(Warning: Character death, mild language (and toned down a bit for PG-13 site))

Chapter 1--"My Name Is Sylar"
"I can't believe this," an annoyed woman's voice floated down the prison corridor. "What could you've possibly needed so badly that you had to steal it?"

"Socks."

"What?"

"Tara Sox: Archeological Plunderer--it just came out for Gamesphere," came the flippant reply of the teenager trailing slightly behind her.

Detective Molly (Walker) Sanders paused mid-stride and then turned to glare at her little sister (15 years old and she has to put up with her crap) in a quiet fury. "Do you know what happens to lawbreaking Nats who don't have cops as guardians?"

Dani rolled her eyes. "Something like that, right?" She asked, she stopped and peeked inside the small, wire covered hole of the cell they were passing, containing some tall, wiry guy bound in chains, a tube up his nose.

Molly's eyes bulged in horror and recognition as her gift (which had evolved with practice from just finding people to knowing who’s where at any given moment) informed her of just who was in that cell. "Keep away from there!" She snapped pulling her sister away from the cage so fast that some of Dani's long blonde hair got caught in the wiring...
"What's your damage?" Dani didn't see what the big deal was—whoever that guy was drugged and bound and not going anywhere. "I mean what did he do asides from being born different? You let them do this sh-- to us! You help them! You're a hypocrite, and a traitor! I hate you!"

It was a long-standing argument between them. Molly had followed her adopted father's footsteps and gone into law enforcement--even though law enforcement was currently all about rounding up naturals like them. But instead of Molly's usual self-righteous "it's for their own protection" routine, Molly's eyes became hard.
"Not all nats are nice you know, do I have to remind you that a nat killed mom..."
…...and losing her had sent their dad to an early grave. It was a low, low blow. One Molly normally wouldn’t have sunk to.

"Which reminds me I think they picked Kat up too."

"What?!"

"Well, I saw her ducking around the corner when your synth police buddies grabbed me."

"Are you telling me that you took the ten-year-old you were supposed to be watching out shoplifting with you?"

"Hey, don't worry, she helped."

Dani supposed that it was lucky at that Molly could just find people and wasn't in danger of literally exploding like that scary guy on the Wanted poster because had she been the entire state of New York would now certainly be a smoking crater.

"She's… here… you let Katsumi Masahashi get arrested... you couldn't watch her for half an hour…."

"Sandaas-sama, Dani-kun!" Kat came running down the corridor, grinning at the quarreling sisters.

"Kat what happened? Did they get you too?"

"Ie...… they let me off with a warning, and then said you two were fighting here."

"We weren't fighting," they both protested.

"I'm glad you're okay," Molly said visibly relieved. Dani hugged Kat then pulled away, being on the receiving end of sticky child hands.

"Sorry. Officer Dawson gave me a sucker.."

"You're really lucky you know."

Kat frowned. "Not really. They called dad. He's mad, and he's coming here to pick me up early..."

Kat was interrupted by the wall beside them exploding. Molly grabbed her sister and the girl Dani had been babysitting and threw them to the ground shielding them with her body. As Molly felt the flames searing into her back she thought ironically of her step-mother, Daphne Millbrook. Then she didn't think of anything.

"Molly!" Kat screamed.

"C'mon, Molls! You gotta get up," Dani was crying. Molly Sanders stayed dead.

The room went dark as the exploding guy gave off an EMP, disabling all security systems and communication devices.
"Right everyone stay where they are, and out of my way... Nobody be a hero and I don't see what you look like splattered all over the walls."

The small part of Dani's brain that was still aware of what was going on other than the fact that her sister was dead recognized the man as the scary guy from the Wanted poster. Luke Campbell, EM spectrum manipulation (everything from microwaves to gamma rays) current head of the New York branch of the Cracked Earths a Doomsday Cult / Terrorist Cell that worshipped the martyred Peter Petrelli as a prophet of the End Times. With him were several of his followers.

