A New Kind of ordinary

Chapter 4

[Sup. Nice to meet you Im Mystic, other wise known as Ryosei Kormatsu. We got back from our trip and we were called into the office by the doc. We take out the documents and every thing important.]
Dr .T; These plans. You destroyed the machine correct?
Hanna; Yes.

Dr .T; Did you come across the Bio-Tronic sphere?
Hanna; Bio... oh. [She took a small blue sphere with electricity in the middle. It was pretty tight. She handed it over to the doc.]
Dr .T; Hm.
Hanna; What exactly is it?
Dr .T; It’s a battery. It is a great source of concentrated energy condensed in this small ball. It has enough energy to light up New York for five decades.
Mystic; Damn.
Dr .T; Yes indeed.
[He put it in the teleportal and sent it up to research. He spread out the plans. They were mainly for the machine. After that he pressed a button and his big screen came up. He inserted the first disk. The machine, second, machine, third same thing. He put in one marked dooms day. It was a schematic of a chip. We looked at this more closely.]
Hanna; What is it?
Dr .T; Lets see. It says. The V chip is programed to cancel out one persons thoughts and actions and replace them with another. It looks like a mind switch chip.
Mystic; I still don’t get it.
Dr .T; You program one persons thoughts and actions into this chip and put it in another human. This will sort of put that person in your body and that person will be able to control you.
Hanna; Man. That could really do some damage if they got the right person.
Dr .T; Precisely. We can only hope they haven’t already built one.

[We were soon dismissed after that. We all went in the rec-room. The others were kind of restless. Spy and Sink told them how our mission went. Except for the birth that was a little beyond their comfort level. The others wanted to go out tonight and check out a new club on Elm street. We all agreed and left at around nine. It was a pretty nice joint. Great music, good vibes. I love to dance, Any kind at all. I love the great rhythm and the hypnotic movements of your body as it flows to the music. I danced with several girls that night that I didn’t know and had no desire to know. I really wanted to dance with Hanna. What did she see in that little plain boy? I had sort of gone into a depression when Hanna turned me down. I now understood why she drank all the time. I finally got a dance with her. Spy was keeping a close eye though. It was kind of funny. After a few more dances I sat down. The rhythm was gone from my body. I sat down and ordered a drink. Hanna told Nathan some thing and sat with me. She got a drink, she always got some thing strong. We drank and drank, and drank. Im afraid I can’t remember stuff when Im drunk so I turn this over to Hanna briefly. I’ll see you later.]

[Hey its me again. Me and Mystic had a few and ... lets face it we were wasted. The first time we both were. When the others wanted to leave. They didn’t want to take us home. The doc would have a shit fit. We decided to check into a hotel for the night. They dumped us both into a room and locked the door. These f*&%$#@ idiots stuck us in a room together drunk. We were having a drunken conversation.]
Mystic; Why do you like Nathan so much?
Hanna; I don’t know. He’s nice and....and he treats me good.
Mystic; So do I.
Hanna; I don’t really know. I can’t choose.
Mystic; Choose?
Hanna; I love both of you.
[We were already very close together.]
Mystic; You really mean that?
Hanna; I do.
[We started kissing. We were both sitting on the bed kissing. His hands were groping me shamelessly. My hands were traveling up and down his back and chest. We stayed lip locked and he unbuttoned my shirt. I unbuttoned his. Our shirts now lay on the floor. We undressed each other with haste. He unhooked my bra and threw that to the ground. We got under the covers of the bed. He was kissing my neck, my shoulders, my breasts. I was squirming pleasantly, kissing his body also. His hands caressing every part of my body. I breathed in his sweet scent. We were so close it was like we were on body and one mind. It was pure, raw, sweet, unbearable pleasure. I can remember a few screams of pleasure. We parted, our chests heaving. And some where along the line we both fell asleep.]

[I woke up my head was pounding. I opened my eyes and I was face to face with Mystic. In a bed. Naked. I screamed. His eyes snapped open and he screamed. We both jumped out of the bed covering with what every we could find. I looked for my cloths and found them on the floor. I ran to the bathroom with them. I wet a towel and started wiping my body free of the reek of sex. I was wiping my self raw. After I got dressed and splashed some cold water in my face. I nervously exited the bathroom. We couldn’t stand to look at each other. We made the bed and got our stuff and left the room. We walked down to the lobby. God I was sore. I was sort of limping.]
Mystic; Will you stop walking like that?
Hanna; Yeah just as soon as you do.
[He was walking weird. He straightened his stride. The others were waiting for us. Every one had the funny look on their faces. Nathan had the look of pure anger. No one said any thing on the way back to the base. We all sat in the rec-room. Kenya handed Mystic a slip of paper.]
Mystic; What’s this?
Kenya; A bill. For the damaged to the room next to you. You knocked a painting off the wall and cracked the plaster in the ceiling.
[The others busted out laughing. We were both blushing a deep crimson. I hit Kenya hard on the back of the head.]
Kenya; Ow.
Hanna; If you all want to keep your teeth you’ll never speak of this again. I want to know whose idea it was to stick us both in a room alone drunk.
[No one would fess up. I could smell guilt a mile away. All my sensors pointed to Maria. I walked up to her very slowly and she started to sweat. I bent down and whispered into her ear.]
Hanna; Your going to pay for this, you little witch.
[I walked away and every one looked at her. They knew she was dead. I sat in a chair. Mystic was in one next to mine. Nathan had gone straight to his room. Mystic got up and left. I will now switch back to him.]

[Hey. Yeah me and Hanna spent the night together. Well I was in a very crappy mood and was now about to act like a class A jerk. Hanna and me will be switching a few times during this conflict so bare with us. I went to Nathan’s room. I knock.]
Nathan; Who is it?
Mystic; Its me man.
[He opened his door with a look of hatred on his face.]
Nathan; What do you want?
Mystic; Look man we need to talk,
[He let me in. He sat on his bed. He put his head in one hand.]
Nathan; I thought she loved me.
Mystic; She does.
Nathan; Then why?
[Its time for me to be the ass hole.]

Mystic; Your Amish right?
Nathan; Yeah.
Mystic; Do you believe in premarital sex?
Nathan; No.
Mystic; That’s why. She can’t get what she wants from you so she will get it from some one else.
Nathan; Damn it. Doesn’t she have any morals at all?
Mystic; Look man maybe you should talk to her about this.
[I left. I can’t believe I actually did that. This was gonna lead to so many problems I didn’t know at the time. I went back to the rec-room and sat down.]
Mystic; You need to talk to Nathan.
Hanna; I know.
[Let us switch.]

[Im back. I got up and went to Nathan’s room. He let me in. It was kind of dark in his room.]
Nathan; What do you want?
Hanna; Look Nathan Im really sorry about last night.
Nathan; Is that the kind of thing you want from me?
Hanna; What?
Nathan; Is that what you want from our relationship? Sex?
Hanna; No. I was drunk I just got carried away.
Nathan; Carried away? You slept with him!
Hanna; So? I’ve slept with men before.
Nathan; What?
Hanna; Look. I know where you come from things like that are a big, big deal. Out here their not. Now what I did was..... Im sorry I didn’t mean for some thing like that to happen it just did.
Nathan; You don’t want that from me?
Hanna; No. I can wait. And who told you that’s what I wanted?
[We are switching right now.]

[Im back again and I am about to get in an ass load of trouble. I heard her docile tones scream my name for the whole bass to hear.]
Hanna; Mystic!!!!!
[She came into the rec-room her eyes full of fire. I was dead. I was deader that dead. I was already buried.]

