Chapter Four

Iggy was trying to find the exit, but every time he tried to move in the direction of the crowd, someone would push him out. When the crowd thinned, and only twenty whitecoats were left in the hall, a voice on intercom spoke up.

"False alarm!" it shouted. The red flashing light turned off and the usual flickering fluorescent lights were turned on. He heard some of the scientists' breath in relief, when the voice came back. It had a frantic tone, worried and yet full of fear.

"Experiment F0783 has escaped! I repeat, Experiment F0783 has escaped!" The whitecoats began to be frantic again. Iggy heard doors slam as whitecoats rushed for safety from whatever Experiment F0783 was.

Then Iggy heard frantic footsteps, one pair, the person wore no shoes, just skin, wet skin. Then footsteps came afterwards, those people wearing shoes.

"There it is!" A rough voice called out "It's heading for the exit!" Iggy heard the sound of someone skidding around a corner and then heard the steps coming straight for him. A voice yelled at him

"Run!" Something grabbed his wrist and yanked him towards wherever the person was going. He felt sharp nails digging into his skin, almost claw-like, and the hand was wet, not from sweat or blood, but from some other liquid unknown to Iggy. He reluctantly followed after the person, practically having to fly to keep up with the quick runner. Then he heard the words he hoped he had not heard, especially in this building.

"Oh crud" The person said under their breath, still running.

"Aha! We got it cornered!" The click of a gun echoed in the hall as with the sound of a bullet being fired.

The person that had grabbed hold of him grunted in pain, but kept on running, practically dragging Iggy along. Iggy could sense that the person was in pain, but was amazed that he or she was still running at the same speed, perhaps quicker, than before they were shot. The people with guns started to run again, towards them but not getting any closer or any farther away.

"What is she doing? She is going to kill herself!" Iggy heard the voice of the gunman, but the crack of glass echoed in his ears. The person had launched themselves through a window, bringing Iggy through it as well. He yelped, and tried to spread his wings but the coat he was still wearing tangled them and there was no hope of flight.

He heard a thud below him, a grunt, then he slammed into the person below. The landing was amazingly soft and the next words he heard amused him.

"Are you alright?" The person asked. He had been planning to ask that question, and he was shocked that this person had just jumped out of a three-story building, had run through a window to do so, and had asked him if he was alright. He nodded anyway "Yes, are you?"

"Bullet to the shoulder, some scratches from the glass, I'll be fine, I've experienced worse, but now we've got to get out of here" He felt eyes burn into his face "Think you could fly fast enough?"

Iggy went wide eyes "How-how" the person interrupted him.

"I recognize you from a file when I hacked into the computer system, but enough of that, can you fly whilst carrying weight?"

"Well… yeah sure"

"Just go as fast as you can"

Iggy smirked as the person grabbed his wrist as he spread his wings and jumped into the air. The take off was extremely hard, but he eventually reached altitude above the building, then he heard a small grunt from below.

"Not afraid of heights are you?" He asked the person.

"Somewhat" was the persons reply, and now that there was no noise echoing in halls he could recognize the voice as that of a female.

"Just I've never been this high up" she said.

"Which way is Georgia?"

"To your right"

"Okay, we'll head that way, the flock should be there… hopefully"

"Flock? There are more winged-people?"

"Only five others"

"Ah…" The girl seemed to be somewhat amused "and what is your name?"

"Iggy"

"Iggy…" the girl repeated, the name rolling off her tongue.

Iggy turned to his right and flew that way, slower now that he had to carry the person below but definitely faster than the gunmen who were now running on the ground in search for Iggy and the girl below.

"If I may ask, what is your name?"

"I don't know really" was the girl's reply "At first they called me my experiment number, then five years ago they started to call me 'Failed Experiment' because I rebelled against their ways"

"So what can I call you?"

"Just call me Fail"

"Fail? That's-uh…"

"Odd? Sure it's a word that means a negative thing but hey" He felt Fail shrug "it makes me laugh when I'm introduced to new people and see the look on their face" Fail chuckled, Iggy grinned.

"So… Iggy" Fail looked over the land "Who are the others?"

"Well…um- there is… Angel" he began hesitantly, until he realized, Fail was also an experiment, who had lived in the school and in Itex all her life, she deserved some information "she...can read minds, breath under water, talk to fish, and influence people to do certain things. I believe she once influenced the President to put an enormous amount of currency into the education fund" He heard another chuckle from Fail "and…" she urged him on.

"Then there is the Gasman, or Gazzy, he-"

"Why do you call him that"

"You don't want to know, you could get him to explain that, anyway, he's the older brother of Angel, the only two who are blood-related in the flock. Then Nudge, quite talkative, she doesn't really know when to stop talking or when she's made her point-"

"So she's more talkative than you?" Fail asked.

He grinned "I don't usually talk this much but, its just-I guess this is how much I talk when I describe the flock, anyway" He took a breath "I'm fully blind-" Fail interrupted again.

"How?"

"Well… I was experimented on at School for enhanced eyesight, everything went wrong and I became blind"

"Oh…" Fail said, "Go on"

"Fang, he's quiet, extremely quiet, if you try to get a filling conversation from him you are wasting your time. He is the second-in-command. Max is the first-in-command, she's the oldest, older than me by six months, Fang by four, and she's a good leader but-" He broke off.

"But what?" Fail asked, looking up to Iggy who seemed lost in thought "What about her"

"Well… she'd been having this voice in her head for some time now, and has been having these weird visions that lead us places. She got us to a toy store where we first figured out about Angel's influencing power. The voices also lead us to the Institute of higher living." He continued telling Fail all about the flock, meanwhile, the flock was in worry, great worry.