After melting the door to the cage Luke walked up to the guy who was chained and drugged and roughly pulled the drug shunt from out of the guy's nose. "Hey Thirteen!" He slapped the guy in the face with a glowing hand searing his flesh. He watched, mildly amused as all traces of the burns disappeared. "Wakey, Wakey."

"My name is Sylar" "Thirteen" half-growled, half-groaned, still hazy from the drugs.

Luke guffawed; gently pushing the guy's overgrown blonde bangs out of his eyes. "Dude, that might work on the guys, but you forget, I knew the real thing. Trust me, you're not it."

"Luke?" "Thirteen" looked up, finally recognizing the voice. "You came back for me?"

"I never leave my guys behind, you know that by now. Now stay still, it may take awhile to melt through those."

"Don't bother, they're some kind of new alloy. Unbreakable."

"Ah." Said Luke as the slim, wiry man proceeded to snap the unbreakable chains. Li Feng, one of Luke's followers and a speedster zoomed into the corridor panic-stricken.

"It was a trap, they knew we'd come for him, they've got the place surrounded."

"Yeah, we kind of expected that going in." Luke turned to the woman at his side, "Susana, what are we dealing with?"

Susana Ramirez was the tactician of their little group. Like the late Molly Walker-Sanders, Susana Ramirez's power was where people were with the added benefit of knowing personal information like what type and level of power they held.
"Mostly synths. A few traitor nats." She glanced down, "looks like you barbequed one on the way in. Not a total waste though, you left us with some leverage to be used. That little girl there is Katsumi Masahashi." In the blink of an eye Feng grabbed Kat. Dani was still in shock from Molly's death and barely noticed when Susana grabbed her from behind and shoved a gun up against her temple. Only when Kat began to cry did Dani snap out of it.

"What the hell!" Dani and Thirteen screamed at the same time.

Luke ignored Dani and turned to Thirteen. "It's a good plan."

"No, it's not. We don't threaten kids. Ever!" Thirteen spun on Luke and decked him across the jaw. Luke knew that he was lucky that Thirteen was holding back. "I'll get us out, okay, you don't have to go around threatening kids."

Only then did Dani notice just how young this "Thirteen" guy was, he had only two or three years on her, tops.

Susana just laughed. "Last time you went all hero on us you got captured, and that's why we are here in the first place."

Luke wiped the trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth. "You are an ungrateful *******, you know that and I'm sorry, but we don't have time to worry about your daddy issues. There's a bunch of guys outside who want to kill us or worse."

"Not outside..." A crack of red lightning slammed into Li Feng. He seemed to spasm briefly and then fell to the floor, dead. "...right here." Announced Ando Masahashi, owner of Yamagato and Pinehearst Industries and high-level Synth. He was followed by his legion of super soldiers.

"Papa!" Kat shouted and ran to Ando now that Feng was no longer restraining her.

"You will let us go, or..." he glanced at Dani, "well you get the picture. "

Ando shrugged. "What do I care, she's a ****-poor baby-sitter... but in all seriousness, you threatened my daughter and for that you will die..."

Dani just stared at the floor not really paying attention. She didn't much care at the moment if she lived or died. Molly was dead and it was all her fault.

"Hey! I said no hostages!" Thirteen attempted to step between Luke and Ando.

But Luke would not have it. "I'm getting really tired of your crap!" Luke shouted and blasted Thirteen with the power equivalent to a small nuke. Dani looked up to see what was left of Thirteen went plowing backwards through the wall… nothing but charred flesh, just like Molly...…

"NO!" Dani screamed and stomped down hard on Susana's foot with her high-heeled boot. Susana shrieked in pain and pulled the trigger as Susana squinted her eyes shut. She opened them, still alive, the bullet almost frozen in midair, making it's way towards her slowly, and she easily ducked out of its path. Dani looked around, the room--everything was moving in slow motion. She did it! Her notoriously difficult ability had come through for her now. Now if only she could have teleported away before getting caught for doing stupid sh-- maybe Molly would still be alive…
Dani grabbed the gun from Susana and pistol-whipped her. Susana slowly crumpled to the ground and then began making her way towards Kat. Luke and Ando were charging up their abilities in slow motion, all the while Dani could feel her control slipping until time began running again at normal speed.

