Hi guys. I am so so sorry I didn't update sooner. I had family visiting and loads of homework and then I was at a sleepover and I just couldn't find the time.

Please forgive me.

….Onwards.

Max POV

After Riley sunk to the ground, I made the flame in my hand sizzle out and die. I turned round to see a shell shocked Fang staring at me and Iggy staring in my direction.

"What." I said a little too roughly.

"Max….you got a new power?" Fang said

"What? What happened? What did she do?" Iggy said to Fang.

"I can control fire. I can hold a flame in my hand and not be burnt. I can melt stuff." I said bluntly, shocking Iggy into silence.

"I wish that was my power." I heard him mutter quietly, making me smile through my pain.

"Heard that, Ig."

I turned back to face Fang.

"We need to get the hell out of here, there are Erasers coming." I said quickly, and he seemed to shake off the shock of seeing me almost burn somebody's hand off and moved towards the wall.

"There's a vent above my head." He said, motioning above him.

"I'm not going to be able to get up into it." I said. It felt awful admitting my weaknesses, but I had to.

"Why?" Fang said, mystified. He was probably shocked I admitted it too.

Instead of answering I just pulled down the sleeve of my t-shirt to show my wounded shoulder.

I heard him gasp as he came closer to inspect it properly.

"Don't touch it!" I barked as he raised his hands to feel my wound.

He dropped his hand to his side.

"Ok then. Iggy, you climb into the vent and lift her up, and I'll push her from below." He said to Iggy, who nodded and made his way into the vent, hauling himself up and through with a groan.

He turned round and dangled his hands out.

"Ok!" He said. I started sweating, the Erasers would probably be here any second.

I moved to under the vent, Fang behind me. I looked back at him and nodded, and he put his hands just under my waist and lifted me up.

God, he's strong! I thought. But then again, I wasn't exactly at my heaviest at the moment.

Iggy reached down to me and grabbed me just above my waist, and pulled my up while Fang pushed me towards him.

I heard footsteps echoing from a distant hallway.

Both Fang and Iggy froze, then started push/pulling me up again. It took a while and it was a struggle. But then Iggy was pulling me into the vent. I moved just in time so that my wounded shoulder wasn't bashed against the entrance to the vent, which was conveniently just wide enough for bird kinds.

Then I was in fully, and Iggy shuffling back on his hands and knees to give me room. I was on my hands and knees, but didn't put any weight onto the hand which was connected to my wounded shoulder. That would make it a hell of a lot worse.

There was a thump as Fang pulled himself up after me.

Then, with Iggy leading, we all started crawling down the vent.

We'd been going for literally two seconds when we heard the Erasers reach where we'd just been. We could hear parts of their echoing argument as they wondered where we'd gone.

"Where did they go?" Ari's loud voice echoed down the vent, making me smile to myself.

There were a few mutterings and then somebody yelled: "Look, the cover isn't on the vent!"

Iggy, Fang and I sped up our crawling pace, which was hard for me considering I was doing it one handed. Suddenly the world around me tilted, and I could barely see. I felt weak, and my shoulder felt like it was on fire. I couldn't hear anything anymore, it was like I had detached myself from the world.

It took all my strength to keep moving.

My hearing came back as I heard a lot of thumping behind me, and looked over my shoulder to see Fang crawling close behind me.

"They're in." He said quietly, and that was all I needed to hear. We all sped up even more as we heard loud thumping behind us.

"You might as well stop, mutants. We know you're here!"

Ari. He was in. Iggy came to a two way parting in front of him and without hesitation took the right vent.

"Do you know where your going, Ig?" I whispered loud enough for him to hear.

"Yes." He breathed back.

After a few more minutes of this, I was slowing down. I just didn't have the strength at the moment, and the fact that I think I had a fever really exacerbated things.

"Come on Max, you can do this." Fang whispered from behind me. I think he realised I was slowing down.

"Leave me, I can't" I chocked out, leaning against the wall for two seconds so Ii wouldn't fall onto my face.

"I can't, Max." He whispered, and I looked back at him.

"Why?" I breathed.

He smirked. "The vent isn't wide enough."

I smiled as more thumps came from behind us.

"Which tunnel did you take, little piggy's. Tell me and I'll kill you all faster." Ari's gruff voice came from behind.

Iggy stopped moving, and we all held out breath.

More thumps. I felt my hopes fall, because Ari had taken the right way.

Iggy started crawling again, and I started, but more slowly.

"Max!" Fang whispered, "You have to speed up, it's only about two more minutes.

I put my head down and grit my teeth, soldering on until Iggy stopped.

I looked up, but my vision was hazy and I barely saw Iggy's silhouette as he disappeared.

I moved closer to where he was and my sluggish brain finally made the connection: The way out!

I started moving towards it, and cried out as my shoulder brushed the edge of the vent opening.

"Aha! Got you!" I heard Ari yell from behind me. He sounded close.

"Go Max go!" Fang said, and he shoved me out of the vent opening.

I didn't fall far, but I landed on my wounded shoulder and I almost blacked out.

Fang jumped out from behind me and helped me up.

"I can't fly." I whispered as I tried to stand, my vision went into black spots, and I found it really hard to stand, I stumbled and Fang had to grab me.

"Come on, Iggy, grab her legs!" He said urgently.

Disconnected thoughts ran through my brain, and I struggled to think clearly. I was dimly aware of feeling my legs being lifted and my head and shoulders too.

"Iggy, lift off and I'll lift off." I heard.

Thoughts slipped through my brain like sand through my fingers, and I couldn't hold on to a single one.

I was vaguely aware we were flying, and then I heard a bunch of pops.

Suddenly, every nerve ending in my body was screaming in pain, and everything went black.

Fang's POV.

Oh god oh god!

Ari had made his way out of the vents, and I had turned round just in time to see him fire wildly at us, his aim all over the place.

Suddenly Max screamed and I looked round to see that a bullet had just missed Iggy's arm's and hit her foot.

"Faster, Iggy" I yelled.

"There's no point." Ari yelled. I looked back to see him lifting off behind us.

He'd got an upgrade on his wings then. They weren't as patchwork, and he was flying faster.

Almost as fast as us.

Max POV.

I became aware of pain everywhere. My thoughts were blurred through the new pain in my foot, but I opened my eyes to see Fang just above me as he held my head. He saw I was awake and smiled grimly down at me.

"It'll be okay Max. We'll survive." He said, and I realised that Ari was just above him.

"Fang!" I croaked as loud as I could.

He jerked his head up sharply just as Ari dropped a bit and kicked him in the head.

Suddenly my vision went into a tunnel, and everything was black apart from Ari. He was all I could see.

Anger bubbled up inside me and I dimly wondered if I could lift my arm to fire at him, and realised I couldn't.

Then he was blasted out of the sky.

And then I blacked out.

Listen guys, I am so so so sorry I didn't update sooner. I was going to do it earlier today, but I was doing homework literally all day, and I had a huge English essay to do aswell.

I feel like this chapter wasn't good enough for you guys. I hope it was.

Sooo…. Please please please review!

Fly on- Raven.