Ok, this is just an idea that I came up with. I hope you like it. I don't own Maximum Ride, just Phoenix and the plot.

I ran away from the men but it was useless, they were all around me. I tried to get out of the way as one reached towards me but one of the men grabbed me from behind, I struggled to get out of his grip but it was impossible. The man wrapped his arms around me so that I wouldn't be able to get away, another man walked forward and brought a syringe out of his coat pocket. He smiled as he took one of my arms and pushed the tip into the crook of my arm. I felt the liquid go into my bloodstream as he pushed down. I was beginning to get really tired, my arms and legs felt like they were made of lead. I would have fallen if the man that was holding me hadn't picked me up.

"Don't worry kid, your going to be just fine." He whispered into my ear as he walked towards the black car that they had arrived in.

My last thought before unconsciousness took over was that I didn't trust these men. They had just kidnapped me and I knew that they were going to do something bad to me, what, I wasn't sure yet. But I had a feeling that it wasn't going to be good.

I jolted awake in the cell that I was in, I'd been having the same nightmare every time I slept. The nightmare was of when I had been taken and brought to this place they call the School. I had been twelve when they had taken me from my old life, that was two years ago. Now I'm fourteen and I've seen things that are unnatural, like kids that are part animal. Since I got here, they have been doing tests on me, tests that make me weak for days, tests that make me wish I was dead.

When I got here, they gave me a shot that changed my DNA, now I'm only 98% human. The other 2% is bird, and I have wings. I wasn't born with wings, they grew in after I was given the shot when I first got here. Everything about my life has changed since the wings grew in. The only thing from my old life that I was able to keep was my name, Phoenix. Sometime soon I was going to get out of this place, and that day was going to be soon.

"I will get out of here." I whispered to myself in the darkness of the cell.

*~+~*

Flying was the one thing that I liked more than food, unless I was flying on an empty stomach. Right now the Flock and I was flying to my mom's house, we were about an hour away and we weren't going to stop to get something to eat until re reached mom's. Nudge and Angel were talking about what clothes they should get when we went shopping with mom and Ella tomorrow. Iggy and Gazzy were whispering about a new bomb they wanted to try to make, and Fang was acting like always, strong and silent. I couldn't wait to get to mom's, where we didn't have to worry about things as much as we had to when we were flying around the country.

"Max, I think I hear something coming up behind us." Iggy said, flying up next to me.

I looked down and back, I couldn't see anything through the trees that were on the ground but I believed what Iggy said. Since it was the middle of the winter, I knew that Iggy could see a little, but if we landed in the forest to try to get away from those on the road, I knew that it would be a little harder for him to see. I sighed and looked over to where Fang was flying, he was looking down trying to see the people through the trees.

I turned to look at the rest of the Flock, "Okay guys, we're going to stay up here and keep flying. If the people that are following us try and attack us somehow, then we go down and try to lose them in the woods. Got it?"

Everyone nodded and I motioned for them to started flying in the direction we had been heading once again. I looked once more down at where the road was, before turning and following the others. We hadn't gone more than half a mile when they fired something up at us. It was a net, meant to catch all of us, but it only got Fang and Iggy.

"Fang! Iggy!" I yelled as they plummeted towards the ground, "Angel, Gazzy, Nudge, keep flying towards mom's, we'll meet you guys there."

"But you said –" Angel began.

"I know what I said, but I changed my mind and you have to do what I say now. Okay?" I said, stopping to turn and look at them.

They nodded and turned to fly to mom's. I turned and flew towards the ground where I knew Fang and Iggy must have landed. I knew that they were going to want me to leave them alone but I was going to try and get them out of that net so that they could some with me back to the others.

*~+~*

The net had come out of nowhere, none of us were expecting it. It wrapped around Iggy and I, and we were suddenly falling towards the ground, unable to slow down the decent with our wings tangled in the net. I could hear Max call our names but I was to busy trying to untangle the net from us. Iggy was trying to get untangled too, but I saw that he wrist was wrapped up in the netting. We suddenly hit the top of the trees and were falling through, branches hitting us as we tried to block our faces from getting scratched to much.

We hit the ground and I heard Iggy's wrist break, he gasped but didn't say anything. I looked around trying to see the people that had shot the net up at us, but there was no one around. Suddenly a heard something land next to me and I saw that I was Max.

"Max, you have to get out of here. You can't get caught." I said quickly, before she could interrupt.

"I'm not leaving you and Iggy hear alone, I won't let you guys go back to the School." She said, bending down to try and help untangle us from the net.

"Listen to me fore once Max, you have to go. The others need you more than we do. When we get out we will head to your mom's house." I said.

"I agree with Fang, the others need you more than we do. Leave us Max." Iggy said as he slowly tried getting his broken wrist out of the net.

Max looked between the two of us before sighing, "I'm out numbered and I know you guys are right. Just promise me that you try and find us when you get out."

I nodded, "I promise."

She nodded and turned to run so that she would get enough momentum to left off the ground and fly. I sighed and went back to trying to get free of the net, nothing I tried was working. This was beginning to piss me off.

"Looks like your friend left you all alone. Oh well, it will just be easier for you two to come with me without and trouble." A voice said from behind us.

I tried to see who it was but I didn't have time to before I felt something poke me in the shoulder. It was a syringe, probably filled with something to knock me out. Oh how right I was, I could already fell the drug taking over my body. They must have given me a very large dose because I was already having trouble keeping my eyes open. The man came around to the other side of the net to give a shot to Iggy and I could just make out that he had black hair. Iggy went out faster than I had and I knew that was because he was in a little of pain from his broken wrist. I then closed my eyes and became surrounded by a quiet blackness.

*~+~*

I watched as the two boys in the net passed out, the blond one before the black haired one. I walked over and began to untangle them from the net. I noticed that the blond ones hand had been stuck in the net and had broken when they landed. I hope the Director wouldn't be mad about that. I finished untangling them and was about to pick the blond one up so I could take him back to the van when I heard something in the woods. I turned to see a cat walk out of the woods and look at me once before walking back the way she had came. I sighed and picked the blond kid up and took him to the van, then I went back and grabbed the black haired kid. After putting him in the van I got in the front seat. I started up the van and headed back the School, where the two kids would probably spend the rest of their short lives.

When I came to the gate of the School, I should the guard my pass and he motioned for me to go on in. I headed to where I would back the van up so that I could carry the kids the room where their cells were. I parked and walked around to open the back of the van. A friend of mine walked out and came over to where I was about to take the blond kid out.

"Need some help Nik?" my friend, Zeke, asked me.

"Sure, can you grab the other kid and follow me?" I said as I picked up the blond.

"Sure, no problem." He said picking up the other kid and following me.

We walked down the hall into a room that was filled with different cells, one of which was already filled. Setting the two boys in different cells, Zeke and I walked over to the other cell that held an experiment.

"Morning Phoenix, how was your night?" I asked with a smile.

"Bite me." She said, looking at the other kids.

Zeke and I laughed as we walked out of the room, shutting the lights off and closing the door behind us. Now I was going to tell the Director that the mission was a success. Now we had all three parts to project Archangel.