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take us.”
    Melanie breathed in a deep lungful of air. “How did you do that without practicing?”
    “I have no idea.”
    “You saved us. Thank you.”
    Scott shook his head sadly. “This isn’t safe Jack. This is the first place they’ll look for us.”
    “I thought we could go to that couple’s place. No one knows they were infected too and they’re so far off of the radar that we can probably hole up there if they let us.”
    “They want nothing to do with us.”
    “I had no other options.”
    The doctor said, “I didn’t know others were infected. What exactly was it that infected you kids?”
    No one said a word because they still didn’t trust the doctor.
    “Oh, come on. I had no idea they were going to try and eliminate you.”
    Melanie said to her friends, “Don’t tell him a thing.”
    “We weren’t going to. What should we do with him?”
    “We have to bring him with us.” Melanie didn’t even try to face the elephant in the room which was, should they kill him to protect themselves?
    The doctor said, “I promise I had no way to know the general would resort to such brutality.”
    They suspected he was telling the truth, but they couldn’t bet their lives on it, so for now, he was considered an enemy.
    Melanie whispered, “I just hope Dan and Molly are still ok.”

    On The Run
     
    As they walked through the fields, Scott said to Jack, “Have you been working out?”
    Jack snorted. “I could ask you the same thing.”
    Melanie added, “It’s great that you two are all buff but a lady’s supposed to be dainty. I wish my muscles hadn’t thickened up like this.”
    Scott looked her over. “I like it. Some guys have no problem dating a she-hulk.”
    “That’s not nice Scott. And at least I can hide my musculature.”
    Jack laughed. “You’re not exactly insulting us when you say our muscles are so big that we can’t even hide them.”
    Scott put an arm around Melanie’s shoulder and said, “ We don’t know if the muscles are permanent just like we don’t know if these powers are.”
    Melanie shrugged off Scott’s arm and Jack took a second to wonder why.
    The doctor interjected. “I could try to work on a way to reverse whatever it is that happened to you.”
    “Shut up doc. If you could, the general would’ve made you do it already.”
    Melanie went quiet. She leaned into Jack and whispered, “I murdered that man back there.”
    “You saved my life.”
    “I couldn’t control myself.”
    Scott overheard them and patted Melanie on the shoulder. “Thank you for saving my best friends life. I hope you don’t regret it.”
    “Of course not. I just wish I could’ve done it some other way.”
    Jack said, “He tried to kill me. He was going to succeed, or else we were going to make him fail, at which point the general was going to have us all executed anyway. There’s no two ways about it; we did what had to be done to survive. You’re a hero in my book. You saved us.”
    “You did your part too, teleport ation boy.”
    Jack stared off into space. Was that how he was able to avoid being slashed by that soldier’s blade? Had he been able to unconsciously teleport each time the knife would’ve touched his skin? It made no sense, but none of this did so maybe it was the only explanation. He knew deep down that none of this was possible.
    He got a sour feeling in his guts when he remembered that metallic sphere and what it did to them right before they blacked out. That blue mist had done this to them, but why?

    Dan and Molly
     
    They had no way of knowing for sure if the lone farmhouse belonged to the couple, but it had to. There were no other houses in sight. The sidewalk leading to the front door was nothing but a gravel patch with weeds and grass sprouting through here and there. The house itself looked to have been recently abandoned, with chipped paint and a gutter dangling loose. There was a rusty tractor right in the middle of the lawn that looked like i t