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***

"I heard you were looking for me," Malachi said with stretched arms as he walked into the lounge. I was sitting with blossom, Nigel, Aziel, Franco, Silo, Nick, Sunny, Bridgette, Felix, Jay, and Mr and Mrs Solano.

"No one was looking for you dimwit," blossom told him.

He put his hand above his heart in a dramatic manner. "A person would think you'd leave and come back nicer."

"I could face death in the eyes and still not be nice to you. Hell, if being nice to you was my only redemption from death, then I'd rather die," she told him.

"Gee Elliephant, feeling the love here," he said, deadpan.

She glared at him. "Call me Elliephant one more time. I double dare you."

He smirked slowly. "ELLIEPHANT!"

I had to hold her from attacking him.

"Are the two of you done?" Nigel asked them.

"Sorry," they replied in unison.

"Who are you?" Bridgette asked Malachi.

"I'm your dream man," Malachi charmed, wiggling his eyebrows.

She rolled her eyes. "Not even in your wildest dreams."

"So in my tame ones?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Would you just get to the point before I throttle you?" I said.

"I'm the dashing young man referred to as Four," Malachi replied, sending a smile towards Bridgette.

"Just how many of you are there?" Nick asked.

"Six," I replied.

"So we only have Two and Three left to meet?" Sunny asked, to which I nodded.

"Speaking of which, where's your brother?" Aziel asked Malachi.

"Six knows," Malachi replied with a shrug.

Aziel and Nigel looked to me in confusion. "I sent him to look for Zuraida."

"Why would you do that?" Nigel asked in confusion.

"If we're meant to be covering all my enemies, I figured that would include her," I replied.

"But Zuri isn't your enemy. She helped you with Elle's necklace, didn't she?" he asked.

"She did?" blossom asked.

I nodded. "She did, but let's not forget that she quickly blamed me for the raid while I was there. Our relationship hasn't been stable for the longest while, but you're right that she isn't my enemy. I told her the situation and she said she'll check around with her connections."

"She told you to find Rio, didn't she?" Aziel asked me. I looked away.

"Of course she did. His reaction says it all. We're all on the same page, so I don't understand why you're refusing to believe that Rio could be behind this," Nigel pointed out.

I sighed. "I know none of you like her all that much-"

"She didn't give us anything to like about her," Aziel interrupted, receiving a glare from me.

"As I was saying, I know that you don't like her much, but I highly doubt she's behind this. Rio's specialty is blowing shit up, yes, but not with the explosives used at the cabin. In her world, those explosives are juvenile. Hell, if she was behind this, the bomb squad wouldn't have found anything tracing back to the explosives. Besides, why blow up the cabin with the intent of killing blossom, only to kidnap her, not kill her, and just bring her back. None of that makes sense," I argued.

"Hold on! I'm hearing a lot of what sounds like some spy stuff. What exactly is going on here? I thought you said Ellie was involved in a gruesome car accident?" Nick asked.

That's the story we'd told him, the girls and Mrs Solano.

I sighed. "That was a lie."

"I knew it," Sunny said with a shrug.

"So what's the truth then?" Bridgette asked.

"We're all agents," Malachi told her.

"Can someone else please confirm this? I don't believe anything he says," Bridgette requested. Malachi looked confused by her reaction.

"He's right though. We are agents, and as much as our boss is against this, she's agreed that we could tell you only what you need to know. However, you are still sworn to secrecy, so you have to promise us that you won't pass on what we're about to tell you," Nigel told them.

"We promise," they replied.

He nodded to me to continue. "We are agents that work for a semi private and semi government owned organization. I guess you could say we're part spies, part cops and part assassins. It makes no sense, but that's what it is. In the organization, field agents choose whether they want to go at it solo or be a part of a group. One, Two, Three, Four, Five and I make up the best group at the organization, with me being the best agent there. I came here three years ago when I found out that my grandparents are alive. I watched my parents get murdered in front of me when I was a child, and I didn't know about any other family. Anyway, my grandparents moved here after my mother told them to. She instructed them to change their identities and learn the American way of living, which is why they no longer stick out. Back to the point here, we're agents, and now the Solano family, and possibly your lives are in danger."

