Christen watched as a drugged and barely conscious Beca was dragged into the large science room of Xaphans'. Bumper placed her body onto the metallic slab, her arms and legs strapped in securely.

Beca's head rolled around on the table. The figures surrounding her were blurry her eyes foggy from the overdose of sedatives pumped into her body.

Bumper watched her carefully, "Will we need to keep her sedated?"

Xaphan stepped forward, "We'll take care of that." He gestured for the other scientists/doctors to step forward and begin injecting the woman's body with IV wires.

The guilt was already coursing through Christen, watching Beca try and pull away, her attempts were hopeless.

"St-stop…" Beca breathed, feeling weak as the words slipped through her teeth. She of course wasn't in her right mind, the drugs clouding everything.

The scientists stepped away and turned to their own areas writing down and collaborating the systems for testing.

Christen took the small chance and leaned down near her ear, not sure if Beca could even hear her, "Don't lose hope Beca. You're not alone."

Christen pulled back and attached the last wire into Beca's neck, she watched the grey and blue eyes widen a little from her words but were still cloudy from the drugs. Christen only hoped Beca understood her words.

"Everyone if you are ready? We will begin." Xaphan stated.

Everyone gave a nod in acknowledgement, including Christen and watched as Xaphan stepped forwards towards Beca.

Beca could feel something coursing through her vains, making her feel weaker then what she already was and could barely see Xaphan's smiling face as he stood of her.

"You're the key to the future Aurora… let's begin."

"Are we sure this place is secure?"

"Nope. It'll be okay for now…" Amy shot back in reply to Stacie's question.

They had been driving for hours, upon hours. Currently in the state of Ohio they agreed to stop and had let Amy out to scour the small country area for somewhere to stay. Finding an old abandoned farmhouse Amy sniffed around in wolf form to find that there was no trace of human sent only some animals. Confirming that this place would be okay for now.

They had set up in the small home and were sitting around eating at an old table, making seats out of empty paint buckets found and old crates.

All except for Jesse who was making sure that everything with Benji's computer was fine. He had backed up the computer and transferred everything to a laptop Aubrey had. However with no electricity Jesse was careful to not check the computer to often, the battery life was already low.

Jesse was contemplating on whether to check the laptop or not when Aubrey sat down beside him. Looking over to her with a faint smile, of which she returned, Aubrey held out a tin of spaghetti.

"Eat." She told him.

Jesse nodded and took the open tin with a spoon already inside from her hands and had a mouthful of the spaghetti. Aubrey remained silent, her hand resting on his knee whilst he ate from the tin. Aubrey had already taken half of the tin and left the rest for Jesse.

The car ride had been long, silent and full of tension. All of them thinking towards the future and what lay ahead, for what was going to happen. Jesse was the most tense, wanting Beca to be safe, for them all to be safe and for Prism to meet its demise.

Aubrey ran her hand through Jesse's hair, seeing that exact same tense expression. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, thankful for her actions. Turning his head he rested against her forehead both of them taking the moment to try and ease their racing thoughts. Jesse placed the tin on the ground and pecked Aubrey's lips before breaking away from the hold to pick up the laptop.

"I really hope it is Benji…" Aubrey mumbled. Her thoughts going through all of their options and they were slim to none. If Benji was in fact able to go undercover at Prism, that opens all of the options dramatically.

"Me too…" Jesse replied and opened the laptop.

Meanwhile in the other room Stacie was eating from her tin of food, grimacing as she did so whilst Amy spoke of food that she could have gotten for them. They had taken what food they had left from the house and were surviving on that for now.

"Seriously!" Stacie snapped, "We are not eating raw fish!"

Amy scoffed, "Well I would give it to you to cook first…duh. But as I was saying if we were able to get some lemon and pepper make a fire pit out back to cook them on it would be waaaay better then this…" Amy inspected her tin, "Tuna chunks…"

Cynthia nodded and forcibly swallowed another mouthful of her own tins contents, "Not to mention we barely had any desserts and what we did have is already gone." She shot Amy a gaze.

"Woah!...I'm feeling slightly attacked right now" Amy stated with hands in mock surrender, "Besides would you rather my stomach growls or a menacing towering bear?"

Cynthia just shook her head with an unimpressed expression, returning her gaze to her tin.

"Wha!" Amy suddenly eyed the lid of which Stacie was trying to hide.

Stacie's eyes shot up to meet Amy's who was standing from her chair, "Is that… is that a snack pack?…" Amy asked carefully.

