Hello!! Glad everyone like the last chapter. One quick question- do my chapter names make any sense? i cannot write chapter titles. Thanks to ANYONE who reviewed, it makes my day- trust me. One more thing, sorry about the weird lines separting the paragraphs, won't happen again.

I woke up slowly. I was seeing the world from under a thick blanket, when I tried to remember what had happened. It was almost as if I was remembering a dream. It was like I was listening to an audio recording of the events. Only, there were still pictures that went along with the audio.

I could only relate this to watching some picture slideshow of an event, with a recording of sound in the background.

I wasn't even sure if it had actually happened. Of course, this annoyed the crap out of me. I hate hate HATE it when I am not working at 110 percent.

Flashback

The world was dim and cloudy. I woke up. There was velcro pinning me down to a table. "Hello, Max," some unknown enemy told me.

"Go to hell," I yelled.

"Be careful, mutant," the enemy spit.

It sounded human, which was odd. I thought that all of the, as cliched as it sounds, bad guys, were robots now. "You're telling me," I hissed, "Watch yourself, some people might find the term 'mutant' offensive," the sarcasm dripped off my words.

"Watch," the enemy said.

I heard a whir as a huge T.V. screen came down to the wall. An image was instantly projected onto it. There was my flock.

Each of the members said their name, clearly, as if to identify themselves.

"Fang."

"Iggy."

"Nudge."

"The Gasman."

"Angel."

"Total."

"Woof." That was Akila.

A huge six sided die was projected onto the screen. Instead of numbers, there was the face of each of the Flock. For Total and Akila, there was only a paw print, apparently, they were grouped into "the dogs".

There was a loud, fake, clattering as the die was rolled, automatically. The sound stopped. The die landed up on the face of Angel. Angels's voice came over the loudspeakers.

"Max? They said that I should say something to you. They're thinking scary things, Max. They wanna kill us all. It's some kind of game. They think it's the best game ever. The only thing that really matters. Max? Everything is gonna be okay. Right? Everything always is. Right? You're gonna come and save us, you always do. And Total and Akila can be happy- What? I'm not done yet!! Please, I gotta say some more-" Angel's voice was cut off.

I heard a silent sobbing coming from me. They were awful for this. I felt a huge surge of anger, dominating me for a minute. Then the enemy's voice said, "See now mutant. That little mistake was retired just now. It is just a demonstration of what can happen to those who disobey and try to run and hide."

There was a ripping as I pulled out of the velcro ties. The adrenaline gave me massive strength. All images faded to black.

End Flashback

Cry

I stopped remembering. A huge pain ripped through me. They could experiment on us all they wanted. They could rip our family apart. They could sell us to work for the military. They could not, they could not, murder anyone. They had killed a child. They had killed only to kill. They had had no reason. They had crossed every lined. Everything had gone too far.

I started to cry. I didn't even think clearly about what had happened. There was just pain. Pain that could be lessened by tears. I was so sad that I wasn't even angry.

Anger

Much later. I could not cry anymore. Then there was only anger. Unfortunately, no one had checked up on me. I would have killed them. I would have smiled. Then, I would find every person who had ever thought about that evil game that they came up with and killed them all as well.

Worry

Even later. I was over my anger. Now there was only worry. Worry for the rest of the flock. If they had- harmed- one member already, then they could easily hurt another. I wished that someone would come and take me somewhere. Just distract me. Then I couldn't think.

Sleep

Finally, I slept. Sleep could provide relief, even if only for a short time.

Author Note- Sorry everyone, I know this was a really dark chapter. I didn't mean to make it so sad, but it just came to me like that. Also Max's flashback and difficulty remembering comes from my very small memory of surgery and waking up after being knocked with anesthia (spelling??) Please R and R- I want at least 4 reviews before I post again. Plz?? ;)