Chapter Sixteen
A knock sounded on the door. "Come in," came a muffled voice.
A woman dressed in blue camo pants and a gray shirt walked in. She stood at attention saluting the man sitting behind the desk.
Standing up the director grabbed a file from the open drawer of the cabinet. "State your designation."
"Subject- AD, sir," she said keeping her eyes straight in good soldier fashion.
The man behind the desk nodded, "What's the matter of this meeting?"
"It's the subjects, sir. They've been brought in by the Alpha Squad at 0300 this morning and being held in captive cell 5 and 6."
"Thank you for informing me, Subject- AD," the director said moving around the desk.
Subject- AD left turning down the left corridor while the director turned right. His footsteps echoed through the wing over the noise of various training rooms and examination rooms. He ran a tanned hand through his dark brown hair and breathed in deeply.
The School's projects here for training. This was an event of the decade. Children with wings! Not just children genetically engineered to be powerful; no they were built to fly.
Opening the last door on the left he flipped on a light switch. The fluorescent lights flickered into life shinning down on the captive cells. Walking down the narrow corridor he stopped in front of cells 5 and 6.
"I'm sorry for the condition we brought you in. We had a feeling you would have fought and I wouldn't blame you but it had to be like this," the director said to the flock. They glared at him from the cells on either side of him.
Looking up at the cameras the director said, "They're ready. And be sure to have plenty of Subjects class E and F's." He turned and walked out stopping short of the door, "By the way my name is Jordan," after saying his name he continued to walk through the door. The metal click echoed through both the hallway and the holding cells followed by retreating footsteps.
"Not again!" Danni almost yelled.
"Welcome," Max said in a flourished voice, "To your new live courtesy of the School."
The metal door opened and dozens of men came in. A guess as to how many would be around five dozen. The girls' cage opened first and men rushed in. They grabbed a girl, about five to each girl. The extra men assigned to the girls acted as bodyguards. Next the boys' cage was flung open and the same thing happened.
The flock was carried through a series of corridors. They struggled to get free from their captors each was losing. Bruises would soon form from the captors' hard grips.
Another metal door clanked open. Inside were a few rows of reclining seats the type that belonged in dentists' office except that these were not cushioned except for the seat.
Max and Danni were strapped down next to each other. Angel, the Gasman, and Nudge were seated nest to each other in the row in front of the two girls. Iggy and Fang were seated in different rows from the rest of the flock each having a row to themselves. They struggled to break the straps but couldn't.
"On my count," Jordan said. "One, two, three, fire."
Technicians pushed buttons in no apparent order. In a few minutes screams ripped through the flocks mouths. Agony pierced the ears of the guards standing by.
As soon as the screams came they left. The flock fell into a deep abyss of unconscious.
Darkness, thick as oil, slowly dissolved from Danni's view. She was running through a forest. Being chased by a cheetah really made her heart hammer. Danni froze in the middle of a clearing turning in time to see the cat lunge at her.
Danni's eyes sprang open and she bolted upright. "Max!"
"What?" Max said rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. She slipped out of her bed and walked over to Danni's.
"Dream. I died or was going to," Danni looked down at her lap.
Max nodded and lay down next to her, "It's fine now. The only thing who can kill you now is me." Max clasped her hand with Danni's.
"Out by sixteen or dead in the scene, together forever," both said at the same time. Danni was the one to come by the line from the movie Ginger Snaps and it become hers and Max's motto.
"Sisters forever," Danni added starting to fall back into the dream realm.
AN: I'm sorry that this took so long to get up. Please don't be to mad I've been busy, but I'm putting up two chapters in a row to help ease the pain of waiting.
Cinnamon Spice - I'm glad that you like this. I have also read a couple from the Max Ride website.
Kool-Wolf - I'm glad you liked it. What I meant was that hopefully you would have seen why something happened had happened.