Phoenix POV
I have been at the School for a year now, undergoing experiments and tests worse than you can ever imagine. Who am I? I am Phoenix. I was kidnapped from the driveway of my house at the age of 15. I have flaming red hair, pale skin, I am a full 7' tall and I have a slim build. Oh, and one other thing.
I have wings. Not your average flesh, bone and feather wings either, mine are metal, organic steel to be exact.
I have made a friend while I was here, his name is Beta. He told me that he was to become just like Omega, but failed to lose his soul. The Whitecoats tried to make me like Omega as well, but they never finished in the experiments. Consequently, I am stronger, smarter and more agile than ever, but I still have a soul. Also, I have a compulsion to obey all orders given by the higher ups, but I can resist those compulsions, with some difficulty however. Now, enough about me, lets get back to the present, where those sicko scientists were injecting me with liquid nitrogen, don't ask why 'cause I don't know. The pain started immediately, it felt like I had cold fire running through my veins. I started fighting the freezing liquid with my own inner fire. Oh ya, I forgot to mention something, I can do anything that I want with fire, and I have an inner 'pillar' of fire that I draw from. It took a full 30 minutes to warm myself back up once I finished vaporizing the liquid nitrogen. As I was fighting the liquid nitrogen, however, I passed out. I woke up back in my cage which, might I add, is fireproof and has an unbreakable lock on it.
"Great, just great, I am getting tired of all these experiments, I need to get out of here" I mutter to myself. My friend must've heard me because he agreed with me, saying
"We all need to get out of here, but that is kind of impossible right now"
"Nothing is impossible, us, out of everyone, should know that"
"I know, but still, it is going to be exceedingly difficult to get out of here"
We stopped talking just then because an eraser walked in to take another experiment. When he walked out, I said "I have an idea; I could melt the back of your cage so you can get out, than you can use your power to free me and we can blow this joint." Yes, Beta has a power, he can manipulate metal, but only if he is in direct contact with it.
"Not a bad idea, but there's only one problem"
"And what is" I start to say, but am interrupted by an explosion. BOOM, we both jump at the sound and Beta exclaims "what the (insert swear of choice) was that?"
BOOM "it might be some reactive substance that the whitecoats were working" BOOM "on, or not" I answer "these are happening" BOOM "too regularity to be a failed experiment"
I use infrared vision and look to where the explosions are coming from "I can see 6 forms, judging by their body heat, they are human-avian hybrids." BOOM, I see a flare of heat "and one of them just set off another bomb, that's what we were hearing" I explain to Beta, switching back to normal vision
"You don't think" he starts to say, but I interrupt him
"I think its them, the Flock" than I bellow to the rest of the hybrids here with us "the Flock is coming, be ready to run!" just than the door blew in with yet another explosion and, sure enough, the Flock was standing there, looking mighty angry. Actually, 'angry' is the understatement of the century here. Max calls "release the experiments, than let's get out of here" the Flock goes around, snapping locks off cages. When Fang came to my cage, he tried to break the lock off, but failed. He then called out "Ig, need your expertise here" and a strawberry-blond teen with very pale skin, who I recognize as Iggy from the MR books I read while I was still fully human (wow, that was an odd sentence) walks over, not looking at anything directly.
"All right, where is the lock?" he asks, even though he was looking right at it.
"You are looking at it Ig" he kneels down in front of my cage and starts feeling the lock. A few seconds later, he took out a lock picking kit, selected a tool, and got to work. By the time Ig finished with my lock, about a half hour later, most of the other hybrids have been freed.
"Ig, you might want to get away from me, because it is going to get really hot, really quickly" he moves away from me and I start collecting my fire, channeling it to my hands. Once the fire swirling around my hands was hot enough, I let loose at the ceiling with one hand, blasting fire straight up, into the sky. At the same time, I let loose at where the wall joins the floor, making the fire spiral down to the ground, creating a slide. Max, after getting over the shock of seeing someone vaporize two giant holes in the room, yelled "everyone, get out of here. Those who can fly, through the hole in the ceiling and those who cannot fly, through the hole in the wall" and the hybrids moved to obey her immediately, me included, even though I do not take orders well. What? Anyone would have jumped at a chance too escape that hellhole. As soon as I clear the roof, I swerve towards Canada, and home. I guess Max had some questions for me, however, because next thing I knew, she was in front of me, forcing me to stop and hover there.
"Yes, what do you want?" I demanded
"I have never seen anyone with so much raw power combined with such control. If you join my Flock, then Itex does not stand a chance" she told me, and, unless I was much mistaking, I could swear I detected awe in her voice.
"I work alone, and besides, I have a family to check on. So, if you will excuse me, I must get going now" after I said that, Max, scowling at my refusal, moved out of my way and I continued flying. I flew for a few days before I crossed the Canada/US border.