NOT EDITED BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO CHECK IT.
Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride.
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" Dammit, where the hell could she be?" Sophi muttered, listening for any talk about an avian hybrid female child. Nothing came up. Just useless whispers of undesirables and nonsense. Sophi didn't give two shits for any other mutant other than Max's children and her own in the building. All she wanted to do was find her child and get the hell out of that death trap.
The grip on her gun loosened and tightened unconsciously, as she continued to listen to the many conversations in the hall.
" Hi." Sophi's eyes widened, but then she remembered that she had her gun, and a smirk began to play on her lips. She turned, whipping out her gun ad ready to pull the trigger, until she saw Angel's familiar crystal blue eyes go bloodshot in fear. Sophi gasped, dropping her gun, her skunk eye coming up. Gazzy stood behind Angel, holding her up to keep her from fainting.
" Gasman! What are you doing?!" She screamed, instantly covering her mouth to keep the others in the rooms from hearing her. She picked up her gun and ushered the other two to come with her to the supply closet at the end of the hall. Gazzy put his hands up in fear.
" Put the gun down, then we'll talk." He said, trying to sound frightened, only resulting in giggles. Sophi rolled her eyes, and took Gazzy's shoulder, pulling him along with Angel towards the end of the hall. She pushed them in with her, shutting the door behind her. She flicked the switch for the lights, then she turned to the siblings.
" Are you guys alright? Did something happen?" She asked, checking them for any injuries.
" No... We just happened to run into you here." Gazzy clarified, sitting on one of the wooden crates. Angel sat next to him.
" Did you find any info on where the kids could be?" Sophi asked, checking the hall , before shutting the door again.
" No, you?" Asked Angel. Sophi looked up with pain in her eyes. Angel looked distressed, she didn't mean to hurt Sophi. " I di--"
" No," Sophi said, jerking her head down and letting her hair cast a shadow over her eyes. Angel looked down also, before turning to Gazzy, who seemed to be checking his storage of bombs in his pockets. " But we shouldn't give up." Sophi piped up, surprising the two. She stood, a determined smile on her lips, holding her hand out to Angel.
" It's not over yet, now is it?" She said, a bigger and warmer smile breaking out on her face. Angel smiled and took Sophi's hand, before turning to Gazzy and taking his hand. Sophi opened the door a crack, looking around and listening carefully to the different murmurs of the halls and for any footsteps. Nothing.
" Okay, come on." She whispered, pulling Angel along and letting her go to hold the door steadily as her and Gazzy slipped out without much of a squeak from Gazzy's boot. Sophi shut the door and turned to them.
" You've checked the whole building, right?" Sophi asked, making sure, even if they hadn't said it.
" Yeah, why?" Asked the Gasman. Sophi looked around, slightly gritting her teeth.
" I need you to loo--" One loud static dash rang in their ears, interrupting Sophi mid-sentence. She bit her lip and pushed the two and herself back into the closet, picking the radio from her ankle... yes, she wrapped the walkie-talkie around her ankle with some cloth she'd torn from Iggy's bed sheets. She used and even bigger and steadier piece of cloth to hoist around her shoulder like a purse, but she made it stay securely like a sort of pouch that many others used in carrying regular pistols. She had stuffed her gun in there when she saw Angel and the Gasman, well, scared them, really.
" What?!" She hissed into the radio, clutching Gazzy's shoulder without wanting to. The voice that responded seemed taken aback at her tone.
" Um, Soph? Is this a bad time?" Asked Fang, ready to cut off the connection. Sophi rolled her eyes.
" No, not at all. Just, what is it?" She asked, with a slight hint of annoyance in her voice.
" We found the kids." Sophi face instantly brightened up, and she began to walk out the door, her hand out towards the doorknob ready to see her daughter. " But we still haven't found Kelly..." Fang said, his spirits down, but not too much. He has his own kids to worry about. As long as they were safe, he was happy. But he wasn't totally cruel. He couldn't forget about Kelly.
Sophi stopped short, her eyes into dots, as her fingers had only brushed the knob. " What...?" she barely whispered. She gritted her teeth, tears welling in her eyes. Then she snapped.
" No!" She screamed, slamming her palm against the door, startling Angel and the Gasman. Fang held his breathe, surprised at Sophi's outbreak. He turned to Max who heard the scream from the passenger seat.
" Soph, calm down--"
" No, I will not calm down!" Sophi yelled into the radio, as she threw herself against the door, leaning into it, her eyes going bloodshot, as shallow breathes streamed in and out of her mouth. She didn't even notice Angel hiding behind the Gasman as he backed up against the wall at the end of the closet.