Hanna; Ryosei Yuri Kormatsu! What the hell were you thinking telling him some thing like that?!
[She used my whole name. That spelt big trouble.]
Mystic; What the hell do you think?! Look this isn’t my fault!
Hanna; Its not my fault either!
Mystic; I beg to differ!
[I was worse than dead. I was a pile of ashes.]
Hanna; What?! You have some f!@#$% nerve you ass hole! You’re the one who was coming on to me!
Mystic; Don’t give me that crap! You were...
[Every one was looking at us.]
Mystic; Can we continue this some place else?
Hanna; You want a private conversation fine!
[She started screaming at me in Japanese. I will put us into translation.]
Hanna; You stupid, arrogant bastard! I don’t know what the hell is going on inside of your warped mind, but this isn’t my fault! And you tell him these lies!
Mystic; It wasn’t a lie and you know it!
Hanna; Oh please you’re the one always coming on to me!
Mystic; No way its you onto me!
Hanna; Oh please you couldn’t keep your pants on even if they were stapled to your ass!
Mystic; Well I don’t know where you get your tramp attitude! It could be from your mother!
Hanna; Don’t even get me started on your family tree!
Mystic; Maybe it wasn’t your mother! Maybe it was your nigger father!
[She slapped me so hard across the face I was sent reeling into a chair. I was on my back.]
Kenya; Oh no he didn’t.
Derek; What?
Kenya; My Japanese is a bit rusty, but if Im not mistaken he just called her father a nigger.
Hanna; How could I ever love some one with such a horrid conscience?!
[No more language barrier.]
Mystic; If you hate me so much why don’t you just leave! I don’t even know why your on this team!
Hanna; That makes two of us.
[She took of her badge and threw it at me.]

Hanna; Im leaving.
[She left. I don’t believe it. She just left. All I could do was stare at the door as she left. No one else said a word. I was just stunned. Empty inside until I came back reality. I will switch again.]

[I was walking down to my room. I threw some stuff into my bag and I grabbed the flute he gave me for my birth day. I left it on his bed. I grabbed my bag and went for the exit. Nathan was waiting for me.]
Nathan; Where are you going?
Hanna; Im going for a while. I need some time to think. Listen to me Nathan.
[I put my hand on his cheek.]
Hanna; I love you. And I don’t expect anything from you. I can wait as long as it takes. Im sorry about what happened, but it meant nothing. It wasn’t love it was lust. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone, but Im going.
[I kissed him and walked to the door. Mystic came running into the hall.]
Mystic; Hanna!
[I closed the door. I got in the car and drove. I don’t know where I was going, but it was getting away from the base. My traveling is not important however. Im going to switch over to the moron.]

[Hey. This part really sucked. I was running after her, but I was too late. She walked right through the door. I banged on the wall with my fist.]
Mystic; Damn it.
[Nathan pushed me up against the wall. Damn this kid was strong when he was mad and boy was he. The kid had fire in his eyes.]
Nathan; What the f@!# is wrong with you!? You could have just left it alone, but no you had to go and piss every body off Mr. Big shot! I hope your f#@$%! happy!

[He let me go and walked away seething. I couldn’t blame the kid. I couldn’t face any one right now. I went to the training room. I was hitting the bag. Every time I hit it, it made me mad. The more I hit it the madder I got. Why did I have to be so stupid? Why didn’t I just keep my mouth shut? I just couldn’t stand it. I gave the bag a really hard punch and it flew forward a few feet. I was breathing very hard. Tears mingled with sweat on my face. I got a towel and went to my room. I looked on my bed and flute I had given her for her birthday was on my pillow. Oh god that hurt. Worse than any thing she had ever said. Two days passed and there was no sign of her. We were in the middle of training when the emergency bell rang. We all reported to the meeting room. The doc and Flex were there and they looked worried.]
Dr .T; I have horrible news. Agent Mental has been captured, by Bio-tech.
[There were murmurs of concern.]
Flex; Right now they are in a portable base in Alaska.
Nina; Alaska? In the middle of fall.
Dr .T; Yes. We are not sure what they plan to do with her, but we must recover her in the least amount of time. You leave tomorrow morning at four AM. Pack light and warm. All other supplies will be ready for you.

[He showed us the blue prints of the base and where she was most likely held. The security they had and the precautions to take. We were dismissed. I went to my room and packed just about every weapon I had. I took out two things I hadn’t used in a long time. Being from Japan me and Hanna learned the art of swordsman ship. It made us just about ten time faster. I pulled out my katana. Hanna had made our swords. She was great at making thing out of metal. In fact she sold a special kind for some extra cash. I brought out my second weapon. She gave me this the last time we had all come together again. It was a mithrall scimitar. It took her the longest time to actually invent the legendary metal. It was as light as a feather, but as strong as diamond. Right below the hilt she carved her initials in Japanese. If any thing happened to her I’d never forgive my self. Its all my fault she left. I put my scimitar in my bag and zipped it up. I took up her flute and blew in it. It had no tune. It was a bad omen. I took out my katana and looked at the dull side. It was dark even when I held it up to the light. This was called the death shadow. It was another omen when death was looming near some one you knew. Every thing was freaking me out. I just wanted to tell her I was sorry. I wanted her to come back even if I couldn’t have her. I still loved her and I wanted her to be safe. We left in the morning on a plane for Alaska. Nathan wasn’t speaking to any one. The kid was scared for her life and I felt sorry for him. The plane landed after a few hours. In Alaska the sun either didn’t set or it didn’t come up. It was the land of the midnight sun. The sun was going to set in two months. It was extremely cold as winter approached. The portable base was a very well invented thing. It had a cloaking device that made it look almost like its surroundings. When on the move it hovered above the ground about a mile up. Right now it was down and we had to break into it. Kenya phased us through the wall. We sent Nathan ahead to disconnect the cameras as we went along. Nina went ahead and knocked out the guards, with a tranquilizer. I tried to hack into the system, but no go. Maria used a jolt to disarm the alarms and open the mechanical doors. Then there was a room armed with lasers. We weren’t sure how to get through this. Rose had I covered. She took the rose from her hair and took apart the petals.]
Rose; Metal petal.
[She threw up the petals and they turned into mirror like metal. She made each one fly into a laser and it reflected back to its proper place. We quickly crossed the room and she called her petals back to her flower. We went into the next room. This guy thought of every thing. He went from land mines to bear traps. In fact Bobby stepped in a hidden one and as much as I hated him I grabbed my knife. He thought I was about to cut his leg off. God he’s an idiot.]
Mystic; Will you shut up? Im not gonna cut your friggen foot off.
[I used my knife to pry it open and I held it open and he took his foot out.]
Bobby; Thanks.
Mystic; What ever.
[We kept going. The next room was extremely hard to break into. Kenya couldn’t phase it, Maria couldn’t jolt it, and Derek couldn’t pry it open. Bobby took a bottle out of his pocket. He put a little on each hinge and on the lock. It completely melted and we took the door off. Hanna was inside. She was in a giant tank filled with green water. She was in suspended animation. Unconscious and floating in the center. Her arms were shackled and the tank was controlled and regulated by a computer. She was in what looked like a one piece bathing suit with out straps. I went over to the computer and tried to hack into the system. It was really tough to crack, plus if any thing went wrong she might drown. That’s when the friggen militia came busting through the door. We ducked behind what ever we could. These people had done more research than we thought. One of them managed to shoot Kenya. The boy phases through the toughest shit and they shot him. It wasn’t too serious they shot him in the arm. We were throwing every thing at them. Rose was shooting petals at them, Maria was frying as many as she could, Raven with blades of wind, Bobby actually used some magic. The others were shooting and I was working on the computer. Come on. Maria got shot in the leg and Raven in the gut. We couldn’t do it. We’d have to retreat.]
Mystic; We need to fall back.
Nathan; But Hanna.
Mystic; We won’t be able to save her if we die. Come on!
[I put a up a barrier so the others could escape and then went after them. The doors were closing on us. We formed a chain and Kenya phased us through the doors. We escaped and it took flight.]

Mystic; No! God Dammit!
[It sped away. I pounded the ground with my fists. Kenya was about to put his hand on my shoulder.]
Kenya; Hey man.
Mystic; Don’t touch me!
[He recoiled. I was so mad at my self right now I was bound to take it out on any one. We went to our station to try and regroup. I can’t really tell you what happened next so here’s Hanna.]

