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She looked at him from the monitor on the screen musing Mike was lying unconscious on the desert floor, in the same room there were a lot of people all focused on the similar picture displayed on their screens, the boy who had blown up the Colorado airport, she wasn't there when it happened but she had seen the aftermath, 200 people were dead and over 500 were injured.

The dead were so burnt that there was no way to recognize their identities from their smoldering remains even through dental records.

The incident was all covered up as an act of terrorism by another country, all that for the kid lying unconscious, she had been the one to rescue from the government when they had blown him up in the bus earlier, his trail all over the country was always filled with flames, although he thought he was hiding well the fact was that he was as noticeable as a firefly in darkness, if they hadn't been cleaning up his tracks he would have been found long ago and now it was time to bring him in and make him face the cruel harsh face of reality.

Mike awoke with a loud noise ringing in his ear, he looked around but all he could see was sand.

He guessed he was in the desert. He couldn't remember anything after the bus explosion.

He saw that his clothes had been changed, he wasn't wearing the oversized faded shirt and jeans that he had worn earlier, he noticed there was a device wrapped around his neck, he tried removing it but it wouldn't budge, he then heard someone voice resounding around the empty desert plains.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" the voice sneered.

Mike looked round trying to figure out where it came from but he couldn't find anything or anyone.

"idiot, I am communicating with you through the speaker installed on the device wrapped around your neck".

"Who are you, what do you want". Mike's panicked voice followed soon after.

"even when suppressing it all this time you still have such a destructive power; I am curious as to how far your powers can really reach".

And with that inexplicable sentence Mike started hearing a strange buzzing noise, he didn't know why but he was instinctively uneasy and soon sure enough he started feeling the sense of euphoria he felt whenever he used his powers he looked down and noticed his arms were already ablaze.

Somehow someone was forcefully activating his powers.

He tried to calm down and restrain himself but he couldn't it was like the flames weren't able to listen to him anymore even though he was quite sure the flames had appeared because of him.

In a matter of seconds flames had begun to spread to the surrounding desert and soon the sand started to crystalize Mike kept on trying to curb the flames but to no avail.

The damn buzzing kept interfering, frustrated and annoyed mike decide to change his actions since he couldn't stop he decided to just release everything and then hoped that maybe the resulting energy would destroy the device wrapped around his neck.

And so he started to visualize himself in his mind with all his strength, and so soon with a shout he started to glow and the air and light around him started twisting and then with a bang a mushroom cloud appeared staining the skies, the impact spread around and as soon as the dust cleared mike was standing alone with tons of crystalized sand scattered around his surroundings.

He looked at himself and sure enough his clothes were in tatters but the good news was that damn device had finally been blown away, He felt hollowed out and he was sure he was in no condition to fight the guys who had brought him here and so he started running on the now crystallized dessert, he didn't know where he was going but he knew he needed to get away before someone came to get him.

She watched him run away but was too amazed at the scene of him permanently turning 6 kilometers of desert to glass the others in the room where as stupefied as her, soon a buzz resounded through the room she soon noticed her pager was ringing there was only one message sprawled across the pager, it said "get him".

She groaned at the thought of having to go to the desert which had just been superheated, well it couldn't really be called a desert anymore but never the less the thought of the monstrous heat she was about to face made her face icy.

She closed her eyes and immediately appeared on the other side of the monitor standing in front of a dumbfounded Mike Layley.

One would think that a guy who just set off an explosion comparable to a nuclear bomb in the desert would be less surprised at a girl appearing out of thin air, the girl looking at mike's dumbfounded expression couldn't help nut smirk remembering the scenery around she couldn't help but think inwardly 'at least the excuse of a nuclear bomb exercise would be more believable this time.'

Mike was so surprised right now, even though he knew there were definitely others like him out there, or else how could his dad have such a bizarre research project but it still came as a shock to him that someone spontaneously appeared in front of him.

Mike was taken out of his thoughts when he felt the girl start walking towards him he saw her taking a metallic baton out.

He wanted to keep running but then remembered how she had appeared in front of him in the first place, if it was what he thought then there was no point in running anymore, as despair and fear began to overwhelm him he heard a voice in his mind that didn't seem to be human 'finally I'm free.' And with that weird voice mike lost consciousness.