" What do you mean you can't find her?! My baby matters too! She's my daughter, dammit!" Sophi screamed, sliding down the door, clutching the radio in one hand and her head in the other.
" Soph, we're trying ev--"
" Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Sophi screamed, letting go of the radio and covering her ears with her hands, snapping her eyes shut and gritting her teeth, tears slipping past her eyelids.
" Soph!---"
" Aah!" Sophi shrieked, standing abruptly, and turning towards the door, practically ripping it off its hinges and ran out into the hall continuing to scream. Angel and the Gasman looked at eachother, before Fang's voice came up from the radio.
" Okay, what just happened?! Soph?! Soph?!" Fang yelled frantically. The Gasman quickly picked up the radio.
" She ran off, Fang." He said, before handing the walkie-talkie to Angel. He tried his best to get the door back onto the doorway.
" Gasman? Angel's with you, right?" Asked Fang.
" Yeah..." Angel whimpered into the radio, tears welling in her eyes. The Gasman turned to her and sighed. Things are getting way more complicated than they should, Gazzy thought. He peeked through the crack of the door to see doors opening revealing confused and frightened scientists stepping out to check what is was that made such noise. One of them turned to Gazzy who froze completely, his eyes becoming dots and his body breaking out in a cold sweat. The scientist's eyes widened, backing away until he hit of the doorway, pointing at the Gasman.
" It's them! They're back! Call the chief!" He screamed, before running back into the room and shutting the door, as other, more braver, scientists stalked closer to the supply closet where the Gasman and Angel stared helplessly.
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Sophi sat in the corner of the stairwell, tears streaming down her cheeks, her eyes as puffy as they could get. She had her fists against the walls behind her, her teeth gritting to a lock jaw degree.
" I don't know what to do, Kelly." She looked up through her bangs, as if she were looking up at Kelly. " I'm sorry. I'm sorry I gave up on you. I'm sorry." She looked down again, gasping hysterically through her sobs.
" Seems I'm not the only one who's suicidal here." An almost familiar sly voice said, as heel provoked footsteps began to tap their way down the stairs. Sophi looked up, before her eyes became dots again, and she stood, swiftly pulling out her gun from its pouch, pointing it threateningly towards Kylie.
Sophi's hands were shaking at the force of her fingers on the gun. Kylie put up her hands, smiling smugly.
" Go on, shoot me, I've got nothin' else to live for, now do I, Sophi?" She said, smirking again when she said her name. Sophi's eyes widened even more at her name, backing away and hitting the wall.
" How the fuck do you know my name?" She growling, placing her finger on the trigger of the gun after it relaxed. Kylie shrugged.
" What happens when the guy you love never stops saying it. By the way, I hate you." She said, rolling her eyes and checking her nails casually. Sophi gasped, bringing the gun down.
" You're... that girl?" She asked, her heart suddenly racing in that nervous way it always did whenever she was in the same room with Iggy. Now, the mention of his person alone got to her, no matter how much she hated him. Kylie nodded, not really paying attention to Sophi. Sophi smirked, jerking her head down, her eyes still bloodshot.
" Well, that makes two of us," Sophi said, directing the answer towards Kylie's blunt remark of hating her. Kylie smiled, before turning towards the next flight of stairs.
" You're looking for your kid, right?" She asked, already knowing the answer. Sophi nodded once, keeping her head down as her bangs casted a shadow across her eyes.
" Come on, I'll bring her to you." Kylie said simply, turning towards the stairs again and descending. Sophi looked up, biting her lip wondering if she could trust her. As if Kylie read her mind, she piped up, " Max and Fang told me to help you. Said you went berserk on the radio. And I guess it's the least I can do for you. No matter how much I want to rip your guts out, I can't take it out on the kid." Kylie said, poking her head around the corner of the stairs' railing. Sophi looked down again, wondering if she could trust what cam out of that girl's mouth.
" You love your kid or not?" Kylie said, with a touch of impatience, her whole body in Sophi's view now. Sophi sighed and kept her head down, nodding. Kylie briskly sprinted down the stairs, as Sophi followed.
" The last place I know they--" A sudden gunshot blasted throughout the hall, stopping Kylie short with a sudden cough. Sophi stared down at the white blood that began to seep through Kylie's heart from the back. Kylie looked down, jerking her head with each gagging sound. She saw the blood and her eyes fluttered shut, and she fell to the floor, hitting her head on the way, only adding to her already dead state.
Sophi gasped, running down towards her body. Her eyes turned to pinpoints when she saw the stray blood that hit her wrist.
" Hah, it's not like you liked her in the first place." That all too familiar voice chuckled. Sophi looked up, gasping quickly. Iggy smirked, his features were as they should be, but his eyes told a different story. A S.W.A.T. team stood behind him, their guns cocked and ready.
