A/N: Wow, it's been a reeeeeeaaaaaallyyy long time, sorry to those who have been following this story, but i've finally gotten around to updating! hooray! enjoy the new chapter!


A Visitor

Several days of torture and experimentation later, I was sitting in my cramped cage mulling over what had happened during my short time under the custody of Gentec. I had been beaten and tortured in every way you could imagine and probably some ways you couldn't. There was the repeated incinerator, the maze, and of course all the chemicals they felt like pumping into my body. Luckily I had recovered from the tests and there was no obvious permanent damage, but I was gonna need a shitload of therapy once it was all over.

I hadn't spoken more than a word or two to the other occupants of the room in the past week or so that we had been here. They still had little to no idea as to what had happened between me and the erasers during the coliseum trial. Thus they were still unaware of my apparent control of fire. Our schedules were so screwed up that we rarely saw each other, not when we were conscious at least. And so we still hadn't really talked about what we were going to do.

Jeb apparently wanted me to save the world, which was a pretty steep expectation of me. I still wasn't sure what the hell he meant by it, but from what I knew of him it was likely that there was a catch of some sort.

I finally lifted my head from where it had been resting on my arms and decided to have this talk with Max and Fang. They needed to know about my power, plus we still needed a way to get out of here. I knocked my knuckles against the side of my cage to try and get their attention. This was one of the few times that we were all in the room at the same time. They slowly turned their heads to face me and I met both their gazes before speaking.

"We need to talk."

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After telling the others about my apparent control of fire, which was just as confusing to me as it probably was to them, I mentioned that we still needed a way out of this place. I stared at them expectantly, they had done this before and so probably had a lot more experience than I did. After a few moments of Max and Fang staring at each other in deliberation, they both turned to me.

"I think you're gonna have to be our ticket out this time, Philip."

Max's statement didn't surprise me all that much, I was expecting that my power was going to play some role in whatever plan they cooked up. It was probably the easiest way to get out of here too.

But before we could plan any further we were interrupted by the door slamming open and a lone Eraser striding through it. It was carrying something though, and that something looked like a person. Well great, another experiment tossed in our room. The Eraser tossed it in the cage across from me and swiftly left the room. That was when I finally got a good look at it, or her as the case seemed to be.

Slumped over in the cage before me was a girl, one who looked to be about the same age as me. She had a slender athletic build, which was a sure giveaway that she was an experiment. There didn't seem to really be anything wrong with her, apart from her odd shoulder length hair which was almost white in color. However, that was when she shifted and I saw the sky blue wings sticking out of her back.

She awoke some immeasurable time later and immediately went stiff, her icy blue eyes darted between the three of us as she tried to back away. However, her focus shifted completely once she hit the back of her cage. She started scrambling around in her cage in an attempt to get out and eventually noticed the appendages protruding from her back. This revelation seemed to sober her up a bit, and she calmed down a little. She began examining the blue feathered limbs that she had acquired, and tears began leaking out of her eyes after a few moments.

She was obviously new to this whole thing, and she didn't seem to be taking it too well. Eventually she turned to us, being the only other people in the room. She looked at us with a sunken gaze, all the light was gone from her eyes and it seemed she had already given up hope. She finally spoke to us with a horse and scratchy voice.

"Where am I?"

I glanced at Max and Fang, both of whom were already looking at me expectantly. Guess I would be our communicator here. I turned back to the girl and answered her question as best I could.

"You're in a science lab, run by a malicious company called Gentec." I hesitated to say anything further, "We… don't know exactly where it is."

As these words left my mouth her eyes widened a bit and the worry became clear in them. The realization that she was captured and some sort of science experiment shocked her and she slumped against the back of her cage, her hand over her mouth. She then gazed at me and spoke softly once again.

"Are you…. like…. me?" she asked hesitantly.

I gave a curt nod and extended one of my wings as far as it could go in the cramped space of my cage. Her eyes widened even further at the sight of them, but then they suddenly closed and she slumped against the back of her cage. She had fainted, great.

A/N: hope you enjoyed it! R&R!!