Me: Hey there, yes. The last chapter was a filler, I apologize.
Crazygirl313: Hi! I'm cutting in for no reason whatsoever!
Iggy: Welcome to my life. *shakes head*
Me: Yeah, welcome to the life of a kidnapped blind mutant bird-boy.
Crazygirl313: I have a Maximum Ride story, too! Read it, please! I have almost no readers at all!
Me: Hey, I read it!
Crazygirl313: I said almost!
Iggy: We don't own Maximum Ride.
Crazygirl313: Please! I'm so desperate that I'm begging in my friend's story!
Me: yup, that's pretty desperate.
Crazygirl313: *runs away crying*
Me: I was joking!, don't cry! *runs after*
Iggy: um... read? Review? Enjoy?
It was Nikki's watch. For once she had insisted on Shadow going to sleep instead of sitting up with her. If they were breaking into the Academy, they would need all the energy they could get.
Sitting in the clearing, looking into the dark woods in the middle of the night, straining for any sound was nerve wracking. Espeicially with the knowledge that they were going back to the Academy.
"This sucks." She muttered to herself, playing with the hem of her too-big hoodie. She hated the Academy with a burning passion. It was the lab she had grown up in, where she had been subjected to expiraments and torture. Mainly in the Garage.
Nikki shuddered at the thought of the evil, dark place. Her, Shadow, and Ari had refused to tell the others what exactly was in the Garage, it was best not to trouble them.
A small, dark room. Expiraments thrown in when they didn't behave. You never knew what would happen in there, it was always different. They subjected you to your worst fears, bringing them to life. For Nikki, it was usually water.
They tested all sorts of things. How long she could stay concious underwater, how long she could survive in freezing water, even how much water she could drink before she started puking it back up. That last one had been strange...
But the lights never came on, it was always pitch black, and there was usually Erasers who came in and just beat you up in between the tests.
It was different for each expirament. Ari saw images of Nikki and Shadow, bloody and dying. That was the only test Nikki knew about with Ari, though.
Shadow and Nikki were treated worse then him in the Garage. They tested to see how much pain Shadow could endure before passing out. They used his enhanced hearing to their advantage and made him listen to impossibly high notes that made him scream in pain and clutch his head. Any normal human wouldn't be able to hear it. Heck, a normal birdkid wouldn't be able to hear it! Nikki would, but only because of her ears.[A/N yes, Shadow has enhanced hearing. He's part bat, and they have super good hearing. Plus, the Whitecoats surgically made it better, too. And Nikki has giant cat ears.]
Never the same expirament twice.
"Morning guys." Ari said once the sun had come up. The twins looked at him with bleary eyes.
"Eh?" They said.
"Morning, Ari." Nikki yawned, her mouth stretching wide and her fangs glistening in the sun.
Fang nodded and stood up, while Shadow grinned, "Hey, kid." He said, ruffling Ari's black and white hair.
They ate a cold breakfast of cheese sandwiches and pulled out the sketch pad from Destiny's backpack. Inside of it, they had drawn a detailed lay out of the Academy, using everything Nikki, Shadow, and Ari knew.
"We need a plan of attack, guys." Fang said, looking at the drawing.
"Attack? I thought we were gonna sneak in-" Destiny started.
"And find a way to blow it up!" Fate finished.
"Well yes, I'm pretty sure it's just an expression, though." Fang said.
"Are you sure?" Nil asked with a frown, "I don't think it's an expression."
"I think it is." Nikki chimed in.
"I dunno!" Ari giggled.
"Well-" Shadow's head suddenly swiveled to the side and he stared into the trees. The rest of the Pack went on high alert as Nikki's ears twitched and she looked in the same direction as Shadow.
"Guys?" The twins whispered, looking at the two intently.
"Something's out there." Nikki said.
"Something big." Shadow added.
"What-" Ari was cut off as a gang of Erasers burst into the clearing, causing the Pack to jump to their feet, Nikki hissing.
"Well, lookey what we found." One of them chuckled darkly, saliva dripping from his fanged mouth.
"C'mon, birdie's. Let's play." Another one said.
"U and A?" Nil hissed, but Fang shook his head.
"They'll follow us." He said. Inside, his brain was a whirlwind of thoughts as he tried to come up with an idea.
"Time's up," an Eraser chortled, and the others joined in.
Time to fight. Fang decided.
Me: ooooh, my first cliffie!
Iggy: haha, I thought you said you hated cliffies.
Me: I do when I'm reading, but now I know why people write them so much!
Iggy: reveiw!
