Maximum Ride CHERUB Crossover….
"Iggy! Iggy!" I screamed desperately, grasping at the side of my dog crate.
"Max, Max, help me!" He called back.
Fang just crouched in his cage, shaking at the door. He flung himself at the edge and it shifted a tiny bit.
I was horrified. They were taking Iggy away again. Last time they'd tried to enhance his night vision surgically. Now he was blind. I cursed at them through the bars of the cage. Eight-year-old Nudge was crying, between calling out for him and me and Fang.
Iggy through a punch madly, connecting the jaw of one of the white coats.
"Let him go you stupid freaks!" I screamed.
"Who are you calling a freak, bird girl." Snarled the white coat, before casually slamming his elbow against the side of Iggy's head, knocking him out.
I smashed myself wildly against the door of the cage, and then an alarm buzzer went off. The door started to loosen. The white coat didn't notice. He dropped Iggy on the floor and ran. I turned around, desperately trying to get a glance out of the window to see what had happened. At the moment it was only me, Iggy, Nudge and Fang in our room. There had been to other bird kids, Angel, my baby(not literally) and Gasman. But they had been 'retired' sometime last year. Angel had been one, the Gasman three. At the moment me and Iggy and Fang were the oldest, at eleven.
The sight outside scared the heck out of me and fired hope in my heart. Then I remembered the self-destruct timer. If no-one turned it off after twelve minutes after the alarm started, then the whole 'School' blew up. There was a whole heap of army trucks outside and a SWAT team waiting to come in.
I smashed myself against the door again and this time it broke. I fell out and tumbled onto the floor. I gasped as I landed on my left arm and it felt like I'd broken my wrist. I forced myself to use it to help me to my feet, I guessed we had less then ten minutes to get out of here before the whole thing went BANG.
Nudge was getting hysterical. I ran to her cage, thanking whatever cruel evil god there was that it wasn't padlocked; it was just a latch. I opened it and she leapt out and grabbed at me. I pushed her off. We had time for that later. I ran to Fang's cage, and let him out. He pushed past me and grabbed Iggy, hauling him up onto his shoulder. I helped Fang balance him there.
"Door." Asked Fang.
"There's bars on the window, no-where else to go."
I grabbed Nudge's hand and when ran down the stairs. It was strange and quiet.
"PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEADS!" screamed a guy, wearing a military uniform, and holding a machine gun. Then he realized we were just kids and that Fang was carrying Iggy.
"Are you okay? Where did you spring from? Do you need help?" He asked all in a rush.
We just stared at him, shocked and relieved. He ran forward and tried to grab Iggy, yelling for a mate to cover him. Fang leapt backwards in shock and I jumped between them, dragging Nudge with me. The man stepped backwards, holding his hands in a 'peace' position and said.
"Its okay, just come with me."
We followed him out. Then I screamed at him.
"You have to get everyone out. It's going to blow up any minute."
He stared at me for a second and then said into his radio.
"I found some kids, they say the buildings going to blow up because of the alarm."
I heard a crackle of static then.
'Do they know the code to stop it?'
The guy looked at me and I shook my head. Nudge looked up, still crying.
" I heard it once, they didn't think I'd remember it because I was little. I was only about five at the time. It was when they were tes…."
I clapped a hand over her mouth.
"What was the code sweet heart?"
I took my hand off her mouth.
"It was 5130897."
"Thanks." Said the guy and repeated it into his radio.
After about ten minutes they had all the white coats in the SWAT vans, handcuffed and guarded. After all but one had left, we were ushered in. Iggy was starting to wake up.
"Wasappening?" he asked.
"The school got busted."
"Where are we going?"
"I don't know."
I stared out the window as we rushed down a road. I had no idea what was happening, where we were going, what was to be done with us. It scared me. I realized I had no control over this. I just knew I had to keep the flock close. Me, Iggy, Fang and Nudge. They would never separate us. Never.