"Scarlet, trust me. Help us!" Leo said desperately. "Why would my mom name me after your son if they caused him to die!"

Scarlet bit her lip. Leo heard a scream from a different room that sounded like Brianna. They didn't have much time, Leo had to convince Scarlet to let him and his friends go. It was their last chance.

"Scarlet. Please. He's using you. He caused your son to die. I promise, Lily is safe. She won't be safe if we all die, though," Leo said, praying she will believe him.

Scarlet looked up at him. She had made up her mind.

THREE DAYS EARLIER

"We better get out of here, then," Katie said after Jack had told them about the video clip. "We can't let the General get you guys. And obviously he's lying about sparing us."

Sam nodded his head in agreement. "He's definitely lying about that. So we kinda have nothing to lose. We should just get ready for them here instead of wait for them to trap us."

Diana nodded her head while telling an antsy Leo to sit down. He looked like he was eight years old, already older than Lily. Sam still was worried about what had happened with Leo the day before.

Leo was playing tag with Brianna and Sanjit. Sanjit was it, and Brianna was teasing him by waiting until he got within an inch of her then zipping a yard away. Leo was laughing. Suddenly, while Sanjit was chasing Brianna, somehow Brianna's powers had transferred to him, making Brianna fall to her knees. Astrid had witnessed the whole thing and theorized that as well as making powers stronger and weaker, Leo could also transfer powers into someone else, at the risk of weakening the original person.

Even though he felt terrible at the thought of training another kid to kill, he couldn't help thinking that Leo's power would be useful. Sam kept thinking of different combinations. Brianna's speed with Sam's light. Brianna's speed with Lana's healing. Even taking away or weakening the powers of their enemies.

But Sam didn't want Leo to fight. He wanted Leo and Lily to be normal kids. He wanted something good to come out of this.

Sam was snapped out of his thinking by Astrid, who put a hand on his shoulder and looked at him worriedly, like she knew what he was thinking of. She probably did.

Diana cleared her throat. Sam jumped and looked at her, and she was smirking.

"So, now that the lovebirds are done gazing into each other eyes, maybe we should go back to thinking about what we are gonna do," she said.

"Why doesn't Leo transfer all the powers to me and I destroy them all as The Mega Breeze," Brianna said.

"First of all, there's a catch to transferring powers," Astrid started. "I'm pretty sure the longer you go with your powers being transferred, the weaker you get."

"Until?" Edilio asked.

"Until you feel the weakest you could."

"So, dead. If your powers are away for too long, you die," Caine summed up.

"That kinda puts a bummer on my plan," Brianna said.

"How long did the General say we had?" Lana said, turning to Jack. Jack glanced down at his watch.

"Approximately 31 hours and 37 minutes," he said.

"So about tomorrow at midnight. Figures he would be dramatic like that. I'm surprised he didn't say that he'd capture us at high noon," Quinn said.

"That's quite a while for planning. I think we can do it," Katie said. All of a sudden, Astrid gasped.

"Bug!" she said.

"What? Where?" Sanjit said while holding his shoe, like he was about to smash it on something.

"No. No no no. The person bug. Chameleon. What if they got him?" Astrid said. "Maybe that's the power they got to take down Orc and them."

"We'll need some paint," Edilio said. Jack grabbed his laptop. Brianna was leaning over him.

"Computer Master? That's your password? Oh my God, you are such a dork," she said. Jack blushed.

"No, it's cause my last name is Masters. Shut up," Jack mumbled. "Okay, so I typed down paint. what else?"

They spent 12 hours straight making a plan. John occasionally left with Leo and Lily to play with them, or when they got cranky from sitting around. Finally, they were satisfied with what they came up with.

"Well, it's definitely not risk-free, but we have a chance. I don't know about you guys, but The Breeze has had enough planning for today. I'm sleeping," Brianna said. Sam blinked and she was already on her bed.

Sam had a strange dream. He dreamed about wandering around in the dark. He remembered how he had feared the dark when he was a kid. And then in the FAYZ, darkness took a whole new meaning. Darkness meant the monster in the cave, the Gaiaphage. He was still afraid of darkness, but not the same as when he was a kid.

Then he dreamed about Nerezza. The form the gaiaphage had used to manipulate the kids in the FAYZ, especially Orsay. Sam remembered her bright green eyes. Like radiation.

Sam frowned in his sleep. Green eyes. Manipulating. Gaiaphage.

Suddenly his eyes sprung open. He quietly woke Astrid up.

"Wha isit?" Astrid said groggily. Sam shushed her.

"Remember Nerezza and how the gaiaphage used her to spy on and manipulate us?" Sam whispered. Astrid nodded her head.

"And how she had bright green eyes?" Sam added. Astrid nodded again.

"Maybe, the gaiaphage would know we would recognize those eyes again. Maybe the gaiaphage wanted to spy on the outside of the FAYZ too. Maybe the gaiaphage started spying and manipulating us before the FAYZ started," Sam whispered urgently. He watched as Astrid's eyes slowly widened.

"Oh my God," she said silently. "We have to tell the others."

"Wait until they finish sleeping," Sam said. Astrid and Sam laid back down. But Sam was no where near falling asleep. His mind was going through a million thoughts.

The General was another version of the gaiaphage. He never took his sunglasses off because his eyes were bright green, like Nerezza, and he didn't want us to recognize him.

Sam didn't know how long he laid there, thinking, but soon it was morning. He got up, and Astrid followed. The other 11 kids, excluding Leo and Lily, sat up immediately, like they too had not been asleep.

"We better start preparing," Sam said with a grin. The kids got to work.

Oh boy, you guys must hate me for that beginning part. Hahahaha.

And wow, I can't believe this story is close to being over. I can't believe it. But don't worry, I already have an idea about what my next story will be about. It probably has been done before but I've never seen a story about it, so I'm going to write one.