"One more time, concentrate!" A man in a white suit shouted at Aurora, who was chained by the ankle to a hook in the center of the room of a large, white room. She was exhausted, wiping streaks of crimson from under her eyes and using them as her weapon. The blood drifted around her in different patterns, rising, then crashing down to strike a target across the room. The man appeared to be somewhat satisfied at her progress. "I guess that's enough for now, I doubt you would be able to go on much longer anyway." The man crossed the room and unlocked her chains, waving a hand to dismiss her while the next subject came in. She looked back on her way out the door, feeling sympathetic for the student. This place was a hellish prison and she despised it and everyone there. She hadn't found out until recently what the goal of the facility was until they revealed her fate to her. Once she learned to master her abilities she was going to be sold and shipped off to some foreign country where they would work her until she died.

Aura came up with her plan soon after that. She wanted to make sure the school was destroyed, but before that could happen, she needed to perfect her skills in a better environment. That was when she came up with the idea to run away, but she wouldn't be able to do all of it on her own, which was why she came to five other students about her idea. Once they agreed to it she set up the time they would leave, that was two weeks ago. At midnight, three hours after everyone on campus should've been asleep, they would have the chance to get away. Aura was a ball of mixed emotions, she was anxious, terrified, excited, skeptical, and above all else, tired. The raven-haired girl repeatedly reminded herself why this was a good idea. If someone didn't try to change the way things were going, eventually half of the students would be sold and killed. That was if they could manage to survive training at the facility. When Aura was first chosen for the secret program there were more than thirty other students in her group, but now that number had been reduced to ten. It was a miracle she had survived this long. "After tonight they'll be sorry, I'll come back and kill them all." It wasn't enough just to escape, she wanted revenge for everything that they'd done.

On the other side of campus Aurora was back in her dorm room, packing only the bare essentials for her departure. All she wanted to do was pass out on her bed and be left alone, every inch of her body ached and she was almost sure her legs would give out on her at any moment. In the mirror she tried to wipe away the smears of blood left on her face, which was pale and revealed dark circles under her eyes. She wrapped up the self-inflicted wound on her hand and sat at the edge of her bed, catching her breath for a second. There would be guards about the perimeter of the school and they would probably have to fight on their way out, but if they moved quickly and quietly she hoped they wouldn't attract any unwanted attention. "I wonder where we'll end up if we can manage to get away, where would we go?" Aura asked herself, but immediately answer her own question. Anywhere, was better than here.

The clock read 11:45pm in neon blue numbers, Aura bit her bottom lip then started changing out of her school clothes and into a flexible, stealthy outfit, which consisted of a black shirt, tight black pants, boots, and her backpack which held everything she would need to survive, including some money her parents left her when they first dropped her off at the school. She crept through the eerily silent dorm halls and was soon outside, waiting in the shadows around the side of the residence hall. That was where she told everyone to meet her. "Come on guys, we need to get outta here." If by some chance any of them had changed her mind, Aura wouldn't be surprised or angry. What they were attempting to do was extremely dangerous.

It was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see anything, anything. One one wall of the room a small hole appeared, quiet compressed air shot an arrow at a high speed through the darkness. Andrew stood in the center of the darkness, eyes closed (they had no use here anyway). He'd heard the compressed air release thanks to his sensory abilities. The arrow would approach diagonally right coming from behind. He stood in the center of a very small circle leaving no room for any movement what so ever, the floor beyond the circle ws electrified with a large amount of electricity, and so was the band on his wrist. The arrow was getting closer every seccond. Andrew opened his eyes and looked in the direction it would come from.
The arrow slowed greatly, seemingly suspended in the air. In reality it was only going slowly through the air, but after so much training he could slow it down so much it seemed frozen. He spotted the small green streak that indicated its prescense, too dull to be seen outside of five feet. He grabbed the arrow and broke it in his hand.

Suddenly the room was flooded with light and he brought a hand over his eyes to shield them. "I guess this means we're proceeding?" He turned to the plexiglass behind him where there were a few scientist stood recording his success. His hair dripped with sweat and he panted quietly. He'd been at training since the night before. Truly they were pushing him to his limits, as expected. A few countries had already shown intrest in him, some even put an offer on the table. So now they were seeing just how much his limits were, and what happened when pushed beyond them.

"Yes" Said one of the middle aged scientist, his voice dull and boring. "We are proceeding with the next test."
The room went black again and the floor hummed quietly.
"I hate this one the most." Andrew muttered to himself quietly. Then without warning, he heard the faint sound of a suppressed gun firing.

Later that night Andrew was realeased, exhausted to the point of collapsing. His body was sore all over, his eyes burned. He had a major headache, and was just so tired. He walked slowly through the night to his room. He didn't go to sleep. Instead he went to his drawer, removed the gun he had stolen from a guard and placed it in his pants. He took out a set of knvies and also hid them away on his person. Then he took the bag by the door and threw it over his shoulder. He left his room quickly and quietly. Barely remaining awake he crept through the shadows of the school. Keeping alert for anyone who might find him. Soon his nose caught the scent of the girl he'd been looking for. The one who had come up with the idea to escape. He approached slowly keeping to the shadows before knocking against the stone quietly. He'd arrived what about the others?