Meanwhile Thirteen came climbing out of the new hole in the wall.
"Oh, c'mon, you're not even trying! I survived my first nuke when I was four years o--sh--!" On instinct Thirteen leaped to (futily) put himself between the child and the blast to come.

The moment time fully resumed for everyone, Luke and Ando let loose on each other with everything they had.

It was Earth Shattering.

This is really, really good.


This has to be one of my favorite parts:

"My name is Sylar" "Thirteen" half-growled, half-groaned, still hazy from the drugs.
Luke guffawed; gently pushing the guy's overgrown blonde bangs out of his eyes. "Dude, that might work on the guys, but you forget, I knew the real thing. Trust me, you’re not it."

Keep up the amazing work!

(Ooh, cool, thanks. Feedback is always appreciated. So yeah, I think I'll keep posting these until I get tired of it or too busy or *gasp* actually finish it. As for narrative style, I'm thinking "Sliders." )

Chapter 2--"Everyone Is Dead"
Dani landed face first in the mud, Kat was in her arms, screaming at the top of her lungs, and she felt a great pressure on her back. She rolled over, partly to avoid crushing Kat, partly to throw off whatever was on top of her. It was the guy from the cell who was all buddy-buddy with Luke Campbell, the man who murdered Molly.…

To his credit when he realized that he was in said compromising position he quickly scuttled backwards.
"Where the hell are we?" He groaned as he attempted to wipe the ash from his eyes, only succeeding in smearing more dirt on his face. Looking around, it became obvious that they were in some sort of jungle clearing, a dense fog rolled along the forest floor, and unknown critters twittering in the surrounding trees. "And perhaps more importantly, why aren't we dead?"

Dani brushed at the grime clinging to her red leather miniskirt "I don't know, I just blinked..." She said, avoiding eye contact. She had never meant to bring him along. "Not where we're supposed to be," she muttered. They should be dead... like Molly.

The former prisoner tilted his head inquisitively, while rubbing his ears. He could barely hear her, his ears were still ringing from Luke and Ando exploding and the girl's screaming wasn't helping.

"PAPA!" Kat screamed. "Dani, take us back! We have to go back!"

The guy kneeled down to her eye level, his dark eyes going soft. The broken chains that he had been bound with rattled like some kind of spectral boogeyman as he gently patted her head with his grimy hand. "I'm sorry... but there's no going back."

"Get away from her," Dani hissed at the man, clutching Kat tightly to her chest. Dani shut her eyes... Nothing. She tried again... and got only a headache.

"Take us back, please?" Kat whispered.

"I've been trying, honey," Dani hated how scared she sounded.

He shook his head; disheveled blonde bangs falling into his eyes. "Trust me, even if you could, you do not want to go back there."

"Trust you!" Dani screamed indignantly at this stranger who's pals had so cavalierly murdered her sisters and at this whole situation. "We don't even know you! Who the hell are you!" She demanded.

He rolled his eyes and turned away, breathed the word "Sylar" so that it was barely audible to anyone without superhuman hearing.

Dani knew that name from Molly's horrific tales about the boogeyman--and while rationally he looked too young to be the man who killed her mother and terrorized Molly (he wasn't much older than her)--but it still terrified her... and she did not want to take that chance especially with Kat around him... anyone willingly going around by that name deserved neither pity nor sympathy.

She shoved Kat behind her and aimed Susana Ramirez's pistol (still holding it from the End of the World) squarely at "Sylar." "Sylar" shrugged, flicked his index finger and the gun was ripped out of her hand and flew some twenty feet away, into the bushes. To Dani, it might as well have been in the next galaxy.

"Look, I really don't appreciate guns being waved in my face."

She pretended not to care that she had just lost her only defense. "Thought you'd be taller. In any case, that is certainly no incentive to trust you."

