Chapter 9

MAX

Everything looked blurry, I closed my eyes. I could almost feel the strength seeping out of my body as my captor pumped more and more drugs into my veins. My hearing was completely clouded; it was like I was hearing everything through a thick sheet of glass.

I knew exactly where I was, but that was hardly a comfort. This was the place of my nightmares nightmare. The place that I'd spent almost half of my horrifying, dramatic, dangerous life in.

The School.

I moaned as the strong scent of antiseptic filled my nostrils and made my stomach convulse, I probably would've thrown up if I'd had any food in my stomach.

A severe pain shot through my entire body and a high-pitched keening began to echo through my eardrums, then I realized that the sound was coming from me.

At that point, I didn't know which way was up or which was down, it felt like I'd turned to jello, or was floating. Somebody laughed darkly, yet with an evil excitement and somebody else screamed, and this time it wasn't me. It was another person whose scream sounded so familiar that it pulled me from my drug-induced daze.

My baby was out there.

My Angel.

I struggled against my bindings, but to hardly any avail. Somebody started yelling in the background. It sounded something like "Get experiment eleven out of here! It's making experiment 12 go insane!"

"Angel!" I yelled.

But it was too late, they pumped more drugs into me and I blacked out.

I woke up in a dog cage, no surprise there; I looked around for any other type of mutant. But I was the only one in the antiseptic filled room. To my left, there was a table laden with tools (knives, needles, scalpels, etc.), to my right, an operation table.

It was dark in the room; all of the lights were out. I heard voices echoing down a hallway in front of me, the door opened.

"Ah! Maximum, you're awake! I'm glad to see that you aren't to banged up after a battle with my new creations." Said a man with a heavy accent.

I looked up into the face of…

Dr. Roland ter Borcht.

Whaaaat?

"Hey doc." I snarled. "Long time, no see."

"As I was saying. I'm glad that you weren't hurt, that would have been bad."

"Oh would it have? And why, Dr. Crazy, would that be?"

"Because," he said "you are very special Maximum."

"Well thank you, I'm positively flattered!" I said sarcastically.

"Flattery wasn't my goal, Maximum. You see, I need you here because you need to continue on your quest to do what you were made to do. Save the-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! I know! I need to save the world! But what if I don't?" I leaned against the bars of my cage, daring him to set me off.

"We meant to program you. I thought that we did." He muttered to himself, sounding like a man who belonged in a madhouse. "We sent you messages through the voice in you head! How could you not have some sort of drive to save the Earth?"

"I have many drives, one is to protect my flock, another is to stay away from this heck-hole, and my current drive… is ripping you limb from limb just to hear you scream."

"I hate to say this, but none of your drives will take you anywhere for the time being." I noticed that he'd begun to pace back and forth. "Now, get some sleep, you'll need to be well rested for tomorrow, we have something very special planned for you!"

"Gee, thanks for the advice." I sneered.

ter Borcht snapped his fingers and two men came in, one looking extremely nervous.

He said. "Put her out boys."

The men wrenched open my cage door, I was ready, I lunged out, leaping through their arms and landing on the balls of my feet in front of them.

"No you idiots! GET HER! Why the heck would you open the cage with out preparing yourselves for her! WHY, WHY, WHY? Just inject her with the medication and be done with it!" ter Borcht screamed, backing away from me.

The men charged me from both sides, I stepped backwards and they smashed into each other, smacking heads and falling to the ground unconscious.

Wow, that was easy. I thought to myself.

I turned to face ter Borcht, glaring daggers.

"Now Maximum! There's no need to be rash! Let's just- Ah!" He shrieked like a little girl when I lunged at him and tackled him to the ground.

"WHERE'S ANGEL!" I thundered, shaking his shoulder violently. "TELL ME NOW OR I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL FOLLOW MY DRIVE TO TEAR YOU APART!"

"What-"

"I WILL GIVE YOU 5 SECONDS!" I shouted. "5…"

He quivered in fear.

"4…"

His mouth opened.

"3"

His eyes calculated my expression, then widened when he realized how serious my threat was.

"2…"

"Fine!" He cried. "Experiment eleven is in room 404!"

I smiled and lifted him up by his shirt collar.

"Nighty night." I hurled him at the opposite wall, where he crumpled into a heap on the floor. "Sleep tight."

I ran down the hallway, keeping to the sides, I figured it had to late at night because there was nobody in the halls.

"401, 402, 403…" I counted off the room numbers until I found 404.

I turned the knob and entered into the room.

"Angel?" I asked into the darkness.

I heard a whimper escape from the corner of the room, I sprinted over there.

"Angel, it's me! It's Max!"

"M-max?" she whimpered again. "Why are you here?"

She sounded utterly terrified, anger boiled through my body.

I felt around until I found what felt like a cage, then I slid my fingers down and found the lock.

"Hang on sweetie, I'm gonna get you out." I took a step back and slammed my foot down hard on the lock and it shattered off.

Then I wrenched open the cage door and pulled Angel out of it.

"Max!" she sobbed into my shoulder.

"Angel" I sighed, She was alive! My baby was okay! Correction- my baby was not dead, we were at the new and improved school, we'd never be okay if we stayed here. I was so happy I almost cried, almost. But I knew I didn't have much time.

I leaned back to get a look at her.

Angels eyes were sunken, her hair in matted curls, her face sallow, her body slim. More anger bubbled; I'd kill these scientists for what they did to her.

"Max! Why are you here?" She asked again.

"It's a long story. But how are you… alive?" I asked, looking deep into her blue eyes, seeing her fear.

"I—I. I don't know!" she sobbed again.

"Shh, shh, it's okay." I said soothingly, patting her head and rubbing her back.

Then the door burst open and I was shocked with 100's of volts of electricity.

The last thing I heard was Angels screams before my head hit the ground because I was thrashing so badly and I was knocked unconscious.

Hello again!

This chapter was not one of my best. But I hope that you all liked it.

So Angel is alive, Yay! And her and Max are both at the school. Just in case you're wondering, ter Borcht is not dead, Max didn't just kill him when she through him at the wall. So what do he have planned for the reunited bird kids? Find out when I update tomorrow!

A very, very, very special thanks to EmIsForMax, who reviewed NINE TIMES! You made me soooooo happy! I hope that even more people review this story!

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