"Let me introduce you to everyone." Adam told Dominick, putting his phone in his pocket.
" I'm Adam, you already know that. This is August." He pointed to a relatively angry looking fellow. Dominick assumed he was the angry one in the background during the phone call.
"And this is Jay." He pointed to a girl, she gave him an icy smile.
"You're all members of the Vile?" Dominick asked.
"Yes, and we went out of our way to come invite you into our family." Adam said.
" I hate to be a downer, but I'm not really feeling the whole superpower mafia thing." Dominick said, crossing his arms.
" Oh, you'd rather be in the Chaoslaw?" Jay asked. She had a smooth voice.
" I'd rather be left alone."
" You're different than the rest of your group." August pointed out.
" 'Group' ?" Dominick asked, in a skeptical expression.
"We have a psychic who can sense weird, special forces," Adam started.
"Your powers came about at the same time as four other people."
"Oh my god, I can't deal with this at all." Dominick rubbed his face with his hands.
" Come on. Just come meet the others. You won't regret it." Adam promised.
"I'm 100% sure I would." Dominick said.
"Are you saying you won't come with us?" Jay asked, poking out her bottom lip.
"That's exactly what I'm saying." Dominick said, turning around to walk back inside.
"That's too bad." Adam held up a finger to his temple. The lights began to flicker.
"What the… What did you just do?" Dominick asked turning around, narrowing his eyes at him.
"I just made the security cameras erase, rewind and freeze. They won't ever know we were here. You see, I'm what's known as a Technopath. This means anything with electricity running through its circuits is good buddies with me. And Jay and August here? They'll make sure you get back to your apartment safe and sound." He said, sighing as the two eagerly walked towards him.
"Get the hell away from me." Dominick ordered, walking quickly away from the front door.
"You're not getting away." August said closing and opening his fist, revealing a small orb of red light.
"What the fuck?" Dominick started running, and the orb landed in front of him, and he took a sharp turn into the alleyway next to him between two buildings. Where the orb was, there was a small explosion.
"What the hell is wrong with you people?" Dominick yelled as he kept on running through and behind the buildings, when he got on the other side of the street, Jay was already there, a trail of ice quickly shot from her foot to Dominick's feet, freezing them over, causing him to fall over.
When Dominick opened his eyes after falling, he realized he was standing over himself.
"What the…" he remembered Jade telling him about his powers.
"Shit…" He looked at himself. Jay and August looked at his body, completely unaware to him standing right in front of them.
"Knocks out easily don't he?" August asked, grinning.
"Look's like he's not that useful afterall. " Jay shrugged.
"Alright, light em up, August." Jay said walking away.
" Oh fuck no." Dominick ran into August.
"Ugh." Dominick said, suddenly getting nauseous.
"What's wrong?" Jay asked, turning around.
"What do you…" Dominick asked, looking at the ground and seeing his unconscious body on the ground. He looked at his hands. He was… White.
"Shit." He said.
"What, what are you waiting on?"
"Really sorry about this." Dominick said, running up and punching a surprised Jay square in the side of the face, sending her small body flying a foot or two. Knocked out cold.
"Telling me about knocking out easily." Dominick huffed.
" This is weird." He looked in the window of an abandoned building in this backwater street, seeing August looking back, but knowing it was actually him.
"Let's hope this dazes him." He hoped, closing his eyes, and breathing, he suddenly felt extremely light, as he opened his eyes, and could not see his reflection. He looked at an unconscious August on the street.
"This is fucking awesome." Dominick laughed. He ran back to his body, and entered it again. He suddenly felt heavy again, and a sharp pain on his head made him wince, and he got up and touched it, seeing blood from where the ice made him fall. He twisted his foot so he could get out of the ice, and run back to his apartment before they woke up. When he got to the front door, Adam was gone. There wasn't a lot he could do besides play with technology, Dominick guessed. He ran up to his room, and got out his book bag, which was mostly empty anyways, emptied it, and began filling it with clothes, and unlocked his drawer, and began stuffing his wallet with money, and a fake ID. He opened another drawer and pulled out a box of cigarettes and a lighter. He stuffed a laptop and some chargers into the bag, and made sure he had his phone and his knife, and ran out, turning off the lights and locking the doors. He ran downstairs to the apartment garage and unchained his bike from the rack, and rode out of the building, backpack on and pockets full. He rode away.

