"Take that!" Gabriel hoisted me through the air right into the door. I winced but sat up. I hit the door with my fist a few times, making as much noise as possible. Gabriel threw himself into the door beside me and winced. "Do you think we're being loud enough?" He whispered. You may be wondering why Gabriel and I are pretending to fight each other (you can tell it's pretend cause I would have totally beaten him by now if it were real). The fact of the matter is that in order to get out, we have to get someone to open the door, so by making as much noise as possible, we should get someone to come and yell at us.

"Yeah. I think I hear someone coming now." I hurriedly grabbed Gabriel and pushed him to the ground, straddling him and pulling my fist back as though I were going to punch him in the face.

"Stop!" I looked around to see a white coat rushing into the cell. Two erasers followed behind him and they hurried forward to pull me off of Gabriel. "What are you doing?" The scientists voice was high and frantic. "We haven't done the experiment yet! You might mess it up!" I glared at him as the eraser twisted my arm behind me.

"Oh well excuse me! If I had known you still had more torture for us I would have sat still and twiddled my thumbs!" The scientist stared at me for a moment. "But as is, I'll stop fighting...with Gabriel." Smiling I brought my leg up and kicked the white coat right in the groin. The eraser wasn't fast enough to stop me from kicking his kneecaps. I looked over at Gabriel who had taken out the eraser holding him. Together we tied the three up using the sheets from our cots. I smiled in satisfaction as they writhed on the floor. Karma's a witch!

Hurrying through the cell door (left open courtesy of the dumb scientist) we found ourselves in a long depressing hall. What is it with these people and hall's? Gabriel stopped for a moment then motioned me to the left. We ran passing cell doors and offices. After what seemed like an eternity, we reached the end of the hall where a window invited us to smash it.

"We have to go out and up, he'll be in one of the upper levels. Just look in the windows, and be careful." I looked at him uncertainly.

"What are you going to do?"

"Free the experiments that are here, the alarm will probably sound once you break the window so hurry." I nodded and smiled at Gabriel.

"Maybe you aren't so bad, after all this, maybe we could talk about you joining the team."

Gabriel looked at me for a moment. "Yeah, maybe we could." He smiled then slapped me on the shoulder. "Go get 'em tweety." I rolled my eyes at the nickname and turned to the window as Gabriel ran down the hall. Maybe he could be trusted after all.

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I slowly rose in the air as alarms rang from the floor where I had escaped. I was carefully peering in the windows, looking for Brachton. I spotted him in one of the highest windows in a conference room, the alarms apparently couldn't be heard up here because the people in the room weren't looking too alarmed, time to do something about that. I smiled and landed on the ledge, sliding the conveniently unlocked window open. I paused on the sill, listening to Brachton as he presented something.

"The recombinant testing is going very well and we hope to expand the program to include several new species in the next six months." I smirked and jumped into the room landing half crouched on the table.

Gasps went around the huge table along with surprised exclamations.

"Hi I'm Maximum Ride and I'm here to inform you that you suck." With that I leaped forward and was about to wrap my hands around Brachton's neck when the sound of gunfire rang through the room.