Chapter 2: Escape

(The Next Day)

(Max POV)

A sudden light flooded my eyes. One of the whitecoats had opened the door to our "room."

"Alright, Miss Maxine Blackraven, you are going to be taken to lab three to complete some tests." She said perkily.

"It's Maximum."

"Oops, sorry."

"Are you new?" I asked.

"Why, yes. Why do you ask?"

"Well, none of the whitecoats here are very perky." I replied seriously. This caused some giggles from the "flock," as they call themselves. I smirked.

She frowned, but continued in unlocking my crate. It had about five locks made of titanium. The overly perky whitecoat then took me down many halls I recognized. She finally came to a stop at a door clearly labeled 'Lab 2'. As she opened it, all I noticed was a very generic white. Typical. Why can't test labs be blue or purple? Heck, even rainbow! Anything! Well, except pink. I hate pink.

Oh, geez. The sterile fumes were going to my head.

I walked in, and a smiling doctor greeted me. He looked familiar.

"Hello, Maximum." He said seriously, despite his facial expression.

"Sup."

"Ms. Walker, you are dismissed." He said bluntly. He then turned to me. "How are you doing? Anything unusual that happened in the past month?"

"N-no, why do you ask?" I responded slowly.

"Well, your parents just recently contacted us and notified us that your birthday is coming up. Your fifteenth, right?"

"Y-yes..." I answered, frightened by the thought that my parents contacted this place.

"Your folks said that on your fifteenth birthday, you will go through drastic changes. And no, it's not puberty again."

"What is it?"

"You will gain many abilities. Those of which include, shape changing, the manipulation of the elements, and durability. Your senses will also be heightened. You will gain a better sense of smell, sight, speed, and agility. Your motor skills will be improved drastically."

"They told you all of this?" I asked warily. "I mean, my parents lied to me all

the time."

"Okay." The doctor paused, sighing. "You need to know the truth. Otherwise you won't believe me."

I looked at him in confusion.

"Max," He said, using my nickname. "I know all of this because I went through all of it."

I cocked my head to the side, even more confused than I already am.

He continued, "I am your brother."

(Fang POV)

"Alright, guys. We need to get out of here." I said.

"Can we bring Max?" Angel asked me.

"No."

"But her thoughts are safe," She flashed the bambi eyes at me. "Max can be trusted."

"Ugh." I sighed. "Are you sure?"

"Positive." Angel confirmed, putting the bambi eyes away.

"Fine."

"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you sooo much!" Angel blurted out quickly, jumping up and hugging my neck.

"The question is... how do we get out of here?" Iggy stated.

"I'm sure if we asked Max, she would come up with something!" Angel said excitedly.

"Yeah. Okay, kid." I replied.

Meanwhile...

(Max POV)

I couldn't believe the guy in front of me. I mean, he had black hair like me. Blue green eyes like two of my brothers. The same ethnicity (Asian) as me. And- oh God, he had a birthmark on his neck that I remember my brothers having. I had to keep calm.

"I you are, in fact, my brother, which one are you?"

"Daichi."

"Prove it."

"When you were five, you stole my whole stash of Pocky."

Daichi. My second to oldest brother. My oldest being Dai, Daichi's twin. They always had my back. At least until that fateful day my parents took me here, the school. I had twelve brothers. Takumi, Fumio, Hideaki, Raiden, Goru, Aki, Akira, Hachio, Momoru, Hisoka, Daichi, and Dai. Takumi being the youngest and Dai being the oldest. We are all Japanese.

I finally broke down.

"Daichi!" I screamed, wrapping my arms around his neck and squeezing. I started crying for the first time in almost ten years.

He wrapped his arms around me, "It's okay, it's okay..."

I looked up at him. "I-it's really you..." Tears blurred my vision. "Where are the others?"

"Waiting at a camp more than a hundred miles from here." He replies. "We are here to get you out."

"Can I include some things in our escape?"

"What are they?"

"Come on, I'll show you."

"Here they are!" I said as I opened up the door to the room that we are kept.

Daichi looked at the flock. He squinted. "Are they like you, Imōto?" Daichi said, using the Japanese word for 'little sister.'

"Not exactly. They're mutants."

"Oh..."

"Yo, Max, who's this." Fang asked warily.

"He's my brother, and he's going to get us out!"

"Well, I guess we don't have to ask her now, Fang. You can keep your dignity." Angel said frankly.

I raised my eyebrows at Fang. He simply shrugged.

Daichi chuckled. "You know these... people?"

"Yes they have been my cellmates for, what, a little over two days?"

Angel nodded to confirm my guess.

"Anyway, these guys are going to come with us. I think they can be trusted, but I don't know. But it seems that Angel," I said, pointing to her, "can read minds, so she should know that you can be trusted." Angel blushed.

"Okay," Daichi said slowly, scratching the back of his head. "I think we can add on some people on the escape plan. You see, our eleven other brothers and I have a camp over a hundred miles from here. "

First, I went to work on opening all of their crates. After that, I took a blank sheet of paper and a pen from a file cabinet in the room. Then, I drew out the floor plan for the school. With an escape route in mind, I led the way out of the room. That was when I noticed the security cameras.

"In this hallway alone, there are about seven cameras." I whispered to Daichi, staying out of range of the cameras.

"No problem." He replied confidently.

Daichi held hid hand out, palm facing outward toward the first camera. Right before my eyes, I watched the camera... collapse. The lens crumbled, the body was crushed. Sparks flew from the camera. Then, one by one, Daichi did the same to the other cameras. The flock and I gaped at him.

"What?" He said defensively. "You'll be able to do this in soon, when you come of age."

I paled, which I do not do often.

We continued down the long hallway. For every new hallway we came to, Daichi did the same thing to each security camera.

"Hurry, there isn't much time before the whitecoats notice that the cameras are down." Fang said hurriedly.

Finally, we came to a lobby. Which was filled with whitecoats.

We froze. The whitecoats were paralyzed with shock. They were probably thinking about how kids like us could break out of our dog crates.

In a flash of unspoken agreement, Daichi scooped Iggy up, Fang snatched up Nudge, and I grabbed Gazzy and Angel. We then sped out the big double doors out to fresh air. Behind us, we heard the crashing footsteps of Erasers on our tail. At that precise moment, Daichi, Fang, and I decided to unfurl our wings, and go 'up and away' as the flock says. The Erasers snarled and growled below us.

I laughed.