"I'm still trying to wrap my head around what you're saying, but I still want to know what happened to Ellie," Nick commented.

"That we don't actually know," I said, looking to blossom. I wanted to kill someone when I watched tears rush to her eyes.

"I guess this is the part I tell you what I remember huh?" she asked lowly.

"Would you like a glass of water?" Silo surprisingly asked her, to which she nodded.

He went to get it before giving it to her. "Thanks."

"You're welcome," he replied with a smile.

What the hell was that about?

"Anytime you're ready pumpkin," Mr Solano. I could tell that he was on edge as well.

*FLASHBACK*

"SHE'S GOING TO DIE!" I shouted, only for the burly man to laugh.

"You must really care about her. Would you like to go in her place?" he asked.

I was in an unimaginable amount of pain, but I knew I was still stronger than her. "Yes."

"You really are proving to be one of a kind child of Alexander," he replied as he waved for his man to let her go.

"You know my father?" I asked.

"I knew your father. He was one of the greatest men, until he turned on us," he replied.

"My father would never work for you," I denied.

"You're right. He wasn't working for us. We were working for him," he taunted.

"I don't believe you!" I told him.

He shrugged. "And I don't care."

"Is this why you're doing this to me? Because of my father?" I asked.

"Well yes, and no. Your father understood our vision, and his research allowed us to further it, but his moral compass managed to talk him out of carrying things through," he replied.

"My mother," I said knowingly.

"She managed to convince him that what we're doing is immoral, and before you say it, we know. However, the greatest scientific discoveries require sacrifice," he said.

I scowled. "And this, what you're doing to us, is scientific?"

He looked at me before cocking his head to the side. "You still don't know why you're here, do you?"

"We don't even know who you people are," I replied.

"Suffer through this and live, and I'll tell you," he said.

***

"I don't know how I got there. The last thing I remember about the cabin is Six leaving to answer his phone. The moment he closed the door, there was a ticking sound, and before I knew it, the bed dropped into the floor and I was trapped under the floor before what sounded like an explosion went off. The next thing I remember is waking up in an empty room and I'd been tied to a chair. I screamed for hours until my voice finally gave out. A long time passed after that, before a big man came to the room. He didn't tell me his name. He just told me to relax because what he was doing is in the name of science. They put me through rigorous obstacles, before putting me through machines that test how much pain a person can take. I guess I was surviving until they decided to start using sharp objects and weapons. That's how I got the cuts, and the stab wound was from an arrow. That last part was also the day they brought me back home. They didn't bother cleaning me up because the big man said it's a message for Six. He told me to tell Six the word Black."

I was seething.

I'd been so busy looking at all my enemies that I didn't question the most confusing part of my life. After those six weeks we spent there, we were also taken back to our organizations like nothing happened. Silver and Margaux are the only people who know what really happened to me then.

"What is it?" Aziel asked me.

"I know who had her," I said, barely breathing.

"Calm down D," my girlfriend said, grabbing my hand in hers, despite her tears.

"No blossom, you don't understand. I know who had you, but at the same time, I don't," I said.

"How so?" Silo asked me.

"When I was twelve, I was kidnapped and only two people in the organization know this. I don't know how it happened, but I found myself in the same situation blossom found herself in. I woke up tied up to a chair in an empty room. With me however, I was almost released by a girl named Rio. We were caught before we could escape, and that's when we found out that we were kidnapped for a reason. The both of us, together with four other kids, had been taken because of a rare gene we have. Our mothers had apparently all been exposed to some gas when they were pregnant with us, which triggered this gene. The big man blossom is talking about is what Black refers to. That's the name he told me to call him by. What they're trying to do is build an army of super agents since this gene we have, has something to do with why we're so freakishly smart, and our physical capabilities," I explained.