[Hey. Right now Im stuck in suspended animation. For those of you who don’t know Im pretty much a pickle in a jar. My mind is trying to over ride the things keeping me asleep. The gun fire was a lot of help. My vision is blurred and my eye barely open. I am very weak on a life support system. I try and gain back my strength. I pull my arms free of the shackles. I rip out all the tubes and wire, I kick at the glass. It doesn’t give. I focus and use a mental wave and it shatters. I flow out of the tank with the water. I cough several time and try to gain my breath. The alarm goes off. I got to get out of here. I run through the ruined doors. I hear some men coming so I duck into a room as they pass by. I go again. My head is throbbing , but I don’t stop. I keep on running. I reach the last door and it’s rock solid. A man runs up to me and grabs me. He gives me a stun gun to the ribs. I almost fall to the floor. He tries to drag me away. I touch his head and use a surge of energy. It takes a lot of power to do this. I completely erased his mind. He will be in a stagnated state for the rest of his life. I can’t see straight. I used to much power. But I bust down the door with a mental wave. I look down and we are a mile up. And in the Rockies from the looks of it. Men come down the hall.]
Guy; Get her! Don’t let her escape!
[I have no choice. I jump. I fall for a while and then try to levitate. I can go for a while, but my powers give and I fall. I hit the frozen ground hard and roll rather bumpily down the mountain and hit my head on a rock. I regain consciousness after half an hour. My body is numb from the cold and the wind it relentless on my bare skin. I get up and stagger. I have to keep walking or I’ll freeze to death. I soon find a cave and get in there, It is just as cold, but the wind is no longer on my body. What made things worse was the fact that I was soaking wet when I left. I knew I was gonna die of hypothermia, if I didn’t kill my self first. My limbs had long since lost their feeling. I fell unconscious again. I will bring it back to Mystic.]


[Mystic here. We were trying to figure out a plan. I got a ring from Dr .T.]
Dr .T; I have good and bad news. The good news is Agent Mental has escaped.
Mystic; Bad news?
Dr .T; She dropped from the base into the Rocky Mountains.
Nathan; She’ll freeze to death!
Mystic; They had her in suspended animation!
Dr .T; Good god. You have to out in find her. Im tracking her and I’ll send you the signal. Now hurry. It won’t take long before hypothermia sets in.
[We get back in our things and take several snow mobiles out to the Rockies. We follow her signal to the exact point. We get off.]
Mystic; Get out and search!
[We look for ten minutes.]
Nina; There’s a cave under this sheet of ice.
[Kenya slips in.]
Kenya; She’s down here! You’ll need to break through I can’t bring her up!
[Derek tries to bust it, but no good. We need to cut it with some thing. I go to my bag and take out my scimitar.]
Mystic; Get back!
[I plunge it into the ice and cut a big hole all around. He hands her up to me. Her lips are blue and there is frost on her skin and hair and she is shivering weakly. We wrap her up good in what we brought, strap her to a sled and make it back to the fort. The first thing to do.]
Mystic; Rose fill the tub with hot water. Hot not warm.
We get her close to the fire until Rose comes back. I bring her with blankets and all and put her in the tub. I pour water over and over on her head. Maria checks her temperature. 87.4. Not good. We need to make her warmer. Once the bath lost its warmness. I dried her off and brought her to a bed very close to the fire. Her lips returned color. No one could take the waiting. There was a blizzard out there and no one could leave the base. Bobby had no supplies to make any thing and it would take forever for the medical truck to get here. She was gonna need medicine when she woke up. If she woke up. It was like a cabin except smaller. When no one could stand to wait they went to bed. Nathan was very reluctant to leave. He needed sleep the most though. The poor kid hadn’t slept since she left. So he did turn in. I was the only one left with her. I sat next to her bed and looked at her. Her temperature was no longer below now it was sky rocketing. It was emergency room worthy. 111.7. Temperatures this high could cause stroke. She was shivering violently.]

Mystic; God, I can’t believe your like this. And its all my fault. He....its all my fault.
[ I kneeled by her bed.]
Mystic; Every ones real worried about you. Especially Nathan. Poor kid. Now I know why you love him. The kid hasn’t slept since you left. He’d probably do any thing for you. He wants you to wake up. I want you to wake up. Please wake up. Im sorry. Im sorry I said all those horrible things. I didn’t mean it. Im sorry.
[I started to cry. I haven’t cried since I was a little kid. I bury my head in her bed. I feel her hand on my head. I look up. She’s awake and gently smiling. She strokes my cheek.]
Hanna; I forgive you.
[A tear rolls down her cheek and I put my hand on hers and smile through my own tears. She closes her eyes again. She asks for Nathan. I go get him and I leave them alone. I will switch over to Nathan.]

[Hey. Mystic told me Hanna woke up and she wanted to see me. He left and I knelt by her bed. I held her hand.]
Hanna; Hey.
Nathan; Hey.
Hanna; Im glad you’re here. I might not make it this time.
Nathan; Don’t say that. Your gonna be fine.
[I could feel my tears coming.]
Hanna; You don’t know that and neither do I. But no matter what I’ll always stay with you. You can’t hear us, you can’t see us, but you know that we’re there.
[She was singing the song she wrote for me very gently.]
Hanna; We are the mortal angels. Mortal. I am mortal and nothing more. I love you and will never leave you.
[Tears were already streaming down my face by the time she started singing.]
Hanna; Save the crying for my funeral.
[She gave me a weak smile and her head lolled to the side and he hand went limp.]
Nathan; Hanna. Hanna!
[I checked her pulse and there was none.]
Nathan; No! Hanna!
[Mystic came running in.]
Mystic; What’s wrong?
Nathan; Her heart stopped,

Mystic; Move!
[I got out of the way and he started pumping her chest. He breathed into her lungs and pumped again. He did this twice and checked for a pulse and he sighed in relief as did I. I could see her chest rising and falling gently. I fell into a chair and put my face in my hands. This was way too much. I nearly lost her. Mystic was in a chair across the room. He was doing all he could not to cry in front of me. I did a rather decent thing to my least favorite person right now. I got up and went to my room. I knew he was crying after I left. How could he not be? I was friggen crying into my pillow to drown out my moans of misery. The next day I was walking around with a large weight in my chest. I woke at four and went to see Hanna. Her fever was if possible higher than before. I got a wash cloth and put it on her fore head. Her cheeks were red and she was coughing. Her breathing was raspy. Her lung were probably damaged. Im pretty sure she had pneumonia. I kept wiping her face, fore head and neck with the wet cloth trying to lower it. I succeeded to lowering it to a 101.9. It was still high, but it was an improvement. I had to keep it up or it would sky rocket again. She didn’t wake up again. Bio-tech was still looking for her and they were damn fixed on finding her. About a day later they came. A bunch of renderers came and were trying to break in.]
Mystic; Its Bio-tech. Take Hanna to the back.
[I brought her to the safe room and put her in bed. I went back with my gun drawn. They had already opened fire. We were returning as fast as we could. Rose wasn’t using her powers though. She was using a gun, so was Maria. With out them we weren’t very powerful. The gun I had was shot out of my hand. We all lost our weapons and we had to. We surrendered. They tide us up. The safe room was well hidden so they wouldn’t be able to find her.]
Guy; Alright. Where’s the girl?
Mystic; Yeah, like we’d tell you.
[He gave him a butt plate to the head. Mystic was lying on the ground with a huge gash on his head.]
Mystic; You son of bitch.
[He swung his leg around and tripped the guy. He got up cursing and kicked Mystic in the stomach. Mystic was hunched over coughing and he kicked him in the face. I winced with every hit he took. He pointed the gun at him.]
Guy; Where’s the girl?

