Everyone nodded. Even Nudge, who still hated me but had returned to the flock - she had nowhere else to go.
I started to fly as fast as I could, laughing at the utter exhilaration of what I was doing.
Spotting Fang in the distance, I flew faster and faster.
He was being carried by two Erasers! Two! The Erasers were truly back.
Growling, I kicked the Erasers, and grabbed the unconcious Fang. It had been easy. Too easy. The Erasers had practically asked to be beaten. They didn't fight back, or scream or insult me. As if they wanted to be caught.
I looked up and saw Itex helicopters. It dawned on me that the Erasers had allowed me to find Fang. So I would get kidnapped by the School.
Groaning and dizzy now, I looked down to see a tranquilliser dart in my arm.
Feeling my vision narrow, I tried desperately to keep hovering in mid air.
Instead, I fell.
*
I woke up in a massive crate - bigger than any other I had ever been in. Almost immediately, I felt insanely alert- as if I had drank 20 cans of Red Bull; but not as hyper as I would be if I had done that.
"Fang?" I whispered and sighed in relief when I saw him sitting next to me.
"Max? You ok?" he said looking scared.
"Well as alright as I could be in a crate!" I said.
"Not what I meant. I meant, well, just look at yourself"
I glanced down at my hands and saw that they were glowing.
"Fang, listen, if I'm an alien, does that mean that I shouldn't be here, on Earth?"
Fang looked shocked. "No! Max, you're my best friend!"
I looked out through the mesh of the cage to see someone walking towards us. The cage wasn't big enough to stand in, so I couldn't see the person's face.
The woman ( she was wearing tights and high heels) said in a booming voice
"Experiments Eleven and Thirteen. There is a reason you are here."
She unlocked the cage and we quickly crawled out, before she changed her mind. I looked around to see a wall of bullet proof glass separating us from her. We were still trapped.
"You are part Martian" she said.
Fang approached the glass confused. "Just Max. She's got blue skin and..."
"Who told you that you aren't alien, Subject Thirteen?"
"Jeb Batchedlar told me I was the only one in the flock" I said.
"Flock" she scoffed.
"Thirteen, you are alien. Batchedlar lied to Eleven. In fact both of you are alien"
I was about to start arguing with her when Fang leaned against the glass wall. Slowly his skin turned blue.
So the woman was telling the truth.
Right?
I didn't know what to believe.
A.N R+R