Chapter Two-
K POV-
Ok. We have everything we should need. I'm kind of amazed that no one questioned us when we walked in and we were covered in dirt and blood. Or the fact that we had on the weird dress thingys that the institute gave us. Or, you know, the whole cat ears thing Sparrow has going on.
Hm. I guess this 'Wal-Mart' place just doesn't bother. Whatever.
Oh, I realise that you're all probably wondering things like 'Who taught you to read' or 'how do you know what everything is'. Well, before we get into all of this business with getting out of walmart let's just stop for a minute.
It's time to explain a bit, I guess. First of all, the white coats actually taught us to read. Why? I guess it was kind of hard to monitor our brain waves when we read things when we can't read.
We know how to fight because.. Well, let's just say even after ten years, we all manage to be as stubborn as ever wen it came to leaving our cages for testing. We used to fight the white coats a lot when they came for us.
Hm. It's weird to say 'used to'. But it's the good weird, you know? Anyway, we all know each other because our cages were sort of in a.. Group. The way the Institute had it layed out was, the cages where in rows, they were two cages wide, and two cages high.
We were sort of like this-
Row 1 Row 2
_ _
Sparrow Isabelle
Me Krystal
Lily Ash
Yeah. Basically, Sparrow, me, and Lily where on one row; Then Izzy, Krys, and Ash where on the adjacent row. We all had cages on the bottom, aren't we lucky? (Note the sarcasm.)
Anyway, as for our names; yeah, it's not like the white coats love us so much they would name us. No, you see, they called us by our ID numbers. We made our own names. Why? We kinda had a lot of free time. You know, when we weren't being tortured and tested on.
For the age situation- Me and Sparrow are both 14. He's older, but only by a few days. That's what we figure anyway. Krys and izzy are both 12, almost 13. And finally Lily and Ash. They are the only actual siblings, and they are twins. They are both only 11. We have such a wide age range, I know.
As for everyone and things you should know about them- Sparrow isn't just avian. As I've told you before he also happens to have cat ears and a tail. He also has the sort of fang thing going on with his teeth. Well, there is a reasonable explanation for that. (well as reasonable as you can be when it comes to Genetic Experimentation)
Basically, when we were first getting injected with the Avian DNA, the guy assigned to injecting Sparrow couldn't be bothered to clean the needle he was using. So pretty much the Avian DNA got mixed with little bits of the Feline DNA that had been in the syringe previously.
So now he's 2% Bird, 1% Cat, and 97% Human. The White coats where Quite surprised when they saw, too.
Anyway, the cat bits don't really change anything about him. Most of the times. There have been a few times over the years when I've seen him get out of the hold of whatever unfortunate idiot had been assigned to testing him that day. When he got loose, so did the cat-ness inside of him.
He would be out of the white coats hold and on top of the cages in seconds. He would jump from row to row on all fours. I remember one time, about fifteen White coats and five erasers where all running up and down the rows, trying to catch him, and he jumped around an onto about six of their heads before they managed to grab him.
Sometimes he'd unlock my cage and we would fly around above the cages taunting the white coats that would try and herd us back into our cages.
You're probably asking why we didn't try to escape? Well, it was mainly because we didn't want to abandon everybody else. Whenever we /did/ get out of our cages, they would lock down all of the other cages.
But that didn't stop us from having some fun with them. Ok, enough with all of that. Sparrow is a brilliant Hacker, he's basically good with technology in general.
Don't ask how we found out, but for some reason, he's really good on the guitar. As for his powers- as far as we know he only has a couple.
First of all, he has something called Mind Link. It gives him the ability to communicate with any living thing with his mind. As long as they give him permission of course.
His other power is Combustion Inducement. We've had some fun with /that power/ in the past. I'm not going to go into detail with that because I've still got like four more people to tell about. Basically he can set things on fire with his mind.
Ok enough about him, let's move on to the twins.
Lily and Ash. They're the youngest, and probably the craziest. Let's start with Ash. He's got a thing for fire. Yeah, he's basically the stereotypical pyro boy. I remember when the white coats brought lily and Ash in for the first time. They pretty much walked in and shoved two crying babies into the cages next to mine and Krystal's.
My and Krys had to comfort them and calm them down through the holes in the cages. I think ash sort of formed a thing for krys. Not like a crush, more of a 'I'm going to protect you from harm because you're like my sister and im the guy so I have to look out for you' kind of thing.
Anyway Ash has a natural talent for making things that will cause the equivalent of a forest fire, or the explosion of about six pounds of C4.
Yeah, they made a serious mistake by giving him tools to build stuff with when testing him.
He only has two powers that we know of; Super Speed and Twin Telepathy. Yeah it's not hard to figure out what those powers do.
As for Lily, she stayed more or less independent. I mean, yeah, she's attached to us all, but she would totally be willing to kick one of us out. Lily loves to build violent weapons. Her favourite being the deaging ray.
Personally, I liked the shrink ray she made out of dead cell phones that I had pick-pocketed off of White coats. You have no idea how great it is to see tiny erasers running around snapping at each other.
So, for her powers, we -again- have only discovered two. Photokinesis and Astral Projection.
Photokinesis is the psychic ability to control light which is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye and which is emitted and absorbed in tiny "packets" called photons. Photokinetic users can generate, bend, shift, focus, scatter and/or generally manipulate light to various decrees and effects.. To the greater extent, one could make themselves invisible. Photokinesis can also be used to create illusions, generate light shields/force fields, and project an healing energy too.
