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creations.”
    George was looking at a drop of his blood through a microscope. He didn’t notice anything abnormal. He wondered if their powers were more of a brain abnormality than a change in DNA structure.
    “I need to scan your brain. Stick these on your temples and lay down here. I’m going to take a quick look at your brain to see if anything is strange,” George commanded the Australian.
    Once he was lying down George pressed a button on the transparent screen near the MRI machine and the bed moved inside the white cave. The machine was taking digital images of the Australian’s brain as well as live video of the electric signals speeding back and forth through his brain. George was watching the screen in astonishment. The signals in his brain weren’t functioning like normal electric currents. Instead of traveling through the vessels the signals seemed to jump from one place to the other without moving through the course.
    “What we have here is a legitimate source of power and it is innate. There has to be more like us.”
    George released the Australian from his cave.
    “You, my friend, should be good and dead right now, but you’re not. In fact, not only are you alive, but you’re super human! This is monumental!” George said ecstatically.
    “We’ve got to do more testing, but we can’t push the limits of our powers inside this lab. We should go outside into more open space,” the Australian suggested.
    “More open space?” George asked curiously.
    “We need to take this up a notch.”
    When they got to the lobby of the testing facility the security officer was watching the news from a transparent television that was propped up high on the wall in the corner next to the exit. What the woman news anchor was reporting on made George and the Australian stop in their tracks. The blonde anchor was talking about an incident that happened earlier that night involving a group of teens at a prom after-party in a hotel in Underground New York City.
    “Several students told reporters that a fellow classmate of theirs allegedly morphed into another person right before their eyes. Students say that the transformation happened after the girl walked out of a room with her dress ripped apart exposing her undergarments. Some say that this prompted her transformation. Let’s take a look at what one student recalled from the incident…”
    The scene changed to an African American boy standing in front of the Three Towers Hotel telling the camera what he remembered that night.
    “All of a sudden she was standing there with her bra showing and the whole room started laughing hysterically. I wasn’t laughing…I kinda’ felt sorry for her. Ya’ know? But she started crying and trying to leave the room, but they kept getting in her way. Then she put her hands over her face…almost like she was trying to hide…and when she took them off her face she was a different person.  She completely transformed within a matter of seconds. It was unreal, but it actually happened,” he told reporters.
    The scene switched back to the blonde anchor.
    “Investigators are saying that the search is still on for the girl chameleon. According to our sources she was last seen on 30 and Rockefeller Street. Updates will follow once more information comes in.”  
    The Australian and George looked at each other. Their minds were spinning with more possibilities.
    “There’s another one! She can transform herself into someone else!” George was trying to contain his excitement.
    “So we aren’t the only ones. Looks like there could be many of us, but how many different powers are there?”
    “We’ve got to go find the girl and get some answers right away,” George said.
    “But how do we find her? We don’t have her name and she’s got better disguises than Sherlock!” the Australian said.
    “Well, we know where it happened, right? We can go there, take a small sample from the room and send it to forensics to pull up a