Maximum Ride: The New Breed

[Stella]

I was kind of shocked at the statement, but understood the comment.

"Uh...what just happened here?" Rose wondered outloud.

"We all have our secrets right?" I decided, "And not all of them are should be told. A lot of junk happened at the School. Stuff that should never have happened. Reliving stuff like that is painful."

Everyone looked in a different direction, refusing to look in each others eyes. Including me.

Life is hard for a mutant-bird-kid. I took off after Reed and Lexy, afraid that our friendship had just come to a complete stop.

(ZT)

I glanced around, wondering if I should wait for the others. I didn't... I shot into the air after them.

I got up there, and a few flock followed me.

Then I saw it in the distance... a group of Erasers. No, the Flybots. The mechanical ones. A bolt of lightning shot towards us, and I almost jumped... if that were possible in midair. The lightning didn't reach us, but I could tell what it had come from. The guns in the Flybots... paws? New weapons. Could we take them?

*I checked out the DT... *

[Blade]

Blade glanced at the others, who were still standing dumbstruck on the ground, shrugged, and took off after ZT, Reed, and Lexy.

She came up near ZT and saw him staring into the distance, Flybots. A pack of them. They seemed to be moving toward us faster than usual. Their flying wasn't near as lopsided. Crap, she thought, Improvements.

They reached range and Blade tensed her muscles for a fight. Just as she was about to launch a roundhouse at the nearest Flybot, he raised his arm and shot a whip of lightning her way. Her muscles were stunned momentarily and she dropped several feet.

She shook her head, quickly shooting back up. Looks like they've got a few tricks up their sleeves.

(Lexy)

I flew in the air and tried to hold in tears but I just couldn't the rain started pouring down. I was soaking the moment it came down I felt an hand come around my fore-arm and I came to a complete stop. It was Reed.

"What do you want?" I asked in a raspy voice but I wasn't being rude about it. "Look, if you came here to rub it in my face that I can't be trusted just do it. Get it over with."

"That wouldn't be fair."

"You think this is fair?" I asked showing him more of my wings.

"Well, no having wings isn't fair, but I'm not the type of person you think I am. I don't get pleasure from others pain or from them being wrong." Reed said calmly. "I know what it feels like to have a secret. You don't have to tell them." Reed said squeezing my arm. I didn't even think he noticed he was doing it.

"Thanks." I said in a whisper.

Reed-

"Now if you don't mind." I said moving away from Lexy, "I've got a Flybot to take down."

"Right behind you." she yelled after me.

As we approached the Flybots one turned toward me and flicked his lightning gun. A bolt of electricity streamed toward me and hit my chest. Energy immediately charged my senses and I slammed into the Flybot. With barely any time any time to react, the Flybot took a punch to the mouth. It's energy flowed into me and with nothing to power it, the Flybot hurdled toward earth. I smiled, only a couple dozen more.

(Lexy)

I didn't exactly know what to do, I mean sure the regular erasers were even hard but what the hell? Robot erasers. I hit it's hard hand with my fist almost feeling like I broke it. I rammed my leg into one of its scrap metal legs. It's grip wrapped tightly around my throat closing off my air. I grabbed the back of it's head.

"If I go down so do you." I said ripping it's wing off and closing both of mine. As I fell backward with the erasers still strangling me, we were both going down. I lost air as I finally saw nothing but darkness... fallen from grace.

[Stella]

“Crap. Do these guys ever give up?” I suddenly noticed Lexy falling to the ground. Never a good sign. I dove towards her and noticed Reed doing the same. He got there before me and caught her.

We’re stronger than most, no, all humans, so carrying a girl was no problem. It was the robot that I was worried about. Without really thinking about it, I did my thing and found the weak points in the Eraser body.

“Its strangling her.” Anger was flooding his voice. So I simply detached its body from its arms. Weight was no longer a matter.

“I’ll take her. I don’t have many fighting skills.” Reed nodded and gave me Lexy, flying up to kick some Eraser butt. The robotic arms still had an iron grip on her and I willed them to let go as I circled down. It didn’t work.

Mayze flew up and gave me a worried expression. “What happened.”

“Crap happened.” I muttered. “As soon as I take care of these arms, she should be okay. Go fight.” She nodded and entered the fight. I landed soon after and examined the mechanics, knowing I didn’t have much time. I found the things that made its arms move and managed to take off the arms without hurting Lexy. She still wasn’t breathing. Crap. I had no idea what to do to get her to breath. I was helpless.

My own throat was starting to close up. And I did the only thing I could do. I screamed. Sort of. It came out as a hoarse whisper at first, but the second time it was loud and clear. “Help!”

[Blade]

Some of the flock went down to help Lexy, but Blade was trapped between about six Flybots. She dodged their lightning to her best ability, knowing that she couldn't afford to be 'stunned'. "What's the matter?" she growled, sneering at the nearest Flybot, "Can't take me on your own?"

The Flybot's limited facial features arranged themselves in a funny pissed off expression. He launched a solid kick into her gut. Her breath wooshed out of her, and the Flybots took the opportunity to stun her. All at once.

She was falling, the wind streaking past her eyes in fury. She snapped her wings out, Ow. and regained altitude.

The Flybots surrounded her, all attacking at once. They followed when she fell from the stun guns. And then, the Flybot in front of her grinned. His punched in a code on a weird datapad on his arm, and his arm whirred.

