Why Is Everything Vampires These Days?
A/N Okay so I've wanted to do this for a while, two of my favourite stories combined. I apologise if it isn't so good but this is my first MaxRide-Twilight crossover. Its based after Breaking down and Angel. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 1
Max's POV
I smirked to myself as I was tossed back into the cage, at least this one was slightly bigger and I could sit up straight in it. The badly stitched up cuts along my back and arms stung, I was use to it though. I never thought in a million years that I would ever willingly come back to these labs, but they had something very special that I wanted. Not even hell on earth was going to stop me getting it. It had been just over a year, too long in my opinion. A year since I'd last seen Fang and his new flock, a year since the psycho Doomsday Group had set the bomb off. And a year since Angel had been missing.
Back then I had refused to believe her dead, so I had searched and searched, I'd been nearly all over the world, the Nudge with her super computer skills had found out about this lab. I'd taken a chance, gone out in public and gotten myself caught. Now I was their experiment, but I knew Angel was here. They taunted me about her and boasted that neither of us would leave.
It had only been two months since I'd been captured but that was enough, the tracking device that I had had Iggy make and inserted in the back of my neck was alerting them to exactly where I was. All I had to do was wait for them to get the rest of the plan in motion.
I closed my eyes and retreated back into myself, I didn't fight what they did to me, I was storing my energy. I'd have one chance to get Angel out of here, it would take everything I had.
Hours passed, the fluorescent flickering light danced across the white tiled floors. Screams echoed down the halls through the partially opened door, clangs and scuffles, weeping and begging, then the sound of tearing, rendering flesh from bone. This place was more barbaric than the other labs I remembered.
All they had done to me so far was operate a few times doing god knows what to my bone structure, injecting chemicals into me that gave me violent reactions, they tested my speed and strength even my brain power. I wasn't sure what they where trying to achieve, but they hadn't done anything to Angel, she was hooked up to a large contraption, it kept in a state of half asleep and half aware...like a coma. She'd been in it ever since the explosion, first it was to keep her sedated while she healed, but now they left her there to see how long she could last.
I heard the faintest sound of a rumble, I glanced up at the ceiling as trails of dust trickled down, the light shook and creaked. I grinned. The cavalry had arrived.
I got to my knees and quickly yanked the IV that the scientist used like a tap to my veins out. Using the long metal end I reached through the bars of the cage and started picking the lock. When the door swung open I padded on bare feet to t crack of the open door and peered out.
I shivered slightly as cool air caressed me, I would probably freeze outside, in flimsy white shorts and a even thinner white t-shirt I was a victim to any weather.
In the hallway a red light that hung all the wall flashed like a siren, I heard people shouting as they ran for the elevators. Taking a deep breath I timed my run so that as the elevator doors slid shut no one would see me running down the hallway heading for the room I knew held my baby. The floor we were on was where most of the experiments were kept, so it didn't take long for me to turn a few corners and barge through the room that supported medical equipment, a large hospital bed and a tiny child.
I didn't allow myself to stare fixated on her slack blank expression, it wasn't even the peacefulness of sleep that she wore, just a blank look that I had seen to many times. Like when Ari died. I started pressing buttons and switching off plugs, then methodically pulling off the wires and drips that were attached to her. When she was free from those bonds I knelt on the bed and stroked her long blonde hair off her face.
"Angel….Angel honey its time for us to leave. Come on kiddo, give me a sign your aware." I said softly stroking her pale face.
It felt like forever before her eyes flickered and I got a glimpse of the light blue eyes that warmed my heart. Her hand fluttered and I reached down to grasp it.
"M-Max.." She slurred.
I bent and kissed her forehead. "Its okay sweety we're leaving."
I gently stood and scooped her up in my arms, the thin hospital gown doing nothing to hide her thin body. I felt every bone imprinted on my arms. I cradled her close and cautiously made my way through the halls. Her head rested under my chin and her body was so limp and weak, I was going to destroy this place for what they did to her.
I skidded to a stop and braced myself as the lift dinged and the doors groaned as they slid open. A sigh of relief rushed through me as Dylan stood their grinning. Blood spattered on his blue jumper but his light brown hair and charming good looks made me pause for thought still.