Yeah it's complicated. Astral Projection is- well, you know those scenes where there's a person in a coma but they can see everything that's happening around them, but it's like they aren't in their own bodies? Yeah it's pretty much that.
The photokinesis she can control at will, be the astral projection only happens on and off when she's sleeping. We're working on it. So that's the twins, now onto Isabelle.
Isabelle isn't quite as violent as the twins, but she has strong opinions and she isn't afraid to voice them. She isn't really as fashion obsessed as krys- you'll see in a bit- but she doesn't mind having a little bit of makeup.
She loves anime- I'll explain how she's even seen anime in a bit- and science. The science thing was discovered when mixed up some chemicals, to the point that the white coats' eyebrows didn't grow back for a month.
She would easily give up herself over the others. We know of only one power in her case. Invisibility. Or as she enjoys saying, "invisibilizzy".
Ok, now onto Krystal.
She's by far the girliest. She loves clothes and makeup, and she loves the color pink.
She likes the band 'Coldplay' and she is.. Well.. A hopeless romantic. She's always droning on about finding her soul mate. It's really quite annoying. But, you gotta love her.
We've only discovered one of her powers. Omnilinguism. She can speak any language basically.
The thing about her is that when she was still quiet young, she fought the erasers who were transporting her at the time, but one of them had a lighter. He burned her shoulder, badly. She healed quickly and it didn't leave a scare but she does have a massive fear of fire.
Ash has enough sense to keep his 'projects' away from her though.
As for me, well.. I guess I'm the leader. I can pick-pocket easily, and I'm pretty protective. I have three powers; Time Stop, Energy Twin, and Sanity Theft.
All Time Stop does is freeze time and people around me, unless I want someone to remain unfrozen. The only Drawback is that it only lasts about fourty seconds. Energy twin creates a fake clone of myself, projected by energy. It's quiet useful when you want to pull pranks.
Sanity Theft is.. Well.. I think you can guess. Let's just say that quiet a few erasers have had to be sent away early on account of spazzing out and breaking down. The thing is, it takes a lot of energy to use, so I can only manage, at most, four uses per day.
With the whole pick-pocketing stuff, I would sometimes manage to grab some sort of electronic, off of the white coats. Usually it was a Phone or PDA or something.
Apparently, a lot of white coats love IPhones. Because I managed to get /a lot/ of them. Usually when I would grab one, I would hide it until everyone was gone home, then me and the others (just us six though) would take turns either looking something up, or buying some episode of a tv show that we would all watch together.
It wasn't as difficult as you would think, for us all to watch it at once.
So that all I can think of, that you would need to know about us, so let's finally get back to store, why don't we?
I turned to face the others.
"Ok guys, got everything you need?" I asked, glancing around to make sure nothing was on fire.
They all nodded as I handed Sparrow a black beanie. He looked at me, confused, and I pointed to his ears. His eyes widened and he pulled the beanie on.
"How did no one-?" He started, but I just shook my head.
"I honestly don't know." I said, pulling the duffel bag over my shoulder.
"Let's get out of here." I told them, walking towards the back of the store. We walked along the back wall, me in the lead, until I found a door.
There was a sign on it that read 'Employees Only'. Seeing as it had only taken about four minutes to get Everything, then a couple more for the clothes and stuff, I had plenty of time to scout the place for an exit.
I turned to the others.
"Once we got through here, there will be a sort of warehouse area where they keep inventory. There's a door leading outside twenty feet to the right on the opposite wall. Now, when I went in earlier, no one was in there, but I don't know about now. So if anything happens, we meet back up at that old empty park we saw on the way here, got it?" Everyone gave me their nods of understanding and I smiled inwardly. Maybe we won't have to many problems now that we are free.
I took a deep breath and opened the door, sticking my head in the check for danger. Seeing no one, I slipped through quickly, then stood off to the side.
It was a room with gray concrete floors, and bare walls. There were rows of boxes lining the walls off to the side. It was pretty dingy, to be honest. The lighting was all weird and there where these weird plastic flap things In front of the door.
I waited until everyone was through the door, and heading to the exit before I started towards them. This was going really well.
Lily, who was in front, quickly and quietly opened to door and slipped outside. Following silently, Ash, Krys, and Izzy all made it out safely. Right as Sparrow was about to go, a voice sounded from behind us.
"What are you two doing back here? This is employees only." I turned and saw a middle-aged man who looked like he played way too many video games.
I vaguely noticed Sparrow motioning to the others outside, telling them to go, as I launched into an innocent facade.
"Oh. I'm sorry. My friend and I were looking for... The... Bath.. Room?" I tried, letting out a small laugh. Ok, I completely failed, I know. I sucked.
I could practically feel the amusement emanating from Sparrow, who was standing beside me. I elbowed him in the side, and huffed.
This was stupid. I turned and walked outside, dragging Sparrow with me. Forget it. I can't be bothered to deal with some weird guy right now.
Me and Sparrow quickly ran into the wooded area that was surrounding the back and side of the store. We came to a small clearing, checking to make sure that guy hadn't followed us, And we took off.
We rose quickly into the air, loving the feeling. We circled the clearing for a minute, then I playfully bumped Sparrows wing with mine. Knowing he would attempt to retaliate in some way, I took off in the direction of the abandoned park.
Now the Fun starts.