Chapter 2
Fang opened his eyes, and saw that he was in a cage yet again. He tried to lift his head, but an extreme pain exploded in his skull. He let his head rest on the ground again, and for the first time, he noticed a wrap around his head. He reached his hand around the back of his head and felt a damp section. He took his hand off, brought it in front of his face, and saw a little blood. Then he remembered Angel jumping on him, him falling, and then pain and blackness. Then he wondered why Angel would do that. Max wouldn't have told her to seriously hurt him, even if she was trying to be undercover, unlikely because she'd already been undercover once and had obviously helped them escape from the School. He turned his head and saw Nudge, in a cage next to him, just waking up.
"Oh no," she said as she looked around. "Not again, not again." Fang could tell that she was working hard to hold back tears. "I-I-I don't know if I can handle this again." She put her hand on a bar. She screamed.
"Nudge, calm down!" whispered Fang. Nudge stopped screaming, but started hyperventilating.
"A mutant," she panted. "He was scheduled to fight another mutant. He knew that the other mutant would not kill him quickly, so he, he, he banged his head against this pole until…"
"How could you figure this out from a pole?" asked Fang. "It doesn't have any memory."
"Well, the last time the creature hit, his, you know, hit it too," tearfully replied Nudge.
"Oh," said Fang, starting to feel queasy. Then he noticed something that he didn't before, something that scared him immensely. "Hey, where's Angel?"
Angel woke up in a cage too. But she was alone, there were no other cages around, it was just her. The hallway was completely bare, except for her cage, and two doors, one at each side of the hallway. It was made completely of steel, and there was not one window on the doors. Next to each door there was a key pad with a number pad and a letter pad. There was a scanner above the keypad that looked like the fingerprint scanners she'd seen on TV. Above that was what looked like a retina scanner. There were at least ten cameras in the hallway. Most of them were looking at her; the others were watching the doors and covering each other's blind spots.
Then she closed her eyes and reached out with her mind. She sensed no minds within two hundred feet of her. That was strange, usually there were plenty of whitecoats trying to do experiments on her. And when there weren't, there were usually at least ten nearby. Then she sensed two minds, and they were coming closer. She tried to get in and listen to their thoughts, but it was like there was some kind of force pushing her out. Then they stopped only twenty feet away. Then there was a hiss and one of the hallway doors opened. Two people walked in. One was a male whitecoat, the other was a blonde male, wearing a blue t-shirt and matching jeans. He looked about thirteen, and walked with a limp. The white coat took out a syringe.
"Okay, come over here," forcefully said the whitecoat. Angel moved to the opposite side of the cage. The whitecoat turned his head and nodded at the boy. Then he looked at Angel.
"Fall asleep," echoed a voice in her head. It was not her own, it hissed like a snake, though slightly lower. All of a sudden her eyelids drooped and her body felt heavy. "Fall asleep." The voice came again, echoing through her mind. She felt even more tired, and soon was on the ground. Then she suddenly realized something that meant big trouble for the flock. There was another person who could control minds. She tried to fight back, but he was to strong for her. Seven seconds later, Angel was fast asleep. The whitecoat opened the cage, walked over to Angel, and injected the anesthesia that was contained in the syringe, into her arm. Then he picked her up and carried her out of the room.