*Isabella Hernandez's POV:

(Four days after chapter 31)

Even though I was totally against it, Mrs. Mizuki came up with the idea to go to town hall and protest against the termination of experi-babies. She invited all of the experi-parents (parents of experi-babies) to come protest with her. She was expecting about seven hundred of them to show up.

I didn't want to go; I wanted to stay home and process the fact that little brother and his friends were still alive. I didn't want anything to do with spreading the word. In my opinion, it was already too late. They won't listen to her.

"No te quedarás en esta casa! Vas a subir tu trasero y venir con nosotros para apoyar a Mizuki!" my mom demanded, placing her hands on her hips. Translation:

(You are not staying in this house! You're going to get your butt up and come with us to support Mizuki!)

"¿Por qué? Nadie va a creerlo de todos modos! Todo el mundo piensa que esto es bueno y que los "experi-babies" merecen este tratamiento. Los medios de comunicación ya están controlando a las masas!" I talked back in frustration. Translation:

("Why? No one is going to believe her anyway! Everyone thinks this is good and that "experi-babies" deserve this treatment. The media is already controlling the masses!")

"Bella, listen to your mother. It's worth a shot letting people know what is truly going on. We can't just go into hiding without spreading the truth. That would be wrong!" my dad spoke up in an authoritative tone.

I knew there was no winning when it came to my parents, they were capable of literally dragging me out of the house.

"Okay, okay. I'll go" I said in an irritated tone, crossing my arms and legs in the process.

The drive to Town Hall wasn't very long, it was only a ten minute drive. I looked out the window as we pulled up. Everyone was already there. People were holding signs saying: "Stop the Extermination", "Save the Experimented", "Pro-life for the Experimented" and "World Peace".

I looked up at the Town Hall building, there I saw Mrs. Mizuki standing at the top of the steps with a microphone. Everyone else were crowded near the bottom of the steps. There were more people than I expected, probably around eight-hundred people.

After my dad parked the car from across the street, I jumped out and jogged over towards the crowd.

Everyone was shouting "Destroy the camps!"

I spotted Mr. Hada, Noah, and Robin's parents near the front of the crowd, and Gaia's parents near the middle holding up signs.

To get to them, I would've had to squirm and squeeze my way through the tight crowd, which was something I was not going to do.

I placed my hands into my coat pockets and sighed. I stood there at the very left of the crowd and watched Mrs. Mizuki protest through her microphone.

"The Experimented are not evil, nor are they dangerous! They are regular people and don't serve death over something that is beyond their control! This is inhuman! This is the Holocaust all over again!"

The crowd roared and clapped in agreement.

"Isabella!" I heard someone shout.

I turned my head to my right to see Thomas squirming through the crowd, trying to get to me.

"Hey, what's up?" I greeted with a small smile.

"I was looking for you, you're late. Mizuki has been out here protesting for about an hour. Come over here with us" Thomas urged as he grabbed my wrist and guided me over to where his parents where. It kind of caught me off guard.

Once Mr. and Mrs. King saw me, they waved. I saw Hikari standing with them. She looked nervous; her head was down as she scrunched up in her pink "Dora the Explorer" coat.

"Hello Bella, we were wondering where you were. Where are your parents?" Mrs. King asked as she lowered the sign she was holding.

"Oh, they are somewhere around here, in the crowd" I replied, looking around, wondering where my parents were also. A moment later, I spotted them in the back of the crowd, talking to a fellow protester.

I felt a tugging sensation on my jeans and looked down to see Hikari looking up at me.

"Hi Isabella" she greeted with a weak wave. I squatted down to talk to her.

"Hi Hikari, happy sixth birthday! How are you?"

She didn't respond. Her face showed that she was deep in thought.

It had been a few days since Hikari was giving telekinesis powers. She was able to move things with her mind now. She feared herself, and was fearful of what she might do. She didn't get to celebrate her birthday like she should've because her parents were too busy protesting and trying to make a change.