"C'mon Ride, time to break out." He said grabbing my arm and pulling me into the lift with him. He punched a button and the lift started making its way down.
My nerves started jittering slightly but I kept my calm. "Where are the others?"
"Gaz and Iggy are setting bombs at the points of the building to level it too the ground, Nudge is hacking into the system and shutting down everything. The time bombs we set off in the basement has everyone's attention for now. How's she doing?" His voice softened as he glanced at Angel who hadn't moved the slightest.
I shook my head. "She's too weak, it'll take a while to get her back on game but she'll be fine. Nothing's going to happen to her." I promised to her, myself, heck even to the universe.
Dylan nodded and as the doors opened we walked out onto the next floor. All of the chairs and desks with computer gave the impression of a company assistant rooms, then the glassed off other rooms held offices and boardrooms. I followed Dylan, over the year I had grown to trust him as my second wing man, after all it wasn't like I could count on Fang anymore, he'd made it perfectly clear he didn't want anything to do with me.
Dylan opened the door to one of the boardrooms and the floor to ceiling windows gave me a view of the place we were in. Lights twinkled and illuminated streets below, streets I knew Itex kept empty of residents as they used it to release numerous experiments and hunt them, or train them in how to interact in normal society, to blend if need be.
"Dylan how are we getting out of here?" I asked looking at the glass walls for some sort of secret doorway.
He pointed out of the window into the night sky. "We cant use the front door Max."
I thought. "I don't think they'd make the windows easy to break, they may be evil scientist but they aren't entirely stupid."
"True." Dylan nodded, reaching into the back of his jeans and pulled out the gun he'd picked up for this one occasion.
As a rule I didn't like guns in the least, but I had allowed them to be used for this rescue mission with Angel, we needed all the help we could get. Angel winced in my arms as the shots boomed through the room and gave sharp squeals as they hit the window. The glass spider webbed, cracks racing out, but not shattering entirely. The glass was still intact when Dylan emptied the gun. He tossed the empty weapon aside and grabbed one of the expensive office chairs. I wrapped my hands around Angel to protect her from the falling glass as with all his muscles, Dylan swung the office chair at the window and with a shriek the glass fell like raindrops, the chair plummeting to the ground below.
Without wasting any time we both leapt through the empty gap and out into the night, our wings snapping open and flapping to gain height and distance between us and the building. Five minutes as later as the cold wind whipped my hair all over the place and Angel shivered in my arms. A loud boom sounded, glancing back I could see a shock reverberate through the building, glass windows shattering and then just like a card tower, parts slowly crumpled in on each other, it tilted and fell unable to defy gravity's pull. The sound it made as it hit the ground and smashed everything in its way, resounded through the night.
I grinned proud of my flock, no one who didn't want to face hell should mess with us. Because we'd get our revenge. "Lets go to the meet point and gather the others before we leave." I called out, turning in a circle in the starless sky to head off to the wilderness where we had agreed to meet.
Dylan chuckled flying alongside me. "You know what Max, when you actually think of a plan you're quite damn scary."
Fang's POV
The weather where we were was absolutely terrible, rain, rain, rain, wind and more rain. That was all the weather did here. We were taking shelter in a cave high up in the mountains and deep in the woods, the wind howled and the small fire we had going did nearly nothing to keep the chill out.
Star was fast asleep on her side, her blonde hair hanging all over her face as she slept lightly. Ratchet had his sound-cancelling headphones in place, he'd gotten rid of the glasses sometime in the year, he too was a sleep with his back against the wall, near to where Kate was sleeping curled by the fire, her delicate Asian looks peaceful and her black hair still refusing to stay behind her ear and draping across half her face.
I sighed and leaned more against the cave wall at the entrance and peered back out in to the deep night, illuminated by the moon that peeked through the grey clouds. I was on watch and we hadn't been attacked a lot, hardly at all, but it was a habit hard to break.
