Chapter One

The sun was setting and a man stood over a hill in West Virginia. His face was bandaged and his long blond hair blew in the wind.

"Well, it's time to get started," the man said.

His target was about a half a mile in front of him. It was a prison for the United States government to keep some of its most dangerous prisoners.

A woman with long blue hair stood appeared next to him.

"There you are Rena, it's time to put out first phase into action. The first move is to build the team that I will lead. Go down and fetch the target."

"Yes sir," Rena said.

She started running down the hill and at the prison fence. She was spotted about two hundred yards away and the soldiers opened fire on her.

Her skin turned into a tough steel alloy, and the bullets bounced off harmlessly.

The prison warded got on the loud system and shouted, "Bring her down!"

A tank was brought into the courtyard of the prison and it fired at her.

Now, her metal alloy disappeared, and she appeared to be back to normal. Fire appeared around her fists and she launched a stream of fire at the shell that had been fired at her. It exploded before hitting her, and she disappeared in the debris.

One frightened guard shouted, "What is she?"

Rena cast another stream of fire to melt the fence before her. She created a hole just her size and easily slid through and into the courtyard.

Putting her metal skin back on, she ran through the first wall and into the prison.

On the first floor, she saw several prisoners that were stunned to see her burst through the wall.

As guards ran into the hallway and fired on her, the prisoners were more stunned to see her metal skin deflecting bullets.

The guards scattered when she ran into them. Finding a stairwell, she made it down into solitary confinement.

Finding cell number 33, she ran through the metal door and found her target.

"Well Samuel Sulivan, it's about time for you to get out of here isn't it?"

Bewildered that his door had just been busted open, Samuel asked, "Who the Hell are you?"

"That doesn't matter. What does matter is that we are five stories underground and there are dozens of guards that are fixing to rush down here. Even with the few abilities I have, I can't take them all and get us both to the surface alive," Rena said.

"Okay, I'll ask questions later. Right now I assume you know about me and my ability," Samuel said.

"Yes, my boss made me study your file well. I know you have the ability to control the earth and seismic activity," Rena said.

"Well then you know that my power doesn't work unless there are others with abilities around me," Samuel said, sitting down on his cot.

"That isn't true. Your ability is only amplified for each individual that is around you. I'm a powered individual, and now I have your power. With each of us feeding off the other's presence I figure the two of us can at least tunnel out of here," Rena said.

Smiling, Samuel stood up and asked, "I once met a man who had an ability like yours. Like a chameleon, he could copy any power around him."

"If we get out of here, I'll explain my relationship to Peter Petrelli," Rena said.

The two of them could hear the guards shouting down the hallway.

Samuel and Rena raised their arms and shook the room enough to collapse the doorway in.

"Okay, now we've got the guards blocked from getting in. How are we going to get out?"

"That back corner over there is the weakest of all areas in the room. This being the bottom floor, if we can crack that corner, we have access to the ground underneath the prison," Samuel said.

Samuel and Rena focused hard and began to crack the ground in the corner. They eventually made a hole to crawl through. Once they got out of the prison cell, they made a tunnel large enough to stand up in. Then, they closed the hole behind them.

The man with the bandaged face had been watching the prison from his hilltop for about three hours when the ground below him began to shake.

A hole opened and out crawled Rena and Samuel.

"Well, that certainly was a daring escape," Samuel said.

"Rena, you did well, and now you've added another power to your arsenal I see," the man with the bandaged face said.

"Alright, now that I'm out and about, I'd like to know who you two are," Samuel said.

Clearing his throat, the man with the bandaged face replied, "That's fair. My name is Victor, and your saviour standing behind you is Rena."

"Why risk springing a man from prison like you did? Rena clearly had the tools to get in, but if she wasn't rescuing me, she'd have had a hard time getting out," Samuel said.

"We don't have a lot of time Samuel, so I'll give you the short version. We're putting together a team, and we wanted you on it. This team is under my command, and I've got a plan. Now you can run off and risk the Noah Bennet finding you again, or you can come with us and hear more," Victor said.

"Well then, lead the way," Samuel said.