Max had fallen asleep with her head on Alec 's shoulder while they were watching tv. Alec woke up when he heard the door hand move followed by knock! Knock! Alec went to open the door trying not to waken up max in the process. He opened the door which revealed.. A tall man the same height as himself with browny/ blonde hair, blue eyes and holding a pizza box. It was if he was looking in the mirror but he wasn't looking at his own reflection. It was his identical twin alec

"Hiya bro, long time no see" said Alec

Ben replied " too long" as he hugged his twin

"how are you?" asked Alec

"I'm good thanks" walking into the kitchen Ben asked "what happened? Max said you ran into manacore you ok?"

Alec replied "I'm fine really and I'll tell you all about what happened later" looking at the floor.

Ben noticed something was wrong so he changed the subject bye saying "hope you're hungry . Can you reheat this please while I go and wake max up" handing him the pizza box

"sure no problem" answered Alec

Ben walks over to max who is stretched out asleep on the three piece suite , he kneels down on the floor and out his hand on her shoulder and gentle shakes her. She waked up and gives him a sleepy look.

Ben says " pizzas ready if you want some"

She answers sitting up "sure Alec "

Ben looked at her totally surprised and replied "did you just call me Alec , can't you tell us apart"

She realised what she had just done and quickly answers "shut up. Of course I didn't"

They walked into the kitchen and sat at the table with Alec . Ben was thinking ' how could she not tell the difference I know were twins but do we really look the same or have the same personality. Surely we have differences'

After finishing their dinner they all sat in the living room and Alec was telling them what had happened to tinga and him in the alley way. When he was finished both max and alec were speechless. Alec was standing at the window watching the rain outside . Then a tear fell down the side of his cheek as he confessed to feeling helpless as he couldn't stop manacore from taking tinga. Max walked over to Alec and enveloped him in a cuddle.

She said " Alec , you can't blame yourself for what happened it wasn't your fault"

Alec answered after a few minutes of silence "we have to get her back"

Ben walked over to his brother and sister and said "we will get her back bro, I promise"

The three of them just stared out the window, each of the think on how to get tinga back.

The next morning they constructed a plan to get tinga back. They figured out the phone box that tinga used to contact Alec must have been tapped. Ben went to the phone box and spoke to manacore and made a trade. He was going to trade himself for tinga. Ben managed to find out why they wanted tinga it turns out that all the X5 series that escapes are being hunted and taken back to manacore for reintroduction.

The plan is to trade tinga for alec because alec know the layout and secret passage ways the best and he will find it easy to escape. Alec and max will take tinga back to Max's apartment , Alec will stay and take care of tinga while max will go back to the manacore base to help Ben escape if he need help. Max and Ben are the best X5's at playing escape and invade and that was exactly what they were going to do.

Then it was done Ben was in the hands of manacore an on his way to their base and tinga was on the way to max's apartment. Ben was put in a cell and then he was to wait for a chance to escape. He waited!

A man in manacore uniform with a name tag saying ' Donald Lydecker' approached his cell and said "I want to help you get out of here, please use me as a hostage and go to the roof and use you abilities I'm sure you can get away from there"

Ben replied with a wary look "why do you want to help me?"

The man answered " because you don't deserve to be locked up and used for experiments"

Ben nodded and the man opened his cell door they made it to the roof safely. Then alec picked up the sound of distant running it would be soldiers to take him back to his cell. Then the soldiers came into his view but they didn't shoot at him as alec still had a hold of his hostage, he looked around himself to find a way to escape then let go of the hostage and threw him into the group of soldiers and Ben ran behind a large metal door and sneaked down the ladder which was attached to the side of the building. The soldiers started shooting at the metal door and the bullets went straight through, Ben blur's into the nearest alley way. Max is impatiently waiting in a near by alley way she was scanning the roof top for any signs of Ben but all she could see was soldiers drawing nearer to a large metal door and firing their guns at it. She took a deep breath as the soldiers were just about to reveal who was standing behind the metal door, max said with a worrying voice " Ben "

Then suddenly she heard someone sneaking up behind her she spun round quickly ready to punch the approaching person but that person caught her fist in there hand. She was relieved to see it was Ben.

he said " were you worried about me"

She replied " no of course not"

They both began to laugh and max hugged Ben and said " I'm glad your okay" Ben answered "so am I… I knew you were worried about me!" he added "come on lets go home"

They went back to max's apartment Alec and tinga were waiting for them to return.

Alec and tinga moved into Ben and max's apartment.

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