"You're not like the others, are you?" Ames asked Isis.
Isis slowly lifted her head to look up at him. For the past three hours he had been torturing her. Ames reached for a chair and placed it right in front of Isis. He sat down and grabbed a hold of her chin roughly. Ames looked into Isis eyes and saw fear, but also hate in them.
"You should be afraid. You and all of your transgenic scum friends." Ames said letting her go.
Ames got up and punched her one more time in the face, causing Isis to fall backwards of the chair from the blow. Blood was seeping from her nose now. As well as tears that emerged in her eyes.
"Strange. You bleed more easily than the others." Ames said seeing the blood on her face and on his hands.
"You were easier to capture and you don't seem to hold the same strength as the others."
Isis saw him smile evilly before kicking her in the stomach. Isis grunted from the pain she felt. She coughed out blood. Ames grabbed a chunk of her hair and pulled on it, tilting her head to the side. He then pulled out a sort of tranquilizer and struck Isis on the neck.
"Ah"
Ames pulled the needle like gadget out of her neck. He through her head back and she hit her head hard on the floor. Isis's vision went blurry.
"Now, you stay here. You're bait," Ames said turning towards two guards and pulling out a white rag from inside his suit.
"She'll be here soon. She always comes for her 'kind'. You know what to do. Make our guest feel right at home." Ames said cleaning the blood off his hands as he was walking away.
Isis could see two guards near the exit door, that of which Ames walked out of. Isis felt weak. Something she hadn't felt in a long time. Just then she saw the two guards walking towards her. She had a bad feeling about this.
Max was right outside the building. Her team had arrived ten minutes ago and she was analyzing how they would get in. She was looking out a distance to see Ames White walk out of the building.
"It had to be him," she said mad.
Max then felt someone next to her. Alec and his teamed just arrived.
"What we looking at?" Alec asked.
"Five near the back entrance, and four out front. Who knows how many inside?" Max said.
"We have to get in, Max." Alec said closing his hands in fist.
"I know. Why are you so anxious?" Max asked Alec.
"Me, anxious? Come on Maxie. I'm just ready to kick a little familiar ass. Nothing wrong with that," Alec said.
"Right," Max said knowing Alec was edgy for other reasons she just didn't know.
Alec stared at the building and all he could think about was that it might be Isis from Manticore. They needed to help her. He knew she wouldn't last long like the rest of the Transgenics. If it truly was her. They had to act fast. Max signaled her team to head in. Alec signaled his.
"Ready?"Max asked Alec.
"Always am," Alec said and they head towards the building.
~~Inside the building~~
Max and Alec had made it inside and everything was clear. They headed down a hallway that lead them to two set of stairs. One going up and the other were going down.
"I'll take downstairs," Alec said.
Max nodded and they split up. Alec slowly descended down the stairs. He could hear movement. He could make out two set of footsteps. Alec rounded the corner of the bottom steps where he could hear someone coming towards him. He readied himself for the attack. A guy came around the corner and Alec punched him hard in the face knocking him out cold.
"Guess your a cop," Alec said stepping over the guy who had easily fallen.
Alec continued down a hallway that lead straight to a door. He slowly turned the knob and looked inside. No one was inside the room. He was about to leave when something caught his eye. He took a closer look and he made out a figure on the ground, not moving. Alec walked inside and just then was thrown across the room. Alec landed on the floor hard. He got up fast and saw one of the cult guys standing near the door.
"Great, and here I thought it would be easy. It never is." Alec said.
Just then the other man ran towards Alec and they proceeded to fight. Alec got a few punches, but he got his share of hits as well. He punched the guy in the face and side kicked him. Isis could hear noises and she tried opening her eyes but couldn't. All she could do was listen.
"Come on, is that the best you got?" Alec said.
At the sound of his voice, Isis opened her eyes a little. She could make out two figures moving.
"That voice," she thought.
Just then the dark took her sight and she was rendered unconsciousness. Alec landed on a table that broke from the force.
"Shit," he grunted in pain.
