Maximum Ride: The New Breed

(Rose)

Rose's wings were splayed out in shock at the truck. She wanted to fly away. The flock watched steam coming from the truck. Rose hoped ZT was ok.

The flock glanced around at each other. Stella gasped and pointed at Rose's wings. Rose glanced up quickly thinking there was something wrong with them.
"Put them away, quickly!" Chaos hissed quietly.

Rose gasped and remembered the people in the city. Her wings swished down, ruffling her hair. Everyone was still staring at the truck that had collied with the store. Hopefully they hadn't noticed any wings.

Mayze took a few steps closer to the truck then looked back to the flock.
"How are we going to get him out of there?"
Rose stood on tip toes and tried to see through the smoke and the smashed glass. She couldn't see ZT and hoped the eraser driving hadn't killed him.
"Let's try and get him away from all these people before anyone notices anything strange," Reed decided.

[Stella]

“I think this definitely is strange, so it’s too late for that.” I closed my eyes and concentrated. I saw ZT and , blood was running from his head.

“He okay?” Mayze looked at me hopefully. What she meant was was he alive?

“He’s got a head wound and I think he’s unconscious, but he’s okay.” I opened my eyes and looked around us. Most people were staring at the store with worried expressions on their faces, but some had been distracted by us. Preferably our clothes. I looked at it and rubbed my temples in frustration. Our clothes were tattered and covered in blood.

Mayze noticed this the second I did. “We have to get out of here, quickly.” We were as close to whispering as we could get to.

“I have an idea, being an Albino can come in handy when in need of a distraction.” I looked across the street and stared at the top of the building. “Grab ZT and get him up there. I don’t think he’ll be needing a hospital so we should avoid that.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah. I’ll be fine.” I suddenly clutched my eyes and started screaming. “AHH! MY EYES! STOP THE LIGHTS!” I noticed my flock hesitate then move in towards the wreckage. “PLEASE! STOP! IT HURTS!”

“Somebody call an ambulance!” It was a woman’s voice. A dark haired woman suddenly sat down beside me and I whimpered. “You’ll be okay honey. I’ll make sure you’ll be okay.”

I heard sirens already coming down the street, hurry guys! I willed them to move faster.

(Lexy)

I opened my eyes, I was in a river and drenched in nothing but water. I pulled a strand of my hair to examine it, it was turning blonde like a bleach blonde and all the black was disappearing. I stared in disbelief.

"Who am I? And what the hell just happend." I said. But who exactly was I? Did I have a name? What the hell was going on? And here was the thing that freaked me out the most a dark figure emerged from the lake.

"Do you have the new comers in custody?" He asked.

"Right." I said not understanding what he was saying. "Hey, one quick question."

"What?" He snapped.

"Who am I... I'm mean what's my name... how old am I. What am I doing here?"

The figure stood calm for a second and then burst out laughing. After a while of looking at my face he probably noticed I wasn't joking. I didn't know who the hell I was.

"You must have hit your head hard Princess." He looked up at the cave as did I. When I looked back at him, he was gone.

"I guess my name is Princess then," All I remembered was the lab and my wings... I broke them out and began flying, whoever left me there to die was going to get it.

*I know I'm insane... you'll learn to love it.*

(ZT)

Was I being carried? I felt something, but I couldn't open my eyes. The motion stopped. I felt like I was up high now, but on top of something.

I thought that I must be dead. Maybe. Except for the pain.

But I would be dead in a while. There was no way I could live through that. At least I had helped the rest of the flock to get away.

Then my thoughts were lost.

Reed-

Everyone in the flock was staring stupidly at the smashed up van. But when somebody shouted "Get an ambulance!", I came back to my senses. If paramedics got their hands on ZT the chances that they wouldn't see his wings were one in a million, and the chances that they wouldn't tell anybody about it were even slimmer. I couldn't let anybody get their hands on ZT.

I ran over to the van, pushing aside everyone that was in my way. I stopped at the drivers side door and reached through the smashed window to get ZT. But the Eraser was in the way.

"Hey, Reed." the Eraser said.

Then I recognized him, it was my twin brother Ray.

"If I didn't know better I would say you weren't glad to see me." Ray continued.

The problem with Ray was that the whitecoats had tried an experiment on him that went wacko. They tried to improve his flying and his reflexes. But though it improved both something chemical went wrong and he turned out fairly sane, except the fact he obeyed every order that whitecoats gave him.

