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Chapter 5
Later in the mess hall Max and Alec were arguing over whether or not they should take some food on the trip with them…
"Max!, of course we'll need some, and we'll need to take some weapons too, Max don't start with that…we'll hide them in the lining of the car"
"Car? What Car? We don't have a car Alec" Max's face took on an expression that shouted DUH!
"Yes we do Max…we could use mine if we could get to it" Alec scratched the back of his neck, looking like a young boy being told off by his school teacher
"Do you even know where you car is?" Hands on hip and all attitude, exactly what Alec likes in her
"Well…it's at the hospital with O.C, still I might be able to get to it in time"
"We haven't got time ass!" Alec shook his head, an sad smirk on his face
"Ass…nice one Maxie…nice one"
Max and Alec were still bickering even when Ty came to join them
"Am I interrupting sumthin'? Please tell me now so I don't walk into something"
"No Ty…it's just this Asshole forgot where his car was" Max made her point with a well aimed swipe to Alec's head
"Max, would you stop…just give it a rest, my ass that is" But Alec being Alec…
"Alec…god just quit it will ya, and Max we could use my car" Ty knew something was gonna happen on this trip, he didn't know if it's gonna be bad or good but he knew that he wanted to be there
"You have a car?" Max was all curious now just like her DNA counterpart
"Yeah…and she's just as pretty as you two"
"Don't tell me you've named the car like Logan" Alec looked horrified at that thought and so did Ty at that assumption and comparison
"Oh hell no…I just take pride in what I've done"
"What do you mean done?" Alec all of a sudden played out his feline ways
"Well I've customised it while in Florida…tricked out!"
"How so?" Max looked apprehensive and a little interested
"Well I love my music so there's a kick ass stereo system and the most comfortable seats I could get my hands on" Ty beamed when talking about his car, and Max enjoyed the look of accomplishment that was clear on his face
"What type of car is it?"
"What?...man enough with the questions…god, if you want to find out so much just follow me"
The three of them went into Terminal City garage and suddenly Ty ran into the far corner.
"O.K…TY!?...where the hell are you goin'?"
All of a sudden load music started to play from the corner Ty ran into. Max finally managed to identify the music as Cells by The Servant, one of Max's favourite songs.
"MAX…ALEC…come over here"
Max and Alec ran to the corner to see Ty leaning against the side of a covered vehicle.
"K Ty…are you gonna show us the car or what?" Max and Alec were getting agitated, it must be the cat in them!
"Max…what type of car would you like to drive?" Now Max has never really been into cars, always preferred two wheels than four, but she was asked a question and she thought that she'd better answer it
"What?...um if I had to I suppose I'd pick……….a…….RX-8" Ty gave Max a thousand Mega-watt smile at that
"Nice Max…great choice!...what about you Alec?"
"Impala…of course" a raise of the eyebrows from Ty and a roll of the eyes from Max was the reaction to that
"old school Alec"
"Nothing better than the oldies"
"So…what's the car?"
All of a sudden Ty's face was split with a huge grin when he pulled the cover off of his car…Max's face was a picture. The car was aMitsubishi Lancer Evolution Concept-X
"What do you think?"
"Ty…the car is beautiful…she's perfect…wow"
"How in the hell did you get your hands on one of those" Alec was kinda suspicious, where in the hell could he get his hands on a pre-pulse Japanese concept car without breaking the law…wait a minute…of course he broke the law for it, just like Alec did to get that Cherry red Impala he had when he first got outta Manticore
"Yeah Ty…how did you get a Black Lancer"
"I have my ways Max"
"I get shotgun…right Ty?" Max looked like a giddy school girl or a young teenager seeing a friend's motorbike for the first time
"Why not Max…plus you hollered first so Alec the back is all yours"
"More room for me" Alec didn't mind having room to nap
"Hope you don't mind loud music"
"What tunes you got?"
"Some"
"Cryptic"
Max and Ty both shared a smile
"Can we go to the hospital first?" Alec was still worried about Sketchy, they all were, but being a transgenic you can use more of your mind than normal humans can. They were able to block it out to get things done, but with Herbal and Otto, things just got pushed out of their minds
They all got in the car and drove out of terminal city. After they went to the hospital to check on Sketchy and Normal…who were fine…they decided to go to New York
The car ride was an experience for Alec…One, he never seen Max fawn over a car. Two, he has never seen Max's weird dancey shuffle type thing she was doing in the car…and Three…Three…well.
