Kihonne: Alright guys! What's up? Time to find out which character I took out this time, huh? You all had really good guesses – let's see if any of you were right. But first, shoutout time.

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Labgirl2001: Vivyanna? Good guess. As for Rhyder and S-1, you have to remember – Rhyder's injured and Maybank and his soldiers had a head start. It's gonna take a while for them to get there.

Candycanelila: Okay, I'm going to tell you now – it's not Alex. Vivyanna though…maybe. Don't worry about the freak out – I do the same thing to my fave readers.

Dirtkid123: Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. But I do need to kill some people.

PrincessSparkleKitty: Oh, they will lose someone, and I promise you that it's definitely not the last death you guys will see before the story's over. Anyway, I hope you enjoy, and tell your sister to have a very happy birthday.

Humannusscriptor: Vivyanna? I guess we'll have to see.

Clarity665: You make good points, and that would be an emotional moment if I killed Roxy and left Vivyanna to grieve. Anyway, enjoy!

Tor Raptor: Thank you very much. You had good guesses about who's going to die (Vivyanna seems to be the popular choice) but you're going to have to read to find out. Anyway, enjoy!

AllAmericanSlurp: Wow, everyone seems to be guessing Vivyanna. Both her and Alex are good guesses, but you'll have to read to find out.

Alamodie: I'm afraid I have to.

Guest: THANKS!

Guest: Yes, I am evil. Thank you for noticing. Good guess, but you'll have to read to find out. I hope you enjoy the chapter.

UrFriendTheNinja: How can I do this to you? Because it's kinda fun. But don't worry – the wait is over. Time to see who done for.

Snooptastic: I'm glad the cliffhanger made you think. That is what I'm trying to do, after all. All are good guesses, and I think you're right that Rhyder and S-1 need to hurry. Thanks for the props, but to be completely honest, I'm only being so vague location-wise because I've never been to New York in my life. Google Maps help, but really, I'm making it up as I go. But you make some very good points as to who it could be. Most people would never have even considered that their location could be key to figuring out who was killed, and the location was a key factor in my decision. And yes, the tunnel is at the outskirts, but remember – Leo was at the police station. They were all going to meet for him there. So he was probably closer to the center of the city than anyone else. And you make a good point about Vivyanna and the smoke – I will be bringing the smoke inhalation up again. I'm glad you enjoyed Leo's line, and Vivyanna's point of view. I was actually worried that people would dislike her for pointing out that fact. And the more people they lose, the more grief and pain the others are going to feel. As for Chase, you should question his motives. A lot of this story is setting things up for the future, and there's going to be a big event (not necessarily a death, but maybe) that changes everything for everyone, and Chase is going to have a big part in that. I'm not promising that he'll survive until the third story, I'm just saying that his anger will have a big affect on how things play out. And you are very welcome for making you analytical.

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Kihonne: Alright, now since he's one of the only people we know for sure isn't dead…Marcus, take it away!

Marcus: Kihonne doesn't own lab rats. She only owns her OCs, this story, and anything else you do not recognize.

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Chase's POV

"I'm alright." That was Bree, sounding a little rattled, but unhurt.

"Did you guys see that?" Alex demanded.

"Is anyone hurt?" Roxanna questioned, her tone slightly panicky.

"Oh my God…" Vivyanna's voice was hushed with horror.

Four different voices, all shocked and stunned, checked in. That accounted for six of us…out of seven.

"Leo?" I demanded pleadingly. Please, please, please let me not have lost another brother. "Leo, answer me!"

"Chase…that explosion…" Vivyanna hesitantly said. "I think…Chase, it was the police station."

"No." I shook my head, not wanting to believe it. "No, it can't be."

"I'm not very far. I can see the…well, the remains. It's still burning." She informed me. "Chase, it's bad. Really bad."

No, this couldn't be happening. I mean, Leo was at the police station with Mr. Davenport. Could they have really blown up the police station? Could my step-brother and my father really be…

"Vivyanna, get to them. NOW!" I didn't even realize that I was speaking until I shouted that final word. I barely heard Vivyanna's response as I started running in the direction of the police station. It wasn't long before I could see smoke. I just prayed that I hadn't lost another member of my family.

Vivyanna's POV

"Leo? Kid!" I shouted, pushing my way into the destroyed police station.

What was once a two story government building was now a one story wreck. One wall was completely demolished, two others partially gone, and one miraculously still standing. The roof of the building completely gone. Fragments of the ceiling/second floor hung loosely off the remaining walls, looking as if they were going to fall any second. The first floor was pretty much demolished, the remains of desks and broken bodies. You'd figure that the bodies, bloodied and burnt, would be the worst part. But it was actually the shadow-like figures painted on the walls. I knew from history class (and maybe watching too many movies) that they were the only remains of those who'd been completely obliterated by the explosion. The only signs of their death.