"Sorry," I said reaching across him and grabbing ZT, " I don't have time for this."

"Don't worry," Ray said, "this wont take long." and stuck my arm with a needle.

-later-

I stood next to ZT on the top of a building. The fluid that Ray had injected me with wasn't going to kill me, I could feel it. I just hoped that it wasn't going to be another faulty experiment.

[Stella]

The ambulance had arrived. Crap. Some people lifted me; I went silent and I opened my eyes. Time for some more lying.

“Uh…where am I?”

“You’ll be okay, hon, just stay calm.”

“No, seriously, where am I?” One of the paramedics gave me a funny look.

“Your eyes, you were screaming something about your eyes.” I put a confused expression on my face, then one of horror.

“Oh God, not again.” I say up and the other paramedic put a hand on my chest to sit me down. I realized how weak 100% humans really are. “I have a…uh…” I tried to think, “Uh…MPD.”

“Multiple personality disorder?” I nodded.

“We should check her out anyway.” Crap.

“No really, I’m fine.” I insisted, and I tried to swing my feet to the ground but the put some straps around me before I could protest.

They lifted me into the ambulance. It smelled of medicine; it was choking me. Everything about it reminded me of a cage.

“NO!” I screamed before they could close the doors. I ripped the straps off of my legs and leaped out of the ambulance. Everyone stared at me dumbly as I ran to an alley. I heard footsteps and looked for an escape.

My wing’s twitched until I noticed a fire escape. I ran to it and started to climb up.

*Anybody know what all the red in people's names is about???*

(ZT)

It was forever. I could tell. We might've been on the building for hours, but we were at least there for one. Finally, I opened my eyes and stared around at the flock. Stella wasn't there.

"I know what we have to do," I said.

Reed looked at me. "What," he said, "you were sitting here that whole time thinking?"

"No! I just thought of it. We have to do something to the whitecoats, we have to try something. So we have to go attack the school--one try, at least. I say we split up and come in on opposite sides. But we have to do something, because look at this! Blade died, I almost did... we can't keep running without them picking us off one by one! So if we do this, we need to split up, to confuse them. And that'll split the Erasers, too. Since she's now our leader, Mayze should lead one group..." I paused, but finally continued, "I'll lead the other."

Reed laughed. "You can't lead!" he called. "You're the youngest, and you're hurt!"

I stood up, feeling fine. "Youngest? When has that mattered so far? Plus, I don't even know my age... so I may be older than Mayze. What's your problem with me? I'm the one who's nearly gotten killed twice, fighting. I can fight. And I can see farther than anyone else, which means that I can prepare for danger."

"Don't you want to be with Mayze?" Reed asked cruelly.

"Yes. But if we can all stay together, without as much danger, then this will be worth it. We have to try something, flock."

*Sorry if I made Reed look like a bit of a jerk...*

*I flipped a coin to see whether the stuff the Ray injected me with would be good or bad. It was heads so so it's going to be good. So if anybody wants to include something about it in their post it improves my reflexes greatly (something like spider-man reflexes).*

Reed-

"I think we should join up with the rest of the flock before making any decisions." I said firmly. "Nobody would appreciate you planning our next move without them."

ZT looked like he wanted to argue but said nothing.

I looked about me for any sign of the flock.

*Dude, that's like my power thingy. Fast reflexes. That's how I was able to stop the truck.*

*Lol, according to something, I and a lot of other people are admins...*

*Also, Reed... we aren't the only people here. Everyone is here except Stella, but she's coming.*

(ZT)

Stella flew over, and I quickly repeated my plan to her--with no interruptions.

Everyone was here... I just had to wait and see if anyone would go with my plan this time.

"It won't be a full fledged attack, just a few quick hit and run attacks," I added.

[Chaos]

Reed opened his mouth to argue, but Chaos cut in, "Look, if we want to do anything I suggest we stop arguing and do it now. While the people in this city are distracted."

**sorry, all I got**

(Lexy... but I'm just gonna call her Princess)lol*

I was up and flying just fine when I began losing altitude. I tried to push myself up, looking back I saw five erasers, and not the robot kind. I was in some deep crap. One of them pushed into my back making me actually fall to the ground. When I tried to punch it, it caught my wrist and twisted it, I yelped out in pain. I would never let him hear me yell out again. Once on the ground it got me into a headlock. The other one flew down and laughing evilly he took a syringe and stabebd it into my neck. I couldn't help it I screamed bloody mary. Then, I drifted into a sleep.

