Chapter 21

He knocked again but no answer again. He opened the door and found no one inside, except he found the paperwork that was due today and a newspaper saying that another kid was missing. Derek went to Angelina's closet and found her normal clothes still there except for her black ones. Derek groaned as he opened his cell phone.

"Kyle, please tell me you didn't pick Angelina up." Derek said.

Before…..

"He's a better dad than you'll ever be!" yelled Angelina.

Angelina ran off to the exit of the kitchen and stopped all of a sudden, when she noticed someone was near. She turned her head and saw Cole standing there confused. Tears started to fall down on her face and she ran….past him.

Angelina slammed the door behind her, she searched for the papers that she and Cole did last night. She also finds the newspaper from yesterday on her desk. While trying to stop the tears, Angelina searched through the paperwork about General Zeke. Finally, she noticed something on a piece of paper about a secret weapon on her desk. Angelina closed her eyes and tried to remember a memory with pain.

A little girl with long brown hair was thrown on the ground with exhaustion. Her clothes were torn apart and cuts were shown on her body.

"X-45, get up!" yelled a strong male voice.

This is what I brought you this you can keep.
This is what I brought you may forget me.
I promise to depart just promise one thing,
Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep.

The girl tried to get up; her arms were shacking as she tried to move up but she fell back down. The young girl tried to move something from her body but couldn't, she felt as though a thousand bricks fell on her.

"X-45! Get up now!" yelled the strong voice again.

"I can't." she said in a weak voice.

This is what I brought you this you can keep,
this is what I brought you may forget me.
I promise you my heart just promise to sing,
Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep

She moved her head up and saw a solider standing over her. She heard him saying that she had to get up now or do the practice again. She didn't want to do it again but she didn't have the strength to, even open her mouth. Instead of helping her up, the guard kicked her in the stomach. She coughed our blood from her mouth.

"That's enough." Said a voice.

Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep.

The young Angelina looked up to see who it was and wished the guard were continuing kicking her in the stomach right now. A younger General Hector Zeke walks towards the two and stared at X-45. He was waiting for her healing powers to work again, so she can continue her practice. Finally, it did but there were some cuts left on her stomach. .

"Continue the practice." He said before he and the guard left the room.

X-45 sighed deeply before standing up. She looked around the metal room and saw laser weapons on the ground and on the walls. She knew, this time that, she had to try to get it while trying to the gold trophy in the middle of the room.

This is what I thought,
I thought you need me,
This is what I thought so think me naïve,
I promise you a heart you'd promise to keep,
Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep.
X-45 started running towards the trophy as lasers were beaming at her. She did as many flips she could do and yet, got hit in the stomach. But that didn't stop her, she continued running and running until she slide down on the ground. She grabbed the trophy as the lasers stopped beaming at each other.

Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep.
The young general came in with a few scientists behind him as they stared at her. Angelina felt pain in her side and saw that she was bleeding. She groaned as she slowly slides herself down to the ground.

"Are you sure that she's the one?" asked one of the scientists.

General Zeke didn't answer but stared at the exhausted 11-year-old, who was breathing heavily, as her hazel eyes were staring at his with irritation. He didn't do anything but smile so evil, that she wished that she could rip it off his pale face. He turned around to face the fellow scientists behind him.

"I'm positive." He answered them and turned to face X-45, he bent down to face-to-face. "You're the perfect weapon."

Kiss my eyes and lay me to sleep.

Angelina shot her eyes open and walked towards her closet. She grabbed different black clothes; leather pants, black shoes, black top, and a long black cloak. Angelina sometimes wears this with the girls, who rescue the little missing children alone, without the boys around. But this time, it's too personal for Derek or even the others to understand. Angelina changed into them, but before she even put on her dark glasses, she looked around the room.

Every since, she found out she had powers, when she was little she thought it was awesome. However, when Zeke took her and her friends and trained them like super-soldiers, she knew that having powers wasn't all that good. But when they all escaped that night, she promised herself that no girl…no one….would be treated the same way she was with Zeke and his idiotic scientists.

Angelina clutched her head in pain. She was hearing a weird noise coming from her head and it was hurting her…a lot. When she opened her eyes again, it turned red but when she closed her eyes again and re-opened them, it turned back to her natural eye color. She looked around the room and a tear rolled down her check. With that last tear, the sunset was going down.

Angelina opened the window and without second thought, she jumped and hit the ground running. Her room was far from the front gate, but even if she did get out in the front door, her mom or jean or storm would ask her where she's going. And she didn't want to answer questions. As she was bending down, not to be notice, she knew that she was passing the living room because she could hear laughter.

Angelina sneaked inside the garage and found her mom's motorcycle (Scott's motorcycle from the first chapter) there. She grabbed it and quietly walked it out the gate. When the gate closed, she looked behind her and even though, she has been living at the mansion for a week she felt that it was her home for a long time.

"This is the right choice." Angelina thought, as she sat on the motorcycle she put on her yellow sunglasses (it helps her see in the dark better), "Please forgive me, Derek….Mom… everyone. I have to do this, it's the only way. I'm sorry." Angelina turned on the motorcycle and rode in the dark.

(Song called, "Prelude 12/21" By AFI)