Derek woke up, rolled onto his side, and threw up whatever he had in his stomach. He slowly got to his feet, looked around, and found Sherrie and Kasey still unconscious. Derek walked over to Kasey, crouched by her, and tapped her shoulder. Kasey woke up with start, she started freak out, but when she saw Derek she calmed down.

"Derek, are you okay?" Kasey asked him

"Yeah, what 'bout you?" Derek asked her

"Yeah, my head hurt though." Kasey replied

"I could see if there's some Tylenol and Advil around here." Derek told her

"Okay I'll keep an eye on Sherrie." Kasey told him

Derek smiled, helped Kasey onto her feet, and then started to look around for painkillers. He started by looking in the bathroom since it was the most sensible for pain meds to be, and he easily found some in the very front. Derek quickly grabbed them, but when he felt that the bottle was empty he tossed it into the trash. He then ran to the kitchen since his mom usually had a bottle on the bread box even though that was his mom and not Sherrie's. When he got into the kitchen, he quickly looked through every drawer that was in there, and when there wasn't a bottle of painkillers in there he remembered Sherrie telling that she kept a bottle in her room. Derek ran to her bedroom, opened the top drawer of her night stand, and grabbed the bottle. He ran out into the living room to find Sherrie awake finally, he tossed her the bottle, and then Sherrie put one in her mouth and gave one to Kasey. He suddenly felt a little light headed, he was about to collapse, but then he got to a chair before his knees gave out. Kasey rushed to his side, and quickly looked him over.

"Okay, you are not okay, and we need to get you to the hospital." Kasey told him

"No, they won't be able to help any of us, but do you who Cole MacGrath is?" Derek asked her

"It was said that he had given his life to cure the Empire Plague, but the technology he used also killed all the other conduits too." Sherrie replied

"That was 300 years ago Derek what are you getting at?" Kasey asked Derek

"There isn't the conduit gene anymore, but I tested my blood and I found an unidentifiable gene." Derek told them

"So your saying that your part the next generation of powereds?" Sherrie asked him

"If you guys want we can go over my house and we can probably test your blood." Derek told them "Do you think you can make to my house Sherrie?"

"You live right by me so of course I can." Sherrie told him

Derek helped the two girls up, but he ended up on his knees as he got the same light headed feeling. Sherrie and Kasey helped him back to his feet and they followed him outside as he stumbled around and fell couple of times. They came to help him, but he quickly brushed them and continued to his house. The two young women looked at each other and they both knew that they were worried about Derek, but they quickly walked after him as he stumbling up the stairs leading to his front door. Kasey took his hand tightly as she helped him to his room with Sherrie following closely behind them, the two girl weren't the least bit surprised when they every book on conduits they could think of were laying open on his desk, and multiple programs were running on his computer. The second a beeping noise went off on one of the computers Derek slowly walked over and pulled up one of the web pages, what Kasey and Sherrie saw amazed them, on one side they could see what they expected was the unknown gene, and then on the other side they saw the same gene but it was changing in front of their eyes.

"Derek, what's happening?" Kasey asked him

"Mutation, that's what's happening right now inside of me, but why?" Derek asked himself "Is it okay if I could get a blood sample from each of you?"

"Sure." Kasey replied while offering her right arm

Derek disinfected the spot between Kasey's forearm and upper arm, found a good vein, and slowly pushed the needle in. He drew out two drops of blood, placed on an analyzer plate, and soon Kasey's genes appeared on the screen by Derek's. He did the same for Sherrie, soon her genes were on the screen by the other two sets, and soon the other two were zoomed in onto the exact same gene that was in Derek's body. The one thing that confused them was that the genes were mutating three separate ways, but then their attention was brought back to Derek gene as it stopped mutating. Kasey yelp as she felt something shock her ass and as she moved out of the way a current of electricity flowed into Derek.

When the current hit him, it launched him onto the bed, and Kasey was horrified as more and more electricity flowed into him. As the current of electricity stopped Kasey rushed over to be by Derek's side, but when she got close to him Sherrie tackled her as a huge discharged from Derek's body. The discharge stopped right before it hit the walls, it started to spin quickly gathering more electricity as it did so, and it flowed quickly back into Derek. When the electricity stopped flowing into Derek Kasey shook him quickly, and his eyes shot open.

"You okay Derek?" Kasey asked him

"Yeah, it's bad that this is our final week of high school, not only that but now we got to get used to these new powers." Derek laughed as he ran a hand down his face "We still need to learn what your powers are."

"Don't worry, as long we're here we will help each other master our powers." Kasey told him

Derek hugged her and Sherrie tightly, and together they walked out to Derek's backward. Kasey and Sherrie grabbed a couple of empty milk jugs and soda cans from the trash so they could see what Derek could do at the moment. When everything was set up Derek shot a bolt of lightning at one of the milk jugs, and it instantly caught fire. Kasey didn't know what came over, but she ran towards the jug and as she got close to it the fire enveloped her. Derek ran towards her quickly, but before he got to her the fire exploded outwards launching Derek into the air conditioning unit. To Sherrie's surprise Derek easily got up and dusted himself off as electricity from the air conditioning unit flowed into and seemed to knit up his cuts and scrapes. She looked at Kasey whose clothes were singed, Sherrie then looked at Derek who was stretching like nothing had just happened, and when they walked to each other and touched a spark of fire and electricity jumped towards each other.

"Now all we need to see what power Sherrie has, but 'till then we have to practice our powers." Derek told them before quickly shooting the soda cans off the poles

Kasey followed in suit by trying to shoot the milk jugs, but the shots of fire only came out as sparks.

"Kasey focus, it boost power to the shot, and visualize it." Derek told her "Like this."

Kasey watched as another bolt of lightning shot from Derek's hands and punched a hole through one of the milk jugs.

"Okay, so is there a way it'll be easier for me?" Kasey asked

"Yeah, I'll teach you what I know." Derek replied