"You so sexy girl…what does it take to get close to you…girl I'm loving the things that you do"
"Baby tell me can we play this game…I wanna know what's about to go down…cause your body looks like honey…and I wanna come and kiss you more cause you lips look good like honey"
Max was singing…that was number three and the biggest surprise for Alec…he looked at Ty who was grinning from ear to ear as well as bopping to the music…it wasn't music that Alec listened to but it was catchy it was Sexy by Shawn Desman, he was loving this trip already and I had only just began, being out of Seattle has done Max a world of good, she was bubbly and playful and that was a shock at first but a shock he'd love to take over and over again.
The track finished and a new track played that Alec recognised straight away…it was Error Operator by Taking Back Sunday. Alec started to sing to this song and Max started to hum along to it.
New York BAXTER BUILDING
"thank god for that…Reed got the power back on, thanks for his geeky ways"
"Johnny…we really need to get ready" this puzzled Johnny 'What for?'
"Sue we can't just waltz out of here…we need to understand things first…look I'll go fly around…see what I can see…and I'll be back soon" Sue frowned but nodded
"Ben what should we do?"
"What do ya mean Susie?" Ben frowned, which for a big rock guy was some feat
"We can't just sit here Ben…something's wrong, what happened for us to be here and not in 2008 where we were?" Sue was pacing back and forth in front of the kitchen table and making Ben so dizzy he didn't notice her stop to look at Reed expectantly.
"Sue I can explain that…during the experiment we were doing…the chemical overload caused the power to skyrocket and therefore the machine blew…with the chemicals and the unstable molecules that are us it seems to me that we had made a time lapse"
"Reed…this is not the time for one of your theories…I need to lie down" Sue was exhausted, she was thinking things over a mile a minute and over loading her self trying to find out what's going on
"Sue?...Sue?...Ben, what's wrong with Sue?"
Ben went to get the newspaper off of the kitchen table and handed it to Reed.
"Reed…this whole thing is stressing Susie out…Johnny gone to have a look around town and see what he can find out…I suggest that you try and research this transgenic thing"
Reed went straight into the lab and Ben went to put the T.V on…what he saw shocked him…it was a video of a mob of people tying up someone by their feet and hanging them of a bridge…a reporter was also talking to a man that goes by the name of Regan Ronald…
"We are here today to talk to Mr. Ronald, of Seattle, Washington. Mr. Ronald what are your thoughts towards what we have just seen?"
"it is horrendous the way those people think they have a right to kill the transgenics in any way they see fit!...they are not all monsters…some of them actually are better human beings than all of us are!"
"We believe you know the leader and the second in command of Terminal City?"
"Yes they both worked for me at Jam Pony before I found out what they are"
"They were both involved in the siege that happened a few months ago…were any Transgenics involved with the incident that happened just a few days ago?"
"If it weren't for a few transgenics that were there I wouldn't be alive right now…three times I've had my life saved by transgenics…twice by Missy miss"
"Missy miss? Who is that?"
"Oh…that just what I call the Transgenic that goes by the designation 452"
"The leader of Terminal city saved you life twice?"
"yes…once when two of my employee's…one is now in the hospital and the other is now dead thanks to that incident a couple of days ago…they were playing with two parcels that looked the same, when the parcels were delivered they were delivered to the wrong people…so the people who wanted their package badly decided that my life wasn't worth much and told me if I don't get the parcel back I'm a dead man…defenestration I s what he called it, but Max saved my life by getting the package for them…I was surprised that she did that"
"Why were you surprised at that?"
"Well I was never that nice to her…I wish I was more nicer to her…she's a good kid, just got one hell of an attitude"
"What was the second?"
"Well getting us outta that siege…she saved all of us from those trigger happy gun slinging freaks"
"well that's all we had time for…"
While Ben was listening to this he didn't hear Sue come back into the room
"Man…why are people acting like that to these people…they risked there lives to save em and they just kill em…why are they all against that 452?...she risked her life to save the boss that hated her…she must be a good kid" He said while rubbing his head with his big, old, rocky hands
"Talk to yourself much Ben?" Ben jumped, Sue thought it was the highest she'd ever seen him jump before, even when he was just Ben and not The Thing
"SUSIE?!!...Sue you scared me…you see what was on T.V?"
"Yeah…I really want to meet her…Max that man called her right?"
"Yeah Max"
Johnny comes walking in through the front door, 'walking' Ben thought 'Huh…that makes a change'
"Hey Sue…we can't go anywhere…the whole city is locked off by something called sector checkpoints…we need I.D.'s and sector passes to get even out of this neighbourhood"
"Yeah but you can fly over can't you flame boy?"