"I've heard about this group, but I didn't think they're real. They're probably the most discreet organization in the world since not even my technology can track them," Franco commented.

"You weren't in Lisbon?" Aziel asked me.

I already knew that he was pissed off at me.

Aziel and I are really more like brothers than best friends. His parents had practically adopted me before they died, and after they did, what we went through brought us that much closer. He's the only person who knows probably everything there is to know about me.

Except this one thing.

"They threatened to kill you if I told you, and I wasn't going to risk losing my best friend if being silent would save your life," I told him.

"Aaaaw," Bridgette, Felix, Sunny and blossom cooed.

I will never understand women.

"So why tell us now?" Nigel asked.

I shrugged. "Black crossed the line by taking blossom."

"You can't wage war against someone you can't find," Franco told me.

"And I'm not going to. Black did this to drag me out, and I don't know why, but I intend on finding out," I replied.

"You're not going anywhere near him," blossom told me sternly.

I sighed. "It's either I go to him, or he hurts more people."

"There has to be a safer alternative. You're not going back there. I saw what goes on there, and I'm not letting you go back," she said, her voice wavering.

"I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I agree with Elliephant. While it comes as a shock to me that you were actually kidnapped and not in Lisbon, this dude sounds like a psycho, and I mean why now?" Malachi asked.

"Four's onto something here. I remember that time. It was the first time we'd been apart for a mission, and Margaux told us that you were sent to Lisbon. When you came back, we weren't allowed to see you for a week, and when we finally did, you had new scars and scratches. We were already used to you not answering questions you were asked, so we didn't bother. However, it sounds to me like what Elle was put through is exactly what happened to you. Was that time the last time you saw Black?" Nigel asked me.

I nodded. "I haven't had any contact with him since."

"So how come you stayed in touch with Rio?" Silo asked. He would know since they work for the same organization.

"It wasn't just her. I've stayed in touch with all five of the kids that were with me then Zuri, Kenya and Karr included," I replied, despite my best friend's presence. His reaction indicated to me that he'd heard me.

"Karr?" Aziel, Jayme and Malachi asked in confusion.

"He won't tell you about it, so don't ask. It was a horrible experience for all of us, and we've spent the last six years trying to figure out how to expose those people, but we've come up short," I explained.

"I'm with Four on this one. Why now? Why after six years?" Mr Solano asked.

"It's the number," blossom said in a low voice beside me, but apparently Malachi had also heard her.

"What?" he asked.

"It's the number; Six's number to be exact. Looking at what I know about his life, it would seem that a whole lot of things that happen to him are in connection with that number. Besides the age he was when his parents were killed, the age he was recruited and the age he found his grandparents, a whole lot of the other things are linked to the number six either as the number in itself, or as a multiple or a factor of six," she replied.

"You're making no sense," Aziel told her, but I was catching on.

She grabbed a pen and a paper and started writing down stuff. "You were six when Five's parents were killed, which is the time the two of you had to start fending for yourselves for the next two years. Two in itself is a factor of six. You prefer to go by your second name, which itself has six letters. Before I even met you, you fired six shots in your house because Bridge was throwing a party there. You fetched me for school freakishly early, at six thirty, which are factors and multiples of six respectively. You had never dated before me, and the time that you decide to, you chose someone whose name is also six letters long. You were kidnapped when you were twelve, which is a multiple of six, and now Black is drawing you out at eighteen, another multiple of six. He's also drawing you out six years after you were kidnapped. I was kidnapped and taken from you on our sixth month anniversary for six days. You told me that your team only started going by numbers when you were twelve, a multiple of six, and that you couldn't understand why the number was so significant to you. Well there you have it, and this is coming from the just the basics I know. That number is literally tattooed as an acronym to your back, but it's also embedded in your very life, as well as your mind."

