Hello people of this world! I realized that I had almost completely forgotten about this story. Sorry people… but I will also warn you it's going to get kinda sad. I don't normally get this depressing but just to warn you its kinda sad… On with the Story! Enjoy!
I thought for a moment, decided not to panic, and then turned back to Fang.
He looked at me, probably thinking if I was going to puke all over him or what.
I was staring at him when all of sudden two Erasers' were standing behind Fang, horror must have been written all over my face, because Fang looked at me then turned around to see what was freaking me out.
"Hello lovebirds." The first Eraser said as him and his companion each shot a dart-gun at us, knocking us both out almost instantly.
I fell and Fang caught me, only for a second because he fell down only seconds after… at least he broke my fall… ok yeah that was terrible.
2 Days later…
I woke up and was strapped down to the bed. I moaned inwardly, why? What's up with waking up in a cage, or strapped down to a table, or in an isolation tank? For once I'd like to wake up in my own bed at home with none of this dumb drama. I brought my head up and it felt like it weighed a freaking ton. I was able to look around to see my flock strapped in the same position as me, most of them were awake. But they looked depressed.
"Yeah Max we are depressed." Angel said, obviously reading my negative thoughts. Oops…
"Well they normally let us loose for a second, like a last minute exercise before they torcher us some more…" Nudge said sounding very, very un-Nudge like. I turned my head to look at her; she was tied down to the bed next to me. She was staring up at the ceiling as if it was the only thing she could see, she had tear streaks down her face, and she was frowning, all spaced out…
All of a sudden all of our wrist and ankle bands unlocked, letting us all be able to sit up or move around. Fang and I sat up instantly but the kids it took more time. It looked pained and strained, like it took a lot of effort. I looked at them confused, and Angel looked at me I could also see she had been crying, in fact all of them looked like they had been crying. Their eyes were blood shot from unshed tears; they had streaks on their faces where the dirt had been washed away by their tears. They had been in here two days more than Fang and I; the white coats had kept us separated. I don't know why but whatever, I was just glad to be with my flock again. But whatever the dumb scientist did to them I was going to tear them apart!
"So, report on injures?" I asked cautiously. No one answered, but they all looked at each other and Nudge stood up. Her lips pressed tight together as she got off the bed. Tears already welling up in her eyes, Nudge rolled her shoulder and unfurled her wings. My mouth dropped completely open, her wings were torn to pieces. Each and every bone in her wings must have been broken. Even some of the feathers had been plucked.
"Um, are all your wings like that?" I asked softly, Gazzy, Iggy, and Angel all nodded.
"Yep." Nudge said, "Our wings are broken beyond repair. We will never fly again."
"Well from what the white coats are thinking, we will never do anything ever again." Angel said. "We are scheduled for retirement."
Ok if your heart did not just break then there is something seriously wrong with you… my heart broke into a million pieces. I looked at my beaten flock, they were all defeated. Nudge folded her wings loosely, not really caring what happened at this point. I looked at Nudge her face was normally full of happiness, and life, now she looked, depressed, like her mind was someplace else. She was frowning and her eyes seemed distant, closed off to the world. Looking around I saw Gazzy looking down not wanting to meet anyone's eyes, I saw tears in his eyes as reality set in. Angel sat quietly, her eyes closed but tears still leaked out from behind her eyelids. Lastly I glanced at Iggy, and that broke the last piece of my heart. He calmly had his wings outstretched and resting on his little cot. He did not even have enough strength to act like he cared. I looked at Fang to find him already looking at me. I wished with all of my heart and soul and where ever else you can dream from that this had never happened.
"Well how come they did not break mine and Max's wings?" Fang asked.
"It's because you and Max are not being retired." Angel said so softly and with so much pain, that if I did not have extreme bird kid hearing I would not have been able to make it out. I looked at her, she hopped off of her little cot where she was perched and came over to me crying like the broken 7 year-old she was. I broke down right there, seeing her scratched up face, her cuts, her bruises, her broken wings. I scooped her off of the ground and into my lap, where she proceeded to bury her face against my shoulder. My little baby cried her eyes out against me, while I tried not to cry, while I could only sit there and wait for them to drag my family away kicking and screaming. No… I will get them out of here. If I have to sacrifice my own life to do it, if it's the last thing I will ever do, I'll do it.
I saw it all so clearly…
All of the things we had lived through…
From Erasers to Flyboys…
From Africa to Europe…
From my fight with Maya to the plane ride with her…
From dumpster diving to exploding pizza…
From flying out of the Dallas Cowboys stadium to Flying over Paris…
From being a full flock to turning into two mini flocks…
From every single flock member being there with me to each one of them leaving at one point or another…
From Fang leaving me 3 freaking times to him actually dying…
From a concert in New York to sleeping in a subway tunnel…
Form Colorado to Arizona…
From Fang to Dylan…
From Iggy leaving for his parents' house to Nudge wanting to go to school and not be with them…
From Anne Walker to Dr. Martinez…
From an Eraser trying to kill you every day to finding out his your brother right before he dies…
From Lissa to Sam…
It's time for the flock to go Max… They are holding you back…
"NO!" I screamed/whispered/snarled, I sat up abruptly or at least tried to… I was jerked back down from my ankle and wrist bands that they held us down at night. I sighed.
Not funny voice. I thought.
Max I'm not kidding, they are holding you back. If you didn't have them none of those things would have happened and you could already be down with saving the world… you care to much about them.
Shut up. I wondered if I could snarl a thought, if you could I just snarled that last one.
You need to know, all you really need is Dylan, I don't even know why they are letting Fang live.
I need Fang way more than I would never need Dylan. I will never need Dylan the way I need Fang!
Oh Maximum, they are just repeats of you, copies of your basic foundation, they were just here to keep you company while they worked on creating Dylan. Please Max this will be so much easier when you let them go.
Never! I will never let the flock go, they are my world, if I lose them then I would have never completed my job to save the world… because those kids, my flock. They are my world! They are my entire world! I will Not let them die, I won't let the dumb white coats "retire" aka kill my flock! No way!
No response what so ever from my fortune-cookie-weird-stupid-advice-voice. Good! I don't need it's negative attitude around.
Anyways now that I'm done with that little rant, it was late… I think, no windows so no way to know what time it was. But I started guessing that because the white coats had not checked in on us means it's still too early for the white coats to be "on the clock" ha-ha like they are ever not on the clock. Whatever, this gave me time to think of an escape plan.
About 1 day later… maybe.
We were all quiet; there was nothing to really say. I'm pretty sure that the kids knew just as well as I did that their time was drawing to a close. I held on to them as if my life depended on it. Right now Gazzy sat on my right his head on my shoulder, Nudge on my left, silently crying. I had my arm around her, rubbing in between her wings.
Angel sat across from us in Fang's lap, she had her head hidden in Fang's chest. I knew she was hiding her tears from the rest of us. Iggy sat next to Fang, sitting quietly. His sprit was broken I knew that. He had not said a single word to any of us since Fang and I arrived.
We were all facing each other just enjoying each other's company, our last moments together. I had no idea when they would come for the kids. But it was agonizing, knowing that they could come and rip them out of my grasp at any moment. I would kill to keep these kids with me forever. I would, trust me I need them that much.
The double doors swung open and I swear we all jumped a foot in the air. The kids got even paler if that was possible. They had not feed them so you could see their ribs, so they were already pale to begain with.
The time had come.
My flock, my kids were about to be murdered, and I knew it was not going to be over quickly.
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