Here is the long awaited chapter 5! Enjoy!

Our Broken Days

Chapter 5

I woke up on the cold cave floor, curled into Fang. I opened my eyes and realized where I was and what I was doing, and then smiled to myself thinking of last night. I yawned, stretched and got up. Fang woke up right after me. He stretched out his knobby limbs across the cave floor and hopped up.

"Good morning, Max." he says running his hand through his hair. I rummaged the backpack that he carried while we were flying. He grabbed me around the waist and looked me in the eyes, so I looped my arms around his neck.

"Good morning" I say, and he leaned down to quickly kiss my mouth. Then I wrinkled my nose, "Brush your teeth." And bent down to slide out of his grip, went into the backpack to hand him a water bottle, some toothpaste and his green toothbrush. I grabbed my own purple brush and headed to the ledge of the cave and started brushing. We sat in silence; the only sound is the toothbrushes scraping against our teeth, our legs dangling over the edge. He takes the water bottle, breaks the seal, sips and spits out the foamy water to the desert below. He hands me the bottle, then chuckled.

"What?" I ask, my question muffled and distorted by the toothpaste stuff in my mouth.

"You look like a rabid animal when you brush your teeth." He says between chuckles.

"Mmmhhmmh" I growl because I'm swishing a mouth full of water around my mouth, and I slap his upper arm with the back of my hand signaling him to shut up and stop making fun of me. I spit out the water to the sands below and cap the bottle. "C'mon, we better eat up if we want to get those records today." I grab his hand and haul him up into our cave again.

We ate some energy bars that we packed, we don't need to eat much since we grew up in the School and we learned how to make the little food in our stomachs last almost all day. We're used to not eating much, so whenever we try to eat a big meal, we feel sick because we're still not used to eating full meals. We stretch and practice some of our fighting skills before we take off, heading for the School. Since we're part bird, we have that built – in navigating system that birds have. We know that the School's somewhere in southern California, so we head south, leaving out back pack in the cave so when we get out – if we get out—we can go back there and rest from the epic battle between two bird kids and a million sadistic idiots that's probably going to happen there. So we went over our plan again. Since from what I remember there are no windows in that file room I flew into that day. So were going to crash in to the training room across of it, and fly into that room, grab the files and fly back out the window we came in from. And hopefully not get captured during this. So we're flying in the air now, our hands tangled into each other's. Our wings beating in unison.

"Hey, you know that there's probably going to be cameras on the outside so the School, and a guy behind a bunch of little TV screens watching, in case of some unusual activity. What are we gonna do about that?" Fang asks.

"I don't know…." I respond, and then my mouth broke out into a twisted grin. "I have a wicked plan" I say.

"What?" he asks apprehensively, narrowing his eyes, not sure if he wants to hear this. He is always the more practical, reasonable one of us. While I'm the more, creative, and well…. how do I put this…. crazy….? Yeah, that seems fitting. I'm the one who would make up these ridiculous plans. Well I am a great story teller, who's to say I'm making this whole thing up. No, don't be crazy, why would I make this up? That's horrible.

"How about we find the room where the cameras are being watched, bust in there, knock out the people who are watching it so they won't tell anyone that we're here, and get out of there, find the file room and get on with the rest of the plan." He just stared at me, straight faced and silent.

"Max, that is insane" he monotonously said.

"Yeah, but do you have any other plans?" I ask. He looked straight ahead for a moment.

"No" he admitted.

"Soooo…. We go with…."

"We go with your plan" he said while rubbing his face with the hand that's not holing mine.

"Finally! He agrees with my ludicrous plans! WOOOOOOO!" I screamed while I let go of Fang and started twirling around in the air, with my arms outstretched. Fang started laughing as I spun.

"Okay, okay, it's not that big of a deal, calm down and come back down here" he says. I have floated a couple of feet upward while spinning.

"But you never agree with my plans" I say as I float back down to him and grab his hand.

"Yeah, because it's either too crazy or we have a more practical alternate plan. Right now, we have no other plan for getting around the cameras so we have to trust your mental instability and go with this" he says trying to get his laughter under control.

"Hey, I'm mentally stable"

"You sure about that, Max"

"Yes" he raises an eyebrow. "Maybe" I admit.

"Anyway, let's just concentrate on getting there"

"Alright"

By the time we get there, it's around noon. We figured that it would be in a secluded area, and it wasn't that hard to find, really. I mean it's a huge building smack dab in the middle of a forest. It's not hard to miss from the air. So we landed in a tree and rested for a while. We ate more energy bars and prepared ourselves to go in there. So after a couple minutes of this, fang said "You ready?"

"As I'll ever be" I responded. I took a deep breath and we both jumped off of the tree, we flew as fast as possible to the roof of the place and hovered there. Who knows what kind of security system they adapted in the past couple of years?

