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knife; a small relief flooded over my body. 
Some point in the reality that I could remember, still existed and it made a
world of difference.
    There was something I could now ground
myself to.
    "What the hell are you doing?"
Ronnie was out of breath.  He leaned on his knees.
    "Finding proof I was not losing my
mind.  I had to know that it had been real." I said turning away from the
tree.
    "Give me one of the phones." I
asked holding out my hand.
    Ronnie took the phone from his pocket
and handed it over.  I opened the camera application and snapped a picture of
the carving.  With a smile, I turned to leave the clearing wiping a tear of joy
from my eye. 
    When we returned to the others, I showed
them the picture Sandy and Kenny both smiled, as happy as I had been to see the
old tree.
    "We need to come up with a
plan." I opened my mouth to continue but the old oak in the woods was
blown to pieces.  The aircraft responsible slowly hovered around where we
stood.  Spot lights switched on and shown into our faces. 
    "I wonder who this
could be." Ronnie said sarcastically as we all grouped closer together.

Chapter 8: Vanish
     
    The aircraft, the likes of which I’d
never seen before, touched down in front of where we stood. Just behind the
cockpit window was an unmistakable Aurora Corporation logo pressed into the
metal hull.  The side door slid open with a pneumatic hiss.  A dozen armed
guards marched from the passenger compartment and surrounded our group.
    Two other men walked out onto the grass,
one wearing camouflage pants, and a bullet proof vest.  The other, a perfectly
pressed suit, his hair was slicked black, the grease shown in the moonlight. 
It was the man that had spoken up the second time Dr. Cid forced me to use my
abilities.
    "Who are you?" I asked as pushed
my way to the front of the group.
    The man in the suit stepped forward.  He
adjusted his tie, "Oh, how sorry I am that we have to meet this way,
Grace" He looked at his hand as if thinking about an offer to shake, but
changed his mind.  "My name is James Scott.  I am the CEO of the Aurora
Corporation."
    "Good for you." Ronnie yelled.
    "Now, now there is no need to act
that way, I come offering you open arms to come back, and we will forgive and forget
this little indiscretion." James took another step forward. 
    "Forget about it.” I yelled.
    "We gave you so much." James
said as if we owed him.
    "We are not going with you." I
looked to everyone for support.
    They all nodded. 
    "Have it your way," he turned
to the man beside him, "Kill them, and recover the bodies, we don't need
any of them alive."
    "Sir." the man nodded then
turned the face of his watch like a dial.  James vanished in blurry blue lines.
    "So you're going to kill us?"
Rachel moved up to get a better view.
    "You heard him, we don’t need you
alive." he held up his fist.  All of the soldiers around us held up their
rifles aiming at us. 
    He dropped his hand, pointing at us.
    In unison, all of the men began firing
their fully automatic rifles.  The bullets flew in all directions but no one
was hit.  I turned around to see Rachel with her arms out beside her, palms
out, her eyes rolled into the back of her head.  The bullets were ricocheting
off of some kind of force field. 
    All of the men began to reload at the
same exact moment.
    Ronnie pushed me back and put his hands
together.  Lightening started to arch between them forming a ball of energy. 
He threw the ball at one of the men surrounding us, but before it made contact,
the leader of the group appeared in front of the energy ball in a blur. He
absorbed the blast.  He then increased the size of the energy ball and threw it
back at Ronnie.
    Ronnie tried to jump out of the way but
he wasn’t fast enough.  The ball of energy crashed into his side sending him
skidding across the grass.  Every muscle in his body was contracting at the
same time.    
    "Hmm... I haven’t met another
Electrokinetic with this much