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The New Recruits had been surprised by the various mobs, and had split up. Bobby was surrounded by a mob of mutant hunters, Bobby looked like he was making a last stand.

"Kill the freak!" the leader brandished a pitchfork.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" the crowd chanted. Bobby's head twisted everywhere, looking for an escape route.

"Bobby!" a voice whispered.

"Henry! Where are you?"

"Can't talk. When I get to 3, jump!"

"OK!"

"One, two. Three!" Bobby jumped, and found himself pulled into the air, by a firm hand. He was placed on a branch.

"Stay there!" a small figure jumped down, landing gracefully among the snow.

"Kill! Kill!" the mob shouted, now pointing their pitchforks at the small figure.

"Forget." Rac said, standing up, and looking into each piercing glare. Each figure's eyes glazed, they turned and walked away.

"You said you could, but I didn't believe you." Henry appeared out of nowhere.

"Where were you Henry? I could hear you, but couldn't see you. And what did Rac do?"

"I was a small bush, thanks to Rac."

"And I wiped their memory of mutants."

"You saved my bacon!"

"It's alright. But we've got the others to save."

"What?!"

"There's more mutant hunters out there."

"And we've got to stop them."

"Right! I'm coming with you!"

"OK, keep up. If you can!" Rac leapt into the trees, and started bounding away. Bobby and Henry looked at each other, and followed; Henry running along the ground, and Bobby using an ice slide to follow.

Amara had turned into a living flame, to prevent herself from being burnt. But had not counted on being doused with snow. Her flame was growing weaker.

"Drop flame, and jump on 3!" Bobby's sharp order came to her.

"1.2.3!" Henry counted. Amara jumped, and was pulled into the tree, by Rac, as Rac dropped down.

"Forget!" Rac ordered again, and the mob duly forgot.

"Thanks! I was nearly a gonner!" Amara whispered, as Bobby lifted her down from the tree. Amara was exhausted, she could barely move.

"Bobby, take her to the clearing! We'll meet you there, in 5!" Rac ordered, seeing that Amara was running on empty.

"But." Bobby objected, he was the leader; he didn't take orders.

"No buts! MOVE!" Rac laced her words with obedience. Sometimes manipulating emotions came in handy, Rac thought as Bobby marched away, carrying the unconscious Amara.

"Now what?" Henry asked.

"We rescue Sam and Rhaine."

"Then?"

"Jubes and Ray."

"Then?"

"Jamie and Roberto."

"Fine. Which way?"

"This way!" Rac jumped back into the tree branches and bounded through the treetops.

Rac's general tactics of getting Henry to order the mutants to jump, while she pulled them up. Before whipping the minds of the humans. Was a winner. Everyone obeyed, and each human forgot.

Soon all the New Recruits were in the clearing. Only Amara was seriously hurt, and she was unconscious. The New Recruits formed a protective circle around her.

"Now what?" Jamie asked, he was getting scared; mobs with pitchforks and flaming torches can do that to people.

"You die, mutant scum!" a voice from the surrounding forest said, and another mob walked into view.

"Any time Rac." Bobby said

"Err.there's too many."

"What?"

"I've done too many, I can't do them. Not now."

"Great!"

"Now what?"

"We fight!" Rac said, readying her fists. Ice started to form, on Bobby's side of the circle, freezing some of the mob's feet to the ground. Jubes started to blind people, while Jamie went into a karate stance. Roberto absorbed energy from the sun, and prepared himself. Ray powered up his fists, as Sam prepared himself to blast. Rhaine became a werewolf. Henry created a web of electricity between her spread fingers.

Rac heard a noise and looked up. A small black dot was above them, and it was getting bigger.

"Roberto, go see the FF!" Rac ordered. Roberto took off, quickly.

He soon came back down followed by the Human Torch.

"Hi! Oh, you're in a spot." He commented

"Yeah, take Amara out of here!" Rac said

"Right, I'll come down for the rest of you." He swooped up carrying Amara with him.

"Roberto, take Jamie!"

"Fine!" Jamie didn't get a chance to argue, before he was swept up into the air.

Rac ordered each person up, as Johnny came down for each of them.

"Henry, you're next."

"Fine. You sure you'll cope?"

"Yeah, I'm going to try."

"But."

"I should be OK."

"Should?"

"I will be."

"See you!" Henry yelled as she was swept up into the air.

"Forget." Rac turned to the surprised mob, drawing on her last reserves of energy.

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