Ella's POV

Max hissed as I walked into the room. I winced as she sneered at me. I wasn't sure whether or not she would give me another chance like Iggy had.

"What are iyou/i doing here?" She sneered at me?

"I really don't know." I said truthfully, " I think they said something about shots though."

Max seemed surprised at my calm answer. Then the surprise wiped off her face and twisted back into her trademark sneer.

"Well aren't you so lucky that they trust you enough to take you out of your cage?" She asked in a sickly sweet voice.

I shrugged, "I don't know."

She rolled her eyes and lay back against the back wall of her cage. She smiled as the door to the lab opened.

I held my breath as the annoying scientist came up to me. "Here kittykitty." She said, motioning for me to come to her.

I heard Max stifle a laugh from behind me. I walked over to her slowly, pretending like it was all just a bad dream. I held my arm out to her and she shook her head.

"No no Kitty." She said, "This one goes right here." She indicated an area between my collar bone and my throat.

I turned around a minute to look at the rest of the flock. Max had a weird expression on her face, and the rest looked shocked and scared. I gulped and turned back to the woman.

"Are you ready Kitty?" She cooed.

I nodded, keeping up my charade of everything being a bad dream. I squeezed my eyes shut and I pretended I was back home.

Anne's POV

I walked over to experiment 3's cage.

"Hello ex-3" I greeted him.

He snarled and said, "Where's Ella?"

I sighed and pulled out a small hand held computer screen from my lab coat pocket. In it was an image of the room experiment 31 was in. Everything was being recorded from a video camera. I handed it to him.

"Keep it." I said slyly, walking away.

I went up to my office and grabbed another hand held screen from my desk. This one showed experiment 3's cage. I watched him watch experiment 31 get her special shot. I relished seeing tears roll down her face as the pain seared through her. I was also pleased to see the angry tears rolling down experiment 3's face.

I sighed, enjoying my work. I wondered what other things I could try for more revenge, and I grinned as the next plan formed in my head.

They'd never see it coming.

Ella's POV

As the needle slid into my skin, I bit back a cry of pain. It hurt more than I thought it would. And the stuff that she injected me with burned the underside of my skin. Tears gathered around the edges of my eyes before spilling over like a a river flowing over a dam.

She pulled the needle out slowly, making it as painful as possible. I couldn't hold it back any longer. I cried out, loud and clear as I sunk to my knees. The woman just smiled evilly and walked away, humming a cheerful tune under her breath.

I lay on the floor for several minutes, trying to find the strength to move. It took about thirty minutes before I could roll myself over. Every move I made sent a burning sensation pulsing through my body. I bit my lip until I tasted blood. I kept slowly turning until I was facing the flocks' cages.

I heard Nudge audibly let out her held breath. "Oh!" She whimpered, "I thought they'd killed you…"

"No." I managed to choke out, "I'm alright."

I swiveled my eyes to Max, who wasn't saying anything. She wasn't even looking at me, but instead towards her feet.

I sighed and slowly sat myself up. This was going to be a long, hard walk back to my cage.

Iggy's POV

I resisted the urge to punch the ground as I heard Ella's cries of pain. I knew from the soft thud that she had fallen to the ground. All I could do was wait and pray she was still alive.

After several long, stomach wrenching minutes, I heard her talk, softly, but she had talked. I breathed out a sigh of relief. Though by the sound of her voice, she was in great pain, I was overjoyed.

I was about to listen to se if she would say more when someone strolled up to my cage. By the sound of their footsteps, it was a man. I looked up at them, glaring.

"What do you want?" I snarled.

"Whoa, down birdie, I'm here to fix you." He said.

I felt fear bubble up inside me and heard myself whimper. The noise, and all others, sounded far away.

I vaguely heard my cage door being opened. I was vividly aware that I was being pulled out of my cage and onto a stretcher. But everything as numb, my senses shut down. I felt like I was a deer in headlights, except les aware.

The last thing I heard was, "Night night, birdie." And then, I was out.

Anne's POV

I found myself smiling down on the scene below. Ella, struggling to move and whimpering in pain and experiment 3, completely helpless to the hands of one of my best workers.

I would have to wait a good day before I could out my final plan into action though. And then, maybe Kitty would see that I really did mean business.