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This is my first fanfiction, so I'd really appreciate it if you would review, even if you don't like it and if you don't like it please please please tell me why so my next can be better.

I'll try to put up a new chapter every day or every other day, but no promises.

Chapter 1

Max's POV:

We were in cages. Again. Fang and Angel were to my left; Iggy, Nudge, and Gazzy were across from us.

"So much for flying over the pretty islands, Angel. We just got caught again."

She turns to me. "Why did you ignore the Voice, Max?"

I wince, because she's right, and the flock and I all know it.

"Yes, why did you ignore the Voice, Max?" Iggy taunts.

"Shut it. We need to figure out how to get out of here."

Tory's POV:

"So we go to LIRI. Break into lab six and search it. In the middle of the night. And we're doing this to see if there is any other research of Karsten's besides the flash drive."

"Yes, Shelton, that is what we're doing. Do I have to go over it again?" I said, as he began tugging on his ear.

"Just making sure that we're committing yet another felony. On top of the dozens already on our records."

"Why would we find anything?" Ben.

"He said he destroyed all the records." Hi.

"We're going anyway. The flash drive wasn't destroyed, there might be more."

Quick recap: Me and my friends Ben, Shelton, and Hi had gone to Loggerhead Island, where most of our parents work, about a year ago to look for the wolf Whisper and her pack. Instead we found a dog tag. Then, since we couldn't actually read anything on it, we broke into the Loggerhead Island Research Institute to use the equipment. In the lab, we found Cooper, a wolfdog that was part of Whisper's pack. Karsten had experimented and combined two strains of the parvovirus, one that infected dogs, the other humans. It created a new virus that was infectious. We didn't know that at the time though, so we took Cooper out of the lab to save him. After a whole bunch more crap (including solving a long-dead murder mystery and Karsten's death) we realized we were infected. And it gave us powers; added canine DNA to our human DNA.

And we want to know how it happened, and how to fix it. Which is why we had to break into LIRI to see if there was any research that Karsten hid.

Max's POV:

I assumed it was night because they had turned the lights out. The six of us sat in darkness, planning our escape.

We hadn't been getting very far.

"This is isn't the School, it has to be another extension of it or something," Iggy argued.

I sighed. "Angel, what did you pick up from their minds?"

"They're excited to have caught us, the kinds of tests they want to do... oh, and the director was thinking of his daughter Tory."

"Why do I care about the director's daughter? Probably some kind of freak."

"No, he hasn't done any experiments on her. And from what I heard, her and her friends have a tendency to break into labs."

OK, talk about strange. But... "How does that help us?"

"We're in the lab that they break into the most. Lab six."

That still doesn't help, because the chances that they'll break into tonight are low, and if they did there's no way we could get out without showing our wings. And if this is the director's daughter...

I don't have to say anything out loud, the others already thought it and Angel picked it up in my thoughts.

Back to square one with planning.

Tory's POV:

"See, Shelton, I told you it'd be easy," I said.

"I'm going to remind you that it was only easy to break in because we've done it before so many times."

"Can we just do what we came here to do?" Ben asked. "We're wasting time."

"Right," I said. "We're going to need to flare to make sure we don't miss anything."

Max's POV:

I heard Iggy and Angel sit up straight at the exact same time. Fang, Gazzy, and Nudge were asleep. "What is it?"

"You know how the director was thinking of how his daughter and her friends break into this lab a lot?" Angel said.

"Yeah..." Please, nonono. This would be a disaster.

"Well, they did," Iggy said. "I can hear them." Crap.

"What are they saying?"

"They're talking about how easy breaking in was since they've done it before... There's the director's daughter Tory, but the rest are guys, and they all sound about our age; one's saying that they're wasting time. And now they're talking about... finding some hidden research? And Tory's saying they have to flare or something, to make sure they don't miss anything, whatever that means." Iggy said. His sense of hearing is scary sometimes.

"Angel, tell me what you're picking up."

"They're getting ready to flare, which is...omigod!" Her voice dropped to a whisper.

"Angel," I said, also whispering now, "What is it?"

Every flock member was awake now. "They're recombinants, like us."

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