"They'd shoot me down…they are all carrying heavy guns!"
"We have to get Reed to do something"
Meanwhile, on the road somewhere between Seattle and New York…
"Ty…can I put a different song on?...please…I can't stand this" Alec was restless, he was enjoying the trip and the jokes that they were playing on each other but as time went by and they started to calm down and really relax he could hear the music clearly and it hurt, he remembered the song and it dragged his mood right into the sewer. Here he was on a road trip with two of his best friends and he didn't want to think of the thoughts that the song was bringing up, he wanted to think of his future, not his past. He let Rachel go that night Max saved him from himself and Mr. Berrisford, but he never got rid of her from his mind or heart, he loved her, he knows it now but he also knows that there is nothing he can do about it but move on…why in the hell would he move on to another brunette? the one that would rather kick his ass than say hello, well that's not true, she does say 'hey' at times but still, why her? Why Max? Yes he finally realised after being cooped up with her in T.C that he wouldn't have it any other way and that he loved Manticore for being so devilish to create the breeding partner thing, without them he never would have met Max or Joshua, O.C, Sketchy, Normal, Ty, Mole, Dix, Gem, Dalton or any of the others, he wouldn't have a life.
"Alec what's wrong with this?"
"It's all depressing…I like Avril fine, but it's just…."
"What is it Alec?"
"Rachael used to listen to this"
And with that Max switched the track…to…Just the girl by The Click Five she knew exactly what Alec needed and it shocked her
"Ahhhh……that's better…thanks Max…cause she's bittersweet she knocks me offa my feet…"
"at least that cheered him up…hey Max you got them passes?"
"Yeah…Why?"
"Checkpoint up ahead…pull 'em out will ya please…Thanks Max"
"So…New York…I've never been here before…"
"Oh…I have so I can show you around…"
"So do you know where the Baxter Building is?"
"Baxter Building?...why do you want to go there?...ain't nothing there but the stuff the Fantastic Four left behind."
"How do you know about that?"
"Read about it years ago…I didn't see any pictures to as they look like though…shame"
"Hey look at this then"
Alec handed some of the pictures to Ty…suddenly the car swerved and came to a halt…
"Ty?...Ty are you all right?"
"mmm…fine considering what you just shown me"
"Well we've got to go to the Baxter as soon as we get into Manhattan"
"Okay…right"
So they continued to drive…right until they got to the Baxter Building…
"Whoa…this place is huge…how we gonna find them in there?"
"Wait find them?...they've been gone for 14 years…there is no way they'll still be there…"
Then a flash of light could be seen from the penthouse windows…
"Guess they are just like Logan…lovin' the higher vantage points"
"Let's go check it out…quietly"
The three of them proceeded slowly through the front door of the building…it was empty…but there was electricity…as the lights on the wall shown…
"Well if no one lives here how come the lights are on huh?"
"Shut up Alec…wait I can smell something…kinda like ash…a fire maybe?"
"Yeah I can smell it too…wait it's getting closer…like it's moving…"
"someone's coming…I can hear them humming"
The three transgenics went to hide in the foyer of the Baxter building…Alec went into the woman's restroom while Ty and Max settled for the janitor's closet…It was a small closet…
"Man I can't believe I didn't follow Alec into the woman's restroom…"
"Why?...don't like being in small spaces?"
"What?...Max…I don't like small spaces, reminds me of our cells back at Manticore"
Max looked kinda relieved when he said it was about cells and not her
"Max…could you stop wiggling for a minute please?"
"Why?..."
"'Cause I'm a guy and the position that we are in kinda reminds me of the fact that you're MAX"
"Sorry…Achoo"
Max started to move against him as she started to violently sneeze, Ty had to bite back a groan…he grabbed her shoulders to stop the movement…but Max didn't know why the sneezing hadn't stopped yet and grabbed Ty
"Ty…sorry…for that…wait do you smell anything?"
"Nothing apart from the smell of ash but that is fading now…unlike something i can't get rid of"
Ty added the last part under his breath but Max still heard him…
Max was beginning to love the affect she had on Ty…she knew that when she did little things… such as tie her shoe laces or pick up files from the floor or offa someone's desk…around Ty that she'd always get a reaction…and she was addicted to it. Yeah she got it from every male X in terminal city but it was just the fact that she got it from the first transgenic other than Alec who didn't think of her as terminal city's leader…she liked that about him and also he made her happy…yeah Alec made her laugh too but Ty just had the gift of when she is near him she was happy
"Max…maybe we should get out of here now…you know?"
