Well it was Em’s birth day this weekend, she’s 6 years old now. We held a little birthday party for her in our cave, she enjoyed it a lot, we all did.
We finally decided to buy a doll for her, according to Zan she never had a doll before. She calls the doll Snow, probably because it’s a snow white rabbit doll. Don’t know how long her doll will stay white tough, but we could only hope. Lex is still in a bad condition, her leg’s not healing up like it’s supposed to, her arms aren’t healing as well, we don’t know what to do. We aren’t going to accept Joe’s offer and we’re also not going to take her to a hospital yet, at least she hasn’t lost that much blood, or we hope so.
Today we brought Em with us to town, part of her present is to go and die her hair a more natural color, white highlights isn’t normal for a girl her age, we’re going to make it all black. So today it’s me, Markus, Lily and Em on the town.
We’re planning to go to a doctor and ask for a little advice for how to treat Lex, pretend it’s for a school project or something. We’re probably going to say something about how you can treat a person in the case of a bear attack and with no hospitals nearby, kind of like a survival thing.
Our moneys also starting to run low now, luckily we’re resourceful bird kids and have a few aces up our sleeves, non-illegal aces, I don’t approve of taking things from people.
That’s about it, can’t report anything other than that. Oh there is one thing, Lex and Zan finally admitted to themselves that they love each other, now they should just admit it to one another, they’re both helpless in that department. I almost didn’t even need my mindreading powers to know it, it’s written all over their faces. The fact that Zander won’t leave her side also tips one off. Can’t wait for the big reveal, and remember you heard it first from me, Glaice, matchmaker form heaven!
Bye for now,
Glaice
Monday, 31 May 2010
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Seriously, this is the last part of the story 'bout our mission, no lies, part 4
Seriously, this is the last part of the story ‘bout our mission, no lies, part 4
Okay this is the longest post I made thus far so you enjoy it now, and take my advice if you’re gonna read this make sure you went to the bathroom, have a bottle of you’re fave cold drink and a bag of chips, this is going to be a long one.
I finally came too after I smelled something very, very, VERY foul. I opened my eyes to someone’s feet, and then a lot of laughter. I instantly choked on the smell and started coughing, and covered my nose and mouth, the laughter got louder.
“Told you guys it’s a power all on its own.” I heard Markus say smugly.
“She’s going to kill you dude.” Jay said calmly crossing his arms over his chest, he closed his eyes and smiled.
“I’M GOING TO KILL YOU MARKUS!!!” I yelled out like a grizzly, murder the only thing on my mind.
“The taste will eventually go away, trust me, he did it to me too!” Glaice said calming me down (and I’m almost 100% sure that Jay was somehow causing the calm mood that washed over me, told ya he was emo, or at least he can influence the emotions of the people around us), she glared at Mark over her nose and looked back at me. I turned my gaze to Jay and saw he was concentrating a lot, a sure sign he was using his ability.
“You can stop doing that now, I won’t kill him, not now at least.” I said over to my brother and the calmness left. I did a quick scan of the surroundings, typical cage room thing, except this one was made of steel, like in steel floor, steel roof, steel walls, steel everything, there was a little round window looking out into blue.
“Its ocean out there, we’re somewhere in the middle of the big blue.” Zander said standing next to the window.
As for the flock, everyone looked okay, no serious gashes or holes, only a few bumps and scrapes and Zander had a bloody nose somewhere in the past ‘cause his nose was red under, we also all had bruised arms where they injected us with the needles. Em wasn’t with us, so hopefully she was still at the hotel hiding somewhere. Thank fully we were all in the same cage thing.
“Anyone with a plan to bust us outa here?” Zander asked as he sat down on the ground. I raked my brain for any idea and all I got was angry images of me violently attacking the nearest Eraser, or me attacking Joe in cartoon fashion.
“Got nothing!” Mark said, staying well clear of me and Glaice, throwing up his arms and lying back against the steel wall.
“How big’s the window? Can one of us fit? Like maybe one of the small girls?” T.K suggested trying to help, not even Em would have fit in the little window. And if T.K could see he would have seen Glaice, Alex, Lily and me glaring at him.
“Sexist pig much!” Glaice said over to him.
“Hey sorry but you are smaller than the boy’s aren’t you?” T.K said and pulled up his arms defensively.
“No, it’s way too small.” Zander said ignoring the little banter over boys and girls.
“The sells?” Alex asked.
“No, they took ‘em, and here wouldn’t be any reception out here, and who would we call?” Zander countered.
I noticed Lily sitting next to the wall, looking down at her sneakers, not once did I ever hear her talk out loud since I joined the flock. And I was still a blank on everyone’s powers, I knew what me and Jay could do, and I kinda new about Glaice’s freaky powers, I know T.K can heal people and Zander’s like super strong, and I already know about Marks speed and foot odor, and that Lily could make people and things invisible, I didn’t know anything about sneeze girl Alex, or any of the others other powers, I was still new to this flock.
“Okay, maybe we should use this forced bonding time to catalog our powers, see who brought what to the party.” I said testing the idea, no one attacked me so I continued, “I’ll go first since it’s my idea, I can control and make fire, I also have this ‘spider sense’ thing where I know if something bad is going to happen to me.”
“I can control water and manipulate it, and I can sense the mood of others and change it.” Jay continued when I looked over at him.
“Super speed and my awesomely good looks, girls find me very alluring.” Mark continued, very narcissist about himself.
“Super strength, enhanced senses, can sense bird kids, that’s about all I know about.” Zander added his powers.
“I can read minds, see a little bit into the future, and levitate objects, that’s about it.” Glaice added, leaving out the part about controlling an Eraser and making it fall out of the sky.
“Tecknopath and an excellent hacker, and I can make force fields, also I can control electricity.” Alex said, man that girl was loaded with the powers.
“Can heal people, but I’m not going to go on about how I do it, and I can find a weak point in an Eraser easily without looking at it obviously, my hands are also magnetic, like in I can make metal things come to my hands at will.” T.K said proudly sitting next to miss thousand powers Alex.
“I can sort of go invisible, make my sell density higher or lower, so I can go through walls and make myself really heavy, or that’s what I heard the white coats say about me once.” Lily finally added in a whisper of a voice, but to me her powers looked to be the best bet on an escape plan.
“Ya now I remember, gosh I can’t even understand why I didn’t think about that sooner!” Mark said covering his face with his hands, obviously he should have known she could do that, he was her only ‘friend’.
“Hey Lil, can you faze through the door and find a key and unlock the door from the outside?” Zander said calmly to her, she nodded and stood up. She walked up to the door and looked at it, touched it with her hand and then looked back at the rest of us, we were all looking at her and waiting for the big moment.
“I’m still new to this, I can only make my arms faze.” She finally said after a long pause. She turned back to the door and we all hoped the key was somewhere within reach, like maybe still in the lock (I thought sarcastically).
She placed her hand on the door and it began to sink into the door, wow that is soooooo weird to look at. She looked as if she felt around and then finally she pulled her hand back. Nothing.
We all sat down again. Glaice looked at me she like had a confession.
“Okay guys, I’m sorry but I kinda hid a power from you, I’m afraid that you’ll be afraid of me if I told you, I’m afraid you’ll think I’ll be like Angel,” Glaice looked up, she looked at each one of us, made eye contact and then continued “‘cause my power is sorta something I share with her . . . I can control minds as well, but I won’t ever use my powers, any of them on you!” She stared at her hands afraid to look up at us. I smiled, she wasn’t hiding her power ‘coz she was evil, she did it ‘coz she was afraid we’d treat her like a freak. (Among freaks that’s not possible)
Zander’s face suddenly lit up and I could swear that one moment I could read his mind, I knew exactly what he had in mind. “Glaice, we’re not going to see you as a weirdo now, don’t worry, but you just gave me an idea!” Glaice looked up and her eyes glowed, she smiled at us, wiping tears from her eyes.
It took us a while to get the plan organized but we were certain it would work, it had to.
“Help! Help! Alex can’t breathe, help!” I yelled out to the hallway/other room on the other side of the door. Suddenly I could hear heavy footsteps coming towards our jail. “Oh please, she can’t breathe, I think she’s having an asthma attack, oh God she’s turning blue!”
The door swung open heavily and two guys (Erasers in human form, you can tell from the stink) came in running, a red first aid bag in ones hand and the other had a high-tech gun.
Alex was lying on the ground sucking air like a fish. Lily was crouched next to her along with T.K holding Alex’s hand. The Eraser with the first aid bag fell to his knees next to Alex, he instantly took out an injection needle, Alex’s eyes grew big. The other Eraser stood tall looking around the room at the rest of us.
‘Glaice, show time.’ I thought over to Glaice, she looked at me and nodded, her eyes were already glowing silver so she concentrated hard, staring straight at the Eraser with the gun. I looked over at the Eraser with the gun and saw his eyes glaze over, for the second time I felt fear for what Glaice was capable of and gave thanks for her being on our side. The Eraser stiffened and walked out, the other Eraser looked over curiously at his protection walking out without a word, that second he lost concentration, Alex kicked him over, pressing her two index fingers to the Erasers temples she jumped up and the Eraser was out cold.
I looked at her with a huge question mark on my face.
“Electric shock to his brain, it’s not going to last long so we better move.” Alex said as she got up right and dusted herself off.
We walked out of the jail, past the Eraser who stood there motionless with his gun in his hands, towards the exit.
“Eyes open, this whole place could be crawling with Erasers.” Zander said all leaderly again. We walked slowly down the hall, quietly as possible.
“Where to, I guess we’re on the oiling rig Joe was talking about before she went al back stabber on us, so what we’re going to do?” T.K asked whispering, “No offence but she is.” He continued and looked over in me and Jay’s general direction.
“Don’t know actually, just don’t blow anything up, we don’t know how far we are from the shore so flying back could be a problem, I guess we find the person in charge?” Zander said a little unsure of himself but he quickly found his leader confidence again.
“And what? All blind boy avian hybrids are supposed to blow things up?!” T.K said defending himself.
“I was actually talking about Lex, she has the power of fire and all.” Zander said letting T.K know we don’t expect him to blow things up. “Anyway, any idea where the person in charge would be?”
“Probably in the bridge or some command room or something?” Alex suggested. It was the only lead we had so all 8 of us silently prowled the shadows and worked our way towards where we hoped we would find the lead of operations or something of this whole illegal operation.
The place wasn’t as guarded as you would expect for a hive of evil. It was surprisingly easy, and in our life it was too easy and didn’t last long.
We rounded what we hoped would be our last corner and stepped right into the mess hall, 100 pairs of eyes closed in on us instantly, and suddenly one of the people stood up and screamed and pointed in our direction “Capture them, they’ve escaped!”
“Aw dau!” I yelled out back to him, I mean really it doesn’t take a lot of brain cells to realize a bunch of random kids, dirty and bruised would be escapees. Someone (one of my flock) pulled me back and here we were running for our life’s, like always. My last glimpse of the mess hall was that of people turning into wolf monsters and then some running away.
We heard a loud roar of Erasers chasing us, I didn’t dare look back at the extent of our chase, and clearly it was bad enough, in the middle of the ocean and all.
Markus was running out in front of us, checking each doorway. We really need to get out of here I thought to myself, just then Markus stopped at a door and yelled “Found our escape route!”
We all ran towards him but a yell from behind stopped us in our tracks. I didn’t look back strait away, I knew from the look on Mark’s face that I didn’t want to see what was playing out behind me.
“You wouldn’t want to take off without your little friend here, would you?” I heard the Eraser snarl pleased with himself. I turned around and knew who he had in his claws, when we ran she probably fell behind.
“Mark?” Lily squeaked, her eyes pleading us not to leave her here in the clutches of the monsters. Markus was still standing at the exit he found, one foot in, the other one outside.
“Let her go!” Zander snarled back at the Eraser.
The Eraser smiled a toothy smile and laughed. Sure as heck I can get scared of Zan, he’s like very big and all but against a bunch of Erasers with a hostage he was like a little pussy cat, harmless. In the narrow hallway we couldn’t see exactly how many Erasers there were but we knew there were more of them than there were of us.
“Let me rephrase that, ‘let her go’ and we won’t blow your little plant to kingdom come!” I yelled at them in my ‘Lex-means-business-tone’.
The Eraser holding Lily tightened his grip on her tiny arms and smiled another toothy smile at me, clearly he didn’t know who he was dealing with.
I summoned up just a little bit of my fire, making a tiny fire ball in my hand, just small enough not to cause a huge explosion or anything on the OIL rig. The Eraser gave my fire ball and the smile on my face one look and said “You wouldn’t, you’ll go boom too!”
“Lex, now put out the fire, we both know if you set the place on fire none of us would get out of here.” I recognized the voice, the Erasers parted to let a nicely dressed man pass by, he was walking all casually talking to me, it was Mister H.
I gave a step back but didn’t blow out the little fire in my hand.
“What are you doing here, thought you were like head of Washington or something!” Glaice yelled out.
“You know him!” Zander yelled out.
“Who are you?!” T.K yelled out.
“Mark!” Lily yelled out.
Suddenly everyone was yelling at each other and I was slowly starting to lose my cool. “Quiet every one, I’m still threatening to blow the place up!” (Okay I know it kinda sounds immature but I’m just reporting what happened and I was kinda pissed and everyone was kinda ignoring me, and the Eraser kinda had one of our flock members in his grip and come on I’m actually a kid!) “And believe me, we bird kids will do almost anything to save one of our own, even blowing up an oil rig and flying away!”
Mister H’s expression didn’t change, he actually looked amused by my threat. “Take them, none of them leaves this plant!” He turns around and walks away. That moment the Erasers closed in on us, even from our escape route came Erasers, we had nowhere to run to, cornered.
I started swinging punches and kicks at any Eraser that came into range and saw the others also fighting them off. We were outnumbered about 5 to 1 but we kept fighting, finally the Erasers got the upper hand again and over powered us. I saw Alex fighting bravely but then one well placed punch from an Eraser knocked her out. T.K was taking out a lot of Erasers with his power to find their weak points but he too was taken out by an Eraser. Glaice was struggling to take on a group at once but she stood her ground, finally falling too. Only me, Mark, Jay and Zan were left. I took a lot of hits but I was still going strong, I knew the other three were in bad shape by now too.
I was staring down an Eraser when a drop of water landed on my head, I stole a quick glance upwards and saw rusty water pipes *imaginary light bulb appearing above my head*.
“Jay surfs up!” I yelled at Jay knowing he would catch onto my plan. “Mark, Zan grab the others and hold on!” I yelled at the other two, I grabbed hold of Glaice since she was my BFF and she was nearest to me. I dodged an Eraser and grabbed hold of a pipe attached to the wall, Glaice in my one hand, pipe in the other. I glanced back and saw the other two doing the same. In a split second the whole hallway flooded with icy cold water, I was drenched instantly.
Holding my breath in the torrent of water wasn’t easy but at least I knew Erasers were generally not swimmers. After the water subsided I took a big lung full of clean air. Glaice was lying on my lap, soaking wet and coughing, the others were wet also and I heard coughing come from the ones who were out cold as well. I looked around us and saw only a small percent of the original Erasers left, the others must have been washed out the doors. The remaining Erasers were either lying unconscious on the ground or choking on water.
I stood up and helped the now awake Glaice up too, “Thanks bro.” I said to Jay as I helped Glaice stand up right without falling over.
“Next time warn a girl before you try and drown a bunch of Erasers!” Alex said as she coughed some more.
“They took Lily!” Markus said shocking us all back to the reality of the situation. Lily was nowhere to be seen, Mister H must have taken her when he left.
“Looks like that was just the warm up for the big boss battle, and I don’t even think we leveled up!” T.K said out of breath, I actually hoped this whole mission was over the second Jay’s tidal wave was over, but who ever listens to my hopes?
We all looked at Zander, he was the leader, he should come up with the solution or a plan at least.
“Zander, what are we going to do, Lily’s like my family, you all are, we have to save her, who knows what they’re going to do to pore little Lily.” Mark finally said, showing an actual emotion other than self admiration (is that even an emotion?)
“Okay guys, let’s take a vote, if you aren’t up for the boss battle you can leave now and we’ll meet up if we get out of this, but if you stay your risking your life, so who’s in?” Zander said out loud, we looked at him, we could get out of this and get away, but then we’ll be leaving family behind.
“You know I’m in Z!” Markus said and went to stand next to Zander, we all followed until only Alex was left with the choice.
“You’ll be needing me, can’t bring down a big bad guy and save the princess without a computer nerd.”
We ran towards the mess hall again but this time didn’t run into it blindly. Glaice slowly crawled closer to the door and ever so slightly looked around the corner “Nothing, everyone’s cleared out, wait what is that I see?” I leaned past her and actually saw her drool (she still says it’s from Jays tidal wave, the water in her hair dripped down her chin) I looked over in the direction she was looking at and saw the cafeteria buffet table, filled with food, left abandoned. As if my stomach had eyes it growled when I saw all the wonderful food, we were just threw a battle, had escaped and have been kidnapped to begin with so we were pretty hungry.
We walked into the mess hall keeping our eyes on everything that might be cameras or a place a sniper could hide. Nothing, the people who were supposed to be working in the kitchen weren’t there either.
“Grab anything you can carry, we have to save Lily and get out of here!” Zander ordered and grabbed as much food he could stuff in his mouth and the pockets of his cargo pants and jacket. We all grabbed as much food as we could.
T.K was the first to hear something coming from behind us, his being alert alerted Jay who then tapped my arm, alerting me. I whirled around making the others follow and suddenly all 7 of us were staring at two cowering kids who just barely made it behind a table.
Zander sniffed the air and I could see he was confused. “What are you?!” Zander called out at the two kids, a boy and a girl, they didn’t come out from behind the table. Glaice scowled at Zander and lowered her guard.
“Zan, you scared the kids!” She said nicely and started to walk towards the kids. “Now now, he won’t hurt you, he’s just a big softy with a hard voice.” She soothed them “Come out now, I’m sure you won’t hurt us.”
The girl was the first to stand up from behind the table, she looked nervous. Her hair was a tangled mess of sandy colored hair, her eyes was a bright green and her skin was tanned underneath the bruises. I noticed she was wearing a hospital gown, she also looked a little arrogant.
Glaice turned to us and smiled “see guys their just kids, they won’t hurt us!” I knew Glaice must have read their minds, so I was the first to lower my guard too, the others followed. “I’m Glaice, and this is my flock, we are sort of looking for our friend, you don’t perhaps know where we can find her?” Glaice looked back at us and asked “Hey Alex could you please bring them something to eat?!” Alex grabbed a bunch of hotdogs and burgers and brought it to Glaice, the boy now stood up, he was clearly hungry. The boy had black hair, blue eyes and a light complexion hidden under his own bruises.
