I glided over the city lights, wondering what it would be like to be normal. No, what it would be like to have a future. I had a glitch in my mechanics, I was pretty sure it was the glitch that would cause me to expire. But I had to find them first, my mission was to find them and kill them, but I changed it so that it was to my liking. My mission was now was to find them and hope that they would help me. See, I wasn't the only one trying to escape the School; it's radar. Blake had been trying as well, but a stun gun hit him right in the back, right where his main "hard drive" was. Blake and I had been the only successful experiments with mechanics built into our DNA; we both had robotic wings, extendible weapons from our hands, a brain similar to a flash drive, storing information forever, but we still had all of our human instincts, feelings, all of that. Our "hard drive" was placed near the base of our spine, entwined with our central nervous system. So when Blake got shot out of the air, it knocked him out cold, forcing me to carry him through the sky while I searched for the Flock. Truth is, the white coats had injected me with something weird before we left, I was beginning to wonder if it had anything to do with the new "project" that I'd heard about through random tidbits. From the rumblings, it sounded like they were trying to see if their mutants could successfully reproduce. If I was any part of that project… I was only sixteen, I couldn't have a kid! They were sick, all of them. But I hoped, hoped, that it was just a glitch, not a kid.
I did another 360, looking for a cave, a safe landing place, anything. Then I spotted a small cave just outside of anyone's reach. I landed, setting down Blake and putting a few rocks in a circle where I would build a fire in the morning. Then I slept; slept and prayed that I would wake up in the morning.
When I woke up, I sat up and glanced around the cave; something was definitely different. I snapped up, walking slowly to the circle of rocks. They weren't in the same place as last night. I whirled, blades shooting from my wrists. Nothing happened, no one attacked, there was complete silence. I released my stance and walked over to Blake, my blades retracting. That's when something sounded from behind me, making me whirl again and jerk the blades as far as they would come out of my arms. It was… Maximum Ride. I almost let out a sigh of relief, but then remembered their abilities; I blocked my mind and my eyes narrowed.
"You don't attack us, we won't attack you, got that?" She said and I relaxed my defense a bit, allowing that. I didn't want to fall for some trick from the School, what if they had sent a fake Max to kill Blake and me? She paused, seeming to concentrate on something. "So you know about us." She said stiffly; obviously Angel had told her that I was blocking my thoughts.
"Yeah, so? You're all the rage in the whispers back at the School." I said coolly, stepping backwards toward Blake a little more.
"What? Did they send you two to kill us?" She moved so that she would be ready if I decided to attack.
"Actually, yes, they did. But that's not why I'm here." This was going to be hard, I'd never said this before. "I need your help."