Alice woke up to someone tapping on her shoulder. She already had a guess at who it was, but she stayed optimistic. "Alice you know it's time for training." Alice rolled over to see a woman in a white lab coat hovering over her. "I'm coming." She was still weak from the late night session that she had the other night. It wasn't uncommon for her to train at night, or during a storm. She got why she went in during a storm, but never at night. Slowly raising to get out of bed, she already felt like she was going to collapse. "I guess I over did it the other night." She rubbed her head that hurt a lot after she over used her powers. She walked over to the mirror and her eyes were blood shot. It was the first time she has ever seen her eyes like this before. Alice just shrugged it off and went to go change.

She took a quick shower and went through the rest of her daily routines. She came back out with a dark purple dress that was laced at the top and bottom. She didn't quite know why she wore it to train, but she did. Alice walked out of her dorm and gave a quick glance at the bag sitting in a chair in the corner of her room. "Finally we leave tonight." She stopped to stare at it for a moment, then continued to leave her room. "How are you today Alice?" The woman from earlier was waiting for her to come out of her room. "I'm good." Alice was clearly lying to her, you could look in her eyes and tell that she was. She could tell that the other woman was putting up a facade to coax her into having a good training, but Alice didn't know how well she was gong to do. It seemed like the weaker you are the more the people push you.

It was almost like they were going to kill you before you would even get shipped away. Finally they arrived at her training room, and some doctors were already there setting everything up. Alice took a deep breath before entering the room to what she thought was absolutely hell. "Good day Alice." One of the male doctors said to her as she and the other woman entered. "Good morning." She smiled back at the man as she approached him standing right next to him. "What happened?" Alice asked him as she looked into the glass and saw someone who appeared dead on the floor. "Nothing you need to worry about Alice." The man spoke sternly to her as more doctors came in and took the other person away. It was off putting for her to see someone else dead coming out of the training room she was about to go into.

"Don't worry you are much more talented than that other girl. Besides she wouldn't last ten seconds in any of the places that she would have been sent to." Alice took a deep breath as the man spoke to her. "Now it's your turn." He became very serious when he looked her straight into her eyes. Alice turned to walk into the pure white room with nothing, but a huge crystal looking thing and a chair in front of it. Calmly sitting down she stared straight at the crystal. "You can do this." She tried to encourage herself as the lights dimmed around her. Some sort of black head gear thing dropped from the ceiling; large while metal rods came out of the walls. Alice hooked herself up to the the head gear, then slowly closed her eyes. The crystal in front of her began to shine white and it made a buzzing noise. "Begin!" That was her cue to go and start.

"Now remember Alice today is about transferring." He gave her one last waring before she actually began. She stared at the crystal gaining electricity from it then she looked at one of the rods. As she did a thin line of purple blueish lighting transferred into the rod. She then moved to the next one and then she kept transferring it from rod to rod. She felt like she was coming close to her limit, and the man could tell that she was. "Keep going were are not done testing yet!" He yelled at her to keep going and she did. After another brutal half-hour she was finally done. Alice stood from the chair as the crystal stopped shinning, and the rods went into the wall, and her head gear came off of her head. "Good job that's all for today." The man congratulated her as she came out of the room. "I believe that you are ready to be shipped."

He spoke to her like it was some kind of blessing to be shipped away. "Good..." Alice spoke faintly as she started to walk out of the room. She was almost out of the room then everything went black. "Miss Alice!" The woman that lead her to the room earlier spoke panicky as Alice dropped to the ground. "Shes fine she just trained really hard today." The man tried to reassure everyone in the room that Alice was going to be fine. Some other random man came and took Alice back into her room. Several hours later she woke up not knowing were she was. Her vision blurred and her eyes looking even worse. "Their trying to kill me..." Alice said as she looked at her pale face and bloody colored eyes. "No matter what though I need to leave tonight." She spoke insecurely of herself as she clung onto the wall for support.

She moved her bag out of the chair and sat down trying to gather what little energy she had left. "Come on Alice it's time to go." She rose at of the chair and went out of her room with her bag on her right arm. She checked the halls before walking out then continued once she saw that it was clear. Two men were approaching her as she was walking, and she ran into a nearby hallway. Someone else was coming behind her as the men were walking pass her, and she slipped pass them and continued down the hallway. "Too close." She whispered to herself as she made out of the building. Walking over and seeing Aurora and Andrew waiting for everyone else. "I made it where are the others?" She questioned the other two as she approached them. "It's almost time for when the guards do their nightly sweep of the campus."

She warned the other two, as she knew that she wouldn't be able to fight anyone off. She was happy though to be leaving, since it looked like she was about to get shipped off. She smiled at the other two as she thought of being free from this awful place.

Nicholas Rammsteiner was tired of the pain, and all the happenings at The Academy, he wanted out.

