Chapter Thirteen

Third Person POV

No one noticed the visitor slip in because there was no one conscious enough to see him. He glanced at the Flock girls on the couch surrounded by the ones called the Cullens and Blacks, all unconscious thanks to the high potent fumes that he had his men leak into the air system. The ones who owned this house took longer than the others to finally fall victim to the spray, but they too were no match for it.

But the man paid them no mind; he was here for one thing only. Arian Ride, the greatest experiment ever.

It only took one minute for his men to return downstairs with the child, though he frowned when he noticed that they had not one, but two unconscious children in their arms.

"What is the meaning of this!" The leader yelled. "I told you to grab the boy. Who is the other kid?"

"Well…sir, we only had a picture to go on." Serenity said, her mechanical voice sounding oddly soothing. But that was the point of its creation, after all. "These children both fit the description."

"We can't return with two boys!" The leader growled furiously. "Find out which one is the right one and lets leave! We have a deadline to keep!"

The leader walked towards the van and got in the front seat next to Maria. "Idiots." She mumbled, watching as Serenity and Gremlin argued over which of the nearly identical boys was in fact the one that they'd been sent to capture.

Gremlin heard the noise first, his enhanced hearing far more advanced than his robot partner's. He was the muscles in an operation as well as the lookout because he was built as a huge, bulky fighter with heightened senses.

The sound was quiet at first but became louder as more of them started waking up. It was the Cullens; all eight of them golden eyed and angry when they saw that Gremlin and Serenity had the two most important boys in the house; Will and Arian.

Gremlin panicked and ran to the car, grabbing both babies since he was the fastest of the two. He didn't bother to wait for his partner since capture was almost inevitable. Instead, the leader sped off down the highway while the Cullens were still too drug induced to move. Sure, they could open their eyes and see what was going on around them, but they were still paralyzed, the drug was just that powerful.

If the leader had been thinking, he would have noticed that there was something strange about the Cullens; the gorgeous humans who woke up way too soon. But, as it was, the leader was too focused on dealing with the problem at hand.

"Lift up their shirts." The leader commanded and stared at a confused Gremlin. He clenched his teeth when he didn't get a response. "Check for which one has wings, you moron."

"The description did mention black wings with brown spots." Maria stated. "How could you be so stupid and forget that fact?"

Gremlin shook his head, too confused by her bluntness to understand what she meant. He lifted up the shirt of the first baby and frowned when he didn't see the wings they were talking about. He tried the next one and had better luck; wings.

"What are we going to do with the other one, boss?" Gremlin asked, staring at their leader even though his back was turned to him.

"We aren't doing anything." The leader said and Maria got the hint.

"Let me see the babies." She said sweetly, using her knowledge about Gremlin's crush to her advantage. Once the kids were safely in her arms, Leader slammed on the brakes and Gremlin's head hit the back of her seat with a loud thud.

She pushed the boys in the leader's arms before opening the back door and shoving a semi-unconscious Gremlin out the door and on to the wooded ground. "Whaaaa-?" was his last response before Maria pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest for good measure.

"Sorry, Grem," Maria said semi-sweetly, "but you were just too much of an imbecile to work with us any longer. Just a big screw-up from the start…"

She closed the back door and signaled to Leader to continue to their destination. The moment they were back on the road, she hit the SCRAM button on the dashboard and smiled in satisfaction. No one would be able to find them now.

The SCRAM button did many things; blocked cell phone towers nearby, hid the van from public suspicion by making it invisible to anyone without the D-4 gene, and messed up the scent of anyone in it just for good measure. The last one was a precaution against hound dogs.

"How's it feel to be a Mommy now? Two sons and none of the stretch marks, you're a lucky woman, Max II." The leader teased and Maria glared at Arian and the other boy.

"I am not their mother! No matter whose DNA I share!" Max II growled. "And my name is Maria. My days as 'Max II' are long gone. I chose my name years ago."

What Maria failed to mention were three important things.

1) The fact that she had her own child so she didn't need to play babysitter to these two boys. She had kept this fact hidden from her co-workers at all costs, afraid that they would take her away as another experiment.

2) The fact that underneath her cold exterior, she truly loved her precious little girl; Anastasia Ride (for lack of a better last name).

And 3) she just shot Annie's father.

AN: Aaaaaaahhhhhhh! The School (or at least some of its' former members) are back and have kidnapped Arian Ride and Will Black. Can the families get them back before it is too late? Where are Maria and the leader going? And who exactly is the leader, anyway? Someone we know…? Review with your guesses :)