Jared

(Sorry Luke I'm going to do some good modding with your guy.)

I know you must be wondering, what exactly is my power. You've probably heard of or seen the armor, well that's part of my power. The other part is the ability to manipulate and alter mechanical and electrical devices, including the creation of such devices. That's where my skill ends, I have little to no skill at altering computer software. I might be able to develop such skill but at the moment my plate was full.

I'd created a device that locked on to the distinctive genetic pattern of my kind. The only problem I was currently having was the range was only about one hundred feet and it didn't give or barely gave a direction. I'd been driving around for hours on this Monday morning and it was just a little past noon. I was driving to each of the high schools in the area hoping I could find them at school. I was getting close to giving up when my radar started going crazy. I checked it. Two different people, close in proximity and in genetic pattern. Siblings?

I stopped my car on the street and walked over to the high school, lunch was just ending. Great how am I going to find anyone here? Then I saw her, she seemed to blaze among the things that surrounded her and there was another near her, he almost looked like a shadow. She was dressed in bright clothes and he in dark ones, probably the reason for that. I walked closer the group they were sitting with was beginning to break up.

"Excuse me," I offered my hand. "I don't think we've met. My name is Jared. You are?"

"Going to be late for class if I don't hurry," She answered as she took her tray and dropped it off.

I wasn't going to give up that easily, "I don't believe you are aware why I'm here."

"You want a date or something?" She asked. "Well forget it."

"Not exactly why I'm here," The cafeteria was almost empty. "I know you have special powers."

She and her brother stopped dead in their tracks and turned around. He stepped toward me and spoke, "What do you want from us?"

"I want you to come with me," I answered truthfully. "I want you to help me."

"Who sent you?" She asked. "Alex or the government?"

"Has it occurred to either of you that there might be another group that simply wants to exist in peace?" I smiled. "I'm that group."

He laughed, "You must have quite the power to think you can exist in peace all by yourself."

I nodded, "I do. I can fly, have bulletproof armor and can heal if you did somehow manage to hurt me. Not to mention my ability to manipulate hardware, mechanical and electrical. I am a child of the future, I was created to protect our kind. I didn't choose this, it was chosen for me but who am I to second guess my mother."

He rolled his eyes and turned back to her, "Who does he think he is?"

She just stared at me, "I believe him."

A canister of gas fell into the room between us and I donned my armor. I guess it probably looked like some kind of aura surrounding my body and the armor materialized. I saw her turn invisible and heard a gunshot. She fell to the ground, I couldn't tell if she was dead or alive.

I heard a man yell, "We are supposed to contain them, what's wrong with you! You shot without authorization."

The smoke was fairly thick and I was pretty sure it was knockout gas. My armor was protecting me. It began to clear and I was an older man with a gas mask on stop dead in his tracks when he saw me.

I shot over to him and punched him squarely in the chest. He went flying back into the wall and stood up gasping for air.

"You're one of us?" I couldn't believe it. "You traitor. You'd better pray she isn't dead."

"Or what?" He smirked. "You gonna promise something to me?"

"I'm not a fool," I spat back.

"Then what? What are you going to do if she's dead?" He grinned.

I knew he was just taunting me but I didn't care. I came closer to him and heard a gunshot, the bullet hit into my armor and was deflected.

"It's not just for looks if that's what you thought," I said. I grabbed him by the throat, preventing him from speaking. "If I ever see you again and you are trying to take our powers or kill us. You will die. Unlike you, I believe in second chances. You aren't even giving us a first chance."

I threw him into the other person with him and went back and gathered them both up and flew through the ceiling, to my car. The top was down and I plopped them both in the back. They started to wake up, evidently it had lessened effect on our kind, but that wouldn't last, they would adapt, they always had.

I put the top up and started away. As suspected they followed me, I headed out of the city, I didn't want to hurt anyone during the chase. The boy climbed in the front with me.

