I realize the epic fail at the end of the last A/N, but I'm going delirious.
86
Max
"Where's Kem?" Lupe asked Skyler when we were in the air. He was carrying her 'cause going splat on the ground far below was a huge possibility with this girl. She was shaky in the air and it was obvious she not only hasn't flown before, but that she wasn't built for it.
"Kemmy and Iggy got shot in the air and Kemmy told me to go in the direction you were," Skye said. She was being supported by Lupe's arms some 4,000 feet in the air.
Lupe's jaw clenched, but I was momentarily distracted from the getting shot comment by what she'd called Kem.
"Kemmy?" I snickered, covering my mouth with my hand.
Gazzy started laughing and Lupe grinned momentarily saying, "I tried calling Kem that once. …she almost killed me."
Gazzy started laughing harder.
"Lupe," Skye said to Lupe with big, innocent eyes, "can I fly by myself?"
He looked down at her, as if surprised by her question, but nodded and let her go none the less.
She dropped like a rock for a second or two before catching some wind and flapping hard and flying up to us. She was pretty shaky, but managed to stay aireborne.
Her wings were the strangest thing I've possibly ever seen. And that's really saying something, considering all the f'd up things I've seen in my life.
They were like a bat's wings; covered in skin, but that covered in scales. They were all iridescent colors of blue and green, throwing colors in the sun. She had an (warning: more technological terms coming up next. Get a diagram ready) elbow, wrist, and others, but she looked more like a bat than bird.
"Hey Lupe," I called, adjusting my wings so I flew closer to him.
"Hmm?" he replied, looking like I'd startled him out of his thoughts.
"Is she… are you sure she's avian?" I asked, looking at his and my own wings and comparing to Skyler's wings.
He hmphed to himself before replying. "We're pretty sure she is. We just assumed she was and never asked. Kem's always insisted that she is. Her bones are hollow and she has airsacs, and her blood has nuclei, it's just that I personally don't think so, but maybe the fish DNA had some reaction to the avian and made her wings similar to a bat's," he said, looking at Skye who was struggling but seemed determined below us.
So she could be a bat-human hybrid. That would explain the bat-like bone structure. They were two big, leathery sails.
Angel and Nudge glided closer to Skyler.
87
Angel
I flew closer to Skyler, curious about all her thoughts which were mainly pictures of blue people.
"So you're part fish, right?" I asked her and Nudge came up her right and me on her left.
She looked at me and tilted her head to the side which made her even more wobbly. "Yeah. And you can read minds, change colors like Kemmy can, control minds, send thoughts, breathe under water, like me, and can talk to fish, like me."
"Yeah, and you can heal people and can tell stuff about them from just a glance," I said, trying to match her skill.
"So you're from Kem and Lupe's School, right? Is it underground or on top?" Nudge asked Skyler.
She looked at her for a second and dipped drastically before righting herself. "Yup, and it's on top and underground. I always lived in the underground part. I never knew the sky was so blue," Skye said, looking up with a puzzled look on her face.
She was thinking things that I didn't want to hear, but had to. They were about us and what she saw when she closed her eyes.
She was thinking about her last moments at her School and whether or not Kem and Iggy were alright. I didn't sense anything suspicious about her, but she had a very complex and hard-to-read mind. It wasn't helped by the fact that she kept closing her eyes because the light hurt them and she lapsed back into the blue-glowing-people.
She was also wondering how we were going to get them out and how Kem and Iggy were going to fly away with us.
Oh, and I was really bored and couldn't sleep so I started experimenting with LupexMax. Not that I'm going to do it, I just started sticking the names together and the products were pretty weird. Mupe; Lax; Lux (okay, that one sounds kinda cool); Mape; sorry most of them sound kinda dirty. And besides, I'm too big a fan of FAX to actually do it. Sorry for distracting you with my random rant, continue….
88
Iggy
So my wing hurts like hell and Kem is out doing a "test."
So that means I'm here with nothing to do besides just sit here and stare at the wall for a few hours until the flock comes, and they will come. Well, face the wall if you wanna get technical. I really wish I hadn't used that bomb or had a paperclip or something.
Wait a second… I thought to myself, shifting in the crate so I could reach my arm out of the bars in the front.
I fumbled around the outside of the cage for a few minutes before I can into contact with the two bent paperclips that Kem left there when she picked the lock on my cage.
Picking the lock on the cage holding me inside a government-funded, top-secret, evil agency was almost surreal; it brought back so many memories.
When the lock clicked open and I pulled it off, pushing the door open, I felt the rush of victory I always get whenever I break my personal record. Ah, the simple joys of being thoroughly annoying.
I straitened up and walked over to on of the tables where they kept all the flammable doctoring stuff. You can probably infer what I did after that, seeing that I also broke my bomb-making record of an hour, and I that I had a matchbook with me.
89
Kem
They wanted to see my reaction time to blending into different backgrounds and patterns.
So far they've tried four different one's each one harder than the last, or at least their opinion. They tried a brick wall, a beach with a rolling wave, a forest with different things swaying at once, and a movie. So far they couldn't see me when I changed color.
They outfitted me in one of the skin-tight color-changing suits and gave me something resembling a swim-cap for my hair. I kept my wings under the suit for the obvious reasons of it was easier to change color with just my skin because I could change each spot separately and not have to layer it on, which would get me to break a sweat.
They took notes the entire time and kept switching the screen to a different background. They switched it to a… security camera?
It was a room with Iggy futzing around with something that looked suspiciously like a bomb. Oh, crap, this wasn't a test because three whitecoats ran in and grabbed him, only to have the shiz beat out of them be Iggy and he ran into the hallway, carrying about three bombs, each one a small white circle the size of a baseball. He ran to a room that looked suspiciously like the outside of the room I was in and tapped on the window to the room.
I jumped and looked at the window where I heard the tapping coming from. I dropped the color-changing test and just stared at the window and the picture on the screen. They both showed a waving Iggy from different angles.
Apparently the whitecoats now realized that this was not just a simulation and that Iggy had really gotten out of his cage because they were already out of the "observation room" and trying to seize Iggy who beat the living crap outta them.
He threw a whitecoat into the window and I ran over to the window and jumped out, momentarily curling into a ball so I'd fit.
"Hey," he greeted me, as I grabbed his hand and took off down the hallway.
"Been busy?" I commented as I rushed into a closet as a flock (no, not making a pun) of whitecoats came running down the hallway, freaking out for the second or third time today.
"Yeah, I made three of them before they came in. They even have a fuse!" he said happily, showing me the three white circles that definitely hade a fuse made out of gauze.
"You're such a pyro. C'mon, we have to get going; you may not be able to fly, but we can still run. Painkillers are still effective, so let's go," I said, pulling the closet door open and walking down the hallway until I saw the familiar door that held the insanely steep stair behind it.
"These again?" Iggy complained.
"I could always leave you here and come get you later," I said dryly.
He just pressed his lips together and rolled his eyes. "Let's just go."
A/N!!!!!!
So, my minions, what did you think of this chapter? I'm not going to say "chappie" 'cause that sounds gay, so tell me what your thoughts were!!!!
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