Chapter Two: Diana

"Who needs adults, anyway?" Caine asked.

Diana knew she should answer, she was the only on in the room, so he had to be asking her, but she knew the answer, and Caine seemed content in not believing it. The thing was, adults were the ones who provided the food and power to the world and if all the adults really were gone, they were in for some tough times. Though that really didn't make sense, all the adults just disappearing. People couldn't just disappear into thin air.

But she'd seen it. She watched as her English teacher was just talking, and suddenly just…wasn't. No explosion, no lightning bolt, just gone.

"Hey, Diana, I'm talking to you."

Dian blinked and looked up at Caine, sitting in the office chair at the desk of the room where they'd set up "headquarters".

"What?" She asked

"We can run things can't we? Who needs adults? Maybe…maybe this all happened for a reason…"

"What? You think this all happened because you were meant to rule the school? You want to take over don't you?"

"Diana…"

"You have the power. You want to take over the school, go ahead. Who's going to stop you? Everyone knows not to get in your way."

Caine smiled and held his hands out, palms out.

Diana flinched as he pointed them in her direction.

"I need your help." He said, "I can't rule the world by myself."

"The world?"

"Well, Freddie said that as far as he could tell there were no adults down at the beach. He drove down this morning. Of course he nearly killed himself in the process."

Diana shrugged, "That doesn't mean the adults aren't all gone from the world. Maybe there's someone else out there with the power that transported them. You, know like Taylor can, except more powerful."

"You mean…more than a four bar?"

"Just because you're the most powerful person at this school doesn't mean it's impossible for someone to have more power than you. Kids all over the world could develop this power. Even adults, though none of them here seem to have. It could even be someone at the school who's responsible for it!"

"Have you read everybody at the school?"

"Almost…most of them have no power at all. If someone was powerful enough to make all the teachers just disappear like that…well, I think we would have noticed. None of the others kept it secret for very long."

"So you don't think we have someone who is a…."

"I doubt there is anyone at the school that is more powerful than you, if that's what you mean."

The door opened as she spoke, and in walked Drake Merwin.

No one felt like saying 'hi', so Caine got straight to the point.

"Did you do what I told you to?"

"Yes, I checked." Drake said, sitting down on the chair Next to Diana which made her jump and sit up.

"Most of the tenth graders are…disappeared…" Drake wasn't quite sure what to call it, "They're gone. And all of the eleventh graders too, far as I can tell. About half of the ninth graders..."

"I wonder what the line was." Diana mused, "How whoever did this decided who was going to…you know, disappear."

"It wasn't random. There had to be some pattern to it." Caine chewed on his thumb slightly, leaning back in the chair.

"We have to do something," Drake concluded, "Kids are trying to take over. Something has to be done before they mess something up real bad. We need to take control of everybody and manage the kids who have the power."

"Right. How do you think we should do that?" It wasn't a question of if they thought they could, Diana noted. Caine had absolute faith that he had the power to take over the school, not that Diana was arguing, but she marveled at his confidence, the way he thought he could do everything and, well, sometimes he tricked her into believing he could.

"You need to show everyone that you're in control," she thought aloud, "Like make a speech or use the power right in front of everyone here."

Caine nodded.

"I'll help," Drake got up, "I'm all for taking over the school."

"Great. Caine spun his desk chair," Let's get started.