The guy calling himself Sylar should have known that that name would not assuage their fears but honestly, it was who he was--as long as he was "Sylar," Luke Campbell's favorite weapon Warrior of the Resistance he didn't have to face what had happened. The fearsome façade cracked a bit upon seeing the look of terror on Dani's face.
"You can call me Thirteen if that makes you more comfortable."

"What would make me comfortable would be some honesty," and some assurance that you're not going to kill us "I mean you won't even tell us your name..." Dani asked dangerously, she seriously wished she could get her powers under control right then, and leave this "Sylar" wherever the hell they were.

He wildly threw up his hands, the chains clanking loudly, "It's not like you formally introduced yourself either... and you pulled a GUN on me." He attempted to turn it around on her "...and in any case does it even matter, in case you didn't notice the freakin' Earth just exploded. Everyone we knew...…no...… EVERYONE is dead." ...It was actually still sinking in for him to.

They were both silent for a moment, and all they could hear was Kat sobbing and the sounds of the forest.
"You know it's not a complicated question," Dani continued after a while--she always had to have the last word even if it did mean heckling a violent criminal.

"Huh?"

"Your REAL name, Sylar Jr. And as for formal introductions fine--I'm Dani, this is Kat. You're right, the world ended--and on top of that I just lost my sister to your jailbreak buddies. Kat just saw her father get vaporized, we're stranded god knows where...…I really don't want to put up with this crap..."

He spun around "I don't remember, okay!" he shouted looking and feeling like a total maniac, sweat rolled into his eyes and he felt his knees going week it got this way whenever he tried to remember. He had tried, honestly, but he only had vague impressions about his life before he had died for the first time at the age of four. What he did remember was the Pinehearst agents invading their house, beating the crap out of his dad right in front of him and then crushing him to death with a table.

...then darkness, heat, and pain …

He clenched his fists in frustration...…and his frustration began to manifest physically as sparks of electricity began dancing between his fingers, that he was losing control caused him further frustration turning the sparks into wide arcing bolts traveling up his arms.

Dani, still clutching Kat, had stumbled backwards at his outburst and now were looking on in sheer terror.

"Sh--, Get away from me!" He screamed at them, turned away, got a few steps before discharging a massive amount of energy into the jungle, followed by a deafening crack of thunder. He fell to the ground, his flesh smoldering, his vision began to darken around the edges, and feeling as if a dozen tolling some church bells had been placed against his eardrum. He could feel a violent thumping; it took a minute to realize it wasn't in his head or his chest, that the mud puddle that he had landed next to was vibrating to each THUMP.

"RRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRR" The thunderclap of his power was answered, it was the last thing he heard before the world faded to black.

Dani, still holding Kat, had actually managed to "jump" a short distance away when Sylar Jr. had had his temper tantrum and fried the forest clearing.

"What the **** was that!" She yelled at him, turning back around just in time to see the T-rex burst through the trees and devour the unconscious teenager.

Another great chapter and the narrative style is cool. I used to love watching "Sliders", John Rhys- Davis was awesome in that series.

"What the **** was that!" She yelled at him, turning back around just in time to see the T-rex burst through the trees and devour the unconscious teenager.

Can't wait to see how "Sylar Jr." gets out of this one!

WARNING Gore ahead

Chapter 3--Predators
Dani dashed through the jungle, pulling Kat along, hand clenched around her wrist so hard that Dani couldn’t tell if she was screaming because she was hurting her or from the fear of what was hunting them. As the ground shuddered and thundered underfoot to the monster's steps, Dani considered that she would very much like to have a mental breakdown right now--and if there wasn't Kat to think about she probably would have.
It really was too much. Molly was dead, she was held hostage, confronted the terrorists...…oh right, and the world ended or so Kid Sylar believed, and now she was going to be lunch for a T-rex. This had to be the worst day in the history of the world (did it still even count as one "day" what with time travel and all?)

…...And then there was "Sylar" himself, eaten alive in front of them with no chance to defend himself. She realized that she felt no joy or relief upon his death. No, she feared him, she hated his guts, but she hadn't actually wanted him dead.
Just as Dani was beginning to think she had ditched the thing by fleeing through a patch of narrow, ancient trees it came bursting through in front of them (how had it gotten in front of them?!) the protective trees reduced to lumber, splinter shrapnel raining down.

