AN: Hey guys sorry about the delay!! But here's another chapter and I think you will like it!! I should have another one up soon!!
We were sitting in a small diner waiting for our mountains of food, trying to come up with a solid plan. Let me tell you trying to negotiate with five hungry mutants, is virtually impossible. They are all stubborn and very irritated from lack of food.
"I say we just bomb 'em. Drop couple heavy duty bombs and fly away. Like hit and run!!" Iggy suggested.
"How many times do I have to tell you, we can't do that!!" I exclaimed. Oh have I mentioned I have virtually no patience left?! Fang smirked at me from across the table, as if to say 'this was your brilliant idea'. That cocky son of a… I just glared at him which caused his smirk to get considerably larger.
"Fang and I are going to get the kids out, while Angel and Nudge stand guard. We're going to have to find a good place for you two to hang out while you keep tabs on the building. Hmm, Nudge how bout you try to bring up the website…" I instructed.
She took the laptop from Fangs backpack and plugged it in. As soon as the thing turned on her fingers were rapidly moving across the finger board and I took a moment to admire her talent… okay moment over we have more important things to do.
"Gazzy do you have enough bombs to cover the area??" I asked; they had been working most of the night making bombs.
"Yeah, I think so," he answered quite confidently.
"Max the waitress is coming," Angel's voice piped up.
"Nudge honey; can try typing like a normal teen for a minute?" I whispered and she shot me a smile. Her fingers slowed down and she sort of repositioned the screen so the waitress couldn't see it.
Not only did one waitress come with a stack of food two others came. The set the food down and soon our waitress, I think her name was Holly, was left.
"Is there anything else I can get you?" she asked with a smile… Her eyes kept trailing over the boys at the table… As if!! They went from Gazzy to Iggy and then lingered on Fang. Wow she's a flirt!!
I smirk at her stupidity as the ignored her; they were too busy worrying about the plans for the day.
"Can I get another sprite?" Angel asked sounding so cute. Holly smiled at her for a second and then nodded. She left and returned with the drink.
"If there's anything else I can get you just ask," she said and walked away.
"Nudge eat something and then return to the computer," I ordered.
"Hold on I'm almost done," she said and typed something else in the machine and sat back a triumphant grin on her face. "Done!"
She dug into the fries and cheeseburgers sitting in front of her and I took the laptop. The screen was filled with buttons and information. It took forever to sort it all out and finish eating. We somehow found a map on the screen that had a list of the rooms that contained the other mutants.
"Okay so this I what we're going to do…. Gazzy and Iggy are going to plant bombs here, here, here and here," I instructed looking down at the page. The map had the outline of the building and showed were all the rooms were located. It also showed the emergency exits and the duct work. I guess special facilities had to have elaborate drawn out plans incase something went wrong. We had marked the paper were the bombs were going to be placed, evenly around the base of the building so everything would be destroyed. "Angel and Nudge are going to enter here and wait somewhere in these ducts to stay look out."
Angel was supposed to stay on the look out for all the scientists using her mind and Nudge was supposed to feel for all the flyboys that could be getting close to us.
"Fang and I are going to go in and try to unlock as many cages as possible. I want Iggy and Gazzy, after planting the bombs, to stay out of view. If something goes wrong you don't move, am I understood?" I asked and got two nodes from them. "Angel and Nudge if you sense too many Flyboys around the area I want to get out of the building and go find the boys. No exception," I stated and the nodded. "Last Fang there are to NO superhero actions taken place… well by you that is!! We have twenty minutes to get in and out, you get out. If I fall behind you keep going. Is that understood?" I asked.
"Fine but if you don't get we don't blow the place," Fang instructed.
"Alright, if the twenty minutes are up and one of us doesn't show in the meeting place than the group leaves. We will come back for the missing person. If we stay we will most likely get caught and we are no help to the captured member if we are in the same state as they are, right?"
"Okay," Gazzy nodded. "We'll wait ten minutes after the given time and if someone doesn't show we leave!"
"Right and if that happens were do we go?" Nudge asked. "You know just in case someone's running behind schedule. We have a place for them to meet up with us." Good point!!
"We'll meet at my mom's house," I said and they all nodded. The table got quite after that. "It's not like this is going to happen. I think we are going to stay on schedule and everything will go fine, alright. There's nothing to worry about!!"