Nick had spent the morning sleeping in. His dorm room was tiny, more than half of it taken up by his closet. His closet contained all that was precious to him, and a bit more besides. "Get UP you ungrateful little shit! You're HOURS late for training, now MOVE it!" The banging on the door made him get up fast all right. He rushed to his closet and yanked the door open. Scanning through the hanging clothes, he quickly threw on some black skinny jeans, his lace up white boots with black laces that he was so find of, and his green and black striped shirt. Adjusting the silver tiara in his blond hair, he rushed out the door. On the way, he thought, "At least they let us have whatever clothes we want to wear."

"You're late." Nick flinched as he heard the words as he stepped into the white room. The whitecoat behind him continued to talk. "You're going to contract with something special today, a bat. Oh and this is going to be another forced contract. We're going to help you by connecting you to the bat with a small electric current. Have fun!" A short whitecoat with graying hair came and clipped what looked like the end of a handcuff on his wrist, the other end was linked to the bat flying around above, the wire thin cord dangling down from the black mammal. Suddenly, Nick felt the electricity coursing through the cord. That was more than a little. Nick started casting his power around him. Turning, his outstretched hand drew a glowing ring around him in the air. The white ring hovered around him, humming as it floated. Nick instantly began the contract. Reaching out for the bat's conscious, he began to force the contract. He needed to be careful, the forcing of the contract required absolute concentration and for him to smother the bat's consciousness with his own, and avoid his own consciousness to be contaminated. The bat's consciousness was rejecting him.

Suddenly, A pulse of electricity flashed through Nick and the Bat, searing through his concentration. Another quickly followed. "Hurry up kid, we ain't got all day, stop stalling and get it done." The whitecoats were boosting the power! Nick suddenly felt the bats consciousness stab at his own, he'd lost concentration. Fighting to regain control Nick seized the Bat's consciousness and wrestled it into submission, then imprinting the terms of the contract onto its soul, or whatever he imprinted it on. Nick had created the contract to take the bat's echolocation, which would leave the bat unable to see, as the whitecoats has instructed. He was almost finished, when he heard a whitecoat say. "Its taking too long, punch it." An enormous energy surge paralyzed Nick and he felt horrendous pain explode from his back, and everything went white before his eyes, then the white faded to black.
Nick woke on an emergency cot in the training room. There was no sign of the bat. His back felt funny. The whitecoats standing around him jumped as he sat up. "Congratulations Nick, you've done very well, we'll allow you to go back to your room now, as soon as you take a look in the mirror. Turning, Nick looked, and fainted.

Nick woke up in his room, lying on his bed. Groggily, he sat up, then the events of the day flashed through his mind. He had wings. Large, black, bat's wings sprung from the small of his back. Extending them, Nick felt awkward, what would the others say if they found out? He’d be an outcast, and he was already next to useless, he had no combat ability whatsoever, and yet he was going with them. He was already a liability to the group, he may as well not make things worse for him.

Nick turned his head to look at the clock sitting next to him on the bedstand. It said 11:40. Frantically, Nick Jumped off his bed and flung open his closet. Picking out another green and black striped shirt to replace the lost one, and black skinnies with a black belt. He looked sadly at the ruined white boots he’d so cherished, half melted in his “accident” that morning.

Snapping out of his thoughts, he reached for the top right corner of the back of his closet, where a tiny hole just big enough to fit his finger into was. Sticking in his index finger, he pulled on the back of the closet, which came away for him. Hidden behind the false back of the closet, were his pre-packed belongings. Nick quickly threw the backpack over his shoulders, and slipped on the black boots with black laces, which, except for color, were perfect copies of the ruined pair. He could switch out the black laces for white ones later. Appearance was always important. In his backpack he had extra clothes, a toothbrush, and a mini pillow. He also had some more practical things for someone on the run. He had about forty thin, sharp throwing knives about as long as his hand from palm to fingertip. He’d managed to contract a mouse’s help in stealing them in return for some of his evening meals. There was also, a small handgun, a lighter, sunglasses, and the Academy’s newly invented water bottles. Each water bottle was metal and about the size of his clenched fist, the inside of which was a gallon of water, they were extremely heavy, so he only carried three, and he wouldn’t be able to run, he hoped he wouldn’t need to.

Opening the door slowly, Nick slipped out into the hall. Hearing some commotion down the hall to his left, he walked quickly right, to the closest exit. He was in luck, for some reason, the guards had left there post, which probably had to do with the commotion. Nick didn’t plan on staying to find out when they would be back. He hurried to the meeting point.
Nick saw the others waiting. As he walked up to the other three, he wondered if they had room for a water bottle in each of their packs, or would he have to leave one or two? He stopped short of them.

“Hi, In case you forgot, I’m Nick. If you want, I guess you can call my Nicky.”

Celina was breathing heavily. This was the most intense training she had ever done. Not only that, but she had a fever and was sick from the lack of sleep. Sweat dripped down her face as she tried with all her strength to control the flames.