Stacie tried to remain neutral in her expression, "No." she quietly returned.

"Either my eyes are lying or you are Diamonds!" Amy pointed a finger towards her, making up the nickname then and there, "And my eyes rarely lie, and my nose never lies. You peel back that lid and I will know, so confess!"

Cynthia rolled her eyes.

"They usually come in pairs… I only saw one." Amy noted aloud.

Stacie's eyes quickly gazed to Cynthia before going back to Amy.

"NO!" Amy stated and turned towards Cynthia.

Cynthia sat forward on her crate, "You ate all of them! We had to sneak some tactics in to save ourselves one."

"Yeahh but… it's a snack pack." Amy turned back to Stacie, "I'll trade."

Stacie scoffed, "With what? Raw fish?"

Amy scowled, "I won't turn into a bear and destroy you."

Stacie stood from the paint bucket, "For a fucking snack pack?!"

"One does not take a snack pack lightly, it's something that comments well after a meal is had… what are you willing to do to keep it? Amy asked, adding "And don't think of doing your jedi mind trick, that won't work on me."

Stacie stepped back and quickly peeled the lid off bringing the container to her lips. Amy was quick in her steps, so quick Stacie's eyes had widened in surprise, a quick swipe through the air and the snack pack had disappeared from her hands.

Amy turned around ready to claim the snack pack but Stacie placed a hand on her shoulder, her tone dropped, "Amy… you're really not hungry for a snack pack… you were just thinking of giving it to me."

Cynthia smirked and watched, eager to see if Amy would fall for the commands.

Amy turned and with dopey eyes she nodded holding out the dessert to Stacie, "I'm not really hungry…would you like my dessert Stacie?"

"Why yes I would Amy! Thank you." Stacie beamed and took the container.

Amy fell from the spell to watch Stacie already eating the dessert, "Noooooo!" she whined in defeat.

Stacie smiled whilst Cynthia chuckled.

All of their attention went to Aubrey and Jesse who ran into the room.

"What?" Cynthia asked.

"We need to leave. Now." Jesse replied.

Aubrey stepped forward, "It is Benji…" she breathed, "and we are going to the main building of operations."

"Is that where they are holding Beca?" Stacie questioned.

Jesse nodded, but then took a step into the room, "Listen… there is a plan in the works here which we will discuss along the way… but if any of you don't want to join… now is the time to back out. I won't blame you. I know this is scary but-but this is our chance. Prism has something much larger in the works than any of us had thought. It's not just people like us that are in danger… it's everyone."

"I'm with you." Aubrey quickly stood forward.

The other girls looked to each other with reassuring nods and stood.

"I'm ready to serve some payback." Amy voiced.

"I'm with you." Cynthia added.

"Oh you know I'm in." Stacie stated with a smirk.

Jesse smiled at them all, "Let's get packed up and get to the car. We have a long drive ahead of us."

"Actually…" Aubrey suddenly interjected, "I might just have a connection that can get us there. We've already been on the road for hours, everyone take an hour to rest and give me that time to sort this out." She reached into her back pocket for her phone, having half of the battery power left she walked into a different room to make a call.

Bumper stood idle watching the experiments continue on Aurora who would often scream in pain from the shocks passing through her body. They had also extracted blood from the subject of which he watched the woman scientist whose name was Christen take the sample over to a science set up of some kind to test the blood.

They had finished with Aurora after a few hours, and Xaphan decided to call it for the day. He would not press his luck on this subject, in no way would he want to jeopardize this for his master. Best that he give Aurora some time to recuperate and begin with more experiments late tomorrow.

Bumper's walked aimlessly around the room and kept an eye on everything, specifically Aurora. His eyes however soon picked up on a small test vial, which was a dark purple colour and labeled 'Extrication-A29'. Bumper had been informed of this experiment but was astounded to see that it may have been created.

Bumper returned his attention to Xaphan who gestured he come over to him. He did and they stood beside Aurora who was still barely conscious, her face pale and lips a bluely purple. Even her eye colour appeared to be slightly more grey than blue.

"You can return Aurora to her cell." Xaphan told him.

"I will but first…" Bumper started, and directed their eye line to the vial on Xaphan's desk.

"What about it?" Xaphan asked.

"I want to be the one." Bumper simply stated. His memory of who had thrown him against a tree whilst trying to exact his revenge on Aubrey left him wanting payback, moreover he didn't trust the redhead.