Glaice walked over to the kids and placed the food on the table, they didn’t go for the food right away. I went closer.
“What if you poisoned the food?!” The girl finally spoke up, her voice trying to sound tough, I looked at her in disbelief.
“Okay just give me a hotdog, I’ll show the little tough girl we didn’t poison it.” I said as Glaice handed me a hotdog, forgetting my manners I practically shoved the hotdog whole into my mouth. “See?” I said still chewing the hotdog.
The boy looked in shock at my table manners and the girl looked at me amused. After that they fell on the food while me and Glaice looked over at our Flock.
“So who are you, what are you doing on this tin can?” I asked when they ate almost 10 hotdogs, each. They were thankfully slowing down now.
“I’m Nikki, and he’s Ian, I don’t know how we got here, we’re just here, the alarms went off and the crates we were in just opened, so we walked out in the chaos.” The girl said arrogantly, we were all sitting at a table now.
“The alarms were probably caused when Jay flooded the place, the crates probably opened coz the system this place works on thought the place was going down.” Alex supplied the answer, she’s a really smart kid.
“That probably also explains why there’s no one here.” T.K added.
“Can you just take us to the place they’ll be taking Lily?!” Mark who was quiet this whole time spoke up. We all looked at him.
“Sure, you don’t want them to have her for too long, I’ve heard what they do to avians here, ain’t pretty.” Nikki said as she stood up, “just to help with this whole working together thing, tell the mind reader to stop reading my mind, its intrusive.”
Glaice puffed up like someone just insulted her, okay she was actually insulted, but luckily she didn’t say anything, Nikki’s our only help finding Lily.
Nikki, who I guessed was about 12, was leading our group, occasionally she made us all stand back against the wall, then she would peer around the corner and motion us to follow. We went down stairs and climbed ladders and finally reached a place where the decor started to change from filthy oil rig to future looking evil lab.
We all jumped as the intercom hidden somewhere in the sealing came to life. “All personnel report to your stations, alarms were caused by avian experiments escaping and attacking, high alert, 7 avians loose in compound, two clones also escaped, be on lookout report any sighting!” The voice over the com sounded almost metallic coming from the roof.
“Okay so now they know we’re out here somewhere.” Zander said pointing out the obvious. Nikki looked over at him angrily. So now we know this is a cloning plant and that Nikki and Ian are clones.
We walked on and just as we were about to round the last corner (sound like déjà-fu, hu?) Nikki stopped us and pressed her finger to her mouth to show we should be quiet. My guess is it was Erasers guarding a door or something. She peered around the corner and breathed out a sigh of relieve. We unglued ourselves from the wall and walked around the corner.
In front of us was a thick looking sliding steel door. It looked pretty intimidating to us, next to the door was a keypad.
“Okay we brought you to the place, now you just gotta find the code to it somehow, we never got past this point.” Nikki said, looking bummed.
“Have no fear, Alex is here!” Alex said, and I’m sure she watched too much cartoons or something, she continued when we all stared at her “I had too much sugar earlier, sue me.” The stepped past us and started clicking away on the keypad, faster than any of us could comprehend the screen flashed green and the door slid open.
We all cautiously walked in, when T.K was in, the door slid close behind us. The interior of the place was a weird white, almost glowing.
“You two would know if there’s like a monster or something hiding in here somewhere right?” Nikki asked me and Glaice, she sounded pretty nervous.
“Ya, but how do you know ‘bout our powers?” I asked her.
“Well it’s my ability, I know what powers and abilities other mutants have, it also entitles me to know exactly how to counter you’re powers.” She said smiling wryly sounding like the little brat we came to know in the past few minutes.
We came to an observation window, one of those I guess where you can see from one side and not the other, we all stood there trying to see what was going on in inside. On the other side of the window we saw two white coats and someone strapped to a seat, we couldn’t see the persons face because the one white coat was standing in front of the person. The white coat was sticking sticky dots with wires connected to the person. I looked more intently, if that person turns into the hulk I’ll probably wet my jeans. The white coat stepped away from the person in the chair and all at once we all (except the clones) realized who was sitting in the chair.
Lily!
Her eyes were shut but the minute the second white coat flipped a switch they sprang open wildly, at first we were stunned but luckily we had an awesome leader who snapped back to reality, and thank the heavens he was supper strong.
We were all staring at the white coats torturing Lily but the instant the glass shattered in front of our eyes we snapped back. Zander jumped over the low wall where the window was and ran towards the white coat at the controls. My instincts told me right away to cover Zander, so me and Glaice followed Zander and jumped over the low wall too, some Erasers were coming in through the door at the end of the circular room. Jay, Alex T.K and the clones joined into the fight too. Markus ran directly for Lily, pulling the wires with the sticky dots of off her skin. She was slumped in the chair (that strangely resembled those dentist chairs, now you got something to think about next time you’re in those chairs, hehehe)
The Erasers and two white coats was no match for us so we quickly joined Markus and Zander by Lily’s side.
“What did they do to her?” Mark asked fighting back tears.
“They whipped her mind, she’ll wake up in a day or so then she won’t remember any of you, might not even remember how to fly.” Nikki said nonchalant.
Zander picked Lily up delicately and cradled her in his strong arms, suddenly the alarms started to whale.
“Ah oh!” Nikki and Ian said at the same time
“Better get outa here!” Zander said and started to run towards the door the Erasers came in form.
“What’s happening, I didn’t see any of the Erasers or white coats push like a panic button?!” Alex yelled as we all ran towards the door, a few white coats and Erasers ran past us, paying us no attention what so ever, and if they did, they were more intent on running from something than catching the escapees. Just then a tremor almost knocked us of our feet and a loud bang.
“I think the place is coming down!” Ian yelled out, the first I heard him talk on his own ever.
It was easier getting out than in, or at least faster, all the potential threats we usually run from was now running for their lives with us.
“Found a door that leads outside!” Mark yelled out from in front somewhere, he ran out in front to find an escape route. “Hope the clones can fly!”
I looked over at the clones, they looked at each other and smiled, our wings were already out, theirs weren’t, that’s assuming they had.
We caught up to Mark and he jumped out the door, the door leaded to a little walk way outside. When we got to the door he was already outside flying, waiting for us to join. One by one we jumped out the door and of the walkway.
I was out and looked back curiously to see if the clones had wings and could fly. I was pleasantly shocked to say they did have wings, but none of what I have ever seen, theirs were black and leathery, thin and not fluffy and feathery like ours.
“What are you guys?!” I yelled over the roar of the sea and the oil rig falling to pieces, fires brakeing out and all hell playing out just below us.
“Bat kids, new breed of avians, and clones like you pointed out earlier!” Nikki yelled back. We saw about 4 other kids sized things flying out of the rig just before it went up in the biggest explosion I have ever seen. There were boats leaving the sight, and people jumping from the burning structure, but we knew there were many Erasers, white coats and mutants who weren’t so lucky, I got a lump in my throat trying to hold back the tears. Many more lives are going to be affected by this, I thought to myself as I saw black stuff rising up to the surface of the ocean, oil.
“Better get a move on, we have a long flight in front of us, and the authorities will be here soon.” Zander said in a grave tone.
“Which way to the nearest land?” Alex asked.
“I’ll be able to help with that one.” Ian spoke up, Nikki who was flying next to him, smiled.
“He’s like a compass, you ask him to take you somewhere and he can take you.” Nikki informed us.
“The nearest land is an island that way!” Ian continued proudly pointing towards the horizon.
Together we all flew towards the horizon where Ian pointed toward, the 4 other kid sized flying things joined us, 3 bat kids and 1 bird kid, all girls.
We reached the island just in time, we lab raised bird kids aren’t so good on long flights, not to mention just after a daring escape and surviving what could be the worst oil rig (cloning plant) disaster in American history.
We all rested up on the tiny island and the next morning we left, leaving Nikki and Ian and their new found flock of bat kids (and one bird kid) behind, after of course Ian showed us the heading to get back to the hotel we were taken from. Lily also came too and like Nikki said didn’t remember a thing, so Zander had to fly with her in his arms the whole way back (luckily we bird kids are super light, but a flight that far is still hard with any extra weight than your own).
We found the hotel easily and also found Em right away, she was sick with worry and was kinda pissed at us ‘cause we had an adventure without her, she was living with one of the staff of the hotel, a friend of the back stabbing witch stupid excuse for a mother Joe, anyway Joe took Em to the staff lady the night before our capture telling her only to watch Em for a while till her ‘siblings’ came back for her, Joe also gave the woman some money for us (okay she’s giving us money but I’m not going to be bought over just like that). There was also a room reserved for us for the night, so we just took our stuff and left.
We slept that night next to the ocean in a protected aria, the stars shining brightly above us. That night I had a strange dream of a white coat injecting me with stuff, I also had a bunch of random dreams about food, places, places made of food, and normal dream stuff.
And just FYI we’re not sure what made the oil rig go ca-boom, the official story is it’s a bubble of methane gas (the stuff your body gets rid of every time you . . . yea, catch the drift? I wonder if the Gasman was hiding in the pipe somewhere, hmmm?) that escaped somewhere in the pipe and then broke threw a bunch of barriers, yadda yadda yadda, and then it expanded and went BOOOOM! All that you can pretty much see each night on news or whatever but what you won’t know is that the oil rig was actually a cover for the cloning plant and that the clones were actually clones of kids who died or was hard to kidnap or already grown up who would, if mutated under the right circumstances, develop strong abilities like my fire (didn’t make the methane catch fire I swear!), Jay’s emo power, Lily’s invisibility and Mark’s speed. It’s a relative new thing, so I just want to say our flock are the originals, God threw away the moulds when he was done making us, lolz.
So anyway it’s a big environmental disaster that almost ended our lives and not a big hairy scary Eraser, so yea we should all try and stop these things from happening, either by finding new and better ways to do old things like get oil or find better things to replace bad things like oil entirely. Believe it or not, we may have nothing to do with how the world is being destroyed, most of the things even happened before we were born, but it is like our born duty to make up for it, we can’t just sit back and be silent, even if you don’t have wings you can still do something, you just have to find a way. (Sorry I’m getting a little preachy but I don’t want to fight and defeat Itex and just lose the big battle the Earth is fighting every day!)
Okay that’s about it for our adventure on the high seas, now we’re just drifting around, o and Alex went back to her flock after everything, the constant sniffles didn’t amuse her, we also taught Lily everything from scratch, flying, who we were, what we are, who the bad guys are and how to fight. Luckily she was a fast learner and wanted to learn everything so it went smoothly, she did freak out our first time when Erasers attacked.
Keep on keeping on!
~Lex~
Found this on Lex's 'Edward', Jay was suposed to post it but he didn't find it, we're starting to think T.K is rubbing off on him, so hope you enjoyed it, I'll be posting untill Lex is back, so here is an update on how things are going. Joe is calling us non stop, and she's even starting to put comments on the blog, so she's bugging us to let Lex be taken back to a school so they can make her better, but that is the last place we'll be going, that and a hospital at this stage, but we're considering a hospital at the moment, Lex doesn't like that idea, so you can tell she's still with us, loud and clear like she would say, and Zander is trying every thing with his contact inside to find out whats wrong, he thinks that this guy can help us. We also discovered that when we were taken to the oil rig we've been knocked out by injection stuff, well that was just the start, we all have been under sedation for about a week between when we were taken from the hotel and taken to the oil rig, that now sits under the ocean, so we are starting to think the white coats have experemented on us, we also think that maybe Lex also got some strange flu or something in that time.
*this is Glaice signing out*
Okay this is the longest post I made thus far so you enjoy it now, and take my advice if you’re gonna read this make sure you went to the bathroom, have a bottle of you’re fave cold drink and a bag of chips, this is going to be a long one.
I finally came too after I smelled something very, very, VERY foul. I opened my eyes to someone’s feet, and then a lot of laughter. I instantly choked on the smell and started coughing, and covered my nose and mouth, the laughter got louder.
“Told you guys it’s a power all on its own.” I heard Markus say smugly.
“She’s going to kill you dude.” Jay said calmly crossing his arms over his chest, he closed his eyes and smiled.
“I’M GOING TO KILL YOU MARKUS!!!” I yelled out like a grizzly, murder the only thing on my mind.
“The taste will eventually go away, trust me, he did it to me too!” Glaice said calming me down (and I’m almost 100% sure that Jay was somehow causing the calm mood that washed over me, told ya he was emo, or at least he can influence the emotions of the people around us), she glared at Mark over her nose and looked back at me. I turned my gaze to Jay and saw he was concentrating a lot, a sure sign he was using his ability.
“You can stop doing that now, I won’t kill him, not now at least.” I said over to my brother and the calmness left. I did a quick scan of the surroundings, typical cage room thing, except this one was made of steel, like in steel floor, steel roof, steel walls, steel everything, there was a little round window looking out into blue.
“Its ocean out there, we’re somewhere in the middle of the big blue.” Zander said standing next to the window.
As for the flock, everyone looked okay, no serious gashes or holes, only a few bumps and scrapes and Zander had a bloody nose somewhere in the past ‘cause his nose was red under, we also all had bruised arms where they injected us with the needles. Em wasn’t with us, so hopefully she was still at the hotel hiding somewhere. Thank fully we were all in the same cage thing.
“Anyone with a plan to bust us outa here?” Zander asked as he sat down on the ground. I raked my brain for any idea and all I got was angry images of me violently attacking the nearest Eraser, or me attacking Joe in cartoon fashion.
“Got nothing!” Mark said, staying well clear of me and Glaice, throwing up his arms and lying back against the steel wall.
“How big’s the window? Can one of us fit? Like maybe one of the small girls?” T.K suggested trying to help, not even Em would have fit in the little window. And if T.K could see he would have seen Glaice, Alex, Lily and me glaring at him.
“Sexist pig much!” Glaice said over to him.
“Hey sorry but you are smaller than the boy’s aren’t you?” T.K said and pulled up his arms defensively.
“No, it’s way too small.” Zander said ignoring the little banter over boys and girls.
“The sells?” Alex asked.
“No, they took ‘em, and here wouldn’t be any reception out here, and who would we call?” Zander countered.
I noticed Lily sitting next to the wall, looking down at her sneakers, not once did I ever hear her talk out loud since I joined the flock. And I was still a blank on everyone’s powers, I knew what me and Jay could do, and I kinda new about Glaice’s freaky powers, I know T.K can heal people and Zander’s like super strong, and I already know about Marks speed and foot odor, and that Lily could make people and things invisible, I didn’t know anything about sneeze girl Alex, or any of the others other powers, I was still new to this flock.
“Okay, maybe we should use this forced bonding time to catalog our powers, see who brought what to the party.” I said testing the idea, no one attacked me so I continued, “I’ll go first since it’s my idea, I can control and make fire, I also have this ‘spider sense’ thing where I know if something bad is going to happen to me.”
“I can control water and manipulate it, and I can sense the mood of others and change it.” Jay continued when I looked over at him.
“Super speed and my awesomely good looks, girls find me very alluring.” Mark continued, very narcissist about himself.
“Super strength, enhanced senses, can sense bird kids, that’s about all I know about.” Zander added his powers.
“I can read minds, see a little bit into the future, and levitate objects, that’s about it.” Glaice added, leaving out the part about controlling an Eraser and making it fall out of the sky.
“Tecknopath and an excellent hacker, and I can make force fields, also I can control electricity.” Alex said, man that girl was loaded with the powers.
“Can heal people, but I’m not going to go on about how I do it, and I can find a weak point in an Eraser easily without looking at it obviously, my hands are also magnetic, like in I can make metal things come to my hands at will.” T.K said proudly sitting next to miss thousand powers Alex.
“I can sort of go invisible, make my sell density higher or lower, so I can go through walls and make myself really heavy, or that’s what I heard the white coats say about me once.” Lily finally added in a whisper of a voice, but to me her powers looked to be the best bet on an escape plan.
“Ya now I remember, gosh I can’t even understand why I didn’t think about that sooner!” Mark said covering his face with his hands, obviously he should have known she could do that, he was her only ‘friend’.
“Hey Lil, can you faze through the door and find a key and unlock the door from the outside?” Zander said calmly to her, she nodded and stood up. She walked up to the door and looked at it, touched it with her hand and then looked back at the rest of us, we were all looking at her and waiting for the big moment.
“I’m still new to this, I can only make my arms faze.” She finally said after a long pause. She turned back to the door and we all hoped the key was somewhere within reach, like maybe still in the lock (I thought sarcastically).
She placed her hand on the door and it began to sink into the door, wow that is soooooo weird to look at. She looked as if she felt around and then finally she pulled her hand back. Nothing.
We all sat down again. Glaice looked at me she like had a confession.
“Okay guys, I’m sorry but I kinda hid a power from you, I’m afraid that you’ll be afraid of me if I told you, I’m afraid you’ll think I’ll be like Angel,” Glaice looked up, she looked at each one of us, made eye contact and then continued “‘cause my power is sorta something I share with her . . . I can control minds as well, but I won’t ever use my powers, any of them on you!” She stared at her hands afraid to look up at us. I smiled, she wasn’t hiding her power ‘coz she was evil, she did it ‘coz she was afraid we’d treat her like a freak. (Among freaks that’s not possible)
Zander’s face suddenly lit up and I could swear that one moment I could read his mind, I knew exactly what he had in mind. “Glaice, we’re not going to see you as a weirdo now, don’t worry, but you just gave me an idea!” Glaice looked up and her eyes glowed, she smiled at us, wiping tears from her eyes.
It took us a while to get the plan organized but we were certain it would work, it had to.
“Help! Help! Alex can’t breathe, help!” I yelled out to the hallway/other room on the other side of the door. Suddenly I could hear heavy footsteps coming towards our jail. “Oh please, she can’t breathe, I think she’s having an asthma attack, oh God she’s turning blue!”
The door swung open heavily and two guys (Erasers in human form, you can tell from the stink) came in running, a red first aid bag in ones hand and the other had a high-tech gun.
Alex was lying on the ground sucking air like a fish. Lily was crouched next to her along with T.K holding Alex’s hand. The Eraser with the first aid bag fell to his knees next to Alex, he instantly took out an injection needle, Alex’s eyes grew big. The other Eraser stood tall looking around the room at the rest of us.