The scientists were mad! They repeatedly drizzled the whole room with gasoline. It's bad enough that the gasoline creates havoc, but Celina has to breathe in the smoke as well. It couldn't be any good for her lungs, especially in a closed room. She constantly kept coughing and wheezing which would throw her concentration off causing the fire to get more out of hand.

The scientists wanted to see how long Celina could last controlling the flames. They tried to convince her that she would be of great help with the fire department. That she could save lives, that even if she did die, she'd die a hero. Growing up, she believed it, but she found out what they really wanted to do with her - destruction, a war weapon. The place she considered her home, and the people she called her family was all a lie and a big disappointed. Celina wanted nothing, but out and couldn't wait for tonight's escape. Reminiscing of the years before made Celina angry.

IT WAS ALL A STUPID. FUCKING. LIE.

As the anger began boiling inside, it took over. With one quick swift movement of her hands, she extinguished the fire. She fell to the ground, coughing, in exhaustion. Being angry is when Celina is strongest. Celina knows it, and she hates it - she doesn't want her emotions to get in the way.

Making her way back to her room, Celina crashed onto her bed. She felt so weak, dizzy and still hot with the fever. Forcing herself to get up, she struggled to maneuver around her room, packing up essentials for tonight. Then, she set her alarm to 11:30, before resting up.

When the alarm rang, Celina quickly turned it off. She did not feel any better, but she didn't care about sleep right now. She was focused on getting out of this horrid place. Swinging her pack on, she stepped out of her room, and closed the door quietly behind her. Her vision was blurring, and her temperature was slowly rising. Blinking a few times every so often to clear her vision, she pushed forward. Celina was still coughing, but she tried holding it in the best she could, in case someone was nearby and heard her. Finally, she reached the destination and saw a few people already there.

"I-I'm," Celina let out a small cough before continuing with her feeble voice, "Celina. Hello everyone."

“We know what your capable of girl… now finish the test… invoke your powers…” One of the ‘instructors’ said harshly. “Hurry up… we haven’t all night… but… if you do not comply… we’ll be forced to issue another night of sleep deprivation…” The man said with a smirk.

Alexia was barely remaining awake as it was… and as she had told them hundreds of times she had now control over her powers. She couldn’t invoke them at will… and even if she could she wouldn’t. When she did bad things happened. Though now she was being punished… for protecting the world from herself… she couldn’t control her powers… or mayhap she could… and she just never learned how… either way she refused to use them now…

“I’m losing my patients… use them now…” The man said standing up, his eyes narrowing and after an extended period of silence from the girl he raised his hand striking her to the floor. “You’re a hopeless cause… no wonder your parents didn’t want you…” He smirked as he saw blood running down her face. “Awww… did I break you little nos…” His smile vanished slight as he realized her eyes were bleeding. “What the…” He began moving towards her hoping he didn’t cause to much damage, bleeding from the eyes wasn’t normal after all.

‘He has hurt you my dear… he has pushed you… and pushed you… but now you can hear me… it is time for you to show him what he has wanted for so long… make him understand your pain… make him -bleed- as you do now…’ Alexia’s eyes twitched as a sadistic smile crossed her face. “You wish to see my powers…” She give off a dark giggle before raising her hand limply. “Bleed”

The man cocked his brow slightly confused. “Sure… talking isn’t a power you dum…” He stopped as a horrible impulse came over him, a chilling sense of dread washed over him as he lifted a pen he had for evaluations he fought it as the impulse told him to drive it repeatedly into his arm. He couldn’t hold it back and with the action he let forth a cry of agony as it pierced his flesh. Then proceeded to pierce himself again and again… blood running down in rivers before he toppled over screaming in uncontrolled pain as he continued to stab himself.

Alexia decided it was time to leave the room though before she could the two guards that were at the door came in but were quickly sent out of her hair with a single word. “War” Upon its utterance both guards turned upon the other before one managed to force the other onto the floor and it turned into a full on grapple. She made her way down several halls before the bleeding stopped… and her consciousness returned. The blood disturbed her and confirmed her fears that something bad had happened… something truly and utterly horrible and as this overwhelmed her she began to run… and run… and run… her eyes covered as tears brought on by her own fear ran down disturbed only by her hands. Running blind was never a good idea… and because of it she ran head long into Andrew (Or where he was standing if he moves out of the way or some other such thing.)

