Chapter 2

I loved the way the wind felt in my secondary feathers as my flock and I flew through the night sky, presumably on our way to our deaths. I wrung my hands nervously, as we were about thirty minutes away from The School. I hadn't heard anything from The Voice yet, but I really hoped it could give me some advice on the whole making an army of mutants concept.

" Are you okay, Max?" Fang asked worriedly, eyes filled with concern. Wow, Fang has been looking at me differently for a while now… No he couldn't be… Does Fang, have a CRUSH on me?

" Um y-yeah," I stuttered," I'm fine." 'Wow Max, good job at being cool' I thought.

Angel gave me a puzzled look, reading my thoughts unwillingly in her freakish ways. I gave her a ' don't worry about it' smile, and she gave me her curious smirk, sensing something was happening between me and Fang. Oh great, now Angel knows about this whole Fang-having-a-crush on me thing. UGH!

As we landed in a gigantic tree close to the School, my breath quickened. 'What if something goes wrong? What if one of us gets captured?' SHUT UP MAX! Wow, I'm usually not like this, all… worried.

" We should start by circling up high where the detectors can't reach us, and try to find a way in." Fang suggested.

I snapped out of my nightmare and nodded, regaining my composure. I jumped out of the tree first, leading the flock with Total in my arms. Pumping my wings hard to gain speed and hight, I made it over the clouds.

" Okay, Nudge, come with me to hack into the computers to find out where they are hiding the mutants." I ordered. " The rest of you, stay here and be lookout."

" No." someone said firmly. I looked where the voice was located, and wasn't that surprised when I saw it was Fang who said that, ya know with the whole might-have-a-crush-on-me thing.

" Fang… Please we don't have time to argue!" I hissed.

" I'm not leaving you alone. Ever." he stated.

" Fine um… all of us can split up. Angel come with me and the rest go with Fang. Angel will mind message you or whatever she does when we find out where the kids are. Then we will meet up in the courtyard and Gazzy and Iggy will distract the whitecoats while Nudge and I go and do some hacking." I explained." Fang you will be by the door to help with the kids and show them the way out. Capish?"

The flock stacked all their fists up in response, waiting for mine. I smirked and added mine to the top, and tapping each of their fists as they did the same.

I watched from afar as one of the whitecoats observe the little girl that had one giant foot and one little hand try to run laps in the yard out back of the School, resisting the urge to fly over there with my super flying speed and wrap my hands around his throat. 'Patient Max.' the Voice said. I huffed and did a three- sixty, part habit and part making sure the flock was in their positions.

"Max, is this going to work?" Angel questioned.

"Of course it will Angel! Don't you worry okay?" I assured her. "Just stay with me."

She gave a nod in response. Once I gave the signal to Fang, I was off, and Nudge and Angel were behind me. We landed as soft as we could beside the school, and went through the only window they have- in the computer room.

I tapped my foot nervously on the hard tile of the computer lab. " Are you almost done, Nudge?"

She paused a second, her fingers hovering over the keyboard. Her eyes scanned the page." Okay I got it. I hacked the locks on everyones crates, too. Angels gonna have to stay with me. Now Max go find their room. It should be right next to this one, actually. When I say ready, all the crates will unlock. Before then, wear this labcoat." She paused to give me a clean, white, labcoat that smelled of sterile." I'll give you 'bout five minutes. Tell everyone of them what's going on, it says in the reports that they can talk with no problem." She finished.

I breathed in deeply. "Okay."

I slid the labcoat on and straightened up to seem more taller and sophisticated to the whitecoats. I strided out of the room and made my way down the hall, not looking at anyone, thankful that they didn't even glance in my direction. My hand trembled as I turned the knob to the door.

" Hey! Do you have authorization to be in that room Miss? It's closed for now." a man's voice said, all gruff and perturbed.

I turned around, trying not to show signs of worry. " Yes. Jeb Batchleder assigned me to run over here and get something for his current experiment." I cringed on the inside at the word ' experiment'.

" Well, okay. Sorry to bother you, Ma'am." the man said.

I just ignored him and turned around, to nervous to say anything more. I once more turned the knob, and then, to my relief, I saw there were only maybe ten to fifteen crates. I strode down the aisle, the bird kids shrunk back, as far away from me as they could get.

" Listen kids, everythings gonna be okay," I started, shrugging off the stiff coat. I extended my wings, thankful I wore my shirt with the wing sized holes. The kids stared wide eyed at me." Me and my friends are here to save you. You see, we were in this same situation as you are. But then, someone helped us and took us away from this place. That's what we're here to do. Any minute now your crates are going to unlock, when they do, I want you guys to quietly form a line behind me so we can get outta here. Follow me whatever you do, okay?" I asked.

When I heard a chorus of okays, I said, " Good. you guys are gonna get out of here, I promise."

Thats when I heard the loud clicks of the crates unlocking. All of the kids filed out silently, forming a little clump behind me.

At that moment, Angel popped into my head.

'DUCK!'

How'd you like it, eh? Sorry for the cliffhanger:) AND sorry it was waaay short. ANNNDD a MAJOR sorry for not updating for a while, I haven't been writing lately for a number of reasons like school, friends, drama, sports, etc. But I need feedback, because I'm not sure if this is gonna be like THE story I'm gonna keep going on with, and that's half the reason why I didn't update. So whoever comes across this story, it would make my day if you could do a quick review so I know what people think. Thanks!

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