[Mystic spit in his face. He wiped his face and kicked him again in the stomach. Suddenly the guy collapsed and fell on his face. He had a hole in the back of his head.]
Hanna; Its time to lock and load,
[Hanna was standing in the hall way. Several more men dropped like flies. How did she shoot that fast? They all pointed their guns at her. She raised hers and fired, what sounded like as single shot, but six of them dropped, She was out of ammunition. One of the guys rushed her and she slashed his throat with a sword? No way. That was so awesome. The other men shot at her, but she blocked each bullet with her blade. They all dropped their guns and ran. Hanna walked over to us very slowly and she dropped to her knees. She cut my bindings and I took the knife and did every on else. She just leaned against the wall on the floor. This girl just saved our asses and she wasn’t even supposed to be out of bed. She couldn’t get up so I carried her back to bed.]
Nathan; That was amazing. How did you do that?
Hanna; I recently upgraded my powers.
Nathan; How.....?
[Then it came to me. You obtain powers through pain and extreme situations.]
Nathan; What did they do to you in that lab?
Hanna; I don’t know.
[She fell unconscious and did the most bazar thing. Her body floated two inches off the bed.]
Nathan; Mystic!
[He came in. Nina had fixed up his wounds.]
Mystic; Yeah?
Nathan; What’s she doing?
Mystic; Hm? She’s going into a trance?
Nathan; A trance?
Mystic; Yeah. It happens to me every once and a while. You just slip out of consciousness and your powers and body regroup and repair. I didn’t know she could do it?
Nathan; She said she recently upgraded her powers.
Mystic; Damn them.
Nathan; What’s this?
[There was a tatoo on her arm, but it was like a bar code.]
Mystic; That’s her ID. When Bio-tech captured us as kids they put an ID on each of us.
[He rolled up his sleeve and showed his bar code..]
Mystic; I just hope they aren’t as cruel they used to be, though I highly doubt it.

Nathan; What happened in the lab?
Mystic; You ask too many questions.
Nathan; Maybe so. Or maybe you just don’t want to answer me.
Mystic; How did you figure that one out Einstein?.
Nathan; Doesn’t matter, she’ll probably tell me. One day, maybe not now or any time soon, but one day.
Mystic; And how would she know?
Nathan; Im not stupid. She went that lab right after you, am I right?
Mystic; You need to keep your mouth shut. For your own good.
[He left the room I guess he was pissed off at me for asking so much, but hey Im a nosy person. Can’t really help it. I wanted to cover Hanna with a blanket, but I knew better. The moment I came with in two inches of her body I’d be thrown across the room. I just sat with her for a while. Then I heard a yell from the living room. I went to go see and Mystic was chewing out Rose and Maria.]
Mystic; You should have told me before hand! Losing your powers in a moment like that is a big deal! Especially since your our main power Maria! God!
[He cooled down and sat in a chair. Maria and Rose just sat in silence. They must be going through the change. This would bad if they came back. I went back to Hanna’s room. It was kind of strange watching her float a few inches off the bed. She was shivering with fever. I closed the door and grabbed a blanket. Oh well, it wouldn’t really hurt me anyhow. I covered her with the blanket and nothing happened. She was letting me in. I could get close to her with out being hurled across the room. Sweet. A few days passed and she was still floating over the bed. The medicine finally came, but Mystic was oblivious at how to give it to her. He couldn’t touch her.]
Mystic; This is a problem. Can’t get near her.
[He was supposed to give her an injection.]
Nathan; Give it to me.
Mystic; Ok, but if I laugh don’t be offended.
Nathan; Oh I won’t.
[I gave her the shot in the arm. He was starring at me in disbelief then he smacked me on the head.]
Mystic; How come you didn’t tell me she let you in?
Nathan; How would that have made a difference in your life?
Mystic; Smart ass.

[This was great I put Mystic at a loss for words. Two more days passed and she was still in her trance. But the renderer’s came back and tried again. This time we were ready. First of all Maria had an Uzi instead of a hand gun. We taking them all down when every one heard a scream and a loud thump from the back room. Me and Mystic went to check on it. There was a guy lying upside down against the wall in Hanna’s room. He got up with hast and pointed his gun at her and shot. Nothing. He shot again and again, the bullets were stuck in the barrier.]
Mystic; Nothings getting through there.
[One shot from Mystic and the guy was dead, a huge crash from the main room and we ran back. One of the guys had Nina in his arm and a gun at her head. He was one few guys still standing. I hadn’t shown my self in the room. I snuck out of one of the windows. The others were standing with their hands in the air. I grabbed some stuff out of Hanna’s bag and crawled into the main room through a high window. I saw the guy pull up his gun from her head. I threw a shuriben throwing star and plugged him in the head. He fell to the ground dead. The other men looked around with pointed guns to see where it came from. I took a normal dagger and threw it straight into one of the guys hearts. He dropped the other guy was freaking and the other were quite bemused. I climbed up into the rafters and jumped down knocking the guy out with a blow to the head from my empty gun. The others lowered their hands.]
Derek; You did that? Where were you?
[I pointed to the open window near the ceiling.]
Kenya; That was tight.
[I got a lot of complements for that one. I wish Hanna could have seen it, but if Hanna were there we probably wouldn’t have been in that situation, Nina especially thanked me. Others went to go see Hanna while she was in bed. Bobby came in when me and Mystic were in there he approached her bed.]
Both; No! Don’t...
[It was too late Bobby was thrown across the room.]
Bobby; Thanks for the warning. Ah.

[He got up and left. After that no one else would touch her. Until one day I went out side to see if it was clearing up. I decided to have a look around. The Rockies were very nice this time of year. Mystic was doing some work and the others were just goofing around. When I came back Mystic had fallen asleep at his desk. Couldn’t blame him. He hadn’t been sleeping well. I heard laughing in Hanna’s room. I went to go see with out being seen. They were playing a game to see how close they could get before being thrown back. Mystic walked up behind me in the hall and watched from my view after he saw what they were doing he ran in there screaming at them all for being so immature and treating her like an object for their entertainment. They all ran out of there before he got real mad. I couldn’t help it. I laughed.]
Mystic; What the hell is so funny?
Nathan; I was just wondering what Hanna would do if she were awake.
[This actually brought a smile to his face. The first one I had seen since before their night together. The guys couldn’t stand being inside any longer they all went out side and played in the snow. I couldn’t help it either. After a while I went and joined them. They were having a snow ball fight. It was great having a snow fight with supernatural people. Raven was the best. He could send a wave of snow any time he wanted. Bobby was using magic to throw an entire swarm at a time.]
Bobby; This is great. We don’t get snow much in Louisiana.
Derek; Gee I wonder why.
Nathan; Yeah you’re the hell of America.
[He threw another swarm at us. Nina would sneak up on us. Of corse I was the master of sneaking so I was always able to nail her when she disappeared. I hit her for the fifth time.]
Nina; How are you doing that?
Nathan; Your leaving tracks in the snow.
[She looked behind her and laughed. Kenya rarely got hit letting the snow balls phase through him when they came at him. Mystic stuck his head out the window.]
Mystic; Will you keep it down!?
[We smiled at each other and we all nailed him in the face with a snow ball. He wiped his face of snow and went back in side. He came out in his snow things.]
Mystic; Its on now!
[It was all against Mystic now. Between barriers and his artillery of snow it was damn near impossible to hit him. Then one hit him in the back of the head. He looked around. Nina was next to me so it wasn’t her. He looked back at us and another one hit him in the back of the head.]
Mystic; What the? Who’s doing that?
[We all shrugged. We were clueless. We waited for a while and then continued the fight. He was creaming us. We were on the run when like a machine gun of snow balls. He was hit seven times from the back and was lying face first in the snow.]
Mystic; There is only one person who can do that.

[He got up smiling and looked back at the house. Hanna was leaning against the window sill a snow ball floating in front of her. We went to go meet her at the window.]
Raven; How you feeling?
Hanna; Im getting there. But I guarantee you if you guy stay out there too long you’ll get sick too.
[We didn’t really listen to her warning. In fact we stayed out a while longer. We came in and she made some soup. It was the first meal we had that didn’t come from a bag or a can in a while. And of corse she was right. The next day Nina, Bobby, Rose, Raven and Derek were sick. ]
Hanna; I told you so.
[Hanna was sitting in a chair with a blanket the sick ones sitting by the fire wrapped in a blanket. Mystic sat next to her and Kenya was standing behind her. In fact we were all on her side of the room to avoid catching what they had. At least we knew Hanna wasn’t contagious.]
Kenya; Its good to have you back girl.
[He gave her five and then his face froze. The moment she had touched him he just stood stock still and he fell to the ground like statue. She touched Maria with her right hand, nothing then with her left she froze and fell out of her chair.]
Hanna; What the?
[Turns out her new power might just be a burden. They woke up about twenty minutes later no harm done to them. But they were really freaked out. From that day on Hanna wore one black leather glove over her left hand.]
Mystic; What on earth is it?
Hanna; I think I read their minds. It was weird.
[Indeed it was. The blizzard was getting much worse and the next morning we were snowed in. And what was worse now Maria was sick. It was just me Hanna, Mystic and Kenya sitting in the living room talking.]
Kenya; Im going down to my grandma’s house for Thanksgiving y’all. It ain’t for the company its for the food. That woman can cook let me tell you. Cajun turkey, homemade stuffing, sweet potatoes and pecan pie.
Nathan; We do two things down in Nappanee. First we have a gathering of the whole village. We have dancing, music and games. Then we go back home and have a traditional Thanksgiving with our family.
Kenya; What do you guys do?
Hanna; We look for a good time.
Mystic; We rarely find it though. Too many joints are closed on Thanksgiving.
Hanna; We got the entire base to our selves. Even the doc and Flex go to visit family.