Andrew was glad as the others arrived. First came Alice, he recgonized her by her purple hair, honestly he thought she had some of the nicest eyes he'd ever see but now wasn't the time for such things. Then came Nicholas and his tiara, he always thought it was strange of the guy to wear the piece of jewlery but it was none of his buisness. He was followed by Celina and her long red hair, Andrew had heard she had an ability to control fire or something like that, no wonder she was so tired. The scientist here would run you ragged if you had an ability suited for combat like that. He looked over at Rose, he prefered to call her by this name just because it was easier for him and maybe because it sounded nicer. It seemed Lucian would not be coming, oh well it wasn't there problem.
"Shall we get going? It'll only be a matter of time before they realize we are gone. I've got a contact waiting for my call with a helicopter to pick us up and get us somewhere safe once we reach the valley on the other side of the forest to the east. "

He had been one of the few "students" that had been sent on missions prior to graduation. Thanks to the intrest several governments showed in him, he had been sent to perform various operations to show them what he was capable of in real situations. Some of the missions he went on were search and rescue for black ops soldiers and downed pilots. These guys all owed him their lives and one huge favor. so now those contacts would come in handy now that Andrew was escaping with the others. Andrew removed the Usp .45 from his pants and checked the weapon. As he was attaching the silencer he failed to notice the girl running straight at him.
Andrew looked up in time to see long black hair before she collided with him knocking him over. His back bounced off the stone as he protected the girl's head. With a groan Andrew sat up.

"What just happened?" He asked a hand on his back.

Alice looked as Celina arrived after her, clearly looking tired. I hope we can make it out of here tonight. She looked at everyone, then around to make sure that no one was coming. "We need to leave now." She stated trying not to sound like she was in a panic, which she was. She didn't to want to think about staying at this awful place. She knew that another perfect chance like this one wouldn't come around again.

She looked at Aurora, then nodded at her and started to leave. After her first step she heard someone falling over. She turned around quickly and saw Andrew on the ground. "Are you okay?" She asked as her eyes traced to the source. She had no idea who it was, but she knew that they weren't a part of it. She started to worry, cause she didn't want anyone telling the higher ups about them escaping.

Alice walked over to them both and looked at the girl. "May I ask your name?" She looked at the girl with curious eyes. If she thought that she was nice she would ask her to fill the spot that someone else was suppose to have. But then again it was up to Aurora whether she wanted someone else to join or not. She felt bad leaving everyone else there while they searched for their own freedom.

But she planned on coming back and saving them all if her powers and herself were up to it. She really wanted to help them, but she would have to develope her own powers more. The way that the institute was doing it wasn't the right way. Also, considering the fact that she was about to be sold, she really wanted to leave. "Well..." She said to Aurora waiting for her final decision, as to let the girl join them or not.

Aurora was relieved when everyone eventually showed up at their meeting spot, so they hadn't decided to ditch at the last minute. She was glad, things would be easier with more people than just herself. "I'm glad to see you all made it safely, let's get....," Aura's speech stopped abruptly when a girl she'd only seen a few random times, but never knew her name, ran into Andrew. It took her a second to get her thoughts straight. She didn't want to risk letting anyone know that they were about to make a run for it. She erased all signs of her surprise and worry, her face showing little emotion. "It was nice talking to you guys, I'll see you back inside later." She shot a quick glance in the general direction of the gates leaving the school, hoping they picked up on the message. It wasn't like she could just ignore that the girl had saw them all and go skipping off to the gate, that would ruin everything. Aura threw her hand up in a casual wave and walked off as if she were going back inside.

She walked past the door to her dorm and kept walking, sticking as close as she could to the campus. It wasn't actually that heavily guarded in the area since they couldn't afford to make all of the students suspicious. Once you got to the Facility that changed, there were guards everywhere. Luckily, even though it was the roundabout way to get there, Aura could get to the school's one way out without having to go near that damned place. She stopped a few feet before it, spotting a guard diligently watching the grounds she ducked behind the bushes. Ugh why was he there? She was so tired, but she didn't have a choice but to handle him if they were ever going to escape. She held her arms out and closed her eyes, concentrating on the flow of the blood in his veins. She exhaled then started slowing the flow of blood to his brain, she didn't want to give him a stroke and kill him, she just needed him to pass out.

"Come on Aura, you can do this." She bit her bottom lip as she further slowed his blood's circulation, after a few seconds she heard his body fall to the ground and hoped she hadn't killed him. Her right eye teared up and soon small droplets of blood started rolling down her cheek. She wiped them away, smearing some of it on her cheek in the process, and crept over to check the guy's pulse. He was still alive, but definitely unconscious. Aurora looked around and hoped the others would catch up to her soon before the guy regained consciousness. She wasn't sure she would be able to handle him a second time.

Alexia managed to contain her tears enough to look around. Her face was smeared with her own blood… while her clothing was splattered with the blood of the guard. She started to shiver crawling away from Andrew. “I… I’m sorry…” She started probably thinking he was a guard. “I… I didn’t mean to hurt them…” She sniffled burying her head in her sleeves. “They… just kept pushing me… and now… there is… blood everywhere…” She didn’t look up towards Alice when the girl asked a question though she did answer. “I… I am Alexia… Alexia Bethallis” After several minuets of maintained silence the girl finally looked over those who were around her. “Your… your not guards… its... its dangerous to be out this late… your violating curfew. You should go back to your rooms before they find you… they’ll be merciless.” She lowered her head once more into her selves. “No more blood… no more blood…” She said repeatedly as she started to softly rock back and forth.