"I'm sorry Allen but it's not yet ready. Not yet perfected-"

"Xaphan if you have a moment these numbers aren't aligning to the original results." A male scientist interrupted.

Xaphan turned and nodded at the scientist, "Very well I'm coming." he began walking but stopped and turned to Bumper, "Take her back to her cell. The drugs will hold until you throw her back in."

Bumper nodded and turned to some of the scientists, "Unstrap Aurora from this table now." He ordered.

A couple of them stepped forward and tended to the task, meanwhile Bumper took the chance to sneakily move back to Xaphan's desk. Many vials lined the desk but he was only focused on Extrication. There were a few vials containing the label and Bumper slipped one into his back pocket before one of the scientists looked to him.

"What?" Bumper challenged.

The scientist was taken back by his tone and gestured to Aurora having completed the task, "Y-you can take her away now."

"About time." Bumper huffed and taking Aurora he placed her into a wheelchair, locking her arms into the restraints before wheeling her out.

Christen watched Beca be taken from the room and the deep string of pain and guilt only surged further throughout. She was disgusted with what she has been apart of. Since Christopher and herself were hired to work for Prism they had thought the offer a great chance in reaching out to their son, to help those struggling with abilities to be free of them. Christen would be lying if in the beginning she was also intrigued to run tests on those with abilities, but had quickly changed her mind. Everything they were to do to these special people made her sick. Her husband Christopher had tried to expose the company.

X

"Christopher we are going to be caught." Christen tried to reason with him.

"I can't keep doing this Chrissy… what we are doing to these people it's-it's wrong. So completely wrong."

"I-I know b-but…"

He placed his hands on her forearms to calm her shaking, "What would Benji think of us?"

Christen chocked back a sob at the mention of their son, "I-I'm just so scared Chris…"

"I am too… but I've already placed the backup plan in certain areas of the building."

She stepped closer to hug him, she strained to keep her voice low, "You did what?!"

"It's what needs to happen Christen." He placed a kiss on her head.

"When?" she asked.

"Soon."

They had continued on for a few days, with Christopher collecting more and more information to expose Prism of its heinous crimes. However Christopher was never able to see through their plan. Taking full responsibility when he had been caught. The order was sent down from Abaddon to dispose of the scientist.

Christen watched as her husband was dragged away. Christopher had given her the subtlest of looks telling her many things; to be strong, to not give up –for their son, and that he loved her.

They found no ties to Christen and she had denied all involvement. This too was part of the plan if one of them were to be caught. It had to be this way, to carry on the hope for taking down this organization. Christen was emotionally drained from having placed her façade on. Not once did she shed a tear or break character when she spoke negatively of her husband when questioned. She scared herself with how well she had portrayed her character, of what she turned into. Driving the nail further home that this company must pay.

However Christen found herself frozen with fear every time an opportunity presented itself. Subtly she continued to tamper with results and the serums gathered from experiments. But it wasn't until she was blessed with reconnecting with her son that had brought some strength back into her spine. To do more and devise a plan with her son.

X

Barely conscious, Beca's tired eyes drifted open to see the many random faces of those in cells pass her by as she was taken back to her own cell. The moving motion was stopped as Bumper spoke through his earpiece for the guards to open up Aurora's cell.

In this time Beca's eyes widened in recognition of who the woman was that was staring at her from one of the cells.

I've seen her in my dreams…

"Lily?…" Beca quietly mouthed, still feeling the drain of what her body had just been put through.

The woman's expression was grim and only gave a weak nod.

Beca tried to stay focused on the woman but her head lulled back, and once again she was moving. Bumper threw her into the cell and the door automatically shut as he stepped out. Beca attempted to move but her body did not comply, instead she groaned from the intense ache her body would reply with her useless efforts.

Beca hadn't noticed till now of something gripping her wrist. Gulping her saliva in hopes of it helping her dry mouth and sore throat, she shifted her head to the side and lifted her arm to see an ID wristband. Similar to a hospital wristband. She squinted to try and read it but couldn't muster the energy. She was drained as her head lulled back against the cement once more.

Sitting at the computer still trying to register everything that her eyes had seen and read from the files that had been given to her, Chloe felt her entire stomach clench. She felt violently ill. Chloe chocked back a sob as her thoughts spanned from her past, her mission, the family of specials, her father, and Beca.

