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AN1: As you all probably realized this is wildly AU from season 2 of Heroes and borrows from next season spoilers of Kyle XY. Reviews are awesome. And if necessary I will beg for them.

Chapter 2

"Let go of me. Who are you people? Why-how-did you bring me here?"

"Oh, I don't know. To save your life, maybe." Parkman bit off sarcastically. Given that his neck still tweaked from the jolt the kid hit him with, Matt was not too fond of the young man at the moment.

"What do you want with me?"

"You don't have to be scared. We saved you." Hiro gave a proud eager smile. "We're heroes."

"Hiro. Parkman." The relief in Mohinder Suresh's voice was clear as he made his way from one of the back rooms. "Right on schedule."

They were at their final checkpoint: Isaac Mendez's studio in New York. The place held a certain sentimentality for the group and seemed like a logical point for them to meet, even if a bit obvious to those who they fought against.

"Monica? Elle?" Matt asked as he gave Mohinder a nod of acknowledgment.

"In the back comparing notes." Like any self-respecting little brother, Micah Sanders rolled his eyes at the apparent silliness of the two older girls. "Who are you?" He asked Kyle.

"Kyle-"

"We found him and his little girlfriend roaming around Primatech." Matt interrupted in a off-handed manner, when in reality he was tuned to the boy's thoughts. It seemed the boy was trying to block him, but couldn't fully concentrate with the concern and fear coursing through his system. He picked up certain words: Latnok. Madacorp. But never really got a clear idea of what they were. He was worried about someone other then himself, but not the girl they left behind. Somehow he knew she was safe. There was someone else. "What were the two of you doing there, kid?"

"Besides putting you and Peter on your butts." Nikki laughed as she and Nathan made their way in from the back. She hugged her son, before searching the room. "Monica and Elle?"

"West and I brought them in on the first pick up." Nathan answered before anyone else could, his eyes calmly searching the room. "Where's Claire?"

Micah looked at the Blackberry in his hand. "She and West have just flown over Lake Michigan."

Nathan began to pace the room. All the while mumbling about 'punk kids', 'teenage daughters', and 'roaming hands'.

"Claire must not be back yet." Elle laughed when she came into the room and saw Nathan pacing.

"Who's the new guy?" Monica asked.

"Apparently he and his girlfriend took out Peter and Parkman." Mohinder answered, earning a scathing glance from Matt.

"Got a name, cutie." Elle asked with a flirtatious smile.

"My God, Elle, don't you ever turn it off." Monica shook her head at the other girl.

"Who are you people?" Kyle scanned the faces that had begun to crowd the room. He felt nothing untoward from any of them. Well except for the guy in the suit pacing, who kept having thoughts of breaking some flying kids hands. "I saw him," He pointed towards Hiro. "Take Amanda. And he disappeared."

"Amanda Bloom?" Micah asked. "Were you there to save her, too."

Kyle's heart began to race. "Too? How do you know Amanda?"

"Wait," Mohinder interrupted. "How did you even get in?"

"Jessi got the code then rerouted the camera's. I got into the system and unlocked all the secured doors."

"That's why I had such a hard time talking to the mainframe." Micah began excitedly. "You guys had already confused it."

"We just wanted to get Amanda out. We nearly had her, but then he showed up. Please, tell me where she is."

"I took her home." Hiro told him gently. He saw the tears gather in the boy's eyes. "Back to Washington. Her mother cried. The family next door rushed over to see."

"Thank..." Kyle's words trailed off as relief rushed through him. He thought his legs would give out on him. He could hardly see anyone for the tears in his eyes. "Thank-you." He directed to everyone in the room. It was Nikki who came over and put a comforting arm around his shoulder.

"Cool, we got a new guy." West came in the same entrance as Nathan and Nikki had only moments ago.

"Where the hell have you been?" Nathan demanded, his tone low and menacing.

"Nathan, chill." Claire stepped between her father and boyfriend. "We had to drop off the report with my dad and get the new locations from Molly."

"I thought Peter was the messenger." Mohinder asked.

"Where is Pete?" Nathan wondered as he took hold of his daughter's hand and lead her away from West. "Micah?"

"He's traveled." The boy answered grimly. "He won't come up on the screen."

"Damn it, Pete."

"Wait," Kyle began anxiously. "What about Jessi? We left her there."

"Who's Jessi?" This from West.

"Who's he?" This from Claire.

"From what I hear, he and his girlfriend laid Peter and Parkman on their asses." Elle offered.

"They're going to stop letting you come." Monica joked, even as she tried her best not to laugh.

"Awesome." West grinned. "What can they do?"

"They're technopaths like me." Micah answered. "They screwed up the Primatech system."

Matt shook his head. "They're like me. They shot some kind of mind whammy at me and Peter."

"I don't know about him." Nikki pointed to Kyle. "But the girl is like me. Super strength, Elle." She added, not missing the look that crossed the other blonde's face. "Not the other thing."

