I know that anyone who actually reads this will probably want to beat me up right now for taking so long, but I'm sorry. I've had to work at the fair and show. Then sports and school started so I'm completely swamped with work. But hey at least I got third in the show. Anyways here's chapter 10.

I do not own Maximum Ride.

Chapter 10

Sphynx Pov

All I can think of is the darkness and how much pain I'm in. Not that I'd actually let anyone know I was in pain, but still you get the point.

No matter what I did, I couldn't move. For all I know I'm not even alive any more.

Stop being so stupid Sphynx, of course you're not dead. You can still feel all of the stinking needles they've stabbed you with.

CRAP! I can feel it again…but….this time … it's…….different……

What I didn't know is that I had no idea what pain really was until I woke up.

Max Pov

So what have I found out since I woke up? Let's make a list shall we.

1. We're back at the School.

2. I have no idea if this is the one they took the kids to or not.

3. Iggy's still out cold and I don't know if they did any tests to us while we were passed out.

4. Sphynx is gone.

5. We're all stuck in stupid dog cages!

Just then a white coat came in and said, "Looks like the blind one is still out. I guess the serum didn't work after all."

"What serum?! What did you do to him?" I yelled.

The white coat looked down at me as if he was just noticing that I was there. "I wouldn't worry too much about your friend here. I'd be more worried about the other girl that was with you."

With that he left the room, not even looking back when I was yelling at him to tell me where she was.

Fang looked completely deadly at the moment, but as soon as he looked at me his gaze softened.

"What do we do?" I whispered.

"We wait and see what happens." Was his only reply.

We waited a few hours, and finally Iggy woke up. If it wasn't for the bars of my cage I would've tackled him in a huge hug. He was a little out of it though, so he stayed quiet.

About ten minutes after he woke up, another group of white coats came in with about three M-Geeks. As soon as I saw who was leading them I knew that we were in deep trouble.

"Vell, iv it isn't vittle Max. How are you?" he asked in his thick accent.

"Well long time no see Borchty. Have you finished those snickers yet?" I replied.

"Ve vill see who has ve las laf Maximum. In de meantime, vy don't you vatch someting."

A M-Geek walked over to the big window wall and pushed a button that made the curtain that blocked the view to the other room move. What I saw even scared me a little bit.

Hanging by chains on the opposite wall was a bird kid. Their front was to the wall so I couldn't see their face. Their wings had wires wrapped around them that looked like they were sinking into their flesh. The wires were stretched to a machine at the end of each side of the room. Cuts marked their ways all over their arms, which were chained above their head. What looked like I think a tail was covered in blood, and so where the wings. On one leg there was what looked like a bullet hole. I don't believe that someone can even live through this.

Everything in that room was white, except where the person's blood was splattered. By the way Iggy gasped, I think that he could make out what was going on.

Ter Borcht walked up to a speaker, and after pressing a button said, "Commenze vit the shock zerapy."

At first nothing happened, but after a while ter Borcht had them turn it up. A few minutes later he turned it up again. He was getting so flustered that he just decided to turn it on full power. That's when we heard a blood-curdling scream. It sounded familiar and I heard Iggy whispered, "Sphynx."

"What are you doing to her?!!" Iggy shouted. For a blind guy he gives a scary glare.

"Showing her that she can't run away from us forever. We still have use for her here. Next time we won't be so merciful." A white coat behind ter Borcht said.

"Merciful? You call this merciful?!" I screamed.

"Vell, she vas azking for vit. And…" He didn't finish his sentence because the screaming stopped and we all looked to see what was happening.

All of the M-Geeks in the room ran over to the machines to see something. Then, sparks started to shoot out of the circuit boards. Sphynx started to jerk around in her chains and shout, but the M-Geeks couldn't get close to her because all of the wires and chains were emitting a charge that was sending sparks everywhere. There was a huge explosion and the glass wall shattered, causing all of the white coats to run out of the room. I was trying to stay as far in the back of my cage as possible. When everything cleared I saw a figure making its way to our cages. Stopping to grab the keys I saw who it was. Sphynx opened my cage first and once it was open gave me Fang's key and started on Iggy's lock. Once they were out she walked out of the room without another word. We fallowed her down a few hallways until we stopped at a door. She looked at me and whispered,"Their in here." If I wasn't so worried about the kids I would've noticed that I could barely hear her and that she was horse. Iggy set to work on the lock and within a few minutes we were in the room. Alarms were sounding all over the building, so we had to work fast. In the room I saw the rest of my Flock strapped to tables. I also saw Milo and another girl I had never seen before. They were hooked up to monitors and their heart beats were a lot slower than they should have been. "What do we do?"

"We have to speed up their pulses or else they won't survive." Fang said from behind one of the monitors.

Before I could ask how, Sphynx walked over to the main plug-in and grabbed the chord. Everyone's pulses started to accelerate instantly. Within a minute they were all starting to wake up. We quickly broke all of the restraints holding them and took all of the needles and wires off of them. We didn't have time to hug and ask if everyone was ok, because the door burst open and these things started to come into the room.

Some of them had the bottom half of a spider, while others just had the legs sticking out of their bodies. All of their features were messed up. Some had extra eyes all over their bodies, and some didn't have any. Their arms weren't in the right spots and they were all deformed. They started to make their way towards us as we backed up into the corner of the room.