Kenya; Hey. Sucks to be you.
Hanna; Thank you for your comforting words.
[She rubbed her head.]
Kenya; Hey. What happened on that ship? How did you get captured?
Hanna; I was driving on the road and there was a guy lying in the middle of it. Against my better judgement I went to see if he was alive. Stunner right on the neck. I tried to get up, but you know. The guy gave me a tranquillizer and when I woke up I was strapped to a chair with things attached to me. They tortured me for information, but I wouldn’t talk. They knocked me out and put me in suspended animation.
Mystic; Couldn’t you use your powers to escape?
Hanna; They had done their homework and found out a way to block my attacks. Any way I forced my self to wake up in the tank. I pulled my self free of my shackles. I kicked the glass and it didn’t work. So I use a mental wave to shatter it. I was extremely weak, but I ran through all the doors you guys busted open. I thank you. I had to duck past a few guards and I made it to the front door. Some guy caught me and tried to stun me. I wouldn’t go down. He had another tranquillizer so I erased his mind.
[Both her and Mystic made the sign of the cross.]
Hanna; I ran to the door and couldn’t break it down, so I used almost the last of my power to break it open. I was a mile up. And then came more guards so I had no choice I jumped. I tried to levitate, but my powers gave half way up and I fell and rolled down the mountain and I hit my head hard on a rock.
[She felt the back of her head. Wait a second. We didn’t fix that. And she knew it.]
Hanna; Apparently you missed that. I woke up about half an hour later and started walking. I found a cave and sat to rest and I fell unconscious.
Kenya; Damn...... What happens when you erase a mind?
Hanna; Oo. Their put into a vegetated state for the remainder of their lives.
[The next day Kenya and I got sick. This sucked big time. Hanna was still sick herself yet she was playing caretaker because Mystic had no heart. The only people he took care of was him self and Hanna. He at least helped her out a bit. She made us some CNS chicken noodle soup. Warms you heart and soul, is what she said. The next day it got worse. Yes. Mystic fell ill.]
Mystic; There is some thing wrong with this picture. I never get sick.
Hanna; There’s a first time for every thing and you seem to have it the worst. Your temperature is over 103.

Mystic; So is yours you want to make a point?
Hanna; Yes. Shut up and be grateful that Im still taking care of you after what your sorry ass did.
Mystic; Sorry.
Hanna; Forget about it.
[It was like the blind leading the blind. The sicker helping the sick. I did my part by being the least burden I could. I helped her until she told me to get back into bed and to stop worrying. It was hard not too the woman almost died. I was there when Mystic revived her. She some how knew about this too. How on earth could she?]
Hanna; Thanks for saving me.
Mystic; Its fine.
Hanna; No I mean after you rescued me. You brought me back to life,
Mystic; How did you know?
Hanna; I know every thing that goes on around here. Listen. I was wondering. This Thanksgiving I want to go back home.
Mystic; Back to Japan?
Hanna; Yes.
Mystic; Why?
Hanna; I miss it. I miss our home land. Will you come with me?
Mystic; Sure. To tell you the truth I sort of wanted to go back too. But you know there is no Thanksgiving in Japan.
Hanna; That’s why I want to go. No obligation to meet the family we don’t have.
[Looks like Hanna had her plans set. We finally left the fort two day later and the doc was pissed to find out that all of his agents were sick. Flex let Bobby use her lab and we had a cure in no time, except for one problem. It had no effect on Mystic. Bobby said it was probably from the magic stored in his body. It was opposing the medicine and keeping him from getting better. He showed no improvement until Hanna came up with some thing that was sure to work. His powers were keeping him from getting better, so Hanna was going to take them away.]
Mystic; No! Never! I won’t allow it!
Hanna; Don’t be such a baby.
Mystic; Don’t give me that crap you aren’t taking my powers!
Hanna; Wanna bet?

[He lost that bet. Hanna took his powers she kept them in a bottle, it confused me, but I guess its not for me to understand. He did get better, but it always had to get worse before it got better. He ended up in the infirmary the next day. After he started getting better Bobby took every chance he had to take a shot at him. He was beaten to a pulp, by Hanna though.]
Hanna; Why can’t you two just get along?
Mystic; Its simple. Magic and Voodoo don’t go together, The end ,chapter closed.
Hanna; That’s sad boy.
[He did get better and Hanna gave him back his powers and Mystic got his revenge on Bobby. He knew some really cool spells. Bobby was about to take another shot at him. Mystic walked past him and pointed a finger at him. He waved it like a wand.]
Mystic; Rigor mortis!
[It was a full body binding spell. It was kind of funny, Bobby was sitting in his chair unable to move.]
Bobby; I hate you.
Mystic; Good. My work here is done.
[Hanna waited a while and then made him change him back. The holidays approached and we were all starting to leave for our families. I drove for four days to get back to Nappanee. My family was so happy to see me as was Derek’s family to see him. My mother was completely cured and was up and about. She was disappointed that Hanna hadn’t come. My father didn’t seem as much. I was glad to be back again. Our old friends had much to talk to us about. I broke it off with Emily Butcher and she slapped me across the face. That girl had an arm. The other guys were interested in it.]
Billy; You got a new girl friend?
Nathan; Uh yeah.
Jarred; Its that outsider girl huh?
Nathan; You mean Hanna. Yeah.
Billy; Nathan you are so lucky. That girl is ...
[I threw him a look.]
Billy; Well she’s pretty.
[Better. A few days later we had the party in the big barn. There was dancing, drinking and food. There were so many girls eyeing me. They apparently liked boys from the outside. Every single one of them was hitting on Derek since he was single, but he didn’t take a single one. I thought he was crazy.]
Derek; Im not crazy. Before Hanna came along you turned down every single one of these girls am I not right?

Nathan; What ever.
[The party ended at sun down. We went in and had dinner and went to bed. Thanksgiving was tomorrow. Im gonna give this over to a slightly less dull family. Im gonna pass this on to Derek for a bit cause he had quite a commotion at his house.]

[Derek here. Ok it’s the night before thanks giving and we are getting ready to hit the sack. When who comes in, but my father. How? Is the biggest question. I get up.]
Mr. Johansson; Hello family.
Derek; What are you doing here?
Mr. Johansson; What kind of welcome is that for your father?
Derek; Ok here’s a better one. Get the hell out of here.
Mrs. Johansson; Derek!
Mr. Johansson; You got some thing to say boy?
Derek; Yeah. How’d you get out of jail?
Mr. Johansson; Well it’s a long story, but I decided to come back and see my family for the holidays.
Derek; Why? You obviously don’t care.
Mr. Johansson; Listen boy I’ve had enough of your mouth.
Derek; Well you just have to deal with it cause there’s plenty more where that came from pops.
[The heat between me and my father was so intense.]
Derek; Now what did you really come her for?
Mr. Johansson; I came to finish the job.
[He pulled a knife on me and had it pointed at my heart. I didn’t move a muscle. In fact I grinned and laughed.]
Mr. Johansson; What’s so funny boy?
[I stopped laughing and grabbed the blade and bent it in half. His eyes bulged and he dropped the knife.]
Mr. Johansson; What the hell are you?!
Derek; Im a man and Im not taking any crap from you!
[He punched me in the face and my head merely lashed back. I put it back into place and cracked my neck.]
Derek; Good night.

