United (a Percy Jackson/Maximum Ride story)

New Guy

This took me forever to write. I hope it is ok, I seem to have writers block... :'(      

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M A X   POV

"Don't worry. This wont hurt." a smiling whitecoat said as he came towards me with a large needle. I tried to back away but couldn't move. As I looked around I saw my flock, dead, just like I was going to be...

"AGH!" I yelled as I bolt upright, banging my head on my cage. I looked around the dark room. The only thing inhabiting it was us mutant kids. There were many kinds, from bird mutants (us), to lizard tails. We were all lined up in dog crates, waiting for a scientist to experiment on us. Yay. I looked to my flock. It looked like everyone (Fang, Gazzy, Iggy, and Nudge), except Angel, was asleep. "Hey, Max?" Angel whispered to me from the crate to  my right. "Yeah, Sweetie?" I said wondering what was keeping her up. "I cant fall asleep because of all the whitecoats." she said, reading my mind, "They are chanting in their heads, something about an incoming species. I think it was Project X?" Project X? Is that why we haven't been the headline of the lab lately? All of a sudden Angel yelped and I immediately asked her what was wrong. I heard Angel whimper. "Come on Sweetie, tell me." I said with a gentleness that was only present with Angel. "Project X. He's coming!" she whispered and then I heard footsteps and the light was turned on.

So now the whole flock was up waiting to see what was behind the door. The big metal door swung open and an Eraser strode into the room. I looked to see that he was holding a boy in one paw, who I'm guessing was Project X. The boy was kicking and struggling. He wore a bright orange t-shirt that was ripped up and bloody. Project X had black hair and sea-green eyes, one of them bruised. He didn't look like much, but he was still struggling. The Eraser laughed and kept his grip firm on the boy's arm, dragging him toward us. X had yelled out as the Eraser jabbed at him with a claw. As I watched the boy, he back kicked the Eraser's shin and I heard a crack! The Eraser pushed X into the empty crate next to mine and hopped up and down on one foot yelling in pain. "Vos Id magnus porcus! Turpis foetida vacca, si tua eros Feles meliori te. Si non esset pactum cum pugna uictores me salvum me fac, Di immortales" (That's what you get you big pig! Ugly smelly cow! A cat would do your your job better than you. I would have won that fight if you hadn't bargained with me! Get off me! Immortal gods!) X shouted in a different language, at the Eraser as he walked out of the room. 

Immediately X looked surveyed his surroundings, his eyes landing on me, probably because I was staring at him. X's sea-green eyes bored into me as he inspected me and the flock. "Tu loquerisne Latine?" (do you speak Latin) he asked carefully. I shook my head and could see he was trying to think. "Ίσως Έλληνες;" (Maybe Greek) I shook my head again, this time speaking. "We. No. Speak. Your. Language." I said slowly.

Apparently that was funny because X started to laugh. After the laughter died down he took a deep breathe and said, "I. Speak. English. Too." He said mocking my tone. I heard the Flock crack up behind me so I turned and gave them my best no you didn't look. I turned back around and glared at him but he held it with his own stare, it was making me uncomfortable. X smirked and I felt like I was annoyed for some reason. "What's your name?" I asked carefully. He shrugged "It probably would be best if you didn't know my name. I would want you to get in danger." he said sincerely. Us? In danger? That was me every day! "Why are you here?" I asked my anger getting the best of me. He stared at the wall behind me, his eyes full of confusion and worry. "I don't know. You tell me." he sighed.

I almost felt bad for the guy. ALMOST. "So what can you do?" I asked, I was trying to figure out if he was an enemy or an ally. "Oh, I can do a lot of things. But I'm not sure that any of you mortals can handle it." Did he just call us mortals? Does X know what we can do? "Um, mortals?" i asked "What's up with that?" X chuckled and smiled, "Never mind about me, what can you do?" He questioned me, leaning forward with interest. "Well, for starters I can kick anyone's butt in combat. And we have wings."  As I looked in his face, waiting for a surprised look, a squeak, anything. But X just kept the same expression on. "So wings? Cool, cool." he said as I opened my wings as far as they could go in this crate. "But I bet I can beat you in combat." I barely heard the last part, as I waited  for him to freak out but he never did. 

All of a sudden, a whitecoat walked in. He was tan with round Harry Potter glasses, a lab coat, and a brown comb-over. "Project X?" he asked and sat down by X's cage. X froze, he probably had enough sense to know that he was bad news. "I won't do anything." X growled as the whitecoat took out a remote to the big TV in front of us. "Lets see a clip of X's life, shall we?" he asked softly.

I looked up at the screen to see him and a blonde haired girl in front of a boat and a lake. I could hear what they were saying, but every time X's name was used it was muffled. It was like watching a romantic movie, with the 'I love you' and kissing. All of a sudden an Eraser came out of nowhere and took X in surprise. Then a fight broke out and I've got to say, X was pretty good! Just as it was getting good, X stood up our of his fighting position and made an agreement with the Eraser. A word to the wise, never make deals with Erasers, they lie, a lot. Then the Eraser knocked X unconscious and took the blonde girl with him. The whitecoat paused the screen pointing to the blonde girl who was unconscious too.

"Well, what you said about not cooperating?" The whitecoat smiled evilly, "I don't think we would want her to get hurt because you're uncooperative"

X growled a ferocious growl, that I thought only an Eraser could make. The whitecoat chuckled, "I thought you had a soft sport for her. She is here with us, but if you don't play nice she will get hurt." I thought X wouldn't back down for a girl, but he hung his head in shame. "Good." the whitecoat smiled, "Lets get you to the lab."

I shuddered at the thought of the place where we have been tormented all out life. I looked at the flock who seemed nervous for the poor boy. The door opened as the whitecoat led X out into the hallway, a cold gust of air blew at us.

A couple minutes later, another whitecoat came with an IPad and set it in front of me, so I could see X's doom.