Alexia couldn’t tell whether or not her powers made her feel bad… because they were horrible… vile… and lethal or… that she envied the bravery they gave her… which she only felt for a matter of seconds before her powers fully set in. How small she felt… she couldn’t even stand because of the fear she felt… and she knew she had failed… she tried to contain them and yet even with all her willpower set against it… the voice still came… still took charge. She wasn’t even the master of her own mind let alone her body.

Alice looked at Aurora and nodded. "Yes it was nice seeing you all." She picked up on Aurora's cryptic speaking as she walked away. "Let me help you." She said softly as she grabbed the girl's arm. "And it's nice to meet you Alexia." She gave the girl a smile as she led her back into the building. She knew how it was being tortured by the guards here, so she felt slightly bad for the girl. "Here." Alice said as she washed the girls face with some water from the bathroom sink. When she was done she led her out and looked at all of the rooms for Alexia's name to be next to one of the doors.

"Here you are." She smiled at her as she led her into her room. "You shouldn't be out at this time of night, you don't want anything happening to yourself either." She said as she smiled at the girl then walked away. She sighed as she walked away in relief. Now time to meet Aurora and the others. Alice walked in the direction Aurora left in and she saw one of the guards passed out. I hope she didn't kill him. She knelt down beside him and checked his pulse. Once she saw that he was alive she smiled a little then walked away. When she walked to the other side of the guard's post she saw Aurora. "That was close."

Nick watched events unfold silently before him. He'd been startled when the girl crashed into Andrew. She was covered in blood. That was not unusual, not here, but he was still curious as to why, but there was no time for that. Nick sighed, pushing himself up off the wall he leaned on, it was going to be a long night, but it would be best if they were far away from here by dawn. He did NOT want to get caught.

Nick waited as Alice led the girl back into the building. Time to go. As soon as they disappeared into the building, Nick began following Aurora towards their goal, freedom. She'd dealt with the appearance of the strange girl covered in blood quickly and effectively, that was good. Nick had almost caught up to her when he saw the guard fall to the ground. I wonder what power she used on him, and if he's dead. Its good I didn't come across him, my powers are useless and I can't fight at all, for all the weapons I stole. I'm just dead weight, and when the others realize that, they'll leave me behind. Or kill me. Nick walked up to her, seeing her smear the blood across her cheek and bend down to check if the man was alive.

"Is he dead?" Nick asked. "If he isn't, we can lean him against something. If anyone finds him, they might assume he was just sleeping on his watch."

Andrew watched the girl and he felt saddened at how she reacted. He watched the others go, they all wanted to escape as much as he did, he couldn't blame them. But for some reason he didn't want to just leave the girl behind, maybe it was his stupidity, or naivity, or his weakness to women. Maybe it was the letters from his fathers, that toaught Andrew his code of living. Regardless of what it was Andrew found himself in front of Alexia's room instead of helping the others. He looked to both ends of the hall making sure no one was around. No attempt to escape had ever been recorded, and this made the guards complacent past a certain point.
Andrew knocked on the door and invited himself in. He saw the girl standing silently. He took her hand and pulled her out of the room.

"Come on, I can see you don't want to hurt anyone. Your a kind person and I won't let this place destroy that kindness." Andrew looked around again. "I don't know you, You don't know me. But I can get you out of here, but I can't give you any details. I can't risk being betrayed."

Alexia nodded silently in thanks for Alice’s help, once in her room she silently walked over to a corner, maybe if she punished herself -he- would understand she learned her lesson. She jumped when someone held her hand. She turned looking at Andrew before calming down. “Oh… hello…” She was very nervous as he began to pull her out of the room. “No… you have to get out quickly… -he- will be here soon…” She said her body shaking.

“I am weak… I couldn’t afford to be mean if I wanted to… but… I am a weapon… you do not want me during your escape. I won’t be able to keep up.” She said with a fairly heavy set weight of doubt now weighing herself down. “Not to mention I’m a danger to everyone around me…” She tried to break free though he might not have even felt her resistance before she gave up knowing he thought she was a helpless girl… which was true. Though she still wished to save him from what gave her nightmares at night.


“Boy… that… belongs to me…” A harsh voice came from behind Andrew. A man in a thick coat and what looked like some sci-fi battle armor all topped with, well a top hat. He rested idly on his cane eyeing from behind his armored gasmask. “Now… what is this about… getting out of -here-” He said walking down the hall way behind Andrew. “I’m afraid the only way -out- is in a body bag…” He grabbed the top of his cane pulling it up to reveal a long jagged blood concealed in the chrome shaft. “Chivalry died long ago kid… should of just ran for it…” //Just an FYI, if you try to run away note that he is in fact on the opposite side of his image and he will probably catch you.//

"Hmph. Old man, Chilvarly never died, it just became rare." Andrew Pulled Alexia closer to him. She had spoke about being weak and useless but he didn't care. But she did seem like she would slow him down if he tried to run her out. He lifted her up and looked at the man. "We are trained to be weapons, trained to be the best. I hate to admit it but that's what I've become. Your little tricks won't work on me." Andrew's senses were one of his abilities. He could smell the man's blood and hear the man's breathing were actually coming from behind him. "Illusion types are ineffective on me." Andrew spun around with Alexia in his hands, and he fired the pistol at the man. He didn't wait to see what would happen, he jumped up and kicked off the wall past the man. His pupils sharpened and his eye changed to a slight golden brown. He used his primary ability to slow the man's movements, and Andrew slowed the man's heart's beating. He didn't stop running with Alexia but he was growing tired. Hopefully the man would fall into a state of unconsciousness from the lack of blood being sent fast enough to his body.