‘Glaice, show time.’ I thought over to Glaice, she looked at me and nodded, her eyes were already glowing silver so she concentrated hard, staring straight at the Eraser with the gun. I looked over at the Eraser with the gun and saw his eyes glaze over, for the second time I felt fear for what Glaice was capable of and gave thanks for her being on our side. The Eraser stiffened and walked out, the other Eraser looked over curiously at his protection walking out without a word, that second he lost concentration, Alex kicked him over, pressing her two index fingers to the Erasers temples she jumped up and the Eraser was out cold.
I looked at her with a huge question mark on my face.
“Electric shock to his brain, it’s not going to last long so we better move.” Alex said as she got up right and dusted herself off.
We walked out of the jail, past the Eraser who stood there motionless with his gun in his hands, towards the exit.
“Eyes open, this whole place could be crawling with Erasers.” Zander said all leaderly again. We walked slowly down the hall, quietly as possible.
“Where to, I guess we’re on the oiling rig Joe was talking about before she went al back stabber on us, so what we’re going to do?” T.K asked whispering, “No offence but she is.” He continued and looked over in me and Jay’s general direction.
“Don’t know actually, just don’t blow anything up, we don’t know how far we are from the shore so flying back could be a problem, I guess we find the person in charge?” Zander said a little unsure of himself but he quickly found his leader confidence again.
“And what? All blind boy avian hybrids are supposed to blow things up?!” T.K said defending himself.
“I was actually talking about Lex, she has the power of fire and all.” Zander said letting T.K know we don’t expect him to blow things up. “Anyway, any idea where the person in charge would be?”
“Probably in the bridge or some command room or something?” Alex suggested. It was the only lead we had so all 8 of us silently prowled the shadows and worked our way towards where we hoped we would find the lead of operations or something of this whole illegal operation.
The place wasn’t as guarded as you would expect for a hive of evil. It was surprisingly easy, and in our life it was too easy and didn’t last long.
We rounded what we hoped would be our last corner and stepped right into the mess hall, 100 pairs of eyes closed in on us instantly, and suddenly one of the people stood up and screamed and pointed in our direction “Capture them, they’ve escaped!”
“Aw dau!” I yelled out back to him, I mean really it doesn’t take a lot of brain cells to realize a bunch of random kids, dirty and bruised would be escapees. Someone (one of my flock) pulled me back and here we were running for our life’s, like always. My last glimpse of the mess hall was that of people turning into wolf monsters and then some running away.
We heard a loud roar of Erasers chasing us, I didn’t dare look back at the extent of our chase, and clearly it was bad enough, in the middle of the ocean and all.
Markus was running out in front of us, checking each doorway. We really need to get out of here I thought to myself, just then Markus stopped at a door and yelled “Found our escape route!”
We all ran towards him but a yell from behind stopped us in our tracks. I didn’t look back strait away, I knew from the look on Mark’s face that I didn’t want to see what was playing out behind me.
“You wouldn’t want to take off without your little friend here, would you?” I heard the Eraser snarl pleased with himself. I turned around and knew who he had in his claws, when we ran she probably fell behind.
“Mark?” Lily squeaked, her eyes pleading us not to leave her here in the clutches of the monsters. Markus was still standing at the exit he found, one foot in, the other one outside.
“Let her go!” Zander snarled back at the Eraser.
The Eraser smiled a toothy smile and laughed. Sure as heck I can get scared of Zan, he’s like very big and all but against a bunch of Erasers with a hostage he was like a little pussy cat, harmless. In the narrow hallway we couldn’t see exactly how many Erasers there were but we knew there were more of them than there were of us.
“Let me rephrase that, ‘let her go’ and we won’t blow your little plant to kingdom come!” I yelled at them in my ‘Lex-means-business-tone’.
The Eraser holding Lily tightened his grip on her tiny arms and smiled another toothy smile at me, clearly he didn’t know who he was dealing with.
I summoned up just a little bit of my fire, making a tiny fire ball in my hand, just small enough not to cause a huge explosion or anything on the OIL rig. The Eraser gave my fire ball and the smile on my face one look and said “You wouldn’t, you’ll go boom too!”
“Lex, now put out the fire, we both know if you set the place on fire none of us would get out of here.” I recognized the voice, the Erasers parted to let a nicely dressed man pass by, he was walking all casually talking to me, it was Mister H.
I gave a step back but didn’t blow out the little fire in my hand.
“What are you doing here, thought you were like head of Washington or something!” Glaice yelled out.
“You know him!” Zander yelled out.
“Who are you?!” T.K yelled out.
“Mark!” Lily yelled out.
Suddenly everyone was yelling at each other and I was slowly starting to lose my cool. “Quiet every one, I’m still threatening to blow the place up!” (Okay I know it kinda sounds immature but I’m just reporting what happened and I was kinda pissed and everyone was kinda ignoring me, and the Eraser kinda had one of our flock members in his grip and come on I’m actually a kid!) “And believe me, we bird kids will do almost anything to save one of our own, even blowing up an oil rig and flying away!”
Mister H’s expression didn’t change, he actually looked amused by my threat. “Take them, none of them leaves this plant!” He turns around and walks away. That moment the Erasers closed in on us, even from our escape route came Erasers, we had nowhere to run to, cornered.
I started swinging punches and kicks at any Eraser that came into range and saw the others also fighting them off. We were outnumbered about 5 to 1 but we kept fighting, finally the Erasers got the upper hand again and over powered us. I saw Alex fighting bravely but then one well placed punch from an Eraser knocked her out. T.K was taking out a lot of Erasers with his power to find their weak points but he too was taken out by an Eraser. Glaice was struggling to take on a group at once but she stood her ground, finally falling too. Only me, Mark, Jay and Zan were left. I took a lot of hits but I was still going strong, I knew the other three were in bad shape by now too.
I was staring down an Eraser when a drop of water landed on my head, I stole a quick glance upwards and saw rusty water pipes *imaginary light bulb appearing above my head*.
“Jay surfs up!” I yelled at Jay knowing he would catch onto my plan. “Mark, Zan grab the others and hold on!” I yelled at the other two, I grabbed hold of Glaice since she was my BFF and she was nearest to me. I dodged an Eraser and grabbed hold of a pipe attached to the wall, Glaice in my one hand, pipe in the other. I glanced back and saw the other two doing the same. In a split second the whole hallway flooded with icy cold water, I was drenched instantly.
Holding my breath in the torrent of water wasn’t easy but at least I knew Erasers were generally not swimmers. After the water subsided I took a big lung full of clean air. Glaice was lying on my lap, soaking wet and coughing, the others were wet also and I heard coughing come from the ones who were out cold as well. I looked around us and saw only a small percent of the original Erasers left, the others must have been washed out the doors. The remaining Erasers were either lying unconscious on the ground or choking on water.
I stood up and helped the now awake Glaice up too, “Thanks bro.” I said to Jay as I helped Glaice stand up right without falling over.
“Next time warn a girl before you try and drown a bunch of Erasers!” Alex said as she coughed some more.
“They took Lily!” Markus said shocking us all back to the reality of the situation. Lily was nowhere to be seen, Mister H must have taken her when he left.
“Looks like that was just the warm up for the big boss battle, and I don’t even think we leveled up!” T.K said out of breath, I actually hoped this whole mission was over the second Jay’s tidal wave was over, but who ever listens to my hopes?
We all looked at Zander, he was the leader, he should come up with the solution or a plan at least.
“Zander, what are we going to do, Lily’s like my family, you all are, we have to save her, who knows what they’re going to do to pore little Lily.” Mark finally said, showing an actual emotion other than self admiration (is that even an emotion?)
“Okay guys, let’s take a vote, if you aren’t up for the boss battle you can leave now and we’ll meet up if we get out of this, but if you stay your risking your life, so who’s in?” Zander said out loud, we looked at him, we could get out of this and get away, but then we’ll be leaving family behind.
“You know I’m in Z!” Markus said and went to stand next to Zander, we all followed until only Alex was left with the choice.
“You’ll be needing me, can’t bring down a big bad guy and save the princess without a computer nerd.”
We ran towards the mess hall again but this time didn’t run into it blindly. Glaice slowly crawled closer to the door and ever so slightly looked around the corner “Nothing, everyone’s cleared out, wait what is that I see?” I leaned past her and actually saw her drool (she still says it’s from Jays tidal wave, the water in her hair dripped down her chin) I looked over in the direction she was looking at and saw the cafeteria buffet table, filled with food, left abandoned. As if my stomach had eyes it growled when I saw all the wonderful food, we were just threw a battle, had escaped and have been kidnapped to begin with so we were pretty hungry.
We walked into the mess hall keeping our eyes on everything that might be cameras or a place a sniper could hide. Nothing, the people who were supposed to be working in the kitchen weren’t there either.
“Grab anything you can carry, we have to save Lily and get out of here!” Zander ordered and grabbed as much food he could stuff in his mouth and the pockets of his cargo pants and jacket. We all grabbed as much food as we could.
T.K was the first to hear something coming from behind us, his being alert alerted Jay who then tapped my arm, alerting me. I whirled around making the others follow and suddenly all 7 of us were staring at two cowering kids who just barely made it behind a table.
Zander sniffed the air and I could see he was confused. “What are you?!” Zander called out at the two kids, a boy and a girl, they didn’t come out from behind the table. Glaice scowled at Zander and lowered her guard.
“Zan, you scared the kids!” She said nicely and started to walk towards the kids. “Now now, he won’t hurt you, he’s just a big softy with a hard voice.” She soothed them “Come out now, I’m sure you won’t hurt us.”
The girl was the first to stand up from behind the table, she looked nervous. Her hair was a tangled mess of sandy colored hair, her eyes was a bright green and her skin was tanned underneath the bruises. I noticed she was wearing a hospital gown, she also looked a little arrogant.
Glaice turned to us and smiled “see guys their just kids, they won’t hurt us!” I knew Glaice must have read their minds, so I was the first to lower my guard too, the others followed. “I’m Glaice, and this is my flock, we are sort of looking for our friend, you don’t perhaps know where we can find her?” Glaice looked back at us and asked “Hey Alex could you please bring them something to eat?!” Alex grabbed a bunch of hotdogs and burgers and brought it to Glaice, the boy now stood up, he was clearly hungry. The boy had black hair, blue eyes and a light complexion hidden under his own bruises.
Glaice walked over to the kids and placed the food on the table, they didn’t go for the food right away. I went closer.
“What if you poisoned the food?!” The girl finally spoke up, her voice trying to sound tough, I looked at her in disbelief.
“Okay just give me a hotdog, I’ll show the little tough girl we didn’t poison it.” I said as Glaice handed me a hotdog, forgetting my manners I practically shoved the hotdog whole into my mouth. “See?” I said still chewing the hotdog.
The boy looked in shock at my table manners and the girl looked at me amused. After that they fell on the food while me and Glaice looked over at our Flock.
“So who are you, what are you doing on this tin can?” I asked when they ate almost 10 hotdogs, each. They were thankfully slowing down now.
“I’m Nikki, and he’s Ian, I don’t know how we got here, we’re just here, the alarms went off and the crates we were in just opened, so we walked out in the chaos.” The girl said arrogantly, we were all sitting at a table now.
“The alarms were probably caused when Jay flooded the place, the crates probably opened coz the system this place works on thought the place was going down.” Alex supplied the answer, she’s a really smart kid.
“That probably also explains why there’s no one here.” T.K added.
“Can you just take us to the place they’ll be taking Lily?!” Mark who was quiet this whole time spoke up. We all looked at him.
“Sure, you don’t want them to have her for too long, I’ve heard what they do to avians here, ain’t pretty.” Nikki said as she stood up, “just to help with this whole working together thing, tell the mind reader to stop reading my mind, its intrusive.”
Glaice puffed up like someone just insulted her, okay she was actually insulted, but luckily she didn’t say anything, Nikki’s our only help finding Lily.
Nikki, who I guessed was about 12, was leading our group, occasionally she made us all stand back against the wall, then she would peer around the corner and motion us to follow. We went down stairs and climbed ladders and finally reached a place where the decor started to change from filthy oil rig to future looking evil lab.
We all jumped as the intercom hidden somewhere in the sealing came to life. “All personnel report to your stations, alarms were caused by avian experiments escaping and attacking, high alert, 7 avians loose in compound, two clones also escaped, be on lookout report any sighting!” The voice over the com sounded almost metallic coming from the roof.
“Okay so now they know we’re out here somewhere.” Zander said pointing out the obvious. Nikki looked over at him angrily. So now we know this is a cloning plant and that Nikki and Ian are clones.
We walked on and just as we were about to round the last corner (sound like déjà-fu, hu?) Nikki stopped us and pressed her finger to her mouth to show we should be quiet. My guess is it was Erasers guarding a door or something. She peered around the corner and breathed out a sigh of relieve. We unglued ourselves from the wall and walked around the corner.
In front of us was a thick looking sliding steel door. It looked pretty intimidating to us, next to the door was a keypad.
“Okay we brought you to the place, now you just gotta find the code to it somehow, we never got past this point.” Nikki said, looking bummed.
“Have no fear, Alex is here!” Alex said, and I’m sure she watched too much cartoons or something, she continued when we all stared at her “I had too much sugar earlier, sue me.” The stepped past us and started clicking away on the keypad, faster than any of us could comprehend the screen flashed green and the door slid open.
We all cautiously walked in, when T.K was in, the door slid close behind us. The interior of the place was a weird white, almost glowing.
“You two would know if there’s like a monster or something hiding in here somewhere right?” Nikki asked me and Glaice, she sounded pretty nervous.
“Ya, but how do you know ‘bout our powers?” I asked her.
“Well it’s my ability, I know what powers and abilities other mutants have, it also entitles me to know exactly how to counter you’re powers.” She said smiling wryly sounding like the little brat we came to know in the past few minutes.
We came to an observation window, one of those I guess where you can see from one side and not the other, we all stood there trying to see what was going on in inside. On the other side of the window we saw two white coats and someone strapped to a seat, we couldn’t see the persons face because the one white coat was standing in front of the person. The white coat was sticking sticky dots with wires connected to the person. I looked more intently, if that person turns into the hulk I’ll probably wet my jeans. The white coat stepped away from the person in the chair and all at once we all (except the clones) realized who was sitting in the chair.
Lily!
Her eyes were shut but the minute the second white coat flipped a switch they sprang open wildly, at first we were stunned but luckily we had an awesome leader who snapped back to reality, and thank the heavens he was supper strong.
We were all staring at the white coats torturing Lily but the instant the glass shattered in front of our eyes we snapped back. Zander jumped over the low wall where the window was and ran towards the white coat at the controls. My instincts told me right away to cover Zander, so me and Glaice followed Zander and jumped over the low wall too, some Erasers were coming in through the door at the end of the circular room. Jay, Alex T.K and the clones joined into the fight too. Markus ran directly for Lily, pulling the wires with the sticky dots of off her skin. She was slumped in the chair (that strangely resembled those dentist chairs, now you got something to think about next time you’re in those chairs, hehehe)
The Erasers and two white coats was no match for us so we quickly joined Markus and Zander by Lily’s side.
“What did they do to her?” Mark asked fighting back tears.
“They whipped her mind, she’ll wake up in a day or so then she won’t remember any of you, might not even remember how to fly.” Nikki said nonchalant.
Zander picked Lily up delicately and cradled her in his strong arms, suddenly the alarms started to whale.
“Ah oh!” Nikki and Ian said at the same time
“Better get outa here!” Zander said and started to run towards the door the Erasers came in form.
“What’s happening, I didn’t see any of the Erasers or white coats push like a panic button?!” Alex yelled as we all ran towards the door, a few white coats and Erasers ran past us, paying us no attention what so ever, and if they did, they were more intent on running from something than catching the escapees. Just then a tremor almost knocked us of our feet and a loud bang.
“I think the place is coming down!” Ian yelled out, the first I heard him talk on his own ever.
It was easier getting out than in, or at least faster, all the potential threats we usually run from was now running for their lives with us.
“Found a door that leads outside!” Mark yelled out from in front somewhere, he ran out in front to find an escape route. “Hope the clones can fly!”
I looked over at the clones, they looked at each other and smiled, our wings were already out, theirs weren’t, that’s assuming they had.
We caught up to Mark and he jumped out the door, the door leaded to a little walk way outside. When we got to the door he was already outside flying, waiting for us to join. One by one we jumped out the door and of the walkway.
I was out and looked back curiously to see if the clones had wings and could fly. I was pleasantly shocked to say they did have wings, but none of what I have ever seen, theirs were black and leathery, thin and not fluffy and feathery like ours.
“What are you guys?!” I yelled over the roar of the sea and the oil rig falling to pieces, fires brakeing out and all hell playing out just below us.
“Bat kids, new breed of avians, and clones like you pointed out earlier!” Nikki yelled back. We saw about 4 other kids sized things flying out of the rig just before it went up in the biggest explosion I have ever seen. There were boats leaving the sight, and people jumping from the burning structure, but we knew there were many Erasers, white coats and mutants who weren’t so lucky, I got a lump in my throat trying to hold back the tears. Many more lives are going to be affected by this, I thought to myself as I saw black stuff rising up to the surface of the ocean, oil.
“Better get a move on, we have a long flight in front of us, and the authorities will be here soon.” Zander said in a grave tone.
“Which way to the nearest land?” Alex asked.
“I’ll be able to help with that one.” Ian spoke up, Nikki who was flying next to him, smiled.
“He’s like a compass, you ask him to take you somewhere and he can take you.” Nikki informed us.
“The nearest land is an island that way!” Ian continued proudly pointing towards the horizon.
Together we all flew towards the horizon where Ian pointed toward, the 4 other kid sized flying things joined us, 3 bat kids and 1 bird kid, all girls.
We reached the island just in time, we lab raised bird kids aren’t so good on long flights, not to mention just after a daring escape and surviving what could be the worst oil rig (cloning plant) disaster in American history.
We all rested up on the tiny island and the next morning we left, leaving Nikki and Ian and their new found flock of bat kids (and one bird kid) behind, after of course Ian showed us the heading to get back to the hotel we were taken from. Lily also came too and like Nikki said didn’t remember a thing, so Zander had to fly with her in his arms the whole way back (luckily we bird kids are super light, but a flight that far is still hard with any extra weight than your own).
We found the hotel easily and also found Em right away, she was sick with worry and was kinda pissed at us ‘cause we had an adventure without her, she was living with one of the staff of the hotel, a friend of the back stabbing witch stupid excuse for a mother Joe, anyway Joe took Em to the staff lady the night before our capture telling her only to watch Em for a while till her ‘siblings’ came back for her, Joe also gave the woman some money for us (okay she’s giving us money but I’m not going to be bought over just like that). There was also a room reserved for us for the night, so we just took our stuff and left.
