"What do you mean Hal Mason sent you?" Tom called out.

"Didn't you listen to a single thing the guy said dingle bat?!" One of the older kids of the group shouted as she came up to stand next to Harvey. "Hal Mason sent us here to get help from you bunch of airheads!"

"Lilli don't speak like that! We need these people's help not their hatred!" Harvey exclaimed to the girl.

"Yeah right Har! The second they hear how we know Hal they'll either kill us or lock us up!" The girl said harshly. "We can't trust them."

The boy, Harvey, sighed and continued speaking but to Tom this time. "It would be best if we could talk about this privately. The events that transpired so that all of us," He once again gestured to the group he had arrived with. "Could meet Hal are something that not a lot of us are comfortable talking about in such a public situation."

"And why is that?" Pope drawled. "Did the Mason family golden boy finally do something bad? Did he go against orders?" Pope started guffawing loudly. "Yeah sure kiddies. Hal Mason got caught up in something so heinous that you can't talk about it! That's hysterical!" Soon enough all of the Beserkers were laughing.

"You peice of sh*t! You have no idea what Hal went through to protect us! What those Skitters did to him is not something you f**king laugh at like it's some hilarious joke your buddy told you! Let me at him Har! That jack*ss needs to learn that he can't laugh at Hal!" Lilli screamed as Harvey held her up in the air. "Let me go! These a**hats won't help us get Hal back from those damn Skitters; we're wasting valuable time dealing with them! Hal could already have been transported from the facility! He won't be able to stop them from continuing those damn experiments on him! He'll be at their mercy all because we stood around and talked with these idiots!" Lilli covered her mouth as she realized what she had just let slip. Harvey set her down on the ground, and she turned to look at him. "Oh my God, I'm so sorry Har. I didn't mean to let it slip! I knew you wanted to break it to Hal's family in private, but I just got so angry, and I wanted to beat the sh*t out of that guy and prove him wrong. That Hal wasn't a joke. I'm so sorry!" The girl looked close to tears she was so sorry.

"Hey Lilli, its okay. What's done is done. The past is in the past." Harvey said wiping away Lilli's tears. Harvey turned to face the stock still, frozen in shock crowd. "I need to speak with Tom Mason, Ben Mason, Matt Mason, Maggie, Colonel Weaver, John Pope, Anne Glass, Cohcise, and whoever at this moment is the acting President in as private a room you have at the moment." Harvey smirked slightly at the crowd. "We wouldn't want any moles to hear us, now would we?"

Marina Teralta stepped forward to speak "I am the acting president right now. Let's go talk in the war room. Everyone who was not asked to talk would you please return to your duties. Tom, Ben, Colonel, Maggie, Anne, Matt, Pope, and Cochise would you please go straight to the war room please. I will be there in a moment with Harvey and whoever he wants to take with him for the meeting." Everyone nodded and went their seperate ways.

Harvey turned around to talk to his group. When he turned around to walk to Marina Lilli was by his side along with one limping african american girl and a tall boy with blonde hair and a nasty looking scar running down from his ear to his neck.

"President Marina this is my third and fourth in command Hazel and Marcus." Harvey said shaking Marina's hand "You already know my second in command Lilli from her outburst. Which we are both really sorry about since we called everyone here a**hats, aren't we Lilli?" Harvey glanced Lilli who gave him a dirty look before she walked up to Marina and shook her hand also in a death grip.

"I still think being here is a huge mistake. But that just my opinion; not that anyone cares about my two scents that is." Lilli said as she stepped back.

Marcus hit Lilli's shoulder with his own. "Yeah, that's because no one cares about your two cents Lilliana." Lilli punched his shoulder, and he said "Ow Lilli what was that for?" His tone said that he knew exactly what it was for , ut he liked teasing her.

"You know exactly what that was for jack*ss. Now let's get this meeting over with. We're wasting daylight just standing around. President could you have one of your people escort the rest of our group to your clinic? I few of us arein rough condition." Marina nodded and signaled for Anthony, who was still loitering around the square, to come to her.

