Finally! This took WAY longer than expected due to MASSIVE computer troublesAs a result, you guys might get a little bit pissed off at me for the filler. Here's some good news, though. Rainbow's back!

PART FOUR

The Battle of Lake Ontario

43

How the hell did I not think of this before? Of course Itex wasn't going to let one of their precious goddamn Erasers go free without something to monitor them. Shit!

"What's wrong?" asked Raine, as observant as ever. I didn't want to tell them what I thought. After all, it was my brother, and the fact that he was an Eraser was putting all our lives at risk. Hold on a sec... The fact that he was an Eraser...

"I've got it!" I cried aloud, not entirely meaning to.

"Got what?" Jace asked. "Got that we're all gonna die?"

I could tell he was both pissed off, and in a panic, but surprisingly I wasn't the one who did something about it. In about two seconds Raine had walked over to him, and there was a resounding SMACK. "Let him speak," she said. She had slapped him faster than my eyes could register, which is honestly and truly saying something.

After he regained his ground, I answered him. "I've got our way out of this."

44

Rainbow was pissed. That is, even more so than usual. She had thought that they would be safe for a while, but now with the message that had just been relayed from Gil, she wasn't so sure. All she knew was that this whole ordeal would finally be over, and in short order. Terry had finally sent the message to begin the long march to the lab at which a number of the mutants under her care were created and tortured like guinea pigs.

However, before she could, there was another issue that had to be resolved. According to Gil, some of the older recombinants had begun to lose trust in her, and it would cause no end of trouble for a rift to form in her army this close to the end of the battle.

"You say that some of them don't trust me any more, Gil. Why?" She asked the question, although she already had a guess as to what the answer was: She thought it was her youth. She thought that they had started to believe that because the siblings were younger than most of those that they were leading, that they were unfit to lead.

She would have to prove them wrong.

Of course, she had forgotten to take into account that she had already proved it to them time and time again. If she were a little more experienced with large groups, she would have realized that it was Terry, who seemed quicker to take the initiative, who had knocked the older members off balance. They thought that while he was actually doing something, their own leaders were just sitting on their asses.

But she didn't have more experience, and now the seeds of societal collapse were sown.

This would be the first, and the last full scale battle that they ever mounted.

45

Elsewhere, a man is quietly laughing to himself, and wondering exactly where the man from the future went wrong, creating such a stupid experiment. After all, he couldn't seem to figure out that he was being tracked by his sword. He probably thought that his brother had a trace on him!

His first priority, however, was to eliminate the virus that someone planted in his system. It was deleting all his files! If it were to let it be, it would destroy the whole of Itexicon's network! Of course, he never expected that the young brat would come up with a counter for the Erasers that he sent to New York about a minute before the virus was randomly planted. He had no idea of the progress they made at this point.

No, all he knew was that this uprising would soon be over, and that these mutants would finally be brought down for good. In the meantime, he prepared to begin the hacking process that would alter the virus' programming and turn in back on it's creator, not knowing that the computer that sent it was no longer connected to any network, anywhere.

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