Dani nearly ran head first into it, as it was she tripped and fell into the underbrush. The creature stood over them and let loose a loud roar. Dani frantically backed away from the massive maw coming towards her when--there! Glinting in the bushes--her pistol.

She dove for it, at the same time the T-rex went for her, she suppressed a cry of agony as the fangs scraped the back of her ankle--she spun and fired, emptying the chamber into monster's face, teaching Kat new English vocabulary when the gun clicked empty and the monster was still standing--sure it had staggered back, blood oozing from the roof of its mouth and left eye--but nevertheless, still standing and, Dani noted with dismay, looking mighty angry. It stomped towards them and bellowed in rage, Dani was thrown back by the sheer force of the roar.

The beast loomed and went in for the kill… only to be rocked back by a massive discharge of energy. It shuddered and fell. Dani looked behind her to see lil' Kat, hands cupped together in the classic Streetfighter pose, fingers still sparking red from residual Ki.

Dani ran over and hugged her. "That...…that was awesome. I didn't know you'd manifested."

Kat shifted nervously. "Yeah, a while ago…I think it's Natural. Dad didn't seem to know... I never told anyone about it."

"Is it... is it the same as your dad's?"

"Not exactly...…it's more of a side-effect."

Dani raised an eyebrow. "Of what?"

"You guys..." she stammered, remembering their last conversation with Molly, "you were right, I'm really lucky...…I think of them as like hex bolts. You know, like the Scarlet Witch."

"Can you...…you can control it too?"

"Yeah... I'm sorry."

"For what? You saved us. You're like a hero."

Kat winced "I cheated those last few times we played Monopoly."

Dani glared hard for a minute and then burst out laughing.
"Hey here's an idea, can you give me some luck so that we can get the hell out of here..." Dani began as another T-rex came crashing through the trees behind them. They screamed and Kat began to build up for another charge but before either could react the T-rex seemed to EXPLODE on it's own accord--the creature reduced to the consistency of chunky spaghetti sauce, blood and gore rained down among the broken trees splattering them and the surrounding area.
Sylar fell to a crouch at the center of the reddened mini-crater where the creature had been standing a moment before, his skin smoldering as his cells knit themselves back together erasing the cuts and acid burns which he received from being eaten.

As Dani and Kat both gaped at him the other T-rex was getting up and coming at them again like the monster at the end of a horror movie.
Sylar raised his head slightly, glaring at it beneath his heavyset brows, and brought his index finger swiping down.
Kat shrieked as she saw the teeth coming towards her… and let out another blast… but it was just the animal’s head, severed from the rest of it by Sylar’s telekinesis, and when her ki connected with it (she had channeled a lot more this time) it too exploded.

"Hey, you okay?" He asked, genuinely concerned.

They nodded in response, still staring slack-jawed.

"Good. So..." he looked wearily at Dani, trying without success to clean up the blood and bile from his face, "can you get us out of here now?"

Chapter 4--You Stepped on a Bug

Kat scrunched her eyes closed, covered her ears, and at that moment wished that her mutation included a third hand to cover her nose against the stench of blood and death in the forest clearing. They were STILL shouting at each other. It was even worse than how Dani fought...…used to fight with Molly. Finally she couldn’t take it anymore. "Stop it!" she shouted, they both turned. "Dani, please, can't you guys finish this somewhere else?"

"Sorry, I'd love to but it's a little hard to concentrate at the moment and even if I tried, we could end up anywhere."

"Swell," the boy called Sylar rolled his eyes "So what are we going to do now?"

"WE aren't going anywhere, if I wasn't worried about the effects on the time-stream I would just leave you're *** here. I'm dropping you off at the closest place I can find to the time we left."

"Oh please--You need me. If it weren't for me you'd be T-rex chow."

"What? You mean like you, pretty boy."

He grinned. "I meant to do that. As you see I gave it a hell of a case of indigestion."

