Chapter Nine- Falling

I opened my eyes to the first rays of sunlight. At first I was annoyed that the sun was disturbing my rest, but then I remembered. My vision was back. I looked up at Iggy's sleeping face and smiled. It was good to see again. Iggy's face was slightly bruised and cut, obviously from the M-Geek attack. I hadn't noticed before as I couldn't see him. I watched him sleep for awhile before looking around the room. It was still the same dark cold room but there were a few shards of porcelain on the ground and the door was slightly open... wait, slightly open.

"Ig, Iggy wake up." I whispered as I shook him.

"Huh, what?" he said sleepily rubbing his eyes. He sat up looking around at a room he couldn't see. I put a finger on his lips.

"Shhh, they left the door open. I think we need to start escaping now. It's still quite dark. I think it's now or never." He nodded. I jumped up.

"Okay, let's go." He said in a low voice.

"Have you got your plate weapons?"

"Yup." He got up and grabbed my hand. I led him out of the door opening it slowly, it creaked a little bit. We hurried up the stairs quickly but silently. The worst thing would to be caught.

"Where to now." Iggy murmured. I looked around. If I turned left we would end up in the room that I had been 'experimented' on yesterday.

"Forward." We continued down the long hallway. It smelled strongly of antiseptic. It made it all the much harder to keep going.

"Ugh, I hate this." Iggy groaned.

"I know it smells awful. But we've got to keep going. We'll be free soon."

"Where are we going to go?"

"I know where you'll be going. Straight to hell!" I spun around and found Violet 2.0 with Omega standing behind her. They both looked incredibly smug as if they had just won the lottery or something. I suppose stopping escapees and defending their precious bosses was like the lottery to them. It was job satisfaction that made them happy. a side-effect from being a created being. I groaned.

"Oh hey how are your urges?"Iggy smirked. Omega glared at him.

"Ig, he's glaring at you." I told him.

"I guessed as much." He pulled me close to him so his lips were almost touching my ear. "What are the surroundings like?" It was barely audible when he said this. I glanced around discreetly.

"There's a supply closest two feet to your right." I breathed.

"Can you distract them for two minutes?"

"Yes." Iggy slipped into the supply cupboard. I knew just to have confidence in him. Whatever he was doing it would help us.

"What's he doing?" Omega asked. I blocked the door to the supply closet. I kind of hoped he would try and attack me. I really felt like hitting someone and these two seemed like the perfect people to take out my anger on.

"Nothing." I said breezily.

"I don't trust you."

"That's because you can't trust. You haven't even got the ability to love. I bet this 'relationship' that you two share is all a stupid farce."

"You're wrong." They said in unison. It was the first time it was an even playing field between us. The fight could go either way. I was delighted to find I was taller than Omega and Violet 2.0 and if I was taller than them Iggy, at about six-foot-four, would tower over them both.

"Our relationship is stronger than yours." Violet 2.0 said defiantly. "They made mistakes with you and they obviously made them with him." I wanted to say that it intentional that he was blind, but I knew Iggy could still hear and this would be an awful way for him to find out.

"Don't you ever say stuff like that about Iggy. Sure he's not perfect but I'd pick an explosion loving, bomb making, dirty thought having blind pyromaniac for a boyfriend over a rock any day. I love every part of him even the explosion loving, bomb making, dirty thought having blind pyromaniac bits. No, neither of us is perfect, but at least we genuinely love and care about each other. Unlike somebody I could mention."

"You weren't perfect so they made me! Once they figured out how to get a better newer version of you they didn't need to old one! If I hadn't been created they would have let you survive the by-half plan. But somehow you got away. There is only supposed to be one Violet. Only one of us can survive. You shouldn't be alive!"

"You're not Violet." I insisted. "I am! You're just a photocopy. Nothing more. You shouldn't have existed. I was born normal. I had a family! You were created in a lab! You don't think like I do."

"Well..." she opened her mouth to retort to that but I was knocked over as someone launched themselves at me. I hit the hard tile floor hard knocking my already bruised limbs on it. I was about to push my attacker off me when I heard a deafening 'boom!' that made my ears ring.Someone was shielding me from the blast. They put their hands in front of my head. Pieces of debris fell near me but they never hit me. When the dust settled, the person rolled off me. It was Iggy.

"Thanks." I coughed because of all the dust. He smiled softly.

"Are they unconscious?" he said nodding his head at Violet 2.0 and Omega. They were lying flat on the ground. Their hair was completely covered in dust so it was white. Their faces were cut. It was incredibly weird seeing pretty-much myself lying on the ground unconscious.

"Yeah they are, let's get going before the wake up." I spotted a piece of paper sticking slightly out of Omega's pocket. I tip-toed over keeping as quite as possible. The last thing I wanted to do was wake them up. The piece of paper was a map of the facility that we were being held in, with an exact path do the exit. I examined it for a moment taking everything in.

"Okay I know where to go." I whisper turning to Iggy. He nodded. "Omega had a map."I took his hand again and we carried on along the long corridor. It was very dark as there were no windows and I didn't want to switch on the lights for fear of catching anyone's attention. But thanks to my newly usable raptor vision, I was easily able to navigate the way. Finally, I found a door with a sign above it marked exit. But as a pushed on the bar that would open the door, there was a blaring alarm noise and the lights started to flick on. I opened the door and pushed Iggy outside following behind as fast as I could. We needed to start flying as soon as possible.

"Get into the air!" I said frantically to Iggy. He whipped his wings open and I did the same. It felt amazing to feel the sun on my wings again. As we ascended into the air I saw five winged-kid shaped blobs and one flying dog shaped blob were flying across the horizon. I had never been so glad to see the flock. The again I had never really been that glad to see the flock before then.

"The flock is here!" I called to Iggy. He grinned from ear to ear. I was glad he was happy, but we weren't free yet.

"Let's get a move on then." We started flying away from the house of horrors. We were almost over their ten foot high fence that was topped with barbed wire. I was preparing to propel myself slightly higher to get over it, when I heard mechanical footsteps. I looked back quickly and saw dozens of M-Geeks filing out of the doorway. They were coming out in one straight line and filling into rows and rows of killing machines.

Then I saw one of them near the back aim his gun at Iggy and fire. It took less than a split second for me to react.

"Iggy, No!" I screamed. I flew into him and knocked him out of the firing line. I felt a searing pain so close to my heart and then another in my wing. I couldn't even keep myself in the air. I was falling. There was blackness closing in on me. That was good; I wouldn't feel my bones brake. Then a blonde haired, golden winged caught me. That was the last thing I saw before succumbing to the pain and blacking out.