We slept that night next to the ocean in a protected aria, the stars shining brightly above us. That night I had a strange dream of a white coat injecting me with stuff, I also had a bunch of random dreams about food, places, places made of food, and normal dream stuff.
And just FYI we’re not sure what made the oil rig go ca-boom, the official story is it’s a bubble of methane gas (the stuff your body gets rid of every time you . . . yea, catch the drift? I wonder if the Gasman was hiding in the pipe somewhere, hmmm?) that escaped somewhere in the pipe and then broke threw a bunch of barriers, yadda yadda yadda, and then it expanded and went BOOOOM! All that you can pretty much see each night on news or whatever but what you won’t know is that the oil rig was actually a cover for the cloning plant and that the clones were actually clones of kids who died or was hard to kidnap or already grown up who would, if mutated under the right circumstances, develop strong abilities like my fire (didn’t make the methane catch fire I swear!), Jay’s emo power, Lily’s invisibility and Mark’s speed. It’s a relative new thing, so I just want to say our flock are the originals, God threw away the moulds when he was done making us, lolz.
So anyway it’s a big environmental disaster that almost ended our lives and not a big hairy scary Eraser, so yea we should all try and stop these things from happening, either by finding new and better ways to do old things like get oil or find better things to replace bad things like oil entirely. Believe it or not, we may have nothing to do with how the world is being destroyed, most of the things even happened before we were born, but it is like our born duty to make up for it, we can’t just sit back and be silent, even if you don’t have wings you can still do something, you just have to find a way. (Sorry I’m getting a little preachy but I don’t want to fight and defeat Itex and just lose the big battle the Earth is fighting every day!)
Okay that’s about it for our adventure on the high seas, now we’re just drifting around, o and Alex went back to her flock after everything, the constant sniffles didn’t amuse her, we also taught Lily everything from scratch, flying, who we were, what we are, who the bad guys are and how to fight. Luckily she was a fast learner and wanted to learn everything so it went smoothly, she did freak out our first time when Erasers attacked.
Keep on keeping on!
~Lex~
Found this on Lex's 'Edward', Jay was suposed to post it but he didn't find it, we're starting to think T.K is rubbing off on him, so hope you enjoyed it, I'll be posting untill Lex is back, so here is an update on how things are going. Joe is calling us non stop, and she's even starting to put comments on the blog, so she's bugging us to let Lex be taken back to a school so they can make her better, but that is the last place we'll be going, that and a hospital at this stage, but we're considering a hospital at the moment, Lex doesn't like that idea, so you can tell she's still with us, loud and clear like she would say, and Zander is trying every thing with his contact inside to find out whats wrong, he thinks that this guy can help us. We also discovered that when we were taken to the oil rig we've been knocked out by injection stuff, well that was just the start, we all have been under sedation for about a week between when we were taken from the hotel and taken to the oil rig, that now sits under the ocean, so we are starting to think the white coats have experemented on us, we also think that maybe Lex also got some strange flu or something in that time.
*this is Glaice signing out*
Friday, 21 May 2010
What we normally do . . .
You’re not saying anything or asking about us so I thought how bout I show you what we bird kids get up to every day, more or less.
6h00: My shift ends, I violently wake Mark and then the rest after a well deserved night’s sleep, or being look out (we take shifts to be on lookout)
7h00: personal hygiene, aka Glaice hogs stream and attacks anyone who comes close (she knows it when you sneak up on her, mind reader remember)
8h00: rest of us gets chance at stream.
8h10: Lily, Glaice and Em’s turn for Breakfast (we love their turn, they can actually cook) I always start the fire (that’s the only way I get out of breakfast duty, that and the others took a vote on me being cook and decided it’d be better if I just start the fire, what I didn’t know eggs weren’t’ supposed to be green, in one of doctor susses rimes he talks about green eggs and ham! and don’t even ask how I got the eggs green).
8h40: we eat and clear everything.
9h00: we discuss everything we are going to do the day.
9h59: Erasers attack, you can almost set a watch to them falling in
10h10: wash up after attack, see what damage the Erasers did.
10h20: pick up the pieces of our broken lives and move on.
10h30: move away from stinking Erasers and make a new plan for the day.
11h00: fly on to new destination.
11h15: fly with hawks and it is just as awesome as Max described it in the book (that book I actually found a while back after we escaped, the white coats didn’t want us to get any ideas from Max so the book was banned in the school)
13h00: buy food with the money I nabbed from Joe (To Joe, it your reading this you wanted to keep the little detail ‘bout you being a white coat a secret)
13h25: eat food
13h40: we look for an internet café and update the blog, I go on facebook and work on future blog posts while the others usually play games, surf the web or make the internet café guy angry with us.
15h15: move on to a new place, bird kids gotta keep on the move.
17h00: set up ‘camp’ outside new town in a wilderness place, everyone talks about whatnot, we work on whatever our heart’s desire.
20h00: we start to make a fire and catch up on everything we’ve been up to and roast stuff we found on sticks (not going into detail with that)
21h35: everyone drifts of into sleep and the first person goes on guard duty.
Here’s a little inside info on what we keep ourselves busy with till we hit the sack at night.
Zander: well he trains a lot so he’s usually of in the woods somewhere lifting rocks or whatever, no one ever goes with him when he trains, he’s like a drill sergeant, and I actually discovered this the hard way don’t ask.
Me (Lex): I usually just lounge around with Glaice talking about stuff and keeping an eye on the others, or I write things in a little book, stuff I want to add to the blog and things like that.
Jay: Jay’s usually found next to the stream swimming with T.K and Mark and working on his power over water.
Glaice: she’s usually with me talking and sometimes she’s writing things in her own little book, she’s very protective over the book so I don’t know what it’s about.
Markus: he’s of swimming with T.K and Jay or when he’s not swimming I can swear he’s looking at himself in the reflection of the water, sometimes he helps Lily with fighting techniques.
T.K: well he’s usually swimming or doing stuff with Jay (they are getting along swimmingly, hehe, they’re like long lost brothers or something) when he’s not doing that he likes to show everyone all the things he collected, shells, bottle caps, rocks, lots more, he carries everything with him in a bag, Zander thinks it’s a stupid thing to weighs himself down with all the stuff but he likes it, even though he can’t see the stuff, he’s really proud of his little collection.
Lily: She’s usually sketching away in her sketch book or she just walks around with Em, exploring everything, from bugs to flowers. Or she trains with Mark.
Em: she’s usually tagging along with Zander or one of the other older kids, or she’s exploring everything with Lily.
~Lex~
6h00: My shift ends, I violently wake Mark and then the rest after a well deserved night’s sleep, or being look out (we take shifts to be on lookout)
7h00: personal hygiene, aka Glaice hogs stream and attacks anyone who comes close (she knows it when you sneak up on her, mind reader remember)
8h00: rest of us gets chance at stream.
8h10: Lily, Glaice and Em’s turn for Breakfast (we love their turn, they can actually cook) I always start the fire (that’s the only way I get out of breakfast duty, that and the others took a vote on me being cook and decided it’d be better if I just start the fire, what I didn’t know eggs weren’t’ supposed to be green, in one of doctor susses rimes he talks about green eggs and ham!
8h40: we eat and clear everything.
9h00: we discuss everything we are going to do the day.
9h59: Erasers attack, you can almost set a watch to them falling in
10h10: wash up after attack, see what damage the Erasers did.
10h20: pick up the pieces of our broken lives and move on.
10h30: move away from stinking Erasers and make a new plan for the day.
11h00: fly on to new destination.
11h15: fly with hawks and it is just as awesome as Max described it in the book (that book I actually found a while back after we escaped, the white coats didn’t want us to get any ideas from Max so the book was banned in the school)
13h00: buy food with the money I nabbed from Joe (To Joe, it your reading this you wanted to keep the little detail ‘bout you being a white coat a secret)
13h25: eat food
13h40: we look for an internet café and update the blog, I go on facebook and work on future blog posts while the others usually play games, surf the web or make the internet café guy angry with us.
15h15: move on to a new place, bird kids gotta keep on the move.
17h00: set up ‘camp’ outside new town in a wilderness place, everyone talks about whatnot, we work on whatever our heart’s desire.
20h00: we start to make a fire and catch up on everything we’ve been up to and roast stuff we found on sticks (not going into detail with that)
21h35: everyone drifts of into sleep and the first person goes on guard duty.
Here’s a little inside info on what we keep ourselves busy with till we hit the sack at night.
Zander: well he trains a lot so he’s usually of in the woods somewhere lifting rocks or whatever, no one ever goes with him when he trains, he’s like a drill sergeant, and I actually discovered this the hard way don’t ask.
Me (Lex): I usually just lounge around with Glaice talking about stuff and keeping an eye on the others, or I write things in a little book, stuff I want to add to the blog and things like that.
Jay: Jay’s usually found next to the stream swimming with T.K and Mark and working on his power over water.
Glaice: she’s usually with me talking and sometimes she’s writing things in her own little book, she’s very protective over the book so I don’t know what it’s about.
Markus: he’s of swimming with T.K and Jay or when he’s not swimming I can swear he’s looking at himself in the reflection of the water, sometimes he helps Lily with fighting techniques.
T.K: well he’s usually swimming or doing stuff with Jay (they are getting along swimmingly, hehe, they’re like long lost brothers or something) when he’s not doing that he likes to show everyone all the things he collected, shells, bottle caps, rocks, lots more, he carries everything with him in a bag, Zander thinks it’s a stupid thing to weighs himself down with all the stuff but he likes it, even though he can’t see the stuff, he’s really proud of his little collection.
Lily: She’s usually sketching away in her sketch book or she just walks around with Em, exploring everything, from bugs to flowers. Or she trains with Mark.
Em: she’s usually tagging along with Zander or one of the other older kids, or she’s exploring everything with Lily.
~Lex~
Jay's post . . .
Hey, well this isn’t Lex posting this, it’s me Jay.
Okay so am, I don’t know how Lex does this but anyway she’s caught some weird bug and now she’s sick as a dog, no offence Zan.
Like I said she’s sick so she asked me to just post something to say she’s not going to be posting for a while. After we got back from the mission she’s been telling about she just got sick, and it’s bad. At first it’s only been sneezing and then some coughing, now she can’t even walk. Okay the walking bit can maybe also be caused by the Eraser who nearly made sushi out of her.
Okay so here’s the story. Like always the Erasers attacked and we’ve known Lex wasn’t feeling good so Zan asked her if she’ll be able to fight, as stubbornly stupid as Lex is she said she’ll be up for the fight. She took out one Eraser but then one snuck up on her and knocked her out, we all were busy with our own fights so we couldn’t go and help her, Zan still blames himself for what happened and Glaice thinks she should have seen it but she didn’t. Anyway so the Eraser took out all his anger on Lex’s unconscious body, and when we finally got to her and dragged the Eraser of off her she was badly injured. Her arms broken, wing dislocated, few broken ribs, badly gashed leg, her lip was split, and her one eye swollen shut, she looked bad. On top of her injuries she was still sick and had a fever. She got too again and said there’s no way we’re taking her to a hospital, so were hiding out in a cave we found outside a town, not telling you where. I still say we have to take Lex to a hospital but she says it’s too risky, Zan won’t take her to the hospital ‘cause she threatened him if he takes her, even when she’s badly injured and sick she’s still causing pain on people, anyway T.K has been doing his best on healing her but she doesn’t want him coming near her with his ‘magic spit’ as she calls it (and yes, T.K and Dylan do have that in common, weird I know, but doctor God aka Dr Hans Gunter-Hagen had a finger in the pie at the place T.K was made, before he was put in the school Alex was in), so her leg’s still pretty open and disgusting looking, at least her wing is back in its place and her arms are both in slings, it’s really funny to see, she’s really mad about it and threatens to escape and attack the nearest Eraser, or just settling on Zander.
Anyway along with the Lex being hurt and sick part we also found out about Zander and Em being ultimate Erasers, he finally told us one night, he said he couldn’t live with the secret so he just came clean, but we don’t care what he is, he’s our flock leader and that’s how it’s going to stay, so now his new nick name (given to him by Lex) is wolf boy or something like that.
And just for the record, Lex says I’m emo, I am not emo, I can just control the emotions of others and I like to wear tight jeans, and I don’t talk that much, but I repeat I AM NOT EMO!
So in short our lives are a little messed up at the moment, Lex sick, we’re hiding out, and Zander’s an Eraser.
By Jay?
PS I know she didn't finish our story but she gave me orders to post the last piece, yea she's bossy, so here is the last post on that mission, and yea well something els I found on her precious memory stick named Edward (I don't get it either, who names a memory stick Edward?) So just read it or whatever and expect a little less action on the blog.
PSS know what, I can't find the post she said was on Edward so I'm just going to go put on the other thing she wanted to put up, the stroy will be added as soon as I can find it.
Okay so am, I don’t know how Lex does this but anyway she’s caught some weird bug and now she’s sick as a dog, no offence Zan.
Like I said she’s sick so she asked me to just post something to say she’s not going to be posting for a while. After we got back from the mission she’s been telling about she just got sick, and it’s bad. At first it’s only been sneezing and then some coughing, now she can’t even walk. Okay the walking bit can maybe also be caused by the Eraser who nearly made sushi out of her.
Okay so here’s the story. Like always the Erasers attacked and we’ve known Lex wasn’t feeling good so Zan asked her if she’ll be able to fight, as stubbornly stupid as Lex is she said she’ll be up for the fight. She took out one Eraser but then one snuck up on her and knocked her out, we all were busy with our own fights so we couldn’t go and help her, Zan still blames himself for what happened and Glaice thinks she should have seen it but she didn’t. Anyway so the Eraser took out all his anger on Lex’s unconscious body, and when we finally got to her and dragged the Eraser of off her she was badly injured. Her arms broken, wing dislocated, few broken ribs, badly gashed leg, her lip was split, and her one eye swollen shut, she looked bad. On top of her injuries she was still sick and had a fever. She got too again and said there’s no way we’re taking her to a hospital, so were hiding out in a cave we found outside a town, not telling you where. I still say we have to take Lex to a hospital but she says it’s too risky, Zan won’t take her to the hospital ‘cause she threatened him if he takes her, even when she’s badly injured and sick she’s still causing pain on people, anyway T.K has been doing his best on healing her but she doesn’t want him coming near her with his ‘magic spit’ as she calls it (and yes, T.K and Dylan do have that in common, weird I know, but doctor God aka Dr Hans Gunter-Hagen had a finger in the pie at the place T.K was made, before he was put in the school Alex was in), so her leg’s still pretty open and disgusting looking, at least her wing is back in its place and her arms are both in slings, it’s really funny to see, she’s really mad about it and threatens to escape and attack the nearest Eraser, or just settling on Zander.
Anyway along with the Lex being hurt and sick part we also found out about Zander and Em being ultimate Erasers, he finally told us one night, he said he couldn’t live with the secret so he just came clean, but we don’t care what he is, he’s our flock leader and that’s how it’s going to stay, so now his new nick name (given to him by Lex) is wolf boy or something like that.
And just for the record, Lex says I’m emo, I am not emo, I can just control the emotions of others and I like to wear tight jeans, and I don’t talk that much, but I repeat I AM NOT EMO!
So in short our lives are a little messed up at the moment, Lex sick, we’re hiding out, and Zander’s an Eraser.
By Jay?
PS I know she didn't finish our story but she gave me orders to post the last piece, yea she's bossy, so here is the last post on that mission, and yea well something els I found on her precious memory stick named Edward (I don't get it either, who names a memory stick Edward?) So just read it or whatever and expect a little less action on the blog.
PSS know what, I can't find the post she said was on Edward so I'm just going to go put on the other thing she wanted to put up, the stroy will be added as soon as I can find it.
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
New followers
Well like i do everytime i find i have new followers i want to welcome you two, thank you very much, hehe that brings the grand total of willing followers to 7! WOW, if i wasn't feeling so sick i would have done a corckscrew arial move right now, hehe!
~Lex~
~Lex~
Monday, 17 May 2010
Okay guys I’m really sorry, I made a blooper ‘bout our ages, I’m still 13 years old, and weird enough Mark was the one who discovered my little blooper, being a Narcissist doesn’t mean you can’t do math apparently. Anyway here’s our real ages, Glaice and Zan are both 14 years old, T.K, me, Jay and Markus are all 13 years old, later this year (check our B-Days) me, Jay and Mark will turn 14, Lily is 11, and Em is still 5 but end of the month she’ll be 6 (reminds me please help me think of a gift for the little girl, I’m not an expert on gift giving, so comment below please!)
Again don’t blame my math, I’m just a girl who never went to school who made a little mistake, so forgive me, or I’ll fly over and kick your butt!
~Lex, the 13 year old bird kid and not the 14 year old bird kid~
Again don’t blame my math, I’m just a girl who never went to school who made a little mistake, so forgive me, or I’ll fly over and kick your butt!
~Lex, the 13 year old bird kid and not the 14 year old bird kid~
Finally the final part, part 3
You should count yourselves lucky, I’m sick as a dog and I’m still posting stuff for ya here, anyway up until now we didn’t know bird kids could like get a cold or even get sick from normal human stuff, and no I don’t think I have the bird flu, we already discussed this on Facebook. But ya anyway I’m sick, I keep coughing like crazy, my nose is working overtime with the mucus evacuations, my whole body’s aching, and I look like crap.
So here is part 3 on our mission the final post on it, enjoy.
Finally the final part, part 3
On the plane we ate like pigs, again. The stewardess’ (that’s what they call the woman in high heels waiter people) handed out toys and stuff and were creepy as heck with those constant smiles. Em was enjoying it a lot seeing as she was flying without someone carrying her, I also saw she, Alex and Lily were getting along, I was relaxing, there’s no worries of Erasers flying by and kicking us out of the air, I enjoyed the whole flying without flying part, only part I didn’t like was all the other people in the plane and the fact that it was an enclosed space and I didn’t feel the familiar rush of wind on my face.
“Glad to see you’re enjoying new things Lex.” Joe said as she came to sit next to me on the open isle seat. I glared at her and continued looking out of the window, as if she never came and interrupted me.
“You should be open to new things, you remind me a lot of someone I know.” She continued, she’s probably talking about herself, usually when grownups talked about people reminding them of people, it’s themselves, I thought to myself sarcastically.
“You remind me about this girl who narrates a book, she’s also strong willed and doesn’t back off, she also has a sweat tooth, mad about choc chip cookies, I think you know who I’m talking about.” She smiled at me as I turned around to look at her, she got me interested.
“Yah, Maximum Ride, how do you know her?” I looked at her, she had a poker face on. (Man I hate that song, it always gets stuck in my head, aw man it got stuck!)
