DARK ANGEL
Evil Gets A Delivery
Part 6


The next morning, Jam Pony was more lively than ever. Everyone was on the up, seemingly due to Max's return. But Cindy, Sketchy and Herbal knew
something was up when they only got a "Hi" from her. As soon as Max arrived, she had begun being the dedicated messanger that Normal wanted them to
be.

Cindy claims, "I'm calling Logan on this one." She finds a payphone and dials.

Logan instantly picks up, "Hello?"

"Max is here."

"Where?"

"Jam Pony!"

Logan is shocked, "I'll be there in a few."


Logan reached Jam Pony and entered. He saw Max sitting on the couch idlely watching the tv screen. He wheeled over to her. 

"You shouldn't be her." She commented without looking at him. Then she sat up, glancing around, then looked at him, "Can you sneak me back to your
place?"

Logan stares at her for a brief moment, "Sure, let's go!"

Normal allows Max the afternoon off and they go to Logans.

Once there she breaks down, "I'm sorry bout last night."

Logan says comfortingly, "It's ok."

She regains herself, "And I'm real sorry that I have to do this."

He looks at her in shock as she drags him off his chair, and cuffs him to a coffee table. She stands up and faces his Eyes Only system. Max whips out a disk
and Logan protests. 

She takes the disk and inserts it into the tower. She pulls the file of the search Logan has done on the other Manticore Siblings and downloads it onto the
disks. 

While it loads, she glances back at him and he says, "Why are you doing this, Max?" She ignored him and the disk finished.

Max took it out and placed it into her pocket and retrieved a new disk. She inserted the new disk and proceeded to upload. Soon all of his file were infected.
She took the disk out and faced Logan. He looked at her with hurt and hatred in his eyes.

Max kneels down at his side. She leans in and kisses him, then pulls back, "Have a nice day!" And she is gone.


Hours later Logan recieved a call. He hesitantly answered it. He recognized the voice....it was Matt.

"Det. Matt Sung" [incident flashback]
"Logan, I've found your friend in an alleyway. She looks terrible."

[Max reached the alleyway and a seizure hit, a bad one. The seizure causes the hold Lydecker has on her to go awry.]

"By the time I reached her, she was mentioning you."

[Max broke down in tears and started going on and on about Logan.]

"I brought her to my place and cleaned her up a bit."

[Matt places Max on the couch. Matt gives Max some food and a glass of milk, as requested.]


"Logan? You want me to bring her there?"

"No! Don't move her and continue to give her milk." Logan quickly answered. "I'm coming over!"

Matt hung up and looked at Max. She looked back at him, still visibly shaking, "You....called him?"

As Matt pours another glass of milk, "Yes. He's advised me to continue giving you milk. He's coming over." 

He handed her the glass and with shaky hands she took it.


Bling dropped off Logan at Det. Sungs' home. Logan wheels up to the door and knocks. Matt got up and answered, "She's in here."

Logan followed Matt to the den. He saw Max, who was still very much having seizures. Logan rolls over to her side and looks sadly at her, "Have you been
giving her milk?" He turned to Matt, who nods.

Upon hearing his voice, Max speaks, "Please...don't...hate...me, Logan!"

Logan took her hand was about to reply but she fell asleep. During the time that Max slept, Logan instructed that now was the time to mover her, "Let's
get her back to my place."

Matt agrees, not wanting his family to see this, "Everyone will be home soon."


Minutes after they arrived at Logans and Matt left, Max awoke, feeling a bit refreshed.

With a little prodding, Max told the details of the trip to Lydeckers to rescue the girl (which she failed at), and what Lydecker had done to her, after getting
captured.

But that was as far as Max got. Suddenly, the door of Logan's penthouse was kicked open. Lydecker's men burst into the place, followed by Lydecker
himself, "I want her alive and uninjured!!" NOW!!!"

Before the two could react, they were found. One soldier called out his location and soon Lydecker reached it.

He saw the condition she was in, but angrily confronted her, "You, Number 33, have broken the rules. For this infraction you shall be punished." He made a
motion and Max was grabbed easily and taken away.

Lydecker then made a comment to Logan, "The next time you and Number 33 meet, it will be to kill you!"

Then Lydecker left, leaving Logan all alone.




You have now reached the end of Evil Gets A Delivery,
stay tuned for Manticore Gathering.


Note: I used (Number 33) as shortened version of Max's barcode. It just seemed to fit the mood that way, rather
than have Lydecker (or anyone else) ramble off the whole number.