Alec looked around and found a ranch hammer near him. Alec reached for it and grabbed it. He stood up and turned to continue the fight. The cult goon tried to kick Alec but Alec moved away from the hit.
"Come on, that's the best you got?" Alec said with a smirk.
The guy got mad and ran towards Alec. Alec ran towards the wall and did a back flip on the wall, and over the familiar. Alec landed behind him and struck him with the ranch hammer to the back of the head. Causing the guy to fall to the ground on one knee. Alec then struck him a second time, rendering him to the ground completely.
"Stay down," Alec said dropping the hammer on the guy's head again.
Alec turned toward the figure on the ground. He ran over to stop a few steps away. There was too much blood. Alec bent down to get a closer look at the person. He slowly moves the ha bloody and sticky hair, away from the person's face. Alec's eyes widen.
"Isis?" he whispered.
Alec gently lifted her head.
"Isis, can you hear me? Come on, wake up." Alec said worried.
Isis would not wake up.
"Isis, come on. Open your eyes," Alec said slapping Isis on the cheeck softly.
Alec gently lifted her up and proceeded to leave the basement. Max was coming downstairs when she saw Alec coming up from downstairs.
"Got her?" she asked Alec.
Alec nodded.
"Let's go," Max said.
~~~Back at Terminal City~~~
Chuck was sitting down on a sofa eating a PB&J sandwich. Mole was loading up a rifle and he looked up. He turned to look at the kid, who kept on staring at him.
"You got a problem kid?" Mole asked.
"Nope," he answered.
Mole shook his head and walked away. He didn't do kids. Joshua was pacing back and forth. He was worried for Max and Alec, but he was also worried about Isis. If it was Isis from Manticore, he really hoped she was safe. She had been his friend. He remembered the last time he had seen her. She had been crying. He remembers it like it was yesterday.
~~~Flashback~~~
Joshua was looking out through the caged bars closing him from the outside. It was at that moment he heard someone crying. Joshua walked towards the sound. He rounded the corner and saw little Isis.
"Little Isis," Joshua said happy to see his friend.
Isis turned to look at Joshua. Joshua's smile faded in seeing the tears falling down her eyes.
"Little Isis sad?" Joshua asked going to her.
Isis ran to Joshua and hugged him.
"He hates me…he told me….he hates me, Josh…" she cried.
Joshua hugged Isis as she cried.
"Who?" Joshua asked.
Isis slowly lifted her head off Joshua's chest and looked up at him.
"494" she sobbed.
~~~End of Flashback~~~
Max was in the passenger seat of the jeep they were riding in. She had told the others to take the Corsica and drive in an opposite direction leading to Terminal City, to help mislead anyone who intended to follow them. Max looked into the rearview mirror. She could see Alec holding Isis in his arms and the way he was looking at her. By the way he reacted in not wanting to let her go, she knew something was up. She had a feeling Manticore had something to do with it.
Alec stared down at Isis in his arms. He continued to strock her face. Trying to remove the bloody hair from her angelic face. She looked just like he remembered her. Though, now she looked a little older. Alec started feeling emotions that he had last thought were gone. But with one look at Isis, they came back.
~~~Flashback~~~
"Well done 494, you've accomplished yet another assimilation."
"Thank you, sir." 494 said standing straight and looking straight ahead.
"Dismissed."
494 saluted and turned to walk away. It was around midnight, when 494 snuck away from his cell and proceeded down to the 'downstairs' part of the facility. 494 was walking through the hallway where all the Anomilies were at. He ignored them as usual. He's been doing so for almost a year now. He slowed down when he heard her voice. She was singing a song. He loved the way her voice sounded. It calmed him. Brought him away from the nightmares and into a beautiful dream. Alec then saw her turn to smile at him. She ran to him and jumped into his arms. He held her tight and then set her down.
"Right on time," she said smiling up at him.
"Am I ever late?" 494 asked.
"No. Never." She responded.