As I alertly looked into the night I couldn't help where my thoughts travelled. To Max, I hadn't seen her in over a year, for all I knew she could be with Dylan and with his kid as was the scientists damn plan. I should have stayed and helped look for Angel, but honestly I doubt she could have survived, and I needed to leave. We had to hunt down the people who were organising the Doomsday Group and put a end to what they were doing. And we had, it taken this long but now we were just chasing up leads. The car was parked a whiles away as only Maya and I could fly, we'd settled here for now but tomorrow we'd head into the local town, spend a night resting, get some supplies and head somewhere else.
I missed posting on my blog, but I had to delete it and all the records, too many people were recognising us and attention was not what we needed. Now hardly anyone linked us with the people who were so famous on the Internet, Max though, and the rest of the flock had vanished from the media. A while ago the world had been obsessed with their existence, but after Angel went missing they vanished, there were even a few rumours going around that they had died numerous ways. I wasn't going to believe any of them.
I wouldn't believe Max could just be gone, she was too strong, too determined and too damn stubborn to die. With her long light brown hair that was borderline blonde with lighter sun-kissed hints in it, her thin form that was lined with subtle muscles and strength, those beautiful wings, her deep brown eyes that held so many secrets but told so much, and her soft pink lips. I would go and meet her at the decided spot in what would be nineteen years now, what I wasn't sure is if she'd meet me.
I clenched my fists as a image of Dylan standing at her side, holding her hand, flashed across my mind. Would she be with him?
I shook my head and leaned out so that the rain lightly washed over my face and brought me back to my senses.
"You're thinking about her again aren't you?"
I turned to see Maya sitting across from me on a large boulder. Just like every time I first looked at her my heart jolted thinking it was Max. But it wasn't, they may look exactly alike but there were differences. Maya had cut her hair short a while ago to above the shoulder, she had more magenta stripes going through her hair as well now, her eyes didn't hold the same deepness as Max's and Max didn't have as much weight on her. Where Max was lean and tall, Maya was tall and curvy, and Max certainly didn't have a tiny scar along the bridge of her nose from a fight a few months ago.
"Does it matter what I think about?" I asked avoiding answering.
"I know you are Fang, you get that look on your face, and then you look angry when you think of them. Together."
I felt my feathers bristle as she emphasized. And chose to ignore her, staying still I knew my form blurred into the darkness around me.
"I just think you're a fool, why'd you pick twenty years? A lot can change in one year let alone twenty. And as much as I cant stand her and she cant stand me, you were right you cant focus entirely together, you're always so aware of each other. Though when we were in Paris you seemed more focused on Dylan being around and her on hating you. Have you hear the term 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'? I think it may apply for your situation."
"As helpful as your words always are, are you quite finished?" I asked sarcastically.
"No not quite, but I have forever to tell you the rest of what I have to say, so I'll take a break for now."
"Very considerate of you." I grumbled.
A scream in the cave had me spinning around and running to the others, Maya hot on my tail.
"What is it?" I asked glancing around.
Star was on her feet and Ratchet and Kate were getting to their feet staring at her. Star pointed to the back of the cave.
"There's a bear in there!" She screeched.
I sighed and rubbed my face. "Is this like the time you said you saw Big Foot?"
"No I'm serious, there's a damn freaking…" She went quiet as a rumbling growl went through the cave drawing my attention to the near nothing blackness at the back of the cave. Two giant paws came into view as the beast stepped into the glow of the fire. It was huge, taller than me, the size of a big horse I'd say, it had deep brown fur, claws and fangs that would harm us critically if we got too close. But…it was no damn bear.
"Is…is that a wolf?" I asked no one in particular.
"Wow, its definitely been taking its steroids." Kate mumbled in shock.
The wolf gave what was no doubt a pissed off growl, whether at the comment Kate had said or if it was because we were in its den and had woke it up, I don't know. And I wasn't waiting around to find out.
"Guys, move! Now!"
And like the good flock they were they turned and bolted for the cave entrance, away from the big beastie and into the night. I'd rather face the onslaught of rain Forks, Washington had to offer instead of the teeth on that thing any day.
A/N Well hope that wasnt so bad for a first chapter, review please, and the quicker I'll get the next chapter up. Hope you like the quick insight to the two Flocks' life. Review if ya love it hate it or just dont care. Thanks for reading :3