"Oh yes let us all praise your mad getting-eaten-by-dinosaurs skills. While you were getting digested we took down the other one."

She heard him whistling in admiration. "Nice shooting."

She was taken aback by the compliment. "Thanks," she began awkwardly, "dad... my dad was a cop and he was always really hardcore about the whole self-defense stuff. He took me to the shooting range a couple of times."

He looked at the gun. "Say how many does that thing hold. Because if I had to bet on it, I'd say your out."

"Dani..." Kat began but was ignored.

"I also have pepper spray. I bet that still hurts even if you do heal from it, so don't try anything."

"Wouldn't dream of it. In fact would you please stop being so scared of me? I'm not going to do anything to hurt you… Well unless you try to kill me again, then all bets are off."

"You think I'm SCARED of you?"

"Aren't you?"

"No, you're pathetic! I've met guys like you before. You're just some scared kid hiding behind THAT name to look tough. It's sad. Now you're making veiled threats because we're out of ammo..."

"Woah, woah, woah. I wasn't threatening anybody. I was just saying, I don't see a Walmart around here is all. So you might consider being a little nicer to me if you want me to keep saving you're ***."

"And I just told you, I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself."

"Uh...…Dani," Kat tried again.

"What!" Dani demanded and then turned to look where Kat pointed. Some sort of black nasty thing resembling a scorpion was crawling up her shoulder. It must have fallen onto her when they were escaping through the jungle. She started screaming.

"Oh **** get it off! GET IT OFF!"

He shrugged. "What? I thought you could take care of yourself?" After a split second he flicked his wrist and in a burst of telekinesis sent the bug splattering into the nearest tree.

"Ewwwww." Kat groaned. It was more of a response than when a T-rex had blown up in front of her. Maybe she was just getting over the trauma.

Dani looked embarrassed but covered well. "Great, now on top of everything else you've changed history."

"You're welcome."

"Haven't you ever seen The Butterfly Effect? Or The Sound of Thunder."

"...no."

"If you change something minor like step on a bug you've changed history--and it's always for the worst."

He rolled his eyes. "Well, we've done a lot more than step on a bug you know," he looks askance towards the dead dinosaurs.

She was getting flustered. "Who's to say we weren't always meant to come back in time and kill two T-rexes, it hardly matters since they go extinct in a few years anyway."

"You're not even sticking to your own arguments now. You're just arguing for the sake of arguing. And by that logic it hardly matters what we do to the time-stream since the earth goes boom anyway."

"I'm hungry." Kat whined.

Dani looked at Kat and realized that she had been ignoring the kid again and that they had also skipped lunch.

Sylar brightened up. "There's an idea. They've been feeding me through tubes for weeks."

"I'm sorry; but just like Walmarts, I don't think they have Burnt Toast Diners in the late Cretaceous."

"Honestly, I'm so hungry I could eat a T-rex."
A lightbulb seemed to go on when their eyes met. They returned to the clearing.

Chapter 5--Prey
Dani watched him as he lit the firewood she and Kat had collected with a small jolt of electricity. They sat around the campfire, a huge hunk of flesh from the dead dinosaur was now roasting on a spit. He idly spun it by making small circles with his index finger around in the air
Things were quiet now except for the chirping and buzzing of forest creatures and a sound not unlike a bug zapper which was Kat practicing with her power, the red sparks leaping from her hands.

"So what exactly can you do?"

He looked up at her. "Hmm?"

"Well, you know what we can do, that's hardly fair."

There was that annoying smirk again "Well, What have you seen me do?"

"Let's see we've seen you snap those chains, move really fast, regenerate, survive a nuclear explosion, electrocute a forest clearing, explode, and kill things by flicking your wrist...…So I'm guessing your some kind of power mimic."

"Yes, that would be the logical conclusion."

"But that's not possible. Power mimics are extinct. It's in all the science journals. Pinehearst has been trying to produce that formula for years but has yet to meet with success."

"Really, and where do you think they got the template for that formula?" He sighed, as he began cutting up the meat and handed a piece to her and Kat.

"Mmm...…tastes like..." Kat began.