One Hour later
After about an hour of flying we were around a mile away from the school. I could tell everyone was getting a little paranoid being this close to the school. This time we were coming by ourselves, we were coming to destroy it. That was what kept them going; we were never going to have to come back to this stupid place ever again.
"Alright do we know the plan?" I asked looking around at everyone.
"Yup, Angel and I sneak in and go to out hiding place," Nudge said.
"And when we hear an okay from Angel, we plant the bombs…" Iggy stated.
"When we're done and come back you and Fang go in for twenty minutes," Gazzy said.
"Then the four of us have to try to get out as soon as possible and if someone isn't out then the rest of the flock leaves," Angel explained and I smiled at the flock.
"And?" I asked just trying to clear everything up.
"And we should go back to the Martinez's house to wait to see if the missing member meets us there. If he or she doesn't then we come up with a plan to get him/her back," Nudge said proudly. Okay so everyone understands the plan.
"Aright lets head in," I said and soon we were off flying close to the ground so we could make a clear landing. When we got close enough we stopped and landed in a small secluded, well as secluded as we could find, spot.
"This should be the meeting spot," Fang said looking at me for approval. I nodded.
"Alright, Nudge and Angel, you too take off, be careful and watch out for each other," I instructed.
"It's alright Max we'll be fine, we're big girls now!!" Angel chuckled at herself and soon the duo was off to reek havoc among the Whitecoat's… oh wait that's my job!!
The group waited until we heard something from Angel. It was only a few minutes but it felt like a life time. If we didn't hear them it could mean anything. They could have gotten captured or they could be fighting flyboys as we speak. This place made everyone anxious and uncomfortable. It was all the memories we had to withstand, all the torturous experiments we had to go through. All of the horrid details, faces, pain, anger, was washing over us as we sat here waiting from an 'okay' from two member who just entered the territory. This was a mutant bird freaks worst fear, having to face the Whitecoat's in their court.
"Max," I suddenly heard Angels voice in my head. "We're okay, move on to the next step."
"Alright boys, get to work," I said looking at the pyros. "Fang you're coming with me."
"We meet back here twenty minutes after we plant the bombs, remember no superhero from either of you," Iggy glared, well as much as a blind bird kid can glare.
"Alright, mom, we'll meet back in twenty," Fang said turning around. I followed him after giving one last wave to the Gasman. Let the fun begin. Well maybe not fun, but you get my point.
Fang and I crept quietly along the side of the building, trying to stay out of the way of flyboys and video cameras. If they got one sniff of us this would be over. Fang was in the lead, I know, I know, I should be leading but have you ever tried to deal with a stubborn Fang? Didn't think so!!
There was a small opening on the left side of the building, I was an opening to the duct work and I was sure that given a few punches it would pop right off. So that was what we were looking for, but couldn't find. What this place is huge give us a second.
"That's it right there," I said pointing in front of us a few feet to a small box. If we tried Fang and I could squeeze through that no problem!! "Do you want the honors or shall I??"
He just shrugged so I got to kick the damn thing in and soon I was in the lead, ha take that Fang!! We crawled through the ducts trying not to make too much sound while banging around. It's really not as easy to climb through ducts as they make it look in movies, trust me!!
I had just about memorized the rout we needed to take to get the area where the keep the mutants. I had been looking at the map non-stop while flying. I looked down through a vent, seeing that the labeled hallway that we needed to be going down.
"Angel," I thought in my head hoping she would hear me.
"Yes Max," her sweet voice rang in my head… hmm that's a weird sentence isn't it?
"Is it safe to go down?" I asked trying to get a good look through the vent, but my line of vision didn't last long.
"Yeah, there's no one around," she answered and I nodded at Fang, he immediately understood. I kicked the vent gently and it popped off, falling to the floor. Woops!!
We jumped down and did a 360º, like we normally do. We saw no one so we continued down the hallway, making occasional lefts and rights. Soon we were at the doors which were supposed to hold the mutants. I looked in the window to see darkness, but I could still see cages. This was the place!!
"How do we get through??" I asked out loud.