We all looked at her in disbelief, myself included. I was catching onto what she was saying, but her explanation far surpassed my thoughts. The scary part is how right she is. Everything else, including things I haven't told her, also tie back to this number.

"I don't even know what to say right now," Nigel was the one to break the silence.

"I always wondered why you became so obsessed with the number after that mission that I now know wasn't a mission at all," Aziel added.

"But why did you guys change your operation names to begin with?" Jayme asked me.

"We were a group, and while we fought well together, outside of missions, we were a bad combination of people. It took Two almost dying because of our lack of communication skills and her real identity being known, for us to decide that it would be more effective to not only fix our communication skills, but to assume easy and functional operation names. Six chose his number first, and the rest of us picked from the five before his. We figured it was better than all of us choosing random numbers, and the numbers we chose happen to have significance to all of us in one way or the other," Malachi explained.

"I have never even thought of anything Elle just pointed out right now," Aziel said.

"This still doesn't explain why this Black man is after you after all this time," Felix pointed out.

She had a point there.

"I still say that you shouldn't do anything for as long as he doesn't. You have Elliephant back. Let him make another move before you give yourself over to him," Malachi suggested.

"I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I agree with this dweeb," blossom said.

"Well there's clearly a first for everything," Nigel joked.

"Ok, so we know One, Five, Four, Jay and Six. Who are these other people?" Sunny asked the question I'd been waiting for.

"That's Silo who works for our enemy organization and has been trying to kill us for two years now," Nigel informed.

"You're working with someone who's tried to kill you all?" Sunny asked in confusion.

"They needed my help finding Noelle, and I owed Franco a favour," Silo replied.

"And Franco is...?" Bridgette trailed off.

"That's Franco, who basically hates Six's existence," Aziel replied, pointing to the man in question.

"And who is he exactly?" Felix asked.

"I used to work for the organization they worked for. They all use my technology," Franco clarified.

"What made you leave?" Sunny asked him.

Nigel, Aziel, Malachi and I all suddenly found the floor interesting.

"Six here busted me for a crime I didn't commit, and the rest of those assholes had actually believed that I had gone rogue, so I left," Franco explained.

"Why leave them with your tech? Hell, why do they still use it?" Mr Solano asked.

"It's the best in the world, and I guess we decided to risk using it, despite the threat of him using it against us being there," I was the one to reply.

"As much as I hate what they did to me, I'll admit that I was never going to use it against them. They're my family, as much as they are assholes," Franco added.

"Aaaaw Franco, we love you too," Aziel mocked with a sniff. Franco muttered something under his breath.

"This is a lot to process," Mrs Solano finally spoke.

I'd even forgotten that she was in the room.

"We know, but we needed to tell you. Mr Solano already knows all of this, especially with his new position, so we needed to tell the other people important to blossom. I don't want her to have to keep secrets from you guys in my name, which is why I fought so hard for the organization to be ok with this," I told her.

"And I thank you for that, but I don't think I'm going to be as quickly accepting of it as everyone else. I just got her as my daughter, and now you're telling me that my family is in danger and that my husband's job comes with more danger than I thought. I just, I need time," she admitted.

Mr Solano put his arm around her, comforting her. "No one is rushing you to accept this love. Trust me when I say it took a lot for Six to make this happen, but he loves our daughter. Yes, she's in danger because of him, but she's also the safest she'll ever be with him, especially after her kidnapping. This isn't easy for me too, but it is what must be, and I don't want to stand in the way of that."

"Excuse me," Mrs Solano said before leaving the room.

"I'll go talk to her," Mr Solano said before following after his wife.

"So, you're all agents? Including Jayme?" Nick asked me.

"Yeah, but Jayme is a tech agent," I replied.

Blossom was about to say something when the doorbell went. She got up and went to answer it. "Where have you been?"

"I'm sorry I left you with the biggest pain in the ass," his voice was heard.

"And so my brother arrives," Malachi said, his voice giving him away.

