Sorry it has been so long since I have updated! Finals are FINALLY done, and it is summer! I only have today and tomorrow to update a lot, because I have a trip to the mountains for the rest of the week. If you would like another update, please review! I want to know what you think of this! Do you like it? If you are reading this, please do review! Tell me if you hate it or like it! 3

"No," Iggy snapped after Max had explained the plan. "No."

"I don't like this either," Max replied, her voice hoarse and cold. "It's the only thing that could ever work."

I just sat there, not daring to move. I didn't know what to think. I didn't know what to do. I had to do this. I just hadn't expected it to be so…painful. I looked at them, waiting for them to pay attention to me again. They were all arguing with each other, and I was the cause of it.

Maybe it had been a mistake to come here. I had overestimated myself. I was only causing problems. I became dizzy but shook it away. I was strong enough to do this. I was going to save the world. Their voices rose with irritation.

"Quiet!" I finally demanded with my voice shaking. They all looked at me, shocked by my outburst. I couldn't have just sat there and let them decide this for me. "I'm doing it." I refused to overthink this. If I thought anymore, I would become a coward and run away. I would not do that.

Iggy stood still, and I wondered what he was thinking. His face was expressionless. He took a deep breath and I knew he was going to admit defeat. He saw the bigger picture, just like I did. I was going to get hurt trying to save the world. It was a sacrifice worth making. Even Iggy knew that.

"We need to find a place to put her," Angel spoke up. She smiled faintly, "I know just where she should go." I would be alone again. I would be leaving Iggy, even though I had just found him. "We need to get going now. If Elyse doesn't come out within 10 minutes, the erasers are coming in."

Angel sat down and whispered, "I'm going to contact someone who will take her there. There will be someone there who will do the rest." She made eye contact with me. I hated it when she did that. Her eyes pierced my soul. She seemed a million years old. I appreciated the life I used to have. I had hated staying one place. I had always wanted to leave. Angel didn't have a home to come back to after she traveled. The only parental figures she had ever known were Max and Fang.

I walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.

"Better take it in, you won't recognize yourself the next time," Iggy spoke up. I jumped, wondering how he had known what I was doing. I touched my clear complexion, and wondered what I would look like with bruises. He came up behind me and reached out and stroked my hair. "I bet you're beautiful."

I shook my head, "I'm plain." I stared at the mirror, taking myself in. Red hair. Green eyes. Tan skin. I let out a sigh, "I'm scared."

"We all are," Iggy replied, but it was a lie. They were not scared. They were nervous that this plan wouldn't work, but not scared. They didn't get scared. Not even Iggy knew what it was like to be afraid anymore. He was immune to it.

"It's time to go," Angel said and Iggy quickly left the bathroom. He did not say goodbye. Angel walked in and looked at me. "You are beautiful. He likes you." She smiled, "If he was a normal boy, he'd love you."

But he wasn't a normal boy. I wasn't a normal girl. I would never get to experience my junior prom, have my first real boyfriend, or have a carefree day. My life was over. I didn't feel alive anymore. I felt like I was on autopilot, only doing what I felt like I needed to do. I didn't matter anymore. Everyone else mattered. I was nothing.

Max handed me a hat, trench coat and a scarf. Nudge pulled up my hair into a bun and delicately placed the hot on my head. I slid my body into the warm trench coat and wrapped the scarf around my neck. I didn't look in the mirror. I didn't look like me.

"When you get outside, there will be a black car waiting for you. Get in the back. It will take you somewhere. Go inside. Make yourself at home. You won't have any contact with anyone. We will come get you when we're ready," Max told me. I stiffly nodded and looked around the room. Iggy was not around. I refused to let that upset me too much.

I left the hotel, got in the black car, and drove away.

The plan was simple, but painful. I would disappear. The mayor would think I was dead. I would reappear suddenly, bruised and bloody, and tell the mayor that there was a society of experiments who knew his plan and were going to ruin it. He would believe me, be distracted, and then Max's gang would strike.

It seemed like a good plan. Foolproof, almost. Yet, I would literally have to disappear and become isolated from the outside world. We could not risk me being found. I would have to return weak and bruised. I didn't like that part either. I would have to be hurt.

As the black car pulled away, the hotel suddenly exploded. The car jerked forward, and debris fell from the sky. I looked out the window and saw figures flying away. Of course, Max hadn't told me the whole plan. They had something else on their mind too.

The man driving the black car wore a black hat, and a black suit. He did not look at me. He just drove. There were sirens and screams as the hotel disintegrated. My cell phone rang and I rolled down the window and threw it out. The mayor had to think I was dead.

The caffeine left my body, and I fell into a deep sleep.

"You're a liar," the mayor screamed in my face. I was strapped to a chair, in front of an angry fire. I was covered in blood and I could not find a voice to speak. I was trembling and scared. Yet, I was quiet. "Tell me where they are!"

The mayor pulled out a knife and held it to my neck. "I will find them, and they will die."

I choked on a sob, and didn't say a word. I could not betray them. I was too strong to give into the mayor.

The mayor let out a laugh, "It's not like it matters. This town will be destroyed tomorrow, and every weak person in this world will be dead by the end of the weak. There is nothing anyone can do."

If I hadn't been in so much pain, I would have been proud. I had fooled him. The plan had worked, even if it hadn't gone right. The original plan had been thrown out the window months ago, when I had been found in isolation.

The mayor cut into my throat and I let out a cry. I was going to die. I had gone this far, and now it was over. I wouldn't get to see Max and Iggy save the world.

Oh, Iggy, I thought desperately. Help me. But he couldn't hear me. He was away, doing something more important than saving me. He was saving the world. Max was angry with him. The plan had gone awry because of him. Because of us.

Blood trickled down my throat and then the mayor looked into my eyes. "You know how strong you are. You know your powers. Such a shame you will never use them." He pushed the chair back and flames engulfed me.

I woke up, not able to breathe. My heart was pounding.

I had just seen the future.

I knew it.