A/N: I adopted this story from Demigodflock, so most characters belong to them. This chapter is one that they wrote.
Disclaimer: Amazingly, when I woke up this morning, I didn't see the face of James Patterson staring back at me. Of course, if I had, I would probably have screamed. But that's beside the point that I'm trying to make, which is that I don't own Maximum Ride.
"Tina!" I screamed, looking back at her as she was tackled onto the ground by buff men clad in all black jumpsuits.
They gagged Tina and threw a bag over her head, in the low light from the street lamps I could see her get thrown in a black van parked in the alley next to us. It was my first time in the city alone, and, of course, something had to go wrong. I forgot running, and started sprinting right at the people who took Tina. I jumped right at one of them, yelling something stupid and possibly obscene.
I didn't stand a chance as he ignored my wimpy punches and kicks. Some other guy took an old, musty bandana and tied it around my mouth to shut me up. I almost choked on it's disgusting flavor. They threw a dirty burlap sack over my head and threw me in the van with Tina. I hit the bottom of the van hard, and I felt the van lurch slightly to the side as all of the kidnappers piled into the van.
The van started moving, and I squirmed around in the van before the shock wore off and I realized they hadn't tied my hands or legs up. I reached up and pulled the burlap sack off my head, and untied my gag. I reached into my pocket for my cell-phone and unlocked it to call the police. I looked at how many bars I had, there weren't any. The van must have had a cell phone jammer thing so Tina and my kidnappers didn't need to take our phones or anything. That must've meant that our abductors had lots of money already and planned on taking teenagers and other people often.
I kept my phone unlocked to use the light to look around at where I was, and where Tina was. Tina had her gag and sack off, and was crawling towards me. I started to crawl towards her when something, namely some one, got in the way. It was a boy, probably ten, a couple years younger than Tina and I. He was passed out on the floor. I poked him a few times and he moaned loudly. I put my finger to my mouth to shush him.
Since I told him to be quiet, the obvious thing to do was scream, and scream he did. He started spazzing out, throwing his arms and legs everywhere. He even kicked me in the face. "Shut up!" I said to him. "Now they know we're out of our bindings!"
There were a few grumblings from the front of the van. I groaned and hit the wall loudly.
"Since they know we're not tied up in a nice pretty package anymore, maybe we should make lots of noise and attract attention." Tina offered.
I rolled my eyes, but shrugged. Nobody could see me shrug since my phone light died. Tina started banging on the walls and yelling. I heard a hiss come from the front of the van, and I breathed in a deep breath. I started getting dizzy, and the boy started to freak out more. "No! I don't want to go back to sleep again!" He cried.
There was a thud and I presumed that Tina had hit the floor, it wasn't much longer before I hit the ground in an unconscious heap.
I woke up in a big room, filled with teenagers Tina and my age. The boy from the van wasn't there, but I hadn't exactly like him all that much.
"You must be new here." A tall, thin girl with knotty brown hair. She laughed nasally and I wanted to hit her, what good could possibly come from being kidnapped?
"What kind of place is this?" I asked huffily.
"The best place ever!" She laughed, "Why do you seem so down about being here? This place is great!"
"Great?" I yelled, "I was forced here against my will, and have no idea where I am! How is that great?"
"Because." She said condescendingly, "We get to be a part of the new generation. A generation that will lead the new world!" She pointed at Tina and me, "Get ready, because we're going to be leading soon, and you need to get with it."
"It?" I asked angrily, "What is "it"? Some sort of drug that makes you all high and mighty, 'cause if it is, you're probably overdosing on it."
She glared at me. "Somebody looks like she wants to fight." She laughed again. "Of course we all know you're going to lose." She whipped out a pair of bright red wings, they looked like a robin's wings that grew large enough to fit a human.
I scrambled backwards. I had heard of that Maximum Ride girl, but I had thought she was just a myth that people made up to help cover up all of the accidents and terror attacks. I hit one of the walls and stood up against it. "I'm just trying to find answers. I promise I wasn't trying to disrespect you. I swear!"
She left her wings out by her side, and all of the other kids started to show off strange mutations. One girl had giant claws that she was picking at. Another girl was changing colors and shapeshifting for her friends. There was even a girl that was hanging from the smooth ceilings with just her hands, another one was pretending to be spiderman next to her.
"Whuuuuuuuu?" Tina moaned. "Whasss going on?"
The robin girl rolled her eyes and started coddling Tina and telling her all about how "magical" and "amazing" the place we were at was. I sat by the wall and moped for a long time. I didn't know how long I sat there before the wall behind me fell out and I realized it was a door.
"Oh, just the subject we were looking for." A buff man in black grumbled. He pulled me up by the collar of my shirt and and dragged me through a labyrinth of halls. "I'm gonna enjoy seeing what they pick out for this one." He mumbled.
I was scared. I didn't know what was going on, and it scared me.