Once we had our backs to the wall I knew that there were too many for us to take on in the state everyone was in. Lolelle made her way to the front of the group and said," Well, well, well. Look at what we have here. So Sphynx how did you like your treatment. It was my idea of course. I knew how you've always loved electricity."

Sphynx was glaring at her but kept quiet.

She's going to pass out any second Max. You have to get everyone out of here now. The voice said.

And how exactly do you think that I'm supposed to do that?

No response.

"Why do you want to hurt Sphynx so bad?" I asked. I was trying to keep Lelo's attantion away from Sphynx.

I could see that Sphynx was starting to shake, but she took a step towards a monitor and grabbed a piece of equipment without letting Lelo see and passed it back to Iggy. He put it behind his back and began to reconfigure it.

"It's none of your business Max, it's between me and Sphynx."

"I'd beg to differ. You see when you bring my family into all of this then it does become my business." I said crossing my arms over my chest.

Behind me I heard, "Finished."

"Well I hate to talk and fly but you know how it is." I said. With that Iggy threw the bomb that he had just made and blew the wall behind us out. I grabbed the girl and flew out with the kids, Fang carrying Milo, and Iggy holding an unconscious Sphynx behind me. Gun shots could be heard behind us, but we continued to fly on. After I was sure that we were a safe distance away we landed in a forest so that we could check on Sphynx. When we all landed Iggy gently put Sphynx down and began to run his hands over her injuries.

"You guys, she has a few broken ribs, both her wings are fractured in a few places, cuts everywhere that are all a few inches deep and two gun-shot wounds. If she doesn't get help now, then she's going to die." The entire time he said this, he was trembling and his voice cracked at least twice.

"Max...." I heard Fang behind me and I knew instantly what he was recommending.

"Fine but if this girl makes us go to another hospital after this trip then I'm going to go off on her." I turned to look at the girl that I had carried and said, "We'll ask our questions for you when we get there." She nodded and we all took to the air again.

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As soon as we got to the hospital they took one look at Sphynx and then rushed her to surgery. They asked me a few questions, but I've been doing this so often lately that it was a lot easier. She had lost a lot of blood, so I had to donate some blood and Fang did too. Everyone was mad that they couldn't, but we had no idea what they had been injected with so we had to be careful. After we were finished giving blood, we all sat in the waiting room. I could tell that the kids were all tired, but I had to ask the girl some questions first. She was sitting by Milo, so I went over and stood in front of her. "Who are you?"

"My names Tina."

"Why were you there? What did they want from you?" Fang asked from where he sat.

"She's my sister. Twin to be exact. She was taken about a year ago." Milo said.

"So what happened after you were taken?" Nudge asked.

Tina started crying into Milo's shoulder so I stopped questioning her, for now at least.

A few hours later a doctor came out of the ER and everyone rushed up to him. He looked flustered for a second, then he said, "Miss Ride I need to speak to you privately concerning your friend."

I nodded towards the Flock and then fallowed the doctor down a different hallway. When he turned around he looked really depressed. "I'm sorry, but her bones are to hard to break."

"What do you mean break?" I asked.

"Her bones are setting in all of the wrong positions. They are also too strong for us to break. Plus, none of my doctors know the correct positions for her, erm, wings."

"So your saying you want one of us to do it?"

"Only if one of you can. If her bones aren't set correctly then she may possibly die because her ribs are crushing her lungs at the moment."

"What have all of you been doing all of this time then?"

I turned around and saw that it was Iggy that asked.

He's really worried about her. I thought.

Of course he is Maximum.

How nice of you to drop by Voice. But can you at least tell me what the heck happened to her?

I was brought back to reality when I heard the doctor answer.

"We've been trying to get all of the bleeding to stop. Also we had to cut out a few bullets. What I'd like to know is what happened to her."

"I'd like to know too doc, but I have no idea." I answered. I turned towards Iggy then asked," Can you do it?"

Almost instantly he said, "Yes."

I hated making him do it but he was the only one who could re brake her bones and set them correctly. The doctor figured out what we were talking about, so he led Iggy to the surgery room.

I went back to the waiting room and saw that almost everyone was asleep. Fang was still awake and had Angel curled up by his side. I smiled a little at that and then went over to sit by him. He looked up when I sat down and wrapped his free arm around my shoulders. "How bad?" he whispered.

"They have to rebrake her bones." I replied just as quietly.

"And Iggy?"

"He's the one doing it."

We stayed quiet after that and just sat there enjoying the fact that we were together. After about and hour and a half, Iggy came back. He didn't say anything as he sat down beside the wall and looked at the ceiling. He had a sullen expression on so I knew that it must have been bad.

The rest of the time that I sat there I was wondering, what exactly did this to her? What all happened?

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At about three in the morning I woke up to a lot of sirens going off. All of the light were flickering and some just stopped working all together. All of the doctors and nurses there were running around shouting. People were running fo rtheir lives out of the ER. Out of Sphynx's room.

This can't be good.

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Chapter 10 is finally done. It would have been done sooner but right when I finished and tried to save my computer messed everything and it didn't save any of it. So unfortunately it's different from what I had originally, but I hope that you all still liked it. I'm going to try and update sooner, but that's only if people actually read and review it. So review people!

-Starlight out