"Yeah…your right…Alec would probably have something to say about this"
"Yeah…you won't be able to keep his mouth shut even if his lips were stitched together"
The left the janitor's closet and set of to find Alec…who happened to be sitting on the reception desk smirking…
"Well…it looks like you two had fun…definitely fun"
"Shut up Alec…where did the person go?"
"Well if you two didn't run off into the closet you would have seen him"
"Him?...who was it?"
"Well Max…seems like your boy was wrong"
"What do you mean I was wrong?"
"The guy that smelled like ash was non other than the legendary Human Torch!"
"What? You gotta be kidding me"
"No and he didn't look a day older than the picture we got from Otto"
"Well where'd he go?"
"Upstairs…penthouse"
"Let's go then"
They all took the stairs to the penthouse apartment
"Man it seems that everyone has a penthouse these days…I mean Logan had one and now we gonna go check another for signs of transgenics before White does"
"Alec don't talk about Logan please"
Ty and Alec looked at each other to so if the other knew what was wrong with Max…but Max stood still on the stairs and she sank to sit on one of them…
"Max?...Max what's wrong?"
When Max didn't answer Ty sat beside her and grabbed her in a hug
"Max? it's alright you can talk to us if you'd like…we are here for you…both of us, right Alec?"
"Yeah of course we are…whatever you need we'll get it"
"Thanks…"
Max's thanks was barely above a transgenic whisper…as she said it she hugged Ty back tightly…she thought of Ty as her Best Transgenic friend and resolved to speak to him later about how she feels, he's as level headed as O.C and she needs that
"Thanks guys but I don't really want to talk about it yet…"
"That's O.K. Max, but when you do, you can talk to me or Alec ok?"
"Okay…well let's get going"
"You've said that a lot today"
When the transgenic reached the penthouse they decided to use their abilities and hide…though it was harder for Ty as he was not made for stealth…though he was still good at it
Suddenly someone rounded a corner and almost ran into Max, who was not paying attention 'cause she was looking at the picture on the wall, Ty ran into the person to stop them from hurting Max, he then grabbed Max and hid in a adjoining room.
"Ty?...What the hell are you-.." Ty put a hand over Max's mouth
"Shhh…you've got to pay more attention Max…that guy almost walked into you"
"sorry…it was just the pictures of that woman were on the wall and…and…"
"And what Max?"
"And Logan also told me the first name of my mom"
"When did he tell you that?"
"A few months ago…it just came back to me…her name is Sue"
"Is that what was wrong with you when we were in the stair well?"
"no that wasn't it"
"okay I won't push…but it might be better for you to get it off of your chest while you can"
"Maybe…who was the guy?"
"I believe it was Ben Grimm…the Thing…good job I got to you before he did…you'd probably been crushed"
"Thank you Ty"
"You've been saying thanks a lot to me lately…"
"Well I have a reason to"
"What's that?"
"Because you've been giving me reasons"
"Really?"
"Yes, really"
Ben managed to get up after that something knocked him over…
"Son of a bi…"
"Ben?...Ben are you alright?"
"Yea fine Sue…just must of lost my footing or something…I fell kinda hard though…crap…we gotta sort that hole out"
"Ben do you hear that?"
Alec froze…he couldn't believe that someone had heard him…he tried to get away but found himself not able to move…a force field…should have remembered about that, damn he read all about the research that Reed did on Sue's power but why did he forget it…oh yeah he was too busy trying to come up with saucy little remarks concerning Max and Ty who were now locked in a room together…
"Awww crap Max is gonna kill me"
"Wait you're the other one from the picture…494 right?"
"Wait how in the hell do you know about that?"
"Look at this"
Ben held up the newspaper with his and Max's picture on the front…the leaders of Terminal City…
"Great…more reasons for Max to be pissed off"
"Max…is she here with you?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Why do you think Susie wants to know?...that kid looks just like her"
"Can't disagree with that"
"So where is she?"