"Here," Fang said moving me aside and kicking the door… hard. I'm surprised the stupid thing didn't break in half. The lock did though, the door was open and I nodded at Fang who went down the hallway to help others in different rooms.
I went in a turned on the light; there were several groans and several shouts about the stupid Whitecoat's and all that good stuff.
"Actually," I yelled. "I'm not a Whitecoat!" It went quite. "Does anyone know where they keep the keys?" a bunch of no's rang out! Great!! There were several hooks on the wall next to the door and I was assuming one of them would open the cages. I had to make this quick considering I only had ten minutes left.
"Max watch out they're coming," Angel shouted in my head. My blood ran cold. What was I supposed to do? I had to get these kids out, but I had to get out as well. I ran over to the cages and started opening them as fast as I could. Once they got out the mutants started banging on the cages next to them and eventually would get them open. I got through about ten doors before flyboys erupted through the door. Just Perfect!!
They ignored all the other mutants and aimed right at me. Those bastards!! They all came rushing at me as if then already knew exactly what to do. I fought as hard as I could but there we just too many, if I would take one down three more would pop up in its place.
I punched one in the face and turned around to kick one in the shin, they both fell to the ground in what I assume would be pain if they weren't mechanical. I threw punches right and left and kicked anything I could reach. I was wearing down though, they just kept coming. One grabbed me from behind holding me against its hard chest while the other took turns using me as a punching bag.
Each punch brought a huge amount of pain. One hit me in the jaw, another on the stomach. I was aching all over, but the punching did not cease. It was like they were trying to kill me. Oh wait that might be exactly what they wanted to do.
"Angel, get out of here, NOW!! Tell Fang to get out too!!" I shouted in my head, hoping that Fang wasn't in the same situation as I was. I just hoped that he was able to take anything that came at him.
"Maximum, you've looked better," I loud voice erupted through the area making all the punches stop, thank God!! The crowd parted and the Director walked up to me!!
"You again, don't you ever quit, turtle??" I asked with a bored face, just trying to cover up the pain I was feeling.
"You know Max," she said ignoring my previous comment. "I thought you would have been smart enough to realize to the set up, but I guess I over estimated you… again!!"
"What are you rambling about now," I asked, trying to cover up the panic I was feeling.
"You know, thinking that Jeb wouldn't have lied to you, and that you would be able to come here without any problems. It just so happens that this whole thing was planned out!!" she explained quiet triumphantly. "Besides did you think our system was so easy to crack that a twelve year old could do it?? And why did you think we would have put such detailed maps in there? Did you think we were just waiting to get robbed?"
Oh!! I get it now!! This was all a set up. They had Jeb convince me to do this, even against my better judgment and then they would be able to know exactly when I was coming. Stupid, stupid Max!! I should have known better. Then the flock flashed in my mind. Where they okay?? Had the girls gotten out of the building and did they follow the plan and leave??
"We couldn't seem to find the other four, Angel, Nudge, Gazzy or Iggy. They got away before we could catch them. Fang on the other hand, well see for your self," She smiled, but it wasn't comforting. It was hard and slightly challenging.
The door open and I limp Fang was pulled through, all bloodied and bruised. He looked horrible and I had to look away.
"Aw, what's the matter Maximum? Can't stand to look at a dieing flock member?" her words stung me and I looked at her in horror. What did she mean DIEING?? He wasn't about to die she was crazy.
She walked up to him and pointed to a spot in his stomach, which I just now realized was bleeding profusely. "You see right here is where he was shot in the liver. If we don't patch him up soon he'll be dead, Maximum," she said as if she was talking to a child.
"Well… fix him," I shouted at her, panic running through me. She wouldn't just let him die would she?? She couldn't!! Fang couldn't die, it was impossible.
"I need something from you first, Maximum," she said and I felt my stomach drop. This was not going to be good.
"Anything," I pleaded looking at Fangs limp body, more and more blood gushing out. There wasn't much time; he was going to die soon.
"I need you to voluntarily go through the extermination cycle," she said looking me dead in the eye. "I need you to give your life for his."
AN: Uh oh!! Max has got some problems now!! What's she going to do? Save Fang; the one and only person who can hold her together. Or is she going to give her life!! Sorry bout the cliffhanger, but I will hopefully update soon!! Thank to those who reviewed, now do it again!!