Dominick's dad had bailed when he was born, and his mom only sent him monthly checks, and came over like once every two months to sign stuff for him for school. It's why he doesn't invite anyone over his house, he had been living alone for the good portion of high school. He rode pretty far, but he didn't get out of the school district. He stopped at a music store to get some headphones. He had left his at the apartment, he also needed some band aids for his head, if they had anything, which he's pretty sure they did.
He regretted everything as soon as he walked in.
"Dominick?" Violet asked. All three of the girls were there, looking at various music playing devices and CD's.
"Are you serious…?" He whispered under his breath, he gave a little wave, and went to the front counter to buy some cheap earbuds and asked if they had any band aids; They didn't.

" What happened to your head?" Amanda asked, running up to him."
"I fell riding my bike."
"Wait…Why do you have your bag with you?" Violet said, walking up to him.
" No reason. Girls have purses, shouldn't guys be able to have some kind of bag for their make-up?" He joked.
" Let me see that" Violet said, holding out her hand.
"What? No, fuck off." He said, handing the earbuds to a very uncomfortable looking cashier.
"Let me see that." She man-handled the bag away from him.
"Hey!" Dominick winced from the bag being forcibly taken away from him. Violet was a lot stronger than she looked. Like, a lot stronger.
"Seriously?" She held up a pack of cigarettes.
"He's running away." Reya said, joining with the rest of them.
"See? He has clothes and a laptop."
" What, you've been in this rodeo before?" Dominick asked her. Reya looked embarrassed and looked down.
" Why are you running away?" Amanda asked.
"I'm not running away." He said, then gaining a look of realization. He quickly got out his wallet, showing the cashier a well-made fake ID.
" I'm 22. " He said, so he wouldn't call the police.
" Mind your own business." He said, turning to them, mainly looking at Violet, as he yanked the bag, and then the pack of cigarettes back, putting it back, and zipping it up. Taking the earbuds from the cashier.
"Keep the receipt." He said, just as it was finished processing, taking the few dimes and pennies, and putting it in his pocket, putting the small plastic box in the water-bottle holder of the bag.
"Unbelievable. " Violet said, walking out after him.
" Is this about you-know-what?" Violet asked, walking right behind him.
"Leave me alone." Dominick said, rubbing the blood off his head with his shirt, pulling it up a little.
" Hey!" Violet grabbed his wrist and he winced.
"You're hurt." Violet observed, not loosening her grip, though. Reya and Amanda walked out after them.
"So what? Let go." He struggled to free himself of her grip, but failed to do so.
"You're being stubborn."
"You're being annoying!" He yelled, a look of panic in his eyes.
"What are you running from?" Reya asked suddenly.
"Well if you must know, my lizard drank some of my blood, and now he's a giant mutant lizard." He said.
"I'm pretty sure that's not how our powers work…" Amanda said.
"Oh my god, leave me alone!"
"Not until you tell us what happened." Violet demanded.
Dominick looked around. There were people staring at them.
"Not here." He said finally.
The three girls looked at each other, nodding their heads.
"We know a place not far from here, come on."

"Here." Joe said, handing Dominick a Band-Aid. He placed it on the scratch on his forehead, smoothing out of the wrinkles as it stuck to his skin. The strip burned dryly.
" They wanted you to join?" Amanda asked.
"Yeah, something about me being useful to them, but as soon as I refused they attacked me."
"Did they not know what your power was?" Amanda asked
"Apparently not. Oh, and I can take over people, apparently. "He said, rubbing the scratches on his arm with rubbing alcohol.
" What do you mean, like-" Reya started.
"Possess them? I don't know I was full ghost-mode I guess and I just walked into him and suddenly I could control him. I also figured out that he was the one who set off the explosion." He said.
" How can you tell?" Reya asked.
" Because when I was him-taking over him, I guess, I got all these broken memories. He's one of the power houses for the Vile, but he's pretty dumb. Which is why I don't understand the weird things that the psychic was telling him. It was something like getting the five of us together, because then the Vile would be much stronger than any other gang in Denver."
"That's weird…" Joe said.
"Yeah who is he?" Dominick looked Joe up and down.
" He's a mutant, don't worry. " Violet said.
"And he's not part of any gang." Amanda added.
"Alright…" Dominick said, keeping eye contact for a few more seconds, before turning bac to Reya, who looked like she had an idea.
"What?" Violet asked her.
"Maybe I can get a vision from you," She said, looking at Dominick.
"…It's worth a shot, I guess." Dominick shrugged.
"So…How is this gonna work?" He asked.
"I think I just kind of…" She put her small fingers on his temples, and closed her eyes.