“Boy… I’m not an illusionary type…” As Andrew drew upon his senses as he started to run away… the man was everywhere, his scent… was in multiple places, his sound so many others, and his image everywhere. “I… am a weapon perfected over years… you’ve barely scratched the surface of power…” As his sensory out puts appeared everywhere his laughter echoed insanely. “You see child you can not escape me… like you thought about me… its you who is powerless against me… I consider myself… a tech specialist… this is called a… repulser field…” Out of nowhere Alexia was forced from his hands as she seemed to strike a wall. “You see… this version works on specific responder implants… now…” His image and mass merged together as he gave Alexia a light rap to the head, which was hard enough to knock her unconscious. “ Lets play…” He said raising his hand and urging him towards him. “Old and cold blooded vs. Young and idealistic.”

Andrew watched the man carefully. "So it's more like carbon copies then illusions." He breathed a little heavy, he was extremely tired from training so much. He had hoped on getting out without attracting attention, someow attention found him anyway in the form of this man. He franticly thought of a way to be rid of this man and get out. If she has a transponder then it would be dangerous for me to try and bring her along. This man would be everywhere we go. Andrew looked at the girl known as Alexia and bowed his head, he bit against the back of his teeth in anger. "I'm sorry, but I can't waste time fighting." He stood back up and his eyes were sharp and gold, time seemed to slow around the man and his movements were practically frozen. Andrew ran off in the opposite direction, focusing on the man's image. The old man would be frozen in that spot, until Andrew got out of his ability's range. Not really frozen, but he'd be moving extremely slow, to the point of almost being frozen. He neared the gate that was the exit, and ran past the others. "We don't have time keep running." He said as he past them.
He glanced at his watch, the chopper would be leaving in fifteen minutes, would they make it? He was growing tired and his body felt like it would breakdown. But he kept running anyway, he could collapse when he made it to the helicopter.

Trying not to make a big scene, Celina waited awhile before following the others. After a few minutes or so, she quickly made her over way over to the others, not even acknowledging the guard who seemed to be dead as she passed. She wanted to escape this place already. But they seemed to be delayed, because of some silly, clumsy girl who had bumped into Andrew earlier.

Upon arriving, Celina saw that all were there except Andrew. He had gone in before her, so where could he be? Suddenly, Andrew blitzed right passed them, yelling something about not having enough time. Celina fell into step right behind him, and kept up as best she could while still ill and all.

Alice looked and waited for Andrew and Celina to come, but eventually they both came. "Wha..." She was going to ask were they were, but they both kept running. She cast a glance around the area, then looked at Aurora and Nick. "We should go also." She said as she turned and ran after Andrew and Celina. I'm almost free from this awful place. She thought as she kept running away from the institute. She couldn't help but think about Alexia. She looked so scared and lost. She felt that way when she first came to the institute, not knowing where she was or what she was doing.

Eventually she would come back and help get people out of there, so they wouldn't be shipped off. It was a slim chance thought that Alexia would still be there by the time she develops her powers more. No matter what though she would come back and save them. She couldn't even imagine what would happen to them all. She just hoped that she and the others escaping could get free, without getting caught.

When Andrew and Celina ran past, Nick knew something was wrong. There was no way they'd be running, unless... Unless something had gone horribly, terribly wrong. "We should go also." he heard Alice say. Nodding to himself, he instinctively grabbed Aurora's hand and followed. "Something's wrong, we need to get out of here now. Someone must've seen one of us." Nick pulled her along with him, running as fast as he could.

Nick felt adrenaline and fear giving him strength. It was now a race against time. Would they escape first? Or would they be hunted down even before they got away? Either way, he didn't plan on coming back here alive. Or dead. He could feel the blood pounding through him, and felt his legs burning. I'm not going to make it, I'm not physically fit enough. The lack of oxygen in my legs will force me to stop, and then they'll catch me. He stumbled, releasing Aurora's hand. "Keep going, don't wait for me, if i don't make it, then i don't make it, thats that."

