Author's Note:

I do not own Kim Possible.


Helios and Metis weren't like the rest of them. They were big kids, when they arrived, as big and as tall as she was. They got bigger cages, not set into the wall but stacked in the corner, and they had ears like Biter, Kicker, and Growl, only pointy, not round. The doctors put collars on them and made them help the guards during the day, and they could understand the boards on their cages. At night though, they were locked in like the rest of them.

Metis would huddle up, but Helios shook his cage and bit the bars and snarled and growled so much his rage might just tear it open.

They didn't talk much, but sometimes they slipped them extra food, and they brought the green girl who was getting slower and slower a blanket to keep her warm. It didn't help as she began to cough up blood, but they tried.

For ages they didn't talk to them, but one day Metis looked at her across the room. "Is it true you can explode things?"

Red nodded and held up an orange hand. Metis narrowed her eyes. "We can work with that."

"Work with what?"

Metis grinned. "Don't you wanna get out?"

"Of the cage?"

Metis rolled her eyes. "Fuck, this is why I never liked talking to the subjects. Of the building, Red, of this fucking laboratory."

"What's a laboratory?"

Metis sighed. "Oh brother. Okay. Here we go."


Metis said they were prisoners, ex-pear-ee-mants, used for tests by the doctors. There was a bigger world outside this building, one where no one lived in cages. They could fly super high in the sky, instead of in the wind tunnel or fighting cage. They could eat whenever they wanted instead of being hungry all the time.

Alarm (alarm, alarm, alarm) would have loved it.

"What do you need me to do?" Red asked.


They talked things over for ages. Metis drilled the plan into her until she could have recited it in her sleep. One day she came back with a little black stick that she said was important and for computers.

At last, when there was nothing more they could talk about, they were ready.

It had to be night, because Helios and Metis wouldn't be there otherwise. She used a small amount of her orange light to open the lock of her cage without sounding the alarms (alarm, alarm, alarm). From there she jumped out and released Metis, Helios, and Yellow so they could help with the rest of the cages. It felt strange to stand free in the silence.

Yellow scooped up the remaining green girl, Flare, they had called her, and they clustered around the door as Metis tapped at the keypad by the door. It hissed and slid open.

"Let's go."

The corridor was white, whiter than she remembered even though she'd seen it many times. She led the way with Metis and Helios, making their way down the corridor. There was a window soon, and they could climb out and fly.

Out.

She'd never known there was an out.

The alarms (alarm, alarm, alarm) went off as they reached the window. She tried to be gentle at first, but Metis shouted that there was no point, and she agreed and blasted the window to pieces.

Yellow went first, because she still had Flare, then Helios so he could help Winter. Bangs echoed down the corridor. She and Metis picked up Kicker and Biter and threw them out.

More bangs.

Growl was next, but there was blood, so much blood.

She and Metis were the last, spreading their wings and taking to the sky.

Growl screamed as she started to fall. Kicker and Biter grabbed her arms and pulled her with them.

Growl's screams ended.

Metis shouted to let her go.

She was gone.

Growl fell.

Above them, the sky was an endless expanse of darkness.

They pitched upwards and there were no alarms.