Sorry for the wait! ^_^


We looked so much alike, same brown hair, same wings, it was creepy. I started thinking that maybe he was my clone, only a little taller and dressed in something that didn't scream 'escapee'. He tucked his wings back in and looked to me, sneering.

"I'm really surprised, I mean, you guys were much easier to track than I'd hoped you would be. It's actually a little boring."

Neko stepped forward, and guns were raised all across the room. Our new enemy laughed in a kind of insane way.

"It's okay, doggies, they can't do much."

I finally willed myself to speak. "Who are you?"

"Who am I?" He chuckled. It felt like every few seconds he got a little more manic. "You can all call me David. I'm going to be the one torturing you for the rest of your insignificant lives. But don't worry, we'll have fun."

"And what makes you think we're going to let you do that?" Violet asked, or rather, demanded.

"Easy, I'm bigger than you."

"No way!" Riley called out, almost childishly.

'Robin, get out of there.' There's that voice again, and I know I'm not just hearing things this time...

'This guy wants nothing more than to destroy you, and he won't hesitate to kill your flock first.'

I growled slightly, but ignored the warning. 'David' yawned, ending the moment of silence.

"Okay, I guess I'll make the first move, ugly ducklings." He powered forward, fist-first, towards Jack, just about faster than lightening. Good thing Jack was a little faster.

The punch broke the stand that was behind Jack in half, and I'm sure everyone was imagining that as him instead. Taking a chance, I ran forward and attempted to roundhouse him, but he caught my leg and threw me towards one of his furry buddies. They wrapped their claws around my arm, somehow I slipped away again.

With an almost animalistic noise, Neko came up behind David and brought her foot down against the back of his head. Everyone waited for him to fall, but nothing happened except for Neko hopping back, holding on to her leg. David began to chuckle.

"Feels like hitting metal, huh? That's because I'm not a total failure like you bunch."

In the middle of the insane laughter after that, Flicker had grabbed a shelf from one of the stands and attacked him with it. The metal bent slightly with the impact, but it did stop him from laughing. In a rage, he grabbed Flicker's arm and slammed her into Jack, then, heading over to me, nearly stepped on Pepper. Gail swiftly moved in the way, and landed a good combo, but this guy was like the Terminator. He pushed her into Riley and grabbed me, then used me as a shield.

All of his wolf friends immediately ran towards the others. They seemed to go for the smallest first. Pepper literally disappeared from sight, I noticed while struggling, but one of them had thermal goggles, and quickly found her. Jack got at least three on the ground before he was overpowered, and Rihoko was still slipping away and doing the best she could. It's when I heard gunshots that I froze.

Flicker had gotten a hold of one of their guns, and they were going down like dying flies. Violet took the chance to remove one from a body and did the same next to her. Once they were all down, Flicker pointed the gun in our direction.

"Let. Him. Go."

"Why should I?"

Flicker looked absolutely no-nonsense. "Because if you don't, I'll shoot. and the bullets'll go right through Robin and kill you."

"Right through? Ha, it'll kill him too. You see, it took a little while, but we've made ourselves some bullets out of pure titanium. Sure, they don't go far, but if I remember correctly, Robin can't go through titanium. That's what you were referring to, was it not? Unless you wanted to make swiss cheese out of him."

Flicker slowly lowered the gun (thankfully, the idea of being swiss cheese didn't exactly appeal to me) and gave me a questioning look. I nodded slightly.

"So, since none of you can stop me," David laughed. "I'll be going."

He used his wings to swoop us both out of the store and into the awaiting chopper, which took to the sky in no time. Fighting against him felt like fighting against steel bars. But we were close enough to the edge for me to see everyone rush out and watch as I was lifted away. He said something that I wasn't really paying attention to, then hit me hard enough to put everything into darkness.


Hm, I think this is the chapter with the least amount of words in it...