Max meets XXL.

“How do we know if it worked?” Alec asked after Max had taken another shower, entering the room again fully clothed in her usual black attire.
“Logan has a doctor at a hospital downtown, he knows about Manticore and transgenics. Let’s go.”

*

A doctor with a residing hair line bent over a microscope examining a blood sample Max had given him. He looked up at her, “So Eyes Only says this is an actual blood sample from a transgenic?”
“Yeah, and he wants to know about the possibility of poisoning.”
“It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen, but it’s there, as if it were lying dormant, I could run more tes-
“No,” Max said getting up disheartened, “no, that’s good doc.”

“Well?” Asked Alec as Max came out with her vile of blood in hand.
“Nothing, I’m still fucked.”

Alec got up from the chair he was sitting in, “okay, c’mon, we’re going to Terminal City.”

Max looked at him questioningly, “Why?”

“There’s a transgenic I know there, his designation is XXL. Says his DNA was spliced with various crocodiles...”
“Huh?” Max questioned still not understanding what this had to do with her dilemma.
“He was made with a immune system that can withstand any viral attack, Max, I’m guessing he can help get rid of that toxin in you.”

Max face suddenly changed from confusion to anger, “you knew about this guy. Knew before you fucked me?”
Alec just shrugged, “C’mon Max, you wanted to have sex, you really expected me to mention Lard at that moment.”

Max realised he was right, she couldn’t really blame him; she had offered herself to him, “who the hell is Lard?” She asked still keeping her bitchy demeanour.

“The transgenic, XXL,” Alec replied...

“You coming?”