"Okay, let's find that training room first; remember where it is, then find the security room, knock out those buffoons, than grab our records and get out." Fang went over again. I nodded once. Our bird instincts told us which side is the east side was the east side. We found it quickly; I peered in, the same as always, this was the training room with the gigantic maze in it. Just like a mouse, they would put us in a life size maze and told us to find our way out or else they would heat the metal floor to burn our feet, and if we don't make it out in a certain amount of time, they don't give us dinner, which was usually a small loaf of bread, five carrot sticks and a small glass of water. It made me sick to look at this room again. Then I noticed something strange. There were four cages in the middle of the room. I motioned to Fang and he looked in with me. Through the glass we can see the four cages with something—no—someone, inside. I looked closer, and gasped. There were four people in there, the first cage, nearest to the window was a girl with tawny skin and big brown eyes, her cage said 10047-A. she looks about eleven. The next one has a boy with big blue eyes and light blonde hair, 10048-A, he looks eight. Next to him was a girl, same features as the blonde boy, but her hair was long and curly, about six, siblings I guessed, 10049-A. And the last cage had a boy with strawberry blonde hair he looks fourteen, like us. 10050-A But his eyes were weird. They were a milky grey, shiny, like a rainbow trout's scales. He's blind. And the worst part… they all had wings. Wings, just like Fang and I. They were bird kids. We rolled away along the wall, tearing our gaze from the other kids in there. We said nothing but shot each other fierce glances. With his eyes he told me to get the heck away from here and go find the recording room. So we did, the recording room wasn't hard to find. Actually, it was right next to the training room. Jesus it's like they built this place to be broken into. We stayed at the sides of the window. I whispered: "One…Two… Three" and we both crashed into the room. There were two people to deal with in this room. So I took the guy closest and Fang took the other. Before the man could do anything I rushed up to him and slammed a roundhouse kick into the side of his head, sending him to the floor, knocked out cold. I looked over at Fang and he had made light work with his guy. We blew out of that room and smashed into the maze room, the four kids looking up at us, even the blind one. The whitecoats were surprised to see us. I recognized some of them. We floated up at the celling, looking around to find the door that leads in to the hallway, and into the file room.

"Well, well, well…" one of them said, "what do we have here? Subject 10045-A and 10046-A. did you miss us?" he said mockingly

"Oh, shut up." I said rolling my eyes, annoyed. But really I'm scared as hell. Fang and I descended upon them there were four of them. Two for each, I rushed at one of the female ones, and punched her in the jaw, sending her flopping backwards, crashing to the floor. The other female Fang was battling and won, kicking her side. The male one that spoke acme running towards me, I swung my fist but he caught it, frozen in that moment we stared at each other, both surprised that he blocked me. Then a smile creeped up my lips and he looked confused, still holding my clenched fist. I grabbed his forearm with my other hand and flung him over me to the other side, I let go of him and sent him flying and crashing into the opposite wall, knocking him out. I've been waiting to try that on someone. The four kids in the cages just looked at us with wide eyes. I joined Fang in the battle of the last whitecoat, by sneaking up behind him and chopping him in the back of his neck. He dropped all wobbly like to the floor. We looked at each other and high – fived.

"Fang, free those kids while I get the records." I say while striding toward the door.

"But our –"

"Just do it!" I yelled cutting him off. I gave him a fierce look over my shoulder. He just nodded and walked over to the first cage with the tawny skinned girl. I yanked open the door and peeked out, empty. I walked over to the room and pulled open the door. A great big beige cabinet appeared before me. I went over and found the drawer marked "the bird project – subject information" just as I remember. I yanked open the drawer and there were four more files in there, most likely the other kids in there. I spotted the ones with our numbers on it. I walked out and into the training room again, looking at the collapsed bodies on the floor. I saw Fang release the last kid. The blind one. He thanked him and gave him a hug. He flew through the open window. Fang looked at me, "You got them?" he asked.

"Right here" I say as I wave them in the air.

"Let's go then." He took my hand and we jumped out the window.

Finally away from the School, it took us a while to get back home. It was the middle of the night when we got to our home in Arizona. We walked through the door and I flopped the records onto the table and collapsed onto the couch. Fang sat next to me, and looked into my eyes.

"We did it" he said.

"Yeah, we did, we'll look at them tomorrow, because right now, I'm pooped." I said with a sigh.

"Yeah, let's get some sleep" Fang agreed. And right there we fell asleep on the couch.

Hope you liked it! Sorry for any typos and for the late update, i went to the beach for the week, so i had not time to write. And sad news guys, the man who plays Mermaid Man in Spongebob, has sadly passed away, today July 8th 2012. May he reat in peace. He was 95 years old.

Anyway, please review, comment or PM me. Tell me what you think.

-Hugs,PR (^^)