A/N: The story is set during season 8 of Smallville. The time frame is a little past Identity. Heroes is at the very beginning of the fourth season. FYI I've only seen about half the fourth season (I saw up to when Hiro goes back in time to save Mohinder) so if you review please don't mention any thing past that. Also Sylar is still at large as opposed to having Nathan's memories implanted in his head. They tried that, but Sylar recovered from the drug faster than they anticipated and he escaped though his ability to shape shift seemed to get negated when Matt was in his head. Ok enough background information. Here's the story. Enjoy!

Niki Sanders

Beloved mother

She was the stronger one

"Stronger one. I wonder what they meant by that," Tracy wondered as she observed her late sister's grave. "Hi Niki. It's me Tracy. The other sister you never knew you had. I don't why I'm here really. I guess I just need to get all the things I have on my mind off my chest," she said to the tombstone. "You've got a real special boy their Niki. He tried to keep us all safe during the government's attempt to round us all up. That whole scenario probably felt like something out of one of his comic books. It's over now and yet I'm still seeking revenge. I thought I was going to die when they tracked Micah down. I thought if I have to go I might as well do one decent thing in my life before I go. I saved his life and thought it was over when they shattered me and yet here I am telling this whole story to your grave as opposed to wherever you ended up when you died. This'll probably sound weird, but in a way I'm kind of envious of you Niki. You may have had a rough and strenuous life, but at least you had people that loved you to help get yourself through it all. I don't think I've ever really known what love is to be perfectly honest," Tracy said. She knelt down and placed a single rose in front of Niki's grave. "Rest in peace sister."

Suddenly she felt something pierce the back of her neck. She pulled it out and saw it was some kind of a dart. Tracy felt lightheaded and the world started to spin for her before she fainted.

Tracy regained consciousness and her world was black. Her arms were bound to a chair and it the room felt hot like she was in a sauna or something. She couldn't see two feet in front of her. She heard approaching footsteps and then someone pulled the blindfold over her eyes off.

"Ms. Straus. Glad to see you've rejoined us," a man she's never seen before said.

"Who are you? Where am I?" She asked a still a little dizzy.

"My name is of no importance," he replied. "And I wouldn't advise turning yourself into water. Your chair is set to electrocute you if you so much as try it."

"What do you want with me?" Tracy asked; heat starting to get to her. The man smiled and snapped his fingers.

"Let go of me you bastards!" Tracy heard someone who sounded just like her yell. The guards forced her into a chair and restrained her arms so she couldn't break free.

"Niki?" Tracy asked in shock. Niki looked up at the sound of her own voice.

"Who are you?" She asked surprised to see Tracy.

"I'm your sister; Tracy Strauss."

"I only had one sister," Niki said remembering Jessica.

"A year ago I thought I was an only child," Tracy said. "But how are you alive? I saw your body."

"I should be dead. I should be with D.L., but these guys decided to play God," Niki seethed. "They took my body from the cemetery the night following the funeral and went to great lengths to ensure that no one ever found out. My body was still fresh for the most part. Hadn't even begun to decompose. They injected me with blood they had stolen from Claire Bennet. It somehow brought me back to life and restored my powers. It was like I never died. I spent the next year trapped here being forced to undergo various experiments and tests. They injected me with some kind of serum. Designed to get me to do whatever they wanted. Only problem is that they didn't count for one particular factor."

"What factor was that?" Tracy asked.

"Niki's split personality," the mysterious man said and then snapped his fingers again. Two guards entered the room with a third man who seemed to be a prisoner as well in front of them. The guards pushed Niki and Tracy's chairs closer together until there was only a few inches of space between them. The prisoner looked familiar to Niki. She knew she'd seen him from somewhere before… Kirby plaza. What was his name?

"Matt," she remembered. "Matt Parkman," she said. Matt looked at her for a moment and then at the man.

The man nodded to Matt and said, "Do your stuff Officer Parkman". Matt nodded and placed his hand on Niki's forehead. He then did the same for Tracy.

"Matt; what are you doing?" Niki asked him and then suddenly felt a huge spike in her brain. Tracy felt the same thing. She saw random images appearing in her mind. Violent images. Images of death. Murder.

"Get out of my head." Matt heard Tracy order in her mind. "Get out of my head!" Matt relinquished his grip on Tracy on Niki's forehead and stumbled back.

"Is everything ok Officer Parkman?" The man asked.

"Yes. Tracy tried to fight, but I think I managed to get the job done."

"There's only one way to find out." The man said and stood in front of Tracy. "Hello Tracy," he greeted. Tracy had a blank stare on her face at first. It soon changed into an evil look.

"Tracy's not here," Jessica said.

"I believe you've done it Parkman," the man said to him. He then pulled out a tazer and knocked the cop out. "Take him back to his cell," he ordered the guards. They nodded and dragged Matt's body out of the room with some slight difficulty given how big he was.

"Jessica," Niki whispered unable to believe it was her.

"Niki," Jessica acknowledged. "If there was a shred of decency left in me this would be a very touching moment my dear sister," Jessica said to her then turned to their captor. "So Mr. Mysterious," Jessica said to him. "You mind telling us why you pulled me out of one sister and put me into another. That feels kind of… I don't know; redundant."

