I stared at the computer screen, my eyes going blurry in its bright glow. The names of the six escaped experiments we had found stared back at me. The shapes of the letters taunting me with the secrets they were hiding. We had been trying to find these kids for two months now and the closest we had gotten was a blurry image from a security camera in a parking kids were special, we didn't know what special powers they had, but we knew what made them special, Max 2 was leading them.
Since we had moved into our house (Cole had dubbed it the base, a name which quickly caught on), we had found several experiments and helped them get money and find a permanent home. We hadn't heard anything about the flock, neither had the Rockways.
Life had actually been pretty good, well it had been, up until about a month ago. For some reason, I really wanted to find Max 2, in a way, I felt she was more a sister to me than Sarah was, we looked the same, we acted the same (most of the time), we almost fought the same, except I was better.
Glancing at the kitchen clock I saw that it was almost one a.m. I closed the laptop, I would look more in the morning. I stood slowly, my limbs stiff, I flapped my wings a few times, enjoying the movement.
Heading upstairs, I laughed as I passed the open door to Luke's room. He was sprawled over his bed, his legs hanging off the bed and his face pressed against the wall. Rolling my eyes, I checked to make sure the rest of the team was ok before I stepped into my room.
I reached to turn on a light before freezing as a shadow shifted in the corner.
"Who's there?" The shadow stepped forward and I flicked on the light. A tall girl was looking at me from beside the window. My eyes scanned her ragged clothes and the wings half tucked behind her back. I sucked in my breath when I saw her face.
"Max 2." I said slowly, she nodded and I felt the air go out of my chest. "Why are you in my bedroom?"
"Well the lock on your front door is kind of complicated, and your window was unlocked."
"Let me rephrase that, why are you here?"
Max 2 regarded me for a moment. "Because Max, we're all in trouble, big trouble."
"Who?"
"You, me, and every other mutant on the planet." I looked at her for a moment, a strange sense of deja vu washing over me.
"Let me guess, I have to save the world again? Or atleast the mutant side of it." She nodded, the smirk on her face strangely hollow.
"Pretty much." Glancing at my bed longingly, I sighed and motioned towards the hallway.
"Come on, let's get you some food and we can talk."