Nigel chuckled, catching on to what I did. "What did you do?"

"I did nothing," Malachi defended.

"Except accidentally shoot me in the thigh right?" Mordecai said as he appeared. He was walking with a cane.

"I keep telling you that the gun is the one that shot you, not me," Malachi huffed.

"That's stupid," blossom commented as she came back to sit.

"It's my brother, which is why I won't fight his logic, but he'd better be prepared for when I get back at him," Mordecai replied.

"Who is this?" Bridgette asked.

"Three," Aziel replied.

"So we just have one more to meet?" Felix asked, to which I nodded.

"I take it these are the civilians you were talking about?" Mordecai asked me.

I nodded. "Yep!"

"And how did you get Margaux to agree to this?" he asked.

"Technically, we didn't. Mr Solano did," Aziel replied.

He frowned. "And she just agreed?"

"She did, but she had a whole shit load of conditions," I said.

"Like what?" Sunny asked.

"For example, if you tell anyone else about this, one of three things can happen. You can either be put out of the picture for good, trialled for treason, or have your memory wiped completely," Nigel told them.

"We're definitely not telling anyone," Bridgette said, fear in her eyes.

Well that worked.

To be honest, we were all shocked by how Margaux agreed to this, granted she took a lot of convincing. The only condition she had was that should anything go wrong, it's on our hands. It's a pretty easy condition, except life can be unpredictable when such great responsibilities are placed in the hands of an untrained civilian.

"Did you get the info?" I asked Mordecai.

"I was about to, but it's gone," he replied.

"What do you mean it's gone?" I asked in confusion.

"I had found it, and it was a case of picking it up, but I got there to be told that the info was taken a week and a half ago," he said.

"What info is this?" Nigel asked.

"Information into blossom's past," I informed.

It was on her birthday that I promised that I would look into her past, but we've found nothing. All her government records are clear, but her medical records are nonexistent. Her movements before she turned twelve are also nonexistent. It's like she was a ghost until five years ago.

All she remembers about the ages between six and twelve are that she moved around a lot, and her mother never told her why. They never stayed in one place for more than a month, and she never made any friends. For most of the time, she never came into contact with the outside world.

"You didn't find anything?" she asked beside me.

"I'm sorry Ellie. I tried everything. Even the organization has nothing on you, or your mother," Mordecai told her.

"Ok," she said before getting up and running upstairs.

"Don't," I told Nick, who was about to go after her.

The thing is I knew how frustrating this was for her. All she's ever wanted to know is the truth. She knows that she was in a fire at the age of six, but that's all she remembers. She wishes she could also understand why she and her mother moved around so much.

We both think her mother was running away from someone.

"Why not?" he asked.

I sighed. "She won't want you there. She won't even want me there. As much as I hate this, she's probably in the gym right now."

"She should be resting!" Jayme, Felix, Sunny and Bridgette said simultaneously.

Malachi scoffed. "Good luck getting her to."

"You changed her, or at least you trained her on how to fight. That's why she enjoys it so much," Sunny said in realization.

"I trained her for her own protection. She just happens to find training a stress and anger reliever," I said with a shrug.

"Just like you do," Nigel commented, to which I nodded.

"Alright! Now that that's over, what's the next step?" Franco asked.

"We go back to our civilian lives and await the next move from Black," I said.

"Cool! Who's hungry?" Malachi asked. Basically everyone was, so they moved off to the kitchen, leaving me with Mordecai.

"Did you find anything on Silver?" I asked.

"They share a surname, but I don't know about anything else. I tried to look into Sergio's family history, but there are only bits and pieces, and none of them are specific to him or to Silver. Her records are sealed away in an unknown destination, including her DNA information, which means unless if we get a DNA sample off of her, there's no way we'll be able to determine how she's connected to the Solano's here," he replied.

I sighed. "I guess we have to find out where she is."

As if we didn't already have enough on our plates.