"Thanks," He said. "If not for you we'd both be captured."

I shook my head, "They'd have tricked you into losing your powers and then they'd release you. For some reason they are behaving differently this time around. I guess a bunch of bodies in this day and age would attract too much attention so they are trying a different way if possible."

He blinked at me and looked in the back, "I stopped the bleeding before climbing up here, she should be fine for a few hours. Do you have a base or something?"

I nodded, "But I'm not going there til I lose them, and that could be difficult if they managed to hack into satellite feeds."

I looked behind me and couldn't see them. I got off the interstate and pulled into a parking garage. I smirked as he looked clueless.

I handed him a map, "That's the hideouts location. I might lose consciousness doing this."

I got out of the car. I found a vehicle that looked similar enough. I then altered the external hardware or my car and the other vehicle so they changed appearance. As I finished I felt my consciousness sliding and I got into the passenger seat and started the car before fainting. The car would remain on until he turned it off, otherwise he couldn't have driven it anywhere.

I woke up a few hours later, very sore. He was sitting in the car, waiting for me. She was awake but wasn't out of the back. We had made it back. I took a deep breath and got out of the car, motioning for them to follow. The bullet had taken her in the right shoulder. The hideout was underground.

"How big is this place?" He asked.

"I found it, not entirely sure how big it is," I answered him. "Some areas need some fixing up, but most is good."

He walked off, "I'll be looking for a room."

"This way," I laughed as I realized something. "I still don't have your name."

"Rachel," She said as she followed me. "My twin brother's name is Raymond."

I glanced over at her and smirked. She glared at me, "Don't you dare."

"Dare what?" I continued smirking. "I set up my lab this way, it's where I keep the medical supplies."

"How did you get all this stuff anyways?" She asked. "I mean where did it come from?"

"The truth is I stole most of it," I frowned. "I'm not proud of it but it was necessary. I plan on repaying for all of it when I can."

A few minutes later we got to the lab and she sat down on the hospital bed.

"Do you have any allergies?" I asked.

She shook her head, "None that I know of."

"Alright," I handed her a pill. "It's penicillin, just in case it got infected."

I made her lean back as I found the tools and poured some medical alcohol on the wound. She gave a small yelp in pain.

"Sorry," I whispered. I carefully extracted the bullet and dropped it on the plate next to her. It was a hollow point. "Guess you're lucky you're tougher than a normal human."

"Thank you," She smiled at me. I smiled back.

I finished up on the wound so it wouldn't get infected or bleed. I took her down to the housing area and found her a room.

"If that gives you any trouble my room is just down the hall," I pointed. "Can't miss it, it's the one that's been fixed up." I started to walk away.

She nodded, "Jared?"

I stopped and turned back, "Yeah?"

"If they found us at school where we weren't using our powers at all can't they find us here?" She looked quite concerned.

I shook my head, "I cast a spell of sorts, you can't use powers to divine the locations of anyone inside this place or the place itself. We're safe, not to mention I have about twenty different alarm systems set up. We'd know they are here before they did."

She looked much more at ease, "Good, when is dinner then?"

I shrugged, "I had been eating whenever I got hungry I guess now that there are other people here we should eat together so we grow a bond that will help us better in the inevitable fights that will come."

She nodded, "Show me the kitchen then."

"Don't you want to get settled?" I wondered.

"Nope, it's not that I'm hungry I just don't have anything to get settled with," She grinned.

"Oh well," I scratched my chin. "We could fix that."

"I don't want to go steal stuff," She objected.

I laughed, "I meant go to your house and take your stuff tonight and your brother's things as well."

"That'll work."

"Good," I led her to the kitchen. "I'll be in my shop, still haven't finished some modifications on my car." I walked off and went to my workshop.

(If curious Luke I'm basically having Victor use his power to find people as I'm sure you would have him do anyways. :) Oh and the place they are in is an old base that was created by a previous generation of their people but never found.)