"Leo…Davenport!" I coughed lightly, the thick smoke in the air starting to get to me. Suddenly, I stumbled over a body. A familiar body.

"Oh no…" I whispered, recognizing Donald Davenport even with the ash and soot covering his face. "Sir?" Even before I knelt down to check his pulse, I knew he was gone. I let out a sigh, not feeling even the slightest twitch beneath my fingers.

I coughed again, my lungs starting to ache a little. Man, I hated smoke. Looking around, I realized that I couldn't see Leo's body. Just some broken columns, mostly disintegrated desks, and bodies that could not have belonged to a sixteen year old boy. I was just starting to think that he'd been one of the shadows when I heard a soft groan coming from my left.

"L-Leo?" I got to my feet, stumbling towards the source of the sound.

"H-Help!" Came the weak response. "Vivy-anna, help…"

"Leo…" I fell to my knees next to the boy. He was alive (thank God) but clearly injured. He was lying on his back, one leg twisted in the wrong direction. A broken leg, I could deal with. But the fact that his left arm was pinned under a large column made things difficult. "Are…" I coughed roughly, "…you okay?"

"What d-do you th-think?" Well, if he still had his sense of humour, then he probably wasn't on his death bed yet. "My..My arm's pinned un-under…underneath the beam…" He coughed weakly, eyes slightly glassy from the pain.

"Right. Give me a…give me a sec." I stood up, trying to pull the beam up. But I couldn't catch my breath, the thing had to weigh at least two hundred pounds, and my hands kept slipping on what I hoped wasn't Leo's blood.

"Vivy…" Leo whimpered, raising his head for a second before it fell back against the ground. "H-help."

"T-tryin'…" I released the beam, coughing violently into my elbow. I couldn't breathe at this point. I needed fresh air, I needed oxygen period, but if I didn't get Leo out of here ASAP, he'd die. "L-Leo…" I fell to my knees, unable to lift the beam. My head was starting to spin, the lack of oxygen making my vision go blurry.

"Vivyanna!" Distantly, I heard a male voice call my name. I felt someone haul me to my feet and start to drag me away.

"L-Leo…!" I managed to gasp out, trying to fight against whoever was pulling me out of the smoke filled building.

"Relax, we've got him." I was assured just as I was pushed into the fresh air. Whoever was dragging me let go and I fell to my hands and knees, gasping for breath. My eyes closed as I gulped greedily at the clean air, trying hard to expel the smoke from my lungs.

There was a soft thud next to me second later, and another voice joined the first. "He needs medical attention, and fast." This voice was female.

"I know, but I'm pretty sure the hospital's a little overwhelmed." The first voice was back, and as my head cleared, I realized that I knew that voice.

"You're right. Not to mention, Mr. Maybank might target it too, if he thinks you guys might go there." The female replied.

"Vivyanna?" There was suddenly a hand on my shoulder. "Hey, you alright? You hurt?"

I raised my head, eyes widening when I saw the boy's face. "R-Rhyder?"

Chase's POV

"Chase, wait up!" I heard Roxanna's voice from behind Marcus and I as we ran, but I didn't slow down. I had to get to the police station, had to make sure my family was alright.

"If we walk down there, if we walk into that fight, I promise you that at least some of us won't be walking out." Vivyanna's words kept echoing around my head. It wasn't fair, it wasn't right. If we'd never had these powers, if no one had ever had any powers, this wouldn't have happened. If the world was freaking normal, if no one in the world had enhanced abilities, or bionics, or powers, none of this would have happened. This whole fight, the Facility, they would never have existed.

"Over there!" Marcus' voice dragged me out of my thoughts. He pointed towards a smoking building, four figures sitting a ways away from it. Two of the figures were on the ground, the other two kneeling next to them with their backs turned to us.

"Guys!" I shouted, running towards them. I recognized Leo's body lying on the ground with a dark haired girl above him, holding his arm with both hands. Vivyanna was beside them, on her hands and knees. At the sound of my voice, her gaze pulled away from the boy in front of her towards me. "Are you alright? Where's…" I broke off, recognizing the boy standing above Vivyanna. "Rhyder?"

He turned to me, smiling slightly. "Hey." He responded. Roxanna, Marcus and I stared at him, confused. We'd thought that Rhyder was dead. We thought he was gone. But here he was.

We only froze for a second before Roxanna was tackling him in a hug and Marcus was skidding to the ground beside Leo. "How…I don't…" I stammered, walking towards Rhyder. He shrugged.