She didn't go to school in a few days, and obviously, she doesn't remember what happened to her at W.E.A, nor does she remember being kidnapped. We first found out Hikari's power when she got angry at her mom for getting rid of Tadashi.

Hikari's tantrum caused things around her to float in the air and drop when she either calmed down or lowered her arms.

"Hey, I know it's hard now, but trust me, everything is going to be okay. There's nothing wrong with you. Your mommy and daddy are going to fix all of this" I said with a sweet tone.

It didn't seem to faze her one bit. She frowned and looked back down towards the ground.

"Even though I am not an experi-baby myself, I can still feel your pain. That is the same pain Shimizu feels because of his powers, and even his friends feel the same pain you fe-"

"I want Shimizu. I want Shimizu here. Where is he?!" Hikari whimpered, starting to cry.

I held her close to me, not knowing exactly what to say. I brushed her short black hair with my fingers.

"I know. I know. He will come back. He and his friends are on a little trip right now, but they will be back" I whispered in Hikari's ear as I held her tighter in my arms.

"Where are they going?" she asked.

I didn't want to tell her; she wouldn't understand anyway. Telling her would just lead to more questions that I probably didn't have the answers to.

"I don't know" I lied as I stopped hugging her. "We will talk about this later, but who knows, your mom might take you to Chuck E. Cheese after we leave" I smirked, changing the subject as I raised my eyebrows up and down at Hikari.

Her eyes lit up as her pupils dilated. She began jumping up and down in excitement.

"But first, let's continue to listen to your mother talk. What she is saying is important" I added on as I picked her up so she could see her mom.

"Those bastards took my son away from me and I will be damned if I let our government or other nation's governments kill another experimented person! This is not what humanity should be about!" Mrs. Mizuki shouted in the microphone, furious at the world for killing its own people over a misconception and a lie. The crowd roared even louder.

As we continued to listen to Mrs. Mizuki protest, Hikari asked me a question.

"Isabella, what is mommy talking about? What is an experimented person? What is a government?"

"Oh, uhhh-"

I tried to figure out how to put my answer into words that a six-year-old would understand.

"A government is a big group of people that controls a country. Some are good, some are bad."

"Is ours good?" Hikari asked with furrowed eyebrows.

That question gave me a deep feeling that she knew something terribly wrong was going on, and mom was trying to stop it. I twisted my mouth a little, hesitant to answer.

"At the moment, no. But an experimented person is a person with powers, like Shimizu, you, Beval, Robin and Gaia. But we call them experi-babies."

"Are you an experi-baby?" Hikari asked as she looked directly into my eyes, wanting someone to relate to her.

"No, I'm not. I'm fortunate enough not to be one" I responded, breaking away eye contact.

"Hey, who is that?" Thomas asked as he tapped my shoulder, staring at whatever was behind him. Me and her Hikari looked back behind us, in the direction that Thomas was looking at.

Behind the crowd was a black car, slowly approaching the street. I couldn't tell who it was because the windows were dark.

"What the-" I muttered as I placed Hikari down.

"Who's that?" Hikari asked Thomas, looking up at him.

"I don't know. But something is very off about that car."

Thomas and I continued to stare at the car as it slowly turned the corner, next to the Town Hall steps that Mrs. Mizuki was standing on. That car gave me and Thomas a bad vibe.

"Mom, Dad, look at that car!" Thomas pointed. The car was parked now, on the left side of the street.

Mr. and Mrs. King looked over to where Thomas was pointing.

"What car? There are plenty of cars" Mr. King stated in confusion.

"No, the black car. Something is off about that black car. It was slowly approaching the Town Hall street as if it was watching us" Thomas explained as he pointed. At that point, they saw it.

"What the hell?" Mrs. King tilted her head in confusion.

"We have to warn Mizuki. That might be a government car! Please, watch Hikari! Thomas come with me!" I shouted at Mr. and Mrs. King in fear as I grabbed Thomas's hand. They didn't argue or anything, they just nodded their heads and held on to Hikari's hands.

