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Chapter 4 :The Interrogation

Max POV

Once I had Jeb cornered in the kitchen, the flock jumped him, and tied him to a chair in 10 seconds flat. Oh, how I love my flock. And duct tape. Seriously, it is some of the most amazing stuff ever. I've done so many memorable things with duct tape. Like that time we duct taped Nudge's mouth shut. And the time we duct taped pink wall paper all over Fang's room. And the time- but I digress.

Restraining a laugh (seriously, he looked really funny tied to that chair), I put on my signature death glare. Angel named it that after I gave it to this one kid at the school in Virginia and he peed his pants. Good times, good times...

"Why are you here? Wait, don't give me the bull about wanting to help. I don't believe that even one second. Every time you show up at my door, something bad happens. I don't care to even count all the bad things that have happened when you are around, so you have one minute to explain why you're here before I kick your butt so bad you'll wish you had never met me. Ever." I narrowed my eyes even further (yes, it IS possible), and kicked his shin viciously.

"You know, Max is right. I don't think you want to get on her bad side, she's really mean when that happens. There was this one time when she told me I couldn't go to the mall. That was the most boring weekend EVER! I had to stay home, but Ella brought me back some chick flicks, including Twilight! OMG, Robert Pattison is the hottest dude EVER! (I don't think so, but in this story Nudge does. I'm just kind of, whatever, about Twilight) Did you see New Moon? Max hasn't let me go yet, but I really, really want to see Taylor Lautner! ZOMG, he has the hottest body EVER! And-"

"Nudge! Do I need to use some of this duct tape on you, too?" Iggy held up the roll threateningly. She sighed.

"Just trying to lighten the situation..." She seemed like she was about to say more, but one glance from me at her, and she quieted.

I turned back to Jeb. "Talk. One minute, starting now."

He looked up at me, his glasses sitting crookedly under his greying hair. "Max, we all know that you wouldn't hurt me. I'm your father."

I growled in the back of my throat, smirking when his expression changed. I didn't want to, but I hope he wouldn't make me correct that theory.

"Alright. I'll talk. I know that you received a post on your blog from an establishment referred to as the IOBNM," he said quietly, looking at Fang. "And I honestly don't know anything about it. No, really, I know you don't believe me Max, but you have to. I have important things to tell you, and I need you to listen. The School has changed. The Director has become.... unbalanced mentally, for lack of a better description. She is not running the place the same as I signed up for. The other scientist either agree with the new administration, or are too frightened to do anything about it. I, however, left. I brought along some of the last experiments that I helped to collaborate on. Yes, those people you used to know were tracked down by the school and used as experiments.

"Originally, they were designed to track you and your flock down and become friends with you. Then, they were to bring you back to us. Luckily for you, and for me, I had realized that changes were coming and altered the experimentations before they began. Now, they serve me. We no longer refer to them as Lissa, Sam, and Brigid. Unfortunately, the minute they all met you was the minute they had begun to be tracked, later to be captured. We now refer to them as Epsilon, formerly known as Sam, Zeta, formerly known as Lissa, and Tau, who you used to call Brigid."

All this time, the flock had sat in silence. Jeb's minute had long expired, however, we were all too shocked and surprised to say anything. This was news we hadn't heard. Of course, it didn't end there. Jeb continued.

"Epsilon was our first success. We only tried the genetic mutations on him after we had perfected the process on... other subjects." I shuddered. We all knew only too well what had happened to those "other subjects."

Jeb continuted on, trying to smooth over the touchy situation. "As you may be wondering, Epsilon has been transformed into a, beast of burden, if you will. His strength is massive, alone, Epsilon can carry over 100,000 times his own body weight. His speed and reaction times increased with the transformation. He was fused with one percent cheetah. However, technology has advanced quite a bit lately. We had discovered a way to stop the physical mutations. The scientists localized the genes that allow a cheetah to run at it's top speeds, and only fused those with Epsilon's existing DNA.

"Zeta was the second success. She is the most beautiful creation we have ever made. Her attractions skills are more powerful then any substance natural or man made on this Earth. Zeta can make any person bend to her will, a most useful ability, I might add. The changes were made directly to the double helix of DNA, Zeta has no animal DNA infused into her.

"Finally, we had a few issues with Tau. Unfortunately, Tau's original purpose, to become telepathic, like Angel here, failed, leaving her with minor brain damage." I winced. Even Dr. Wonderful didn't deserve this.

"Eventually, thought, Tau served another purpose. She can sense truthfulness. If you aren't telling the truth, and you are within a ten meter radius of Tau, she will know. Perhaps seen as the most useless ability, is has proved to be well worth the effort." Jeb stopped talking and looked up at us.

(Angel and Max)

Max, he's telling the truth. Those people out on the doorstep have no memory of their former lives, they live only to serve Jeb.

Angel, can you see anything inside his head? Anything useful? Is he telling the truth?

I dunno, Max. He's got some sort of mind shield up, and I can't see past it.

Crap. What next, what next...

I think for now we should believe him. Hang on, I'll ask the others... Yup. Fang says that he'll support whatever decision you make, Max.

Right then. I think it's time we tested out our friends S-Epsilon, Zeta, and Tau.

OK.

I looked at Jeb. "So... If I choose to believe you, which I'm still not sure I do, how do you plan on proving it to me? That's the only way. Conclusive evidence that what you say is true."

He looked at me. "That's it? I can do that. Are there any large fields around here? As soon as I prove this to you, I want to talk about the IOBNM. Thats the reason I came. I want Iggy's sight back as much as you do-" Iggy snorted.

"But I need to talk to you about who they are first. They aren't who you think they are."

"Are you so sure of what I think? You don't know me Jeb. Apparently, you never did."

I turned quickly, leaving Jeb taped to the chair. I yanked open the door, and stood by quietly as Lis- Zeta walked in followed by Epsilon and Tau.

I followed them down the hallway and into the kitchen, where I turned to Fang. "Lets do this."

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A/N WOW! I think thats my longest chapter yet! It took me FOREVER to write! So, what do you think? Is it getting interesting? Review please, the only way I know if I'm doing it right is if you tell me! :D