The Other Powered Girl

Chapter 1: The New Girls

It was just another day in the lab. Papa had me in a room and was making me use my powers on one of the scientists so the scientists could accurately explain what my power was and how it felt.

"I want you to make him jump up and down when he comes in here," Papa said to me before the scientist came into the room.

"Yes, Papa," I said sitting in the chair facing the mirror. The scientist entered not knowing what I was about to make him do and he walked over to me to hook all of these wires to my head, something about reading my brain waves. I'm not really sure, Papa doesn't tell us much. He keeps it really simple for the rest of us. After I am all hooked up and ready the scientist man walks across from me and stands there waiting for my order.

I closed my eyes and focused on trying to get into his mind. I kept repeating the command over and over in my head.

"Jump up and down"

"Jump up and down"

"Jump up and down"

"Jump up and down"

After a few attempts he finally began to do what I was telling him. Papa clapped and smiled at me and laughed with amazement.

"Good job, 13," he said to me. I was tired and my nose was bleeding. And more importantly, I was tired of this place. 

I was being escorted from the room and led back to my isolated room, cut off from everything and everyone. I was not going to go back, I couldn't, I wouldn't.  I used all of my energy I had left and focused it on telling the scientists to let me go and walk away.

"Let me go and leave"

"Let me go and leave"

"Let me go and leave"

They finally did and I only had so long until they broke free and came for me. I could feel the blood dripping out of my nose from all of the energy I was using. Trying to control one person was hard enough, but controlling two people; that's an entirely different thing. As soon as they let me go I began running as fast as I could. I got out of the building they kept us in and I run into the woods. After a minute or so I stop and catch my breath and I wait at the designated spot that another girl and I agreed on. Her name was Eleven and we grew up in here together. We tried to keep an eye out for each other as well.

I began to hear a rustling near where I was and I grew scared that they had found me. I hid behind the stump of the tree I was sitting on and waited to see who it was. I grew happy at the sight of Eleven. She walked over to me and she grabbed my hand and we ran. We ran like crazy until we finally found a building. We saw a man come out and throw something away and he went back inside. Eleven and I followed him inside and found some food. We began eating it and the man saw us.

"Hey! What are you two doing," he yelled and we ran away, but he caught up to us and grabbed onto both of our arms. "Are you two okay," he asked after he took in our hospital gowns and Eleven's shaven head, "Why don't I get you both some food?"

Eleven and I sat down at the counter and he made us each our own food. Eleven and I were scarfing it down since the lab never gave us enough to to give us a lot of energy, they fed us enough for the tests they ran.

"Okay, so what are your names," the man asked us, neither of us answered. We were scared he would send us back, "Where are your parents?" Silence. "Okay, so this is how it's going to work out, I'll give this back after you answer my questions," he said taking both Eleven's and my food away. We both looked over to him as we waited for his questions.

"Okay, so what are your names," he asked once again. Eleven and I just looked at each other before we both pulled up our sleeves to show him our names. He was just disgusted at the fact that we had these on our arms anyways.

"Name," Eleven said monotone as we motioned to our numbers.

"Okay, well a deal's a deal. Here ya go," he handed us each our food back and we began eating once again, "I'll be right back okay, guys," he said walking away. Eleven and I just looked at each other scared about what he was going to do.

"It's okay, I'll be right back," he said reassuring us. We listened in the best we could, he said something about child services. Anyways, he came back and gave us ice cream. Then there was a sudden knock on the door which caused Eleven and I to jump in our seats. The man just held out his hand and walked back to the door to see who it was.

"Well, that was fast. I wasn't expecting you until later tonight," the man said to the lady.

"We were around the area and the case is very important to us," she said and began walking further inside the building, Closer to Eleven and I.

"Hey, look, I haven't told them you were coming yet," he said. Then, she turned and shot him in the chest.

Eleven and I saw it happen and we ran out the front door. We didn't really know where we were so we just ran back into the woods and we kept going until we ran into these three boys, one had curly hair and a hat on, the next one was wearing a white tank top, and the last one had dark hair.