I stood, looking Fang full on, and was too surprised to say a word. Judging by the collection of logs, and the fact the rest of the flock was there, they had been preparing to break in just before the scientists had come.

I blinked. He blinked. I took a step back so I wasn't right there in his face, only to bump into Dylan.

"Jeez, you guys really need to stop doing that," I mumbled, side stepping both of them. I watched mutants and the poor kids who were imprisoned run out into the woods. Only three from the lab stayed and didn't run. Aqua, Karma, and one of the boys. The boy had messy light red/brown hair, and green eyes. He was a well built sort of guy, tall, with a fair amount of muscles. I think his name was... Denton? Darrel? Drew? Or did it even start with a D? Maybe it was Razor? Who knows.

"Alix," Fang said softly, like he was trying out my name. "Alix." he said again. Immediately and naturally, I got defensive.

"Why do you keep saying my name? You don't know me! You spoke to me all of what, 5 minutes?" I snapped. I saw pain flicker through his eyes, even if no emotion touched his face. He covered it almost at once, but I still felt guilty for it. I had spoken to him like a total stranger, like he hadn't been who I was thinking about in my pathetic dog cage. Wondering what he was like, if he was really my brother, who he was, who our parents were...

I opened my mouth to appologise, but he just shook his head.

"How did you guys get here?" I asked. Then I remembered what the scientist had said. "Is it true? Do you really have wings?" Fang nodded without making a peep. He shed his shirt, and spread huge raven wings from his back. I stared at the winged, the feathers, eyes wide.

"What are you?" the little girl, Angel, asked. "You have to be something otherwise they would not have taken you."

I opened my mouth, only to find I lacked the words to tell them what I was. "Honestly, I'm not sure."

"Well, what are your abilities?" the blind dude, Iggy, asked.

"I... I talk to animals," I said. "And I can take their shape." I reached up and ruffled Eld's feathers subconsciously. I looked at them. "Do you all have wings?" I asked. They all nodded. I turned to Aqua and Karma, "Do you have wings, too?"

"Yeah," Karma said. Aqua frowned.

"I can't remember. Let's find out," she said. She reached back and put her fingers under her shirt, and I could see feathers and slits in the back of her shirt. I said so, and she moved long limbs out through them. Wings. Like hummingbird wings, except larger. They were blue/green and iridescent, with streaks of white on her primaries. They were much smaller than Fang's.

"So I suppose Alix and I are the only ones without wings, then?" the boy - still can't remember his name, I think it's Denton - said. I turned to him.

"What do you do, then?" I asked.

"I am... Much less original than you guys. The scientists? They decided to turn me into Wolverine," he said.

"You can turn into a wolverine?" The African American girl, I think her name was Nudge, said.

"No, no. Wolverine. The movie, the guy. The person with the knives between his fingers," he responded. I reached out his hand so everyone could see, then clinched his fist. In the soft spot between his knuckles, huge knives slid out of his skin. They had to be at least a foot long, and almost as wide as his hand, but thin and they came to a razor edge.

"Whoa," escaped everyones mouths.

"Yeah, that's why they call me Razor," he said softly. "i don't know who I can go with you guys much further though because all of you guys can fly. Maybe I should just go-"

"No!" Karma jumped in, shushing his words. "I mean, I'm sure we can find a way, right?"

Jut then I noticed we were still right in front of the doors, and we needed to get out of there.

"Look, we can talk about this later. For right now, we need to go," I said. After a moment of thought, everyone nodded and we scattered into the woods.