Chapter 4
Fang sat in his cage, his heart pounding, his breathing coming in pants. Where was Angel? Did this have something to do with what she did back at the apartment? He'd never felt so responsible for the flock before. And not knowing where Angel was destroyed his sense of calm. Nudge was asleep in the cage next to him, and Total was asleep in the cage on his other side. This feeling of responsibility was new to him, and he didn't know what to do about it, especially since he couldn't do anything to help the two with him, Gazzy, Iggy, and Max, or Angel, being in a cage and all.
Then there were footsteps. Fang crouched down in his cage, waiting for something bad to happen. Then a whitecoat came into view. "Few, only one," thought Fang. Then he saw that the whitecoat was wearing a gasmask on her face. He looked down at her hand and saw it clutching a tank with a tube and nozzle on the end of it. As Fang moved to the very back of the cage, the whitecoat opened the nozzle and let the gas escape it. For a few seconds, Fang thought the gas wasn't going to affect him, then he lost all the feeling in his legs and collapsed onto the ground. Then he lost all the feeling in the rest of his body. His vision turned into a steadily thinning tunnel. Then the tunnel closed up.
Fang woke up in the middle of a room about the size of a normal living room. He looked around and saw Nudge lying next to him, with Total next to her. He looked in front of him and saw Angel standing next to a probably thirteen year old boy with blonde hair and wearing a blue t-shirt and blue jeans. He was grinning at Fang.
Angel was staring at Fang, dreading what the boy next to her was going to make her do. "Do it," echoed his voice in her head. No, I would rather go back into the cage. "If you don't do it, something worse will happen." He sent her a bad image, and she reluctantly complied.
"Kick Nudge," echoed Angel's voice in Fang's head. What? "Kick her." No I would never do that. But despite his mental protest, he brought his bare foot back and sent it hard into Nudge's back.
"Ow!" exclaimed Nudge as she woke up. The she turned her head toward Fang just in time to see his fist slam into her face. "Fang!" Then Angel's voice echoed through her head, "Punch him in the stomach." Then Nudge, without trying or wanting to, made a fist and sent it hard into Fang's stomach. All of the air was expelled from his lungs and he doubled over, feeling sick. "Again." Then she punched him again and he collapsed onto his back. "Now, don't try to stop him as he tries to kick you in the face. Don't move at all." She was stuck in a standing position, not able to move. Then Fang, with an apologetic look on his face, sent his heal crashing into Nudge's face. She crashed down onto the floor, and everything went black.
"Good," said the mystery kid for the first time. "Experiment finished."
Then Fang heard his voice tell him to knock himself unconscious. He grabbed the wall and brought his head forward with all his strength, knocking himself unconscious instantly.