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Finally! Someone actually likes it! The story will be updated more from now on.

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Nitrix Correctional facility, American province, Rocky Mountains 8:30 P.M.

Director Houstow was worried. 4 of the strongest Atomix had escaped the facility, and he still did not know how the hell it happened. This facility was the top guarded facility for the results of "Project Mino Helix", and everything was going fine. Fine until a week ago that is. Houstow had to work his ass off making sure none of the other super soldiers escaped. He looked through some of the papers on his desk and sighed; the bills had just come in, and he needed more government funding to keep this up. It was necessary though. The C.I.A. had reported that Japan had several hundred Diclonius set up in a facility. Afraid that Japan would use them against them, the government set up "Project Mino Helix to counter the Diclonius. Still, paying the bills after this disaster was grossly unfair for Houstow.

Houstow was done with the paper work when Assistant Director Silton came in looking triumphant.

"Director, you should see this at once! Come to the monitor room now!" The small, raven-colored man was out of breath; exercise was hard to come by up here. Houstow sighed, fixing his glasses on his face so that his equally raven-colored hair did not get in the way of them

"Is it about the grand escape? You have better found something…"

They walked through the dark, cave-like corridors of the facility. This decoration was not surprising, as they were inside of a mountain range. They passed by several people in white coats on their way, who greeted them before going on their way to their various jobs.

"So Houstow, how have things been going on with that rotten division?"

"Don't remind me" Houstow grimaced. Nothing good had happened recently. Things were going along quite smoothly until about 3 months ago, when subject #13 had escaped from his solitary confinement on an island facility near Indonesia. They never found out where he went; they found the remains of the helicopter he hijacked near Nagasaki Island, but no trace of #13 anywhere. On top of that, a rough F.B.I. unit was formed, taking 15 Atomix with them. Sane Atomix were hard to come by: the unit took about 52% of them with them. Most humans after the transformation retained their personality but had a tendency to kill most humans or were unstable in some other way. Oddly enough, they weren't insane; no one could explain it. This correction facility had over 300 Atomix in confinement. Everyone did testes everyday on them, testing their abilities; they did not really care for human rights violations that were broken in the process.

Houstow and Silton walked on in silence, until they came upon a small, steel door. They opened it, and walked into a room with screens all over the walls, showing all the security footage of the entire facility. A small man in a white coat with glasses and with circles under his eyes looked up from the monitor.

"It's always a pleasure to have the director's visit here." The man said in a high, squeaky voice.

"Stop with the pleasantries and just show the tapes!" "Okay… okay… you don't have to yell at me Silton, god…" He pressed a button and a tape rolled, showing a figure in a cell. The time read 8:30 P.M. at

The beginning of the tape. "So what is this important thing you wanted to show me?"

Houstow put his hands in his pockets, a sign that he was impatient and would rather be elsewhere.

"Stop it at 8:45. Now look at this: He simply disappears from the camera."

"What the…" It was true. The figure disappeared from view just like that. One minute he was huddled in a corner. In the next one, he was gone. "Is it a glitch in the system?"

Silton shook his head "we though so at first. We rebooted the system afterwards, but…."

"Well?"

"That particular camera's time was 8:45 after the jump. But all the other cameras times read 8:50. That corresponded to my watch and, for that matter, every other clock in the facility."

"What are you getting at?" Houstow glared at Silton, which was quite effective combined with his dark eyes and scowling face. "Just because a system jumped you think that Yogast had something to do with it?"

"That's not even the strangest part. We send out patrols looking for him soon after it was realized that he and the other 4 Atomix were missing. First off, we double security over the 3 other problem Atomix after this and get this: The same time glitch occurred at each of the cells. And the guards testified that they just vanished. One moment they were there, the next… I think you get the picture. Each time the system screwed up, it was a 5- minute lag exactly. Now here's the best part: Freezes in the system occurred in certain intervals; leading right to the hanger bay, where a helicopter was about to take off. However, we did manage to find out how they did it. Squeak, show freeze footage 12 and 13 and zoom in at point 8.75. And note the times, Houstow."

"Give me a moment!" Squeaked the small man "Just don't rush me; my hair can't take the stress."

"You mean what's left of it?" Silton grinned at Squeak.

"Enough!" Houstow was getting impatient "show me this discovery!"

"Look here: 8:55 P.M., nothing wrong here right? Now check out the other camera. This camera has a clear view of the other camera. As you can see, two hallways intersect each-other in a "T" formation. Now this camera is positioned horizontally so that it covers the top of the "T". The other goes up the stalk of the "T". Now at the top camera, at 8:55, no one is there. However at 8:55 at the other camera…"

The picture showed two guards running right past the second camera. Houstow starred for a few minutes, mouth agape. "But… but… this is insane… none of the Aurahex…" "You know about his ability to speed up particles, which by the way results in him being pyrokinetic(1). It looks like he's capable of molecular immobilization(2) too. Amazing… We did firing tests too, and he did not use it even though not doing it would result in extreme pain. Slowing particles down means…"

"That he can stop anything he wants" groaned Houstow. "How could this have happened? How could things get any…" His sentence was interrupted by a messenger running in on them.

"Sir, we know where they went! They hijacked a plane at the airport and we have the location of where they flew to now."

"And that is?"

"Kanagawa, Japan."

1. The ability to control fire.

2. The ability to slow down particle movement to the point where movement is zero.

Well Chapter 2 is now done. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Next chapter will see somewhat more action then this one. So look forward to it!