A/N: Hello, you...whoever you might be reading this!!! I hope you love Iggy because he rocks!!! Please comment. Oh yeah, and I guess I should say that Iggy and Co. does not belong to be but to James Patterson, who rocks the world!!! Oh yeah, and to my friend, Alicia, who came up with Summer!!! It starts out kind of slow but it will get more action soon! Please don't give up on me!!!

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Iggy's POV

I hate the school. "Why was I back here again? How could I have let this happen? Where was the rest of the flock?" I could not remember where they had been taken or even if they had been captured with me.

I felt around my cage, blindly, as everything else I did since the whitecoats from the school had attempted to 'surgically enhance' my night vision. I wondered if the flock was thinking about me now.

"Bring me Experiment 10642. I need another blood test," I heard one of the sicko scientists say from across the room.

Yes, I had become accustomed to the name they had given me; or rather, the number. I knew the whitecoat was coming and there was no way I was going to get a freaking blood test anytime soon.

One of the whitecoats reached toward my cage and grabbed my wing. I winced as he pulled me out, but only for a second before I sprang into action.

I flapped my left wing that the idiot was holding and I felt it hit solid contact with...his face, I was guessing. I spun around and kicked at his chin with my left leg and remembered all of the things I had learned from Jeb when he was working with us.

I turned down the hall and heard someone calling after me. It was an Eraser. You know, the wolf men people. I was tired from the testing I had been through and I knew I could not outrun them for long.

"Hello there, bird boy," said Ari, the Eraser I despised the most.

I was aware of a cold metal pressed against my back. "You took Max from me. You even---"

"I don't even like Max. She doesn't like me. I did not take her anywhere from you except from away from this wretched place---" I replied.

I heard the trigger click. "I am going to kill you now."

I yelled and then I saw only darkness.

"No!" I screamed and I noticed someone hitting me on the shoulder.

"Iggy! Get up! Hello! Are you crazy? Don't strangle me!"

"What?" I opened my eyes and of course, everything was still dark.

"Hello, Gasser, is that you?"

"No, it's the aliens from planet X. Of course it's me!" Gasman said as he jumped onto my bed.

Yes, you read correctly, I was actually lying on a bed, in a hotel. I was actually not in the middle of nowhere!

If I told you we'd gotten the money for renting this, it would be a lie.

If I told you my creepy, little sister, Angel, who controlled minds, forced the hotel manager to allow us a free stay then you would think I was psycho, but that's the truth.

"Hurry up! Everyone's waiting on you to go get some lunch," Gasman told me, his normal voice had returned.

I groaned. "Everyone's up? Even Nudge? Lunch?" I asked.

Silence.

"Hello?" I asked to make sure the trouble maker had not just run away and left me talking to myself.

"Sorry. I just nodded by the way."

"Okay. Like that had much effect. Anyway, get out of here. I will come down to the lobby in a few minutes." I ran my fingers though my hair. I felt Gasman getting up to leave.

I was starving. I knew I was burning off calories even faster by flying.

I listened to the steady beat of five other pairs of flapping wings. I joined the rhythm and noticed the heavy wind, cooling the air.

"We're landing behind the trees over there." Then for my sake she added, "4:00 direction. Just follow my lead and we can get to the restaurant without anyone seeing our wings," Max warned.

"Max, I am sooo hungry. It feels like we haven't eaten in, like, days. I'm glad were here though. The view is really pretty. So which restaurant are we going to? I think the one over there looks nice. Are we going to that one Max? Are we? Is it too expensive?" Nudge stated as we landed.

When we did, I threw on my sweater over my wings to conceal them as I walked toward an area surrounded by restaurants. The food smelled delicious. That was when I heard a faint beeping. But being blind, I relied on my ears alone.

"Uh oh, Iggy, come over here," the Gasman called me.

I shuffled my feet slightly to make sure I would not run into anything in this new environment.

"Gazzy, what's up?" I said. "You guys go ahead." I told the others.

After they left I turned to Gazzy. "Our new project, what's wrong with it? Why is it beeping? We've got to stop it or it will blow!"

"Yeah, but how?"

"I don't know. Give it here," I commanded and he handed it over without any hesitation at the same time as I heard a familiar voice say, "What have you got there, bird boy. Or rather, bat boy. Bats are blind and that fits your description."

Ari.

I listened to people exiting the restaurants. With an audience, I could not fight these guys without being discovered.

Two Erasers grabbed my arms and I did not know where the Gasman had gone. They pulled me away from the fountain and into the backside of a restaurant.

"Where is she?" the one on my left asked.

"Who?"

"Who do you think? Maximum Ride."

"Um…"

"Don't play stupid with us!"

"Iggy, Iggy, where are you?" I listened to Max calling for me. Silently, I pleaded she would go away.

The Eraser on my right released me to get Max so I kicked the other one on the shin and he stumbled temporarily.

"Max, get away from here!" I warned.

"It's me, Iggy!" Gazzy called.

"Let's get out of here!" I yelled to Gazzy and sprinting out from behind the restaurant back toward the fountain.

I ran, hoping I would not run into anything, with the Gasman a few steps behind me. I kept running until it was too late.

In the cold weather, I did the worst thing I could. I ran and tripped into a fountain. Why is there a fountain in the middle of the street you might be asking? Well, if you weren't, I was. Shivers rushed through my body and I waited until I thought the Erasers might be gone to emerge.

With a deep breath, I swam to the side.

"Zephyr!" I called with the Gasman's fake identity he had given himself.

I meant to grab the edge of the fountain but instead I ended up grabbing someone else. It was a girl. Although I couldn't see it, I could tell she was looking at me like I was crazy. She wasn't the only one. I wasn't quite sure myself.