Chapter 1
My dad was a scientist, with a lab in our basement. I never really knew what he did, specifically, until one day, when he told me to get my younger brother and meet him down in the lab. I was seventeen, and my brother was fourteen.
Upon entering the lab, I was amazed by all the test tubes and wires and lots of other stuff I'd never seen or even heard of before. My dad was down there with his friend and partner, Mr. Reed, whose two sons were there as well.
"Good, you're here," my dad said. "I need you two to sit in these chairs next to Cameron and Sam." Cameron and Sam, Dad's friend's sons, were sitting in two 'chairs' that looked more like electric chairs or something. They were tied down and everything.
"Um, Dad? What exactly are we doing?" I asked nervously as Mr. Reed strapped down Chris, my brother.
"We've got a breakthrough! We're on the verge of a scientific revolution, and we need human test subjects," he replied crazily. My dad had never really seemed to care much for us, but to risk our lives on some stupid project of his?
"You need human test dummies, so you two both decided to use your own kids?" I answered angrily. I didn't like being used for science against my will, but he was my dad, and I wasn't yet eighteen, so I legally had to do what he said.
"Oh, come on, Lexi. Don't you trust me?" I turned my head away in answer. "Well whether or not you trust me, you're going to do this, and I promise not to hurt you."
I tuned out whatever else he said to me. I wasn't in the mood to hear one of his speeches about how this was all for 'the greater good.'
Suddenly, there was a needle in my arm, injecting who knows what. A bright light flashed across my vision, and I was afraid I had been completely drained of all my blood, then everything went dark.
When I woke up, my dad was over me, shining a flashlight in my eyes.
"She's up!" My dad yelled across to Mr. Reed. "How do you feel? Do you feel any pain, or discomfort in any way?"
"No, I feel fine, why? What were you injecting in me?" I asked, sitting up. Somehow I had been released from the chair and was collapsed on the floor.
"We injected in all of you a serum that is supposed to enhance the human senses and abilities. In a way, you were supposed to receive some kind of, uh, superpower."
I looked around the room and noticed that Cameron, Sam, and Chris were no longer in the room. "Where are the others?" I asked. "And do they have any superpowers?"
"The others went upstairs to the kitchen. They didn't have quite the same reaction as you, but they do feel weak, so we sent them to get nourishment while we waited for you to awaken. As for the powers, yes. They all seem to have some sort of new ability. We haven't quite figured out exactly what those powers are, but we want to make sure you're all safe before we get into that."
I walked up the stairs--slowly, because I was still sore all over--and found the boys in the kitchen eating chips.
"Aren't you supposed to be getting nourishment? Chips don't provide any nutritional value," I said obnoxiously to them.
They all looked up, and Cameron awkwardly stood up.
"Are you okay?" He asked. He looked genuinely worried for me, and I was a little surprised.
