-- Go Ascend With Ivy --

The next few months passed relatively uneventfully. The kids were all excited about Max's baby, but Iggy was sullen and withdrawn and ended up spending most of his time with Angel - who was a little upset that she wasn't going to be the littlest flock member anymore once the baby was born.

And then the Erasers came for Angel.

Well, they came for Angel... but they left with Max and Fang.

Max woke up in Fang's arms, which wasn't unusual. They were sitting up, which was also not entirely unusual. So why did she have a feeling that something was wrong...?

Then she opened her eyes. They were in a familiar room. In a cage. At the School. Oh, yes. That was definitely very wrong.

Around them she could hear the whitecoats whispering excitedly. She couldn't make out everything that they were saying but she did catch some important-sounding bits.

"...mated pair..."

"...next generation..."

"...egg or live birth?"

"...can hardly wait to begin testing..."

-end-

A/N: and there we have it, the expanded version ends at the same place as "God Called In Sick Today".