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'''Max Guevara''', designation X5-332960073452, is one of the twelve [[X5 series|X5s]] who successfully [['09 Escape|escaped]] from [[Manticore]] in Febuary 2009. Years later, she became the leader of a group of [[Transgenic|transgenics]] living in the dangerous [[Terminal City]].

 

Born to a surrogate mother sometime around the turn of the twenty-first century, Max was raised and trained as a soldier from a very young age by military handlers, under the command of Colonel [[Donald Lydecker]], at a facility located in Gillette, Wyoming called Manticore. During this time, Max developed a very close bond with her unit-mates, and was considered to be the baby of their "family".

 

During this time, there was one incident that haunted the memories of the young soldiers: a training exercise requiring them to hunt down and kill a prisoner. They accomplished this with such ruthless effectiveness that even Lydecker was alarmed by their exhilaration and savagery. Years later, Max was greatly disturbed by what had happened and tried to forget about it, but never could.

 

Some time after Jack died, Max began to seize as well. [[Zack]] was particularly fond of her, and was terrified that she too would be taken away and would never come back. He declared that they would escape, though Max initially didn't want to leave, not knowing what they would be escaping to.

 

While trying to decide what to do, Max was discovered by [[Hannah Sukova]], a Manticore nurse who offered her help. Max, somewhat suspicious, accepted, and stayed at the nurse's cabin for several hours before continuing.

 

[[File:DarkAngel1x03MaxAndLucy.jpg|thumb|210px|Max and Lucy hide from Lucy's father.]]

After leaving Hannah's cabin, Max stowed aboard a supply truck and got off in Casper, Wyoming, where she met [[Lucy Barrett]], a young girl who was making a snowman outside her aunt's house. After Max tells Lucy that she ran away from a bad place and that people would hurt her if they found her, Lucy lets Max stow away in her mother's SUV when they return home to Los Angeles, California. After arriving, Lucy's mother, Joann, said that Max could stay with them by saying that she was the daughter of Joann's late cousin. During the next three months, Max and Lucy had to put up with Lucy's sexually abusive, alcoholic father, [[Jack Barrett|Jack]]