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Chapter 10

The floor under me was cold, and I swear I could feel a breeze. Groggily I opened my eyes; I was in a cage, outside, at night. How cliché! Not to mention that my bag was propped against a tree ten feet from me, with a scientist rummaging threw it. A low growl escaped my throat and the scientist scurried away.

Over to my left I heard a faint voice, "You are avake, yah?" It was that fruity scientist with the funny accent!

"Yah," a girl muttered, was that Max? "And you still butthole yeah?" well yeah it is his nature!

I looked over my shoulder, and made out the faint outline of a cage with five shadowy shapes, the flock! I can finally meet them, but will they trust me?

"It's time for you to be eliminated," he said with childlike glee. "You don't cooperate vis de tests, you are useless to us."

"I don't believe this," I heard a voice mumble, you can say that again!

"Believe it," the fruity guy said, wow that is the best you can do? I though you were suposed to be smart! "Tonight ve implement our Re-Evolution Plain! Vhen ve are done, ve vill haf a world of less dan a billion people," Oh my god shut up just kill me! "Each country vill be under our control! Dere vill be no illnesses, no veakness. De new strong, smart population vill save dis planet und take us into de tventy-second century!"

"What if you can't speak proper English, is that weakness? If it is you are gone, gone, and gone!" I whispered.

"Yeah," Max said. "And if you look in the dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac,' you'll see your picture."

"Nussing you say vill bozzer me. It is time to eliminate you. You haf failed all de tests. You are not useful," he said calmly talking about murder.

"No, but we're dang cute," she spat back.

"Max?" a young voice asked. I looked up to see a mass of scientists approaching to our cages. Why couldn't we be in the same cage? Than I would at least meat Max for once! I spotted Jeb Batchelder and Anne Walker in the crowd of scientists. I shrunk against the back of my cage.

"How can we break out of here?" another young voice asked.

"There's a plan, there's always a plan," she whispered back, wow that sounded really good.

"Children," Batchelder said. "It doesn't have to be this way," he had stopped with Anne by his side ten feet away from the cage that held the flock.

"Great! Let us go," I whispered as my cage started to be encased by scientists.

"Okay, let's have it be different. Let's have it be different. Let us out of the cage!" she spat back venomously. Thank you!!!

"Do you know what's really sad?" Anne asked.

"That pin-striped pantsuit?" asked Max. Gosh even I wouldn't wear that, and I was raised in a cage! "Those sensible shoes?"

"We gave you every chance," Anne said. BULL!!!

"No, see, giving us every chance would be opening this cruel and inhuman cage and letting us out. That would be every chance. This way, you've only given us some chances. You see the difference?" Max ranted.

"Enough! Dis is pointless. Ve're just vaiting for de executioners. Say your good-byes," weirdo science dude said.

"Good-bye," a sweet little girl's voice said.

All I heard was a thwap, and then a thump. "Angel!" another girl's voice yelled. I knew it was time!

In haling deeply, I gathered up my emotions, all through scientists screamed for robot guards. I spotted a small shape with a metallic object swinging at unfortunate science geeks. "I can't break it!" a deep voice cried.

"But I can!" I whispered.

"But I can!" growled a gravely voice.

"Get back!" commanded Max, I was sprinting. My cage poling behind me, I have to help them! When they are in that cage they are sitting ducks!!!

NO!!! filled my head.

Ouch, Angel? You really don't have to yell! I told her in my head.

Don't attack Ari he is on our side, you need to take care of the robots!

Are you kidding my I have worked this heard to find you and you just want me to fly away? No way! I have worked way to hard!!! Any way how will I ever find you again?!!

Gazzy,

What?

Gazzy smells very strongly of gunpowder and gasoline! Memorize his sent, than catch up with up with us later. PS the little dog is mine isn't he cute?

Adorable I said looking over at the talking blur.

He is called Total, now go!

Inhaling deeply I memorized the pungent odor. Once I had it I sprang towards the school where a mass of human like forms where coming our way instead of running away.

Skidding to a halt, I looked down. There, at my feet, lay a big, dry branch. I picked it up and felt it smolder in my hands. All the Robots turned my way, and sprang at the exact moment I did, smoldering branch ready to smash some faces. Smack! One went down, followed quickly by two others, all three were smoking. The sick crack and grating of metal on metal rang threw my pretend battlefield.

I felt a hand rap around my neck, swiftly I twisted branch whipping after me hitting so hard its head snapped off. Glancing over my shoulder I aimed a kick and smashed my foot into a metal ribcage. The robots started back for reinforcements and I sprinted towards the melted shell of my once cage.

Snagging my backpack I leapt skywards. On instinct I started forming a map in my mind painted by the sights and smells around me. They were north. There was a wolfie musk in the air around it too, Ari must have come with them. The smell of gunpowder was stronger than ever, what had they done?

BOOM!!! The colossal tower of fire, smoke and rubble shot up into the sky right in front of me. "Pyromaniacs!" I hissed after the shock wave had hit me, and I had regained my balance.

BOOM!!! A second explosion fired off near where the first one had ignited. The second shock wave was almost as powerful as the first. Knocking the air from my lungs, gasping I started after the Flock.

I didn't get very far because, I flew straight into a solid brick wall of exhaustion. I almost fell right out of the sky! I dropped onto a forest floor dusted with a thin coat of snow, I felt weird like the cold physically hurt. Dismayed by the fact that I couldn't build I fire, I curled into a protective ball and shivered the night away.

I woke to a sun directly over my head, how long had I slept? Luckily the smell of gunpowder still riddled the air. I took a running start eager to get into the comfort of the sky.

Through out the day they traveled almost directly north, they made one distinct change of coarse but by that time I decided that tomorrow is when I would finally introduce myself. I dropped in front of a snowy cave; again I felt that weird exhaustion I associated with the cold. I heated a few rocks in my hands and created a perimeter of heat for myself.

The soothing effects of the heat lulled me to sleep. I would have thought I would have been too jittery to sleep, but apparently I was wrong.

That morning it was like I drank mass amounts of coffee, about a gallon of it! I sprinted out of the cave faster than I have ever run in my life! I shot threw the sky, but the gunpowder scent was headed west, how curious.

The scent of explosives littered the air becoming more and more pungent. I glided over the clouds scanning the horizon for any thing that could be a person, but you know, with wings.

The sun was setting when I saw them; three dark shapes, only three? There are supposed to be six and the wolf mutt, and Total. The shapes were not alone in the sky apart from my self an ambush was stationed in the shadow of a cloud. They were hidden in their blind spot directly above them! They'll get killed, or taken back!

There was no way I could warn them, I made a snap decision and dived so steeply it was almost straight down. The only thing I added heat to was my claws; I hoped that it would conserve energy. I dropped right past a robot extending a claw I easily ripped its make shift throat out.

I dropped right past the half flock and only had time to manage a quick, "hi!" before I had fallen past them.

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