The school

"Doctor do you have test tube 4897?" Lilly leard a female voice say from her right. She started to sweat as she heard an object being picked up. Her wrist started to burn like they did everytime she was strapped down to the bed. "Subject 75490 is now being injected." A male voiced said. Lilly flinched as she felt a pain in her arm, this was nothing she wasent use to, but no matter how many times they injected her she couldnt get use to it. Lilly tried to block out the voices and think of something else, a time when she wasent forced to live in dog crates or being treated like a lab rat. A time when she could see.

It was her 3rd birthday she dreams going back to the time, even at that young age she knew her that her mother tried the best she could to feed her. "Lilly look what I got you." Her mothers voice called from the next room in their one bed room apartement. Lilly ran towards the voice and stopped when she saw her mother holding something behind her back. "Happy birthday sweetheart." Her mom said bringing the object from behind her back. Lilly looked at the beautiful doll taking it from her mothers hands. The dolls huge blue eyes starred up at her the blonde curls falling like waves of sunshine down the dolls back.Lilly slowly traced her finger over the dolls features. Her mother bent down next to her "I love you Lilly." She said. "I wuve you too." Lilly said trying to mimick her mothers word but failing. Lilly's mother wrapped her hands around her bringing her into a hug then kissing her cheek.

Lilly held back her tears as the memory faded from her memory and slowly coming back to the lab she was in. "75490. Come with me." A short comand was made towards her. Lilly hopped off the bed stumbling slightly, but no one bothering to help her. She followed the person footsteps all ready knowing the path by heart back to the room with her dog crate in it. She crawled into the crate the door shut behind her. She laid her head on the plastick wall letting her mind wonder back to her mom.

It was the day her mom brought her to the evil school. She didnt hate her mom for bringing her here because her moms intension were good. "Goodbye Lilly. Don't worry I'll come back with the money I got from this place I'll get us a better place just sit ight okay." Her mom said holding her tight tears dripping from her eyes and traveling down to Lilly's shouler creating a stream. She set Lilly down as a man came wearing a huge smile. "Hello Ms.Todd. This must be Lilly?" He said bending down becoming eye level with Lilly without letting the smile leave his face. Lilly backed away and hid behind her mothers leg clutching her blonde headed doll she called Susan. "Yes this is Lilly. Don't worry you won't keep her long I'll be back." Her mother said looking at the man. "Of course." He said standing back up and ushering her to the door. "She'll be waiting." Lilly watched as her mother was pushed out the door, the door shut with a heavy clank. The man smile dropped and he walked over to Lilly wripping the doll out her hand making her whimper. "Collin. This is subject 75490 take her away."

Lilly dug her nails in her hand as the hatred for that man and the man name Collin grew. Lilly quieted as she heard a movment from another cage.

Tetsuya stretched, or at least as best he could in the confined space of his dog crate, and winced. His chest burned and ached, like usual, from the various tests and an experiment that had been performed on him to measure the degree of his inherent strength. Of course, to accurately measure it, the scientists decided that they ought to use pain as an ample motivator. He knew that another experiment, also subject to the daily tortures, had just been returned to her own cage. He didn't talk to the other test subjects often since any conversations he had resulted in him seeing various colors from his Synesthesia, but he tried to make a habit of talking to everyone in a room at least once.

"Hello! I know there's at least one or two of you out there. My name's Tetsuya Taiga Fujitaka," he was very proud of being one of the few in the facility with a name that he hadn't come up with on his own, "and I'm sixteen. You may or may not recognize me as the guy with fluffy blue hair kind of like," he thought for a second, going through his mental catalog of everything he'd read about, "cotton candy. You might've heard me playing guitar or piano before in the mornings." he quieted and watched the turquoise blue, that had formed in his vision from the sound of his own voice, dissipate.

He wasn't sure if the others would respond to him or not, but he hoped. It had gotten rather lonely in the facility after his parents died and Haru was taken away. He hoped that he could at least talk to these other experiments for a little while.

Nali's eyes narrowed. A male to her left was talking in a much-too cherry voice. Though she suppose she should be happier, considering that unlike all the other experiments she didn't have to go through the daily shots or tests. Once the scientists had found out her ability, they sort of just threw her in her little cell and left her there. They would let her out to interact with other powered characters, but she never did. They couldn't force her too, and she usually warned the other to stay away, and it wasn't too hard to convince them. If she got within a certain distance of someone, she absorbed their powers. No, it didn't take their powers from them, but she could mimic that power whenever she thought about them, or how they made her feel. And after awhile she could use it without even having to think about them.

The boy spoke of cotton candy, and then she realized he had compared it to his hair. Hesitantly, her hand raised and grabbed a lock of her own white hair. What would he compare that too?, she thought, shaking her head before leaning back against the side of the cage. "I am Nali." Her voice was quiet, perhaps not expected because she'd left quite a heavy silence between his last word and her first. "Also sixteen." She wasn't sure why he had stated his age, but she might as well follow his introductions. "I do not leave this cage often, so I do not know if you would recognize me."

Lilly listened carefully to the male's words, then closed her eyes trying to remember what cotton candy had looked like. She smiled remebering what it looked like and opened her mouth to introduce herself when she heard a quiet female voice.
"I'm Nali." The voice said, "Also sixteen. I do not leave this cage often, so I do not know if you reconize me."
Lilly smiled "My names Lilly, ummm..I think i'm ten." She said crawling to the front of the cage and sticking her nose out the best way she could. She sniffed the air twice in both directions the voices had came from. Lilly not being able to see couldnt put pictures with names, she did it with smell. "How long have you guys been here?"