[I punched him for a change. I didn’t use enough force though. He came back up and jumped on me. We both hit the floor. My sister and brother ran for cover and my mother was watching in horror. I didn’t make it into the UWPA for nothing. He was on top of me punching my face as hard as he could. I grabbed his neck and arm and threw him off. I got up, but he came after me with a chair and smashed it over my back. I was down on the ground lights winking in my eyes. I grabbed the hardware out of my back pocket and pointed it at him. I should do it. I should pull the trigger. After what he did to me, after what he did to my mother, my family. My mother was crying in the corner. No. Not in front of her. She lived with a barbarian for most of her life. I wasn’t going to be the second one. I looked over at my brother. I winked slightly and he nodded.]
Derek; Well pops. The tables have finally turned. After all of it, you’re the one whose gonna finally get yours. Sleep tight.
[Garret hit him over the head with a frying pan and he fell unconscious to the floor. I put away my gun.]
Derek; Alright little man.
[he gave me five. My mother was hysterical. I made her some tea with a shot of whisky in it. Stephanie was crying too. I took her in my arms while we all sat by the fire. I had tied my father up and threw him in the broom closet. I rocked her to sleep and then took her to her bed. My mother kissed me good night.]
Mrs. Johansson; Thank you my boy.
[She went for her bed room. I could feel blood trickling down my neck. I didn’t want my mom to worry about me so I waited till she left to take care of it.]
Garret; Derek that was so cool.
Derek; Thanks little man. Could you get me the first aid kit and make sure not to wake mom.
[he nodded and got the first aid kit.]
Garret; Do you think I could get the same job as you when Im old enough?
Derek; Maybe. But you have to have powers.
Garret; I can do that.
Derek; You can?
Garret; Yeah. Charity has some of the same powers as Nathan.
Derek; Yeah, but she shot guns what did you do?
Garret; Nothing. I just do what you do.
[That was strange, then I remembered it also came from pain and loss. No wonder.]
Derek; What you got little man?

[He stepped over to the fire and stuck his hand right in, I got up real quick, but he took it out. Nothing, not a single burn. I was officially freaked. He got a knife and stabbed it into his hand. The knife went through and when he pulled it out it healed right before my eyes.]
Derek; My god.
[I sat down hard in my chair. ]
Derek; Does mom know?
Garret; No.
Derek; Good. And don’t tell her if she saw you do that she’d have a heart attack. I really do think you would make it into the UWPA
[The cops came and took away my father. Turns out he broke out during a prison riot. He was going back for a very long time. He was cursing me out when they hauled him away and it gave me some satisfaction. That’s my Thanks giving story and for it I am truly thankful. Now lets give it over to that busy girl Nina.]

[Um hi. Im back home with Rose and Raven with me. We were all glad to be back and the others were glad to have us back. Justin actually talked now. He asked how Derek was and I told him he was fine. Justin was reluctant, but he showed us his powers. He had only showed them to Bonny and Derek. I was astonished. I had no clue. I told him he could probably be part of the UWPA when he was older. It made him very happy. He helped Bonny out in the kitchen with his powers. I went to my room and found a stranger in it looking at my stuff.]
Nina; Excuse me.
Brock; Oh. Im sorry. Is this your room?
Nina; Yes. My names Nina.
Brock; My names Brock. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
[I shook his hand. He looked about my age. He left and I unpacked. I went and saw Bonny.]
Nina; Whose this Brock guy?
Bonny; He’s a new one. The poor kid was walking around in the streets in the rain. In this weather.
[It was very cold out side.]
Bonny; Poor dears still sick.
Nina; No surprise its nearly fifteen degrees out side.

[I didn’t see Brock for the rest of the day. Every time he would be in one room and when I went in he would disappear. Im usually a perky sort of girl. But this guy made me uneasy, because even though we were rarely in the same room he seemed to be spying on me. One day I had, had enough of his sneaking around, I blended while he was in another room and went in. He peeked through the door and saw I wasn’t there. He sat down in one of the chairs. He got out a pencil and a journal. He wrote I went and looked over his shoulder. It said. {The day is November twenty second. I’ve been in their home for about three days. The agents have returned. The two new ones will be easy enough, but this other experienced agent could prove to be more. She is different some how. It seems she has an older sister with the same ability, but Im not nearly as interested. Bio-tech is still waiting for my report, but I won’t give it till I really get to know these people. } He closed the journal and sneezed. The kid was sick. He got up and went to his room. I changed back. I don’t believe it. This kid wasn’t one of the urchins Bonny usually picks up. He was a Bio-tech agent. He seemed not to know much, he said he wanted to wait and get to know us. Well, I’ll be watching him closely also. Tonight at dinner it was chaos as usual. The twins were throwing food at each other. Daisy was crying cause she spilt her milk and the others were talking over the noise. Bonny sat down and said say grace. They all shut up and bowed their heads and prayed the same prayer we had used for years. It sounded cute when said by over a dozen little children. Brock was at the table. He wasn’t used to the chaos yet. He would be soon enough if he stayed around that long. After that we had to give the kids baths, which was always a bad time for me. The twins would only bath with each other. You had to bribe Violet. Lilly couldn’t live with out her rubber duck and Wren. Well she just hated water. The others were capable of bathing them selves thank god, but two bathrooms and sixteen people it was a bind. Tub time was ten minutes each. An excess of that meant you had dish duty. I bathed the girls and Raven bathed the boys. Then me and Rose had to wrestle them into their pajama’s. Rose and Raven are older than me, but treat me like Im the oldest. My sister had left to do some thing. I don’t know what. She was always leaving and coming back. Brock was trying to sneak through all the chaos with out sustaining bodily damage. After they finally went to sleep that was our time to relax. The older ones would stay up and watch movies the other kids couldn’t watch. We let Justin stay up. He was almost thirteen any how and he loved horror movies. Even Brock was enjoying the silence. I went to tuck the kids in before we went to watch movies. I went to the twins room.]
Jim; We want a story.
Nina; Come on guys Im tired.
Tim; Please.
[They gave me those sad eyes and the lower lip thing.]
Nina; Alright. Come on in.

[The other kids were waiting at the door. They all found a place and I took up a book.]
Nina; Ok. This one is called Jack and the bean stock.
[I began to read and slowly they drifted off to sleep. They were all asleep when I finished. I picked them up one by one and brought them to their beds. Brock was at the door.]
Brock; You want some help.
[Maybe I’d give it to him.]
Nina; Sure.
[I bent over to pick up Wren and I could see him ogling my butt,]
Nina; If you want to lose an eye keep looking.
[He jumped and went over and gently picked up a kid. I put the last one to bed and gave him his teddy bear and kissed him on the cheek. Brock was watching me, not my ass for once. We went into the living room and Bonny put in Dawn of the Formerly Living. It was very scary. I could be in wars with blood and gore and still not take a scary movie. Justin loved it. Brock kept looking at me during the movie, why was he watching me instead of the movie? After that we went to bed. I laid down after saying my prayers. It was good to be home in my bed. I was almost asleep when I heard my door creak open. It was Brock. He was a looking at me. He gave me a feeling, a weird feeling. Was this guy some sort of pervert. What ever it was he freaked me out. I got rid of him by turning in my “sleep” The next day Bonny was making cookies. The kids were helping. I loved these kinds of moments. Every one and every thing was covered with flower, but it was so much fun. Brock sat back and watched us. He was smiling as Daisy threw flower in my hair. I tickled her to the floor. After we put them in the oven we played what was called the clean up game. We gave them each a job and who ever did theirs the best and fastest got to decorate the first cookie. When you bribe them they really can clean. The kitchen was soon spotless and Lilly got to decorate the first cookie. Wren wrote Brocks name on a cookie in icing and put sprinkles on it and gave it to him.]
Brock; Thank you. Its very pretty.
Wren; Thanks. I made it just for you.

