You know the deal by now, but I'll reiterate.

The Institute and Erasers belong to James Patterson. Rainbow and Mir from "The Freed" belong to billy morph. All else is mine.

Also, I hope that I kept Rainbow in character. If you read this, billy, Please review.

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After we were in, Rainbow gave us a tour around the building, although there wasn't much. One thing to note, though. They had gotten rid of the cages, and replaced them with hospital beds, complete with curtains around them for privacy, although with me, they wouldn't do much good, if you can remember from a few chapters back, before my coma.

When we reached what they had dubbed the "Command Centre," a small room with a few computers, Rainbow stopped to tell us that there was no actual system of government in the group.

"We, Mir and I that is, came here a few months ago, and found a battle going on. A whole bunch of kids who had been somehow freed from their cages fighting against a large group of Erasers, so we decided to assist them. There was a kid who was not so different from you, Terry, who had managed to rile them up, and get them to fight against those who had created them." She seemed to look at me a bit closer. "In fact, if I didn't know any better, I would say that you and him were the same person, but it can't be true. I watched him die, or at least saw him get shot. We don't know what happened to him after that, though. He just disappeared, and not like we do. Mir and I just camouflage, but he was completely gone. I'm pretty sure that he's dead, but there are others here who aren't so sure." I then determined that I wouldn't tell her about my ability to travel through time anytime soon.

"In any case, we won the battle, and the Erasers retreated, but we made sure that they wouldn't be able to come back. Mir, who's smarter than he looks, set up the traps, which are actually quite ingenious. You've already seen the results. I won't bore you with the specifics, but let's just say that they would fool Indiana Jones.

"Combined with the fact that we can go aboveground, and blend in easily into a crowd even without natural camouflage, for food and supplies, these kids just seemed to begin to call us leaders, although I have never thought of us so. As you may have already guessed, Mir is quite shy. But we still take care of them as best we can, and they do whatever they can to help. It's tough holding off those goddamned Erasers, no offence, Aaron." She finished, and it made me wonder how she had managed to keep these kids together for so long, but then it occurred to me. Trust.

"None taken," He replied. "But what about your eyes? If you go to the surface, people would notice those changing, right?"

The reply was simple. "We learned to keep that under control ages ago."

And that was that.

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It didn't take long for me to find an empty bed, and when I did find it, I was told it was unoccupied by another kid in the room. With that, I laid down, and fell asleep.

There was fighting. We were attacking the institute, we being myself and several of the mutants I had freed. I heard a gunshot, and saw Rainbow gasp. Where did she come from, I was wondering, when everything went black.

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I woke to the sound of footsteps approaching me, accompanied by the sound of water, splashing against the floor. It was Gil. I had chosen a bunk near the back, in order to keep a low profile, and gotten a good night's rest, or at least it felt like it. And that dream... It didn't feel like a dream. It felt more like a memory.

Gil didn't seem to happy with me, however. There was just a general feeling of anger where he walked. And then he opened the curtain.

"What's this about an army?"

Shit.

Okay, forget what I said before. Everyone must review, not just billy.