Lastly, they go for a pizza and Michael finally tells his mother what happened with the Elgen Academy. Michael, his mother and Ostin celebrate his birthday watching exhibitions. Later that day Michael, his mom and Ostin go to pick up Taylor from her cheerleading class but one of her friend tells Michael that she wasn't feeling well so she won't able to come with them. Dallstorm tells him he was offered a scholarship at the Elgen Academy. Michael gets called to the principal's office and Mr. Taylor says it's already too late because a strange man visited her parents talking about an academy called Elgen Academy in Pasadena, California and she realizes she's been tracked down. Ostin warns Taylor that she has to delete her search history on her computer about the hospital because the people responsible might track them down. The machine eventually failed but they concluded that it had to have something to do with the deaths of all those babies and why Michael and Taylor have powers. He discovered that during the days when they were born a new MRI machine was set up in that hospital at Pasadena, California. That Monday at school Ostin called Michael and Taylor for an emergency meeting. Michael invites Taylor to come with his mom and Ostin that Monday to properly celebrate their birthdays. He also discovered that fifty-nine babies were born during those days in that hospital in Pasadena and that only seventeen of them survived. They have a club meeting after and Ostin shares that he discovered that the hospital records where they were born were all destroyed around the days of their births. Ostin and Taylor visit Michael for his birthday. It is Michael's birthday and his mother gives him his father's watch. Ostin is filled in the information and the three conclude that it probably isn't a coincidence and that it is linked to their powers. Taylor tells Michael the new information that she discovered-they were both born at the same hospital at Pasadena, California. Michael gets into a friendly strength show-off with one of the jocks and with Taylor's electric help manages to not look like a fool.
Michael and Ostin go to an after the game party. Taylor invites him and Ostin to the party. Michael and Taylor like each other more and more. Michael gets to know Taylor's clique, the popular kids at school and him and Ostin even get invited to a school basketball game. She gets angry at him at first but later asks him about Taylor. Michael's mother comes home and she finds out that Ostin knows about his powers. Ostin comes to visit Michael with his multimeter tool to measure his electric power.
The two agree to form a club together with Ostin. Taylor tells Michael that she also has electric powers which make her control human minds. She asks Michael to go to her house with her so that they can talk and she will tell him her secret as well. The next day Taylor sends notes to Michael during their exam about what happened. We discover that Ostin knows about Michael's powers. Ostin comes by to his house and when his mother leaves Ostin questions Michael about what happened. The morning after Michael tells his mother that Taylor saw him use his powers. He is trying to hide from his mother but is not successful. Michael goes back home with a swollen eye. Taylor has seen everything and Michael is in trouble. The bullies are about to humiliate him by pulling down his pants and Michael fights back with his secret electric powers. While leaving the school he is ambushed by Jack, Wade and Mitchell. Michael goes to the classroom for his detention.
He goes to the classroom and we are introduced to Ostin, his best friend who is also a genius and Taylor, his longtime crush. He is at his office now and he received detention for being bullied by Jack and the team. Dallstorm has a tendency to blame the victim. Michael talks about the mean principal of his school called Mr. He has Tourette's syndrome but he also has a scary secret. He is a teenager going to school in Idaho. Michael, who is also the narrator, begins to tell his story. The two agree that if nothing else works there is always Cell 25.
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