"She's dead, and this time there's no way to bring her back. There is no pulse. Should I dispose of the body?" The medic asked the pacing Robert Grey. Sweat glistened on his bald-head, where there used to be raven black hair. There was no absolute cause of her death, and yet she had no vitals. It was a shame that she was truly dead this time, and with the other captives missing from their cages, there was no one for him to use to bring her back this time. A frown appeared on his face; he had so many more torture ideas to use on her.

Frown lines appeared on his forehead as he watched the timid doctor once again feel for a pulse so that Grey wouldn't shoot him on the spot. Like he had with the last scientist that told him that one of his erasers were hurt. He stood over the doctor, his tall and thin form enough to intimidate anyone. The doctor's eyes grew misty from fear as he scrambled to find a pulse to avoid ultimate death. But Grey had no intention of killing him.

"Find the escaped experiments after you expose of the experiment's body." The doctor nodded shaking his head so much that it looked like his neck was about to snap like a twig. The doctor pulled out a plastic raven black body bag and speedily unzipped the cover. Before turning to walk away, Grey reminded, "Don't forget to use the muscle relaxant on the body. It will make her easier to move around."

Grey sat in his top of the line swivel chair in front of the surveillance system. It was his eye in every single room and every single hallway in his facility. It was how he kept track of the flock when they were trapped inside of his tower just around a month ago. Grey also had surveillance tapped inside of the flock's home from his spy, Regan. Maximum was right to think that she would be completely loyal to Grey, and forget about Dylan.

He looked to screen 42 where the doctor was sticking a syringe full of muscle relaxant into the crease in Maximum's elbow. His breathing was visibly erratic, especially compared to the girl who was taking no breaths. No visible breaths at least. Almost a second after the syringe's content was drained into her, her eyes blinked open and her breathing quickened into what looked like sharp gasps as she took in deep lungfuls of air. It was silly of Maximum to think that he wouldn't know that muscle relaxant flushed out any unwanted toxins. Including tetra doe toxin, which made the body appear to be deceased by slowing down all body functions.

Maximum brought her knee up to collide with the panicking doctor's stomach and he fell off of her. She jumped up quickly and sprinted down the hallway, even though the camera made it clear that her facial expressions were dazed from just previously being unconscious. Grey turned up the speakers on his cameras so that he could hear the events, and watched as she transitioned from screen to screen, quickly making progress through his facility.

She stopped around camera 37 though, barely panting, and turned to look at her sister, the Omega experiment, and her clone. Grey clenched his jaw and glared at the screen as all three exchanged glances and began running closer towards the exit, down the stairwell. Grey hadn't called any of his guards yet, wanting to see where she would go with this. Her escape attempts were always entertaining to him, but when she had people to back her up she could actually succeed in escaping.

"Security. Maximum, Omega, Maximum 2, and the human are escaping. They are in the East Wing and advancing quickly. The human is weaker than the others. Use her as a weakness." Grey spoke into his walkie-talkie. Grey looked at camera 85 and saw his team of security bolting from their current positions and hustling down the stairs to where the East Wing of the facility was. They wouldn't catch them in time.

"All units dispatch! I want every single one of them taken alive!" Grey shouted into the walkie-talkie. Now looking at the security monitors, it looked like a stampede as every avian experiment, lupine hybrid, and regular human security were trying to block out Maximum's team from every direction. The only way that wasn't being surrounded was up. And that was their greatest advantage. All Grey could do was sit and watch, because he also had to get ready for The World's Ascension meeting later on. The group that he was the leader of.

Grey watched monitor number 23 as the escapees stopped, realizing that they were surrounded on all sides. Maximum pushed her sister behind her protectively and the three stepped in front of her sister, all getting into fighting stances. Ella looked straight forward, a detached look on her face. Grey smirked, she was one of his greatest successes. She broke so easily, but was the most challenging human he had ever come across. She truly was related to Maximum Ride.

Maximum was grimacing and looking warily at the army surrounding her on all sides, judging what the odds of survival was if they chose to fight.

"It doesn't look good, does it?" Max 2 remarked dryly, mirroring Maximum's thoughts exactly.

"I can win." Omega cockily stated, baring his teeth at the erasers in front of him.

"That's what you said when you went against me. How did that go again?" Maximum retorted, looking around the room while still holding her fighting stance.

"What do we do, Max?" Her duplicate asked, her eyes wary.

"Omega and Ella don't have wings. There's a skylight right above us, on the count of three, you grab Omega and I'll grab Ella and we'll break through the glass and fly out of here." Maximum whispered.

"Block the skylight." Grey ordered into his intercom, allowing the whole building to hear his words.

"Any other genius ideas, Maximum?" Grey questioned snarkily.

"I really hate that guy." She muttered, just loud enough that the speakers on the cameras were barely able to pick up her words.

Maximum glanced at Ella with sadness and looked at the window that only Ella could fit through. Grey saw what she was going to do, but Maximum picked up her sister and slid her feet first into the glass that shattered on impact.

"Run, Ella!" She shouted, just as three erasers pinned her down roughly to the linoleum tiles. And Ella, despite being detached and mentally broken, ran as fast as any experiment would.

"What are our orders, sir? Do we hunt her down?" A security guard asked through a walkie-talkie.

"No," Grey answered, smiling to himself. "Let her escape. Let the flock enjoy a present. Along with my last one."

Grey looked around at the others at the conference table in his private conference room. He was at the head of the table, as usual, looking around at the others that were part of The World's Ascension. The group had been started five years ago the day that the flock had escaped from the school. It had also been the day that Grey had formed R.A.V.E.N.

"Grey, I think I speak for everyone when I say, why did you bring Maximum Ride back to life. We were rid of her for good!" Marian Jenson exclaimed, rising from her seat. There was a flurry of heads that nodded in agreement with the former director of Itex.

"Because I wanted to keep the most likely choice that will save the world alive. I believe that we have planned this since the day her and her flock were born. We have made other possibilities than her since then, and they day is coming to find exactly who will save the world." Grey answered smoothly.

"Then why did you kill Dylan? He was just as much of a possibility!" Gunther Hagen shouted, rising from his seat further down the table. Fury was shown clearly on his face.

"I think we all know that Dylan wasn't likely to save the world. And he insisted on sacrificing his life for Maximum, He didn't know he was bringing her closer to our plan though." Grey smirked as he said this, remembering how easily the boy was to trick into offering his life for the girl's, "Sorry for your loss by the way, I know he was like a son to you."

In truth, Grey wasn't sorry at all. And Gunther Hagen, and everyone in the room knew that for a fact.

"Why do you even want to save the world, Grey? You're the last person who would want to actually do any good." Mr. Chu said next. Grey smiled, expecting this question at one point or another.

"Oh, I have no intention of saving the world. But the person, who saves the world, will be in charge of the world. And if they're working for me—then I rule the world."

Aj: Dun, Dun, Dunnnn... So we see a snippet of Grey's plan. Next time: The Flock find Ella! But I need five reviews to publish it, so review!

Anika: Do what she says, I don't need her ranting like she did last week. And she ranted so much, that she has to get a new therapist because now her 'shrink needs a shrink'.

Aj: Questions:

1) What is the lamest job in the world, in your opinion?

2) If you ruled the world for a day, what would you do?

Best answers get on the next chapter!

!5 reviews for next chapter! -Aj.