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... When Darek woke up, he saw a familiar sight from childhood - a ship falling apart.

His left eye was filled with dirt and wouldn't open in any way.

Dariusz stood up and felt a wild pain in his hip.

Blood is pouring down his pant leg, but to his own surprise, he can walk quite normally.

Adrian was lying closest to him.

— Adrian! Adrian!—Darek shakes Prior, slaps him across the cheeks.

Adrian is alive, he is breathing, but for some reason he does not come to his senses.

— Darek!— Enrique gets out from under a large piece of metal.— Heal him! You can! I've seen the power you possess!—

Dariusz looked down at his hands. He suddenly remembered the conversation between Cornelius and General Thomas:

— Don't you really know how to do it?—

— That's what my power does...—

He couldn't remember why this conversation was...

Focusing on this memory, Darek pressed his fingers to Adrian's temples.

By the way the shadows fell on the asphalt, Dariusz realized that his eyes were shining.

It was only now that he noticed the wound, the gash in Adrian's stomach. And this wound is healing from his touch.

One unpleasant thing distracted his thoughts.

Huge footprints of three—toed paws...

***

— What happened?—Dariusz asked, dragging Adrian behind one of the houses with Enrique.— And don't you dare say that you didn't see anything! You turned around, but you didn't let me look!—

— This... It's that machine. It seems that someone's mind is loaded into it...—Enrique heard the growing screams of people and looked out from behind the house.— We need to leave! Try to bring Adrian to his senses, he's just catastrophically heavy!—

— You're heavy yourself, Mirabal... Enrique, you always annoy me...—Adrian whispered through split lips.— Thank you, Dariusz "Ghost" Kaminsky... You saved me again...—

— Again?—Darek repeated uncomprehendingly.

— My father and I got into a shootout and a man in a ghost costume killed Xander, my father's former friend. A traitor... At that time, we were looking for an opportunity to meet my twin sister...—Adrian stood up, swaying.

— You have a sister...—Darek felt the realization hit him like an electric shock.— Adrianna?! You and she...—

— Yes. We are twins. Only of different sexes. I'm two and a half minutes younger.—

Darek stared at him in surprise.

A house collapsed somewhere nearby. They are can't stay here for long...

***

Once they were a few streets away from that place and found the roof of a house where there were no people at all, they were able to consider the reason for the fall of their ship and the general panic of the city... the name of which there was no one to ask now.

— I would also like to know where we are at a particular moment...—Adrian looked around.

After he almost turned into grilled meat, he was a little shaky. Although Darek had healed his wounds, Adrian had lost a lot of blood. His intense pallor betrayed this.

— It seems to me that we are definitely somewhere in America now...—Enrique suddenly said thoughtfully.

— In America? Are you sure? Everything here is too quiet and modest for America!—Adrian looked down for a second and jumped back from the edge in horror.

Darek chuckled.

— From the people who were downstairs, I can tell that we are in the United States, but closer to the border with Mexico.— Dariusz said.— Trust the expert on roofs...—

— I totally believe it...—Adrian looked down warily for a second.— Damn it! What kind of freak is this?!—

A huge but thin robot, like a Slenderman, was climbing up one of the neighboring houses.

The fingers, which were probably about half a meter long, tore through the red brick with their long claws.

Adrian screamed his brains out as the robot turned in their direction.

— It's time to run!— He said.— My powers work on people, not on scrap metal! —

— Everything will work out, Adrian! I know that everything will work out! It seems... now I have become the same as Cornelius!—Dariusz looked around.— Let's go down. There is no need to be afraid of this pile of rust...—

***

Adrian created a large downward slope of ivy that wrapped around one side of the house.

— Come on, Enrique, jumping after me! It's like a water slide… Well, really, without water...—Dariusz said before jumping into a large pipe made of leaves.

— It's even fun!—Adrian said, stopping Dariush with his hands at the exit.— But this rusty Megatron from a second-hand store is starting to make me nervous!—

A sharp jump over their heads and Enrique flying out of the pipe almost knocks Dariusz off his feet.

An iron hand, incredibly long, scratches Darek on the shoulder, but he manages to repel the second blow.

Dariusz did not even understand himself how he created two giant ice hooks instead of his hands, and whether he did it at all.

A small effort was enough to throw him away, but the robot ran towards them again, crushing the cars like tin cans.

— Adrian! Can you tie him up when he gets close?—Darek asked.

— There is little vegetation here! We need to lure him to the park or somewhere else where there will be trees!—Adrian dodged a large piece of stone as he ran.

— Try to look for it! You can feel where the trees are, right?—Dariusz said in a much quieter voice, pulling Adrian to him by a bleached strand.

— Yes, I'll try...—Adrian jumps away from one stone, but he couldn't get past the other, but Enrique managed to hold him back. Adrian's eyes were even blurred from the blow for a while.

— Come on, I'll give us a little head start!—Enrique pushed Dariusz away and jumped forward.

When the robot jumped at them, Enrique grabbed the robot by its huge arm and, aiming upwards, threw it as far and high as possible.

Dariusz and Adrian whistled.

— What are we standing for? We need to run! Adrian, look for a park if you can smell such places here!—Enrique ran between the houses after Adrian.

Adrian takes a loud breath as he runs.

— Now to the left!— he said to Darek, but Enrique's shout interrupted his order:

— Crouch down! He throws the car again!—

Derek feels the wheels of the bus passing over them brush against his curly hair.

The soul flies into the heels for a second, and after running the marathon runner comes back — now is not the time to be scared, but if he had not bent so low ...

Adrian screamed in fright. He was generally very loud, unlike his twin sister.

— You don't need a weapon with your voice!—Enrique grimaced.

— It breaks out on its own! Dad is also shocked by my vocal abilities!—Adrian looks around.— We need to cross the street! —

it was much harder to breathe on the run.

The robot's hand suddenly finds itself between them…