"PIETRO!" Ciara formed a ball around them. "Back up. Back up!" She called

The soldiers advanced, constantly firing in a single spot to try and get through her defenses. For once Pietro's metabolism was working against him as the drug sped into his system and made him pass out.

"Fury! Do you copy? Fury!" Ciara called. Her defenses weren't going to hold. "Sorry sweetie." She broke several water making pills, wrapped Pietro in a large ball of it and threw him as hard as she could toward the school. When Pietro's water ball landed, far from the reach of these men. It bursts and Pietro lay unharmed.

Now that Pietro was out of the way- Ciara had just started to try her head when a bullet brushed her cheek. Oh no they didn't. Ciara went at them, water whipping their weapons out of their hands.

"Ci.... o.... copy..... do....." Fury's voice was cutting in and out, apparently something was jamming them.

"High class warning" the soldiers informed one another, "send back up" more soldiers moved in, surrounding her completely and constantly firing.

Ciara continued fighting them off, actually taking the darts that were fired at her and taking out several of them. But they just kept coming and it was far too dark. One of them threw a tazer which sent a shock threw defenses and threw her system. She fell like a rock.

"Hot damn" one of them commented as they confirmed she was out cold, "This has to be at least a class four..."

*

Ciara awoke to Max hovering over her, "Ciara... Ciara wake up"

She moaned, "Go away. Go-" She blinked, "PAPA?! She sat up, "Ow..." She put her hand on her head.

"Here," Susan put a paper cup up to her mouth with water in it.

"Take it easy" Max hushed her, "it takes awhile for the headache to pass."

"It's not a headache...They tazed me...My whole body hurts." She lay back down. "Where are we?"

"I don't know where" Max replied, relaxing a little as he sat next to her, "but I've figured out what they're doing and I've never been so sickened since the gas chambers"

Susan stand down beside Max and cuddled up to him.

"What are they doing?" She asked through she really didn't want to know.

He wrapped an arm around Susan comfortingly, "They're turning mutants into electricity" Max replied with a disgusted look on his face, "they found a way to tap into the energy that the x-gene gives off when it's activated and they fill these giant batteries to ship off to different cities. They're selling it as the world's first clean and highly efficient energy source."

"Oh gods." She put a hand over mouth. Forcing herself not to throw up. "That's...oh gods." After she knew she wasn't going to vomit, she put her hand on Max's leg, "Most of Shield, the brotherhood and the whole school are looking for this place."

"We're gonna get rescued?" Susan asked, looking up hopeful.
"What's your name sweetie?"
"Susan."
"Thank you for the water Susan... Yes, it's only a matter of time now..." Ciara put on a brave smile.

And so they waited, there wasn't much else to do but wait.

*

"Don't kill her" the female scientist reminded the others that had gathered around Celeste's table, "we just need to see how this works..." and they started the process of full uncovering the stone.

*

Back in the helicopter Fury was flying over an old log cabin that was out in the forest when Celeste's sister could finally tap into her presence.

Pallas grabbed her chest as if someone had just stabbed her. "There! She's there!" Before anyone could say anymore, Coco jumped from the copter, growing wings to glide down with. CoCo could sense it. They were hurting her. Something was very wrong.

"Deploy, Deploy, Deploy!" Nick Fury ordered, sending all his agents into the area.

*

"There it is..." she cupped the gem almost fully in her hand, "Now, what makes you so special?" she took a small mirror, trying to get a look on the underside of it.

Although Ceres was knocked out, tears poured from her face. As the lady tried to look underneath it, a bright light shot out and into her eyes blinding her.

"AAAHHH!!!!" she screamed and stumbled back, the others startled and pulled away as well.

Her eyes were gone. They'd been burned out of her head.

She couldn't stop screaming and soon the other scientists were all over her, trying to do anything they could to help.

CoCo burst into the room in the form of a large spirit like cat and quickly wrapped himself around Ceres as the light started to grow. Some beings were just not meant to see things or rather, physically unable.

Pallas soon walked in with a large gun. "You are now under arrest by the authority of Shield's international's tready with Canada. Now get the hell out of my way." She pushed past a few of them and saw what CoCo was trying to do. She grabbed hold of them by the coller. "You have 10 seconds to start patching her up before I left her melt all of your eyes."

The scientist she grabbed immediately fainted but another jumped forward to start patching up Ceres. He did not want his eyes melted.

The other Shield agents swarmed the area, clearing rooms and covering Pallas' back as she took care of what Ceres needed.

"Tell Lieutenant Hill when she's ready to be moved" Fury spoke to Phallas, "We've got to get her out of here as soon as possible. I'm leading the sweep on the rest of the facility."

As it turned out that little cabin they had seen had a network of tunnels and an entire massive facility below the surface.

Pallas simply dropped the scientist and followed the one who jumped up over to Ceres.

She nodded as Fury spoke to her, her hand on Ceres' cheeks, wiping away a tear. "Will do, Fury... It's ok Ceres... I'm here." She called softly.

Fury took off with another squad.

*

"Alright, we're ready for the class five" George proclaimed before turning to his partner, "Never done a class five, how much you think we'll get?"

"My money's on twenty" the other replied, "She can probably power the whole east coast"

"I'll take that bet" George grinned a little.

The door to their cell opened and several guards came in but Max was already blocking their way to getting anywhere near Ciara or Susan.

Ciara was feeling better by this point, she was up on her feet, holding Susan behind her. "It'll be ok, Susan. Just stay behind us..." Her heart was racing though.