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This will be fun, I thought to myself as I approached the School. I was surprised to see it was dark out, I thought I woke up during the morning but I guess not. The School wasn't in some lone desert or hidden by vines or anything, it was just there, in the middle of a neighborhood. Well, sorry for waking you up, neighborhood. I knew better than to enter from the front so I snapped out my wings and soundlessly flew to the top of the roof, searching for a vent to remove and jump into or something else. There was only one big vent that was sealed on pretty tightly.

There's a loose bolt on the left side, my Voice told me.

Thanks, I replied bitterly. Yeah I still have that voice in my head. It used to be so mysterious like "Go with the flow," Then it started "Giving me coordinates," And now it was telling me how to sneak into the place where I most likely got the Voice in the first place.

So without another chime from the voice I took off the top of the vent and dropped inside, feeling the usual adrenaline rush whenever I entered the School, any school actually. The one back in Virginia included.

OK, I said to myself, mentally preparing myself for the task. Just get in, get the document and get out alive.

The inside of the vent was like any other vent, silver and hot. I crawled through, hoping the break room (where the document's device was going off) would turn up. I was more nervous than…a mutant inside an air vent while the rest of her family is gone, looking for a lost friend. Aren't I creative?

I peered through several different openings but didn't find anything. Well, that statement isn't true; I saw plenty of new creatures they were making and a bunch of White Coats. Just looking at them makes my blood boil. But instead of picking a fight I kept on going, finding the break room. I noisily kicked the vent and dropped inside, scaring a female White Coat.

"Hello," I said casually. "I don't want trouble, just grabbing a file." I told her. Then I walked over the table and grabbed the file marked in big bold letters: TOP SECRET CONCERNING PROJECTS 13-19.

The lady nodded at me and scrambled out of the room. That was when I sensed something wrong. I needed to get out of here now! I jumped for the vent but an electric barrier went up, shocking me, making me fall to the floor. Damn it!

Then about seven White Coats entered the room, two blocking the two doors, another two blocking the big wide window. Crap! Not that it would be hard to fight seven adults; I was much stronger than that. But just the idea, this was supposed to be a quick in and out, not a fight to the death. I took up a fighting position.

"We don't want to fight," The lead White Coat said.

"Then you'll let me go," I snarled, putting on a mean face.



"No," He said. "We just need some information concerning Jeb Batchelder." He said. He looked to the air vent. "And since you dropped in I guess now would be good." Jeb, the name still stung whenever I heard it. He was evil, he was. Now I'm not sure, should I rat him out? He has helped me out ever since we took down Itex in Germany. No, ratting out wasn't my style.

"What do you want to know?" I asked tight-lipped.

"Where is he now?" The guy asked.

"How on Earth am I supposed to know?" I asked. "I don't keep tabs on my parents."

The main White Coat's eyes flickered with interest. "You know about your biological parents?" He asked. I nodded cautiously. "Another reason we need Jeb dead. He disclosed important information about you to you."

"Whoa, wait a sec. You want Jeb dead?" I asked. I was really confused. "Why?"

"Like I said, he betrayed the Itex Corporation." He said. "He is a threat. He could turn us in to proper authority. He gave up everything, maybe even his life just to let you and your family go free." This was too much, I knew Jeb let us go but wow, he might die from it. "And he knew that," The guy added. Oh, double wow.

"Well I have no idea where he is so move," I said stepping closer to the guy. "Or else," I couldn't help myself, I had to say that.

"Or else what Max?" He asked.

"I'll rip your head off." I told him. Just kidding, I would never do that. But it scared him. He moved aside.

I thought he moved because of fear but it was because someone entered the room. It wasn't a someone, it was a something.

It was an Eraser.