Story set up, and for those who never saw Dark Aangel. Here you go.

Ashley Davies had never led a normal life. Then again she was not a normal girl. Ashley was a genetically engineered killing machine created in the labs of a secret government facility known as Manticore. Manticore was created solely to churn out state of the art soldiers. The doctors on base would take children from young mothers who were going to give up their babies at birth, and Manticore would start training them straight away. The children underwent genetic experimentation, mind controlling, and so many more tests that are too horrible to speak of. But as a result of these tests it made the children stronger, faster, smarter, and many more abnormal advantages that would eventually make them effective killing machines for the military to use… Or so they thought.

Ashley was apart of the X series. The X5’s to be exact. In order to keep track of the children they had these barcode tattoos on the back of their necks. It was like it was encoded into their DNA before birth, so if you tried to remove it, it would reappear in less than 2 weeks. Ashley thought “Oh well what’s the point? My hair is long anyways and you can’t even see it.”

The X5’s were very close, it was like they were brothers and sisters. So after 10 long years, and having enough of the training and torture the X5’s band together and escaped from Manticore. Out of their group only 12 of them made it out, but before they left they had decided it was best if they split up and go their separate ways. It was harder to track them that way. Now it’s 10 years later and Ashley’s living in a post-apocalyptic LA, and still wondering where the 11 others are and if they’re okay.

So about the post-apocalyptic comment, 9 years ago terrorists decided they had had enough of America and their “freedom” so they dropped this bomb on us. Not the kind you’re thinking of though. This was and electromagnetic pulse that pretty much wiped out all computers and machines we had. Making the U.S. broke as a joke, and with nowhere to turn.