"Anything?" He asked after a few seconds.
" You'll know when it happens." Violet answered for him.
Suddenly, Reya gasped, and stumbled back a few feet.
"What, like that?" He asked.
"Yeah, like that." Violet caught her.
"Well?" Amanda asked, running to her side.
"We need to go to the school. Now."
"What, why?" Violet asked.
"What does that have to do with us being connected?" Amanda asked.
"it doesn't. The vision didn't have to do with that, Max is in trouble."

Violet ran into the gym, Max was on the floor, scooting away from two people, one moderately tall, muscular white guy, and a really pale white girl with short black hair that matched Dominick's description of August and Jay, but Adam was nowhere to be found.
"Violet!" Dominick called, throwing her his knife.
"Nice." She quickly flipped out the blade, and ran down the bleachers.
"Hey!" Violet yelled, as ran up behind August as kicked under his feet, causing him to fall.
"What the…You people!" Jay seethed, clapping her hands together, and taking them away from eachother, creating a spike of ice. She lunged at Violet, and she struck away the ice-spike with the knife.
"Oh, you're the strong one aren't you?" Jay asked, closing her hand into a fist, ice covering her knuckles, she swung at Violet, and she blocked with her arm but cried out as the hard ice smashed into her forearm, Jay kicked her down.
"Take this!" Amanda hit Jay in the back of the head with a broom stick she found in the janitors closet.
"Ow! You bitch." Jay began walking towards her, and Amanda started to back up. She swung again with the broom and Jay used the ice spike to knock it out of her hand, sending it flying several feet.
"Oh, why couldn't I get some kind of power I could fight with?" She asked outloud, tripping, sitting in fear in front of Jay, who was fasting approaching.
"..Wait a minute!" Amanda said, reaching into her purse, pulling out pepper spray and quickly spraying it in Jay's eyes, making her drop the ice spike. Jay screamed out of pain, and covered her eyes, falling to the floor and curling up in agony.
"Violet!" Amanda threw the ice spike to Violet, who held it in the opposite hand from the knife, just as August got up.
He began to charge a red orb of light to throw, when Dominick entered his mind again, causing him to yell in disapproval, suddenly, Dominick was cast out of August's mind, waking up in his body.
"Ughh, What the hell?!" He got up from his spot at the top of the bleachers.
" No one's getting in anyone's mind." Someone said on the other side of the gym, also the at the top of the bleachers.
"Who the hell is that?" Max asked, just now recovering.
"He's Vile's psychic, the one in August's memory! They're prepared this time!" Dominick said, looking at him.
'I hope this does something' Violet thought as she touched the psychic's temples from behind him, focusing on the feeling she gets whenever she gets a vision. The psychic gasped, getting the really powerful vision that Reya got that one morning, about the glass castles. His head throbbed with pain, and he was defenseless as Reya kicked him down the bleacher stairs.
August yelled as he threw two red orbs at Violet. She threw the ice spike directly at one of them, making it explode, but Dominick's knife missed.
"Shit!" Violet exclaimed as she caught it.
" Max! Out the window!" Violet ordered as she threw it at the now-standing Max, who caught it, he made a clone of himself, and ran up the bleachers, a little bit ahead of the original, also-running Max. He threw it to the clone, who threw it out of the open window a mere fraction of a second before it exploded.
With the Psychic unconscious, Dominick quickly controlled, and let go control of August, making him fall over, but not unconscious.
Then there was a gunshot.
They all looked at the door to the most southern part of the gym, the one that let back into the school.
It was Adam, he had shot at the ceiling.
"August, get Jay and Charlie." He commanded.
A dazed August got up and ran to get the unconciouus psychic first, then the weakly-screaming Jay.
"Ah-ah-ah." Adam pointed the gun at Violet just as she was about to lunge for the knife.
"I'm sure they can take you out without me." Violet said, not moving.
"Probably, but after I shoot you, I can shoot myself, but not before making these empty security cameras make it look like dark eyeshadow and long-sleeves over there had a little weekend shooting. They'd believe it, never trust a girl that dyes her hair blue, and afterall, security cameras don't lie. " Adam winked at her.
"Come on." He said, opening the door for August as he carried the two out of the gym.
"Till next times you bite-sized pests." He said, waving the gun around as he exited, following August away.
They all looked at eachother.
"How am I gonna explain that to coach?" Max asked as they looked at the smoking window. They all laughed.
"Come on, let's go before the cameras start working again." Violet said.