Yo Nikki here! no not the one in the story but the author person! any who heres chap 2! Really hope you like it! endin is kinda sad (for the characters anyway). Oh and Nikki from story has something to say!

Nikki: You should just go back to being called AreYouMAD ...

Author Nikki: Hey thats not what you said you were gonna say! But you rite

Nikki: You better

AreYouMAD: ok happy?

Nikki: Much

AreYouMAD: alright now can you say what you were gonna say?

Nikki: AreYouMAD does not, I repeat does not own Maximum Ride or any of its characters! Only moi! (sucks to be me)

AreYouMAD: Hey I heard that!

Nikki: srry I was just kidding.

AreYouMAd/Nikki: PLEASE ENJOY THE STORY!

Chapter Two-

"Hey! Nikki, get off your lazy butt and go start your tests! Jeb said you got to be out there in the next fifteen minutes or no free flying today." shouted a rough booming voice.

"Yeah, yeah. I know, jeez give me a minute would ya? Its dawn for pete sake! Of course I'm gonna be lazy this early, remember I'm part bat. Don't like the morning so much, ring any bells? Huh, Ari?" I shot back at him with an extra dose of irritation.

"That's just an excuse so you don't have to get up early like the rest of us." he replied.

By the way, when he said the rest of us he was talking about him and the white coats. Which had to wake up at, well a really early time, and there was no way I would ever get up at the same time as them let alone in the morning at all. Even though Ari was only about three years old, he was really mature for his age (I guess that's what happens when your dad was an evil nut case). Well whatever I better get a move on or I wont be able to stretch my wings on an evening flight later.

I got up out of my little so called bed, that consisted of a dog bed inside of a dog crate, with a small blanket to cover me with. To other people this would look really bad but to me it was more luxurious than just sleeping on cold hard metal like so many other unfortunate mutants. Yeah i had it better than most here at the school, probably because I do what I'm told and behave like a good little mutant girl. Or its because I'm apparently a rare specimen or something along those lines, according to the white coats anyway.

I quickly hurried down the white hallways of the building till I met a set of double doors with the words 'Test Lab 323' above them. The second I went in, I was imediatly covered in wires, needles, thermomators, and a bunch of other stuff. I didnt really mind them anymore, after I turned two, the pain and shock that came from everything sorta just went away.

My days mostly went on like this, "Spread out your wings." this "Show your ears and tail" that. Running through mazes within time limits, getting needles pushed into my skin, and the occasional "Are you feeling alright?" "Good work." or "That was amazing, take a five minute brake." To me they were such a bore, I don't know how all these guys could keep this up all the time.

Finally it was evening and Jeb aka Ari's dad, said that I could go flying for a couple hours. This is what all that testing and junk was worth going through. I basically waited all day just to go for a night time flight, with a few other small creatures of the night. Most of them were birds but I always managed to find the bats that lived around the area, but sometimes I couldn't fly as far as they went because if I did then i would get electrocuted by the collar they put around my neck. Last time I tried to go past the schools grounds I got shocked and grounded from flying, literally the chained me to the ground for a whole week! I learned my lesson after that and don't really want to experience that again. After a while I started to get a little drowsy and decided it was time to turn in for the night.

- next day

"Alert! Alert! This is a lock down! Six experiments in area three have escaped! Please lock all other specimens up and close all exits!" blasted the intercom.

"What? How the hell did they escape? Huh? What do you mean you saw Jeb run out with them?" shouted a white coat just outside my testing lab.

"Guess he took that so called 'flock' of his that he would never shut up about." I said in a whisper. ~ Huh? I guess he wasn't kidding when he said he was gonna take em' out of here. Ari and I just aren't special enough to go with him either.~ i thought with a disappointed look. Then someone came into the lab with a sobbing like sound coming from them. I looked up and saw a crying Ari, "Why did he have to leave us behind? Why did he take them instead? Does he realize what there gonna do to us now that hes gone? I'm scared Nikki, what are we gonna do now?" he kept throwing all these questions at me one after another, while sobbing in between each one.

"I dont know Ari, I really dont know. But dont worry, we'll make it through this even if he isnt here to watch us anymore. Alright? Besides we can easily kick butt if they try anything on us." I answered him with a smile that showed one of my fangs.

Even though I was hiding my pain and crying on the inside.

So what did ya think of this huh? R/R no flames plez and thnku!