Nudge POV

Max...

Max's voice...

Angel's voice....

My name?

"Nudge, wake up!" Max cried, shaking my shoulders. My eyes fluttered open and I got a blurry image of Max, crying. When she saw me open my eyes her face lit up. "Nudge!"

"Max...?" I asked. It felt like a dream. A nightmare to be in this place, but a dream to have Max here. And Angel. "AH!"

I struggled against my binds to the table a lay on as the reverse IV drip sucked in more of my blood. The sharp pain, the feeling of getting weaker, then the pain it gave when you move...

This was what I had been dealing with for the whole time I was here. But now Max was here, she could get me free. We would be back with Fang and Iggy and Gazzy...

"Nudge! Are you okay?" Max asked, startled.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said through gritted teeth. "Where are the others...?"

Max was silent and she bit her lip. I felt like I shouldn't have asked. Then Angel started to get me out of my binds, and Max pulled the reverse IV out of my arm.

I got up, but sat back down immediately. I felt woozy, like I was going to throw up. Probably from blood loss, which, according to the Whitecoats, was in that giant metal thing being cloned for all the other people in here.

"Here, we'll be right back." Max said, making sure I kept sitting down. "We should get these guys out of their cages."

Max started running down the isles, unlocking cages, telling them to help unlock the others.

"You! Stop!"

Oh, crap.

Max POV

I turned to see a group of Whitecoats, pointing to us. Crap.

"I said stop!" She yelled again, making all the people who had been let out of their cages stop.

But, being me, I ignored them and charged at the Whitecoats.

All of them stepped aside quickly, tripping over eachother. I slammed my fist into one's stomach, who fell down and toppled over a Whitecoat behind them. One tried to grab my shirt collar, but I spun around (ripping a part of my shirt) and punched them right across the neck, rewarded with a sickening snap!

"Angel! Destroy that metal thing next to Nudge!" I yelled, taking down two Whitecoats with a nice kick to knees. "Then get Nudge outta' here!"

Angel nodded, and ran over to it. I was able to get a glimpse of her smashing it open, when a Whitecoat used a stun-gun on my back.

The shock made me flinch, but, being a mutant, I was able to withstand it. I knocked the stun-gun out of his hand, and I think I broke their hand while I was at it. Three of them tried to grab at my arms, but I shook them off and did a kick-spin thing which knocked them all down. I smiled, and grabbed the last one's head in my hands. Releasing all my anger on them for taking Nudge, I snapped their neck and they fell down, landing on the floor with a small thump.

Now there was none left, standing at least, and I started helping unlocking the cages while Angel pummeled the metal box. I left the others I had freed from cages take care of the rest, and I ran over to Nudge. I put her arm over my shoulder and helped her up, and Angel helped get her other side after delivering one last kick to the metal box.

We limped outside, which was morning now.

"Your back!" I said happily, now that we had a moment of peace.

"Yeah..." Nudge smiled, looking both tired and weak. I unfurled my wings, and Angel followed, but when Nudge tried to I stopped her.

"I'll carry you, don't worry." I said, grabbing her and taking off into the cool morning air. It was harder for me, but she could get at teals some rest.

"Wait, Max, what are we going to do now?" Angel asked.

After a moment of hesitation, I made my decision. "Find Fang."

Fang POV

After we had taken a stop at McDonalds and eaten most of their food, we were sitting in an alley way resting.

"Hey, uh, Fang?" Gazzy asked, who was extremely tired from not getting any sleep lately.

"Yeah?" I asked, feeling tired myself.

"I don't want to stay away from Max and Angel." He said after a second. "I want to find them and stay with them."

I stayed silent. Truthfully, so did I, but how would we find them? And would Max forgive me and let us stay with her? Those things held me back from creating a plan.

"Uh huh. So do I." Iggy gave in to missing them, too.

"Okay, we should go back to the forest and see if they are there still, or maybe around the area." I said, getting up and brushing my jeans. "Maybe we'll see them flying."

Gazzy and Iggy's face lit up, and they got up to. We made sure that no one was watching as we took off into the air.

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Max POV

We were just flying around, hoping we would see Fang and Iggy and Gazzy. Even if they were four miles away, with our raptor vision we could see them. I scanned the horizon, when three black dots in the distance showed up.

"Oh my God, is that them?" I asked, but wasn't able to point since I was still carrying Nudge.

"I think it is." Angel beamed.

"FANG!" We all called as loud as we could. "GAZZY! IGGY!"

We flew as fast as we could towards them, and they got closer and closer until we could see their faces instead of just faces.

"Max!" Gazzy said, attempting to hug me which didn't turn out to well in the air. I looked at Fang, who was biting his lip.

"Hey, guys!" I said, trying to let go what happened earlier.

After a moment of awkward, Fang cleared his throat.

"So, you forgive us?" Fang asked, breaking the silence.

I beamed at him. "Yes."

And then Fang did one of the most un-Fang like things ever. He smiled too.

And for awhile we just flew aimlessly around, happy to be back together again. The cold air blowing my hair around didn't bother me as much, as long as they were back.

"So, Max, where are we going?" Fang asked after a while.

After a moment, I replied to it with the same answer I had given him that seemed like a life time ago.

"Place, Fang. We're going places."

The End