Andy's Pov

I felt someone touch my arm and say "have fun" before I could even process what happened. The first thought that went through my head was "what?" but then I realized. The mutant who could resurrect the dead. "Well this is going to end badly," I thought.

"Dammit," Lauren said, "Do you think..."

"Yes," I responded before she could finish her question. I knew what she was going to ask me. she was going to ask if 1. That was the person who could resurrect people we've killed and 2. If I think that they will resurrect Rebecca. The second one was almost a guarantee if the first one is true.

I watched as the person ran away and Heather took their place. "well, well, well, what do we have here?" she said. She had a gun in her left hand. I instinctively moved slightly towards Lauren.

"What do you want Heather?" Lorna yelled to her.

Heather rolled her eyes before responding, "What do you think I want, you killed Max, I want revenge. And here I thought you were smart."

She fired her gun at the same time that something was exploding behind us. I turned and saw Tico and Bulk next to a pile of bombs.

"Wonderful," I thought as I regained my balance after the explosion.

Chaos followed. The Inner Circle was trying to kill us desperately. They had obviously hired people to try to kill us too because there were a bunch of people that I had never seen before with guns shooting at us.

Lorna was stopping as many of the bullets as she could while avoiding Heather shooting at her and teleporting bombs near her and Tico exploding them. I focused on my powers and I felt Lauren do the same. We were better fighters when we let the darkness inside us take over for a bit. It probably wasn't the best idea but this was not a great time for impulse decision making.

The fight continued like that for I don't know how long before I felt Lauren pull herself out of the darkness really suddenly causing me to do the same. I stumbled a little with the sudden change and I heard Lauren say my name. I turned around and saw Rebecca leaning against a wall.

I froze. My brain stopped working. Lauren grabbed my arm and squeezed it a little, trying to comfort me a little like we did when we were kids.

"Hey Andy, funny seeing you again seeing how you killed me," Rebecca said.

"That was an accident," I said, my voice shaking. I balled my hands up into fists.

"Like I'd believe that. You're his sister I presume," She said turning towards Lauren, "Nice to meet you. Not."

She started to use her powers. She twisted something inside out and threw it at us. Lauren put up a shield to deflect whatever she threw at us. Good thing too. It exploded as it hit the shield. Lauren let her shield fall and used one of her flying disks. It hit about half of Rebecca's neck. I obviously expected her to die, but she didn't. She just laughed.

The wound started healing as she smiled, "You can't kill me, idiot. I can't die until the person who brought me back is already dead." She lifted her hands again as Lauren stepped closer to me.

Her powers started to surround Lauren and I. Lauren grabbed my hand. I felt Fenris start to activate. I knew that we shouldn't, we couldn't use Fenris. We needed protection to find a way to stop Rebecca's powers. Almost as soon as I'd had had the thought, a golden light surrounded Lauren and I, seemingly stopping Rebecca's powers in their place. It was a different feeling to how Fenris normally felt, but still strangely familiar. I looked at Lauren, she had a surprised expression on her face. I squeezed her hand, hoping that whatever we were doing, would last long enough to protect us.

"What are you doing? Stop it!" Said Rebecca. Fenris was stopping her powers from getting to us. "I'm trying to kill you over here," She was pretty pissed that she couldn't kill us apparently but I wasn't really in the mood to die so I wasn't going to let go of Lauren's hand.

"Seems that that's not gonna happen," Lauren said, stepping forward slightly.

"This isn't supposed to be possible!" Rebecca said, still trying to use her powers.

"Well, it looks like it is," Lauren said, taunting her.

Rebecca stopped trying to use her powers and stomped away angrily while saying "This isn't over! I find you when you least expect it." Her threat burned into my mind.

I pulled my hand away from Lauren's and breathed a sigh of relief but worry about Rebecca's parting words filled my mind. I looked at Lauren and asked, "What was that?"

She glanced around at the battle still raging around us, "I don't know but we'll figure it out later, right now we have to help Lorna and Marcos."

We turned back to the main fight and kept Heather distracted.

Lorna's Pov.

Heather fired her gun at me and I stopped the bullet but got distracted by something exploding over my head. I turned my head briefly and saw Tico and Bulk standing next to a pile of explosives.

Marcos was next to me and said, "You want to help me blow them up instead of this ending up the other way around."

I smiled and lifted one of the explosives up for Marcos to hit. He hit the explosive expertly. The fire went in between Marcos and me and the Inner Circle. God, I loved him.

I smiled as I turned towards Marcos and saw the kid who touched Andy grab Marcos's back briefly and run away. My smile faded as Marcos turned around and looked at me worriedly.

"That's probably not good," He said.

"No, probably not," I said. If my suspicions were right then that kid was the kid that we had been told about. The one who could resurrect the dead.

I turned to see Heather appear and shoot at me. I saw other people with guns appear and start to shoot at us as well. I managed to stop the bullets. I glanced at where I had last seen Lauren and Andy and I saw Rebecca taunting them. That kid who had touched him was the kid who could resurrect the dead then. I could barely think "poor Andy" before something exploded behind me. I felt myself get thrown to the ground. I fell flat on my face. I looked up and saw Marcos get thrown into a wall. I crawled over to him, he was unconscious.

