Hello, I am Dark Shadow In The Night.

This story is about the flock, only, what if Jeb never rescued them?

What if they were sent out by the School before Jeb could get them out?

I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: as you all know I don't own any of the Maximum Ride characters or any part of the story. I only own what comes out of my mind.

Location: The School

Date: November 1st, 1999 (How many of you know that The Angel Experiment took place in 2005? So do the math, 2005 – 14 = 1991 so Max, Fang, and Iggy were created in 1991. Well, unless Max was created in the fall or winter of '91 and Fang and Iggy were created in the spring or summer of '92 or—wait I'm starting to sound like Nudge… sorry 'bout that. Well back to the story! (Which hasn't even started yet…))

I sat as far back in my cage as I could. I pulled my knees to my chest and played with my hair. It was dark in the room, but thanks to my enhanced vision I could see every detail of the little black girl in the cage across from mine. Her tawny wings were folded around her, like she was trying to stay warm. The room was a little chilly…

I looked in the cage next to hers and saw a little blond haired toddler sleeping on the floor of his cage. To my right a tall, thin boy with strawberry blond hair and crystal blue eyes was looking at me. He smiled a little when he saw me looking at him. I smiled back and looked to my left. In that cage a dark haired boy about my age with eyes so dark I couldn't see his pupils. He saw me looking at him and the corner of his mouth twitched into a smile, but it was gone in the next second. This boy never talked much and he never seemed to want to show emotion.

Then again, none of us really talked that much.

"Are you cold Nudge?" I asked the girl in the cage across from me.

"A little…" she said shivering a bit.

"Pull your wings tighter around you. It'll keep you warmer"

She did and thanked me. I smiled at her. I really loved these four kids. They were the only ones like me. Well that I knew of. All of us had wings. We were all part bird.

The little blond toddler woke up and started crying.

"Don't cry Gaz, what's wrong?" I asked him softly.

"I-I had a bad dream!" Gaz cried.

"Aw… I'm sorry. Do you wanna talk about it?" I asked him.

He shook his little blond head and curled up trying to keep warm.

"I wish they would turn the heat up in here…"

I looked to my left surprised. He actually talked!

"… Did Fang just talk?" the boy to my right said.

"Shut up Iggy." Fang said.

"Wow. What's the occasion?" Iggy asked.

"I said shut up."

"Hey that's the most he's ever talked!" Iggy laughed.

"You're lucky I'm in a cage Strawberry."
"I could take you any day Blackberry."

The boys reached through the sides of their cages and into mine trying to grab each other. I sighed and grabbed their arms, pulling down until they said uncle. I was NOT amused.

"That's enough boys." I let go of their arms.

They both pulled back into their cages.

"Sorry Max…" they said at the same time.

I sat back and smirked a bit.

The door opened and all of us, including Fang, shot to the back of our cages, trying to hide in the shadows. A man in a white lab coat walked in carrying a small cage. I heard crying coming from it. He set it down and called for someone to come in. A big hulking Eraser blocked the light coming in from the hallway as he entered the room.

The White Coat gave it an order, "Pick up this cage and move it over there." He pointed at Iggy's and then pointed next to Gazzy's.

Iggy cried out when the Eraser roughly picked up his cage then dropped it next to Gazzy's.

The White Coat set the little cage right next to mine. It was so close the sides were pressed up against each other. I looked into the cage. A little bundle of blankets shifted and a little head covered in blond curls poked out. It was a little girl; she couldn't have been more than a year old. She opened her eyes and looked at me. Her eyes were the same blue as Gazzy's. She looked at the White Coat, looked right in his eyes. I thought that was weird, considering how little she was. The White Coat's eyes went unfocused and he got this blank look. He shook his head and opened the little girl's cage. He took her out then opened my cage. I pushed against the back of my cage, expecting him to reach in and pull me out. But instead, he held the little bundle of blankets that the girl was in out to me. I just looked at him confused. He made the 'go on, take it' motion. I slowly crawled forward and took her from him. He closed the cage and left the room with the Eraser.

I looked down at the little girl in my arms. She looked up at me and smiled. I couldn't help but smile back. She was just so darn cute. I could feel the others staring at me and I looked up. The little girl sat up on my lap and looked around at everyone.

"Aw… she's adorable!" Nudge squealed.

"That was just weird…" Iggy said.

"The way that White Coat acted?" Fang asked him.

Iggy nodded.

Gazzy went to the front of his cage and tried to see the little girl.

"I want to see her!" he said.

I held the little girl up and she giggled when she saw everyone looking at her.

"She looks like you Gazzy!" Nudge said giggling a bit.

Everyone was a little bubbly right now. It wasn't often that someone new was put in here. The White Coats never put us in the same cage so this was really really weird.

"You're right nudge!" Gazzy laughed.

