icefox: hello my lovely readers! I'm happy. I'm registered for intermediate tai chi and waitlisted for career life planning. Now I just have to play buzzard for concert choir, writing 115, and math 65 and hope someone drops one of them at a convenient time for me. sigh sometimes I hate being a college student. It can be so hard to get the classes you want because there are so many other people trying to get the same classes you are.

Anyways, here is the 4th chapter for Wings of a Feather. Kai wakes up somewhere with angel and Max beats up some bullies in an Arizona town picking on a dark haired girl a few years younger then her. Anyone who's read the the angel experiment should know what I'm talking about. ^^ I got the descriptions of the boys mentioned at the end of the chapter from the maximum ride manga.

Enjoy chapter 4 and please review. I'm gunna go back to working on my other stories and watching "Highschool of the Dead" and "Togainu bo Chi" now.

Disclaimer: no own, no sue. XD

Chapter 4: Where Are We?

(Kai POV)

I groan as I sit up and hold my aching head. 'Where am I? What happened?'

"We were captured by Erasers." A small voice said next to me. I open my eyes and snap my head to the left to see Angel staring at me sadly through the bars of our cages. Our small dog cages we lived in at the School.

"Yes, we're at the School. Erasers were jumping down into our strawberry field from helicopters. The first one landed in front of you and knocked you out before shoving you in a black sack and retreating.

Max tried to get you back while everyone else fought off the Erasers but then I was captured. The Eraser with me was closer to her then you were but the Eraser with you was closer to Fang so Max left him to Fang while she tried to get me back. Before she could get to that Eraser Ari, who was turned into an Eraser, knocked Max out. Once they got me into a nearby van with you, they took us away to here."

'Why just us?' Kai asked, not thinking twice about how Angel knew all of this when she was shoved in a sack most of the time this happened. She can read minds, so she more then likely got the information from nearby minds.

"i don't know. It might have to do with our powers or maybe even our DNA. Who knows with them, They don't really think normally, so it's hard to say why.

'Do you think-' Kai began but stopped when he heard someone walk into the room. Both Kai and Angel looked to the door to see Erasers.

"Alright, time to go see the doctors!" One Eraser said in a teasing voice as the others put their cages on trollies. Angel and a few Erasers went right as Kai and the rest went left. After a few minutes of walking, Kai's group entered a room you would see only in your worst nightmares.

"Oh yes! Subject 4 is here! I am gunna have so much fun with this!" One scientist exclaims as him and his colleagues walk towards the terrified Kai cowering in the back of his cage.

'Max! Fang! Everyone! Where are you?' Kai thought while crying silently and shaking. The scientists reach him and drag him out, making Kai struggle and scream silently.

"Hey look, he's mute! Look's like we won't have to worry about him screaming." the first scientist comments.

"That makes everything even better. We won't have to stop because of headaches from screaming subjects that way." Another comments.

"Yes! We'll be able to get so much more done this way!" Says a third scientist. Kai just lays on the table he was strapped to and sobs silently.

Let the nightmare begin.

Some hours later

'Where in the world is Kai? He should have been brought back here hours ago.' Angel thought worriedly as she stared at the door. She was just about to try and look for something to pick the lock on her cage and look for Kai (who cares if she gets punished or something for it? Kai could be getting killed somewhere in the facility for all she knew!) when the door opened and an Eraser brought in a cage with what looked like a pile of silver and sea green feathers lying on the floor of the cage. Once the Eraser left, Angel frantically pressed herself to the bars of her cage and called out to Kai.

"Kai! Are you okay? What-" Angel began but stopped when she saw the horrific experiments in Kai's mind.

'If you don't mind, I would rather stop thinking about it.' Kai thought to her tiredly and smiled at her slightly from where he lay crumpled on the floor of his cage. Angel nodded and started to tell Kai about her meeting with the supposedly dead Jeb Batchelder before being taken to her maze experiments.

A few hundred miles away

Max, Fang, and Nudge were flying over an Arizona town on their way to California when Max saw something below. A group of dangerous looking boys were surrounding a very pissed off looking girl. Fang saw where Max was looking and tried to stop her, but then she ordered them to keep flying and she would catch up or meet up with them in a bit and shot down to help the girl.

"So, what have you got to say for yourself?" Max heard one boy say as she inched along the side of a building to get a better look at what she was dealing with.

"Is there any reason I shouldn't teach you a lesson?" Threatened another.

'Hm, so 3 boys around my age, possibly older. Might or might not have weapons, though I doubt they would have anything like a gun.' Max thought as she carefully peered around the corner.

"Ella, I told you not to tell anybody about my little situation with Ortiz! It was none of your business! I had to teach him a lesson!" A blond boy, more then likely the leader, shouted at a glaring hispanic girl holding her injured left shoulder.

"By beating him up? He looks like he got hit by a car! And he didn't do anything to you!" The girl yelled back.

'Brave girl.' Max noted with a smirk.

"Why you little-" The leader yelled as he pulled back his fist. The girl screamed when she saw the fist coming toward her, giving Max her que to play superhero and kick the blond jerk in the face. As the bully fell to the ground with a thud, Max gracefully landed on her feet and turned to the surprised black haired girl a few years younger then her.

"Run! Get out of here!" Max said urgently. The girl nodded then ran, ignoring the bully yelling for her to stop. When that didn't work, the bully, a dark skinned beanie wearing boy with as mean face, turned to the brunette standing in his way.

"Who the hell are you?" The gangster looking boy demanded.

"3 guys against 1 girl. That seems even." Max said calmly with a small glare.

"Shut up! You better get out of here if you know whats good for you!" Max just rolled her eyes in boredom.

"Grab that chick." A way to calm voice said from the direction the other 2 boys were at. Max flicked her eyes toward the voice to see the leader holding a gun with a demented look on his face sitting next to his equally crazy looking brunette friend. "You'll regret butting into other peoples business."

"Bet I won't." Max said with a smirk as she watched the blond spit blood out of his mouth. The smirk was replaced with shock a minute later when a bullet flies by her face, mere inches away from shooting her ear off or going through her eye and into her brain.

"This ain't a toy, you idiot!" The ringleader shouted, the barrel of the pistol smoking.

Max 'tsk'ed and spun around, running into the forest. She barely registered the shout of 'get her' as she sprinted through the trees.

'That stupid gun!' She thought as she weaved through the tall pines. Not a minute later she came to a cliff, making her skid to a stop. ' I can't fly in front of them!' Realizing there was no where to go, she hid behind a tree just in time for the trio to miss her.

'Okay, I'll just hide here until they leave then catch up to Fang and Nudge.' Max was thinking when her foot slid on the cliff slop. The rustling sound made the boy with the gun whip around.

'Damn!' was Max's last thought before getting shot and falling backwards off the cliff.

Songs

Unwell by Matchbox 20

Dreamship by Ikuta Aiko (One Piece)

Shiro no Jumon by doa (Saiyuki Reload Gunlock)

Brightdown by Nami Tamaki ()

Love is War by Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid)

You Are My Love (English) by Yuki Kajura (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)

Big Ass Rock from The Full Monty Broadway

Koi no Buchige Tengoku Koi no Maiahi-Chiwawa-Banzai by Maeken

Sakura Rock by Cherryblossom (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Kaze no Machi he by FictionJunction KEIKO (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)

Change the World by ….. I dunno (Inu Yasha)

We Did It! Party! by someone (the name is in kanji) (One Piece)

Mother Sea by same person as above song (One Piece)

Houki Boshi by Younha (Bleach)

I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters

No One by Aly and AJ

Bittersweet by Within Temptation