Chloe's eyes snapped back up to the computer screen as a private codded message came through.

||You and I need to talk||/98||Along with this information,&%87 I know of your vendetta.921||\\We are running out of time][||and there is something much larger in the works – which you have now seen.||\\&

Chloe cupped a hand to her mouth, again processing the message. Placing her fingers to the keyboard to try and reply she stopped seeing another message.

/||Open your door||\\

Chloe's eyes went to the door and she pushed the chair back from standing so quickly. Carefully she went over to her door and peered out the small hole only to see the opposite door across the hallway.

Inhaling to calm her nerves, readying herself to perhaps see Doctor Platt, she opened the door. Chloe was shocked by the small figure that moved right past her into the room and shut the door behind them. Chloe felt her power surging through her to stop this intruder, but faltered in seeing who it was.

"Benji?" She whispered in shock.

Benji's expression was hardened, something she had never seen before from the usual bright smiling boy. Another shot of guilt rushed through her.

"I have…" he began, "So many questions… Why? Of course being the main one. But we just don't have that time."

"How did you-?" Chloe asked, her eyes glancing back to the door, worried that they would be caught.

"I'm good at sneaking around… albeit not like you I suppose." Benji stated coldly.

Chloe opened her mouth but it immediately shut having nothing to retort to that. He was right.

Benji noted her sympathetic and ashamed expression from his words. His jaw hardened scolding himself, for his purpose here was to see if Chloe was with them. But he couldn't help it. He trusted her, they all did.

"Benji…" Chloe shook her head not sure where to start, "What is Prism doing?"

He was a little surprised by this question, a question that was laced with disgust. He had expected her to ramble on but I suppose she had taken his words of 'that they were running out of time' into account.

"What aren't they doing?" Benji spat as he looked around at their surroundings. Just being in this building made him fill with revulsion, "You saw the devices?"

Chloe nodded, "What is it?" she had noted its design and clearly from the name she had gathered its primary use but wanted to hear what Benji knew.

"It's his new beginning." Benji stated, in reference to Abaddon, "He will use it to essentially start over. To begin a new era… one that he will be some kind of tyrant ruler of."

Chloe breaths were quick and short listening to Benji, her heartbeat racing.

Benji took a step forward, "They are trying to create a cure Chloe," her eyes locked into his, "But that is a very miniscule project in comparison to the others. The cure isn't even stable as of yet. This company is corrupt and evil, rounding those with abilities up like cattle and testing and experimenting on us."

"I swear I didn't-.." Chloe shook her head once more, "I didn't know." Her voice weak.

"You were with us. You were with us out there when we spoke of the horrible things that this company has done to us or those we knew… to those we love." Benji took another step forward, "But you let your own vendetta against Jesse cloud all of that."

Chloe let out a shaky breath and tried to steady herself against the desk she was leaning against. The lights in the room began to flicker on and off.

"Stop." Benji voiced calmly, "I was able to hack into the camera feeds to get up here and you could ruin everything if you don't calm down."

Chloe closed her eyes and took some deep breaths to calm her power, "I-.. this is why I wanted so badly to believe in the cure…"

"In my opinion the cure is a myth. You were brought up to see us – to see specials differently in a more negative light that was born out of lies Chloe."

Chloe opened her eyes and wanted to fight against his words, "No-no my-my father he-he…"

"He wasn't who you thought he was Chloe."

"You don't know him!" Chloe yelled. It was all she could do, the last scrap of her father of that she had been taught to believe in was being challenged.

"I do though Chloe. I know who he was and his role in this company. He was the co-founder of Prism Chloe-"

"Get out!" Chloe yelled, "Please leave!"

Benji stepped forward only for a random sweep of wind to pick him up and land him against the door. This tactic wasn't working he needed more hard proof evidence to show Chloe.

"Chloe the last of those devices are going to be put in position, soon. I meant what I said, we are all running out of time… Beca is running out of time." He turned and placed his hand on the doorknob.

Chloe wiped her eyes of the tears that had begun to spill at hearing Beca's name.

"I hope for her sake, other specials and people in general… you come to your senses quick smart… I'll be in touch. Take your pills." And with that Benji left.

Chloe dropped to the ground, her knees weak, her heart heavy and her mind feeling as though it was going to explode.

Benji luckily made it back into the lab without much difficulty to find his mother crouched over at their workbench.

"You went and saw her didn't you?" Christen asked as her son sat down beside her.

"Yeah." He breathed out.

From his tone she already knew it must not have gone well, despite that she asked, "Did she listen?"

