I think having eaten the whipped cream, my settled stomach let me fall asleep faster in my crate. They'd put me in a new one that was made of metal and had wheels. Of course, they were all put in the 'Locked' position so that I wouldn't become rolling heck for everyone. No matter how much the idea made me chuckle. But one thought was constantly at the back of my mind, tugging away at me.

I could 'dissolve' through things, or whatever. With a look at my hands, I had confirmed that they were quite real and quite solid. So, how did this make any sense? Was Samantha lying to me? Just as a test, I focused and pressed my hand against the side of the crate, then I waited for a good minute. Nothing, zip, nada. Defiantly no dissolving through and escaping. So I guess this means Samantha, despite her total hotness, was a big fat liar.

No, wait. I sighed. That's no definitive proof, I can't dismiss the belief just yet.

But the thought of being able to go through things, man, that sounded awesome. I could try it out while I was flying, imagine what people would think. Not only is it a flying kid, but I flying kid going through buildings. Ah, don't get your hopes too far up there now, Robin. It was a few hours of me in my crate, sometimes staring out, counting the little specks on the floor, other times, half asleep. But when the door slammed open, I jolted up, hitting my head on the top.

A small woman walked in with a very smug smile. She took my crate and forcefully rolled it out of the room. It hit the wall at first, then it was turned again swiftly, causing me to slide over to one side and nearly tip the thing over. Jeez, what was wrong with this lady? Something told me her whole life was devoted to bullying lab freaks like me.

Before I knew it, she'd rolled me into another room, but this one had a window that was unlike all the others, I could actually see outside. My fingers wrapped around the little bars in front as I pressed my face against it, but just then, the crate hit the wall, crushing my fingers and my nose. I heard the insane lab chick cackle, then she opened the door in the room and for the first time I could smell fresh air.

She opened the crate and forced me out, but honestly, I didn't need any kind of help. There was a little call of 'Have fun!' from her, but I was too busy looking around. It was a courtyard alright, covered by a large, dome-shaped cage-like thing. My eyes examined every part of it, then I focused squarely on the Sun. That was a pretty dumb idea, because my eyes burned afterward, but still.

With a sigh and closing my eyes, I spread my wings out, letting air rush into them. But just then, someone grabbed onto one and yanked me onto the ground. After that, a round of rough sounding laughter came from a group of people I hadn't even noticed.

"Haha, hey newbie, look at you. Wings and all." The one who looked like the leader taunted. He had black hair with white stripes, and his eyes were black and red.

I knocked his foot off of my wind and shot up, using the power from those same wings to push me back a few yards. That's when I got a good look at the group. Behind the leader was a slightly green-ish looking boy with what looked like a collar filled with water around their neck. I could see what looked like gills under that. Next to fish-boy was a little girl who's eye had been covered by a patch. I think she might have had a tail. And then behind them, twins. Both with sun-colored eyes, they were either extremely pale, or just had white skin.

Each of them had a band of some sort, I'm sure it was something to shock them with as well.

The one in front chuckled, white patterns showing up all over his skin. I got ready to fight, but not for what actually happened.

It felt like being hit in the chest with a flaming bowling ball. In other words, it hurt. Like, a lot. I had no idea what he had done, but it was too fast for me to see. He stepped out of the way, along with the others, for the twins to come forward.

"We don't like getting newbies on our courtyard, if they start thinking they can do that, there won't be no space for us, will there?" The leader asked, just as one of the twins held out his hand, there was a ball of white fire there. Oh my God, I was totally gonna die.

Just before it could go flying at me, someone ran between us, faster than lightening, and yelled for them to stop, which they did. It was another girl, with long, blond hair. I could only see the back of her head, though. Who knows what awaited me on the other side.

The leader chuckled and walked up to her.

"Demmy, really. Why are you protecting this scrub? You don't even know him. Come with us."

She hissed. "Yeah right alien-face. I'm protecting him because you guys are huge bullies."

The other guy shrugged. "We just wanted to see what he could do, but never mind."

When he shrugged and began walking to the other side of the courtyard, his little goons followed closely, twins in the back like before. I finally relaxed my wings, watching closely as the (hate to admit this) girl that had saved me turned around. Her face wasn't distorted or mutated in any way. She had big, pretty eyes and really pink lips. When I opened my mouth to thank her, she smiled and shoved a note into my hands, then ran off. I watched her, of course.

Then I read the note.

'Dear you, this is from someone you know. I hope you've found out how to use your abilities willingly, because you'll need it to have this escape end successfully. The courtyard is surrounded by reinforced steel gates, not pure titanium, so you should be able to go through it. But be warned, they're also electric, meaning if you mess up, you'll be fried bird-boy. Best of luck.
~S

Gee, that was quite inspirational. I balled up the note and thought about throwing it, but I realized that if this didn't work, if I didn't get fried, they could find the note and have someone punished for it. So instead, I kept it with me until I reached the edge of the gate, then threw it.

There was exactly half a second before the paper was ashes. You could guess that that didn't make me very enthusiastic.

Either way, if there was the slightest chance that I could escape this insane place, I would take it. So I took a deep breath, focused, and began reaching my hand out towards the gate, I closed my eyes to ease some of my nerves, and then when I should have reached the gate...

It felt like-air. I had to open my eyes and make sure I was actually touching it. But I wasn't. I was going through it.

Stay focused, stay focused, Robin. If you get distracted, fried bird-kid.

After more tense moments of slow moving, I was completely through. I moved away from the gate and checked everywhere for any missing body parts. Legs? Check. Arms? Check. Wings? Check. I actually did it, I had gone through the gate...

"Hey look! Bird-boy is out!"

It was the leader from the gang of teen goons that were trying to beat me up. I looked back to them, then began running. This was big, this was big. The best thing that has happened to me so far. I was finally free. The first thing I did-after running-was spread my wings, launching myself from the ground and up into the sky. It felt so amazing. The air flowing through my feathers, whipping my hair back. Samantha was actually telling the truth. But I didn't feel like trying my ability the way I said that I would. Instead, I flew up and over the many trees that surrounded the lab, up where I could see everything.

So long, freak lab. But what now...?

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