Max POV

I watched the new experiments we had freed. Fierce, the one with red hair(or cat-girl which was more appropriate due to the ears and tail) seemed to be in charge. Next to her was Falcon who was whispering to her quietly them. Spike was doing who knows what with Gazzy. Probably something involving bombs. Chibi was being fawned over by Nudge and Angel who had immediately loved her. And lastly Clementine was just sitting alone at the edge of the cave looking up at the stars. Fierce kept looking over at her but made no move toward her.

All of them had wings. I guess that's why Angel told the others to save them. Speaking of Angel, she convinced a whitecoat to handover the information on Mr. Chu's END-OF-THE-WORLD plan with no fight. According to the papers, they had created a serum that makes you pretty much invincible. They were working on a serum to turn you to their side and they already had an operation that would.

As if saving the world wasn't hard enough already.

"Alright everybody up!" This was met with grumbles and complaints. Maybe because it was 4 am still technically night time, but I didn't think it was safe to stay this close to Itex. Plus if we left now we could make it back to Mom's house by mid-afternoon. I took off first, knowing that everyone else would follow. We could stop for breakfast later when I was sure we were far enough away so we wouldn't get caught.

Fierce POV

It says something about how great your life is when your first thought in the morning is "I'm not dead yet?" emphasis on the yet. Yes, I wasn't dead yet. As for how long that would last, I wasn't sure. Days? Hours? Minutes? Maybe something went wrong with the expiration stuff and I'd live however long I had originally been programed to. But for now I wasn't going to worry about that.

Max was already up and jumping out of the cave. I stood up and the world swirled around me. I stumbled forward a few steps and fell down on my knees. Ok so obviously the dart was working.

"What's wrong?" Falcon pulled me up so I was leaning on him. I took a few seconds and waited for everything to stop spinning before I answered.

"Nothing. I just stood up too fast. Head-rush," I said, pulling away. He opened his mouth to argue but I interrupted him. "I'm fine I swear."

Before he could answer I jumped out of the cave and spread my wings as if to prove my point.Okay up down up down. Every beat of my wings was a strain. I didn't want to land though because if I stopped I don't think I could start again. I tried to keep my mind off these types of thoughts, I didn't want the little one to read my mind.

Two hours. Still flying.

Four hours. Max hadn't deemed it safe to stop to eat, so granola bars were passed I around. I crumbled mine up and dropped the pieces when no one was looking.

Six hours. I was about to pass out from exhaustion but I kept going only because I knew I wouldn't have to much longer. I could feel my heart beating slower and slower. Breathing was harder. A few minutes ago I had felt the date appearing on my neck. I felt bad dying like this with no warning. Just falling out of sky, ruining the happiness of escape. Hopefully I wouldn't land on some poor innocent person.

The moment my wings stopped working I closed my eyes. If I was still alive when I hit the ground, I didn't to see it.

I could hear shouting, but I couldn't pick out individual voices. Two arms grabbed me and pulled me up. I cracked an eye open.

"Falcon?" my voice was no more than a whisper. "I'm sorry." In that moment it seemed the most important thing in the world that I tell him I was sorry. Sorry I was ruining the escape. Sorry I didn't tell him I was dying. Sorry I never told him I loved him.

He looked confused.

"About what?" But I couldn't answer him and the world went black.

Gasp! What happens next? Don't worry I don't kill characters.

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