"To put it simply this organization was in need of enforcers shall we say."

"You mean assassins," Jessica guessed.

"Call it whatever you want Ms. Sanders. We read a rather interesting file left by the late Mr. Linderman about Niki here. It went into great detail about her powers and we thought maybe we could use that to our advantage. Unfortunately when we went to find Ms. Sanders…"

"Can you just use our first names? This is getting a little confusing," Jessica interrupted mainly for the fun of it. The man rolled his eyes, collected himself, and went on.

"We discovered Niki had died."

"Well I have to say Niki. You look pretty good for a dead girl," she said to her.

"We brought her back to life with a slightly modified version of Claire Bennet's blood to ensure that every last square inch of Niki returned."

"Namely my powers," Niki said. "What gave you the right to do this to me you piece of shit!" She cursed at him.

"Careful Niki; I'm starting to see a little of myself in you," Jessica said earning her a dirty look from Niki. "I know the rest of the story from that point. You kept Niki here for a year and injected her with that 'do as I say' green serum. It worked, but you didn't count on me coming back now did you?"

"Honestly no. You're constant switching of personalities somehow negated the effects of the serum. What shocked us more was that you claimed to step in because you had Niki's best interests at heart."

"What can I say? I'm a sucker for family," she laughed. "Don't look at me that way Niki. You got control back within minutes each time. You're essentialy in control now," Jessica said knowing that Niki was remembering the time she took over her body for keeps. "And anyway you send a mind controlled zombie to do an assassination and you might as well book the Church for the funeral because they will get killed."

"I recall you saying that to us," the man said. "I also recall you saying that if you were in a body free of Niki you'd do as we ask no problem."

"That's true. After all she dies I die. I didn't think you'd take what I said seriously though."

"We take everything seriously Jessica."

"I see that now." Jessica sighed. "So who's the target and how do you want him or her taken down?"

"You'll find out soon enough Jessica. I think you'll like the new powers you have at your disposal now." He said to her.

"Can't wait to try them out. I'm getting paid for this right?" She asked.

"Absolutely," he said and then motioned for two guards tow release her.

"One last thing Jessica. Niki will be joining you on your first assignment."

"What!" The Sanders sisters simultaneously shouted.

"I am not working with Niki. She'll just get in my way."

"That's what the serum is for."

"Didn't you hear what I just said earlier? She'll get herself killed."

"It will be this way if you don't want any harm to come to Micah," he told them. Right there Niki and Jessica let out frustrated sighs. These people always know the one thing Niki and Jessica ever shared in common besides the same body. They both cared for Micah. Niki more so than Jessica. "I knew you'd see things my way. Think of this as a little time for you two to bond together."

Jessica walked over to Niki and stared her in the face. "Try not to get in my way," she threatened.

"I don't plan to," she said back to her not looking the least bit intimidated. That earned her a smirk from Jessica, who then turned and walked away from her.

"Who are you?" She heard someone asked.

"Who's there?" Jessica said looking all around, but didn't see anybody.

"Turn around." Jessica did so and found herself looking into a mirror; her reflection not looking pleased to see her.

"Tracy. You're still in here?" Jessica asked pointing to her head.

"Get out of me," she ordered.

"This might be more fun than I thought," Jessica thought to herself.

Claire Bennet took a deep breath as she walked down the hallway to her room. Today was her first day of college and hopefully the first day of the rest of her life. She wanted to forget everything that had happened these past few years. She didn't want to think about exploding cities, formulas capable of giving people super powers (who has the free time to make something like that let alone create it in the first place), and last but not least Sylar. Just thinking about him sent chills up her spine. He was still out there; somewhere. Probably just waiting for the chance to kill her like he did her father. Claire felt sad as she thought about him.

They tried to use her blood to bring him back, but it wouldn't work. Peter mentioned that it wasn't the first time Nathan got blood from someone who could heal. This led Noah to saying that it must mean that using the blood of a healer on someone else is a onetime deal only and it wouldn't work a second time. She sighed and felt a few stray tears roll down her cheeks. Sylar had not only caused the deaths of both her biological parents, but he even caused her adoptive parents to split up as well. It's like he wouldn't stop until he had destroyed everything she cared for in this world. She decided to try and stop thinking about that now and to just focus on the road ahead. She reached her room and walked inside; looked like her roommate had already settled in. She heard someone in the bathroom and then a girl, who looked a little older than she did, stepped out.

"You must be my roommate," Claire said to her. "I gotta say I wasn't expecting…"

"To have a junior as a roommate," she finished for her. "Don't sweat it freshmen. I think you and I are going to get along just fine."

"Guess we might as well get the introductions out of the way," Claire said holding out her hand. "Claire Bennet." Her roommate took her hand and shook it.

"Pleased to meet you. Name's Lucy. Lucy Lane."

A/N: I will say right now that Lex is not the mysterious man so just disregard him from the large roster of suspects. You'll see my reasons for making Lucy Claire's roommate at some point in the story. I wasn't sure just how old Lucy was when we first saw her, but it had to be around at least 17 years old. She's not going to get pushed out a window like Claire's roommate in the show, fyi. See ya later!