"Mizuki!" I shouted as me and Thomas pushed and shoved through the enormous crowd of now nine-hundred. My adrenaline was taking over me.

I glanced over at the car.

"What if they're here to take experi-babies away? What if they get Hikari?" I thought, my mind going through so many different questions and worse case scenarios.

We had to do something. The car started lowering its window. It's like no one in the crowd even noticed this car. We had to get to the front of the crowd and let Mizuki know.

"Mizuk-" I shouted before tripping over myself and losing my balance.

"Isabella!" Thomas yelled as he ran over to helped me up from off the ground.

"I'm fine. Thank you" I responded. "Come on."

I grabbed Thomas's hand as we continued pushing and shoving through the crowd, desperate to warn at least Mr. and Mrs. Douglas or even Noah about that mysterious car.

Mizuki proceeded to protest, oblivious to the car that was to her far left.

"Not only has the government deceived its people, the world leaders have deceived their people in other countries also. A few bad apples of experi-babies do not dictate the entirety of the group! They are brainwashing you to believe that the experimented are evil so they can have an excuse to get rid of part of the human po-"

Before my very eyes, I saw an arm holding a gun stretch out from the black car's window and shoot Mizuki on the side of the head, two times.

As her lifeless body collapsed on the ground, screams filled the air as people begin running in all different directions. Shots began to fire as the crowd hurried away from Town Hall before the car quickly pulled off. The bullets didn't hit anyone else, or any of us. Thank God.

"Mizuki, no!" Mr. Hada screamed hysterically as he ran up the stairs and collapsed into his knees, right in front of his wife's body. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas were hiding in cover as Mr. Douglas called the ambulance.

"Oh my god" I cried out, running up the stairs with Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. King, along with Hikari and my parents followed behind me.

When I got up the stairs, I cuffed my hands over my mouth in devastation. Her body was laid to the side. Her eyes were open, looking in my direction and some blood was pouring out of her slightly opened mouth. Her brain was exposed, and chunks of flesh and brains were scattered everywhere, along with a pool of blood that her head was laying in.

"No! No! My wife! Mizuki, no!" Mr. Hada shouted, hysterically crying. He shook her a little. No response. It was clear that Mizuki Hada was dead.

Mr. Hada held Mizuki in her arms and rocked her back and forth as if she was a baby. He was trembling and wailing in the process. My parents held each other as they cried. Noah desperately listened for Mizuki's heartbeat, for any signs of life.

That's when Hikari came from behind Mr. King and saw the scene. She screamed in horror. It was a scream of distress, it was a scream of distraught, it was a scream of trauma.

"Hikari! No, look away!" I yelled as I carried Hikari away from the scene, covering her eyes as I walked down the stairs.

She didn't need to see that; it would've traumatized her. No six year should see a dead body lying there on the cold concrete ground, especially their mom's.

"Mommy!" She screamed as she squirmed and kicked in my grasp. "No! Mooommyy!"

When I made it down the stairs, I hugged her tightly. We slowly crouched down and both sat on our knees, she buried her head in my chest.

I wept with Hikari. I wept for Mizuki, for her to lose her life over telling the hard, scary truth to people. I was sure those murderers worked for the government.

I wept for Hikari and Shimizu, because now, they'll have to grow up without a mom. And Yuzuru Hada had lost his wife and will never be the same because of this. All of them will need counseling from this, including me.

I felt someone come from behind and hug me and Hikari. It was Thomas.

"It's going to be okay Hikari" he whispered as he sat down with us. His tears slashed down, landing on his shoes.

"Please don't look" I begged as I squeezed her tightly. She held on to my coat and cried even louder now.

"Mommy!"

When I looked up at the top of the stairs, I saw several strangers, some protesters, coming over to help Mizuki and the others. In the distance, I could hear ambulance sirens approaching.

It baffled me how you couldn't even share the truth anymore, or even speak your mind without being criticized or killed.

Exposing the government would result in more deaths. We had no other choice but to leave for the nuclear shelter. We, including some experi-parents and experi-babies.