In a garden we are.A garden of a mansion.A 10 story mansion,the biggest anyone had ever seen.With over 150 rooms.Anyoje could tell by walking aside that no ordinary man was living there.It was the Georges family house.Preserved for over two centuries,the house of the leaders of the palace.Whom their first ancestor had invented the city Palace.They were the rulers of the city,whatever went to the city went first by them.In the mansion was The leader of the city himself.The president and one above all.David George.Then it was his wife,his 5 kids,his maids and rest of the family.4 of the kids in the house would always have fun together.Whenever a football match was on screen they'd be on their way to see it.Playing football outside and inside.With so much room in just the ball a stadium could be kept inside.But one of those kids was different.Studying matter,Engineering,Philosophy.She was not a nerd.She had a goal.A goal to be the most knowledgeable of all time.But a closer goal she had was to enter the lab.At that time,the lab was a place made to create medicine,cures and evolve technology.No prisoners were held.Only the words greatest scientists were there.Palace city was at its peak.It was the best state of the USA.The biggest,wealthiest and most successful city in the world.Holding a capacity of 3 million citizens and a 2% unemployed rate.It was a dream come true.That little girl,the child of the 5th that did not follow the others.She was only 14,but she had already finished college by the time she was 5 and a half.She was destined to be the world's smartest human ever.She was destined to be brilliant.Destined to be a genius.

  Though,nothing lasted forever.One night,an empty night.The door banged!as everyone was sleeping.In come agents.Shooting every where.The family woke up,locking their doors.The grown ups getting ready to fight back against the invaders.Shooting back with all their might.Unfortunately for them,they were governmental,not soldiers.They could not have won the trained agents.And as Johnson Mary,married to the face of the city,was shot.Shot in the heart.President George had seen it all.For him,the bullet landed on him.Not his wife.For him he was the one to be killed.The woman she loved most had been murdered.Murdered in front of his eyes.He could have not believed it.He grabbed onto the killer.Trying to kill him.But the soldiers mission was to let him live.He could have not shot the president yet.With no choice though to make,as he was being strangled,there he shot.Yhe President was shot.Thrown afterwards into the dead body of his wife.Going on with a failed mission.Killing the rest of the family.One member had been left.Hiding behind a box,next to Presidents and his wife's bodies.But to her hiding,it was her father and mother.It was the little 14 year old child.It was Mary.The infamous Mary.Having just noticed the deaths of her entire family.But the agents were uncontrolled.Shouting at each other,due to the presidents death their mission was a failure.Pushing the presidents killer down and shooting at him.Coming then close to the presidents body.zas Mary hid tightly behind her little box,there!They started shooting at the president.Making his dead body president mashed potatoes.Flaming the whole house before their leaving.Making sure nothing would be left.The house was too great to be burned.They knew that.Their hopes was not to burn the house down.Their hoped were to burn any survivors left hiding.Mary running away from the flames as fast as she can.Going from story to story.Trying to find something to end the fire at once.A boy from outside,14 as well saw the big fire and went to see what was going on.Mary found a way to get down to the exit.But at the 2nd story she was stopped.As she was running down.A burst of flames hit her.Blowing her up on the window behind her.falling from the 2nd story.Happily a tree stopped her fall by a margin.Waking up Mary was.She seemed to be in a cave.Next to a fire and a another bed.She was put in a bed,preserved and treated.She got up,attending to go back to her house.Setting her foot on the ground she fell down.She had woken up,but she had not gotten her strength back yet."Don't be too harsh,it was a harsh fall."Speaks the boy of her age,who had rescued her."Who are you?"asks with agony Mary."I am the one who took you here.After you fell from the burning mansion."Was her response.Wept she went.Only at 14 years old she had just witnessed the murder of her whole family.She had just witnessed her dads brains being split in front of her.Having to spectate it allx,helpless unable to do anything.The boy went to her saying,"I know how it feels like."But Mary did not take it as comfort talk.She pushed him away."You know nothing!What I have just witnessed,you don't know how to express thug!All you did was kidnap me,you didn't rescue me."She says as her voice cracked.Cracking by her misery."That's not so kind of you.But I get it.What you have just seen messed up your mind a little".-" A little!?I'm devastated!"She responds back to the boy.As the boy gets closer and says to her,"I didn't just see my parents being murdered,I saw my whole family being murdered just like you.I understand you.Let me at least help you.Im Mike."Were the words spoken.As the world split.Mary and the boy were not split.Theh were instead pushed closer to each other.The sky debloted.The earth smashed against the sun.But Mary and Mike were unawair.Only feeling the burn in their chest.Having eye contact with each other.Being frozen.

  Back to the Hideout,in present time.Nitro was doing his best to recover them.But as more time passed,they seemed to being gone even more.Only now,they seemed to lose pulse completely.Nitro was shocked.He didn't know what to do.He had done every thing his mind could think of or could hold.Until,he noticed the fragments from the two visitors from the lab he had an hour ago.The fragments were glowing.He did not use a moment to think.He grabbed them both at the same time removing them from Mary and Mike.The Amount of energy combined into his body was unthinkable.His best friends only holding the fragments on their hands or not even being in contact were dying.But he.He had gripped both fragments at once.Glowing from the energy.With glowing eyes,with energy coming out of his body.He was almost at his end.Until he was blown up straight to a wall.Breaking the wall and falling from the Hideout down.unconscious,lying on the ground he was.As his two best friends had gained again pulse.Only still in a coma.Nowmore,their bodies had won.Theit souls to win were left.The only way for them to get out of their coma was to defeat their temptations.To deny their dream of reliving their life together.Reliving their meeting with Nitro.Living life twice,or skipping one life was their choice.Either they lived twice as long,in entertainment.Either they went back to the darkness,to help Nitro get back up.The fragments were on the floor.Noy interacting with Mary and Mike anymore.It was their battle now.Nitro had done everything he could do and had to do.

