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"HE HAS WINGS!" Gazzy screamed behind me.
"He does?" Iggy asked confused.
"He does." Fang replied back.
This guy just flew off on red wings. How does he have wings?
"Uhhh…Max?" Nudge had been tugging on my sleeve for a while now, snapping me back into reality.
Assess the situation Max. Thank you Voice, your sudden appearance has just made my life so much easier, so SHUT UP!
I looked around, deciding to take the advice. Angel was no longer screaming in pain but standing up straight, though still a little pained. Fang, Iggy, Gazzy, and Nudge were staring at each other about the new avion-hybrid in the world. The wolfish Erasers were running out of the Bellagio and heading in the direction of the red-winged-wonder, and nobody even noticed them. And the flying boy was nowhere to be seen.
"Alright listen up!" I screamed at the flock, immediately getting their attention. "We're going after the flying kid."
"The red one or that weird thing we heard flying around in the clouds but didn't see?" Gazzy asked.
"The red one," I replied, "He was talking to the other it and so probably knows what it is. So, let's go!" And on cue, my flock and I threw out our wings and launched ourselves into the sky.
"Where did he go?" Iggy yelled up from the back.
"Northwest," Fang cried out, "Towards the desert."
With our enhanced raptor-vision, we were able to find him in about ten minutes, but still, we just barely saw him.
"Max!" Nudge yelled up to me, "Use your speed and catch up to him."
"Alright, but don't take too long." I replied. I looked over to Fang, and I saw concern in his dark eyes, fear that I might get hurt. God I love that man. He then nodded, and I was off. I widened my wings to their greatest extent and did whatever it is that I do to activate it. Suddenly my hair is flying straight back and the wind actually hurts as it hits my face, but I stay focused on the boy that is flying in front of me.
As I got closer to him, I think he turned his head to see me. As I was getting closer to him, coming at 250 mph, he suddenly stopped so that I zipped past him by about 30 yards. I quickly turned around and saw him flying West. I shot at him again, and he swerved out of my way again just before I reached him, but he screamed something to me.
"You'll never catch me if you keep trying to do the same thing over and over again Maximum."
How does he know my name? This guy was getting weirder by the minute. I pointed myself in his direction once more and launched myself at him with as much speed as I could. I was a rocket headed right for him, and I was getting close quick. He was still going straight forward as if he could outrun me. But just as I came up behind him, and about to grab him, he began to speed up. He was moving at the same speed I was, and then he began to move faster and move farther ahead of me.
"You'll have to be better Max." As he sped away from me, his red wings began to actually glow.
Just as I thought I'd lose him, he did a sudden mid-air back flip.
"GRAB HIM!"I heard Fang cry as he suddenly became visible right where the guy had done the flip. Fang's arm was stretched out so that the guy would run into it and crash.
I understand how the red dude didn't see Fang, but how did Fang notget knocked over by getting hit by a guy flying directly at him going over 300 mph.
Do not forget, your DNA is still mutating, and you can still be gaining new abilities. Well thank you Voice for giving an answer, but not a direct one. So Fang had a new power? I didn't have time to think about it, the rest of the flock were still trying to grab this new guy. And, somehow, even with the odds 5 to 1, he was still beating them. This guy suddenly grabbed Fang by the throat and twisted his arm behind him.
"PLEASE STOP!" I screamed, "Please don't hurt Fang!"
Slowly, he let Fang go. The red-winged guy slowly let himself fall to the ground, and so did we until all of us were standing in the middle of the freezing desert in the middle of the night.
"All you had to do was ask." This guy asked.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Crimson." He calmly replied.
"Cool name."Gazzy piped up, and he received a death stare from me.
"Alright, start talking." I demanded, "Who are you really, where did you come from, why were there Erasers here, what was the other thing in the sky, where did it come from, and why did you come to talk to me?" I went over that in my head and I think I covered everything.
"Alright, I'll talk. I am a human-avian hybrid escapee, I was created at the secret Itex laboratory known as the Facility in South America, the Erasers are from the same place, the thing in the sky was another escapee from the Facility, and I came to find you because you are the only one who can stop the Facility from killing every single person on the planet. And they aren't going to do it intentionally."
The flock and I just stared at him with our jaws open wide. Another Itex company was making hybrids? For how long?
"And to answer other questions that all of you are thinking. Fang, I and the other in the sky are the only avian hybrids that were made. Nudge, my wings are red because they are a combination of cardinal and hawk wing DNA. Gasman, the Erasers were trying to capture me, not you but they would have if they saw you. Angel, yes, I am telepathic and am extremely more powerful at it than you, so stop trying to read my mind before I turn you into a paranoid schizophrenic. And Max, yes I know all of your names, I can copy all of your abilities, and I know everything that you need to know how saving the world."
Okay, this guy was just trying to show off now.
"How did you…" Fang began to ask before I stopped him.
"Crimson," I began by using his name, "Will you come with us please to our house." Everyone gave me a look of pure disbelief. Fang had something else in his eyes, jealousy? So I clarified. "…So that we can hear everything you have to say and figure everything out?"
"Of course. Thanks for inviting me," he nodded to me as if he were bowing.