I set the girl back down in my lap and unwrapped most of the blankets that were keeping her from moving freely. When I saw her wings I smiled and laughed a little. They were so small, they looked like chicken wings. I heard Fang chuckle and I looked at him. He was smiling a little bit. The chuckle almost gave me a heart attack but him smiling? My heart just about stopped from the shock. The little girl flapped her wings a bit and hovered about two inches off my lap. Everyone stared at her amazed. None of us were able to do that.

"What should we call her?" Iggy asked to no one in particular.

Everyone just shrugged. I couldn't help but think that her pure white wings reminded me of something our only White Coat friend here told us. His name is Jeb, and yeah, he's a White Coat, but he's different. He's nice to us and even lets us out to play with his son, Ari. Jeb had told us about these things called angels. He said that some people who believe in a person called God also believed in angels because they were God's servants. He said that angels looked like people only they had wings like us and that they lived in a place called Heaven.

"Angel!" the little girl said clapping her hands.

All of us said nothing for a minute. We were too surprised to do anything other than stare.

"Well, I guess she named herself. Angel it is." Fang said smiling.

Angel looked at me and giggled. I smiled at her. I was a little weirded (is that a word?) out that she said that right after I thought it, but whatever.

"Max!" Angel said pointing at me, "Fang!" she said pointing at Fang.

I looked at Fang stunned. How the heck was she doing that? Neither of us knew the answer.

After we got use to Angel and her weird way of saying things we were thinking we all started talking and trying to make her laugh, which wasn't hard. Pretty much everything we did make her laugh like a lunatic. Iggy tried making a joke and Angel stopped laughing. That made the rest of us laugh harder.

"White Coat! Bad! Iggy!" Angel cried right before the door opened.

All of us shot to the backs of our cages. I wrapped Angel in her blankets and held her to my chest trying to protect her in case they tried to take her. A White Coat came in with a cart on wheels. The kind they used when they were taking one of the bigger cages like the ones Fang, Iggy, and I were in. An Eraser came in behind the White Coat.

"We need that one." The White Coat said pointing at Iggy's cage.

As the Eraser picked up Iggy's cage we all shouted and screamed for them to leave him alone. Angel started crying and the Eraser fumbled and dropped Iggy's cage. Unfortunately he dropped him onto the cart. The White Coat wheeled the cart out and the Eraser stumbled out after him.

Gazzy and Nudge started crying. I had a hard time holding back tears. Angel balled and I hugged her. I looked over at Fang. He didn't show any emotion. He was struggling to stop his feelings from showing. I could tell. It was always like this when one of us got taken. After a long time Gaz and Nudge stopped crying and curled up to go to sleep. It took longer for me to get Angel to calm down, but eventually she fell asleep. I laid her down on the floor of our cage using a blanket as a pillow for her. I stretched and yawned.

"You should get some sleep Max." Fang said softly.

I shook my head. "I'm fine. You sleep. You were up all last night."

"And you were too. That made it three nights in a row. Sleep."

We went back and forth like this for a bit but he won in the end. I laid down next to Angel and closed my eyes. I was so worried about Iggy that I thought I wouldn't fall asleep tonight. But fatigue won out in the end and I was asleep within a minute.

I woke up what seemed to be only a second later to Angel screaming and crying. I immediately picked her up and rocked her. Fang jumped and looked around. Seemed like he had fallen asleep too. Nudge and Gazzy woke up and looked around sleepily.

"White Coats! Bad! Max! Gone!" Angels cried. She grabbed onto my hand and held it tightly.

I looked at Fang. I saw worry in his dark eyes and I knew he could see the fear in mine.

"That's what she did before they took Iggy…" Nudge said, her voice quivering.

Well I hope you guys like this first chapter! I know a cliffy on the first sucks but hey, that means that there's going to be more! So if you guys want to complain or comment leave me a review!

P.S. scroll down. Just trust me on this and keep going down.

Just kidding! Chapters not over yet!

Before anyone could do anything else the door flew open and two White Coats walked in. They opened my cage and grabbed me. They pulled me out of my cage and dropped me to the floor. Fang was throwing himself at the door of his cage trying to get out and screaming for them to leave me alone. One of them grabbed my arm and yanked me to my feet. Or at least he tried to. He got me half way up when Angel bit his hand, hard. He cried out and dropped me again. The other White Coat grabbed Angel and ripped her away from me. He hit Fangs cage right as Fang was throwing himself at the door and stunned him. The White Coat opened the door and threw Angel inside locking the door before Fang could do anything. Both of them focused their attention back on me. The whole time I had been sneaking towards Nudge's cage. One of them grabbed me while the other injected something into my arm. I tried to fight back but whatever they gave me was working fast. The room started spinning and everything got really fuzzy. I saw Fang yelling something but I couldn't tell what. Everything went black and I heard one thing before all of my senses shut down. I heard what Fang had been yelling.

"MAX!"

Ok chapters really over now. This one's not I joke I swear! I hope you guys like it! Even though it's a cliffy. I'm going to update as soon as I can.

FYI it's going to be a little confusing for the next two or three chapters. I'll do my best to explain why in the next chapter. Can't do it here since it'll give away some stuff.

Until I post again,

Dark Shadow In The Night