"Maybe they're wonder twins." Monica suggested. "Like Maya and her brother."

"Sounds to me like they're empaths, like Peter." Mohinder concluded.

"None of this helps us find Jessi." Kyle interrupted. "I can't feel her anymore."

"What do you mean?" Mohinder asked. "Are the two of you connected?"

Kyle nodded. "It's something we've been working on all summer. Before we could only feel each other if we were in the same area. But now I can feel her no matter where she is. She's not dead!" He snapped out at Elle. "I would have felt that."

"Maybe it's not a matter of where she is...." Nathan began.

"But when." Hiro concluded.

"Okay," Elle began in a huff. "How come when I use my powers on someone, I get snapped at. But the new kid just read my mind and no one said anything."

"Elle," Matt sighed her name. "You hit West with lightening. Twice. You could have killed him."

"Okay, the first time was on orders from my dad. I hadn't found the light yet."

"And the second time?"

"He ate my ice cream. Any of you would have done the same thing." It didn't help that Elle really couldn't stand the little weirdo anyway. She still hadn't figured out how Claire put up with him. "Besides, the new kid just invaded my privacy. That's a lot worse than electrocuting someone."

"Have you ever been electrocuted, Elle?" West asked.

"I've been shot. And I didn't cry like a bitch about it to anyone who would listen."

"You did go on and on about it, West." Monica added. "Almost to the pointed where I wanted her to hit you again to shut you up."

"Imagine how I felt." Claire mumbled.

"Children," Nikki interrupted. "I think we have bigger issues. Like finding out what happened to Peter and Jessi, right."

Kyle nodded. "You have to find her. I don't know what I'd...."

"Maybe Hiro should take him home." Matt suggested.

"I'm not leaving without Jessi."

"She's with Peter." Mohinder told Kyle. "He won't let anything happen to her."

"Am I the only one who remembers the last woman Peter traveled through time with? The one trapped in New York circa hell." Elle reminded everyone needlessly.

"Hey, Elle," Nathan shook his head. "Don't help."

"Besides," Monica began. "They changed the future, so I'm sure she's okay. Now."

"Monica, maybe you shouldn't help either."

"If she's like Peter, she wouldn't be trapped anyway." West offered. "Once she figures out how to use her powers she should be fine."

"I don't think we should comfort ourselves with the hope that maybe, one day, hopefully, this girl will figure out her powers and get home." Nikki's voice was as kind as she could make it. The kid really wasn't all that bright.

"But it does put her in a better position than the other girl." Monica added.

Elle nodded. "That's true."

"You guys don't know Jessi." Kyle argued. "She can do anything she sets her mind to. She jumped off a cliff and landed on her feet, she's run across water, she's..." Kyle's eyes began to fill with tears. "I can't lose her."

"When you say she jumped off a cliff," Matt began. "Like did she jump or fly?"

"If she's like Peter," Nathan argued. "How would she have flown if she hasn't come across anyone who can fly?"

"Because she's not like me. They're not like any of us." Peter made his entrance from the back of the building, Jessi's hand locked firmly in his. "And I can explain it all later, but we have to get out of here. Now."

"Jessi!" Kyle ran across the room to wrap his arms around her. "Amanda's okay. They took her home."

"I know. Peter told me." Not to mention she had felt his relief, his happiness, as if it were her own.

"What's going on, Pete?"

"They know where we are. They're on their way." His gaze scanned over the room full of people. "We've got about ten minutes. Hiro, get Micah out of here now. Mohinder?"

"I'm already gone." Mohinder was practically running when he exited the building.

Hiro didn't even bother to ask why, simply walked over to the little boy, and in the next instant the two were gone.

"Monica, Claire, and Elle should go next." Peter decided. "Nathan?"

"I'll take Monica and Claire. Elle can go with West." Nathan answered, trying not to smile at Elle's not so quiet response.

Hiro was back, he took Nikki's hand and a protesting Kyle, blinked just as Peter shot a hole through the roof of the building for Nathan and West to fly through.

"There's computers in the back." Peter told Jessi. She nodded, letting go of his hand for the first time to run into the back room.

"What is she going to do?" Matt asked.

A small grin curled Peter's lips. "I'm not really sure. But I do know that no one will ever be able to find anything on those systems after she's done."

Matt thought he caught a hint of pride in Peter's eyes, wanted to question it, but Jessi came back into the room. Peter reached out and without any hesitation, Jessi took his hand. Peter was going to have a lot of explaining to do when they got back home.

"Ready, Parkman?"

Matt nodded, placing his hand on Peter's shoulder. To his utter surprise, Jessi turned into the younger man. Wrapping her arms around his neck and burying her face in his shoulder. Peter gazed down at her with a gentle smile on his lips, even as his arm came up to wrap securely around her waist.

"Sorry, Isaac." The arm that wasn't holding Jessi, shot out.

Flames began to engulf the room by the time the first round of armed men battered down the door. But they didn't need to see through the thick cloud of smoke to know that there was no one inside the building.