Note from Noon: So sorry this is late guys, I lost the paper I'd written it in for a few weeks, but I recently found it so, here it is! Again, sorry for the wait.

Enjoy!

-Noon

For the third time, in a third language, the overhead announcer called, "Now boarding flight A10," over the current stream of business men and women, unaccompanied-minors and their escorts, and the ever popular Cinnabun goers. A catchy yet annoyingly familiar ring sounded. "Now boarding passengers with class A tickets," it continued.

Kaid looked at the three plane tickets. "Phinn, Anna, you two take the two seats beside each other," Kaid instructed and distributed the tickets accordingly.

"How long's this flight?" Anna asked skimming the ticket feverishly. "6 hours?" she exclaimed. "I can't sit next to him for 6 freaking hours?"

"You'll have to make the best of it," Kaid said and put his hands back in his pockets. "If something happens, I want you two to have each other to rely on."

Anna pouted while Phinn put his arm around her waist. At the security cheek, the rent-a-cop saw the three teenagers and motioned for them to step aside. He had all of them do the regular routine; taking off their shoes, hats, coats, basically anything that could be easily removed. Examining each of their physical characteristics was hard enough without the "costume make-up" on. Various blotches of scales around Kaid's face couldn't hide his ethnicity to someone with a trained eye.

The rent-a-cop noticed Kaid had a heavy Korean physical structure, but there was some hint of American blood in him. Phinn's blonde hair made it easy to label him as a German. To many, Anna looked like she could be from any European country, and they'd be right to think so. Anna had no specific ethnicity, and her blue hair and eyes didn't help.

Once they got clearance to move ahead, Phinn went off to find a water fountain while Kaid quickly put his jacket and hat back on and walked about impatiently. Anna waited at the gate in silence, trying not to be noticed. Phinn turned with two bottles of water and sat beside Anna.

"I can't wait to get to Germany," Phinn said with a cherry smiled.

"I just hope the Flock hasn't moved on yet," Anna said with a slight sigh.

Phinn put his water bottles in his lap and comforted Anna with a reassuring arm. "We'll find them, Annie," he attempted to be comforting, but was rewarded with an elbow to the gut. "Ha, sorry, but really, don't worry," he said as he rubbed his stomach to soothe the pain.

Anna put her head on his shoulder as they waited to be called on to board. She and Phinn brightened at the site of Kaid returning with McDonalds. They were about to eat when they were called to board.

They got in line to board. Behind them was an old woman and her nurse. The people in front of them were big, hairy, rugged men. They reminded Kaid of the Erasers from the facility.

Every year, he guessed his birthday, the scientists would run tests on him. They'd usually test his physical endurance by setting Erases lose and letting him run and hide for hours. It was different with all of them. Phinn used to only be able to breathe underwater, but after 18 years of careful experimentation, he can go on land for about two hours without a glass of water. If he stays out longer than that, he'll start to suffocate and eventually die. Anna's was completely different. The scientists used to chain her by her neck to see how much weight she would carry while flying. The chain was necessary to keep her from flying away.

Kaid hated the way they were treated. He wanted to escape from the beginning, but before, he'd always found some rational reason to stay. Then he meet Phinn and Anna, and he knew he couldn't hide behind his excuses anymore. Out of them all, Anna was the youngest and the worst treated. Kaid swore for her sake, he'd get them out. And he did.

He ignored Anna and Phinn's usual banter to listen to the Eraser-like men in front of them.

"What the hell are those bird brats even doing in Germany?" said one at a low growl.

"Some big stuff's going on at Itex," another said a bit calmer. "supposedly the brats started a roit."

The first one scoffed. "Figures."

In the terminal, where the engines were roaring loud, Kaid pulled Anna and Phinn aside and told them what he'd heard from the now undeniably real Erasers.

"They really are in Germany!" Anna shouted loud enough for only Kaid and Phinn could hear. She was obviously excited. Quite unusual for her normal pessimistic self.

"They may be moving, Anna. Don't get your hopes up," Kaid reminded her. Anna's smile lessened causing Phinn to think fast.

"We'll find them, "he said with a gentle smile.

"Hey keeds! Get your butts on ze plane!" one of the Russian stewardess yelled at the three of them. She shut and locked the door behind them.

The takeoff and beginning safety guidelines went by without a hitch. Anna seemed relaxed, but the boys, being comfortable with ground and below-ground heights, were fidgeting. Anna's bird genes made her so at ease it was almost like she was dead.

"Is she passed out?" Kaid asked through the space between Phinn and Anna's seats. Phinn nudged her a bit and she collapsed on his shoulder. Phinn looked back to Kaid and nodded.

"Good, lets talk," Kaid said plainly then looked to the heavily medicated elderly woman beside him. Her hurgle let him know she was too sedated by morphine to understand them.

"What about?" Phinn asked without moving, as not to disturb Anna.

"She's been passing out a lot more frequently lately, don't you think?"

"She's probably just stressed because we're so close to finding them."

"Well maybe, but you've also been drinking a lot more water too."

"Well, yeah, but-"

"AND I've been going into hibernation. That's never happened before."

"What's your point, Kaid?"

"It's a theory… but I think our powers are starting to get out of control and the scientists at the facility knew that."

"So?"

"They were trying to fix that before we…" Kaid took a moment to collect his thoughts, review the evidence, and come to the same conclusion that he'd been thinking about since he saw an Eraser drop dead for the first time.

"Before we what?" Phinn asked. He turned around to face Kaid, letting Anna's limp body fall to his chest. Phinn gave a look to Kaid, letting him know he had his full attention.

"Before we… expire."