Sven had been going through the storage of the underground bunker to see if there was anything he could use to teach the twins how to handle a human.  Tomas and Elisabeth had never experienced the small world and he wanted to train them on how to handle beings much smaller than titans.  Sven was in luck when he found the old mannequins that were used for the rumble room.

“Phoebe too,” Sven heard the voice of Alexander Anderson behind him.

“I forgot that we have three now,” Sven let his accent slip.

“My little girl is a lost soul just like your twins.  Emma and I are working with her to make her more like Ethan but I don’t think the sudden growth helped her.  She acts sort of like an autistic child,” Alex said as tears formed in his eyes.  “Sven, I don’t know how you do it?  Your boy is scary big.”

“There is gentleness to Tomas.  Jane never allowed my children to be feeling creatures.  I have hope for them and your Phoebe as well.  I know the dummies are poor substitutes but we have to show them just how small we once were,” Sven tells Alex who was once one of the wealthiest men in the United States.  Alex was also one of the first humans to have evolved along with his wife Emma.  Alex recently was forced into becoming a titan just like Sven and just like Sven wanted nothing more than to shut this Pandora’s Box that has been opened.

“We need to end this madness.  I have a few formulas that I’d like to try.  Becoming human again is not an option but I think we need to seriously think about stripping all titans and giants of their powers.  We are dangerous,” Alex said as he took one of the mannequins Sven offered him.  “But our kids Sven, they don’t know any differently.  Keith Black has shown us what’s possible.”

“Ethan is nothing like the others but your Phoebe never got to grow up slowly.  Phoebe has potential,” Sven tells his friend.

“She’s like a fifty seven foot baby, Sven.  I don’t know,” Alex said as he ran his hand through his long dirty blond hair.

“There is always hope but we don’t have much time.  I overheard the general the other day.  He wants to explore the hidden bunker with a lot of backup.  My boys told him that they never found anything but the stubborn human refuses to believe them.  We need to get our kids trained and fast.  I don’t want us using our powers too much,” Sven tells Alex.

“I agree but mind control might have to be used.  We need to get our children to where they won’t be curious.  We’ve got to move out as quickly as possible,” Alex said.

“My humans are ready to move out.  They’ve got a plan.  All I have to do is give them the word and they will go to safety.  I sense Harper’s giant army is close.  They are all collared and will do whatever Calvin tells them.  We’ve got to mind control the unwilling to come with us.  I don’t want casualties.  Ethan and the others will meet us at the base.  A new titan was born recently,” Sven tells his friend with a smile.

“Steve is now one of us?” Alex asked.

“He just turned an hour ago all on his own.  Our numbers are slowly rising,” Sven said and both the titan men smiled.

“Such delicate useless little creatures,” Tomas tells his father as he held the wooden mannequin.  “How can something so little be of use to us?”

“Humans have a purpose son,” Sven patiently tells his oversize boy.  The fact that Tomas was taller and broader than his father never escaped Sven’s mind.  Tomas was ridiculously powerful for only being over a year old.  Sven watched as Tomas picked up the mannequin by the arm and look at it distastefully.

“Mother doesn’t like these creatures much.  Why should we care about handling them?” Tomas asked.

“Because all of us were once human,” Sven tells his boy.

“Mother told us that we were never human.  We have always been titans,” Elisabeth said as she leaned against the wall.  Sven was unaware of his bikini clad daughter.  Elisabeth Lindquist was the vision of an angel with thick long golden hair and ice blue eyes.  Both Tomas and Elisabeth took after their Scandinavian father with high cheekbones and chisel chins but Elisabeth had Jane’s full lips and big round eyes.  Tomas’s hair had a slight tint of red to it.  Both the children even inherited Sven well above average height.  Elisabeth towered over Jane but not Sven.  Both the twins wore the powder blue and white Gaia Foundation titan uniforms, Tomas the biker shorts and Elisabeth the bikini.  Sven wore navy and white which signified that he was now the titans’ unofficial leader, at least the leader of Hades base.  Little did Sven know but all the titans looked to him for guidance.  He could never fully figure out why considering he wasn’t the first titan.

“You were both born the size of human babies,” Sven said as he looked to his daughter.

“But we grew shortly after.  We were only small because mother was still human,” Tomas said as he still picked and prodded the mannequin like some sort of scientific experiment.

“Don’t you see, without a human, you wouldn’t be here today,” Sven said in his a-ha moment.  The twins both gave Sven a perplexed glance before looking down at the small wooden mannequins.  Both Tomas and Elisabeth were tempted to crush the wooden dolls with their fingers just to feel their immense power but the look on their father’s face stopped them.  Both the titans looked the same age as him but Sven’s eyes reflected wisdom that the twins couldn’t see in their own.  As much as the twins hated to admit it that despite their adult shells, Elisabeth and Tomas were still babies.

Elisabeth could never figure out how come Ethan wasn’t like her or Tomas despite the fact that he is actually younger.  Ethan used to hide away in the store room everyday with his giant father.  One time Elisabeth remembered hearing laugher through the thick metal door.  She ignored the small voices that hit her mind, thoughts that never came from Ethan or his father.  The voices of children.  Elisabeth dismissed these voices as her lost childhood.

“Ethan’s family was human,” Elisabeth muttered.  “That’s why he went to the storeroom every day.  He was visiting his brother and sister.  They were still human.  Mother denied Tomas and I access to the humans but you didn’t want her to.  She was much too big to control and she didn’t want us to see how fragile you once was when you were one of them.  I’m so sorry papa.”  Tears filled Elisabeth’s eyes.  The ice princess started to melt and Sven did what any good father would do, he took her in his arms.  Elisabeth understood and this is a step in the right direction.   Tomas on the other hand seemed blank as he stood above his father and sister.  Then he felt something in his heart, its Elisabeth emotions feeding through him.  The twin bond is strong even in fraternal twins.  Tomas put his arms around both his sister and father while he felt his sister’s pain at shunning the creatures that Ethan Black called the original ones.  Someday Tomas hopes to find out what the Titan finds intriguing.