" No matter how much fun I know it'll be killing you, I have other matters to attend to." He said, and Sophi gasped again. Iggy turned to the ones behind him, " Kill her." He turned towards the end of the team, as they left a path for him to walk in, down to the end of the hall. The S.W.A.T. team immediately sprang into action, firing bullets left and right over Sophi's shaking figure. She screamed and quickly flew up, running and tripping up the stairs as fast as she could to escape. The team followed, trampling over Kylie's dead and cold body.
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" We should go by the plan for Kelly before Soph has another panic att-" The sudden sound of cars pulling up caught Fang and Max by surprise. They quickly shut the doors of the van and turned to the cars, ready to pounce on whoever came out.
" It's only us." The familiar sound of Keez's uncle's voice came when the first car door opened. Then appeared the same man, smiling, but his tear-stained cheeks told a different story. More car doors opened to different friends of family and gangsters from Keez's side.
" We want to help. When we saw you guys just leave like that, we figured you were going to the source of the bastards that took your kids and who killed Keez." He turned to the rest, " We want to help."
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" So it's settled, Jared and Lillith, Pair B, are going to lead the first group, Group B, to the main floors, the first twenty or so. Smith and Kyle will go lead Group J to the next thirty floors. The rest of young guys go to any floor that went untouched. Look for a girl with strawberry blonde hair, blind eyes, probably with a swarm of scientists around her." Fang then remembered something due to the scientists idea, and got right into the men's faces. " Deadly use of violence is authorized."
" And encouraged." Said Max from behind, looking up from her baby's smiling face, a fierce look coming across her own, surprising everyone.
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" Now, are you going to talk, or do you want another dose of trigger points?"(A/N: I tried looking up SOME sort of injection that only causes pain, and came up with trigger points, appropriately named, too, huh?) The already angered as it was scientist asked, looking down his busted nose towards Gasman, who was twitching uncontrollably, pain writhing in his left shoulder. He looked up, jerking every second, and spat, " I'll never talk. A-a promise-- guh!- is a promise..." Gazzy finally passed out from the pain in his neck, rising to his head. His head slumped down, exposing the sweat on the back of his neck into the light, as a shriek could be heard from Angel, in the next room, screaming and pounding against the glass.
" Let Gazzy go!" Her muffled plea was answered, but not in the way she would have liked. The scientist nodded his head towards the failed experiment of an eraser to unlace Gazzy's hands from the chair, but leave the binding tape around his wrists. He fell to the floor with a crack, Angel screaming again when she heard it.
" Not like that, stop it! Gazzy never did anything to you!" She screamed, kicking and punching against the glass. If she could, Angel would use her powers to control everyone in the next room to do her bidding, but when the others caught her and the Gasman, they injected into both of them a sort of chemical that was able to shut down the powers temporarily, a few days, approximately.
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Okay, um, guys. To tell you the truth right now, I don't think I'll be writing Jared and the rest's adventure of the place right now. Seriously, ugh, eegh-gad!
1- I don't give two hoots about them.
2- I want this chapter up and story done soon. Then I can start the next addition to this whole thing before school starts, so I can leave you guys with something.
3- I have no ideas, whatsoever for it, so, yeah. Sometime later in my high school term I'll put it up.
I don't see how anyone's going to miss it, though. It's just actiony, not much importance. Thank you for understanding.
By the way, now that I think about it, you might get a little confused on the next scene, but, you'll get the idea later.
ALSO, I have some AWESOME news for you guys. You know about dA, right? deviantArt? Well, I have an account, and I asked someone, Nyctra(link on profile), if she could draw Soph and Ig, doing whatever it is she would want. I think over half a year ago, I asked. It makes sense, 'cause she's always so busy, but she finally got it done two weeks ago. It's a bed scene(SQUEE!) and... yeah. :D The link's on my profile. Right at the top, so you'll find it better. I love it so much! It's so cute! And Soph just looks so awesome and amazing!
I just know you guys'll love it! SQUEE!
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Sophi ran as fast as she could throughout the new route she'd just taken. The halls' lights weren't working very well, and the walls and floor weren't exactly clean. These halls seemed to be the places where things that just couldn't be left out for the whole world to see and possibly find, so they just had to put them down here.
Sophi turned to look behind her, seeing the S.W.A.T. team continue to chase her, some stopping to kneel and fire away, only catching her hair or her clothes and sometimes scrape against her leg or arms.
She furrowed her eyebrows a little, Huh, Déjà vu...
