It's time for a new chapter. This one details the back story of Brutus and has a shock involved. As always every review is greatly appreciated (It helps me learn how to make my stories better :) ) Quick side note I have a new Fanfic on the heroes of Olympus series so fell free to check it out if you want! OpticFlammingo out!

Chapter 19 Six

Even with all my self-control I can't stop the groan coming out of my mouth. Sam see's this and looks similar to me. Not wanting to go back to the place where so many things go wrong.

"You've got to be joking Brutus. What possible reason could you have for wanting to go back to Paradise?" I say.

"TK told me to. He said John told him about something under Zero's house." Brutus answers keeping his eyes on the road.

"Maybe it's worth a quick look Six." Ella says. I thought she was asleep on Marina's shoulder for the last half hour.

"Can't we just forget about it, just go straight to the Mog Base?" I plead.

"It's going to be a quick drive-by Six. Just to see what's there. Maybe it can give us clues to where more bases are."

"Or it could be the deranged writings of a Mog who hid as a human for the first 10 years of my life." I hear quietly from Sam. Fortunately Brutus doesn't hear and keeps driving. Since Sam found out about his Dad being Mog and never telling him, he hasn't lost his drive to find him but he's become bitterer about it.

"Any how we're not getting there tonight. I'll try to find a Motel we can stay in." Brutus continues.

"But we have no money." Marina pipes in.

"My dear Marina, that's where you're wrong, TK gave me this in case of emergency." As he says this he wiggles a platinum credit card in front of our faces. Sometimes it's weird looking at Brutus he may look older like a 30 year old and be able to smash people into dust but he has the nature of a kid who just stole his Dad's credit card.

"Brutus, how old are you?" Ella suddenly says.

"5 years old in Vat years" He says smiling at our shocked faces.

"It's different for Vat borns, our brains are designed to soak everything we need to know up. I was the runt of my batch. Everyone else was 8 foot whilst I was 6'9" he continues looking slightly annoyed.

"Why aren't you like them?" when I ask this. Brutus responds with silence and when I'm just about to give up he responds.

"I was like them. I was ready to kill all of you in the name of Setrakus Ra and I almost did. I helped kill the Cepan of number three." This is met with silence and the shock sets in. Until I finally hear Ella's small voice.

"Then what happened?"

"I realised what I had done. It wasn't a victory to take away another's life to save our own. When the survivors were going back to our base cheering something in me snapped. I killed each one and ran. Soon I met Adam on the run as well." As if on que Adam chooses that moment to start snoring and Brutus stops talking. I don't think we'll hear the end of this story.

"We're here." Brutus says suddenly. I look outside and see another Motel similar to the last one. Hopefully this one won't have the same fate. We all check into two rooms. Boys in one, girls in another. I try to get to sleep but nothing works even though my bodies tired, my brain refuses to rest. I keep thinking about how Brutus helped kill one of us and changed. Was it luck that he turned good or can Mogs be born good like Adam and Lola?

In the end I give up on sleep and decide to go for a walk. I leave a note on the door for Marina and Ella and start running. I run down the highway as fast as I can making myself invisible and soon I'm racing a Ferrari that decided to break the speed limit. I won.

I'm on my way back when I see Adam waiting outside the Motel talking to himself. I decide to sneak up on him when I suddenly hear.

"I know you want me to introduce you but they'll think I'm crazy." He says. You are crazy I think to myself but I carry on listening.

"Oh I am crazy. Ha Ha One" he says sarcastically. One? Why is he talking about the first dead Loric? I finally decide to make myself visible.

He shrieks "Six what are you doing here?"

"Who are you talking to? I'll know if you're lying" As if to emphasize this, I lift him into the air using my telekinesis.

"One." He sighs.

"One is dead."

"Not in my head. She says hi by the way." I lift him upside down. How can he talk to a dead person?

"I know it may seem weird but the Mogs had me attached to this thing that allowed me to live her memories and please will you drop me. I think I might pass out." I suddenly see how red his face is and drop him. He waits a minute before he continues.

"I relived her memories for two years and when I got out the machine, well she kind of got attached."

I'm still not entirely convinced when I suddenly have an idea to prove if it's true. "Ask her what I was wearing the night of the attacks?" He thinks for a minute before he says:

"A summer dress, a red ribbon in your hair and a patterned bracelet around your wrist." It matches up.

"Wait, she also says why would I care what you were wearing?" I can't help but laugh at this. Giddy that I can speak to Number One through Adam.

"Six-"

"I won't tell anyone yet Adam."

"Thank you." And with that he hurries back to his room. I briefly see Brutus's legs hanging off the side of the bed comically and hear him snoring. Suddenly I feel instantly tired and this time I have no trouble sleeping.

I wake up to the sound of Marina gently waking me up. I try to swat her away but she dodges and laughs at me.

"I have never met such a heavy sleeper before, Six." She says. I suddenly see I'm four foot above the bed and see Ella and Marina laughing and soon I'm laughing too.

"Five minutes guys!" I hear Sam yell from the other side of the door. Soon we're all dressed and out the door. I realise I have a burn mark on my jacket from the Motel fire and make a metal note to buy a new jacket. Soon we're in the car again and driving. Sam sleeps on my shoulder and from the looks of it, didn't have a good night's sleep either.

We spend the next two hours passing time by playing eye spy or Brutus talking about the time he had accidently wondered into a crack den after he escaped the Mog custody. Apparently the crack heads were so out of it they thought he was a real life "Lizard man" and tried to pet him. We all laugh at this.

Soon I see the familiar sign of Paradise:

WELCOME TO PARADISE, OHIO POPULATION 5,243

I see underneath someone has written in large red letters: 'Home to Bomb Smith'. I do all I can to hold the rage down. Everywhere we go we'll always be the bad guys when we are the good guys. The FBI just got caught in the middle.

"Well Shit." I hear Brutus say. Then I see it. An FBI checkpoint looking into every car ahead of nearby and moving towards us.

Bet you just hate my cliffhangers by now! Tune in next week for the next chapter of The Power of Five! :)