Wow... I haven't written this for awhile... SORRY! Enjoy this chapter! (It's amazing how far this story has gotten... Thanks for all your comments and everything! I never imagined anyone reading this...)

I wake up, strapped to a bed. The sickening smell of the School swarms the room and makes my stomach churn. I attempt at flailing around but find that I cannot move. At that moment I realize what had happened before I blacked out. I was falling, everyone else was out from the monoxide and Jack got hit in the head by a crowbar, god bless whoever did that. I knew that I was going to hit the ground, and most likely die, but who stopped it? Who prevented me from dying? I look from left to right, searching to see if anyone was around me.

"Stop moving." Someone says. I see a young girl approach me. She had long black hair over her shoulders and is wearing a white lab coat.

"Whitecoat." I hiss.

"Make this easy for me and shut up, okay?" She says and pulls out a needle. Dang. I hate needles.

She's not going to hurt you, Max. The voice chimes in.

She's got a needle and a white lab coat, that's reassuring, Voice.

"So, uh, who are you?" I ask the girl. She glares at me and continues to pour a liquid into the needle. "Not much of a talker, eh?"

"Is that your annoying friend over there?" She says, ignoring my question. She removes a strap from over my throat so I can see to who she's pointing to. Of course, it's Jack.

"So, you met Jack, huh?" I smile.

"There should be a captain in there." Jack mumbles emotionlessly.

"Yeah, I got that." The girl answers him. I chuckle again.

"So, who are you again?" I ask her, as she injects me with the needle and I flinch.

"Just call me your Savior." She tells me. "You broke a bunch of bones in your wings and your back. I fixed them all by placing some special glue in the cracks until they can heal. Which I imagine is fast, looking at your complexion. You can thank me once your out of here."

"I'm in the school, and you're gonna let me go?" I say, not believing my ears.

"I've seen what happens around here. No one should have to deal with mutations." Savior answers.

"Where's the other members of the flock?"

"Well, I dumped them off in the forest and left a sticky-note telling them to stay there until you could come back."

"A sticky note? How lame..." Jack says.

"And why is he here?" I ask, already annoyed by him.

"He insisted that I take a look at his crowbar wound. So, I let him follow me into here."

"Is he okay?"

"Well... The crowbar had no effect on him, but him being fine himself... Uhh... Hmm." She laughs stiffly then sets me upright. "You'll be sore for a while but you heal fast so... That shouldn't be a problem."

"Hey, do you know what happened to us?" I ask her, standing. She smiles.

"Just say thank you and be on your way." She puts the needle down. "Goodbye Maximum Ride."

I walk out of the room, followed by Jack. We slip through the School as fast and silently as we can. Once we're outside, we walk to the forest where Savior told us she left the others. My back and wings hurt quite a lot, but that didn't matter. I just wanted to know who she was and what happened back in that plane. As we walked closer to the woods, I hear a voice boom from behind us.

"Where do you think you're going?" It says, and I turn to see a creature that I haven't seen in a few years. An Eraser.