494 didn't know what it was about her, but he liked being around her. But that's what scared him the most. That's how it first started with Rachel. He had started to like being around her. Talking with her, laughing, it was hitting to close to home for him.
~~~End of Flashback~~~
Just as the jeep was turning the corner of a street, two cars emerge out of nowhere.
"Shit we got company," said Jann, who was driving the Jeep.
Max turned to look out the back windshield and saw two black vans following them.
"Turn right up ahead," Max said.
Just as she said that the back window of their jeep bursted into pieces, sending glass to the back of Alec. He tried covering Isis.
"Hang on," Jann said and made a sharp turn.
With the movement Alec crashed on the side door. Isis started to stir. Alec noticed and that's when he saw she was bleeding from the neck. He moved her hair and noticed something.
"Son of a bitch," Alec said.
"What?" Max asked turning around.
"They inserted a tracking device inside her neck," Alec said.
"That's how they followed us. We can't go to Terminal City. Head down this street and then make a left. We're going to have to run on foot from here. Split up." Max said.
Jann nodded and was ready. Alec pulled out his pocket knife.
"Max?" he said.
Max turned to look at Alec holding the knife. With no words, just his eyes, Alec asked Max if he should get the tracking device out of Isis neck.
"Deep?" Max asked.
Alec tried feeling for the device and felt it. He shook his head. Max nodded and so Alec proceeded to pull it out of her neck as fast and delicately as possible. Jann made the left turn and entered a garage leading inside an office building. He cut the engine just as Alec pulled the tracking device out of Isis neck. He ripped a long strand from the bottom of his T-shirt and wrapped it around her neck, to stop the bleeding. Max opened the passenger door and Alec the back seat. Max saw Alec pick Isis up in his arms.
"Jann take Isis…" Max has started to say.
"No, I got her." Alec said.
Max stared at Alec. Alec was serious, he wasn't going to let her go.
"Fine, Alec, take Isis. Give me the tracking device. Jann follow me, time to lead them on a goose hunt." Max said.
Jann and Max then ran the opposite direction of Terminal City. Alec held onto Isis and carried her as he ran as fast as he could while not dropping her.
~~~Back at Terminal City~~~
Joshua was sitting down on the floor next to Chuck on the sofa.
"Do you think they'll find her?" Chuck asked Joshua.
"Yes. Little fella, and medium fella, good. They save her, bring her here. Home," Joshua said.
Just then the alarm of arrivals rang. Joshua got up and ran out of the command center with Chuck trailing right behind him. As they reached the entrance, Chuck stopped. He saw Alec carrying Isis and she was covered in blood. She looked to pale.
"BROOKE! Get the infirmary ready!" Alec shouted.
Brooke came running out of the infirmary and right towards Alec.
"How long has she been bleeding out?" Brooke asked.
"One hour from when I found her. Not sure how much from before that," Alec said.
Brooke was checking her pulse. It was weak.
"Okay we got to move her, now." Brooke said.
Joshua held Chuck close. They watched how Alec took Isis to the infirmary. They were worried; they prayed that she would be alright. Alec, more than anyone.
~~~24 hours later~~
Isis was slowly opening her eyes. The light that struck her caused her to close them.
"Isis?"
Isis opened her eyes slowly. The light not bothering her as much. Isis turned her head to the side and smiled at who she saw.
"Joshua," Isis smiled.
"Little Isis, finally awake," Joshua said full of joy.
Isis tried moving but felt pain strike her all over her body. Joshua saw and moved closer to her.
"Isis hurt, I get help," Joshua said running out the infirmary room.
Isis looked around her and she saw she was in some kind of hospital room. Or what looked like one. Isis slowly tried sitting up. She moaned in pain but she forced herself, till she was finally sitting down on the bed. Isis smiled to herself. Joshua was here. Her friend. Just then the door open and Isis smile faded away. She felt memories flooding her mind at that very moment.
"Isis."
Isis didn't know what to say, or if she could say anything at all. She just stared at the one person she had come to consider a friend, but whom she had also fallen in love with.
"494?" she whispered.