospital bed drifting in and out of conciseness. People were stood all around him, though he wasn't paying much attention. He heard someone say his name. White cleared his head and looked up. It was him, he was here standing before White. White dragged himself into a sitting position and made himself look as respectable as he could in his current condition. "Sir" He stuttered "Sir, this is an honour"

The man looked down at white, his face expressionless He clasped his hands and began to speak "You promised us you would find 425"

"Sir I just need more time. Don't underestimate them Sir" White now knew this wasn't good.

"You have failed us too many times White, you are as much as an embarrassment to us as your father. You are nothing to us anymore" The man paused, and an evil grin took over his face "While trying to recreate your fathers virus we came close, but didn't quite get there, I think we will test it on you. Then again, this will be worse than your fathers virus. You don't deserve to be one of us any more. You don't deserve to survive the coming" He waved his arm and a group of familiars entered and strapped White down. Then a man wearing a lab coat entered with a needle

"Uncle!" White panicked. Before white could do anything the needle had already penetrated his skin. He could feel it seeping into him, his veins were burning, his body was shaking violently. Pain took over his body. Maybe it wasn't just a phantom of the mind? Instead of slowing him down though the pain gave him a rush of adrenaline. He screamed and broke free from his restraints. He threw himself from the bed. Within seconds he had taken out everyone in the room. He ran into the hallway realising that 4 more familiars were running at him. He ran in the other direction towards a window at the end of the hallway he tore the bars off and swung round hitting the familiars across the face with the bars giving him a few more seconds. White dived through the window and ran, ran as far as he could before he collapsed and clutched his body in agony.

"Yes?" Max asked. White shook his head brining his mind back to Max.

"I need your blood Max, I need a transfusion and I need you to tell me where Ray is"

"Like that's gonna happen" Max almost laughed

"If you give me what I want I can help you, I can help you take out the familiars and I can keep your people safe"

"How about NO" Max shouted

"Then maybe he can change you mind" White hobbled away with is cane when he came and unlocked the cell. Max was about to say his name, Alec but then she saw his eye. She could see the fear and emptiness in them.

"Ben" Max slowly spoke "Ben I" she had no idea what to say as tears began the roll down her face "Ben I'm so sorry I"

"Its ok Maxie" he sat beside her and put his arm around her "I needed to be stopped" Ben regained focus. There would be time for all of this later. "White, and Lydecker they are on our side, they are working with Sandeman"

"Ben what's going on what is this all about? I don't want anything to do with this. I just want to be a normal girl. I don't want to have to save the world" Max slumped down.

"I'm not the best person to be telling you this. Come on. Oh and we better go see your dog friend to try calm him down he keeps demanding to know where you are, and he has tried to kill White about four times now"

"It's not like he doesn't deserve it, and his name is Joshua" Max snapped.

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A/n: Just to let you know I'm going away for a while so I won't be updating for 3/4 weeks