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  Back in the cave were the two of them.Having to either follow their dream,or deny it.What they were seeing was themselves.Younger, in the wild.Collecting wood for the night.As they had seen a bear.Coming straight towards Mary.While Mike was away.Mary screamed.But the best ran.Almost in front for her.Almost to eat her.Mike comes out of the bush.Mike wrestles the beat.Until he Eventually struggled the bears neck.Leaving the bear unable to breath and dying.Now not only had they had wood and food.Now their friendship had been enchanted.Back to their cave,eating bear meat.Mary was rather enjoying it.Not like she was having fun after her tragic event,rather more as she knew this was the best outcome after the tragic event.She was disgusted by eating an animal that just had been killed.While being in a cave.She was loyal blood.She did not know of such dirtiness.Mike noticed that.Telling her that the weird feeling will soon go away."Has it gone away for you?"She asked him."Years ago"he says.Mary felt bad.He was living that life for years.Unable to have company."How long have you lived this life,living alone?"Was her question.Hid answer was direct."It's been about 6 years since the incident happened.But I was trained as a kid for such moments.So it isn't so bad"."Wasn't you mean.Youre not alone anymore"She responds back.They sleep next to each other.Trying to generate as much heat as they could,in the cold night in the wild."Who did this to your family?"Says Mary."The same ones that did it to you.The government."Is heard by Mike's mouth.Both now more in disgust of the government.They knew they had to do something.The government had killed innocent lives at the start.Now,they've gotten the big names out of the list.Ittending to rule the world.President George was the one that held the city in place.The day he was murdered,was the same day Palace city begun being devoured by filthiness.

  The two of them had been together for another three years.Collecting tools from abandoned buildings.Stealing devices from government experiment capacities.They had created a workshop.Where they would create weapons and suits,in order to throw down the government them selves.Palace city was already buried by the Government.They intended to dug deep into the mud.Destrouing the mud,to save Palace city.To help it rise again.But as they were resting in a dark night,a sound was heard.They rushed down to see what was going on.Being prepared for the worse.A figure in the shadow seed them,but they don't notice the figure.The figures seems to be willing to take them down.Since they were armoured and he was naked.Without anything to use.He sneaked behind Mike locking his neck besides his arms.With a figure that seemed enormous.Seemed 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide.But hands that only reached until Mike's neck.Mary turns around and has to make a move.But she doesn't know what to do.Helpless she was.The figure asks,"are you of the government?"To Mary."Mary responds,"Yes,we are of their death."Meaning that they are the ones that are gonna take them down.The Figure lets Mike go,as he comes closer to Mary.His figure now seemed smaller.It was because he had used his wings cover his naked body.Coming closer,they did not know him.But we did.It was Nitro."Nitro im called" he says to Mary and Mike.A bestile look.Traumatizing,but cute.Little Nitro was only 14 years old.Nitro had just escaped from the lab.Starving he went on a mission from himself to find food.He had not eaten for 3 days.3 days he was out of the lab.3 of them sat together on the table to eat.After lending Nitro some pants of course.A shirt they could not give him.They knew not of a way to wear him a short with his tall and wide wings.

  Sitting together,the 3 damaged kids by the government.Mary and Mike sharing their dream and goal.Nitro loving it.Loving the ideas and plans they had."super heros" they said.It sounded like music to his ears.And don't let me get started with his joy after hearing about the government idea of defeating them.The emotionless monster had become an emotional human.

  The crawler had become the knight crawler.Becoming loyal,with emotion.With heart,soul.He was now a knight for justice.Then Mary tells him"Maybe I'll ever find a way to make shirts that would suit you too"He was impressed.She had cared about him.She wanted the best for him.She gave him food,clothes,water and is already talking about making his life brighter.

  Until Mary told him,about the dream of never growing up.A future invention she'd make.Nitro responded,"If you deny reality,reality will deny you."Mary and Mike hearing this.They finally got to the point.Accepting reality.Coming back to the current time.Waking up.And as the room was still blurry for them.Their hearing was back.What they heard seemed to be crying.But not of a man.Not of a woman.A bird.A black bird was crying.Seemed to be guiding them at some place.They got up and went on to check the scene.It was a hole in the wall.When going to watch outside of the hole.What would be seen would be nitro,lying on the ground.Passed out.They got him up on the hide out fast.Treated him.But because of Mike's survival knowledge and Mary's medical knowledge.They did not fail,as he had not failed them.

  Nitro got up.And they had hugged each other.Because all 3 of them had escaped death this evening.Have dinner they did.During the dinner,Mary and Mike mentioned about the days fight.About Nitro needing help and being saved by his friends.Nitro immediately acted."No"He said.As many buts as Mary and Mike would tell him.Nitro was not going to let them follow their steps."Humans you are,Human I am not.End of conclusion ".He quotes.Being wounded by his past.Wounded by losing someone he loved before even meeting Mary and Mike.Today it had almost been repeated.He would not accept having his friends in danger.

  But Mary and Mike had hid the fragments already being careful this time.As Mary would go on in the days to come to find a way to use them,to use them as ways of fighting along with Nitro.

  The sun had fallen down.Nitros eye lids had not.Even after the longest day for a while,he would not sleep.He would instead keep watch.Getting flashbacks of his own past.Getting flashbacks of Zoe.The first to ever love him.The first to ever care for him.His first ever feeling was for her.Nitros first ever feeling was meant for her.