Hi Sorry i didnt update this very fast. Working on the next one. Not sure how I'm going to meet her up with the flock but I know what she's going to do when she gets there. Ok So this one goes out to my friend Katherine, go check her out she's Random1ness. Go read her story it's pretty good.

SO once again, I own nothing but Marleigh-which is me kinda-. I do not own Maximum Ride or Tasers. Yet.

_____________________________To Live or Die by the Pen________________________________________________________

Because, I being the mutant that I am and not a character in a Disney movie, I was not surprised when things went wrong. I was just about to break the bars when the doors banged open.

Riley walked over his normally wicked face serious. He snapped his fingers and the two burly body guards came to my cage. One of them unlocked it.

I used my power to snap his head back. HE swore and the other one grabbed my leg. I kicked at him he twisted my ankle down and jabbed a needle into my leg. A sudden leaden weight spread through my limbs. I tried to kick him off but my leg suddenly weighed a thousand pounds. My head rolled back and he pulled me, by my foot, out of the cage.

"Marleigh!" Ari screamed as the other brute stabbed him with a similar needle. He pleaded with me with his eyes as his body went slack. "Ari" I managed to choke out. The guy dropped me to the ground I let out a garbled "Oooomph" I moaned.

I looked over to Ari who whimpered plaintively. With I fiery resolve I struggled upward, feeling like Atlas picking up the world. I stood up only to fall to one knee. I grabbed Ari's hand trying to comfort him when my guy picked me back up again.

I was so tired from trying to stand; it was all I could do to keep hold of Ari. MY head hit the guys shoulder and everything went by in a colored blur. The last thing I remembered was being dropped (quite forcefully) onto a field of grass.

Someone knelt over me and held a handkerchief over my mouth and nose. Instantly I felt lighter more like myself. I still felt exhausted but I no longer weighed a thousand pounds.

I pushed myself up to my elbows. Someone came behind and stabbed my leg with a syringe. A fog filled my head-I felt-for lack of a better word-fuzzy. I felt like I had the flu, cold and hot at the same time, kind of like I was being frozen and micro waved at the same time.

I could see the other guy had dropped Ari to ground in a heap and he lay there not moving. I scrambled up, swaying slightly. My vision swam. Mason and Riley walked across the field.

I tried to knock Riley down but nothing happened. I tried again. Riley sneered and walked over to me. He motioned to the guard behind me and he held my hands behind my back. I struggled but it was useless. "Like my new toy?" Riley said dangling a box in front of me."Its called a disrupter, totally blocks psychic powers, by messing in your brain with the abnormality that causes them. Just try to knock me around." He moved closer" Oh you cant, can you? Now that we've taken care of those nasty powers, I've been dying to give you something."

He punched me in the stomach making me double over. I sank to my knees with a strangled "Oh". He kept at it, hitting me over and over again. The guy holding me had long let go off my hand but I couldn't have moved anyway.

I lay on my side as riley switched to kicking me driving his foot into my abdomen. He kicked me in the face repeatedly, flipping me over. He pulled me up by my hair. My breath came out shallow and ragged. He hit me one final time in the face snapping my head back. HE dropped me in disgust.

I knelt on the ground, and spat out blood, clutching my side. I could feel my eye starting to swell and my nose was probrably broken. I gingerly wiped blood from my nose and from a cut over eye. My whole body hurt. Another guy pulled me to my feet. Mason said" Your probably wondering why you're here." He said in that sadistically quiet way of his. Kinda like the mixture of a pedo and a serial killer.

I pushed off the guy behind me and moved next to Ari. I stood protectively over him. Mason smirked "Hmmm a little too close to him aren't you" He narrowed his eyes" We can't have that can we."

I helped Ari to his feet. He looked pale and his yellow eyes were slits. He hugged me close, and I glared at Mason. My face was burning & I could feel the rest of my face start to swell. A pain not at all numbed by the fog in my head that was making it hard to create simple thoughts.

"Go…Go to Hell" I growled through my battered mouth. He smirked "Right after you my dear." Looking from me to Ari he said "I intend to show you how serious we are." With a look to one of the guys flanking him, they moved forward to grab Ari.

I kicked and fought them pushing Ari away from them. I was just about to reach over and claw the eyes out of the nearest guy when someone had the thought to Taze (AN: sp?) me. They touched the tazor to the base of my spine. About 75 thousand volts of electricity shot through my nervous system. I bucked and fell to the floor convulsing and shaking, writhing on the floor.((Remember this is a whitecoat made Tazor, meant to linger and couse maximum pain.))

I watched in Horror as they carried Ari away screaming to a strange contraption in the middle of the field. I got up and crawled toward them, shaking and half screaming-half crying "Ari, Ari, Ari!!" . Someone reached down once again and touched my still burning spine with the tazor again.

I screamed convulsing on the floor, watching helplessly as they strapped Ari to the contraption, securing his legs and arms, and attaching things all over his head. I lay their shaking and crying, sobbing hopelessly "ari, ari, ari, ari".

He screamed for me repeating my name over and over. My muscles were locked and someone reached down to Taze me again, when I started to try to get up. With every touch of the Tazor the pain grew worse.

The electricity flew through me, spreading setting every nerve on fire. They flipped the switch on the device attached to Ari. He goes rigid. His eyes rolling back. HE whispers" Marleigh" before starting violent convulsions.

I collapsed crying along with Ari's scream as Riley brought the Tazor down for a final time. Ari stopped shaking and they shut the machine down the computer monitor, flashing with streams of words.

He blinked blankly, like someone waking from a deep sleep. I ran on maniac energy to him, wrapping him in a hug. He pushed me off with a look of disgust. "Get off of me weirdo." he said. I stepped back a broken look on my face. "Ari, it's me....Marleigh." He stared at me blankly.

Mason laughed" He won't remember you. We have completely erased you from his memory. Now you see how serious we are and what we can do. Do not try us." I was trying not to believe him but one look into Ari's eyes, showed me that he didn't remember me. I shook his shoulders "Ari, come on! It's me, Marleigh we grew up together!"

I stared at him, finding it hard to breathe. My eyes blurred and I blinked back tears. I turned away and whispered "Don't worry Ari, I will be back. You may have forgotten me but I will never forget you".

Mason turned to me saying "He has no memory of a "Marleigh" To him you never existed, he has never met you. You don't exist. "He laughed at me. Anger filled me and spread through my veins like a wildfire.

I unfolded my wings and took off. Someone grabbed my ankle and I could hear the electric buzz of a tazor but I shook them off and rose higher. I heard the ringing of gunfire, someone was firing at me. I climbed higher and higher. I looked down and saw Mason staring at me calmly, Riley swearing and kicking a gunman, and a new man walked across the field.

I forgot to flap and, I dropped 10 feet. Jeb was walking angrily across the field. This was too much, I took off.

Fierce determination-fueled by the pain and sadness, carried me hundreds of miles. I collapsed in a cave, shaking.

I lay curled in a cave, sobbing letting lose all the pain and hatred and frustration. I just kept replaying those last few moments, Ari screaming for me, then his total lack of recognition and cold stare. I cried myself to sleep,escaping for a few hours to the dark stillness of sleep.

SO be prepared for next chapter, its going to be really long. Not really anything happens in it, just some filler. I dont know if she'll meet the flock in this one yet or not. But she will definitly going to HOT TOPIC and is going to meet a 2 new freinds who willl probrably find out her secret . Look for it in a few weeks.

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