The Cult (2/?)

     Logan has been looking through the files of major and minor military bases in area and traffic reports.  He also contracted some of city and sector police contacts.

"Have got you anything yet?" Max asked.

"Kris was right about it not being Lydecker or any other military operation." answered Logan. "One of my sector police contracts spotted one of the jeeps that Ritchie identified heading out of the city not long after you found him and Kris."

"I hope he is all right." said Bling.

"Me too." agreed Max.

"By the way, where is Kris and Ritchie staying?" asked Bling.

"They are staying at my place." answered Max.


     In the cult house, Michael was talking to Heather.  "I can't stay here.  If I am here I could put everyone in danger here especially you."

"We saved you from them."

     Michael remembered the night of the second escape.  He was outside the lab ground by the road. He had a gun shot wound in his back and he was lying in the mud.  A van pulls up to Michael.  A man and a woman come out of the car.  They pick up Michael and put him on the floor of the van. Soon they drive off.  Michael wakes up in the morning in a room.

     He was going to leave.  As Michael was leaving the cult compound he met Heather.  She was a Manticore kid and she didn't even know it.  He learned Heather's surrogate mother managed to escape the Manticore lab in Utah.  Michael stayed at the place. He trained Heather in protecting herself in case Lydecker finds out about her.


"I have to leave, Heather," shouted Michael.  "Lydecker is looking for me.  He knows what I look like now."

"I said you can't." she replied.

"Why?"

"Remember the night you left two years ago."

     That night, he just turned nineteen. (This was two years ago.) He got drunk and Heather was in heat the same night. (Which made a bad combination).  He woke up in bed with Heather.  He couldn't remember anything.  He got scared and ran off the compound.

"Oh no." responded Michael in a low voice.

"I got pregnant." Heather began.

"I was afraid this might happen," said Michael.  "If Lydecker finds the kid, he or she will go through the same thing I went through."

"He hasn't been taken off the compound."

"It's a boy?" 

"Yep." answered Heather.  "His name is Ethan. He looks a lot like you."

     Heather took Michael to the playground of the compound.  There were a lot of children in the yard.

"Ethan." Heather called.

     One of the children looked up from the sandbox.  He had dirty blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a blue and red striped shirt and blue jeans.  

"Mama." Ethan said as he ran to his mother.

     Michael noticed Ethan ran almost as fast a Manticore kid and he look a lot like him.  It meant if Manticore found out about Ethan, he would be in a heap of danger.  Michael thought about his time at the lab and didn't want Ethan to go through it.

"Mama." he heard Ethan cry. "Wake up mama."

     Heather was lying on the ground.  People start to surround her.  Michael runs over to her.  She wasn't having a seizure.  Max and Zack told him about what happened to Brin. Heather was going through the same thing.

"Get some ice!" yelled Michael.

TO BE CONTINUED

NEXT EPISODE: Lydecker finds out where Michael is hiding.