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"What's going on here?!" Rachael said picking herself up off the floor. "Wait...Uncle Jess?? Raze??" Still a bit disorientated due to the fact that her glasses were blown off her face.

Cathy groaned and sighed looking at her dress. "Man, this was a new dress..." She looked up to watch the girl almost effortlessly stop Pietro cold. "Wait a second....." She said looking at her closely.

Victoria's and Sasha's brief moment of laughter was interupted as the unexpected happened all at once. Two unknown teens waltzed in, who strangely enough looked like a cross between Sonya and Markus, and then to her horror realised that Ana had suddently vanished into thin air. Before a react came to mind a hurricane like wind swept through the place, scattering everything like leaves. She whinced as she and her chair was thrown violently to the floor.

Breathing heavily from the shock of it all, she checked herself for damage. Nothing serious save for a bruise and a busted lip, but for the moment that didn't matter. At that second Sasha's twin walked into the room...no...Sasha didn't have a twin. Victoria blinked to make sure she wasn't seeing think, but unfortunantly, her vision was perfect. She swore the two looked exactly the same except for differant hair and eye color. Pietro was the first to confront the girl and delivered a powerfuly blow to match....only to the girl evade the punch without so much as a sweat. A bone chilling thought crossed her mind. If Sasha and the girl weren't twins, then what the hell was truely going on around here?

Jacen only groaned as he lay on the ground. His mind was in a state of fugue and confusion, and he was having trouble coming to. The attack he was just the victim of did a number on him, mainly the telepathic attack. The hit to his arm would only set back the healing process.

As he was actually waking up, he saw that Pietro was being subdued rather easily by a young girl. Jacen smirked slightly, knowing that his ego was more than likely taking a shot. When he actually opened his eyes, he saw there was more than just that one girl. There were a few youngsters there, none of whom he
recognized at all. And amongst Pietro there, Penance was standing there, along with alot of others. If anything, these kids lacked subtlety and tact amongst other more favorable traits.

"Not smart, blindsiding me like that," Jacen muttered as he struggled to get to his feet. Still weary from the mental assault, Jacen leaned against the wall nearby until he had his right mind about him.

I apologize, but you did make the first act of aggression. It was that same voice in his head. He couldn't tell who it was coming from, and he didn't see anyone turned to look at him.

Jacen got an angry look on his face, "First act of aggression? What I did was in defense! You...you...kids were the ones trespassing on private property!" While Jacen got even more infuriated, he could see one of the kids look over to her comrade and only shake her head. It looked like he was ruffling a few feathers.

We had no other choice.... the voice said to Jacen, but that too was something that was annoying him.

"Whoever is talking to me.....show yourself....." As he said that, he saw the girl who had taken quite a few steps back when he stood up look right at him. Even in his muddled state of mind, he was even more confused. He looked at the girl, then around until he saw Penance. Then he looked at the young girl again. The youngester smiled a familiar smile; Penance's smile.

".......I need a drink...," Jacen said to himself as he slid down the wall until he was sitting on the floor.

What Kris sees when he peers around the corner into the dinning room is: nothing. The table, chairs, food and guests have all been swallowed by a large hole. "......" Sliding back behind the cover of the wall, he shuts his eyes as gel rises from his skin, forming black plate armor under his clothes. The exception being his head, neck, feet, ankles, wrists and hands. Checking his hands, he notes the gloved fingers, so he removes them, pocketing them in his jeans.
Slowly, quietly, walking into the room, standing half a foot from the hole, he peers down into the hole, but only enough to see the bottom. When he looks, he tries to remain inconspicous, a quick glance to see how deep the hole is and if the missing people are in it.
Since there are people there, he ponders his next move. "....." Well, now what does he do? Jump down there and try to be heroic, or just wait for the right time. The second seems to make more sense, so he does just that.

"Son of a b***h." Jamie pulled himself off the ground, and grasped for his katana. s**t. Then he realized it was upstairs. He moved into a position where he could see better, and observed the newcomers. He didn't know what to do. They all looked so young. . .

Penance truely wasn't to accept this situation and trust whoever these were... but she knew better. Trust wasn't to be bought so easily. This could be just another mind game from another villain waiting to pounce.

She put a hand on Jacen's shoulder who liked like he was going to pass out or throw up. Turning around to the newcomes she yelled, "ENOUGH!"

"I don't care who you are. If you know anything about this place and about us, you should very well know you don't just walk in here, attack one of us, and expect us to listen. All of you, you better calm your asses down and tell us what the hell is going on, NOW. And maybe after that we'll be more inclined to want to cooperate."

Penance was slightly pissed off and her tone was more authoratative than it had been in years. She almost saw one of the girls who called her teacher shudder.

The little one was still trying to pop into her mind, "Kid, you're not getting in so you can stop that now."

"What?!" Rachael said looking at them in shock. The whole concept was absolutly ridiculaous. "That...isn't possible is it?" she asked no one in paticular.

Cathy laughed. "Oh, that's rich...tell me another one kid...." She said shaking her head. "That's got to be the most pathetic explanation I've ever heard...now why don't you stop lieing about it and tell the truth?"