"Long story. I'll tell you later, but now's not the time." He told me. I nodded, then looked at Leo and Vivyanna.

"Are you guys alright?" I demanded. Vivyanna shook her head, gasping slightly, then jerked her head at Leo. I knelt next to him, feeling sick to my stomach. His leg was obviously broken, and his arm looked like it'd been through a meat grinder. There was so much blood, so much torn muscle that it hardly resembled a human arm. "Leo…"

"'m okay…" He mumbled, his voice slurred from exhaustion and pain. Suddenly, there was a large breeze, the sound of footsteps coming from behind us.

"Guys!" "Wait…Rhyder?" Alex and Bree both exclaimed, skidding to a stop.

"Yeah, I'm here. I'm okay." Rhyder told them.

"Leo? Is he okay?" Bree demanded. "And who's she?"

I looked at the girl kneeling in front of Leo, her hands holding a sweater to on Leo's wound. She glanced up at us, not taking the pressure off the furiously bleeding wound. "Doesn't matter."

"She's S-1. She helped me escape." Rhyder explained. The girl didn't comment on that.

"Listen, do you know anyone with medical training?" S-1 didn't bother with formalities, instead getting straight to the point. "Because he needs help, and I don't think hospitals are an option for us."

"For us? We hardly know you." Roxanna pointed out. She was sitting next to Vivyanna, one hand on her sister's back. Though she was no longer wheezing, the pyrokinetic still made no move to get up.

"Hey. She's on our side, I promise." Rhyder stepped in. "I wouldn't be alive right now if it weren't for S-1. She betrayed the army to help us."

I glanced at him, then at S-1. "Why can't we bring him to a hospital?" I asked calmly. Rhyder was going to give us a full explanation later, but right now, my brother was my number one concern.

"Because they might be targeting them." S-1 answered. When we all looked at her, she quickly continued. "Look, getting rid of the police and fire departments was the first part of their strategy, but they know you're a threat too. And if they think you'll got to a hospital because you're hurt, they'll take out the entire building to get rid of you."

"Why are we so important? How do they even know about us?" Bree demanded. She looked at Rhyder. "Why'd they kill my brother?"

"I'm so sorry about Adam. I am." Rhyder looked at us. "But it's not S-1's fault. It's Maybank's."

"He's back?" Vivyanna's voice was raspy, but strong and angry. Good, she was dangerous when angry.

"Yeah. And this is all his doing." Rhyder informed us. I bit back a curse. Of course it would be him. We should have gotten rid of him a long time ago, but we were ignorant and stupid and we believed that he would just leave us alone. I glanced back at Leo, who was quickly paling and wouldn't be able to stay conscious for much longer.

"Uh, Sarah!" I snapped my fingers, remembering how she patched me up back at the Facility. "Yeah, Sarah. She can help."

"When I called her earlier, she said that she was bringing her sister to the school. Apparently, a woman named Terry Perry is setting up a trauma center there. Not many people know about it, so Maybank may not think to target it." Alex offered. I nodded.

"Good, that's good." I agreed. I looked at Bree, knowing that Alex was neither big enough nor strong enough to carry Leo. "Can you bring him? And tell Perry that if she doesn't make sure he's taken care of, she'll have to deal with me?"

Bree almost smirked, recognizing it as something Adam would say if any of us were hurt. She knelt down, pulling our baby brother into her arms, and was gone in the blink of an eye. I looked at S-1.

"Thank you. We really appreciate this." I told her. She nodded.

"Well, I'm pretty sure Mr. Maybank's going to dispose of us even if we win, so I'd rather go down fighting for the good guys than the bad ones." She replied. I stood up, holding my hand out to Vivyanna.

"Are you okay, Vivy?" I asked gently. She nodded, clearing her throat before letting me help her up.

"It's Vivyanna." She corrected, entwining our fingers and squeezing my hand slightly. Her way of telling me that everything was going to be okay. "Chase…your dad…"

"I figured." I stopped her, feeling my throat close up. I held the pain and tears in though, knowing that there would be time to grieve later. He would be pretty disappointed in me if I let my feelings get in the way of completing a mission and saving people. I took a deep breath, ignoring the shakiness in it. "We need a plan, because mine isn't going as well as I thought it would."

Rhyder and S-1 exchanged glances. "I think we can help with that."

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Kihonne: You guys all see where I'm going with the whole arm thing, don't you? Bionic Leo! We might not see his powers this story – there's only three or four chapters left – but we will be seeing them in the future. Anyway, sorry that there was really no action this chapter. But next chapter, we get to see one pretty epic showdown, so it'll make up for it. Anyway, I'll see you all on the 15th of May. Until then, review!