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This is it! The flock meets the other flock!

Fierce POV

The moon was bright and full, not a cloud in sight. I stalked silently among the trees laughing at their stupidity. They though I couldn't follow them from the air, thought I was as useless as them. They didn't realize how superior I was. I was the predator, they were the prey. And as always, the predator wins. No matter how fast, strong, smart, or adapted the prey was, there was always something out there that was faster, stronger, smarter, better. Tonight, for them, that something was me. I reached the clearing smirking at him. He was on watch, yet he didn't even see me practically in front of him. I stepped into the light. He looked at me with naive hope. Stupid him. I wasn't the same stupid person who had loved him. Love was for the weak, the dumb, not those superior. I lunged forward. Too late, he saw the hatred in my eyes. Too late for him to wake the others. Too late to save himself or the rest. I slit their throats one by one as they slept. With cold indifference I watched the blood flow from them.

I woke up gasping from the nightmare. One lone tear made a streak down my face. The images from my nightmare flashed in front of my eyes. My whole family dead, murdered by me. I checked the time on the clock. Only 3 am. I knew I wasn't going to get anymore sleep tonight, I was afraid to close my eyes. Afraid of what I might dream if I did. It had felt so real, like I was actually there.

"Fierce?"

"Falcon?" I struggled to hide the fear in my voice.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing" I whispered oh so convincingly. Blood. Everywhere. I closed my eyes and shuddered.

"Really, what happened?"

"Nothing. Go back to sleep."

"Not until you tell me what's wrong." I sighed he could be so annoying sometimes.

"Okay. You wanna know? I had a nightmare." His eyes said go on. "You all died. And and- oh Falcon it was horrible. I killed you all, and I didn't care. I didn't feel anything. I just stood watching you die." I hadn't realized I had started to cry softly.

"Shh it's okay. It was just a dream."

"It felt so real." I had turned away from him so he wouldn't see me cry. I felt his hand tentatively reach through the bars. He rubbed my back in slow rhythmic circles.

"Fierce, I've know you almost your entire life, and I know you would never kill us. No matter what they do to you, you'll always be yourself. Your not a murder." He sounded so sure.

"How would you know?"

"I just do." And I believed him. I'm not sure how long we stayed like that. I do know that I didn't have anymore bad dreams, and when I woke up in the morning, his hand was still there.

Misty POV

"So what's the plan?" Iggy asked Max.

"Well, um. . . let's look for a good entrance point, and then we get in, wreak havoc, and get out. I'll even let you blow the cars up." Gazzy smiled demonicly and slapped a high-five with Iggy. We watched the whitecoats enter and exit the building from a thick clearing of trees. It would've been better if we could have got an aerial view, but there were security cameras pointing up at the sky. After 5 hours, a basic plan was developed.

Angel would use her mind powers to get us in the door. It was only a matter of time before someone from security noticed and sent robots after us, so we would have to work quick. Max and Angel were going to find the main office and some Mr. Chu or this Professor guy that Max's voice had warned us about. The rest of us were going to let out as many experiments as possible in 30 minutes. When 30 minutes was up, we were instructed to leave no matter who or what was still inside since Gazzy and Iggy were going to blow up the garage.

We watched as Angel skipped up to the door and tapped the guard on the shoulder.

"What the?" He spun around. "Hey, kid your not allowed to be here."

"Yes I am. Your going to let us all in," she said in her adorable voice. The man's face went blank.

"I'm going to let you all in."

"Right! And your going to forget this and you never saw anyone."

"I never saw anyone," he said while opening the door. We all walked in.

"Oh and I'm gonna need that too," she said taking his keycard. "You left it at home this morning. Thankyou!
She waved to him as the door shut behind us.

"You are one scary seven-year-old," Max said while ruffling Angel's hair. Angel just beamed. "Right so, Angel come with me, and you guys start emptying cages."

"There's experiments on the 3rd floor in room 381!" Angel called over her shoulder.