Lynx-

"I agree." I said, startling people in more than one quarter.

"Well, what were you expecting? This dude is bleeding everywhere and you want me to chew him out? Honestly, this plan is suicide, but... We need to do something. None of us deals too hotly with sitting around waiting for our butts to get kicked. Let's go do something."

I'm a great motivational speaker, everybody just sat, stared, and gave me the silent treatment. I think that was the longest speech I've ever given. You've gotta give me credit for that.

"I have other reasons too."

Chaos murmured, "What other reasons?"

"I'll tell you when we don't have mutant bird/wolf/humans, crazy scientists AND normal people looking for us. Which School do we attack?"

I had addressed this question to Mayze, but it was ZT who answered, "Our School, of course." He answered as this were the obvious answer to a very silly question.

"And where, pray tell, is that?"

He knew the direction (darn) and we followed him. Reed flew along side "This is really dumb." he muttered.

"Awww... poor you. Do you need a baby bottle?" ZT mocked.

Things weren't going smoothly. I don't have people skills, and soon I fell back next to Chaos. He was frowning perplexedly.

"Whassa madda?" I asked, playfully punching his shoulder. He fake winced and grabbed his arm.

"Ouch. Everything was fine until you PUNCHED me. Big bully."

"Hey, look at the pot calling the kettle black."

"The what?" Chaos asked confusedly.

"Never mind. How's life?"

"Oh, great." Was Chaos' sarcastic reply. He didn't enlighten me any further so I moved off to join ZT again. Reed wasn't with him now and ZT was looking pretty steamed. I decided not to use the same treatment I used on Chaos on ZT. Instead, I turned my thoughts to where we were going. We were going directly toward the setting sun.

[Stella]

Even with my eyes closed, the sun hurt. I barely could look where I was going. I flew behind someone, I couldn’t really tell who it was, but they were between me and the sun.

Blinking, I drove spots away from my eyes and looked around. I was flying next to Reed. He looked, in a word, pissed.

“You okay?”

“Oh, yeah, I’m perfect. Never been better.” He clenched his fists angrily. “We’re heading to our deaths…or something worse.”

I stayed silent and looked to the ground. Nothing I could say would help. The person in front of me moved and I closed my eyes reflexively and turned away, immediately concentrating on being able to see. I had put a little to much thought into it though, and I saw through Reeds skin.

When I started to turn away, I noticed something flowing through his blood. Becoming part of his blood. Crap.

“Um, Reed…?”

“Yeah?”

“Something is…becoming part of you. It’s in your blood.” I whispered it, trying not to panic. I looked at the ground again, trying to distract myself. “Crap. Eraser alert.”

ZT looked down and I heard a small gasp. “Lexy…”

(ZT)

"Stop!" I hissed. Lexy was on the ground. With an Eraser. But neither was fighting.

I was in charge for this one attack, so I had to decide what to do. It hurt me to say it, but I knew what had to be done. "This is where we should split up. The School's just ahead. Mayze, you take half of the group left, I'll take right. Attack at the front of the building. But wait, let my group attack a few minutes quicker, so that they'll send their forces that way. I want to go in first, because I'm the... youngest. I can't help the flock like the rest of you. I just follow. But if anyone's going to die, I will."

I didn't wait for an answer--yet. Instead I began splitting the troops.

Mayze went with Reed, we split Chaos--to me--and Lynx to Mayze, and then put Stella in my group.

I glanced around. It looked even enough. Then I nodded. The two groups split up.

(Sorry if I forgot anyone... if you were left out, just join a group...)

[Chaos]

Chaos narrowed his eyes, tilting his wings slightly to follow ZT more closely. He could just make out the school ahead of them and was surprised at how small it was in comparison to Itex Headquarters. When he had heard they were attacking their school, he had been annoyed. He had followed out of instinct, instinct of the flock.

But now, anger pulsed through him at the site of the prison. They needed to get rid of this, now.

He accelerated gracefully, sailing next to ZT, who looked determined. He brushed his wing tips against ZT's to let him know he was there. ZT glanced over, surprised, and opened his mouth to speak.

Chaos cut him off, "What's the plan?" He had every intention of fighting to the death with his flock.