The sky is still dark, but no rain, just a gathering of clouds.
There's a flash of orange light, and the police car stops abruptly. Six is lying on her side on the back seat, shifting between states of consciousness.
The door opens, and someone carries her over their shoulder. A purple portal opens before the person, and they walk through.
Zane is sitting up in the ambulance, his mind racing
"Why didn't I get there on time? Why was I busy fighting that guy? Dammit"
The driver adjusts his mirror and sees a vehicle speeding from behind, a bla ck Dodge Charger. The driver pulls out a gun and hits the head. The ambulance starts to veer off the road, and it crashes
He looks out the window. Zane Snaps his fingers, but he feels a sharp pin in his hand, and nothing happens. The ambulance is about to go off the bridge when Zane kicks the door open and jumps out just as the vehicle tumbles off the bridge into the sea below. The Dodge Charger speeds toward him. He attempts to jump out of the way, but a green dome appears over the bridge.
Zane sees Pryce putting his hand on his shoulder.
"Well, today has been...eventful. "
He says to Zane.
After the dome disappears, so do they.
Someone puts their hands on Six's shoulders.
"Hey, Six, wake up."
Six wakes up on a bunk bed, and she looks around, seeing an apartment covered in dust and water trails on the walls.
She looks in front of her seeing a much older woman sitting beside her.
"Um...who are you?"
"Oh,my bad."
She says as she makes a clicking sound with her tongue, and a faint red dome disappears,, and she's revealed to be a much younger dark. Skinny girl in a pink shirt and jeans.
"Number five!"
She exclaims, pulling her close to hug her.
"I'm so very happy to see you. Are you okay? I hope no one hurt you."
"I'm okay, six."
"What happened after we escaped that day?"
"We managed to stay together, I've been using my Zone to keep us away from someone who was chasing us."
Someone walks into the room stomping his feet, a young caucasian man wearing a baseball cap, a black shirt and blue shorts.
"Five, why did you take down the zoo... Six, is that you?"
"Eight? Oh, thank goodness. She gets up and hugs him.
"Are all of you here?"
She takes off his cap, revealing his bright yellow hair with orange at the hair tips.
"You finally dyed your hair."
"I told you, the day we get out, my hair is going to be fire...or you know, look like it.
She smiles.
"Are all of you here?".
"N...not all of us, they got 44 was arrested and...there was a guy in a skull mask..."
Five stars to cry as he mentions the man in the skull mask.
"He attacked us yesterday, most of us got away using this."
He shows her a black glove with white tubes on the back.
"What's this?"
"It's one of the professor's inventions, Five took it from his office. Did you know he now works here as a teacher?"
"
"Um...eight, I didn't take it, I thought you did."
"No, I didn't."
Six interrupts
"Is that blood in those tubes?"
"Yeah, he can mimic a N.E.X.Ts zone with just a blood sample."
"Whose blood is it?"
"I don't know, but it's a zone I haven't seen before; it creates a teleporting zone."
"Like yours?"
She says, looking at Eight.
"No, mine involves swapping places with an object I've focused on, this allows the user to go theoretically anywhere."
"So what's the plan now, guys? Keep hiding?"
"Not for long." Five says.
"We already attacked Pryce's office to get our files away from him so we stop his experiments. Now we're gonna rescue forty-four."
"...And from there we'll locate the others. We leave no man behind."
"You said he was arrested, right?"
"Yep, we're breaking into a police station."
Zane and Pryce appear back in the school.
Prycw walks head to his obliterated office.
"Why are you back here?"
"Why does anyone do anything? "
"Survival?"
"Meh, I'd give you a six out of ten for that answer."
"Thank you, sir."
Pryce stops looking and turns back to Zane.
"Are you really going to agree with whatever I say?"
"Well, you are the smartest man on the planet."
"You disappoint me."
He mutters as he checks the pockets of a ward coat on the floor.
"Help me look for a flash drive with a blue ring on it since you're not ready to contribute anything else."
He notices Zane snapping, but nothing happens.
"Umm..right."
He opens the desk drawers looking around for the drive.
"Did something happen to you, Zane?"
Zane doesn't respond for a few minutes and doesn't move.
"I...lost someone today."
"You didn't lose someone, that's layman sp..."
"My friend died!!!"
Zane interjects.
"Oh."
"Let me guess, "everyone dies someday?""
"I was going to say I understand. I've lost a lot of people in my life."
"I've read your biography like ten...I mean a few times and you never mentioned anything like that."
"Men like us...we can't show weakness-it's too risky."
"Wait...the flash drive, I know where it is but you need to tell me what's on it."
Pryce sighs
"It contains data on a personal project. "
"About N.E.X.Ts?"
"About the future and how to avert a crisis that the world is very unprepared for."
"...Am I a part of it?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"I...yeah."
"Okay. No, you are not. Now, where is the drive?"
"Six took it."
"Of course she did, and you helped her?! Just knew that her life is very much in danger. The man who attacked the schokl was after it."
"We beat him."
"Don't make me laugh! People like those who aren't beaten, they're killed or will come back to kill you. Now tell me, boy, did you kill him?"
"N.. no sir."
He snaps a button, and a purple portal appears.
"I put a tracker on the drive in case it got stolen. "
He's about to step through, but sees Zane just standing there.
"What are you waiting for? An invitation? "
"I've messed up too much, I can't do anything right."
"You're both right and wrong at the same time."
"Yes you screwed up, big time, but in this short life we all live, what we do in the present matters more, do you know why?"
"Because we now we can influence what happens."
"...and the future will thank us for it."
Pryce stares at him, then tosses the glove to him.
"It has your blood in it. When you snap your fingers, it'll be just like how your powers work.
"Where does this lead to?"
Zane asks.
"I don't know yet, how about we explore the unknown together. "
"Yes, sir."
Zane follows with a smile.
Six is walking on the side of th.e road. Five is seated ala parkn a pa,rk bench, and Eight is walking on the other side of the building.
"Okay, remember the plan..."
Six says through a telepathic link.
Within the prison is a small cell where Forty-Four is sitting with his back against the wall, and there is one guard in the room next to him. Beyond that room is a corridor leading to the entrance wh,ere six officers are.
An A.E.R. antenna on top of the building
The guard brings a plate of food to him.
"Here."
He drops it on the floor right outside his cell.
The prisoner is gasping and too weak to move.
A puddle of ink appears outside the cell.
The red-haired woman emerges and looks disgusted at the prison cell.
"It seems your friends are coming to save you; soon, everything will fall into place."
As all this happens, the blue hologram overlooks Zane and Pryce emerging from the portal.
"Hm..."