Disclaimer: I know this sounds a lot like the Max books, but the Max ones are NOT mine.
Chapter 1
Boxes can hold many things. They can hold almost anything. Gifts, clothes, shoes, toys, wires, even emotions like joy or sorrow.
But this particular box is what we're focusing on today. It was a cage, holding a boy named Atom.
"Atom?" the girl in the cage next to him, Astatine, asked," Is something wrong?"
"Everything's wrong!? he screamed at her, "We're stuck in this hellhole, I don't know how to get out of here, and if this continues, we'll die soon!"
She started to cry. Astatine was very emotional. She'd cry if you said somebody else's breath smelled. Tear wettened her fur, turning the orangeness even more brown that it already was. The jet-black stripes went even blacker, which Atom didn't think was possible. Her strawberry blond hair wasn't affected, however, because it was caught in pigtails.
"Look at what you did!" Curium, the boy on the other side of Astatine yelled to Atom, "Say you're sorry!"
"Sorry, Tina," Atom said, "I didn't mean to make you cry. But we are stuck here."
"Or are we...?" Curium asked himself, flexing his gigantic muscles.