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Rescue crews at the site of the Ray Industries work tirelessly to find survivors of the explosion that managed to tear apart every individual floor of the building without leveling the entire building. After hours of digging through rubble and digging out victims of the blast, they are finally at the top floor of the building.

A fireman breaks open the door to the office in the center of the floor using an axe. He and his partners find small mountains of wood, metal, and blown up security monitors. One of them can hear moans of pain coming from one of the smaller piles. He waves his partners over and they start to pull apart the pile to reveal a horribly disfigured man underneath it all. It looks as though the majority of his face has been burned and torn apart by a point blank explosion. The man blinks his eyes a few times, his vision greatly blurred. One of the firemen ask him if he is alright, if he knows his name. The man does, as does most of the world. He answers with a tired and hurt voice, "Charles...Ray."

Gidget cries out with a shriek that echoes throughout the entirety of the warehouse. His face, his voice, they were so real. If her rational side was working, it would be telling her that it's the after effects of the highly concentrated F-particles from the foundry. Unfortunately for her, that side wasn't in control right now. Something deep inside of her soul is telling her that he is alive...The Nightmare Man. "He wont stop! He wont stop! He wont STOP!" She screams the three word sentence again and again, unable to stop herself. She throws her hands over her eyes, as though she was trying not to look at something.

Gidget doesn't hear Annie, rather all she hears is her own minds insane ranting. Running completely on impulse and instinct, she takes her hands away from her eyes and scrambles to her hands and knees. She frantically starts grabbing for scraps of metal and other materials around the warehouse, tears staining lines onto her dirty face. She cries out hysterically, "I need more, this isn't enough. Not enough to stop him." She takes a lead pipe and strains as she attempts to bend it with her bare hands.

Tansy's eyes widened as she jumped off the side of the building and flew into the warehouse. She moved over to Annie and frowned. "What happened?" She grabbed onto Gidget's arms and tried to hold them back, so that she couldn't hurt anyone. "Gidget sweetie, it's okay...."

Gidget quickly loses her strength as she tries her hardest to bend the pipe. She drops it and looks down at her arm where Tansy is holding it. She looks up to Tansy, then to Annie, then to neither of them. She speaks to the both of them, "It was so real. He looked right at me when they pulled him out of the rubble. I know it couldn't have been real, I'm not psychic, I just build things."

She snaps out of her trance and smiles weakly at her friends, "I'm okay, it was just a really bad dream. If I understand his power right, it's going to take some time for our bodies to get rid of the F-particles." A small beam of light peeks into the warehouse. She sighs and mumbles, "I've never been a morning person."

Ako was snapped out of his deep nightmare by a bean of light shining in his eye. He hadn't heard Gidget's screams, in fact, the first thing hid mind registered was Annie saying something about morning and f-particles. Ako didn't know anything about the particles, but early morning meant one thing to him; Breakfast. His stomach was growling for biscuits, eggs, sausage, gravy, and sweet tea. Very sweet.

"Who wants breakfast?" He asked, stretching his arms and putting his glasses back on. "We could find a Hardees or something, I think I still have my-" He patted his back pocket, where his wallet usually was. It was gone. "-oh. Nevermind. Sorry." He did a quick pocket check, to see what was missing, only to find that pretty much everything he carried was gone. No phone, no iPod, and worst of all, no knife.

Making sure the girl was okay, Tansy let go of her, and patted her bald head. "Yes. We should go to this brother's of yours. It will be the only place we might be able to be safe." She looked to the group and sighed. "Are we ready? or do we need more time?"

Gidget looks to Annie and shakes her head, "That's not the case with him. You see, as potent as they are, they have a weakness. The reason he made me build the F-drones is because his control distance, and capacity, is limited. After a certain distance he can't feel them out anymore.