"I'm here"
Ty and Max heard the whole conversation and thought it was best the reveal themselves
No one said anything for a while until Ty and Alec couldn't stand the silence
"Hi my name is Alec…now anyway…you must be Ben Grimm…the Thing…wow"
"Alec be nice…hi I'm Ty, not really important but here all the same"
"Erm…excuse me…Sue?, can you drop the force field…I'm getting kinda sleepy in here"
"Susie, his oxygen supply is being cut off…concentrate"
"Ohh…sorry"
Sue dropped the field but continued to stare at Max…Max continued to stare at Sue
"Max…Max?...it's not polite to stare…come on"
Ty went to walk in front of Max…but was cut off when a flame shot by at Max…Ty naturally jumped out in front of the flame to save Max from it…it burned his left arm from bicep to wrist…he didn't scream in pain though…he just launched himself at the flame who just happened to be Johnny, Johnny ran into the lab followed closely behind by Ty…but Ty ran into something rubber but warm…he stepped back to see Reed Richards just staring in awe…Ty's arm was already healing…
"whoa that's something like the X-Men"
"Johnny did you do this?"
"Yeah…like a minute ago"
"Are you a transgenic?"
"You're Reed Richards and you're dead"
That last comment was directed at Johnny who actually looked frightened…
"Stop…Johnny apologise to Ty"
"Sue…he's chasing me around the place, why should I say that I'm sorry?"
"Thank you, but if you try to hurt Max, Alec or me than you'd better fly as far from me as you can"
Sue started to laugh at this Ty character…until Max started to say something…
"Ty…its okay…anyway we only came here to tell you that some government people are after you…they think that you're transgenics"
"We ain't but it'd be cool if we were like you anyway…what with your advanced eye sight and his healing thing…awesome"
"So you read the newspapers and watch the TV…so are we as scary in the flesh as we are on TV? Huh?"
"What? Hell no…from what I heard on TV, I think that there is something more to you than the rest of 'em realize…I heard from a Reagan Ronald that if it weren't for you Max that he'd be dead…if you were the cold blooded assassins that they've made you out to be then you wouldn't have saved his life the amount of times you have…I've only saw that guy on TV, but he already annoys me with that Bip Bip crap"
"Normal was on TV?"
"Normal?...yeah he was being interviewed from a hospital…just after they showed some footage of people hanging a transgenic from a bridge"
"Biggs…man…I miss that guy"
"Sorry I didn't know that you knew him like that"
"What do people know about us anyway…they know only what people have said…and even they twist that around"
"So how long are you staying in New York?"
"Well we only came to tell you to be careful but…maybe we can stay for a bit"
"Well you can stay here"
So the transgenics stayed at the Baxter building that night…Johnny kept apologizing to Max when she wasn't around Ty…Alec followed Ben every where…Ty and Max were talking to Sue and Reed was in the Lab like always…they talked about what transgenics are made of what they can do…how they feel and basically their whole life…Sue looked shocked when she found out about Max dying…but she also told Max about her life…and when she died only to be brought back to life by the Silver Surfer…Ty realised they had more in common than looks…they were both passionate for what they believed in…they both had to grow up at a young age…albeit different reasons, and that they both have been given a second chance to live by people that cared for them…for Max it was Zack giving her his heart…and for Sue it was the Silver Surfer giving her his life…
Alec couldn't believe there was two people who looked the same…yeah he's seen it before with Max's clone Sam and with his clone Ben…but it was different with Max and Sue he couldn't place it and it was killing him…it was also killing him that he was attracted to both of them. He was slowly and surely killing himself with his thoughts, they were of an adult nature and therefore they were gonna stay in his head, Max would surely rip him a new one if she found out what he was thinking, but he couldn't help it, she had just recently cut her hair which in turn made him want to cut his, her's is shorter and kinda wavier and in certain light it looked black or it had a red tinge to it, man he was in deep now. He would have to have a talk with Ty later.
Max could feel someone staring at her, she used her senses to pin point where the culprit could be and when she didn't she realised that it was Alec, she mentally bushed at that, Alec was staring at her and for some reason she didn't mind, What was wrong with her? Yeah sure, Alec is fine by anyone's standards but so is Ty, yet when Ty looked at her all she felt was security and love, but when Alec looked at her she felt her heartbeat quicken just that little bit faster and her fingers itching the run up and down is abdomen, over his back and through his hair, which has been cut a little shorter than the first time she ever met him, short back and sides, made him lot a little older and wiser but at the same time made him more masculine and mouth-watering…'wait mouth-watering? Oh god am I in heat again?' Max made a mental note of checking herself when she next goes to the bathroom and if she isn't in heat then she's having a long talk with Ty or O.C if she can get her on the phone
R&R People...please, i kinda get the feeling that i'm losing track of Alec...i'm trying to make this Max and Alec but my writing style tends to lean towards the Max and other catergory, i'm trying and if any of you have suggestions of how to keep it in line with Alec then please by all means tell me...Thank you
TY450.