[She went back to decorating. He smiled and ate his cookie. I smiled at him he had that weird look on his face again. It gave me the chills. After the cookies were in a jar and the kids were playing he took out his journal and went to his room. I followed him in camo. I slipped in his room and looked over his shoulder as he wrote. {Im starting to have my doubts on Bio-tech’s words. These people don’t seem at all evil. Rose and Raven are very nice and don’t look like they’ve ever even killed a person. And Nina. There is no way an angel like that could be evil. I just don’t know what to do. Every time I look at Nina I must get some sort of look on my face cuz she gets freaked out. I feel all goofy around her. Call me crazy, but I think I like her.} He closed his journal. And rolled over onto his back. He looked very tired. I remembered he was still sick. This kid had been mislead by Bio-tech. They convinced him we were evil. I slipped ut of his room, changed back and knocked.]
Brock; Come in.
[I went in and closed the door.]
Nina; Hey. Look we need to talk.
[I locked the door.]
Brock; Why’d you lock the door?
Nina; Don’t want to be over heard. Look I know your working for Bio-tech.
Brock; How’d you find out?
[He was very nervous.]
Nina; Maybe you know about my power and maybe you don’t. I can blend in with any back round.
[I changed and he looked around. I reappeared at his side and he jumped and backed away.]
Nina; I read a good book.
Brock; You read my journal.
[He was sweating more and he was blushing.]
Nina; Only over your shoulder. You know what Im going to do?
[I approached him and he backed away until I had him up against a wall.]
Brock; Please don’t hurt me.
Nina; Im not going to hurt you.
Brock; Your not?
Nina; No. I don’t know what Bio-tech has told you, but its all a lie. Bio-tech kidnaped me and my friends and killed our parents when we very little. They did so many horrible things that you wouldn’t believe. You have to make a decision. Are you going to report to Bio-tech or get to know me?
[He was thinking. I could tell torture or death was on his mind.]
Brock; Ok.
[I backed up and sat in a chair in the corner.]
Nina; I have many questions for you and Im sure you have some for me. So why don’t you begin.

[He sat on his bed.]
Brock; How many people have you killed?
Nina; Thirty seven. All Bio-tech agents.
[He gulped.]
Nina; Do you know why Bio-tech wants us?
[He shook his head.]
Nina; They want to use us as weapons. When we were very small they took us and killed our parents. They did tests on us and experiments. Rather painful ones at that. One day they took the eldest of us and did some thing to him. All I remember is his screams echoing through the hall. They threw him back in with us and he was nearly dead. Then they took another one and did the same. They developed their powers and broke us out. That’s when we formed our organization. The second time we met Bio-tech they put one of our agents in a mental institution. Then more recently they captured her, tortured her for information and when she escaped she nearly froze to death, because they were in the Rockies. Then they came and tried to kill her while she was recovering from a near death experience. They still are trying to track us down. You know they track us?
[He shook his head again. I lifted my sleeve and showed him the bar code on my arm.]
Nina; They branded each one of us with an ID when they captured us. So what did they tell you about us?
Brock; Uh definitely not that. They told us you’re an evil organization bent on world destruction. You’ve killed thousands of innocent people and have powers.
Nina; Whose story do you think is true?
Brock; They showed us a tape of one of your agents killing several innocent people.
Nina; That’s some thing different entirely, I can’t tell you the whole story cause I don’t know it. And who is us?
Brock; There are two more agents like me out trying to find the other agents.
Nina; I see.
Brock; How do I know all the stuff your telling me is true?
Nina; If I was really as evil as they told you I was I probably would have killed you on the spot once I found out. I keep a gun in my pocket at all times. And what kind of people are they, sending out agents unarmed?
Brock; I don’t need to be armed.
Nina; You have a power. What is it?
Brock; I can uh control ice.

[Now that was ironic.]
Nina; You can control ice and you caught a cold in the freezing weather?
Brock; Hey Im still human.
Nina; Ok. I need you to give me the other agents names and what their powers are.
Brock; Why?
Nina; If I don’t warn the others they will most likely kill your comrades.
Brock; But you said....
Nina; I know, but if they feel threatened by the other agents then they will try to get rid of them.
Brock; Ok. I trust you.
Nina; Good.
Brock; There’s Arturo he has the power of speed. He’s stalking Agent Jolt.
Nina; Maria. Not good. Ok next.
Brock; And then there’s Maeko.
Nina; Maeko?
Brock; Yeah. She’s stalking agents Mystic and Mental.
Nina; Not good! Very not good!
Brock; Why? What’s up?
Nina; Lets just say they’ve been jerked around by Bio-tech a few too many. Plus they are the most powerful agents we have. But I can’t get in touch with them they went to Japan and didn’t leave a number. Well. Lets take care of Arturo then.
[I really wanted to help these poor miss guided fools. I gave Maria a ring and it sounded like she was having a good time.]
Nina; Hey Maria. Its Nina.
Maria; Oh hey girl. What’s going on?
Nina; Um there is a Bio-tech agent stalking you, his names Arturo.
Maria; Yeah?
Nina; He was sort of miss guided by Bio-tech. Could maybe try and set him straight before you kill him?
Maria; I’ll give it my best. I’ll call if I make out. Ok bye.
Nina; Bye.
[I just hope she didn’t mean some of that stuff literally. I wanted him to come over to the good side, not get scarred for life.]
Nina; Ok. We’ll just have to pray for Maeko. But I have a feeling they might just let it by. Call it a hunch.
Brock; Ok. I feel much better.

Nina; So what are you going to do about Bio-tech?
Brock; Im gonna quit if they don’t stick me in the bottle.
Nina; The bottle?
Brock; That’s when they stick you in suspended animation.
Nina; Oh. They did that to Hanna.
Brock; Hanna?
Nina; Agent Mental. They caught her and put her in the bottle, but she escaped. Like I said over the Rockies.
Brock; No wonder she almost froze to death.
[We had been talking for a while and he hadn’t gotten that funny look on his face for a while, until we stopped talking.
Nina; What?
Brock; Oh. Nothing, its just.....
[He was blushing and looking at his hands fidgeting them.]
Nina; What?
Brock; Do you have a ......boy friend?
[Oh this boy did have it for me. I could always stay control in these situations and not blush.]
Nina; No. Not yet.
Brock; Got your eye on some one?
Nina; Yes. He’s a good friend, a nice person. I can trust him, he’s handsome.
[He obviously didn’t think he was any of these things cause disappointment showed in his face.]
Nina; Why?
Brock; I was just curious.
Nina; Ok. I’ll see you later. You’re a good friend.

[I left leaving him rather confused. I loved to play with guys. Maria was the jade. Hanna was taken and Rose loved to play old fashion. I was the teaser. I’d wind a man up until he was abut to snap and then let him go like a rubber band. But this time maybe I’d make it worth his while cause you have to know I was describing him. The next day Bonny was getting every thing started a day early. She was mostly doing the deserts. Me and Rose helped her. We made the pumpkin and pecan pies. While every one sneaked in trying to get a taste. We had to guard it with a spatula. Brock came in and asked if he could help. Bonny let him whip the egg whites for the lemon meringue pie. He was sort of suckered into it. It is every tedious job it takes a long time and a lot of force. He was tired after he finished. Bonny thanked him and he shook his head at her turned back. I bent down to pick up a spoon and I felt his eyes on my butt again. I got up and walked by him hitting his head with the spoon. At least he didn’t touch like other guys. I’ve had to back hand so many guys for that. Later we took the kids out to play in the snow. Brock was watching us through a window. He was still sick, but he was the master of ice. He could throw snow balls with the window closed. He provide me with extra ammunition. Bonny called Justin in to relight the fire as it had gone out. The weather was getting bad again so Brock decided to stop. And once he did the weather was getting better. This kid controlled the snow. Like how Raven could control things like hurricanes and tornados. He looked bored. I went in early and sat next to him.]
Nina; That was pretty awesome.
Brock; Thanks. All your sneak attacks were pretty cool also.
Nina; You want to watch a movie?
Brock; Sure.
Nina; Ok. I’ll be right back.
[I left and got some popcorn and two cups of cocoa. We went into the den where the kids weren’t allowed. We watched another scary movie. It was called Halloween C2O. It was very freaky. I used this movie to play around with him some more. Every time a scary part would come I would get closer and grab his hand. He looked like he was ready to explode by the end of the movie.]
Nina; That was a good movie.
Brock; Yeah.
Nina; I better go get the kids inside.
[I left the room and heard him say ‘Oh my god’. I was satisfied. I brought the kids in and took off there coats and hats, and gloves and galoshes. I hung them by the fire to dry. They all had some cocoa and then we had dinner. I went to go see where Brock was. He was asleep in his bed. I check his fore head and he was burning up. I decided to save him a plate and let him sleep. After dinner I talked to Bonny about him.]
Bonny; That’s funny. He told me he was feeling much better yesterday. You think he was lying?
Nina; Probably. After all the chaos he’s seen he probably didn’t want to bother any one.
Bonny; How sad. This boy really seems to like you, why don’t you take care of him. You’ve had enough experience I must say.
Nina; Yeah, but...
Bonny; Good. I’ll do the dishes tonight.

