Colin sits down in front of the monitor bored out of his mind.
Then a new signal with a familiar S.O.S signal gets his attention.
Everyone in his age group stare at the screen of the Comms phone.
" ... T .. is Murasaki generation one ..." Endless static noise keeps getting in the air.
Rex dials them directly with a Comms phone for better signal.
"Hello? Murasaki generation two speaking? Dad! Is that you?" Colin asks
"Colin! Help us. We've been locked in the bunker for days now. The infected have gotten smarter. They break windows and destroy the inside shield. We need help." The old man says.
Eaves dropping listeners with their channel tuned to Murasaki Camp turn up the volume.
Colin and his generation look at the distance and decide on a rescue mission, "We're on our way." He says gathering weapons and then going to change.
Rin volunteers to come with and her father agrees, for the past month he has been teaching her training methods to help her level up faster.
"It's a two step trip." Jake explains to the worried Rex and Chronos.
Rex squints his eyes, "And that means?" He asks confused.
"It will take only two portals to get there. From there he can open a direct trip to us. Two step is like this." Jake demonstrates by opening a shield and taking a single step to one side of the room and another step through a portal to another side of the room before he opens a portal at the exact spot where he took his first step.
Chronos nods only now understanding, "Ohh, you measure a trip in steps, like how we measured ours in Kilometres." He says.
"Yes, with a monitor like this one giving clear and exact location it cuts the trip time down significantly, hence why it is said the portals open a portal through space and Time." Jake further clarifies.
Rex nods, "Now you made sense. Let's focus on the people. Mira, did that instruction include these strangers?" He asks pointing to the the rule to never share the details of what their abilities are.
"They're not strangers, they are our grand parents." Toya retorts with anger.
Mira frowns, "He asked the right question Toya, those Grand parents abandoned our parents, they didn't leave them to make them tougher they saved their own skin. Tell them our powers, they will start pitting us against each other, and when they leave again, leave with the ones they think have useful powers, hiding our powers is essential." She says rubbing Toya's arm up and down.
Toya sniffles, "Is that true mom?" He asks Lily who is looking down with her arms crossed.
A tear from her eye falls, "Yes. If we didn't have the spacial portal to save us, we would be dead."
The mood in the room shifts.
"The old people downstairs?" Toya asks confused.
"We bumped into each other and they took us in after directing us to open a portal to a place they were going too. They were runaways from an abusive camp like Rex and Chronos. They took care of us and trained us, and now it's our time to pay back the debt." She adds.
The kids look at each other and then turn away all agreeing to hide their powers no matter what.