The Flock flew westward in a loose V formation, with Max at the front and Angel bringing up the rear. They were headed westward, towards the School, coming from Colorado. "Angel, how far are we from the School?" Iggy asked.

"I have no idea," the telepath said. She wore a worried expression on her face.

"I've been keeping track," Nudge said, swooping up by Iggy by flying underneath Max partially and underneath Iggy so she was flying next to him, and their wings stroked with every downstroke. "We've gone 190 miles total so far, and we have 569 miles left. So that means we've got 2 hours and 20 minutes, and about 15 seconds now." Nudge had also gained the power to solve math equations in her head instantly. Her powers, which were feel any old emotions near technology, hacking into any computer, being a magnet, and solving any math problem in her head, had grown. She now had 4 powers, like Angel. (She turned her magnet ability, as the Flock called it, into metellokinesis, the ability to bend metal. Now Nudge always had some metal on her.)

Iggy smiled, "Your math powers are handy, Nudge," he said.

"That's good." She said, smiling. Her supercurly hair was in a ponytail, but it was quickly being undone by the wind. Iggy's strawberry blond bangs were blowing into his face, and so was Fang's jet black hair.

"How far are we now?" Gazzy asked about 2 hours and 15 minutes later. The flight had been mostly silent, save for the flapping of their wings.

"We've only got 2 miles left. Flying would take us 5 more minutes, walking would take us 20, and running would take us 10 minutes." Nudge said.

Max thought about it for a minute. This was what made her such a great leader; she could come up with plans in less then a minute, especially battle plans. "We'll fly for 3 more minutes, then land and walk south-southwest-west towards the School until we're in the back. In case anything happens, U & A, then wait for an hour. Agreed?"

"Agreed!" The Flock chorused, and Max smiled as she looked forward.

Don't worry, Ella. We're gonna find you.

The Flock landed near the School 3 minutes later and trotted in the general direction of the building. "Max, what's the plan?" Gazzy asked, trotting alongside his fellow blond haired mutant. Max looked at him.

"We'll get in through one of the ceiling grates," she said. "Iggy, please tell me you have a bomb small enough to put in a pipe?"

The blind boy nodded, pulling a sphere shaped bomb from out of nowhere and holding it in his hand. He had developed echolation, so with each step he could "see" where he was going. Max nodded, "Good," she said, "let's fly up and when I give you the signal, Igs, drop the bomb."

The blind boy nodded. The Flock opened their wings, flapped them twice in unison, and soared upwards, Fang spotting the grate first, and he flew over and, guiding Iggy, let the blind boy unlatch it. They all flew in, feet first, one by one.

Nudge metalbent the grate so it was wider, allowing Iggy and Fang to be able to walk through upright. Tucking their wings in slightly, Nudge went first, Angel second, Iggy third, Max and Fang fourth and fifth, and Gazzy brought up the rear. They stayed this way for a while, walking aimlessly to directions that Angel gave them until Nudge looked down and spotted rainbow colored wings.

"Guys," Nudge said, "I think I found something." Using her mind she metalbent the screws and levitated the grate away for later use, leaning it against the wall, and placing the pieces quietly so they made no sound. Then with help from the telepathic 6 year old she lowered herself down and didn't hit the ground, but instead flew down and widened the grate hole so the others could fly down as well.

The other Flock members flew down rapidly and Max and Iggy were the only ones who landed. "Alright, guys," she whispered. Her raptor vision caught the silhouette of a camera. "Nudge, destroy that."

Nudge stared hard at the camera and slowly, she began to destroy it. The pieces she levitated to the ground. Once that was done she turned to Max, "So, what do we do now? And how do we find Ella?" she asked.

"You're looking for Ella?" A voice said in surprise. The flock turned to see a girl with wavy red hair and turquoise eyes, as well as fair skin. Her wings were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Her wings were thirteen feet across, 3 feet tall. She was 5'3, the same age as Nudge and Ella, and dressed in a turquoise hospital gown.

"Who are you?" Fang asked, landing and tucking his wings in slightly.

"Rainbow," she whispered, and her turquoise eyes seemed to glow. "Ella's right there," she said, pointing to the cage next to her.

There was a weakened Ella on the floor, half-asleep, too weak to pick up a complete thought but only a partial one. Those thoughts consisted of El… she can read minds… how lon… I'm going to murder th… do to them what they did to us… use metalben…

Ella opened her eyes, sitting up slowly and locking eyes with Max, "Max," she whispered, "I thought I would never see you again."

"'Course you would, sis. Let's get you out of there. You too, Rainbow. Nudge!"

Knowing what to do, Nudge bent the bars of both cages from the middle, breaking the middle before bending it up and down. When it was done and there was a slight incline on both cages, allowing them to slide out, they did, and Ella fell into Max's arms while Rainbow introduced herself to Nudge and Angel a few meters away.

Ella leaned into Max's chest and her sister stroked her hair, wrapping her wings around her. Iggy joined the hug. "Where's Mom?" Ella asked, "Is she okay?"

"I thought she was with you," Max said, "because she's not at the house."

Ella blanced. "We should head to New York," she said. Max nodded.

"Nudge," Max said once they broke the hug. Nudge nodded and metalbent the rest of the cages. The experiments crawled out, and went through the main door. Max turned to the others, "Let's go," she said, and they nodded.

One by one, Ella and Rainbow supporting each other, they got back up into the grate. They made it to the roof and were about to take off when erasers appeared out of nowhere.

The Flock backed up on one another until they hit each other's backs. "Now, Iggy," Max whispered, and the blind boy tossed the bomb out at the nearest Eraser.

"Go, we have to take off!" he said. The Flock nodded and ran to the edge of the roof, where the bar wasn't present, and taking off two at a time. Rainbow and Iggy, supporting Ella, ran forward, half carrying her and half running, and took off at the same time, flapping their wings madly.

What they didn't know, and what Iggy did, is that the Erasers were standing on an electrical grate. And once the bomb went of-

Boom!

Iggy, Rainbow, and Ella were tossed back with startled yells, being the closest to the shockwave. They spread their wings and flapped.

The Erasers on the roof were electrocuted and fell to the ground, all of them twitching. The Flock looked back at the destruction and looked at Max, awaiting an order. The blond cleared her throat and looked at all of them, "Yo, let's head to Lake Mead. Hop to it."

With that order, the Flock headed east, Max grabbing their hands and using her super speed to get them there faster, unaware that someone was following them…