I disclaim. I own nothing.

AN: I haven't quite weened out all the characters yet, so there are still a lot of people in this chapter. I hope it doesn't get too confusing. But I wanted to give a quick run down of the Heroes characters for those who don't watch the show.

The Petrelli's: Nathan (flight) and Peter (empath) are brothers. Claire (regeneration) is Nathan's newly discovered daughter. Angela (dreams the future) is Peter and Nathan's awesomely wicked mother. Claire was taken from her mother when she was a baby (Nathan thought she died in a fire) and was raised by Noah Bennet and his wife in Texas.

The Sanders: Nikki (Superstrength) was married to D.L (phase). He died in a fire. They have one son Micah who came communicate with machines. Monica (mimcry) is Micah's cousin on his father's side

Matt Parkman (reads minds) is a cop and he and Mohinder (no abilities, he's a scientist who's father discovered the genetic code for people with abilities) live together. Molly is a little girl who's parents were murdered and she now lives with them. She has the ability to find anyone who has abilities.

Elle Bishop's (lightening) father ran The Company, an organization that tracked the heroes. Claire's adoptive father Noah also worked for The Company as well.

Hiro (bends space and time).

AN2: I hope this clears things up a little bit. Sadly it'll be another few chapters before the list of characters decrease. (Imagine the wackiness that'll ensure when the Tragers get involved.)

Chapter 3

"So, you saw her? And she's okay?"

"We saw her." Nicole answered slowly, turning weary eyes to her husband Steven. "As for okay, Kyle, she doesn't remember anything. Not even how she got home."

Kyle glanced around at the room full of strangers. "I doubt she'd even believe it if she did remember. Maybe it's for the best. I don't know what they did to her there, Nicole."

"No, Kyle. The last thing Amanda remembers is getting ready for the prom. Everything after that..." Nicole trailed off. "I'm sorry you can't speak to her yourself." She didn't tell him how Amanda had asked for him. How disappointed the girl was when he wasn't there.

"You can't really blame Mrs. Bloom. I promised to take care of her daughter and she goes missing for two months."

"It'll do no good to blame yourself." Like everything else, she knew he took this on his shoulders. "When are you coming home?"

"Soon." Kyle assured her. "I promise." He noticed Matt come into the room, Peter and Jessi were behind him their hands still locked together. "I have to go. I'll call you back."

"Have Jessi call, too. I'd like to hear from her." Nicole smiled. "Though he won't admit it, Josh is actually really worried about her. We love you, Kyle."

"I love you, too."

"Okay, Pete, we need explanations. And now."

"How can you be so sure they're not like the rest of you." Mohinder asked. "When everything I've heard, points to them being special."

"They are special." Peter agreed. "But not in the same way we are. And the first clue I got was the fact that they don't have belly buttons."

Jessi! Kyle reprimanded her mentally. He couldn't believe she shared that information with an absolute stranger.

Trust me, I kind of didn't have much of a choice. Jessi answered back. Can you just show them? Please?

Kyle hesitated a moment, but realizing Jessi didn't want to lift her shirt in from of a room full of strangers, he relented. Clearing his throat, he drew everyone's attention to himself before lifting up the hem of the T-shirt.

"Well I see Latnok finally did it." Angela Petrelli came into the room with all her regal glory.

"Mother." Shaking his head, Nathan walked across the room to the wet bar in the corner. "Of course."

A short while later Angela Petrelli was the center of attention. She sat in a high back chair, speaking to the room, addressing no one. She had everyone's undivided attention. Forever the Queen, blessing the peasants with her time. And when she was done talking, she lazily lifted her glass of brandy to her lips. An absent wave of her hand, the only sign that it may be okay for others to speak now.

Nathan was the first to brave it. "So what you're saying is that The Company, Madacorp, Latnok, Zzyzx...."

"Fruit of the same tree." Angela finished for her son. "Adam Monroe brought in Latnok, although they didn't have a name then. They were the scientist behind the Shanti virus, they were no more than children at the time really. But thanks to our dear Adam, those very intelligent children got a little a head of themselves. Figured they could create their own race of super humans. They just needed the right test subject."

"Adam Baylin." Kyle answered.

"He passed all of the psychological test." Angela nodded.

"Sarah probably failed them all." Jessi mumbled, beside her Peter wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulders.

"I wouldn't say she failed them." Angela corrected. "Sarah refused to be boxed in. Latnok realized they wouldn't be able to control her or any of her...offspring. Which lead Brian Taylor to Madacorp. He fancied himself to be in love with Sarah, and he might have been. But a lot of what he did involved a need to prove he was better than Baylin. What Latnok didn't count on was Sarah rubbing off on Baylin as well. He didn't agree with Latnok on a few things and went off to form Zzyzx."