"Marcos. Wake up. Come on" I whispered, shaking him slightly. He was bleeding a little bit from the back of his head where he must have hit it. He needed to wake up. We didn't have time for this.

"Aww. Boyfriend won't wake up. How sad." A voice I recognized but never expected to hear again. I stood up in front of Marcos and turned around with my fists clenched. I faced Max, one of the few people I was kinda glad was dead.

"Max, how absolutely lovely to see you," I said sarcastically.

"I knew you were a spy," he said before throwing a tennis ball at me that he had charged with his powers.

I saw a black shadow in front of me and then I was about 20 feet away from the explosion that I would have been caught in with one of the kids that we had found kneeling next to me with black blood streaming from her nose.

"Thanks, Mia, right?" I said to her.

She nodded. "Your friend is he unconscious," she said with concern in her voice.

"Yeah," I said. Her honey brown hair fell into her face as she looked back to where Max was furiously looking around. His eyes skipped right over where we were like he couldn't even see us.

"He can't see us, can he?" I asked her. Max started yelling at Heather to try to find where I went.

She wiped the blood off her face onto the back of her hand before responding, "I manipulate shadows. I pulled them around us making it too dark for anyone to see."

I nodded. Powers are weird. I don't like to question them too much.

I looked back to where Andy and Lauren were. They were fighting Heather and almost all of the people with guns back to back. Normally this wouldn't be a problem for them but Andy was obviously distracted by whatever had happened with Rebecca and Lauren was way too overwhelmed trying to put up shields everywhere at once. I was worried that one of them would get shot but before that could happen Heather seemed to get a message on her watch. She teleported out of Andy and Lauren's sight and looked at it and yelled out, "Let's go!"

The Inner Circle all stopped fighting and left. The people with guns backed out while still shooting at Lauren and Andy. I thought that this was weird because if they had kept going they would have eventually worn us down and ended up winning. We were severely outnumbered. I pushed this worrying revelation out of my mind as I looked back to where Marcos was, still unconscious. I went to move towards him but before I could get very far Mia grabbed my arm and her eyes were alert.

"Not yet," she said, shaking her head. "They're not totally gone yet."

I heard multiple cars start after about 30 seconds and then the sound of them driving away. Mia let go of my arm. I rushed over to Where Marcos was.

Mia's Pov

I watched as Lorna ran back to the other mutant's side as soon as I let go of her arm. I got up unsteadily and walked over to see if I could help. I was shaking slightly from all of the adrenaline pumping through my body. Josh ran over to me.

"Mia, you shouldn't have done that." He said as he stopped my nosebleed that had started again when I jumped to help Lorna. He hugged me tightly after, checking to make sure I wasn't hurt.

"Yeah well if I didn't one more person would be a lot deader," I said pulling away.

I walked over to where Lorna was kneeling next to her friend, "Is he okay?" I asked looking over him. Josh had followed me and kneeled down next to Lorna.

"I don't know. I mean he's unconscious and that's generally not a good sign." She said, her eyes looking for more injuries.

Josh looked over the mutant, "His name is Marcos right?" Lorna nodded as Josh kept talking, "I have healing abilities. I can heal him if you want."

Lorna looked at Josh, "Please," She said, her worried tone clear.

I watched as Josh put his hands on Marcos's head and closed his eyes. I watched as a green light came from his hands and the bleeding stopped and the wound closed. Marcos's eyes fluttered open as Josh pulled his hands away.

"What happened," Marcos asked as Lorna helped him into a sitting position.

"There was an explosion and you got knocked out. Max is back. That person that touched you was the one that could raise the dead. One of the kids that we found, Josh, has healing abilities so he healed you." Lorna explained gently. The more I watched them the more I started to think that they were dating. The two other people, Lauren and Andy came over to where we were.

"They left. All of them. For no reason. We were losing and they left. It just doesn't make any sense." Andy said. He looked extremely worried.

"It's like they came here for a reason to use us to bring back people that had died that would help them," Lauren added.

"I'm sorry to bring people back? Like from the dead? And who are they?" Lizzie said walking over. Cameron was behind her.

"'They' is the Inner Circle. They are the group behind the hashtag #mutantuprising and organized the attack on sentinel services. And yes like back from the dead. One of the mutants that work with them can bring back people that you have killed." Marcos explained rubbing the back of his head.

"Well that's fun," said Josh. He had an expression on his face that I have always liked to call his 'let's get out of here' face. I see where he's coming from. With how Marcos explained the resurrection dude it sounded like they had all killed people that this person could bring back. It was slightly concerning but I pushed the thought away for now.

"We should get out of here. The police are probably on their way because of the explosions and gunshots." Lauren said looking around uneasily.

"Lauren's right, let's go," Lorna said, helping Marcos to his feet.