"So. . . room 381 it is?" Fang nodded in response and headed for the stairs. Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, and I ran after him. The stairs were those emergency kind with the doors. When we got to the top we hid behind the door and peeked out the window.

"Coast is clear!" Gazzy whispered. I felt like I was in some kind of spy movie, I kept having to dodge behind doors and such. If this hadn't been a serious mission thing, I probably would have done some of those spy rolls and pretend I had a fake gun. As it was, I still hummed the Mission Impossible theme song in my head.

"Someone's coming!" Iggy whisper-shouted. I ducked behind yet another white door. I mean, seriously, couldn't they add a little more color to this place? Like a nice fushia or turquoise? I made sure to pay attention to the doors we were passing, we didn't want to miss it.

white door 343. . . white door 357. . . white door 376. . . white door 381. . . Oh wait, that was the right one.

"Guys! Over here!" I beckoned them back to 381. No one made any move to open the door, afraid of what they might find. So of course that left me to open it.

I tentatively pushed open the door and stepped inside.

"Who the hell are you?" Well that was certainly a nice way to greet their saviors.

Fierce POV

Chibi yawned and blearily blinked up at me. Her face broke into a smile when she looked at me. I wondered what that was about since there wasn't much to make her smile in this hell-hole.

"Do you and Fally love each other?" she asked. Aw crap I'd forgotten about what everybody else would think of this. I decided to go for the family aproach.

"Of course we love each other, were like brother and sister." I knew that wasn't what she meant but this was the truth, right?

"But mommies and daddies love each other too. Yous should be a mommy and daddy." Great I was getting relationship advice from a two year old, a very smart two year old, but still. Wait, relationship advice? Falcon was my best friend, nothing more, I swear. At that exact moment, a scientist came in carrying our "breakfast". This was the first time I'd ever been happy to see a scientist, and probably the last too. She tossed a piece of bread into each of our cages.

"Eat up, this is all your getting today since the Professor isn't testing you today." Then pointing at my cage, "Take it. The Professor wants it." A 5.0 came and picked up my cage.

"Um what happened to no testing today?" The only answer I got was the click of her heels on tile. "Helloooo? I asked a question. You know it's rude to ignore people. I-"

"Oh my god please shut it up!" the scientist whined. She sounded remarkably similar to a five-year-old who wanted icecream. I felt a sock being shoved in my mouth and taped over with duct tape. You know how you can taste smells? Well, this sock smelled and tasted like old sweaty feet, veeery sweaty feet. I felt someone open the cage and grab my arms and legs in an iron grip. I couldn't have got free even if I tried. So of course I did.

"Don't bother." The hands released me and strapped me to a chair which in turn was bolted to the floor.

"Thank you, you may go." I couldn't see but I assumed the footsteps belonged to whoever had grabbed me.

"So Fierce, how have you been?" The Professor asked with false sincerity.

"Great, just perfect. I actually got one whole piece of bread today!" I said with mock enthusiasm.

"Don't be a smart-ass, I have a serious proposal for you."

"What?" I tried to sound nonchalant but I was really curious as to just what he meant.

"You see, Mr. Chu, the owner of this school, is coming in today. I need you to agree to partake in an exhibit for him. You would be given a very simple operation and in return, i will allow you to come and go as you please." Whaaaat? Freedom?

"Let's say I actually believe you, would this freedom be just for me or for all of us? And what kind of opereation?"

"Only you would be allowed to go free. I can't tell you what the operation is, but I can assure you nothing would go wrong."

"Are you kidding me? I didn't trust you in the first place, and now you won't even tell me what your gonna do to me? How do I know I won't end up an Eraser? No i will not go along with this, not unless you let everyone go free." He shook his head like I was a stubborn little kid.