"Anthony, I want you to take the rest of this group down to Lourdes in the infirmary, okay? Tell her that they are top priority,." Anthony nodded and went off to do as she had told him to do. Marina turned back to the four teens left over and said "Follow me. I'll show you the way to the war room, and then you'll explain to us how you know Hal. Then we will figure out how we can help you. "

Harvey at Marina, Marcus grunted in thanks, Lilli gave a curt nod, and Hazel did nothing. Marina then turned at walked with them to the war room.

It only took them a few minutes to reach the room, and Marina ushered the small group of teens inside of the room where everyone was waiting.

The teens went into a seperate corner of the room and began conversing animatedly. Lilli was glaring harshly at Harvey before she growled and pushed past him. She stood in front of everyone, and she slammed her fist into the table.

"Ok numb nuts apparently my superior thought that I should be the one to explain the situation to you idiots. He thought it would be better than me interrupting him halfway through his explanation because I thought he was going to slow." Lilli growled. "Now, all of you know that Hal Mason, eldest child of Tom Mason and a solider, left this compound around fifteenmonths ago, corrrect" Everyone nodded, and Lilli smiled. "Good you're not as big a bucnh of idiots as I thought. Now, when Hal left he didn't just disappear. He got taken. From what he tells us, he got taken by the Skitters about three days after he left this place. They took him to a facility they had created after Karen became the new Overlord. This facility was for experimenting on subjects like Hal. Everyone there wasn't taken at random; they were specifically chosen for their unique abilities. Hal was a born leader, a seasoned warrior, and most of all he used to be a sports star and had an IQ of 169." Everyone stared at her in shock.

Tom cleared his throat and said "Hal didn't have an IQ of 169. He was barely passing a lot of his high school classes." Lilli started laughing along with Harvey, Marcus, and Hazel.

"Oh my sweet Jesus! That's hilarious!" Lilli said when she finished laughing. When she saw how confused the Charleston group still was she continued speaking. "Hal wasn't passing those classes not because he was an idiot; its because the information was so below him that he couldn't stand listening to it. Then when the teacher passed out tests Hal used his own methods to get the answers, but since the teachers didn't understand what he was going on about they failed him."

The Mason familiy's jaws were quite literally dropped. Anne shrugged and said " I'm not surprised." The shocked gazes moved from staring at Lilli to stare at Anne. "It was pretty obvious. Haven't any of you ever realized how quick of a study Hal is? Did you ever think oh well that's odd seeing as he was such a bad student before the war?" Anne sighed and turned her gaze back to Lilli. "Could you please continue?" Lilli nodded and continued from where she'd left off.

"As I was saying, Hal was specially chosen. As were the rest of us, but Hal was different. We all excelled in some physical activity and had IQ's above normal but didn't show it, but Hal was like the perfect version of that idea. He seemed to puzzle the Skitters, which now that I think about is a pretty bad thing. Hal was the special project out of a group of special projects. When we all were only on our second set of experiments; Hal was on his eighth and in intensive training. He was there the longest of us all, and he was most definitely the best out of all us."

"Excuse me if I don't adress the elephant in the room, but why were the Fishheads doing this to you?" Pope asked in his gruff voice, even though he was more than a little freaked out he couldn't show it.

Harvey stepped forward and said "Don't you get? They were making us into the perfect weapon; the perfect super soldiers with the perfect super soldier leader. That is why we're here. We need you to help us break Hal out before they finally break him, and use him against humanity. "

Marina nodded and glanced at everyone in the room as they took in Harvey's words. She moved from Pope to Weaver to Anne to Maggie and then finally to the Masons. She had once called them the fighting Masons, but that was long ago, and the fighting Masons were broken into pieces with one of the pieces in trouble. She turned to look at the four teens and said "What do we need to do?"