It almost surprised Tetsuya when two girls responded to him. One sounded about his age and the other a bit younger. As the elder one spoke, a shimmering whitish fog clouded his vision and was overtaken by a light pink when the younger girl spoke. The shimmering aspect of the former surprised him a bit, as he'd never seen anything quite like it before.

He thought that he ought to first respond to the first girl's statement. "Well, next time we're allowed out, you ought to join us. I would enjoy getting to know you better face to face rather than through the bars of a cage." he chuckled. "And I'm sure that I've probably seen you at least once. Though with the number of times I've been moved around, it's equally likely that none of us have ever seen each other before."

Scooting forward to press his face against the bars of his crate, he smiled as he spotted the younger girl with her face pressed to the bars much like him. "It's very nice to meet you, Lilly." her question caught him slightly off guard and he struggled to keep his cheerful voice as he suppressed memories of his parents and little brother. "I was born here. Me and my little brother." he cut himself short as he shivered and scooted back in his crate. "What about you Nali, Lilly? Tell me anything you like about yourselves. It's not like we're really going anywhere soon."

"Well I have a mother."She said sounding a bit gray. "She's coming back for me." She whispered.
"Thats all really. Oh! I know my ability is kinda like umm.." She sat puzzled how should I put this, "Well you see my DNA is mixed with a canine's, so I have super good hearing and I can run really fast when I'm on four legs...oh and my smell is really good." She said sounding like a little kid telling santa what they wanted for chrismas. "What about you guys? What ability's do you posses?"

Lilly fell backward suprised as she heard the girls power and then the opening of her cage. "Your cage isent locked?" She thought a second before asking a question. "So you can absorb my ability?" She looked around before continueing the last part. "Can you let me out?"

"Very cool, Lilly. You're very lucky to have a mother that cares about you like that." Tetsu was trying his best to make his tone appealing to the younger girl, knowing that if he wanted to make any comrades in this place that he would have to appeal to their age group.

His cheery tone dulled slightly when Nali said that she'd absorbed his power. "Sorry, Nali. My power is rather useless compared to yours and Lilly's. At least you only got one of my Synesthesias, though. They're pretty easy to tune out after a while, though, if you want to."

He frowned. "I get moved around a lot, so I don't know if you'd have seen me either. Who knows, though. Most people just know me from hearing me play piano or guitar."

It surprised him when he saw a girl with white hair, whom he presumed was Nali because of the shimmering white fog surrounding her, step out of her crate. A slight smile crossed his lips as an idea came to him. He'd always been bad at keeping quiet at his adventurous thoughts.

"So girls, what do you say to maybe going on an adventure of sorts? Seeing if we can get out of here? It can't be any worse out there than it is in here, right? I should be able to get you out of your crate if you want to come, Lilly." he smiled, thoughts of adventure filling his mind.

Lilly brightened as listened to Testuya "An adventure " she repeated. Lilly's mind raced getting out, getting out, getting out. She thought of her mother. "Yes let's do it!" She said a bit to loud she quieted. Jumping a little as much as she could in her cage, the excimer racing through her blood. "When we get going?" She smiled liking her new friends already.

'I know you're here Carlisle.'

The scientist tapped on the bars, a strange helmet resting upon her head. But Carlisle was nowhere to be seen.

'Hurry up Carlisle, let's get this over and done with before the both of us get in trouble.'

Still, the cell remained seemingly empty, not a trace of life evident.

'Oh come on, just take your stupid medicine. If you don't stop hiding again soon I'll just let one of the other scientists give you your shots.'

From the dark corner of the cell, a young man appeared, dark blue eyes perpetually set in melancholy. Slowly, he made his way to the bars, his pale countenance a perfect picture of lachrymosity. He extended his arm into the grasp of the scientist, her soft hands tenderly holding his.

'This'll only hurt for a second-' To be honest, she didn't even really know why she said that anymore; the pain, he was used to it. Swiping the flaxen hair from her eyes, her own irises met his for the briefest of moments. His orbs bored into her soul, tearing apart her paper heart. Swallowing her pain, she jabbed the needle into his arm, injecting the syringeful of misery. Delicately, she relinquished her grip on his arm, as if she worried that he would break should she not be tender enough.

'I've got to go now, I'll be back soon. Here's a book I sneaked in here for you, it's Sonnets from the Portuguese by Browning,' she said, a bittersweet smile gracing her features, 'See you tonight Carlisle.' With that, the young blonde walked off, hugging her clipboard to her chest, head bowed.

Carlisle walked back to the centre of his cell, and, ignoring the miserable cries of the other experiments around him, began to read.

Tetsuya grinned at the girl's reactions. Maybe he'd get to see what the outside world was like after all, and not just guess at it from the books he read as a child. Nodding at Nali's question, he reached through the bars of his crate and fumbled for the lock for a moment before he caught it and gave a sharp twist, using what additional strength he had been born with to twist and break the metal. Pulling his arm back through the bars with lock in hand, he set it down beside him gingerly and pushed open the cage. Unfolding from his rather cramped position as he stood up, Tetsuya stretched and winced, but tried to ignore the flashes of pain emanating from his chest.

Walking over to Lilly, he knelt down in front of her. "You doing okay, Lilly? Ready to get out of this place and get back to your mom?" he smiled at her and stood up. "Let's wait for Nali to get back and then we can all go, alright?"

Lilly tensed as she heard foot steps come towards her but relaxed remembering Testuya's familiar smell. She nodded turning her head around to catch sents and smells. Her head stopped pointing at Testuya, her eye's not looking any where in particular. "Where are we even going to go?" She asked starting to see hole's in there plan to escape. Maybe she should just stay here where it's 'safe'. Well not litterley safe, but where she knew her surroundings. She backed up slightly suddenly afraid of the world outside the building.
What if people called them freaks and didnt want them around? What if they were caught. She shook her head as more IF'S entered her head.