"Your loss, but my offer will still stand until the day is over. Just tell one of the interns if you agree. Taz!" A very muscular guy walked into the room and undid the straps on my chair. Once again I had no shot at escaping. Back into the cage and I was wheeled away down the hall. The day was uneventful, as was usually the case for our "vacation days". Every hour or so an intern would come in and look meaningfully at me then pretend they were doing something important. I told everyone that the Professor had just wanted to yell about the 5.0 incident. I could tell Falcon didn't believe me, but whatever. Spike was busy putting something together with a few pieces of wire he found. I wasn't going to ask; I still haven't figured out what he does with the mini bombs he makes whenever possible. Clementine was winding her perfect loose ringlet curls around her finger over and over. Chibi was humming something, I'm not really sure what, but it she wasn't bad for a little kid. Falcon was counting the barely noticeable spots on the white walls, and I was so bored I was twitching.

The door started to open slowly. I rolled my eyes, the stupid intern was probably scared of us. So you can imagine my surprise when instead of an intern, five kids appeared in the entrance to our room. 'What the heck?' was my first thought. Then crap. They were probably more experiments enhanced by the sharp serum. What did they want?

"Who the hell are you?" The short blonde who had opened the door looked taken-aback. She opened her mouth to speak, but the other girl beat her to it.

"I'm Nudge, and this is Misty, Fang, Iggy, and Gazzy, don't ask. Were here to get you out well at least that's what Max said to do. We're experiments too. We've all got wings. And yeah, I think we should let you out now and then we have to run and stuff." I had a feeling she would've kept rambling if the tall dark one hadn't walked forward and started opening cages. I climbed out of mine and warily watched them from a corner.

"Come on." The blonde, Misty motioned for us to follow her.

"Why should I trust you?" I narrowed my eyes at her. She seemed at loss for a reason.

"Because we just let you out of your cages?"

"How do I know this isn't a trap?" The one called Iggy started tapping his foot impaitiently.

"Someone's coming. We have to go now." That was impossible. There was no way he could've heard someone before me. Five seconds later I heard the steady thump of footsteps.

"Fine. But only because we have no other options." I strode forward and peeked through the crack of the door. Crap the whitecoat was too close for us to get out without being seen and he was heading right this way. "Okay, on the count of three run as fast as you can for the exit. I'll take care of the whitecoat. "One. . . two. . . three!" I pushed the door open and barreled into the whitecoat before he had time to react. Another whitecoat saw and pulled the alarm. A blaring beep started going off.

"Isn't it ironic how their favorite experiment always causes the alarms to go off?" Falcon smirked at me.

"Shut up," but I was smiling inside. Of course that smile only lasted about thee seconds because when we rounded the corner it was filled with 5.0s.

Misty POV

Now, I'm not all that great at fighting, so when we rounded a corner only to run into some robot things I was seriously worried. The flock had taught me a few things, but when it came down to a life or death fight I didn't even have a chance. Nobody made a move to attack, although cat-girl was looking seriously POed. Huh I didn't know she had claws. Everyone was getting into a fighting stance except for the little girl, the older blonde, and myself. I looked around and did my best to copy everyone else. The robots all surged forward at once, and I noticed Max and Angel running up behind us. I swung my arms and legs wildly thanking God every time one of my punches made contact. I wasn't getting far and way more punches were making their mark on me. This wasn't going well.

I had managed to get myself backed into a corner when i heard a small whimper. It was the little girl. She was curled up behind a rack of something where the robots couldn't reach her. It was only a matter of time before they tore it down, though. I reached out my hand without thinking and pulled her out. Clutching her in my arms, I jumped up and spread my wings using the rack to push me into the air. The hallway was pretty good size and had a window large enough for me to fly through. I closed my eyes and hurled myself full speed at the window. It fell like running head on at a wall and little glass shards were embedded in my skin but I made it out ok.

I rose up higher, to the point where I could see the whole building. No one else had come out yet, and I wasn't sure what to do. The girl peeked open one of her eyes.

"Where Fri-fri and Fally and Quemy and Spikey?" Those must be the others.

"They'll be out in a minute, they're just getting the bad guys."

