Previously on Gears of Love:
The door opens and everyone's heads instantly snap towards the door. I glare when I see who it is, and I notice the flock do the same. We didn't want to believe it and I was still trying to convince myself, it wasn't true. But, that all went down the drain when he said my name.
"Why hello Maximum, fancy meeting you here."
Chapter 6
MAX POV
"Can't say the same for you" I spat at him. I think my blood pressure just went up 500%. He frowns and attempts to greet Fang; he just stays silent. When he and Fang start a glaring war, which Fang is winning, I look around; no one else is in the room except the flock and him. I'll now take this moment to explain things. This man that we all hate deeply is none other than our 'father', trainer, and supposedly the person looking out for us, ladies and gentlemen; I give you, Jeb Batchelder.
I remember one time when I was sitting in my room; I had just turned eight when I was put into a group for training. My group was the strongest obviously, but everyone thought we were weird. Except one that is, Jeb, our handler. He would always support us no matter what and stand up to whoever tried to control us or hurts us. He was like our father.
Until now that is…
"I have missed you guys so much." Jeb says with a malicious smirk on his face.
"Good for you, tell it to someone who cares. And who doesn't want to tear your body apart limb by limb" I say, venom spilling from my mouth. "And if you could maybe talk to the director, we could use some paint to decorate. It just looks too much like crazy a-holes live here, you know?" Iggy bursts out laughing, with Nudge and Angel not far behind. I could feel Fang chuckling in the crate next to mine. Jeb was a tomato it was hilarious, and soon I was joining the rest of them, ritcl. (A/N: Rolling In The Crate Laughing. Get it?) Jeb stormed out of the room with a look that could kill. Soon the laughter died down and everyone was turning to me.
"What is an a-hole?" Gazzy asked. His eyes were so blue and innocent, it was so cute! Ahem… excuse my girly moment. That of course sent Iggy into another laughing fit. Angel was laughing while Nudge tried, in vain, to explain to Gazzy what it was.
"Max." I turned to face Fang.
"What?"
"What are you planning on doing here?"
"I never planned on being here in the first place. But, I think we should learn more about what they did to us now that we are here anyway." Fang nods in agreement and turns back to the flock silently.
~1 Day Later~
An Eraser came barreling through the door. Probably a new one I thought, his coordination is worse than a drunken person's. "Mr. Batchelder wants to speak with you." More erasers come in and we were taken roughly to Jeb's office.
"No struggle Maximum? Seems unlike you, what are you planning on doing?" Jeb asks with a smirk.
"Nothing, for the moment as long as you tell me what I want to know." I say glaring at him with an unspoken threat lining my voice. He gestures for me to continue which the classic I don't know what you're talking about face. "What you did to us in this god forsaken place." I say calmly. I didn't spend 10 years in international intelligence for nothing.
"It simple Maximum, you got wings on your backs and plus, you became stronger and better humans you should be thanking me not plotting my demise." Jeb reasons as if that is the is the most obvious thing in the world. Like I would ever thank him. "I will make you a deal, you come back and work for us, and I will let your little friends go." He offered gesturing to the flock.
"Like hell you would, no deal!" I stood up furious and my flock followed. "They're my family, and I would never ever work for you or any of your sick friends ever again." I turned to leave when he grabbed my shoulder.
"You know you will have every international authority after you if you go rogue. I would think about that you don't want to do something you'll regret." Jeb cautioned with a caring tone.
I stalked up to him and looked him dead in the eye. "the only thing I regret is signing that contract ten years ago." Then I punched him and we prepared for a fight as erasers opened the door. We're getting out of this hell hole.
~Time Skip~
I punched another Eraser's snout as he tried to grab me. We had been going at it awhile now but they just kept coming and coming. I looked around and saw everyone holding their own against these monsters.
"Max, duck!" Nudge yelled. I immediately ducked, and just a spilt second after, an Eraser was grabbing the air –with a vicious force- where my head used to be. I grabbed his arms pulled him down to the ground into a choke hold. Soon, he was unconscious and the number of Erasers dwindled, we were alone. For the moment anyway, the door we had wanted to open was locked, leaving us as sitting ducks in a building full of people wanting to KILL us. My life sucks.
Fang pushes me aside, and heads toward the door. "Hey!" I say, and Fang gives me an Are you serious? look combined with a How come you didn't think of this? look. I had a light bulb moment followed by a face palm moment. Then Fang proceeds to break down the door. Why didn't I think of that you ask? Well, I just so happen to be an idiot today.
We had been flying for hours when suddenly we flew right into a storm. The winds were pulling us each and every way and the rain was making it even harder to fly. We started to fall and I saw Gazzy go into Fangs arms to protect himself. I gestured Angel over and held her as I tried to slow down the fall. When I hit the ground my head landed on a boulder. My vision went blurry; the last thing I saw was a middle age Hispanic women and then my vision went black.
Anyone who can guess who it is gets to meet the flock in the next chapter! Also if I could get 3 reviews it would be great, and I know more people than that read the story, so it shouldn't be too difficult.
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