"When we're brainwashed, we're given our original equipment and powers back," Sasuke said, rather close to being outright dismissive. "It's a good way to test both the skills of the non-controlled patients and those of the one being used by the Institute."

Breaking the pattern could mean a couple things, if it had occured. It might even be that the Institute was releasing a new wave of experiments, ones that didn't have innate powers and had been modified here for them and were brainwashed to attack from the outset. If so, what that meant for those here who had powers of interest wasn't a particularly bright story.