"O-tay." She seemed satisfied with that answer.

"What's your name?" I asked.

"Chibi." It fit her perfectly. I noticed that she was wearing a collar. In fact, all of them except for the blonde had had collars. I looked closer. It had an old fashioned lock on it. Well, this gave me something to do while I waited for the flock. Keeping one arm around Chibi, I reached up and pulled a bobby pin out of my hair and started wiggling it around in the lock. All the while worrying about the others.

Fierce POV

Why does nothing ever go right? I figured we could just knock out a few whitecoats and jump out a window. But that would be too easy, right? So now we were facing about 500 new and improved 5.0s who were blocking the only way out. I felt the tips of claws poke out of my fingers. I really hoped those other kids could fight, or else we'd all be in cages within a minute. The 5.0s all surged forward at once and mind faded away to only one thought.

Escape.

I didn't plan on going back to my cage this time. I snapped the head off a 5.0 with a well place kick. My nose wrinkled in disgust a the mass of wires and gooey stuff that splatter everywhere. I'd barely finished the first one when another one sprung at me. Fights don't really go in slow motion like in the movies I've seen being watched in the staff lounge. No, in real life it's like everything is in hyper speed. You don't have time to ponder your next move it's just one thing after the next. You have to act solely on instinct. Sometime in the past 30 minutes i'd figured out that if you chopp your hand over the 5.0's head, it splits open. Messy but effective.

Somehow, I ended up outside of the Professor's office. He was standing right outside his door. Instead of looking angry or scared he looked calm. He smirked when he saw me and motioned for the 5.0s to stop fighting.

"Are you sure you don't want to take my offer? It would be much easier."

"For the millionth time, No I don't want to take your stupid offer!" He was crazy if he thought I would negotiate with him when escape was so close. Oh right, of course he was crazy. Who else but a lunatic would splice human, cat, and bird DNA?

"Your loss." He shrugged. "You'll be back, and when the time comes I'll have an offer you can't refuse." Before I had a chance to reply he clapped his hand and I was surrounded by 5.0s again.

I fought my way to the door still perplexed. "You'll be back. . ." Whatever. He probably just wanted to scare me because once I got out I was NEVER coming back to this place, even if it killed me. It wasn't much longer before I reached the door. I was the last one out and everyone was hovering just above the building.

"Fri-fri!" Chibi called out. I smiled her.

"Come on, let's get out of her-" A dart flew throught the air in front of my face.

"Split up! Everyone meet up at the edge of the forest, by the big rock!" The girl who I guessed was in charge of the others yelled. They started dipping and twisting and being generally unpredictible. My guys caught on and started to do the same type of things. More darts flew up into the air. Instant pain blossomed from where a dart had pierced my foot. I could feel whatever was in the dart burning slowly through my veins. I plucked the dart out. The letters on it danced but after a few seconds I was able to make out what it said. Expiration Serum. I looked around quickly. No one else had noticed, and no one else seemed to have got hit.

I debated whether I should tell them or not. The effects were already starting to show. I had to work twice as hard just to get my wings going.

"Report?" leader-girl asked when everyone was back.

"Fine."

"Good."

"Well this one roboty thing ripped my new shirt, but I didn't get hurt too bad or anything and I didn't get hit by a dart so yeah I'm good."

"Good."

"Good."

"Good." The girl glanced over at us.

"I'm Max. Were escaped experiments too. You can stay or leave or whatever you want. If you want to stay you can come back to my mom's with us." Interesting. I'd heard the whitecoats talk about the fall of Itex and how tons of experiments had escaped from all the branches except for the one we were kept in, but that's different.

"I'm Fierce. That's Falcon, Spike, Clementine, and Chibi," I said pointing to each of them. What about her offer? Well. . . it's not like we had anywhere else to go so I guess for now we would go with them, but only until I figured out what to do.

I was going to do a Max POV but since this took forever and I never have time to write I just left it at this.

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