“I met her once, only briefly, she’s really stubborn and follows her own head, but she’s a great leader nether the less, but she too had her weaknesses, know yours.” She said and got up and moved back to her own seat, Glaice came back from the bathroom place and went to sit next to me.
“You and Joe talking more?” She asked.
“Jip, sort of, not that it means anything.” I said and stared back outside the window, my brain buzzing.
The flight was way shorter than if we would have flown with our own wings. But it was still a long flight, think cross country, not fun, there’s only so much you can do in a plane. We landed at the place I’m still not telling you about and Joe hired a car.
This car thankfully was built for a huge family so we all fitted in without it being illegal. The sky was nice and blue, just like the ocean, but it was starting to become night quickly so Joe booked us all in at some hotel overlooking the ocean, and a beautiful sunset.
The others were on the bed, watching TV or something, while Zander was standing outside looking out at the ocean, I went to stand next to him.
“What are you looking at?” I asked as I took my place next to him the sun was still a few inches away from the horizon.
“The ocean, you know I love it, ever since I was a kid, one of my first memories was of my dad and me walking on the beach. We had a house next to the ocean, a part where no other people went ‘cause the water was to cold there.” He smiled and stared out at the ocean, a few people walked along the shore.
“Wow, anyway you want to go and take a walk?” I finally managed to ask him awkwardly, he agreed and in a few moments we were on the beach, walking barefoot in the sand.
“So how old were you when you were taken, you talked about a memory, I don’t even have any of before the school.” I said fiddling with my hands in my hoody’s pockets.
“About 5 I guess, that’s probably why I’m bigger, being older when they started with the experiments and all.” He said and kicked at a rock on the sand, it didn’t hurt him like it would have hurt anyone ells.
He stopped and picked up a shell, a pretty little swirly one, what I’m a girl, girls are entitled to a little girly thoughts.
“Lex, can I ask you something?” I looked at his eyes, he looked serious and deep, I thought not to ruin this moment with a stupid reply so I nodded.
He took my hand and placed the shell in my hand.
“If something happens, and I’m not able to be leader of this flock . . . I want you to take over.” He said, his voice cracking under the pressure of his words.
“Su-“ I began to say before he placed his finger in front of my mouth, for once I didn’t care that much.
“Wait before you agree, there’s a condition . . . you have to be willing to do anything for the safety of the flock, no matter what.” I looked up into his face, he didn’t let anything go.
“You know I’ll do anything.” I said staring into his dark eyes, the sun was almost completely gone.
“Anything, no matter what?” He asked taking both my hand into his rough hands, the shell was still snugly in my right hand. I nodded, and didn’t realize we were so close until Mark’s voice snapped us back to reality.
“Lex! Zan! Where are you guys, Joe bout pizza!” We quickly let go of each other’s hands and ran back to the hotel place’s deck, the shell safely in my pocket.
That night we didn’t talk about the me being flock leader thing, we just ate pizza and enjoyed the starry night outside on the deck, Joe had the decency not to worm herself into our flock moment, she sat inside in front of the TV eating her vegan pizza while watching American Idols.
After the pizza we all were sleepy and went to sleep, our clothes and shoes on, just in case.
The next morning hit us all like a nightmare.
I opened my eyes but still couldn’t see anything, there was a bag over my head, I tried moving my body but I was tied up and probably lying on the ground.
“Zander, Jay? Where are you guys, you okay?” I said calmly, as I didn’t sense anyone in the room other than bird kids, I heard someone struggling.
“Define okay?!” I heard Zander say sarcastically, he sounded tired, has probably been struggling against the ropes for a while now.
“I’m okay under the circumstances. Lex, Joe probably drugged us last night with the pizza.” Jay said calmly and someone nudged my leg, I knew it was Jay.
“I’m okay too thank you very much for asking, and yes this is my first time being tied up in my sleep with a bag over my head!” Glaice yelled out, clearly this was her first time.
“Was getting to you, BFF.” I said to reassure her.
“Report!” Zander ordered like a true leader, how did he even think I was going to become as good a leader as he is.
“I’m okay.” I heard Lily squeak from somewhere above my head.
“Me to Sarge!” Mark said.
“Present!” Glaice confirmed she was here.
“You already know I’m here!” Jay said calmly.
“Same here!” I said out loud.
“I’m here, ah-ah-tjoooooee!” Alex confirmed with a sneeze, and continued “Zan can you please move your head away from my face, remember I’m allergic to you dude.”
“I’m here!” T.K said and after him it was quiet, we didn’t hear Em, or the traitor ‘mom’ Joe.
“Em, EM! Where are you, EM!” Zander yelled out, I hoped she was save somewhere hiding in a closet or something.
“Stop yelling freak!” We all instantly knew that voice could only come from an Eraser, the situation can’t get any worse.
“Thank you for coming, I found these kids here, I was on vacation and just saw them flying in when everyone was asleep!” I heard her voice but it was hard to swallow, Joe had abandoned us for the second time in our lives. “Remember don’t damage them, the institute can still use them, I suggest you take them to the Gulf plant, it is secure isn’t it?” She went on, turning the jagged knife in my back. I was stupid to have trusted her.
“Yes doctor, it is secure, we’ll be taking them there strait away. We’re sorry this ruined your vacation doctor Parker.” The Eraser apologized.
“She’s no doctor, she’s a back stabbing excuse for a human being!” I yelled out in frustration and got a boot in my stomach, the wind whooshed out of me instantly, I was beside myself with anger but could do nothing, I even tried burning threw the bonds with my fire but it didn’t work, high-tech stuff.
“Leave her alone! She’s speaking the truth mutt, that is a-“ I heard Jay yell out but he too got a kick.
Zander too tried but even before he could say something I heard him being kicked.
“Rides here, knock ‘em out!” I heard another Eraser yell from another room, suddenly I heard them grabbing each one of the flock and doing who knows what, then I felt a big hand grab onto me, then another hand and I felt a needle going into my arm, my body went numb and I drifted off into la-la land.
Guess I lied too, there is another post after this one on our mission, this isn’t the final one, so read on, and don’t trust people, they tend to stab you in the back when you least expect them to. And Joe if you’re reading this I’m talking to you.
~Lex~
So here is part 3 on our mission the final post on it, enjoy.
Finally the final part, part 3
On the plane we ate like pigs, again. The stewardess’ (that’s what they call the woman in high heels waiter people) handed out toys and stuff and were creepy as heck with those constant smiles. Em was enjoying it a lot seeing as she was flying without someone carrying her, I also saw she, Alex and Lily were getting along, I was relaxing, there’s no worries of Erasers flying by and kicking us out of the air, I enjoyed the whole flying without flying part, only part I didn’t like was all the other people in the plane and the fact that it was an enclosed space and I didn’t feel the familiar rush of wind on my face.
“Glad to see you’re enjoying new things Lex.” Joe said as she came to sit next to me on the open isle seat. I glared at her and continued looking out of the window, as if she never came and interrupted me.
“You should be open to new things, you remind me a lot of someone I know.” She continued, she’s probably talking about herself, usually when grownups talked about people reminding them of people, it’s themselves, I thought to myself sarcastically.
“You remind me about this girl who narrates a book, she’s also strong willed and doesn’t back off, she also has a sweat tooth, mad about choc chip cookies, I think you know who I’m talking about.” She smiled at me as I turned around to look at her, she got me interested.
“Yah, Maximum Ride, how do you know her?” I looked at her, she had a poker face on. (Man I hate that song, it always gets stuck in my head, aw man it got stuck!)
“I met her once, only briefly, she’s really stubborn and follows her own head, but she’s a great leader nether the less, but she too had her weaknesses, know yours.” She said and got up and moved back to her own seat, Glaice came back from the bathroom place and went to sit next to me.
“You and Joe talking more?” She asked.
“Jip, sort of, not that it means anything.” I said and stared back outside the window, my brain buzzing.
The flight was way shorter than if we would have flown with our own wings. But it was still a long flight, think cross country, not fun, there’s only so much you can do in a plane. We landed at the place I’m still not telling you about and Joe hired a car.
This car thankfully was built for a huge family so we all fitted in without it being illegal. The sky was nice and blue, just like the ocean, but it was starting to become night quickly so Joe booked us all in at some hotel overlooking the ocean, and a beautiful sunset.
The others were on the bed, watching TV or something, while Zander was standing outside looking out at the ocean, I went to stand next to him.
“What are you looking at?” I asked as I took my place next to him the sun was still a few inches away from the horizon.
“The ocean, you know I love it, ever since I was a kid, one of my first memories was of my dad and me walking on the beach. We had a house next to the ocean, a part where no other people went ‘cause the water was to cold there.” He smiled and stared out at the ocean, a few people walked along the shore.
“Wow, anyway you want to go and take a walk?” I finally managed to ask him awkwardly, he agreed and in a few moments we were on the beach, walking barefoot in the sand.
“So how old were you when you were taken, you talked about a memory, I don’t even have any of before the school.” I said fiddling with my hands in my hoody’s pockets.
“About 5 I guess, that’s probably why I’m bigger, being older when they started with the experiments and all.” He said and kicked at a rock on the sand, it didn’t hurt him like it would have hurt anyone ells.
He stopped and picked up a shell, a pretty little swirly one, what I’m a girl, girls are entitled to a little girly thoughts.
“Lex, can I ask you something?” I looked at his eyes, he looked serious and deep, I thought not to ruin this moment with a stupid reply so I nodded.
He took my hand and placed the shell in my hand.
“If something happens, and I’m not able to be leader of this flock . . . I want you to take over.” He said, his voice cracking under the pressure of his words.
“Su-“ I began to say before he placed his finger in front of my mouth, for once I didn’t care that much.
“Wait before you agree, there’s a condition . . . you have to be willing to do anything for the safety of the flock, no matter what.” I looked up into his face, he didn’t let anything go.
“You know I’ll do anything.” I said staring into his dark eyes, the sun was almost completely gone.
“Anything, no matter what?” He asked taking both my hand into his rough hands, the shell was still snugly in my right hand. I nodded, and didn’t realize we were so close until Mark’s voice snapped us back to reality.
“Lex! Zan! Where are you guys, Joe bout pizza!” We quickly let go of each other’s hands and ran back to the hotel place’s deck, the shell safely in my pocket.
That night we didn’t talk about the me being flock leader thing, we just ate pizza and enjoyed the starry night outside on the deck, Joe had the decency not to worm herself into our flock moment, she sat inside in front of the TV eating her vegan pizza while watching American Idols.
After the pizza we all were sleepy and went to sleep, our clothes and shoes on, just in case.
The next morning hit us all like a nightmare.
I opened my eyes but still couldn’t see anything, there was a bag over my head, I tried moving my body but I was tied up and probably lying on the ground.
“Zander, Jay? Where are you guys, you okay?” I said calmly, as I didn’t sense anyone in the room other than bird kids, I heard someone struggling.
“Define okay?!” I heard Zander say sarcastically, he sounded tired, has probably been struggling against the ropes for a while now.
“I’m okay under the circumstances. Lex, Joe probably drugged us last night with the pizza.” Jay said calmly and someone nudged my leg, I knew it was Jay.
“I’m okay too thank you very much for asking, and yes this is my first time being tied up in my sleep with a bag over my head!” Glaice yelled out, clearly this was her first time.
“Was getting to you, BFF.” I said to reassure her.
“Report!” Zander ordered like a true leader, how did he even think I was going to become as good a leader as he is.
“I’m okay.” I heard Lily squeak from somewhere above my head.
“Me to Sarge!” Mark said.
“Present!” Glaice confirmed she was here.
“You already know I’m here!” Jay said calmly.
“Same here!” I said out loud.
“I’m here, ah-ah-tjoooooee!” Alex confirmed with a sneeze, and continued “Zan can you please move your head away from my face, remember I’m allergic to you dude.”
“I’m here!” T.K said and after him it was quiet, we didn’t hear Em, or the traitor ‘mom’ Joe.
“Em, EM! Where are you, EM!” Zander yelled out, I hoped she was save somewhere hiding in a closet or something.
“Stop yelling freak!” We all instantly knew that voice could only come from an Eraser, the situation can’t get any worse.
“Thank you for coming, I found these kids here, I was on vacation and just saw them flying in when everyone was asleep!” I heard her voice but it was hard to swallow, Joe had abandoned us for the second time in our lives. “Remember don’t damage them, the institute can still use them, I suggest you take them to the Gulf plant, it is secure isn’t it?” She went on, turning the jagged knife in my back. I was stupid to have trusted her.
“Yes doctor, it is secure, we’ll be taking them there strait away. We’re sorry this ruined your vacation doctor Parker.” The Eraser apologized.
“She’s no doctor, she’s a back stabbing excuse for a human being!” I yelled out in frustration and got a boot in my stomach, the wind whooshed out of me instantly, I was beside myself with anger but could do nothing, I even tried burning threw the bonds with my fire but it didn’t work, high-tech stuff.
“Leave her alone! She’s speaking the truth mutt, that is a-“ I heard Jay yell out but he too got a kick.
Zander too tried but even before he could say something I heard him being kicked.
“Rides here, knock ‘em out!” I heard another Eraser yell from another room, suddenly I heard them grabbing each one of the flock and doing who knows what, then I felt a big hand grab onto me, then another hand and I felt a needle going into my arm, my body went numb and I drifted off into la-la land.
Guess I lied too, there is another post after this one on our mission, this isn’t the final one, so read on, and don’t trust people, they tend to stab you in the back when you least expect them to. And Joe if you’re reading this I’m talking to you.
~Lex~
Friday, 14 May 2010
Wow things are going great, isn't it awesome, i already have 5 followers who aren't following 'cause i attacked and made them follow, so i'm really happy 'bout that! Its also awesome that i start hearing from ya'all, it helps me get motavated, thanx for that if helps, alot. So i just want to hear more from you, like post Q+A's and stuff and i'll answer them, you can ask about the flock, about me, my views on things, just don't ask where we are, hehe.
Well at the moment we're just going from town to town doing bird kid stuf, running for our lifes, that kinda thing. and i'm getting sick al of a sudden, not fun flying and then sneezing i can tell you, i didn't even know bird kids can get sick, i thought we were like so 'evolved' that we outgrew sicknesses, anyway other than me being sick everythings going on.
Keep on keeping on!
~Lex~
Well at the moment we're just going from town to town doing bird kid stuf, running for our lifes, that kinda thing. and i'm getting sick al of a sudden, not fun flying and then sneezing i can tell you, i didn't even know bird kids can get sick, i thought we were like so 'evolved' that we outgrew sicknesses, anyway other than me being sick everythings going on.
Keep on keeping on!
~Lex~
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
okay heres our B-days
Okay so here is our B-days memorise them, know them, buy us presents, lol.
Okay I know Max and her flock didn’t know there birthdates and stuff like that but these things were a little easier for us to come by, so here is our dates of birth, oldest to the youngest.
Glaice, 14, Sunday, December 31, 1995
Zander, 14, Sunday, February 25, 1996
Lexis, 14 ,Tuesday, September 03, 1996
Jayson, 14, Tuesday, September 03, 1996
Markus, 14, Sunday, November 24, 1996
T.K, 13, Tuesday, April 08, 1997
Alex, 12, Sunday, March 22, 1998
Lily, 11, Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Emily, 6, Sunday, May 30, 2004
Okay I know Max and her flock didn’t know there birthdates and stuff like that but these things were a little easier for us to come by, so here is our dates of birth, oldest to the youngest.
Glaice, 14, Sunday, December 31, 1995
Zander, 14, Sunday, February 25, 1996
Lexis, 14 ,Tuesday, September 03, 1996
Jayson, 14, Tuesday, September 03, 1996
Markus, 14, Sunday, November 24, 1996
T.K, 13, Tuesday, April 08, 1997
Alex, 12, Sunday, March 22, 1998
Lily, 11, Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Emily, 6, Sunday, May 30, 2004
Another really long post, Part 2
Another really long post, Part 2
I’m telling you, there’s something up with this mother’s day thing, so it was this weekend and here I am, Lexis Rush and I’m actually teary ‘bout a day. My ‘mom’ Joe wasn’t even with us (not that I’d want her to be with us, not after the way she stabbed us in the back), she went back to her life after our mission I’m still telling you about, we also went our own way, exploring the East coast a bit. I know me and my ‘mother’ didn’t have the whole mother daughter thing going, but this stinkin day made me think about how things could have been if me and Jay were never taken/given away. We would have woken up early Sunday, made breakfast and taken it to her in the bed, then I would have asked for a laptop and Jay for a bike and she would have stroked our heads and would have said no, then eat the disgusting food we’d made and say it was her best ever, we would have given our presents and left for Sunday morning church and all! Okay so I’m not as tough as I make myself sound, just don’t let the others read this okay, note to self.
Anyway had a little trouble with Erasers this week so there was less time to work on the blog, but we got rid of them, so here is a nother long post for ya to read, I'm already working on the one following this one so the story about our missions almoust finished.
And thank you to the 2 new followers, I'm finally picking up speed whoohooooo!
Well I hope I'm living up to your standards 'cause no one comments I quess I'm not pissing anyone off right now.
We flew until we hit a part where it would have gotten hard to fly unseen, it was near an airport, here we started to go down and eventually ended up in the worst place imaginable, besides a school and a public toilet you know, the inside of Joe’s Jeep. I sat in front and Glaice and a very quiet Jay sat in the back.
We were supposed to meet up with Zander and the others in the woods a few miles away from the airport, at a clearing we flew over once. We drove silently, no one opened their mouths, only occasionally I would say left/right at a fork in the abandoned Forrest road.
“So where are your flock, my gas is starting to run a little low?” Joe finally said while scanning the trees.
“We’re not far now, just keep driving.” I said sounding bored and cranky, I don’t like small enclosed spaces.
Suddenly we heard a soft thump on the roof, someone had just jumped onto the roof and didn’t want us to know just yet, warning lights suddenly went off in my head and me, Jay and Glaice jumped into fight mode. Silently I opened my window, the other two did as well, Joe drove on as if nothing happened. I got myself into the right position to climb out of the window without getting stuck.
I was the first to shoot out of the window and onto the roof, Jay and Glaice followed. I froze as I saw who was on the roof, it was . . . it was . . .
Zander.
(Hee hee you probably thought it was like some super Eraser dude with huge claws or something right? Na, that was stupid, okay continue, you may read on now)
“Zander? I thought we were supposed to meet at the clearing?” I asked, ducking under the occasional branch.
“That was the plan, but when I didn’t see you guys flying, I found the Jeep and hitched a ride, so my landing wasn’t as subtle as I’d hoped then?” he smile sheepishly and I could swear he even looked like a normal teenage boy then, al innocent and caring, not at all a paranoid bird kid leader.