"T-rex. It tastes like T-rex. Let's leave it at that," Dani smiled.

Meanwhile, Sylar struggled for a moment. He didn't exactly trust her, but he didn't want to start another fight about trust issues either. And though most of the time it wasn't wise to show off, he was rather proud of his powers. "I absorb the powers of the people I fight and adapt to new environments. I've heard them call it Intuitive Combat Mimicry or Adaptive Power Mimicry just big words meaning I'll mop the floor with most people."

Kat perked up. "Like Doomsday."

"Huh?"

Kat picks up one of many comic books from her book bag.

"Er... which one is it."

"The guy killing Superman, it says right there."

"...What's it say?"

"I don't know, it's in English, Dani reads it to me. But you know English, can't you read it?"

He pointedly concentrated on his meal. It was tough and rubbery.

After an uncomfortable moment had passed, Dani spluttered at him from across the campfire. "You can't READ? Wh--"

"I spent my childhood as a "guest" of Pinehearst Industries," he interrupted and quickly talked over her. "The curriculum their included being drugged, locked up, beaten, and cut up. I've never been to school--and no one ever bothered to teach me anything. So yes, I can barely read and write. Anything that I have learned, I did on my own and on my own time, which was very little considering Luke always needed my help with saving the world and all. I've never been to the movies, or been on a rollercoaster, never gone to the beach, or gone out with a girl" he looked Dani right in the eye "I'm a weapon, I only live to fight. That's the pathetic sob story of my crappy childhood," he smiled brokenly "Your turn."

To his surprise, she rose to the bait. "My family is dead. My mother was killed in Costa Verde, by your namesake idol I never got to know her, thank you very much--it killed my father too, he couldn't handle mom being gone. He drank himself to death. My sister was just killed in front of me but you know I don’t even feel for that as much as I should since you know everybody's dead now since the whole earth exploded. You should know--you were there. I gave her all sorts of grief did all kinds of stupid stuff--tagging, weed, shoplifting--just because she wasn't dad... God, the last thing I said to her was that I hated her."

"...I'm sorry about what happened to your mother, but you should know, it wasn't his fault."

"What?"

"Costa Verde. That was Pinehearst, they're responsible. I should know, I was there. Me, dad, my uncle, we were just sitting down for waffles when they kicked the door down... put a gun in my face. THEY attacked US!"

"I don't believe this, so that makes it okay that 200,000 people died?"

"They were trying to kill us! They KILLED me--dad just lost it."

"Wait.. what--Dad?"

"Yeah," he got 'no duh' expression on his face "Sylar, he's my father..."

"Woah... Sylar Jr... really?" She was just joking when she said that before. …

"And it's not pathetic," he ads as an afterthought, "I have every right to that name."

"Well when 200,000 are dead because your dad 'just lost it.' Whoops, sorry doesn't cover it."

"Oh, and you're one to talk about control, trapping us in the past like this..."

"What is that?" Asked Kat as they all became aware of the rapidly approaching thunderous sound.

"Triceratops stampede," he gritted out, "Mind trying your powers now?"

It was without hesitation that Dani grabbed them both. "Let's go." The jungle disappeared and was replaced by a warehouse filled to the brim with old junk. It was Dani's turn to smirk. "See, I have control."

Sylar Jr. spun around to the sound of footsteps behind them--and thought became action as he telekinetically pinned the guy to the wall, whatever weapon he was carrying fell to the floor with a clatter.

The man gasped for breath (He WAS choking him a bit) and smiled. "Ah, if it isn't Daniella Parkman, Katsumi Masahashi, and Noah Grey. A pleasure to see you all again" the sarcasm came prepackaged with a suave British accent.

"Who are you?" Dani demanded.

"I'm Adam."

"Wait... What--what did you call me?" He let up on the choking but still held him pinned to the wall.

Adam paused, glared at him "You always said you owed me, I never realized how much.." he smiled even wider "Sounds about right, doesn't it? Now would you mind putting me down?"

Wow, I like it very much! Continue!

Great last couple of chapters. Keep up the awesome work!