Storm, Xisuma, Evil X, Eli and Jeremy all found their way into the city, the same city Storm grew up in. She recognized it the second they set foot in it, and she looked nervous about who, or what, they were going to find there. She held onto Jeremy's hand tightly, and she looked around with him, Eli, Xisuma, and Evil X.

The first thing she noticed was the old lab, the lab that constantly haunted her nightmares for years on end. Its old brick walls, that stupid SMITE logo with the yellow box on it, all of it. She gulped and took a small step back before realizing that she was stood still outside the lab for too long. She heard a child's crying nearby, and her eyes went wide at the recognition of the child's crying.

She had only heard it on the day that she and Ben got separated, as well as her and the child that was crying.

"Amelia...?" Storm whispered, and she went towards the crying, not realizing that she had let go of Jeremy's hand.

"Did she just-" Before Evil X could react, Storm pulled all of them into the alleyway the crying came from, and she knelt in front of the little girl sitting alone, hidden behind a trashcan.

"Amelia...? Sweetie, is that you...?" Storm gently held her hand out to the little girl, and a pale hand came from the shadows, that hand being the same exact shade of porcelain as Storm's.

"Storm, how do you know who that is?" Eli questioned, the tone in their voice being a mix of confusion and something indiscernible.

"Mom...?" The little girl, who must have been Amelia, slowly crawled out of the shadows, looking right at Storm, and all Evil X and Xisuma saw was her dark brown hair, the same shade of brown and Xisuma's. "Is that you...?" Storm gently pulled her into a tight hug, holding onto her tightly.

"WHY DID THIS CHILD CALL YOU MOM?" Eli grew extremely suspicious in that moment, and Storm didn't even care, she just held onto to Amelia tightly, tears forming in her eyes.

"Because she's my kid, Eli..." Amelia immediately buried her head in Storm's chest, crying softly into it. "Sweetie..."

"YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER!?" Everyone around her shouted, except Jeremy, who in fact could not speak.

"Who are these people, mom...?" Amelia was scared, and she just wanted her mom.

"They're friends-"

"I'm your friendly psychopath!" Eli joked before just hugging Xisuma tightly. They couldn't read his expression due to the mask, but he did tense up, which showed he wasn't used to this at all, or that comfortable with a random stranger hugging him.

"Um... Okay then..." Xisuma just patted their head before gently prying their hands off of him. "But, anyways, why didn't you mention that you had a kid?"

Yeah... Jeremy signed, and Storm looked at them all.

"Because I didn't want to talk about it... She was born a few months after Ben and I escaped the lab... I'm not even sure if she's his or Dr. Embers's daughter..." Everyone grew confused and concerned by that statement.

"Dr. Embers? Who's that and why would Amelia be his daughter?" Amelia looked up at her, and Storm just looked down at the ground. Eli turned their head, confusion and disgust filling their face.

"... I'd... I'd rather not say... Not in front of... Not in front of Jeremy and Amelia..." Evil X and Xisuma suddenly understood, and they pulled her away from the two kids, leaving Eli with them.

"WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE KIDS!?" Eli shouted after them, and Storm just tossed her a toy.

"You play with them." Eli was confused, but before she could ask what she meant, they were already too far away to hear her.

"We're away from the kids," Evil X started, and Storm knew where he was going with this. "Now spill."

"I... I was..." Storm's voice trailed off, and her throat jammed up. She didn't want to talk about what Dr. Embers did to her, but she knew that he wouldn't stop asking questions about it. "I..." Storm just sat against the wall behind her, holding her head in her hands. "I can't even open up about it... That's how bad it is..." Xisuma gently knelt in front of her and grabbed her hands, pulling them away from her face. Storm looked at him, and she recognized her own eye color in his eyes, but that wasn't the first thing on her mind. "... Dr. Embers... Is a sick fuck... I was just a kid... and he... he raped me..."

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DOOM broke out of his cell and started running around the lab, looking around for any sign of Ben or anyone he could help escape with him.

That's when he found it.

In the center of the lab, the part of the lab that he just broke into, there were different stasis chambers, showing the life stages of some sort of creation. It started as a baby, then went to a toddler, up until it showed a female, around the age of 15, with jet black hair, and porcelain skin. In the center of the room was one final stasis chamber, this one labeled "PROJECT SUNTIX," with a boy in the center of it, a boy with bright blonde hair, pale skin, and closed eyes. DOOM punched it once and it shattered, breaking that specific stasis chamber open, feeling weird about seeing him in it.

Then, he ran off to find Ben.

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Storm, Xisuma and Evil X walked back over to Eli, Jeremy, and Amelia, only to see that all hell had broken loose. They seemed to be fighting, and Eli wasn't handling it well at all.

As a matter of fact, Eli seemed to be trying to kill the kids.

"ELI!" Storm ran over and guarded the kids, stopping Eli from hurting them. "You don't hurt kids! What's wrong with you...!?"

"THEY ATTACKED ME!" Storm facepalmed and pulled Amelia into her arms as Xisuma pulled Eli away from her and the kids. Storm looked down at Amelia, and her mind was taken back to the night before the zombie apocalypse started.

Storm jolted awake in a panic, nightmares about the lab and what she had to go through waking her from her sleep. She rested her hand on her chest and practiced the breathing exercises that Ben taught her, looking over at his sleeping form next to her. Their daughter, Amelia, laid between the two of them, sleeping peacefully, unlike Storm. Ben slowly opened his eyes at the sudden movement from Storm's side of the bed, being a relatively light sleeper, and rubbed his eyes as he looked at her, before suddenly speaking up in a hushed whisper.

"Honey?" Storm flinched and looked at him, having looked away at the sound of a thunderstorm rolling in. "Are you okay?"

"No..." She whispered back, her voice softer than normal. "Nightmares again..." Ben gently sat up, careful not to wake up Amelia, and grabbed her by the hand.

"We're not in the lab anymore..." He gently kissed her hand, and he smiled at her once he looked back up at her. "We're safe... We have a roof over our heads because of you..." Storm blushed lightly, and she scooched as close to him as she could without squishing or waking up Amelia. "You had this secret hideout, you brought me here... We only made it for these past 7 years because of you..." Storm held his hand tightly, and he kissed her forehead gently. "Don't worry... I won't let the lab take you away again... I won't let them take Amelia, either..." Storm cupped his cheek, and he blushed lightly before her question left her lips.

"You promise...?" Ben chuckled softly and kissed her cheek before he laid her down.

"I promise," He started, tucking her back in. "Now go back to sleep."

"Can you stay up...?" Ben hesitated a bit. He wasn't expecting her to ask that, but he slowly nodded and moved the hair out of her eyes.

"Of course, babe," He started, and he kissed her forehead. "Good night. Sleep well, okay?" Storm yawned softly before closing her eyes, snuggling Amelia a bit. Ben smiled and watched them for the rest of the night, not knowing that after Storm woke up that morning, their lives would change forever.

Jeremy looked at Evil X, tilting his head in confusion, before walking over and grabbing a hold of his leg. Evil X nearly jumped, but instead, he looked down at the little boy, before slightly waving at him.

A few moments later, all they saw was DOOM and Ben running out of the lab, the same boy that DOOM had saved still in his arms.