CHAPTER ONE- THE BEGINNING

I briskly walked through the busy street, trying not to divert attention to myself. I turned my head halfway around, not stopping as I did so. The two men were still trailing behind me, and it seemed that their pace had quickened. One of them saw me look back at them and smiled devilishly. I quickly averted my eyes and turned my head so I was facing forward again. I decided that this was taking way too long so I walked into a deserted alley way; the men quickly followed. "This is it" I thought as I turned my nervously shaking body around to face the men fully.

"Don't worry, we won't hurt you…much!" the taller man said and he and his 'buddy' chuckled.

"What do you want with me? I haven't done anything. Why are you following me?" I said a lot sterner then I felt.

"We couldn't care less what you did. Our boss just wants you captured and taken to him, and he pays us for this, so it's what we do." The stronger man replied.

"So that gives you a right to follow me around for the last twenty minutes? I don't think so" I retorted, and with that I lunged at the men. I collided with that taller man first, throwing him into the ground. The other guy grabbed me and took me off of his friend. I breathed in and sent an electric pulse through my body. The pulse shook through his body and threw him into the brick wall beside us. The guy I hit first jumped at me and I quickly went transparent and ran out of his way. He stumbled a bit as he realized that he couldn't see me. I ran up behind him, still invisible, and gave him a roundhouse kick in his face. He fell forward and held his cheek. Then an evil gin appeared on his face as he took out some sort of device.

"The boss told us you had a few special techniques of getting away. That's why he gave us this" he said as he pressed a button on the device. All of a sudden I felt myself reappear and the guy turned to look directly at me.

"There you are" he said as he ran towards me. He roundhouse kicked at me, but I luckily caught it with both hands. Twisting his leg, he went crashing into the ground. He jumped up and punched me in the stomach. I retaliated with a left hook to the jaw. He then tried to hit me in the face, but I blocked it with my forearm. He kicked me in the stomach and I fell to the ground.

"Didn't your mother ever tell you not to hit a girl?" I mocked as I held my stomach where he kicked me.

He jumped on top of me and straddled my waist. "Dude, I barely know you, and this is hardly the place or the time." I said tauntingly as I struggled to move. It was no use; he had a tight grip on me. He started punching me and I lifted my arms to block the blows from hitting my face.

After about twenty seconds, two steps of footsteps started coming closer towards us. "Oh great, more of his buddies" I thought as I tried to see who it was, but I couldn't because I was a little distracted by the guy trying to hit me in the face.

Then suddenly the guy was pulled off of me with two hands and thrown into the brick wall to lay unconscious with the other guy beside him. I looked up to see who helped me, and saw a woman. She held out her hand to me and I cautiously took it. She helped me up and looked at me.

"Are you okay?" she asked as she looked at me.

"I think so" I replied, confused as to who she was. I turned around to see who the other footsteps belonged to. A man with short black hair and bright blue eyes was busy tying the two guys who attacked me with rope. He felt someone looking at him and looking up, staring back at me and smiled. I smiled shyly and turned back to the woman.

"Oh, we come and help you, and don't even tell you our names. I'm Haley James and this is my big brother Nathan." She said as she held out her hand for me to shake. I shook it, and then Nathan finished what he was doing and then shook mine as well.

"Hey, um thanks, but you didn't need to help me. I could've handled it myself." I said as I began to back away.

Nathan was standing there silently, and finally decided to speak, "Yeah, cause you looked pretty comfy as the dirt bag used you as a human punching bag." The sarcasm dripped from his voice.

"As a matter of fact, I was just going to ask him to dinner, before you guys showed up. You know, any guy who can punch like him is worth my time." I replied sarcastically as I turned on my heel and began walking away, my blond curls bouncing as I walked away.

"He told us that you were like this" Haley said as she ran to catch up to me, Nathan not too far behind us. I stopped and turned to look at them.

"Who did?" I asked, a little freaked out by the whole situation. I mean, first two guys attack me and then two people help me, and they supposedly know about me? Way too weird if you ask me!

"Come with us, and you'll find out" Haley replies as her and Nathan walk in a different direction. I hesitate momentarily and then run to catch up with them. "Come on, if they end up being bad guys, I can just kick their asses." I thought as I walked behind them.

We walk through the alley way and towards a black SUV. Nathan runs over to the driver's seat as Haley opens the back seat door for me. I step into the car and sit down. Nathan turned on the car, and we start driving. As we hit the end of the city, I really start to wonder what I got myself into. Finally, after about twenty minutes of driving, we enter a tunnel, and turn off, and stop at the tunnel wall. Nathan pulled down his window and put his hand on a brick in the wall. The brick immediately lit up as his handprint showed up. Then, suddenly the wall opened up to reveal a secret parking lot full of different vehicles. We entered the parking lot and drove until we hit "Lot 6". We pulled in and stopped the car. Nathan and Haley climbed out of the car and Haley opened the door for me. I climbed out and followed them into the building attached to the parking lot. We walked down another hallway, until we ended up at a pair of French doors.

Nathan opened the doors, and we walked in to the secret lair. The room we were in was huge and had many different things in it. To the right of us there were a lot of computers set up. Five computers, it looked like, and there were two chairs at two of the computers. "This must be where they do searches, profiles, stats, etc…Wait! What am I talking about? I don't even know who these people are!" I turned my head to the left and saw stairs leading up to a workout room. There were treadmills, bench presses, pec decks and others equipment. There was also a huge mat that looked like it would be used for fighting people for practice. Farther into the room there was another room that had a medical bed in it. There were three computers in the room, and a bookcase of vials, prescription bottles, and injection needles. Directly in front us were rooms that I had no problem knowing what they were. There was a kitchen complete with a fridge, dishwasher, an island, and a lot of counters. Right beside that room was a living room or a lounge. There were two big leather loveseats and a coffee table in the middle. A big screen TV sat on a wall in the room. There was a DVD/movie case to the left of the TV and a Playstation complete with controllers on its right.

I felt someone's eyes on me, so I looked up to see Haley and Nathan looking at me and smiling.

"Incredible, isn't it?" Haley asked.

"Uh, it's okay" I shrugged as I kept looking at her. She turns away and rolls her eyes at Nathan. He chuckles softly. Then suddenly, another door opened and two other people walked in. They both walked up to me and smiled.

"Hello, I'm Jake Jageiski, and this is Adam." The taller one stated. I looked at them and smiled.

"Hey," I replied, "So anyways, why did you guys get me to come all the way over here, and who knew about me?" I asked, done with the sweet talking and just wanting to get this over with, so I can be on my way.

"Well, this may be difficult to wrap your head around but we'll give it a shot. My name is Adam Tipson and I am the leader of Mutant X," Adam said, as I stared blankly at him. After a while he continued. "Peyton, you're a mutant."

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Well that's chapter one. I know it's a cliffhanger, that's the point!

Anyways, I know with my other stories I haven't updated a lot, but I really like the concept of this story, so I'm gonna keep it going as much as I can!

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