"At first… but bringing up her father, it went down hill from there. She can't fathom the thought of him having lied to her. I need more solid proof." Benji huffed.

Christen rubbed her temples from her already pounding headache, this just makes their task that much harder.

"How was Beca?" Benji quietly asked.

"Holding on… I think. I hope." Christen replied, she was still thinking of how they could convince Chloe, "What if Beca could somehow talk to Chloe?"

Benji scoffed, "I'm good at hacking into their feeds for myself to get up to her room. But Beca? Their most prized possession… I'm not that good. We'd be caught instantly."

"Christen!" a scientist entered, "More testing on Aurora, now."

"It's only been a couple of hours…" Christen replied, standing from her chair.

"Yeah well tell that to Master Abaddon. He wants another lot done now." He shrugged uncaringly and left.

Benji looked to his mother with shock, "They'll kill her at this rate."

Christen cupped a hand to her mouth before pushing her glasses back up from slipping down the ridge of her nose, "I have to go… I'll try and pass a message on or something to Beca."

Benji shook his head, but knew it could be their only slight hope, "Be careful."

Aurora was once again strapped into the device. Scientists and doctors walked around the room going over to their own sections to record certain aspects seen and observed from the subject.

Beca's tired eyes were glazed over until she saw the familiar woman who had whispered of hope to her, standing beside her once again.

"Ch-chlo?" was all that Beca managed to whisper, wondering if the woman may know about her.

Christen pretended to be writing on her clipboard as she inspected Beca's head that was connected to a neuroimaging device that had many wires connected to her.

Christen leaned down, "She's still conflicted."

Beca licked her very dry lips and fought through the haze to recall her thoughts when thrown back into her cell after seeing Lily. It was the only idea she could think of… it was all she had left.

"Li-…ly." She breathed before the haze of drugs claimed her once more.

Christen went back over to her workstation trying to decipher what she had said. Sounded like a name Lily?... that sounds familiar.

Excusing herself to go to the bathroom Christen slipped into her lab where she found Benji sitting at the computer. Seeing his mother walking towards him with an unreadable expression he sat up.

"Lily." She stated.

Benji was confused "Lil-?…" he began to ask but his brain was going over where he had heard that name before.

"Beca had said her name… do you know her. I recall having worked on her before…" Christen explained.

Benji's eyes widened, "She is here?"

Christen nodded.

Benji was still a little confused as to how Lily can help. His thoughts ran through what the woman was able to do and that he had heard of her being able to dream walk.

"She's a dream walker." His mother remembered and stated aloud.

"I know." He nodded and stood, hazarding a guess as to Beca's idea, "We need to get her out of her cell."

Christen thought of some ideas, "I could say I need to experiment on her further?"

"Will that work? I need to be there."

"We can try…" Christen had already disappeared for long enough and went back into the lab which contained Aurora.

An hour or so later Beca was taken back into her cell. Beca crawled her way over to the far corner, which exerted the last of her energy before passing out.

Benji wasn't sure how his mother was able to attain permission but Lily was now secured into a lab. Christen was rather put off by the silent nature of the woman who still did not utter a word nor put up a fight. Perhaps Lily knew she would be unable to break out by herself, the attempt would be stupid.

Christen stepped away from Lily and opened the door for her son. They nodded to each other and Christen slipped out of the room to talk to the guards. Benji waited until his mother succeeded in drawing the guard out for a smoker's break, before he turned his attention to Lily.

The woman was staring right back at him. Her wide eyes left him a little stunned and unsure of where to begin.

"I've seen you before." She whispered.

Benji strained to hear her words and walked towards her, "Where?"

"Dreams… Cynthia's… Amy's… Beca's." she replied.

Benji nodded, "Then you know I am like you. I did not betray you or the others… I'm here undercover to try and stop them." He spoke in hush whisper, "I need your help… Beca needs your help."

Lily knew that he was asking for her to use her gift. To reach out to Beca Mitchell.

"I'm weak."

"Can you try?" Benji sighed, "I know I'm asking for a lot… I know they've done some terrible things to you but right now we really need to connect to Beca."

Benji gave her a brief overview of the devices about to be used and of Chloe. Moreover what specific memory they needed from Beca.

Lily inhaled and exhaled deeply after hearing all of this and leaning her head back she quickly tended to her important task.

A/N - I will be updating again soon. Things get pretty full on from here on out. Next chapter is huge with information being revealed. Can't wait to share it :)

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