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Note: Huge thank you to Kyouryoku Senshi for being my beta!

Ground Level

William pounded his fists against the door and screamed as the explosions around him sounded closer.

"Let me out!" He tried helplessly to reach the rest of them with his mind as he screamed again, "Help!"

Finally the door opened and Diana appeared she took hold of his wrist, "We are going to run William and I don't want you to fight me!"

She began to pull him down the hallway and he did the one thing she told him not to do and pulled away. Her grip on him was hard and he knew there would be bruises, but he kept trying to get away.

"I am not going with you. Where are my parents? Where is Gabby? I won't leave here without them!" Each sentence was punctuated by a pull of his arm.

She moved and took hold of his other wrist, "You have no idea what is happening. They might all be dead, but at this point it doesn't matter. The colonists have found us."

"I don't care!"

"Well you better or you'll die!"

"I'll die before I go with you!"
Diana paused to consider if it was worth it and she realized that those words were ones that could have come out of the mouths of his parents.

"Fine."
She let him go and ran.

He watched and felt some fear rising in him. Maybe that was his only way out.

Before he could think past that, there was pounding down the hall from him.
In fact there was pounding all around him.

He realized the whole hallway was filled with people just like him who couldn't escape.

William began to try to open the doors from the outside, but found it fruitless. He looked everywhere along the hall for any sign of how to open the doors.

He stood there helpless when he remembered a long forgotten memory.

Talon looked at him expectantly and watched the cup of pencils that he had placed in front of William.

William stared at it and in his head pictured it toppling over. He kept this picture in his mind and finally it began to shake a bit and his concentration broke.

But no he would not stop he wanted to do it, so he pulled all his concentration back to the cup in front of him and suddenly it fell over spilling pencils and pens all over the desk.

Talon cheered and William smiled as he tried to rub away the small headache.

William knew he could move things. That wasn't the last time he had done it. Shelly had trained him even more, but he had never done anything like what he was about to try.

He stared at one door and tried to ignore the screams, the pounding and the explosions and debris falling around him.

In his mind, the door was opening over and over. He pictured the lock and the doorframe and imagined it separating and letting go.
A large explosion nearly brought him to his knees, but he imagined the small girl he had gotten to know behind one of these doors screaming for help and he steadied himself.

He shut his eyes and put his hand to the door.

A loud series of clangs burst through the hall in a way that terrified William until he heard the voices and opened his eyes.

There had to be about ten people of different ages and races standing in the hall looking confused.

His eyes locked with Shelly's and she ran to him. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see the man he knew only as Gibson.

Where is Gabby?

He looked around frantically as the rest of the prisoners ran down the hall to hopeful freedom.

Gibson started forward and moved into a room at the end of the hall. He came out carrying the small girl and before they had time to think, they were off.

They knew that they were on a lower level and so when they got to the stairs, they headed up.

At some point, they realized that there was another group behind them and William felt fear prickle up his spine.

Gibson stopped them, "Scully!" He yelled out.

"Gibson?" The reply was from Scully and sounded confused and hopeful. The footsteps sped up and William didn't even think as he collided into his birth mother with a hug that nearly knocked her off her feet.

She kissed his head and ran her hands through his hair and mumbled sweet things to him before Gibson yelled at them to move.

They did not bother with invisibility this time; there was no point.

The ground level was chaos. They'd had to bang down the stairwell door to even get out and when they did it was evident that they had mostly just been lucky. The building was one story with many basement levels. The entire top level was gone besides a few buildings that seemed to be made out of special material were super soldiers running around shooting at the sky.

Mulder looked up to see three UFO's hanging above them. His mouth slackened and he stared. He grabbed for Scully who was having a very similar reaction and they laced their fingers together.

They had all paused and were unsure of what to do next. It was like a war zone. Gibson stood focused staring at the ships and then as if out of a dream a tractor beam came from one of the ships and in the blink of an eye, they were gone.