“No, your landing wasn’t so subtle, we heard you, did no one tell you yet you’re a little bigger than the average bird kid?” I smiled and joked a little, he flashed red and looked every bit like a normal kid.
“hee-hee.” He laughed a bit and we all climbed into the Jeep again.
“Hello ma-am.” He greeted Joe who kinda looked a little disorientated.
“Oh, Joe this is Zander, our leader.” I said trying not to sound polite to the woman who gave me and my brother away.
The rest of our thankfully short drive was silent, no one dared to say a word.
We got to the clearing and piled out of the way to small Jeep (okay in car standards it was big, two front seats, place for 3 in the back and then way in the back there was space for 2, but in bird kids who’d like to spread their wings standards it was waaaaaaaay to small), we didn’t see the rest of the flock, they were obviously instructed to stay out of view till Zander gave the signal.
“Come out, she’s harmless!” Zander yelled out into the forest. The others slowly emerged out of the shadows of the trees.
They ignored Joe who was standing right behind me, and came to us.
“Well, this is Joe, she’s going to pay for tonight’s dinner and then when ever we’re going to go on a mission, she’s going to pay too.” I smiled wryly and figured we might as well use her if she’s going to insist on being with us for this mission. “Any ideas for a place to go and eat?”
Everyone yelled out places at once, so it was all a happy bird kid eats for free blur, we all finally decided on Mc Donald’s, again. We got there by flying, and the last bit we sucked it up and climbed into the Jeep. (That sneaky woman had a gallon of gas back in the Jeep, so gas wasn’t an issue) I still kept my eyes on Joe, she wasn’t fooling me with the whole ‘I don’t want to get involved’ story.
We arrived at the nearest Mac D’s in the town, not telling which town. We all ate like there was no tomorrow, Joe wasn’t too happy by the looks of it, she was paying after all.
“It’s a bird kid thing, get used to it, we need more calories than normal kids, so that means more food!” I said while waving over the waiter again. “Thirds anyone?”
I ordered about 2 more burgers and 3 fries, and an Oreo Mc Flurry, the waiter looked at Joe to get permission ‘cause all of us ordered more food, she just said ‘yes’ to the guy, he went to get the food.
“So where was this mission again, and what’s the details?” I asked chomping into my third burger, downing my coke after wards, very un-lady like I know!
“Like I said it’s a cloning plant in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s a really taught mission ‘cause it’s on an oiling platform, so blowing it up is way out of the question, your mission will be to shut it down, expose it, whatever you can do to stop it.”
“Sounds like fun!” T.K said while stuffing his mouth with about 11 fries at a time.
“Beats going back to a school!” Markus joined in, taking a big gulp of his milkshake.
“Been wanting to do a little Maximum Ride stile missions for a long time now!” Glaice chimed in, she was the only one with relative acceptable table manners.
Jay ate his burger silently but gave a thumbs-up, the other two girls smiled innocently and Em spoke up, “Guys I can test my powers then, I’ve been wanting to fight with you for a long time now!”
“No, absolutely no, Em you’re going to sit this out!” Zander said earnestly, Joe nodded approvingly. For starters the girl didn’t even have wings, Zander had to carry her everywhere (he’s the only one strong enough to carry anyone, Jay can carry Em, but not long distance like Zan, he’ll be even able to carry Joe if it had to be done!) Second, well you’ll be hearing ‘bout it in just a few.
Em stared at him angrily while the waiter brought our food. “Enjoy!” Was all he could say when he stared at all the food, and the empty plates on our table.
“I’m going to keep on asking till you let me help! Max let Angel fight!” Em kept asking, she raised her arms up.
“And look at all the good that did them, she got unbalanced, I’m not going to allow that to happen to you, you’re not a monster Emily, your just a kid!” Zander protested and got up from the table and went outside.
“I’ll go and talk to him.” Joe offered, ha-ha she’s so not getting involved, this is our flock, she’s just an unpleasant person who paid for the food.
“I’LL handle this, this is flock business, you’re not part of the flock, remember?” I said with cold steel in my voice.
I stood up and walked out of the Mc D’s, before I left I grabbed two burgers, if I didn’t, Mark would have taken ‘em. Zan was standing at the railing, looking out at the street and the cars driving by.
“Brought you a burger” I said as I went to stand next to him, I gave him one burger and opened the rapper of my burger and took a bite, still chewing I continued (I said I’m not that good with manners)”you know, I’m not so good with this feelings stuff, that’s more Jay’s thing, but I know I’m not going to like to see Em holding a gun to you and/or letting her get that unbalanced like that Angel. You did the right thing.”
“You’re not that good with the girly stuff, but you’re right, I’m afraid she turns out . . . like m . . . bad.” He struggled for the right words, and finally decided to go with bad.
“Luckily for us she’s no Angel, she’ll see its for the best, but you know we can’t take her on this mission, it’s too risky, even for us, we also can’t trust Joe with her, even if my instincts tells me we can.” I looked up into his blue eyes, it looked as if he wanted to tell me something but didn’t, we both looked back at the cars zooming by.
“You don’t like her that much, do you, Joe I mean?” He said after a while where he just stared out in front of him, he smiled.
“That has nothing to do with . . . oh forget it, my instinct says to trust her but I can’t, she left me and my brother for crying out loud!” Suddenly me cheering up Zan turned out to be a round of confessions, I should have let Joe come out.
“If it helps, I don’t trust her so much either, but it’s more shallow than your not trusting her, you don’t like her I don’t like her, but maybe she can help, if it’s only to protect Em.” He looked back down at me, he smiled and I just wanted to melt like, like an Oreo Mc flurry.
“Oh, gosh I forgot my Mc Flurry, Mark’s probably taken it by now!” I said as I ran back inside and found my Mc Flurry on my place, untouched. Zan came back in after I ran in, he looked more casual.
“Mark, my Mc Flurry?!” Zan finally said as he saw his was gone, I burst out laughing and after that everyone laughed, Joe got up and went to pay the huge bill.
After our little outing in the normal world we all got into the accursed Jeep again. Not long after we were all in, Joe got a call. “Joe. . . yes it’s her . . . sure . . . place for 9, maybe 10 . . . thank you for your patients . . . yes we can be there this afternoon . . . thank you very much Mac . . . I owe you . . . see you at 5, bye!”
We all looked at her, we weren’t particularly curious, well I’ll be lying if I said that we’re plenty curious. “So?” We all said at once.
She giggled a bit and said sarcastically “Thought you didn’t need me!” She was just testing my patients, and let me tell you there is not a lot of that going around. “I just got us a flight to ***** tonight, and when T.K can organize his technopathic friend your off to save the world!” (**** is my codename for a place I’m not going to reveal to you, not now anyway, it’s not a ‘mean word’)
“On it!” T.K yelled excited form the back seat. Like a pro he dialed the number in, he didn’t even need to ask if he had dialed it right. He was a pro after all, lol.
I sat in front next to Joe (the only legal driver in this Jeep), behind us in the middle back seat sat Jay, Glaice, Em and Zander, behind them in that little fold up seat things sat Mark, T.K and Lily. The Jeep was filled to capacity, and way over what is legal for a SUV this size.
“She’s coming!” T.K yelled out over-excited.
Later that afternoon I finally got to meet the little kid who called us about my mom, and who knew Zan and his gang way before we joined. She wasn’t what I imagined, I sorta expected a blond girl my age, all cute and girly, instead I saw a little 12ish red haired kid, very cute and all, I had nothing to worry about, not that I had to start with. She quickly made herself at home in our flock, except she sneezed a lot when she got near Zan, which kinda makes sense now, she’s in another flock and not in ours ‘cause of allergies around Zan.
Joe insisted that we put on other clothes and take a shower before we left for the airport, so we went shopping and actually paid for things, and after that we got dressed at the hotel Joe was staying at before she met up with us. Believe it or not, even Markus agreed to put on some shoes, at least until we get there.
So squeaky clean and stink free we all piled into the Jeep again, we were off towards the airport, a public one not one of those in the middle of nowhere private air strip thingys.
I was sooo jumpy, expecting someone to instantly know we were bird kids, instead everyone ignored us, going about their business as usual. The executive type guys creeped me out the most, they looked just like Erasers and the guys we would most likely have been sold to.
We were blending in like regular people.
“Where is the private plane we’ll be taking?” I finally asked Joe when we were sitting at those rows of seats in the terminal.
She smiled and looked at me and said “We’re not taking a private plane, that’ll be too obvious wouldn’t it, think about it a bunch of kids and a grownup getting onto a private plane heading towards one of their biggest cloning plants in America, besides they won’t try anything in public places, a little secret I learned from them.” She said confidently lying back in her chair.
The lady said over the intercom that all passengers for the flight we’ll be taking should go, so we were off, again.
~Lex~
I’m telling you, there’s something up with this mother’s day thing, so it was this weekend and here I am, Lexis Rush and I’m actually teary ‘bout a day. My ‘mom’ Joe wasn’t even with us (not that I’d want her to be with us, not after the way she stabbed us in the back), she went back to her life after our mission I’m still telling you about, we also went our own way, exploring the East coast a bit. I know me and my ‘mother’ didn’t have the whole mother daughter thing going, but this stinkin day made me think about how things could have been if me and Jay were never taken/given away. We would have woken up early Sunday, made breakfast and taken it to her in the bed, then I would have asked for a laptop and Jay for a bike and she would have stroked our heads and would have said no, then eat the disgusting food we’d made and say it was her best ever, we would have given our presents and left for Sunday morning church and all! Okay so I’m not as tough as I make myself sound, just don’t let the others read this okay, note to self.
Anyway had a little trouble with Erasers this week so there was less time to work on the blog, but we got rid of them, so here is a nother long post for ya to read, I'm already working on the one following this one so the story about our missions almoust finished.
And thank you to the 2 new followers, I'm finally picking up speed whoohooooo!
Well I hope I'm living up to your standards 'cause no one comments I quess I'm not pissing anyone off right now.
We flew until we hit a part where it would have gotten hard to fly unseen, it was near an airport, here we started to go down and eventually ended up in the worst place imaginable, besides a school and a public toilet you know, the inside of Joe’s Jeep. I sat in front and Glaice and a very quiet Jay sat in the back.
We were supposed to meet up with Zander and the others in the woods a few miles away from the airport, at a clearing we flew over once. We drove silently, no one opened their mouths, only occasionally I would say left/right at a fork in the abandoned Forrest road.
“So where are your flock, my gas is starting to run a little low?” Joe finally said while scanning the trees.
“We’re not far now, just keep driving.” I said sounding bored and cranky, I don’t like small enclosed spaces.
Suddenly we heard a soft thump on the roof, someone had just jumped onto the roof and didn’t want us to know just yet, warning lights suddenly went off in my head and me, Jay and Glaice jumped into fight mode. Silently I opened my window, the other two did as well, Joe drove on as if nothing happened. I got myself into the right position to climb out of the window without getting stuck.
I was the first to shoot out of the window and onto the roof, Jay and Glaice followed. I froze as I saw who was on the roof, it was . . . it was . . .
Zander.
(Hee hee you probably thought it was like some super Eraser dude with huge claws or something right? Na, that was stupid, okay continue, you may read on now)
“Zander? I thought we were supposed to meet at the clearing?” I asked, ducking under the occasional branch.
“That was the plan, but when I didn’t see you guys flying, I found the Jeep and hitched a ride, so my landing wasn’t as subtle as I’d hoped then?” he smile sheepishly and I could swear he even looked like a normal teenage boy then, al innocent and caring, not at all a paranoid bird kid leader.
“No, your landing wasn’t so subtle, we heard you, did no one tell you yet you’re a little bigger than the average bird kid?” I smiled and joked a little, he flashed red and looked every bit like a normal kid.
“hee-hee.” He laughed a bit and we all climbed into the Jeep again.
“Hello ma-am.” He greeted Joe who kinda looked a little disorientated.
“Oh, Joe this is Zander, our leader.” I said trying not to sound polite to the woman who gave me and my brother away.
The rest of our thankfully short drive was silent, no one dared to say a word.
We got to the clearing and piled out of the way to small Jeep (okay in car standards it was big, two front seats, place for 3 in the back and then way in the back there was space for 2, but in bird kids who’d like to spread their wings standards it was waaaaaaaay to small), we didn’t see the rest of the flock, they were obviously instructed to stay out of view till Zander gave the signal.
“Come out, she’s harmless!” Zander yelled out into the forest. The others slowly emerged out of the shadows of the trees.
They ignored Joe who was standing right behind me, and came to us.
“Well, this is Joe, she’s going to pay for tonight’s dinner and then when ever we’re going to go on a mission, she’s going to pay too.” I smiled wryly and figured we might as well use her if she’s going to insist on being with us for this mission. “Any ideas for a place to go and eat?”
Everyone yelled out places at once, so it was all a happy bird kid eats for free blur, we all finally decided on Mc Donald’s, again. We got there by flying, and the last bit we sucked it up and climbed into the Jeep. (That sneaky woman had a gallon of gas back in the Jeep, so gas wasn’t an issue) I still kept my eyes on Joe, she wasn’t fooling me with the whole ‘I don’t want to get involved’ story.
We arrived at the nearest Mac D’s in the town, not telling which town. We all ate like there was no tomorrow, Joe wasn’t too happy by the looks of it, she was paying after all.
“It’s a bird kid thing, get used to it, we need more calories than normal kids, so that means more food!” I said while waving over the waiter again. “Thirds anyone?”
I ordered about 2 more burgers and 3 fries, and an Oreo Mc Flurry, the waiter looked at Joe to get permission ‘cause all of us ordered more food, she just said ‘yes’ to the guy, he went to get the food.
“So where was this mission again, and what’s the details?” I asked chomping into my third burger, downing my coke after wards, very un-lady like I know!
“Like I said it’s a cloning plant in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s a really taught mission ‘cause it’s on an oiling platform, so blowing it up is way out of the question, your mission will be to shut it down, expose it, whatever you can do to stop it.”
“Sounds like fun!” T.K said while stuffing his mouth with about 11 fries at a time.
“Beats going back to a school!” Markus joined in, taking a big gulp of his milkshake.
“Been wanting to do a little Maximum Ride stile missions for a long time now!” Glaice chimed in, she was the only one with relative acceptable table manners.
Jay ate his burger silently but gave a thumbs-up, the other two girls smiled innocently and Em spoke up, “Guys I can test my powers then, I’ve been wanting to fight with you for a long time now!”
“No, absolutely no, Em you’re going to sit this out!” Zander said earnestly, Joe nodded approvingly. For starters the girl didn’t even have wings, Zander had to carry her everywhere (he’s the only one strong enough to carry anyone, Jay can carry Em, but not long distance like Zan, he’ll be even able to carry Joe if it had to be done!) Second, well you’ll be hearing ‘bout it in just a few.
Em stared at him angrily while the waiter brought our food. “Enjoy!” Was all he could say when he stared at all the food, and the empty plates on our table.
“I’m going to keep on asking till you let me help! Max let Angel fight!” Em kept asking, she raised her arms up.
“And look at all the good that did them, she got unbalanced, I’m not going to allow that to happen to you, you’re not a monster Emily, your just a kid!” Zander protested and got up from the table and went outside.
“I’ll go and talk to him.” Joe offered, ha-ha she’s so not getting involved, this is our flock, she’s just an unpleasant person who paid for the food.
“I’LL handle this, this is flock business, you’re not part of the flock, remember?” I said with cold steel in my voice.
I stood up and walked out of the Mc D’s, before I left I grabbed two burgers, if I didn’t, Mark would have taken ‘em. Zan was standing at the railing, looking out at the street and the cars driving by.
“Brought you a burger” I said as I went to stand next to him, I gave him one burger and opened the rapper of my burger and took a bite, still chewing I continued (I said I’m not that good with manners)”you know, I’m not so good with this feelings stuff, that’s more Jay’s thing, but I know I’m not going to like to see Em holding a gun to you and/or letting her get that unbalanced like that Angel. You did the right thing.”
“You’re not that good with the girly stuff, but you’re right, I’m afraid she turns out . . . like m . . . bad.” He struggled for the right words, and finally decided to go with bad.
“Luckily for us she’s no Angel, she’ll see its for the best, but you know we can’t take her on this mission, it’s too risky, even for us, we also can’t trust Joe with her, even if my instincts tells me we can.” I looked up into his blue eyes, it looked as if he wanted to tell me something but didn’t, we both looked back at the cars zooming by.
“You don’t like her that much, do you, Joe I mean?” He said after a while where he just stared out in front of him, he smiled.
“That has nothing to do with . . . oh forget it, my instinct says to trust her but I can’t, she left me and my brother for crying out loud!” Suddenly me cheering up Zan turned out to be a round of confessions, I should have let Joe come out.
“If it helps, I don’t trust her so much either, but it’s more shallow than your not trusting her, you don’t like her I don’t like her, but maybe she can help, if it’s only to protect Em.” He looked back down at me, he smiled and I just wanted to melt like, like an Oreo Mc flurry.
“Oh, gosh I forgot my Mc Flurry, Mark’s probably taken it by now!” I said as I ran back inside and found my Mc Flurry on my place, untouched. Zan came back in after I ran in, he looked more casual.
“Mark, my Mc Flurry?!” Zan finally said as he saw his was gone, I burst out laughing and after that everyone laughed, Joe got up and went to pay the huge bill.
After our little outing in the normal world we all got into the accursed Jeep again. Not long after we were all in, Joe got a call. “Joe. . . yes it’s her . . . sure . . . place for 9, maybe 10 . . . thank you for your patients . . . yes we can be there this afternoon . . . thank you very much Mac . . . I owe you . . . see you at 5, bye!”
We all looked at her, we weren’t particularly curious, well I’ll be lying if I said that we’re plenty curious. “So?” We all said at once.
She giggled a bit and said sarcastically “Thought you didn’t need me!” She was just testing my patients, and let me tell you there is not a lot of that going around. “I just got us a flight to ***** tonight, and when T.K can organize his technopathic friend your off to save the world!” (**** is my codename for a place I’m not going to reveal to you, not now anyway, it’s not a ‘mean word’)
“On it!” T.K yelled excited form the back seat. Like a pro he dialed the number in, he didn’t even need to ask if he had dialed it right. He was a pro after all, lol.
I sat in front next to Joe (the only legal driver in this Jeep), behind us in the middle back seat sat Jay, Glaice, Em and Zander, behind them in that little fold up seat things sat Mark, T.K and Lily. The Jeep was filled to capacity, and way over what is legal for a SUV this size.
