Dragging Alec into it

Chapter Thirteen: 

Max looked at the map one last time before she and Alec headed out on her Ninja. She frowned suddenly.

“Hey Alec.” He turned to her.

“What?” Max pointed to something on the map and he grinned.

“Hey, Mouth.”

785 turned around, nearly cursing himself for responding to the name.

“Looks like you can take all this back to command…we don’t need it.”

785 frowned. “This whole time you didn’t need any of it?”

Max shook her head, “Guess not, but don’t lose it, we’ll need it tomorrow.”

“Let’s go,” Alec looked at his watch. He turned to 785, “Head out, we’ll call when it’s over.”

Max kicked her bike into gear and Alec slid on behind her. 785 hopped back into the truck and headed the opposite direction.

Alec was on his phone in seconds, “We’re on our way.”

On the other side of the phone call, Biggs answered, “We copy.” He turned back to Mole and two X6s, who nodded in confirmation.

Biggs sauntered out to the Sector Checkpoint.

“Sector Pass?” The guard asked, looking down absently at the electronic equipment in his hand. “Wait, you’re…” Biggs elbowed him in the face, cutting him off. “Glad you recognized me.” He grabbed the transgenic detector from the man’s fingers as he fell, turning to nail the next guard with a spin kick to the stomach. Other guards were rushing over, firing. Biggs raised his hand in a fist and three figures blurred next to him, taking down the sector cops left and right. Behind him, there was the roar of a motorcycle, and he turned to wave to Max and Alec as the Black Ninja blazed through the checkpoint.

The unconscious Sector Police littered the ground.

“Let’s grab the money and set up surveillance before a hoverdrone comes by.” Mole nodded to Biggs, who ran into the Checkpoint office with the X6s.

The X6s cleared the office of bribe money while Biggs took apart the computer.

“You get it done?” Mole asked as they came out the door.

“Of course.” Biggs grinned and they headed back to Terminal City. On the way, he dialed a number.

“Logan, we’re in.”

“Call me when they’re done.” Was all Logan said.

“Will do.” Biggs hung up.

The ninja ate up mile after mile until they passed a small road going off to the side. Max slowed to a stop and they both climbed off.

“That was it, right?” she gestured to the road and took out the map.

“Has to be.” Alec answered, looking at the map over her shoulder. “Yeah, there’s nothing else.”

She pulled the motorcycle off to the side of the road.

“So now we wait?” Alec asked, looking around him in the darkness, seeing everything perfectly.

“Now we wait.” Max answered, eying him.

He turned towards her and caught her eye. They both swallowed and looked away. They were on a mission, after all.

“So…thanks for throwing the light at the warehouse.” Alec couldn’t think of anything else to say.

“Yeah…no problem.” Max answered, “Way to kick their asses.”

“Yeah. When is the truck coming?” he asked.

Max looked at her watch. “Sometime in the next hour.”

“So we could have an hour…or 15 seconds?” he asked.

“Yeah, that’s usually what it means.” Max rolled her eyes.

“You know, Maxie…” he said slowly, stepping closer to her, “We’ll hear him coming from miles away…”

Max stepped back away from him, her breath catching a little. “We have to be prepared, we can’t…get distracted.”

“You’re distracting me just standing there, we might as well do something worthwhile.” He cracked a grin and took another step toward her.

She backed up into a tree, staring at him wide eyed as he stalked her.

“Alec…” she said softly, begging, though for what, she wasn’t precisely sure.

“It sounds better when you scream it.” He whispered, stepping up right in front of her, but making no move to touch her.

Max swallowed. “What are we going to do about the hoverdrones?” she grabbed wildly for something to talk about.

“We’ll figure that out tomorrow…what are we going to do right now?” he asked, running a finger down her nose. “No ideas?” he smirked. “That’s ok, I have a couple…” he kissed her forehead, then her cheek and her neck.”

“Alec…we can’t…Oh, God.” She moaned as he kissed the hollow of her shoulder, massaging her skin with his lips and tongue.

Objection forgotten, she pulled his head back and attacked his mouth with her lips. He pushed back against her into the tree, his hands wandering over her dark clothes and his mouth worshiping hers.

She threw his black leather jacket off into the dirt, but neither cared, they were so entranced in the fire ablaze between them.

Suddenly a noise pierced Max’s consciousness…it sounded like…

They both jumped back from each other and looked at the road.

“Headlights…let’s go.”

“It would be early.” Alec muttered, climbing a tree next to the road.

“Would have been late if we hadn’t done anything.” Max pointed out.

“True.” Alec chuckled, then stopped. “This is going to go fast, right?” he whispered, eying her.

“Very.” She answered running out into the road and flagging down the truck. The truck honked, but started to slow down. Not enough, though, and Max had to dive out of the way.

“Bastard,” Alec muttered, catapulting himself from the tree and landing on the truck. “Now I don’t feel so bad about this…” Wind whipping at him, he dropped to his stomach, crawling over the drivers cab. Leaning over toward the driver’s side, he smashed the window, reaching through to slam the driver’s head against the steering wheel as the glass shattered.

There was a handle on the ceiling of the driver’s cab. Alec grabbed hold of it, swinging his body into the driver’s seat as like a ten year old swings off a bunk bed. He grabbed the steering wheel and slammed his foot on the break, bringing the gigantic machine lumbering to a halt.

Alec pulled the door open as Max approached from the side. He pulled the driver with him and shoved the unconscious man off into the woods.

He grinned at Max, now this was fun. She shook her head.

“Let’s go, soldier.” She hopped into the truck and he followed her.

“Watch out for glass,” he said with a smile.

“I’ll keep an eye out.”

“I’m not worried about your eyes.”

“Just drive, Alec.”

He did, they drove along the road they passed earlier.

“Max, how soon is it supposed to drop off…?”

“I don’t know, pretty…JUMP” she practically pushed him out the window and dove after him. Both of them twisted in the air, landing on their feet as they were programmed to do. They looked over the edge as the truck they had just dove out of landed with a crash at the bottom of the revine.

“Wait…wasn’t it supposed to…” The truck exploded in a huge fireball. “Never mind.” Alec muttered.

“There was a lot of gas in that thing. Almost regret not taking some first.” Max winced at the idea that came too late.

Alec nodded, “Yeah, that would have been good. So…” he turned to her.

“Now we call base.” Max gave him a sharp look as he made a face and pulled out his phone.

“Mission accomplished.” He said into the phone. “Wait…Biggs did what?” Alec laughed. “We’ll see you in a couple hours.”

“What did Biggs do?”

“He plugged us into the Sector Cops computer system. So now everything they do, Logan can see.”

Max smiled in appreciation. “Good idea, Logan come up with it?”

“Who else?” Alec shoved his hands in his pocket and Max looked at him curiously.

“Are you jealous of Logan?” Max asked.

“What!? NO!” he stated emphatically…a little too emphatically.

Max grabbed his hand. “Oh, so I don’t have to soothe your typically male insecurity in some unique and creative way?” she asked, rubbing his palm with her thumb and looking into his eyes. “Good to know.” Max dropped his hand and pulled her Ninja out from the woods.

“You know…” Alec said slowly, preparing to make some kind of insecure statement. He shut his mouth just before it came out and he slid onto Max’s motorcycle behind her. “So, just to clarify…if I say I’m jealous of Logan I get laid? Was that the deal?”

Max laughed, “Not worth it otherwise?”

“Hell no.” Alec muttered.

Max shook her head and hit the gas.