Everyone already seemed to be versed in another language, which made Shawn feel a little better for when he would switch back to Japanese. Moving with Laura, Booker, Emma, and the other X-pendables into the ped-white transport vehicle, Shawn took a seat and waited for the vehicle to get a move on. This time it was Laura sitting in with them, while Booker and Emma were up in the front. 

"So, what are Cable and wade going to be doing?" Shawn was rather curious as to what their exact thing was, but never received an answer from Laura. She sat quietly, having decided that she had done enough talking for one day. 

It took then about thirty minutes to get from the landing zone to the lab that they were going to. The vehicle stopped briefly, just so that the people in charge of the gate were aware of who was coming into the building. Emma made quick work of the guard's head, convincing him that they were supposed to be there, and the vehicle was on it's way again.

When the van stopped for a second time, the doors in the back had opened. Instead of a little walk from the van to the facility, they were already completely inside.

Laura stepped out first and kept the teens from leaving. Once Booker and Emma joined her at the back, Booker took his place between the two women. 

"Come on, let's go." He tried to be cold and monotonous about it, but these were his students. Even after a rough first mission, he was excited to see how everything would play out in the second half of the mission. 

Shawn stepped out of the vehicle, looking a little lost and trying to steal as many looks as he could from the pure white walls of the building. He could smell how clean the air was. It was almost as if they were afraid to let anything from the outside world in. [i]"This is all so strange."[/i] The words rolled off of his tongue a little too well in Japanese. He hadn't spoken his own language in so long, it was almost strange to be speaking it again. However, he rolled right back into it. He was much more comfortable now, even during a dangerous, future saving mission. 

Laura led the team through the halls, using a small card on her belt to get them through each and every door. They moved deeper into the facility, and the higher the security clearance, the more equipment was on display. 

There weren't any live subjects for the team to witness, but various test tubes and computer screens showed them what Transigen was doing. They were examining how the X-Gene worked, which of the two parents was responsible for its placement in a child, how it grew, and if a specific mutation could be anticipated before the gene even began to erupt. 

Several staff members looked at the group of teenagers and their guards, but said and did nothing to keep them from progressing. They could easily see what their purpose in the lab was, and Laura didn't look like someone you wanted to confront about her presence. 

There was a stop. Laura stood before a door that looked a little different than the others. Instead of the metallic greys that most of the doors consisted of, this one was the color of enamel,and just as flat. She looked back at the teens. 

"After this door, we will be in a maximum security area. The President's office is further down. Continue being a distraction." With a wave of her key card, the door opened, whistling as the hydraulics pulled the doors apart. Once everyone was on the other side, Laura closed the door back up and kept on pursuing to the next stop.

Now, more and more rooms were revealed through glass windows. Children, all about their age and younger were seated in various spots, all being poked and prodded like experiments. Shawn wanted to break the glass and free them all, but he wasn't sure if the mansion had enough space for all of them. Some of them, however, weren't being shot with syringes. One little girl was simply flipping a coin. Every time it landed on her hand, she grew excited, as if she had won, despite it seeming to be completely random. Another boy's room had dents in every wall. His body was restrained heavily, but the look on his face promised that the jacket wouldn't hold him back. The clip board on another room simple said "Bone growth and control".

"We will get them on the way out. There is a safehouse in North Dakota."

Shawn was getting a bit bored. He didn't much like being the distraction, but he could feel the tension rising the further they moved. Another door blocked their path, but Laura didn't move to unlock it. 

Approximately seven minutes passed before Laura opened the door. She had been looking at her watch the entire time. She needed to give Cable and Wade more time to pick up the cargo and get there. She knew exactly when they'd arrive. 

"Once we go through here, we can begin incapacitating people. The last security door was to keep people from escaping the inner sanctum in the event that something happened. That also means that nobody will be able to get in as long as the threat, us, are active."

[hr]

Wade and Cable walked through the streets. They would join the rest of the group in time. They just needed to pick up a certain someone first. 

"Olinda?" Wade called freely. After the last few times, Wade made sure that he had everything that he needed to convince the girl to come along with them. Nothing was strange about moving several children into a van and escorting another child with a bribe. "Olinda! We know that you're going to be at this spot in... forty two seconds!"