“She’s coming!” T.K yelled out over-excited.
Later that afternoon I finally got to meet the little kid who called us about my mom, and who knew Zan and his gang way before we joined. She wasn’t what I imagined, I sorta expected a blond girl my age, all cute and girly, instead I saw a little 12ish red haired kid, very cute and all, I had nothing to worry about, not that I had to start with. She quickly made herself at home in our flock, except she sneezed a lot when she got near Zan, which kinda makes sense now, she’s in another flock and not in ours ‘cause of allergies around Zan.
Joe insisted that we put on other clothes and take a shower before we left for the airport, so we went shopping and actually paid for things, and after that we got dressed at the hotel Joe was staying at before she met up with us. Believe it or not, even Markus agreed to put on some shoes, at least until we get there.
So squeaky clean and stink free we all piled into the Jeep again, we were off towards the airport, a public one not one of those in the middle of nowhere private air strip thingys.
I was sooo jumpy, expecting someone to instantly know we were bird kids, instead everyone ignored us, going about their business as usual. The executive type guys creeped me out the most, they looked just like Erasers and the guys we would most likely have been sold to.
We were blending in like regular people.
“Where is the private plane we’ll be taking?” I finally asked Joe when we were sitting at those rows of seats in the terminal.
She smiled and looked at me and said “We’re not taking a private plane, that’ll be too obvious wouldn’t it, think about it a bunch of kids and a grownup getting onto a private plane heading towards one of their biggest cloning plants in America, besides they won’t try anything in public places, a little secret I learned from them.” She said confidently lying back in her chair.
The lady said over the intercom that all passengers for the flight we’ll be taking should go, so we were off, again.
~Lex~
Monday, 10 May 2010
Learn to fly like a Brid kid
Hey Bird kid followers, anyway I’m still working on this week’s post but here is something you can read now, it’s how to fly like a Bird kid, note to wannabe flyers, you should have wings or the super ability to fly, this is actually for kids like Dylan who doesn’t have a Max to push him of a roof and help him to fly, so spread your wings and hope for the best.
~Lex~
Learn to fly like a Bird kid
Have you ever wished you could fly like bird kids do? With the proper equipment you can do it in three easy steps.
Everybody would like to be able to zoom through the air like a bird kid. Who hasn’t watched a movie or television show and felt the urge to just take off?
In order to fly like a bird kid, you will have to practice. Here’s how to do it in three easy steps.
1. Take off: In order to fly like a bird kid, you have to launch properly. Stand with your feet about 12 inches apart. Bend your knees slightly. Spread your wings. Now jump! Flap! Lift off!
Arm position: You can position your arms in three acceptable ways for take-off.
· Two Arms – many bird kids favor the classic two-arm method. Raise both hands over your head during launch.
· One Arm – a growing number of bird kids have adopted the modern one-arm method. Raise either your right or left arm during take-off.
· No Arms – only the most confident bird kids dare to lead with their head.
2. Landing: Once you’re in the air, you also must learn to come back to earth. You can practice this right after you practice launching. With your feet approximately 12 inches apart, start to back beat your wings, lose speed, lower your feet to the ground. A perfect landing!
Arms – There are two arm positions that are favored. These positions provide comfort for the person you are rescuing, while being menacing to the perpetrator.
· Arms crossed over chest
· Hands on hips
Don’t forget to assume a confident facial expression. Smile benignly at the victim, frown disapprovingly at the miscreant. (Miscreant, he-he funny word!)
3. Flight: Now that you have practiced take off and landing for a few weeks, you’re ready to fly. Make sure your wings are attached securely to your back. You really wouldn’t want your wings to come off during your flight, even if you’re very good at landing. With your wings securely attached, take off! You’re flying!
It is strongly recommended that you use either the one-arm or two-arm position while flying in order to avoid collisions and head injuries. The sky is not empty.
Tips:
· If you don’t happen to have access to genetically enhanced bird kid wings, you can use your Superman like flight ability instead.
· Until you possess a pair of wings, or super abilities, just practice take off and landing.
· Have fun!
Warning: Do not attempt take-off or landing near the edge of a cliff or at the top of a tall building unless you are sure you can fly, have wings or the ability to fly like Superman.
~Lex~
Learn to fly like a Bird kid
Have you ever wished you could fly like bird kids do? With the proper equipment you can do it in three easy steps.
Everybody would like to be able to zoom through the air like a bird kid. Who hasn’t watched a movie or television show and felt the urge to just take off?
In order to fly like a bird kid, you will have to practice. Here’s how to do it in three easy steps.
1. Take off: In order to fly like a bird kid, you have to launch properly. Stand with your feet about 12 inches apart. Bend your knees slightly. Spread your wings. Now jump! Flap! Lift off!
Arm position: You can position your arms in three acceptable ways for take-off.
· Two Arms – many bird kids favor the classic two-arm method. Raise both hands over your head during launch.
· One Arm – a growing number of bird kids have adopted the modern one-arm method. Raise either your right or left arm during take-off.
· No Arms – only the most confident bird kids dare to lead with their head.
2. Landing: Once you’re in the air, you also must learn to come back to earth. You can practice this right after you practice launching. With your feet approximately 12 inches apart, start to back beat your wings, lose speed, lower your feet to the ground. A perfect landing!
Arms – There are two arm positions that are favored. These positions provide comfort for the person you are rescuing, while being menacing to the perpetrator.
· Arms crossed over chest
· Hands on hips
Don’t forget to assume a confident facial expression. Smile benignly at the victim, frown disapprovingly at the miscreant. (Miscreant, he-he funny word!)
3. Flight: Now that you have practiced take off and landing for a few weeks, you’re ready to fly. Make sure your wings are attached securely to your back. You really wouldn’t want your wings to come off during your flight, even if you’re very good at landing. With your wings securely attached, take off! You’re flying!
It is strongly recommended that you use either the one-arm or two-arm position while flying in order to avoid collisions and head injuries. The sky is not empty.
Tips:
· If you don’t happen to have access to genetically enhanced bird kid wings, you can use your Superman like flight ability instead.
· Until you possess a pair of wings, or super abilities, just practice take off and landing.
· Have fun!
Warning: Do not attempt take-off or landing near the edge of a cliff or at the top of a tall building unless you are sure you can fly, have wings or the ability to fly like Superman.
Monday, 03 May 2010
a really long post about our mission Part 1
Okay I’m starting to feel really unappreciated here! When Fang started his own blog he got a lot of followers, AND comments and questions and stuff! What should I do, die my hair black and go emo! Okay I know it’s a bit wasted to put this on my blog and all but really where is everyone! Did the end of the world come and I missed it or something, did Max and her flock fail or something.
I know me and my flock or whatever are sorta the plan B but shouldn’t someone tell us if it’s our turn in the spotlight to be the save the world flock, and where the hell is my creepy voice in my head, don’t I get one (hmm I wonder if Zander has one, *leans in closer to Zan and tries to hear his thoughts* just a random thought here but seriously *Zan moving away uncomfortably, stares at Lex* can he have one, should probably ask Glaice to read his mind sometime, I’m just wondering!)
Our flock is just drifting around, surviving mostly, but what if it was our time to step up to the plate, stare some megalomaniac in the face and try to stop him. Could we do it? Can we actually fill the great Maximum Rides shoes and stand and fight when everything is against us, not just Erasers and evil scientists! I know I should be happy with how things are for the time being, heck we were all save, we found food every day, we had each other, can’t I just be happy and forget all this plan B stuff. Oeps now that I think about it, I haven’t told you guys about the plan B mambo jumbo yet, he-he, my bad.
Anyway make yourselves comfortable, grab a soda and a bag of potato chips ‘cause this is going to be a long post . . . . are you ready, here it goes.
The next day came, today we would meet up with this mystery person, late last night Alex messaged the details of the mission to T.K’s cell. Zander and the left behind flock wished us luck and told us where to meet them after the meeting with the person.
“Just hear what this person has to say, don’t just go all Lex on her-” Zander said, what’s wrong with going Lex on her, “-you know what, just let Jay do the talking, Lex you just keep your mouth shut.” I stared Zander down, me, what did I do wrong, okay sure I one time almost attacked that waiter at the restaurant, but he was giving me lip, and he strangely resembled an Eraser.
Jay did a half smile, and Glaice, Em and Lily started to giggle, Mark and T.K made that ‘ooooh trouble’ sound. I gave each one of the flock a look which I hoped said ‘if you love your life you’ll stop laughing’, okay actually my look was lost on T.K so I just dropped it, don’t get mad get even.
Jay took off silently, knowing it’ll be better for his health, Glaice followed, she waved a good bye to the flock, in her own Glaice way. I turned to Zan and reluctantly took off after the other two, I quickly caught up to them. We flew silent in the pre-dawn sky, the cool air brushed against our faces, it was soothing actually.
“You okay Lex, you know if she even thinks about springing a trap I’ll know about it!” Glaice said confidently and smiled warmly at me, she truly was a BFF candidate, he-he as if anyone other than a bird kid could qualify.
“Ya, we were smart to bring the girly British mind reader to a meeting with a stranger!” I said in my usual Lex joke tone, I smiled back at Glaice reassuring her that I didn’t mean it in a mean way. I looked over at my brother, his hair was way longer than what is normal for a boy his age, but the shaggy brown locks really suited him (he’s probably gonna kill me when he reads this). He was totally focused onto the ground and our surroundings (open sky), talk about paranoid, I’m so proud.
“See anything, chopper, flying Erasers, UFO’s, anything?” I only half joked.
“Na, nothing yet, only pre-dawn sky and a few puffy pink clouds.” Jay said while scanning the sky and the ‘puffy pink clouds’.
I heard Glaice giggle a bit and almost did myself, ‘puffy pink’ are two words you almost never hear a boy say, and if that boy happens to be an almost Emo bird kid, well you can guess it, you never ever hear that.
As soon as he realized we were giggling at his word choice he turned red all over his face, I had to keep myself together not to burst out into hysterical laughter.
“Hey guys, I think I see the contact!” Glaice finally said saving Jay from another flash of red and protecting me from giggling like a little girl again.
With raptor vision (like Max likes to point out) we saw the woman before she saw us. I quickly exchanged a look with Glaice saying if-she-thinks-about-pulling-out-a-semi-automatic-you-warn-us or something like that. She nodded and I exchanged the same look with Jay, except this one said you-and-your-emotion-thing-better-calm-her-if-she-tries-an-attacks, okay the looks both looked the same, but they knew what I meant, I hope.
Finally when we were within normal human seeing distance the woman saw us, she waved us over, I mean hello, raptor vision, we don’t need someone waving us over we know where she was, jeez.
The woman was standing on a cliff, her brown hair blowing wildly around her head like some weird brown halo. I was the first to touch down a few feet from her, she smiled warmly and didn’t come closer. Behind me I heard Jay land, then Glaice landing quietly on my other side, I kept my eyes on the woman.
“Well, hello I should probably introduce myself, I’m Joe Parker.” Wait where did I hear that surname before, I looked at the woman, Joe, more intently, maybe I could remember her.
“Wait, our mothers surname is Parker!” Jay finally jogged my memory, that’s where I could remember her surname from, I saw a file about me with a Parker person as my mom, of course Jay’s had the same woman as his mother. The woman looked as if she suddenly choked when she heard Jay say that, I gotta say I almost choked too.
“Jayson . . . Ammm what can I say, you figured it out before I even had to tell you!” The woman, who I refuse to think of as my maybe mother, looked over at Jay longingly, it looked as if she wanted to take a step forward but thought not to.
I looked over at Jay, he looked totally different, he had some strange expression on, something between hope, sorrow, happy and anger. I had to say something, Jay was clearly thinking too hard to come up with anything.
“And you suddenly decide to check up on us why?!” I said as I got my tough don’t mess with me face on, it worked most of the time. “And I’m pretty sure it’s not to see if we’re okay and save.” Okay I know, I was totally sounding like a cold hearted fish.
“I can’t lie to you, I’m not here to make up or anything, I’m just here to help you with your mission, sure I’m risking my life for a bunch of kids who most likely hate me, but hey, here I am!” the woman sounded every bit as confident as I like to think I sounded, later Jay told me the woman even gets that same wrinkle between her brows like when I’m angry or frustrated, he said she even raises her arms up like I sometimes do.
Jay finally joined into this little family dispute again. “If you’re our mom, why did you leave us to be taken by those mad men? Why didn’t you protect us?!” He actually raised his voice at the end, suddenly Jay the calm, cool and collective angel turned into a vengeful one, his eyes actually looked ablaze as the sun of the new day lit the cool blue pools of his eyes (wow I sound poetic).
That one actually looked like it struck a nerve with this woman, I saw a faint glint in her eyes, which looked suspiciously like a tear forming. She looked a little pained by what Jay said, or rather asked.
“I had no choice, it’s a long and painful story but . . .” she started to say before Glaice suddenly broke in, reminding me she was here too.
“Buts can wait, ours is about to be kicked if we don’t move it, we’ve got company!”
I looked around us and spotted her ‘company’, it was a bunch of flying dots coming from the east, whoever it was, was smart attacking from the side where your enemy can’t see you coming from, like maybe an angle from which the dawn sun would blind them. I looked over at my non winged ‘mother’ and knew an up and away(meaning flying away to safely avoiding a fight, only works when all the people has wings) was out of the deal, her face looked calm, asif she has faced Erasers before, I could only see a little fear in her eyes. Oh man a clumsy human was the last thing I wanted to worry about in a fight with Erasers.
“Grab a stick or something, defend yourself!” I yelled at the woman, but as I turned to look at her to see if she had a stick, she pulled out a gun, one of those little pistil things (don’t blame my knowledge of guns, blame my crappy upbringing, as a general we bird kids don’t like guns, never have, never will!). “Whoa, don’t bring that thing near me!”
Me, Jay and Glaice ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped, this wasn’t going to be easy (but when was the life of a bird kid ever easy). Quickly we ripped out our wings, catching the wind like true avian hybrids, we were off to go and kick some butt.
We focused our eyes on to our targets, the now almost visible flying Erasers, ignoring the glowing orange orb behind them. Staring at the sun isn’t considered save, not even for a super tough bird kid. The Erasers quickly grew, there were at least five of them, what we’re not trouble enough to have at least 20 now!?
“Okay let’s focus on this problem and handle the non winged one when we’re done here.” I made myself sound like a leader, and if I do say so myself, I did sound like an awesomely good leader, maybe Zander should watch his back from now on.
Suddenly we heard the unmistakable deafening sound of a gunshot. I whirled around in an instant, being a bird kid and all you always expect something bad to happen when you hear a gunshot, ether you get shot or one of your own. Instead of maybe feeling a little holey myself or seeing a bird kid falling from the sky, I saw a big-al ugly Eraser fall from the sky, he yelled all the way to the ground, after the yelling we heard branches break and something (Eraser) hit the ground.
One down four to go, I thought to myself and doing the math in my head, pretty good for a girl who hasn’t seen the inside of a Math’s class in her whole life.
“Lex, heads up!” Jay yelled from somewhere behind me, the same instant my instincts told me to go down and ready myself, without doubting him, or my instincts, I dropped out of reach of an Eraser who was just about to grab my neck. I quickly shot back up with a sneaker full of hurt for the unlucky Eraser who thought of strangling me. My sneaker connected with the Erasers lower jaw, I heard his teeth knocking together and he forgot to flap, falling to the woods below to join his pal. I gave a pleased smile and turned to the others to see how much Erasers were left. Jay was starting to fly back to the cliff where our ‘mom’ was still standing and watching our battle, his Erasers all done for.
But when my instincts told me to look over at Glaice, I look, and I got the scare of my life. She was hovering in place staring down an Eraser twice her size, she was actually smiling. I turned my gaze to the petrified Eraser, his red eyes filling with fear. Erasers almost never get scared, so whatever Glaice was doing was falling into the realm of ‘I REALLY don’t want to know!’ I looked at her eyes, they were glowing silver, it suddenly made me scared too, what was she doing?
She gave one rueful smile and suddenly the last remaining Eraser’s wings folded and he suddenly fell like a rock out of the sky, not even yelling like the others.
I thought to myself ‘hey, instincts do I want to know what she just did’? and like instincts normally go, you don’t get an answer, well they don’t talk as much as a voice normally would so the thought was kinda lost.
“Let’s go down and deal with problem number 1. Again.” I said only shaking a little bit.
“’Kay!” Glaice smiled innocently and swooped down back to earth, I followed.
“So who are you really?” I asked the woman the second I touched down.
She rolled her eyes and said it slowly “Well, I guess I’m your mom, but that’s not why I’m here, to make nice and all, I’m here . . .” I had to stop her.
“So why are you here, Joe?”
“Like I said, I’m here to help you stop the institute and what they are doing at those schools!” I got ready to chip in again but before I could, Glaice covered my mouth, did I ever mention I DON’T LIKE PEOPLE DOING THAT! “They have this large cloning plant in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s really bad and has to be destroyed!” She sounded really serious so I didn’t try to sound cold this time.
“So what do you want us to do?” I asked.
“Stop it.” Wow so descriptive, but wait isn’t that like lotsa miles away, almost a whole continent.
“That’s across the continent, I know we look strong and al but we can’t fly that far in one shot.” Glaice spoke up.
“I didn’t say you’re doing it alone, I happen to know someone who can fly us there without your wings.” Joe got a wry smile on and I couldn’t help but get that one word out of her statement.
“Us? You’re talking as if you’re coming along.”
“I am, what responsible parent would I be if I didn’t accompany my kids in a cross country flight?” She made her voice sound all innocent and caring in a sarcastic tone, like a mom would have, (oh no, I’m falling for the trap, nooooo! Just a joke I didn’t buy her story for one millisecond).