She turned again towards the S.W.A.T. team,seeing the most of them sit for half a second against a wall, taking a breather after all that running they did throughout the building. In that half-second, Sophi took a chance and ran into a room with an open door, shutting it completely and locking the dead bolt, leaning against the door and panting heavily, closing her eyes and craning her neck a little, facing the ceiling as the lights flickered, only adding to the tension in the air.
A sudden pounding on the door behind her rang in her ears. She turned to it frantically, and her heart began to race once again.
" Open up! You are requested to be terminated, don't fight it! You have no choice!" Sophi gritted her teeth, tears streaming down her dirty face.
" God help me..." she whispered, shaking her head...
" When has he ever?" A voice came up, startling Sophi. She turned, as if just noticing she'd walked in the middle of an abandoned operation. Her eyes widened when she noticed the face of the patient.
" Kelly!" Sophi rushed towards the bleeding child, her heart pounding against nothing but air. Sophi reached out with hesitant hands towards her daughter's bare and cut up body.
" Kelly, this... what..." She threw herself against Kelly's neck, holding on tightly, sobbing madly. She looked up towards the screen that monitored her life. A faint repeating beep could be heard, short bumps coming up on the line. Sophi almost smiled, trying her best to see the positive. She turned to Kelly, who had her eyes closed, not really paying attention, with death breathing down her neck.
" Kelly, we, we still have a chance!" Sophi almost laughed, her eyes going into dots again, her visage looking more insane than it should. " We still have a chance!"
"No... you don't." The same voice came up again, startling Sophi just as her hand went over Kelly's heart, her blood staining it to the mere touch. Sophi looked up, for a second, before taking notice of the blood in her hand. She screamed, backing away from Kelly and rubbing the blood the best she could off of her hand and onto her scrubs.
" You don't know how hilarious you look right now, Soph." Sophi looked up, backing herself against the wall, really wishing she hadn't dropped her gun back at the stairs. Iggy morphed out of the wall in front of her, smiling wickedly, blood splattered on his face and clothes, leading Sophi to think he had something to do with Kelly's soon-to-be death, if she didn't act fast. But she couldn't get herself off that wall. " Pretty and pathetic. All the more reason to hack your head off." Iggy came up close, pinning himself against Sophi, giving off a sense of evil. Sophi turned away, shaking with silent sobs, her hands clawing up the tiled walls, her nails ripping grains off the cement. Iggy chuckled, shaking his head.
" Worthless." He hissed, pressing his forehead to hers, making her look into his eyes. She saw nothing but hate. He reached down towards her head, grabbing onto her hair and flinging her towards the next wall, clear of her hitting the examination table where Kelly lay, the beeping of her life line growing more and more faint. Sophi hit the wall with a crack. Her hand flew up once she supported herself off the ground and felt her head. Blood seeped through her skin and onto her silver-white hair, an intense difference.
Iggy sauntered over, laughing darkly to himself. Sophi lifted herself enough to look at him, before his boot came and held her chin up, pinning and choking her against the wall's corner.
" Soph, you are making this just too easy, you know that?" He joked, bringing himself down to her height, his hand replacing her neck. Sophi brought her hands up in a desperate way to stop him from killing her. Kelly still had a chance at life. She didn't want to let her down just yet.
" And you still think you have a chance to save her." Iggy cried out, sliding Sophi up the wall, only causing more pain to her. " Look at her!" He moved aside to allow Sophi to look at her daughter. The faint beeping still rang in her ears, louder than it was in reality. Iggy turned back to Sophi, his expression almost resembling sorrow. " She's dead. She's gone!" He slammed Sophi's head against the wall, provoking even more blood to pour from Sophi's head injury. Iggy looked down, and Sophi was surprised to see tears glistening in his water lines. As if he actually cared for his daughter.
He suddenly looked up, a fierce expression frightening her. " I did care about her, dammit! She's my daughter!" He yelled, tears streaming down his cheeks, one by one. His head dropped again and his grip on her neck loosened, and he lowered her, her feet touching the ground again. Iggy let go of her, his hands instead coming up on both sides, holding himself against the wall.
" I tried to stop them..." Sophi didn't reply, she only stood there, shock filling her mind. " I tried to stop myself..." Iggy muttered, as he began to squat, but the sudden sound of a bullet stopped him, his head snapping up, staring at Sophi with bloodshot eyes, surprising her terribly. She pressed herself against the wall, not realizing Iggy had been hit in the stomach, conveniently going through the little chip that had gotten Iggy into this mess in the first place. He looked down, jerking his head with each movement, just as Kylie did when he shot her, but this time he'd been shot in the stomach, and had as much a chance of living as Kelly did. Iggy looked back up, collapsing in front of Sophi, giving her a clear view of who the shooter was.
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I'd like you guys to guess. I want to know who you think it may be.
Pretty obvious, though, once you think about it.