A/N: IF YOU READ THIS A LOT MORE WILL MAKE SENSE IN THE STORY! Okay. Now that I got your attention, let me tell you a couple things first. This is the same characters, same places like the School and everything, but a completely different story line. This is my version of the AE, adding when they were at the School in the beginning. Since this is my version, they escape when Max, Fang and Iggy are fourteen etc. I plan on making this extremely long, so don't read if you can't handle it! Thank you, and enjoy. ^_^

Max POV

What was happening?

I didn't know.

But I did know that I had to get out of here, and pretty flippin' quick, also.

"Help!" I yelled, but no response. Just the echo of my own voice down the stone hallway, chamber, cavern or whatever this place was.

The water started to slowly creep up, making it deeper and deeper. It was up to my ankles now. I unfurled my wings and flew upward.

BANG!

"Ow!" I screeched when I hit my head hard against the ceiling. I dropped back down, and my wings got all wet. Great. Now my wings were of no use.

I started running down the pitch-black path. I was hoping for a glint of light, like you seen in the movies, but nothing. This was it, wasn't it?

I stopped in my tracks. How did I get here? About five minutes ago, I had been in a white well lit up room, being tested on by Whitecoats. This was just another test, isn't it? I looked up to the ceiling, right when the water was up to my waist.

"You aren't tricking me into doing this test, losers!" I hollered, and again my voice echoed down the path. The water was up to my chest now. "I know this isn't real!"

I had expected a shock or something to punish me for not doing the test. But I was just getting wetter and colder. That wasn't really bad enough to be a punishment, though.

Was this real? In a rush of excitement, I started running again. It got harder to run when the water reached up to my neck. Now I was struggling to keep my head above the water.

Still no light ahead of me.

Then I had to swim, and the water was a foot above my head if I stood flat on the ground. I crawl stroked, and then I felt my head bump lightly against the ceiling. Now it was completely filled; I was trapped.

I held my breath and swam as fast as I could. Then my mouth opened, and the water started filling my lungs. I choked for air, but there was none.

The room filled with light. I squinted my eyes and saw a couple Whitecoats hovering above me.

One of them scowled. "The Dream Maker failed again."

"Get boss over here." The other one said.

"Dr. Brown, come here."

Another Whitecoat walked over.

"What?" She demanded.

"Her brain waves ruined the DM again."

"Ugh." She picked up something on a tray that I couldn't see all of. "Do I have to do everything around here?" She pressed a needle into my arm. I flinched the tiniest bit, and she pulled it out. "You guys have to put the Valium in her first so she doesn't over react."

"Oh."

One cleared their throat. "I think we have to retire her."

The boss hesitated. "So do I. Let's do it right now, than start from scratch. She was programmed with too much of nearly everything."

They un-strapped me. They were going to kill me? No, I wouldn't let them.

"Come." One of them ordered me.

"I'm not a dog." I grumbled, to be rewarded with a nice kick in the shin.

They led me into a room with beds neatly lined up against the wall. They strapped me back down to one, and started filling the needle with something.

I quickly developed a plan in my head. When they turn their backs, rip out of the straps. Run down to the nearest window and out I go.

"Jeff, that's not the right chemical! Do you want to give her Eraser DNA?" The boss ordered, and they both turned back to the table. I was going to count to five then I would rush.

One, two, now!

I ignored three, four and five and jumped up. They both spun to look at me, but before they could do anything I had punched them both and was out the door.

I ran back to the room where the rest of us were.

Angel looked at me with a happy look on her face. I unlocked her cage along with everyone else's, and we were out the door in no time.

I broke the window and we took off.

"Max, oh my God, that was so totally awesome!" Nudge yelled.

"Yeah, I know." I said with a smile.

"Wait, where are we going?" Fang asked with his regular bored tone.

"Places, Fang. Places." I said, and flew faster while I started to laugh.

I turned to find him with a hint of a smile. Iggy was jerking his head around in every direction, even though he couldn't see.

We were finally free.