What was going on?
"Kill." I said. For a second I felt the urge to attack all of them. "No, wait, guys- Kill" I tried to say 'it's not me' but my voice broke off into a monotone.
"Everyone, go!" Fang ordered.
I swung a punch at Fang.
"Eek! Fang!" I squealed. I hit him again, unwillingly. Holly crap, they did program me to kill! Shoot, what was I going to do?
Fang only flinched at my punch. "Max, go away before you hurt us!"
"Can't!" I made out before I started saying things like 'kill' and 'destroy'.
FANG POV
I remembered reading more papers. I tried to wrack my brain to remember what it said to deactivate it…
Ah hah! I thought. I tucked in my wings so I would drop a couple feet, and Max's foot was in front of me. I took off the sneaker. She tried to kick me, but I dodged it. There was a small chip attached to her ankle, with a small button.
I pressed it.
BEEP BEEP. It rang again.
I flew back up to her so we were face to face.
"You okay?" I asked.
"I- I think so." She replied.
"Good." I whistled, and the flock came back like dog.
MAX POV
That was what Fang meant about me killing them. I sighed in relief, now that Fang managed to stop it. We were silent, until I was curious about where we were going in the first place.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"Well, originally? We were running from you. Now? I don't know. Wait, actually…" Fang took off a backpack he had managed to carry even with wings. He opened it up and handed me an old binder.
"What's this?" I asked.
"We found 'em in Jeb's room. I didn't go through all of them, but I took as much as I could. You wanna' go through it?"
"Okay. Can we land somewhere?" I asked, and took the binder.
"Okay." We all tucked our wings in and landed on different branches of trees.
I opened it. The pockets were crammed with papers that all said ITEX or INSTITUTE. I grabbed the first stack.
The first paper read:
INSITUTE, NEW YORK
FOR RANK TEN AND HIGHER ONLY
Collect all Rank Nine and lower personnel to the Institute, Germany. Rank Ten: Subject 45 has escaped. DO NOT TELL ANYONE. This could kill all humanity as we know it. Do NOT repeat do NOT send any subjects to capture Subject 45. It grows with every kill.
When me and Fang finished reading, we looked up just in time to see a hoard of Erasers flying our way.