Prologue

The Future – Hartsdale, NY - ???

"Peter! We need to go!" A voice shouted out as the man in the alleyway looked extremely worried: blood flowing down the gash on his face, fires from the destruction behind him, and a baby in his arms. He looked at the area around him and then closed his eyes, with it everything around him froze in time leaving just him and the child that he rocked slightly as they stood still in time. The man looked down at the child and sighed.

Everything stopped around them. The destruction, the chaos, the agony, it all stopped as the two stood in middle of it. Although it was a destroyed world the two were somehow at peace from it, it was the world they had been subjected to for many years. The eternal red skies, the ruined buildings, the fighting wherever you went. The two knew of this world. However just because they felt a sense of peace from it didn't mean that they enjoyed the suffering that good people were feeling, the changes that had occurred in normal individuals that made them criminals.

"I would have liked to have brought you up, made up for my parents mistakes." The man whispered as they stood in the frozen world, "But you need to save the world."He then stopped for a minute and chuckled reminiscently, "You'll go away, and you won't see me like this ever again, not in the same way we see each other right now. But that's alright. You're gonna save the world, and that should mean a lot to you." The man then closed his eyes again and time restarted, though this time the man wasn't there.

Bennet Household – Odessa, TX – June 8th, 1994

The man reappeared in the middle of a less apocalyptic place, a totally contrasting place in comparison to the world of the future that they were in before. They had arrived in a little street that was in its own corner of heaven, still in a golden age after many years of depression and war, it was a perfect place to live in, to grow up in. Of cause the man looked out of place, although the wound that he had on his face had now sealed up leaving him with just the marks from the blood his very being was totally out of place. He didn't belong; however there was a chance that his son could.

He rushed towards one of the house doors and as he reached it the door opened revealing another man, this time much cleaner. The man had short brown hair and stood tall, he wore a suit and looked like a regular family man; the perfect man to be the babies father.

"Noah." The man greeted as he rocked his son in his arms. "Thank you for agreeing for this, this is the only way to-"

"Save the World, I know." Noah replied as he stood in the doorway. "But how are we going to do this? Won't you be damaging the future if you leave us like you have?"

"Yes." The man replied, "However I can sort that. I just need to see you and Sandra quickly."

"And Claire," Noah added as he walked backwards allowing the man to step into the house. He did so and the door closed behind them leaving them in the hallway of a mansion to what the baby had been subjected to for his life so far. "She's seen you. You won't want to leave a trace."

"Not if I want to save my child," The man chuckled again, remembering when he was talked to like that by this man. It was a different situation now though; the shoe had skipped to the other foot. "But Noah, I need to tell you..." The man froze for a second as he looked at the baby in his arms. Noah smiled slightly as he looked at the man's struggling face, the face of a man about to lose his child. He then shook his head and looked Noah in the eyes.

"His name is Zack, and from now on he is going to be your child, Zack Bennet. The son of Noah and Sandra, and the brother of Claire and Lyle. I want you to raise him like he was your own son, your own child." The man spoke as Noah chuckled slightly.

"I already have a bit of experience with that," Noah replied in a low tone, it wouldn't matter what he said now though. Everything would change in a few minutes.

"I want you to be there for him." He continued, "Teach him how to ride a bike, get him through his first girlfriend, and see him off to college. Whatever he needs you there for, you be there. However most of all, I need you to be there for him when his ability manifests. It's gonna be a terrifying time for him and he is going to need someone to help him through that. Can you do that Noah?"

"Yes." Noah responded seriously. The man then smiled and pushed the baby towards Noah who slowly, but naturally, took the boy into his arms and started to cradle him. The man then looked around him and noticed the items in the house: the cot, the balloons congratulating them on the birth of their new boy, and the fresh stock of baby foods and formulas.

"Are you ready?" The man asked as he started to walk away from the two. Noah nodded and smiled. The man then closed his eyes and suddenly the world around him started to change as he invaded the minds of all of the people in the nearby radius, changing what they knew. Then, all of a sudden, he disappeared again leaving Noah standing in the hallway with his son, Zack Bennet.

Noah smiled as he looked at. He then walked him over to the cot and lay him down in it. He quickly fell to sleep in his new home.