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I awoke to someone shaking me. Max. She was tied up and was nudging me (hehe) with her foot. We where in a helicopter and it was landing. Large hands grabbed me. Before I could process where I was, I was throne into a dog crate. Great. Just how I wanted my day to start.

Painful memories came back to me as we where wheeled to the room where mutants where kept. The tests, the experiments, everything. Max looked at me. Like me, she had grown up here. The whole journey was silent except for Erasers that would rattle our cages to annoy us. We went through a familiar hallway and a room where hundreds of mutants where kept. We entered. Huddled in the depths of a dog crate was a six-year-old girl with what used to be white wings. Now they where grey and brown with dirt.

In the other crate was... Ash. She was trying to calm the little girl down. Ash looked up and visibly paled.

"Iris?"

"That's my name."

"Where are the others?"

"They escaped. Shhhh. Don't talk. You need to save energy." I said. Ash looked like she got hit by a bus. Which probably wasn't that far off from the truth. Her whole left side was bruised and a cut on the side of her face was bleeding.

"I- I- I have to tell you something. He's alive." Ash said in a whisper; I could barley hear it.

"Who?" I was very confused. A lab door opened but I didn't notice. Ash just pointed.

A very familiar voice broke the silence.

"Hello Maximum, Iris." My mouth fell to the bottom of the crate. It was Jeb. Jeb Batcheldor.  Wearing a white lab coat.

I want to give you a cliffie so bad but I will continue for the sake of my sanity.

If I where a computer, I would be blinking D O E S.    N O T.      C O M P U T E.  Jeb nodded to the Erasers and they undid the locks to my cage and Max's.  Giving Ash's hand one more squeeze, I stepped (more like crawled) out of my cage and walked down the hallway with Max. 

Out of all the horrors Jeb could have done, he gave us hot chocolate.  Max looked at it like it was poison; it probably was.

"Max, Iris.  I would like to make this quick.  You two were made for a reason: to save the world."  Max's jaw dropped.  Mine would have top if it wasn't for my broken arm that I could pass out from the pain with.  For the next hour, I zoned out.  Sorry, but I was thinking of a way to escape.  Can you blame me?  We where grown back into our crates and I just so happened to land on my broken arm.  Lovely. 

Max looked at me and assessed the damage.  She motioned for me to give her my arm.

"This is going to hurt."  She said.  I bit on the sleeve of my jacket and, with a sickening crack, my arm was back to normal.  ( Well, as normal as your arm can get after you broke it in two places.)

"Iris, I'm scared."  Ash said in a small voice.  I nodded, trying to think of what t say. It's okay or We'll get out of here didn't sound right who knows if we could make t out alive.

"Go to sleep hon."  Was all I said to her.  Ash nodded and curled up in a ball with her wings wrapped around her.  It broke me to see her like this.  An Eraser suddenly came in and grabbed me.  I was to tired to fight, so I just gave Ash a (hopefully) reassuring smile.  I think it turned into a grimace because of the way she looked at me.  As long as it was me, not her, I could deal with the pain.

I was dumped on a maze.  Running, running, running.  That was all I did.  If I stopped, I would be electrocuted.  I didn't stop.  I had to be strong.  For Ash.

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I came back around morning.  She was sweaty and gasping for air.  Max was the only one awake, and even she looked tired.  I told her to go to sleep.  She nodded while I curled up in a ball and wrapped my wings around my body.  I drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

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