"What the...!" Blade began, but the Flybot's arm transformed into a sharp knife. And he thrust it through her heart.

She shrieked, the pain so fierce it made it almost too high for her own ears. She heard her name. The pain started in her heart and quickly worked its way through her body like a poison. Her limbs grew numb from a lack of blood.

And she hit the ground, giving one last breath

**I decided to do it fast, I'll bring in my new character soon**

[Stella]

My scream was drowned out by another and soon after, I heard a crushingly dull thud. I was ready for a Flybot but the ground was surrounded by a pool of blood. Robots don't bleed. Bird-kids do. And we need that blood to stay inside us.

The figure wasn't breathing. I didn't need my x-ray vision to see that there was almost no blood inside that figure. It was Blade.

I tried to focus on saving Lexy, the one who could be saved. Tears blinded me as I pushed down hard on her chest. After what seemed like hours, her heart beat faintly under my hands. Lexy was alive. I wiped my tears from my face and walked over to Blade.

The flock above me was in a rage. Robotic bodies were flung to the ground like rain drops. I didn't notice. All I saw was the blood at my feet. I bent down and brushed her pale face. It was cold. She was cold. My hand dropped and fell into the blood.

Memories came flooding to me. They had hit me, slashed me with knives just to see how fast they would heal. I hadn't even spoken, tried to protest. And we had gotten out of there. We were free.

Anger swelled in me and I stared up into the bright sky. My eyes burned with tears and complete pain. Blood was rushing through me; adreniline.

Without trying, I saw the circutry of the Flybots. The bones of my flock. I opened my wings and shot into the sky.

I punched a Flybot to the ground. My knuckles were bleeding and it fueled my rampage.

I saw Reed bring a one down with one powerful kick, ZT had just punched one's lights out.

I felt the sting of a blade on my arm and I whipped around to see a Flybot aiming its next stroke from a few yards away. Blood was dripping from most of the blade, as if it had droven it into somebody's vital organ. Into somebody's heart.

I completly froze, remembering Blade's pale face. My anger was suddenly gone and the sorrow set in. My limbs suddnely were heavy and I was exauhsted. The Flybot charged.

Reed-

I saw a flybot charge Stella. No, I thought, not another death. And I fired a shot of electricity out of a gun I had got from a flybot. It hit Stella in the head momentarily stunning her. She dropped several feet, saving her life by inches as the flybot's arm-blade just missed her head. Then I dropped down to attack it myself.

(Lexy)

I felt an some sort of electric wave hit me. My eyes sprang open and I threw myself out of someones hands. I fell a few feet and stopped myself from hitting the ground. I made my wings carry me upward a bit. I screamed closing my eyes in so much frusteration, I had felt like a knife had been stabbed in there, immediatley blodd began pouring out but I didn't feel anything. I felt pain because now, I knew that someone had died.... but who? I could feels others pain, and this other was dead.

"Blade?" I said shaking my head as rain fell. There was a scar all around my neck, looking like long cat claws. I couldn't exactly talk.

"Lex, your bleeding." Reed said.

"She doesn't feel it though?" Rose said.

"I think you better tells us what your grand secret is..." Stella spat.

I'm going to enter with cat4prowl's new character IF that's all right with you guys.

Name: Lynx

Age: 15

Characteristics: 5', slim, golden eyes, dirty blonde hair, chocolate brown wings.

Personality: Would rather be a follower than a leader. Is quite and tends to stay on the side lines. When she says something, it's either from a direct question or when provoked.

Special Traits: Re-directs any of her feelings toward any living object within 1 mile radius. Making that creature feel what she feels, she no longer has that feeling until she stops using her "Special trait".

That's all right with me. It will be good to have new blood to Experiment on. Mwahahahahaha!!!

(Rose)

Rose ran across the ground away from Lexy and Stella, her hair whipping her face. She tore over to Blade her whole body shaking with shock. Blade lay still and pale, her eyes staring into nothing.

Rose felt like all the blood and straight thoughts were draining out of her as she look at Blade's limp body. Rose bent down and sat on the ground.
"Blade" she whispered as if she could hear her.

Rose looked round at everyone. Some people were still fighting the last bots. Lexy was still bleeding and Reed was taking down another flybot.

A robot body was falling out of the sky. Rose screamed, tore away from Blade and closing her eyes. The robot smashed into the ground flinging up a mound of dirt and spraying it over Rose. She screamed again and opened her eyes, hoping it hadn't hit Blade's body. It had only just missed.

Another flybot was falling after ZT and Reed had destroyed it. It was heading for were Stella and Lexy had landed. Rose followed the speed it was falling, shot off into the air and slammed her feet into it. It swirled away from were the flock were fighting and Rose landed on the ground. Electricity was buzzing through her from the robot. Above she heard ZT cheer as he finally knocked a flybot away.

Rose coughed and joined Lexy again, waiting to see if she would say anything about her secret.

Name: Chaos

Age: 15

Characteristics: nearly six foot and proud of it, muscular, angular face, black shaggy hair, intense blue eyes, attractive

Personality: definitley a leader, tough, rebellious, optimistic, if you don't like him, thats just too bad, doesn't raise to bait too easy, all for teamwork

Side: escaped(you will see where from)

Special Traits: he's actually 3% percent bird, a gamble taken by the scientists(you'll see) to improve his flying. He is a natural flyer, but can be a little strange sometimes.

**I will introduce him and Lynx when you guys settle down from the battle a little bit. His history will be explained**