[center][color=red][h3]Addison Torrez[/h3][/color][/center]


Addison didn’t really register getting onto the bus with all the other kids. She didn’t even really notice the bus ride or them being lined up in some large room. She had been in a daze for most of it, which most would say would be due to shock. She had only learned of her parent’s deaths maybe 5 hours before, or had it been 4? She wasn’t exactly sure anymore, all she really knew was that they were dead and she was all alone in whatever this horrid place was. She walked slowly with the others, not really knowing or paying attention to where it was she was going. All she was doing was following the person in front of her because someone was pushing her from behind. Unlike all the other kids, she didn’t look around or take notice to the kids in the very front who were receiving some form of screening. 

It wasn’t until the chaos started that she snapped out of her thoughts. Her eyes went big when the armored men around her burst into the flames and she instantly started looking at herself to see if she was ablaze too. She looked up when she heard someone say run, but before she could really register the words a terrible sound started ringing in her head. It was unlike anything she had ever heard or felt before. The pain was almost unbearable and made her stomach twist into knots. Just when she thought she was going to vomit from the amount of pain coursing through her head, it stopped and a man’s voice rung out over the crowd of children.  He was angry and just the sound of his voice instantly annoyed her. She didn’t listen to his rant, her head hurt too much to pay attention to whatever it was he was saying. The most she heard was “do not escape” and then all of a sudden she could see 5 kids starting to get beaten. The man walked away not long after that and then all the lines began to move again once the 5 were dragged away. 

Addison had been towards the back of the line and it felt like forever before she was led into a smaller room away from the others. A younger looking lady with a lab coat sat in the back of the room with a chart resting in her boney hands. She didn’t bother to look at Addison, but instead continued to stare at the chart in front of her. 

"Hello. I need your name and if you would so kindly lay on that table there. I need to scan your brain real quick to make sure everything is all right."

Addison didn’t respond for a moment. Her eyes glanced over to the table and then back to the woman, who still didn’t even have the common curtesy to look up at her and ask the question. The woman doesn’t say anything more, she just simply waited and clicked her pen a few times. 

“Addison Torrez,” she said, reluctantly going to lay on the table in the middle of the room. She hadn’t really wanted to, but there didn’t look like there was many other options for her to take. The scan was finished rather quickly and as Addison sat up the woman asked her to show case her powers in a bland and uncaring voice. 

This time Addison didn’t bother to answer at all, causing the two to glare at each other in silence for several moments. Finally, after waiting for a good 5 minutes, the woman stood with a sigh and picked up a marker to place a giant red X on her back. She then grabbed both of Addison’s hands, which caused her to jump and struggle for a moment. 

“Doing that won’t help you and is just a waste of both our times.” The woman hissed in her ear as she grabbed a pair of handcuffs off the table and latched them onto her wrists. 

“What the hell?” Addison yelled angrily, trying her best to whip around to look at the woman again. However, she was shoved out the door and taken by the arm of one of the guards outside before she could say another word. She struggled briefly in his grasp, but this only made his hand tighten on her arm to almost a painful level. Addison stopped struggling after that and let the strange man lead her away with some of the other kids with Xs on their backs. For the first time since she arrived she really looked around, no longer in her daze, and started to truly realize just how much her life was about to change.