“Let’s say I believe you and that you’re really here to help us and we’re going to climb onto that plane with you, but first answer this, why are you doing this, and how the hell does a person like you know all this stuff?” I was utterly puzzled, how does a normal person know this stuff, as far as I know all the white coats are ugly old men who still live with their mothers, Joe looked to be completely the opposite, 1) she was a really attractive older version of me, 2) she looked to be early 30’s somewhere (according to a few files I sneaked a peek at back at the school, our mom had us at about 18, she was in college and her parents didn’t like the idea of their kid having a kid while still learning, so in retrospect Joe gave us up ‘cause her ‘rents didn’t want grandchildren), 3) Joe wasn’t sporting a really unattractive white coat (hens the name) but rather a pair of jeans and a Guns And Roses T and black jacket. The other two also looked kinda puzzled like me, even mind-reading-eraser-scare’rer Glaice was puzzled. (should ask why she didn’t read Joe’s mind)
She smiled sheepishly and answered “well, I’ve been ‘working as a lab assistant to one of the scientists about 10 years ago, weird guy, anyway I saw a lab report which I wasn’t supposed to see, it was about hybrid experimentation on human infants, bad stuff, so I delved deeper and found stuff about kids being taken from all sorts of places, kidnapped from parks, taken from hospitals, and ‘adopted’ by people who doesn’t exist!” Me, Jay and Glaice listened intently to her story, Joe’s face looked grim as she continued, “So I sort of started to think of what had happened to my twins, I tried the adoption place I gave you up to“ I looked at Jay, his face looked a little pail “-they gave me a telephone number after a long debate, I called it and the number doesn’t exist, I got worried and one night snuck into a lab, certain that you two were taken for experiments, when I logged onto the network with the reports, my worst fears were realized, you were used, but that was all I could find before I had to leaf, the next day they beefed up security, I couldn’t find anything more, until a week ago, I suddenly came across a file strait from Mr. H’s office, he’s like the head of research in the area, it said something about twin avian hybrids having escaped from a lab in the Seattle area, I instinctively knew it had to be you two, so after searching everywhere I found a file containing a lot of info gathered from Erasers on the field on Escaped experiments and after trying everything I could I found a little red-haired girl and told her everything, she said she heard a friend of hers had twins in his flock so I asked her to arrange everything, the rest you know.” Joe looked little breathless after THAT explanation. “I also found out about this oil rig that doubles as a clone factory, its somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.”
‘Glaice, can you tell if she’s lying about any of that?’ God I hope she could catch that thought.
‘She believes it, there’s no intention of deceiving us in her mind, but I’m unsure, she’s blocking off a large portion of her memory, maybe she blocked a bad memory subconsciously.’ Glaice thought back to me, great this telepathy thing rocks, so long it doesn’t go the bad way like that Eraser incident.
‘Am, instincts not that I don’t trust Glaice and all but can I trust this woman’ still nothing, I don’t have a voice like Max. But luckily I could ‘feel’ like I could trust her.
“Okay, I’ll have a talk with Zander, our flock leader, but I sort of trust you on this.” Jay stared at me in surprise (I almost never trust anyone or agree to things), Glaice just stood there staring off into the distance. “But that doesn’t mean I accept the fact that your our mom, I still don’t trust you, only what you said.” I had my serious business face on, I hoped she bout it. “And I’m not calling you mom, to me your Joe.” I added in a less serious tone, but I still meant it.
Joe smiled and stuck out her hand “fine, we have a deal.” I stared at her hand until she pulled it back. “So, where is this Zander, and your ‘flock’?”
“They’re somewhere in the woods out there.” I said and pointed into the woods in general.
“If you show me where, I’ll drive us to them-“
“We prefer to fly thank you, just follow!” I chipped in before she finished.
“Or I can just follow . . .” she said as she walked into the woods on the opposite side of the cliff.
I peered into the darkness of the woods and saw a black Jeep in the shadows.
Jay jumped soundlessly into the air, followed by Glaice, I stayed on the ground and stared at Joe, she got into the Jeep and waved, I jumped into the air and joined Jay and Glaice, we started to fly into the direction we came from, back to the others or rather a roundabout route to where we were to meet, just to confuse Joe, and burn some gas so that she can’t drive off when we arrive at the ron-day-fu place.
~Lex~
I know me and my flock or whatever are sorta the plan B but shouldn’t someone tell us if it’s our turn in the spotlight to be the save the world flock, and where the hell is my creepy voice in my head, don’t I get one (hmm I wonder if Zander has one, *leans in closer to Zan and tries to hear his thoughts* just a random thought here but seriously *Zan moving away uncomfortably, stares at Lex* can he have one, should probably ask Glaice to read his mind sometime, I’m just wondering!)
Our flock is just drifting around, surviving mostly, but what if it was our time to step up to the plate, stare some megalomaniac in the face and try to stop him. Could we do it? Can we actually fill the great Maximum Rides shoes and stand and fight when everything is against us, not just Erasers and evil scientists! I know I should be happy with how things are for the time being, heck we were all save, we found food every day, we had each other, can’t I just be happy and forget all this plan B stuff. Oeps now that I think about it, I haven’t told you guys about the plan B mambo jumbo yet, he-he, my bad.
Anyway make yourselves comfortable, grab a soda and a bag of potato chips ‘cause this is going to be a long post . . . . are you ready, here it goes.
The next day came, today we would meet up with this mystery person, late last night Alex messaged the details of the mission to T.K’s cell. Zander and the left behind flock wished us luck and told us where to meet them after the meeting with the person.
“Just hear what this person has to say, don’t just go all Lex on her-” Zander said, what’s wrong with going Lex on her, “-you know what, just let Jay do the talking, Lex you just keep your mouth shut.” I stared Zander down, me, what did I do wrong, okay sure I one time almost attacked that waiter at the restaurant, but he was giving me lip, and he strangely resembled an Eraser.
Jay did a half smile, and Glaice, Em and Lily started to giggle, Mark and T.K made that ‘ooooh trouble’ sound. I gave each one of the flock a look which I hoped said ‘if you love your life you’ll stop laughing’, okay actually my look was lost on T.K so I just dropped it, don’t get mad get even.
Jay took off silently, knowing it’ll be better for his health, Glaice followed, she waved a good bye to the flock, in her own Glaice way. I turned to Zan and reluctantly took off after the other two, I quickly caught up to them. We flew silent in the pre-dawn sky, the cool air brushed against our faces, it was soothing actually.
“You okay Lex, you know if she even thinks about springing a trap I’ll know about it!” Glaice said confidently and smiled warmly at me, she truly was a BFF candidate, he-he as if anyone other than a bird kid could qualify.
“Ya, we were smart to bring the girly British mind reader to a meeting with a stranger!” I said in my usual Lex joke tone, I smiled back at Glaice reassuring her that I didn’t mean it in a mean way. I looked over at my brother, his hair was way longer than what is normal for a boy his age, but the shaggy brown locks really suited him (he’s probably gonna kill me when he reads this). He was totally focused onto the ground and our surroundings (open sky), talk about paranoid, I’m so proud.
“See anything, chopper, flying Erasers, UFO’s, anything?” I only half joked.
“Na, nothing yet, only pre-dawn sky and a few puffy pink clouds.” Jay said while scanning the sky and the ‘puffy pink clouds’.
I heard Glaice giggle a bit and almost did myself, ‘puffy pink’ are two words you almost never hear a boy say, and if that boy happens to be an almost Emo bird kid, well you can guess it, you never ever hear that.
As soon as he realized we were giggling at his word choice he turned red all over his face, I had to keep myself together not to burst out into hysterical laughter.
“Hey guys, I think I see the contact!” Glaice finally said saving Jay from another flash of red and protecting me from giggling like a little girl again.
With raptor vision (like Max likes to point out) we saw the woman before she saw us. I quickly exchanged a look with Glaice saying if-she-thinks-about-pulling-out-a-semi-automatic-you-warn-us or something like that. She nodded and I exchanged the same look with Jay, except this one said you-and-your-emotion-thing-better-calm-her-if-she-tries-an-attacks, okay the looks both looked the same, but they knew what I meant, I hope.
Finally when we were within normal human seeing distance the woman saw us, she waved us over, I mean hello, raptor vision, we don’t need someone waving us over we know where she was, jeez.
The woman was standing on a cliff, her brown hair blowing wildly around her head like some weird brown halo. I was the first to touch down a few feet from her, she smiled warmly and didn’t come closer. Behind me I heard Jay land, then Glaice landing quietly on my other side, I kept my eyes on the woman.
“Well, hello I should probably introduce myself, I’m Joe Parker.” Wait where did I hear that surname before, I looked at the woman, Joe, more intently, maybe I could remember her.
“Wait, our mothers surname is Parker!” Jay finally jogged my memory, that’s where I could remember her surname from, I saw a file about me with a Parker person as my mom, of course Jay’s had the same woman as his mother. The woman looked as if she suddenly choked when she heard Jay say that, I gotta say I almost choked too.
“Jayson . . . Ammm what can I say, you figured it out before I even had to tell you!” The woman, who I refuse to think of as my maybe mother, looked over at Jay longingly, it looked as if she wanted to take a step forward but thought not to.
I looked over at Jay, he looked totally different, he had some strange expression on, something between hope, sorrow, happy and anger. I had to say something, Jay was clearly thinking too hard to come up with anything.
“And you suddenly decide to check up on us why?!” I said as I got my tough don’t mess with me face on, it worked most of the time. “And I’m pretty sure it’s not to see if we’re okay and save.” Okay I know, I was totally sounding like a cold hearted fish.
“I can’t lie to you, I’m not here to make up or anything, I’m just here to help you with your mission, sure I’m risking my life for a bunch of kids who most likely hate me, but hey, here I am!” the woman sounded every bit as confident as I like to think I sounded, later Jay told me the woman even gets that same wrinkle between her brows like when I’m angry or frustrated, he said she even raises her arms up like I sometimes do.
Jay finally joined into this little family dispute again. “If you’re our mom, why did you leave us to be taken by those mad men? Why didn’t you protect us?!” He actually raised his voice at the end, suddenly Jay the calm, cool and collective angel turned into a vengeful one, his eyes actually looked ablaze as the sun of the new day lit the cool blue pools of his eyes (wow I sound poetic).
That one actually looked like it struck a nerve with this woman, I saw a faint glint in her eyes, which looked suspiciously like a tear forming. She looked a little pained by what Jay said, or rather asked.
“I had no choice, it’s a long and painful story but . . .” she started to say before Glaice suddenly broke in, reminding me she was here too.
“Buts can wait, ours is about to be kicked if we don’t move it, we’ve got company!”
I looked around us and spotted her ‘company’, it was a bunch of flying dots coming from the east, whoever it was, was smart attacking from the side where your enemy can’t see you coming from, like maybe an angle from which the dawn sun would blind them. I looked over at my non winged ‘mother’ and knew an up and away(meaning flying away to safely avoiding a fight, only works when all the people has wings) was out of the deal, her face looked calm, asif she has faced Erasers before, I could only see a little fear in her eyes. Oh man a clumsy human was the last thing I wanted to worry about in a fight with Erasers.
“Grab a stick or something, defend yourself!” I yelled at the woman, but as I turned to look at her to see if she had a stick, she pulled out a gun, one of those little pistil things (don’t blame my knowledge of guns, blame my crappy upbringing, as a general we bird kids don’t like guns, never have, never will!). “Whoa, don’t bring that thing near me!”
Me, Jay and Glaice ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped, this wasn’t going to be easy (but when was the life of a bird kid ever easy). Quickly we ripped out our wings, catching the wind like true avian hybrids, we were off to go and kick some butt.
We focused our eyes on to our targets, the now almost visible flying Erasers, ignoring the glowing orange orb behind them. Staring at the sun isn’t considered save, not even for a super tough bird kid. The Erasers quickly grew, there were at least five of them, what we’re not trouble enough to have at least 20 now!?
“Okay let’s focus on this problem and handle the non winged one when we’re done here.” I made myself sound like a leader, and if I do say so myself, I did sound like an awesomely good leader, maybe Zander should watch his back from now on.
Suddenly we heard the unmistakable deafening sound of a gunshot. I whirled around in an instant, being a bird kid and all you always expect something bad to happen when you hear a gunshot, ether you get shot or one of your own. Instead of maybe feeling a little holey myself or seeing a bird kid falling from the sky, I saw a big-al ugly Eraser fall from the sky, he yelled all the way to the ground, after the yelling we heard branches break and something (Eraser) hit the ground.
One down four to go, I thought to myself and doing the math in my head, pretty good for a girl who hasn’t seen the inside of a Math’s class in her whole life.
“Lex, heads up!” Jay yelled from somewhere behind me, the same instant my instincts told me to go down and ready myself, without doubting him, or my instincts, I dropped out of reach of an Eraser who was just about to grab my neck. I quickly shot back up with a sneaker full of hurt for the unlucky Eraser who thought of strangling me. My sneaker connected with the Erasers lower jaw, I heard his teeth knocking together and he forgot to flap, falling to the woods below to join his pal. I gave a pleased smile and turned to the others to see how much Erasers were left. Jay was starting to fly back to the cliff where our ‘mom’ was still standing and watching our battle, his Erasers all done for.
But when my instincts told me to look over at Glaice, I look, and I got the scare of my life. She was hovering in place staring down an Eraser twice her size, she was actually smiling. I turned my gaze to the petrified Eraser, his red eyes filling with fear. Erasers almost never get scared, so whatever Glaice was doing was falling into the realm of ‘I REALLY don’t want to know!’ I looked at her eyes, they were glowing silver, it suddenly made me scared too, what was she doing?
She gave one rueful smile and suddenly the last remaining Eraser’s wings folded and he suddenly fell like a rock out of the sky, not even yelling like the others.
I thought to myself ‘hey, instincts do I want to know what she just did’? and like instincts normally go, you don’t get an answer, well they don’t talk as much as a voice normally would so the thought was kinda lost.
“Let’s go down and deal with problem number 1. Again.” I said only shaking a little bit.
“’Kay!” Glaice smiled innocently and swooped down back to earth, I followed.
“So who are you really?” I asked the woman the second I touched down.
She rolled her eyes and said it slowly “Well, I guess I’m your mom, but that’s not why I’m here, to make nice and all, I’m here . . .” I had to stop her.
“So why are you here, Joe?”
“Like I said, I’m here to help you stop the institute and what they are doing at those schools!” I got ready to chip in again but before I could, Glaice covered my mouth, did I ever mention I DON’T LIKE PEOPLE DOING THAT! “They have this large cloning plant in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s really bad and has to be destroyed!” She sounded really serious so I didn’t try to sound cold this time.
“So what do you want us to do?” I asked.
“Stop it.” Wow so descriptive, but wait isn’t that like lotsa miles away, almost a whole continent.
“That’s across the continent, I know we look strong and al but we can’t fly that far in one shot.” Glaice spoke up.
“I didn’t say you’re doing it alone, I happen to know someone who can fly us there without your wings.” Joe got a wry smile on and I couldn’t help but get that one word out of her statement.
“Us? You’re talking as if you’re coming along.”
“I am, what responsible parent would I be if I didn’t accompany my kids in a cross country flight?” She made her voice sound all innocent and caring in a sarcastic tone, like a mom would have, (oh no, I’m falling for the trap, nooooo! Just a joke I didn’t buy her story for one millisecond).
“Let’s say I believe you and that you’re really here to help us and we’re going to climb onto that plane with you, but first answer this, why are you doing this, and how the hell does a person like you know all this stuff?” I was utterly puzzled, how does a normal person know this stuff, as far as I know all the white coats are ugly old men who still live with their mothers, Joe looked to be completely the opposite, 1) she was a really attractive older version of me, 2) she looked to be early 30’s somewhere (according to a few files I sneaked a peek at back at the school, our mom had us at about 18, she was in college and her parents didn’t like the idea of their kid having a kid while still learning, so in retrospect Joe gave us up ‘cause her ‘rents didn’t want grandchildren), 3) Joe wasn’t sporting a really unattractive white coat (hens the name) but rather a pair of jeans and a Guns And Roses T and black jacket. The other two also looked kinda puzzled like me, even mind-reading-eraser-scare’rer Glaice was puzzled. (should ask why she didn’t read Joe’s mind)
She smiled sheepishly and answered “well, I’ve been ‘working as a lab assistant to one of the scientists about 10 years ago, weird guy, anyway I saw a lab report which I wasn’t supposed to see, it was about hybrid experimentation on human infants, bad stuff, so I delved deeper and found stuff about kids being taken from all sorts of places, kidnapped from parks, taken from hospitals, and ‘adopted’ by people who doesn’t exist!” Me, Jay and Glaice listened intently to her story, Joe’s face looked grim as she continued, “So I sort of started to think of what had happened to my twins, I tried the adoption place I gave you up to“ I looked at Jay, his face looked a little pail “-they gave me a telephone number after a long debate, I called it and the number doesn’t exist, I got worried and one night snuck into a lab, certain that you two were taken for experiments, when I logged onto the network with the reports, my worst fears were realized, you were used, but that was all I could find before I had to leaf, the next day they beefed up security, I couldn’t find anything more, until a week ago, I suddenly came across a file strait from Mr. H’s office, he’s like the head of research in the area, it said something about twin avian hybrids having escaped from a lab in the Seattle area, I instinctively knew it had to be you two, so after searching everywhere I found a file containing a lot of info gathered from Erasers on the field on Escaped experiments and after trying everything I could I found a little red-haired girl and told her everything, she said she heard a friend of hers had twins in his flock so I asked her to arrange everything, the rest you know.” Joe looked little breathless after THAT explanation. “I also found out about this oil rig that doubles as a clone factory, its somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.”
‘Glaice, can you tell if she’s lying about any of that?’ God I hope she could catch that thought.
‘She believes it, there’s no intention of deceiving us in her mind, but I’m unsure, she’s blocking off a large portion of her memory, maybe she blocked a bad memory subconsciously.’ Glaice thought back to me, great this telepathy thing rocks, so long it doesn’t go the bad way like that Eraser incident.
‘Am, instincts not that I don’t trust Glaice and all but can I trust this woman’ still nothing, I don’t have a voice like Max. But luckily I could ‘feel’ like I could trust her.
“Okay, I’ll have a talk with Zander, our flock leader, but I sort of trust you on this.” Jay stared at me in surprise (I almost never trust anyone or agree to things), Glaice just stood there staring off into the distance. “But that doesn’t mean I accept the fact that your our mom, I still don’t trust you, only what you said.” I had my serious business face on, I hoped she bout it. “And I’m not calling you mom, to me your Joe.” I added in a less serious tone, but I still meant it.
Joe smiled and stuck out her hand “fine, we have a deal.” I stared at her hand until she pulled it back. “So, where is this Zander, and your ‘flock’?”
“They’re somewhere in the woods out there.” I said and pointed into the woods in general.
“If you show me where, I’ll drive us to them-“
“We prefer to fly thank you, just follow!” I chipped in before she finished.
“Or I can just follow . . .” she said as she walked into the woods on the opposite side of the cliff.
I peered into the darkness of the woods and saw a black Jeep in the shadows.
Jay jumped soundlessly into the air, followed by Glaice, I stayed on the ground and stared at Joe, she got into the Jeep and waved, I jumped into the air and joined Jay and Glaice, we started to fly into the direction we came from, back to the others or rather a roundabout route to where we were to meet, just to confuse Joe, and burn some gas so that she can’t drive off when we arrive at the ron-day-fu place.
~Lex~
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