[She would never give you a chance to speak. You would always get sucked into some thing. So when he woke up I did indeed play a little nurse.]
Nina; Good evening sleepy head.
Brock; What time is it?
Nina; Its eight. I saved you a plate.
Brock; Thanks, but Im not hungry.
Nina; How you feeling?
Brock; Better.
[I looked him straight into the eye.]
Nina; Don’t lie.
Brock; Im not.
Nina; There you go again. How am I supposed to trust you if you lie like that?
[He picked up the hint.]
Nina; How do you really feel?
Brock; Terrible.
[He rested his head on the table.]
Nina; Ok. Nurse Nina to the office.
[I grabbed a thermometer and stuck it under his tongue. Hanna had taught me a bit about medicine. I check his throat for lymph nodes. And his face for paleness and discoloration. I took out the thermometer and nearly dropped it. It was 108.9.]
Nina; Your cold has been upgraded to the flu. You have a fever of 109 your throat is red and swollen and your as pail as cream.
[I reached into the medicine cabinet and took out some aspirin and a cold/flu pill. I gave him both. The kid would be out of it in a few minutes. So I got him back into bed and he fell asleep fifteen minutes later. You could have stuck a lit bottle rocket by his pillow and not have waken him up. An hour later I checked his temperature and it had returned to normal. Lets just hope it stayed that way. I gave him a get well kiss on the cheek and went to bed my self. The power went down in the middle of the night. I could hear Brock coughing up a storm in his room. I went to the kitchen with a flash light and went back to his room with a spoon and a bottle of cough syrup. ]
Nina; Open your mouth.
[He looked at me like I was crazy.]
Brock; No way.
Nina; Come on. If you start acting like a baby Im gonna have to do the choo-choo train.

[he opened his mouth and I gave him his medicine. He was wide awake by now so we went into the den and I made us some tea over the fire.]
Brock; Im sorry I woke you up.
[he had sort of lost his voice.]
Nina; Its ok. I was up any how.
[I put plenty of honey in his tea. Its good for sore throats and coughs.]
Brock; Thanks.
[The fire made a comfortable dim light in the room. We played cards for a while since we had nothing else to do. We were playing Gin. ]
Nina; What happened to your family?
Brock; My parents were killed by a drunk driver. I was in the car, I was in the ICU for a long time. After that they tried to put me in a home, but I ran. I didn’t want to be adopted. I got by with small jobs, picking pockets and playing street games. I settle where ever I can find a place to sleep. A place, a shelter or some times a park bench. I was actually looking for a place to sleep when Bonny let me in. I was looking for you, but I didn’t know you lived here. Did Bonny adopt you?
Nina; Yes and No. She is sort of like all our care takers. She rather collects kids than adopts them. She takes us in and lets us leave when we need to. But that doesn’t mean we can do what ever. She does the parental thing and asks where we’re going and when we’ll be back. Only my sister can leave with out an excuse, but she’s twenty two.
Brock; Does she expect me to stay here?
Nina; She never expects us not to stay and she never expects us to stay. She wants what we want. No one has ever left when they came in because this was too good to pass up. Especially when you don’t have to pay rent.
Brock; How does Bonny afford all of this?
Nina; Her grandfather built this house and every thing else is hand made. And things hardly ever get replaced. Her grandfather was an investor. He bought some AT&T stock. And she inherited it all.
Brock; Wow. No wonder. She must be a million air.
Nina; Oh ya. Every time she gets a new kid she adds onto the house. Gin.
[We threw down our cards and I dealt. We played cards for about an hour and then he got tired again. He went to bed and I sat by the fire for a while. I could feel his eyes on me. Some one in the room made a noise and he turned. I changed so that when he looked back I was gone. I reappeared behind him.]
Nina; Boo.
Brock; Oh god! [He jumped about a foot in the air.]

Nina; Hehehe. Go to bed.
Brock; Night.
Nina; Night.
[he went to bed and so did I. In the morning the house was freezing with out the heater on. Justin was sound asleep with his own little furnace in his room. I got him up and we went and lit the fires. The house started to warm up. I went to go wake up the kids. I reached Brocks room and felt a huge surge of cold air from his room. I opened the door and every thing was covered with frost and ice. He was huddled up under his cover his eyes closed and he was shivering. I woke him up.]
Nina; Brock. Brock! I think the roof caved in.
[he woke up and looked around.]
Brock; Damn. I must have had a fever last night.
Nina; Or the opposite.
Brock; It..ts so cold.
Nina; Come on you need to get out of here before you catch pneumonia.
[We left his room I could hear the ice crack as we left. He was covered with frost as well. How the hell was he still alive? It was like we just shoved his bed outside while he was asleep. He sat in front of the hearth trying to warm up. I brought in the kettle and made some tea. No doubt about it this kid had gotten sicker. I checked his temperature and it had risen to a boiling 112.5. When I looked appalled he told me his body could handle the temperature. I gave him more medicine and let him sleep on the couch. I just hoped the living room wouldn’t freeze up. I went into his room. It was starting to thaw. I would have to dry most of this stuff out. I took out all the books and put towels in between the pages. I took off the bed covers and hung them in the laundry room. I took the ice sickles off of every thing before they melted and brought them to the sink. Bonny came in.]
Bonny; Tha twins didn’t start collecting ice sickles again did they?
Nina; No. These came out of Brocks room. He had a chill during the night and now the entire room is soaking wet. I have to dry it out.
Bonny; What a pain. It won’t take that long though. Most of it will have to dry on its own.
Nina; Im afraid he might freeze up the living room in his sleep though. The kids got pneumonia now and he can’t afford to get worse. I really feel sorry for him.
Bonny; Why?
Nina; Never mind.
Bonny; Uh huh.
Nina; What?

Bonny; You like him and don’t you deny it.
Nina; I do not.
Bonny; Don’t lie. I know you do. So are you gonna tell him?
Nina; Bonny you are reading too much into it. And Im gonna show him.
Bonny; Oo girl. You got it bad.
Nina; Les saber le.
[I said you know it in Spanish. My mom was Cuban and my father was from Spain. I went back into the living room. He was sitting up on the couch. He looked terrible. I sat next to him and felt his head. He shook my hands off.]
Nina; What?
Brock; Nothing. I just didn’t know I was such a burden to you.
Nina; What? You hallucinating or some thing?
Brock; No, Im not.
Nina; Oh I see. Mr. Spy. How long were you listening at the door?
Brock; Long enough.
Nina; I don’t think you were there long enough.
Brock; Huh?
Nina; Oh nothing, Bonny was saying some stuff. She seemed to have this crazy idea that I liked you.
Brock; Oh. Uh.......
Nina; I told her what made her think that. The fact that I took care of you, stayed up with you, came inside and watched movies with you, cleaned up your room, couldn’t possibly mean that I liked you. And then she said are you going to tell him?
Brock; What did you say?
Nina; No. Im gonna show him.
[I planted a big long kiss right on his lips. I knew he wasn’t contagious since none of the kids had caught it yet. He fell off the side of the couch.]
Nina; You ok?
[He threw his fist in the air with triumph. I made him really happy. He got up and sat down.]
Brock; Sorry about the...
Nina; Its ok. Its Thanksgiving. A time for thanks not sorry.
Brock; Ok. Then thanks.
[That’s how it went, I got me a man. Now Im gonna switch it over to our Japanese friends. Mystic and Hanna.]

To be continued...

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