So lets say, being the lucky person that I am, I happened to open the one door that opened onto a stairwell full of erasers out to get me, yeah that would be crazy right? Well guess what folks, its a crazy world 'cause that's exactly what happened.

So to make a long and potentially embarrassing story short, I got caught, taken to a dark cell, and they locked me in (there was some fighting in there, but I'd rather not mention that because I got rather severely whupped).

"Get in there, I'll be back for you." Said the eraser who was dumping me in my cell. Yeah, I said eraser, I guess the higher ups wanted some minions who could actually think, not altogether an improvement from the fly boys I must say.

"Hello Max." I froze. "Fancy seeing you here." I turned to see Gabriel occupying one of the two cots in the cell.

"Hello freak face."

"Look who's talking."

"Look who's dying."

"What? Who?"

"You, as soon as I stepped into this cell, you began to die a very slow and painful death. Because of you and your brother I have had my entire life turned upside down." I glared at him and cracked my knuckles.

"Look Max, I think you're under the impression that I'm working with the government or someone."

"Or someone," I said, thinking of Fang.

"Who do you think I'm working with?" Said Gabriel curiously.

"Oh I don't know, maybe your brother!" Gabriel smiled.

"Somehow, I don't think you'd think that'd be a good thing." I glared at him silently. "Why is that?"

I looked away and sighed. "Fang is one of the few people that... Nothing. I don't want to talk about him." Gabriel looked as though he was about to ask more but he closed his mouth and sat up.

"Here's the deal. I need you to trust me, and to do that I'm going to have to tell you some things." I watched him silently, waiting for the big revelation.

"I was a test tube baby. Born and bred in the school, never even saw another child. The scientists bred me to be theirs, on their side, doing their work, thinking their thoughts. One of the reasons they gave me my power was to help them find out who was their enemy or not. I guess they never thought I could turn out to be the one they had to watch out for. Anyway, I grew up in the labs, and as soon as I was old enough, I began to watch. I watched and gathered information, I needed ammunition against the people who had stolen my life. It got a little complicated when the government got involved, they were much more attuned to treachery but I got past them. Of course I had never really done anything to oppose them, I had always done what they told me until you." Gabriel paused and turned his dark eyes on me. I was silent, waiting for him to continue.

"The thing about my power is that the future can change. I saw two possibilites for when you killed Brachton. Either you killed him or..." He stopped, his eyes closed.

"Or what!" I sat forward on the cot. "Tell me!"

"Or we all die, all the mutants, everyone. You see, Brachton is the head of the government school alliance. The government wasn't really sure whether they wanted to get involved or if they wanted to shut the school down. Brachton was the man who campaigned to get the government involved. He was the one who wanted to take the testing to the next level. If you kil Brachton then you shut down everything, the school, the scientists, everything. Don't you see how important this is Max?"

"You know that doctor you saw when you first woke up? He created the neuro-simulator. The machine the scientists use to mess with our brains. He tested it on himself when he was first creating it and some things went a little awry so he's kind of loopy. Those are the kind of things the school is working on now, weapons, things to mess with your brain. It has to be stopped!" Gabriel stood and crossed the room, kneeling in front of me. His face was desperate and hard in a scary way.

"Why should I believe you Gabriel? You are the brother of the guy who I trusted most in the world before he and my former family destroyed that by turning me over to the very people you claim to hate. What if you're with him? What if I don't want to fight? What if I want to be done?" My voice had steadily climbed in volume till I was shouting.

"You have to fight Max. Not fighting is letting them win. None of us, you Fang, me, your team, none of us can work out our personal issues until these guys are taken down. They took away our lives Max, they took away normalcy and innocence for us. And guess what, they'll keep doing, they'll keep doing it till someone stops them and you can do it, the question is will you? And as for me working with Fang, I never was."

"Why can't you kill Brachton? You must have had millions of opportunities."

Gabriel laughed bitterly. "If I could have, I would have. But I can't. They implanted a chip in me that can send a 2,000 watt volt of electricity straight to my brain if I come within four feet of anyone important. I would be dead before I had even made a fist. They don't let me have guns in the building either, Brachton never sets foot outside, he lives in this building and when he's in transit, he's heavily guarded. He's not stupid, he knows he has enemies."

I stood and walked past Gabriel. I had two choices him, I trusted him and took him at his word, or I didn't. I had no idea how to get out of here with my life and the team. I needed him. The second he turned traitor I could kill him. I turned and faced him.

"Do you know your way around here?" Gabriel nodded.

"Then your going to help me and if you do I just might kill Brachton. The second I think you can't be trusted you'll be dead, got it?"

Gabriel nodded and stood. "Lets get started then."

A/N: Hey people, I hope you liked it. I'm rather busy at the moment so I'm kind of slow on the updates and I can't remember the last time I updated some of my other stories. Oh well, anyway. I'm not sure where this is going to end but I know I'm getting there. I think I might do a sequel, but I don't know. Remember, REVIEWS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND! So review, please? Read on!