3 months later
"Doctor? We have the results of Maximum Ride." A women ran into the room I was in with Angel, Nudge, and Lissa. The lady looked ecstatic… I already knew why though. I felt my face harden and put up a mental wall so Angle couldn't read my mind.
The man smiled. "Well out with it. We might as well share the news with the young women right now."
"The first phase of the experiment was a success." She rushed out her words like she had been holding them in for a while now. I could feel my eyes burn like I was going to cry.
Angel looked at me weird and shook her head. "I don't understand. What was the experiment you did to Max?"
"Well child we wanted Maximum to reproduce with Dylan and it was a success!" The Doctor clapped his hands. The tears started to roll down my face now. "Now Maximum, shall we put you with the older avian high breeds? I think you deserve a little reward. I think that the gymnasium will be a nice place for you to let loose your pent up energy indeed." He waved his hands toward the woman to undo my restraints.
After I was free I just followed the Doctor. It wasn't worth trying to escape or fight back anymore I already knew that the chip was my personal hell and very well they would do something to some one else in the flock.
"Here we are Maximum. Now play nicely with the others we don't want the little one hurt now." The Doctor laughed when he opened the door to the room where Fang, Iggy, Dylan and Gazzy were locked up. When I didn't move I just glared at him with such hatred. "You can get in there or I can shock you and we both know what would happen then."
I looked out of my peripheral vision and saw all of them starring at me and the Doctor strangely. "One day I am going to beat the ever living shit out of you and your not going to be able to do anything about it Jack ass." I walked forward leaving the Doctor to slam the door shut behind me. I saw a corner and went and sat down carefully. I pulled my knees up to my chest and rested my head on them starring at the wall next to me. Shadows fell around me.
"Max? What happened? Are you ok?" Dylan kneeled down in front of me trying to look me in the eye.
I looked at him. Oh why not release some energy. I leaped at him and got my hands around his throat. "No I am not ok! What the hell do think?! That oh everything is just fine and dandy that I don't want to kill myself right now along with you? Dylan I swear to god you created my personal hell and I have to live with it to protect the flock!" I let go of his throat and stood up.
"Max?" Gazzy looked at me funny. "What did they do to you that you don't like Dylan anymore?"
"Nothing sweetie. It was a problem between us before." I tried faking a smile, except Fang glared at me for my lie. "What you have something to say Fang?"
"Yeah I do actually. Do you mind coming over here for a second so I can talk to you by myself?"
I sighed. Perfect just what I needed, Fang decides to be my best friend again yay! "Fine." I walked with him across the large room that they got to move around in. The others huddled together and occasionally looked at me weird. Dylan just had a stupid lopsided grin plastered across his face.
"It worked didn't it." Fang sat down against the wall and looked at me. "That's why you wanted to kill Dylan."
I nodded my head slowly and started to cry. "God Fang just kill me. I cant take it anymore I hate it." I started punching the brick wall as hard as I could. I felt a slight pain in my arm where the chip was. I turned around and saw the Doctor standing in the door way with a few other scientists. " I hate this place! You all need to rot in hell for what you have done to my flock." I growled stacking towards the Doctor. The Doctor kept pressing the button and the pain got worse but I had to end what I kept thinking about for the three months I have been locked in here. I grabbed the remote out of his hands and threw it against a wall smashing it.
"Gertrude the antithetic!" The Doctor screamed at scientist I saw one had a syringe in her hand. I grabbed it and stepped on it making the tube explode under my foot. I looked back up in time to see the Doctor pull a gun, I sighed in relief in side my head.
"Do it. I dare you to." I smiled. "Because we both know your first little experiment didn't work out so you need me around." The doctors face faltered. "So Doctor lets get something straight, you can either kill me right now or let the flock go and keep me around."
He lowered the gun and thought about it. "I don't even know why we keep them around because it is obvious that no leverage is needed any more. Fine, they can leave tonight." He motioned for a scientist to take me back to that room with the girls. "Make sure that she doesn't talk for the rest of the day. If she tries to fight back use the back up remote and put it at the top notch to ensure that it will make her behave."
I flinched remembering the last time I didn't listen and they did that. The scientist grabbed my arm and led me back to the room where the girls were. He opened the door and threw me in not even bothering to make sure I didn't start banging against a wall or something.
"Max? What's wrong that scientist is saying how happy he is he is only going to have to deal with one of us now." Angel looked at me with wide eyes.
"Nothing sweetie. Were going to be safe after tonight." I nodded trying to reassure myself. I walked over to her and hugged her as hard as I could. "If anything ever happens to me promise that you will make sure Iggy and the gasman don't blow up anything, and that everyone is safe."
"Max what are you talking about?" Angel pushed me away and looked at me frustrated.
"you guys will be safe after tonight… Not me." I had to tell her without letting down the wall. I felt a shock and screamed and fell to the floor panting. "Promise me Angel. Right now promise me you will make sure everyone is ok."
She nodded frantically. "I will Max." I saw tears stream down her face.
"Don't worry sweetie I'll see you guys some day. Just not anytime soon, I have to do something for the white coats so they leave you guys alone." I tried standing up and felt another shock and screamed again.
"Remember what I said Maximum. Disobedience leads to pain, and it can get much worse than this trust me." Someone went over the intercom and there voice echoed around the room shaking the window that led to the hallway. "Don't say anymore about our little arrangement or I will make sure that you don't get to say good bye to any of them."
I nodded sharply and crawled over to a corner. I was silently fuming. The great Maximum Ride had been reduced to this… Huddling in a corner hoping for a miracle. I was never going to get one though because I gave it up for the flock.
That night I woke up to someone opening our rooms door and them grabbing Angel, Nudge and Lissa. "Don't fight against us or-" The Doctor pressed his button again and this time it was so bad that I screamed so hard I could feel my throat going dry.
"Alright we get it we behave or you make Max scream. Go it." Lissa spoke dryly. "Now do we atleast get to know whats going on." She looked at them and they feel into a sort of trance.
"Maximum is staying so that the rest of you may leave. We were given orders not to try and find any of you unless Maximum escapes the facility, which probably wont happen because in approximately six months she will have another little one to look after." The white coat shook his head and dragged Lissa out of the room kicking and screaming the whole way. Angel and Nudge looked at me sitting in the corner rubbing my arm their eyes were wide.
The other white coats had to carry them out on gurneys because they were fighting so hard and don't even get me started on the boys. They were worse than Angel and Nudge. Well except for Dylan he was strapped to a gurney and passed out.
The Doctor came into the room. "Don't you want to say good bye Maximum?" I stood up slowly and followed the Doctor outside to a field surrounded by barbed wire I could see the electric current go through it though.
"Your going to turn it off aren't you?" I asked.
"Yes for the little ones we will for the bigger ones they are going to have to fight through the pain. One last experiment for them." He smiled.
"I hate this place." He pressed the button and I fell to the ground screaming again. "What about your precious experiment Doc? Won't all this pain ruin it?"
"Already checked and we are good for a couple more months Maximum."
"In that case-" I pulled out my wings. "I should be okay for a little escape project." I flapped down hard and pushed past the electric current. The shocks hurt more than that thing ever would. I pushed into overdrive and was gone in a flash flying over the Rocky Mountains and feeling a sharp pain in my arm every now and then but the farther I went the less it hurt.
I stopped around midnight and landed at the base of a pine tree surrounded by rocks. I layed down against it and fell into a deep sleep.