Authors Note: Hi! This is my new story, I hope you like it. So, here it is! Please let me know if I should continue. I am considering just a one-shot, because I'm not really sure about this story… I have my doubts on whether it's good or not. Disclaimer: Nope, still I don't own MR

Iggy is believed to be insane by the Flock; because he left them alone, to save the world themselves. He said it was for the best, and took flight. He wouldn't even say goodbye. He was afraid of something. The Flock doesn't know what he fears. Has Iggy really gone insane? Or is there a method behind his madness?

Broken Fragments

Chapter 1: Secrets and Lies

Iggy PoV

They were after me again. The Erasers. There had been more of them, ever since I left. They wanted to stop me, and 'kill this corrupted freak before he destroys everything' as they so nicely told me.

But they couldn't kill me, not yet. I didn't abandon them for nothing; I wouldn't leave my family for this. Max could continue saving the world, but I would continue saving her.

I spun around to face my pursuers. We were on open streets, with people and shops. I was hesitant to fight, innocent people could get hurt.

I had to escape though. I needed to save the Flock.

An Eraser lunged towards me, his claws ready. I heard the air hiss as he missed my ear by an inch. He thumped onto the concrete, and I leaped up and landed on him, knocking his head against the ground. He groaned, and didn't move again.

I jumped over his body, but I miscalculated my jump and slammed into an Eraser. His hard chest banged against my head, and I fell in the street, dazed.

"You die today, bird. You can't just follow your leader, and go with her plan?" an Eraser snapped.

I used my wings to steady myself. "Not when her plan ends in death," I retorted.

"It's meant to happen, freak. Besides, what's the big deal? The world will get saved anyway."

"Yeah, at the cost of her life, which is not a fair price, not when there is another option."

The Erasers around me laughed. "There is no other option, at least not for you."

I slid forward and kicked my legs out, hoping to trip an Eraser. I imagined I was surrounded in a tight circle. It worked; I was rewarded with a grunt, a thud, and a chance of escape.

I raced away from the Erasers, snapping my wings out and jumping into the sky as fast as I could. Someone below me gasped. It wasn't a hoarse, growling gasp from an Eraser, but a light, high pitched one, probably from a human.

I figured my little scene below would be nothing. After all, I was in a run down, beat up city where if you didn't see someone doing drugs or beating on some kid, you knew something was wrong.

But a kid with wings? Must've had too much of that bottle or something.

I sighed. I was a little lonely, not hearing Nudge's chatter, Max's bossiness, Angel's innocent questions and reassuring voice in your head, Fang's comforting silence, Gazzy's bomb interest and explosive farts, and even Total's annoying voice.

I knew they thought me insane, or worse, they hated me, but it was for the best. I abandoned them for a reason not even Angel knew about.

The entire flock was in life threatening danger from, well, I don't exactly know what. I just knew that if Max continued with her plans to save the world, all of us would die.

It was my job to stop that from happening. I would save Max and my family, even if it meant my death.

I didn't really have a plan in mind; I was just fighting off Erasers while I headed towards the Institute. That was where I was hoping to find more information on the Flock, and how to stop our deaths.

I also knew the Flock was tracking me, hoping to get me to 'see sense' and return to them. I was very careful to cover my tracks, and to make sure the Erasers trailing me didn't come after the others, either.

Angel was always scanning for my thoughts, but she could only read from so far, and usually I was too far for her to detect anything important.

Max would constantly be flying in warp speed to chase me, but the Erasers always kept her at bay. There was just so many of them.

Anytime the Flock was close to me, Fang would try and sneak up on me, trying to ambush me. But that rarely ever happened.

Nudge and Gazzy were the worst. I could always hear them, calling my name, begging and pleading for me to come back. Every time I hear them, I am always so close to returning.
But that fear holds me back. Just the thought of their death stops me, and I continue my flight.

I know, I know, how can a blind kid have lasted this long all alone? Well, truth was I wasn't entirely blind anymore. I still couldn't see, but I had a weird sort of new power almost like echolocation.

But instead of making sounds, it was almost like I just knew what it should look like. For example, if there was a girl walking down the street, I would just automatically know she had brown hair, blue eyes and freckles.

Except, I still wouldn't be able see her. I still saw darkness, yet I knew what the girl looked like.

I enjoyed feeling colors much more, though. I could feel a girl's chocolate brown hair, stroke my wings and feel the soft eggshell color. There is nothing else like it.

I paused, trying to clear my thoughts. I needed to stay focused on the task ahead of me. The institute should be somewhere in New York, unless it was moved.

"Iggy, please come back. We miss you, and we will help you."

Oh, crap. Angel was close. She could hear my thoughts. I had to get away from her! She could figure it out, and ruin everything!

"Figure what out? Iggy, you need to understand we won't hurt you. We're you're family, and we aren't going to ruin anything for you."

I flapped harder, faster. Max might try and chase me now, and I had just left that last batch of Erasers. There was no one to stop her now, unless I landed.

"You have a new power, Iggy? Is that why you left? Are you afraid you don't know how to use it, or that we might not like it?"

She figured out my power, what else does she know? I blocked out my thoughts, creating a mental wall. I always loved hearing Angel's voice, but when she started knowing too much, that was when it had to stop.

"No, Iggy! Please don't block me again! We are close, we can help! Don't do it, please! We all miss you, and Fang-"

I cut her off, sealing my thoughts. It always took extra effort to create a mental wall, but I hated hearing about Fang, and Angel knew it.

Fang was probably the one I was closest to, and my disappearance was the hardest on him. He hasn't spoken a word since I left, and Angel says he's wracked with guilt thinking it was his fault I left. I wished so bad to speak with him, and talk, and be a family again.

But I just couldn't. I hoped, one day, when they were all alive and the world was saved, that they would understand. That they would know I did it for them, and I loved them. And, even when I die, they will know I was never insane.

Angel was right when she said Fang would be the first to die.

If I failed, Fang would die first. Then Gazzy, then Nudge, next would be Angel, and finally, Max. After Max was dead, I would be alone. And then, the last of the bird kids, the last of the Avians, and the last chance of hope, would die with the world.