"Why?" Elle and Monica asked at the same time.

"Why all the cloning and developing and the..." Monica made a vague waving motion with her hands. "What were they hoping to accomplish."

"The same thing all evil villains hope to accomplish, dear. World domination. Once you get pass the convoluted nature in with each organization was formed, it's all quite simple really."

"No," Kyle shook his head in denial. "Adam Baylin isn't like that."

"Which is why he was forced out of his own company and nearly killed. Adam had a problem with....for lack of a better term forced breeding."

"Forced breeding?" Nikki's disgust was apparent in her voice. "Do I even want to know?"

"Well I wouldn't call it forced." Angela conceded. "But super humans were the end goal. Giving credit where it's due, it was a concept pulled from Linderman. But his idea ran more along the lines of chess. Lining up the pieces to do what he wanted. For Latnok, they were scientist, they couldn't leave things up to chance the way Linderman did."

"What gives you people the right to toy with other people's lives this way?" Nikki demanded.

"No one said we felt it was our right. Though many felt it was our duty. Never the less, people got to thinking. All those minds that split so long ago, started to meet again."

"A child parented by one of them," Micah pointed to Jessi and Kyle. "And one of us. They had all these equations in their system. I didn't understand it at the time."

"So, your girlfriend-" Matt began.

Kyle shook his head. "They kidnapped Amanda to get to me. They wanted to get me there. But who-"

"Claire." Micah answered hesitantly, one eye watching for Nathan's reaction. "The second part of the equation was Claire."

"It's always me." Claire mumbled dejectedly as she dropped onto the couch. Off her grandmother's look she sat up straight. "Stupid regeneration. Why couldn't I get lightening. It's so much cooler. And least likely to get you kidnapped."

"You have to admit it was a brilliant concept. Claire's ability to regenerate with Kyle's...well multiple abilities." The scientist in Mohinder couldn't help but be intrigued by the idea. So wrapped up in thought was he, that he missed the looks-a few hostile-that he received from the room. "Claire comes from parents who both displayed abilities. Grandparents as well. But her mother's side-"

"That was the unknown." Angela smirked into her glass. "Probably gave the boys in the lab a few restless nights."

"You know Claire," Monica began. "If your daddy finds out that The Company was planning on sending you to some baby making camp he might never let you leave the house again."

Elle cast appreciative eyes in Kyle's direction. "She could do worse." Her gaze flicked over West. "A lot worse."

"She's not going to be doing anything at all." Nathan blurted out. "I'm not going to let anyone treat my daughter like some damn horse to be used to....breed champions." It actually pained him to get the sentence out. For as long as he lived he'd never have another teenage daughter.

"Oh, I don't think you have to worry about that anymore, Nathan." Angela's smile was sly. "I think they have other candidates now."

Slowly the group followed Angela's amusing gaze. Standing slightly away from the rest of the group, it took Peter and Jessi a moment to realize that everyone had turned their attention to them. Peter's arm was still wrapped around Jessi, her head rested on his shoulder.

"What did you see when you traveled, Pete?" Nathan asked slowly.

"I saw Isaac's loft looking as if it had been ransacked." Peter answered, even as he shifted until Jessi was standing behind him. As if shielding her from the room. "That's how I knew to get out of there."

"What else did you see?"

"It doesn't matter, Nathan. We've changed the future before, we can do it again."

"How are we suppose to change something, when we don't know what it is we're trying to change?"

"Maybe Peter doesn't want you lot to go around changing things." Angela offered. There really was little she enjoyed more than stirring the pot.

"Mother, please."

"Jessi," Kyle turned to her. She wouldn't meet his gaze, closed her mind off so that he couldn't get in. "Jessi, talk to me. Where did he take you? What did you see?"

"I have question." Elle interrupted, it was clear they weren't going to get anywhere with Jessi and Peter. "How did he know she didn't have belly button? Did it come up in conversation while they were kicking Company henchmen ass? How exactly did she work that into the conversation, Peter?"

Peter shot Elle a withering look, dropping his mental shields long enough for Matt to get a glimpse inside his head.

"Son of a bitch." Matt swore. "I guess they did get new candidates. It's Peter and Jessi, Elle."

"Cute," Elle smiled even as she flipped him off. "But in case you weren't paying attention, I had it figured out already."

"Damn it, Ma." Nathan turned to his mother. "You'd allow this."

"Really, Nathan. You can't deny the fact that they'd give me lovely grandchildren."