Fade was not even so much as mildly amused by this last stunt… once it wore off fade was in front of Alexia before she could bat an eye. As she began to blink he had already back handed her so hard the crack of bones was audible down most of the hallway. “Now that your pacified…” Fade accelerated his body as he was not held back by many of the physical laws that most lived under. He had quickly caught up with the group and combined with his powers seemed to appear out of no where behind them. “Oh… no need to run were just throwing a going away party… I baked you a cake and everything.” He said with a tip of his hat. “Of coarse… you may not like my frosting choice... Its called Le Lead…” He said drawing a large magnum hand gun. “Now who wants to die first?” He twirled his cane in his off hand. “Come one, come all!, to the most amazing show of the century! What could possible be more exciting then a battle between novices and a trained killer! Nothing more then novices facing off against a trained killer… and his” He held up a remote control and pressed down on a single button, the sound of barking and the sight of attack dogs might have given the idea it was a mobile security uplink. “Sick um…” //They have control collars on, in other words they disobey… and zap//

Aurora took her eyes off of the unconscious guard and watched as both Andrew and Celina flew past them. She nodded when Alice suggested they run too, before taking off herself. She followed behind Nick as he pulled her along, a dark anxiety whirling around in her head. This wasn't exactly how she planned escaping, but things rarely went right for her anyway. She shook the thoughts clouding her mind off and kept running, but stopped seconds later when Nick let go of her hand. "No, I'm not leaving anyone behind! We leave together." Aura reached for his hand but let it fall to her side at the sound of a rather ominous voice piercing her concentration. She flinched and turned around, her blood instantly ran cold. It was a hunter. She'd never seen him before, but she could tell, he wasn't just talking, he actually was strong. She hated not knowing what her opponents powers were and was hesitant to attack. Not to mention, none of them were running at full power, they were all tired and growing weak.

"Shit," she cursed in a hushed tone, there was no way they could get out of this. The guy even had attack dogs! Aura stood up straight and held her arms out in front of her ready to dodge an attack. She could hear the howl of the attack dogs and soon saw them charging after her and the group. Stay and possibly die, or run and possibly die. She had to at least try right? Aurora grabbed Nick by his wrist and started running to catch up with the others. 'Please please please let us get out of here.'

Alice stopped running when she saw someone peering down at them. She looked bewildered as to what he was doing, and listened to him speak. She was a little frighten by him; as if he was some great evil trying to kill them all. Being terrified by the man giving her chills, she self consciously stepped back and tripped over a tree branch. "Who is he?" She asked as she continued to stare at him. In the distance she could hear dogs coming towards them. She knew that she could talk to animals so she didn't worry to much.

As she could see the dogs she tried talking to them, but when she did their minds were blank. She cast a glance at the collars and an idea sparked in her head. "It must be those collars." She whispered to herself as one of the dogs was running at her. Alice turned over so she was facing the dogs. "A little closer..." She sat back so she was on her knees as the dog charged her. When the dog was close enough she grabbed it's collar, as it tackled her onto her back. "Come on come on!" She said as she tried to concentrate her powers to get the collar off of the dog. With a little spark the collar clicked and Alice pulled it off. The dog got off of her as she talked to it. It was a really nice dog. It ran off when the collar was off and she looked at the other dogs still coming. There was no way she could do it again, she used way too much of her powers now.

Andrew skidded to a stop as the man blocked his path. He sighed and breathed heavily.
"Your a speedy old man you know that?" Andrew stood still with labored breathing. He was too tired, this exhaustion, it was amazing he was still awake. He could hear the dogs, but his body didnt move. He saw the man raise a high caliber handgun at him, he still didn't move. Heard Alice struggle with one of the dogs, he couldn't move.

I won't be able to get to the chopper under my own power anymore. Well If I can't move too much, I might as well push my power to it's limits.

He closed his eyes as the man aimed the gun at his head. "Old man, you should have just stayed out of my way." He opened his eyes and they were a sharp golden brown. He slowed the dogs, and the man. All of them were seemingly frozen once more. Slowly, and with alot of effort, Andrew reached up and took the gun from the man's hand. He aimed it at the man's head. "You underestimated me." He squeezed the trigger and the gun barked, releasing the large bullet that connected with the man's head. Andrew turned around and raised his silence Usp, He shot the remaining dogs. All of this while they were moving extremely slow. Andrew knew that was probably just a copy of the man, so he extended his ability's range, blanketing a large area around them. He turned to the others, who he had left unaffected. "I can't walk, Head north east to the valley, a man named Nikolai will be waiting with a Little bird, tell him Hunter sent you. He'll get you out. With that Andrew closed his eyes focusing on keeping his targets slowed.

A voice of an eerie man stopped Celina in her tracks. It must be a hunter. How were they caught escaping so soon? The hunter was talking, but Celina couldn't comprehend. She started to become a little light-headed and dizzy and her vision was blurring again.

No! Not again!

Celina blinked a few times and tried focusing her vision. Luckily, she regained concentration, but who knows for how much longer. Opening her mouth, she was about to ask who the man was, but Alice had just chimed in, "Who is he?" Just then, barking could be heard, nearing them with every second. Celina looked around, trying to decipher where exactly the dogs were coming from. Once she spotted them, she stood still, hands in front of her as two dogs started to zero in on her. She didn't know if she had enough energy to do anything, but she was going to try anyway. Moving her hands in a swift motion, she was able to burst the two dogs into flames.

"Barbecue dogs anyone?" Celina couldn't help but throw in a lame joke.