A/N: 'Ello there. Jessica here. I'm a little freaked out because last I checked, this is the first in this category. Plus, I think my readers are gonna maim and torture me for not updating my other stories... I swear I'm not abandoning my other stories, I just need to get re-obsessed with them. Well, here's a story with my current obsessions: Maximum Ride and the Kids Next Door. Neither of which I own.

FYI: in this story, the flock were only in the School for two years, not their whole life and they ran away two years ago (a total of four years). They have no memories of their lives before Itex took them. Also, I can't write accents so just picture them in you're mind.

POV: Max

Ok, so I'll admit, I cried. The state of the flock was the blame of that catastrophe. Why? Well that's because of the broken state it was in.

Fang? – gone.

Iggy? – ran away.

Nudge? – after Iggy.

Gazzy? – with Nudge.

Angel? – with me.

Total? – with me and Angel.

Dylan? – dead.

Yep, I had finally accepted Dylan into the flock. And then he died.

Let that be a lesson to children everywhere – loving Maximum Ride is never a good idea.

Now I bet you're wondering, how had we ended up like this? Well, probably not about Fang, you probably know from his blog. But I bet you're wondering about the rest.

A month ago, just a week after we discovered Dylan's expiration date, Jeb (that stinking traitor) showed up on our door with a "peace offering." It was a device that could bring back our memories from before the School.

You know what I found out? You know my lovely mother, Dr. Martinez? Yeah, she's a liar. I don't have a lovely mother. Or any mother at all. I was – am? I guess I still qualify – an orphan. Little Madison No-Last-Name.

I choose to keep going by Maximum Ride. It has a nice ring to it.

Anyway the story was pretty much the same for Nudge (Marissa), Gazzy (Jason), and Angel (Abby). As for Total? He was human before. His name was Tim. That's all we know.

I don't know about Iggy or Dylan. They wouldn't tell me. Except they both developed Australian accents after they got their memories back. It was kinda freaky.

Now for the topic of Dylan. Like I said, he got an expiration date. Apparently it kicked in if I didn't love him back by a certain date. So he decided to give his eyes to Iggy. Iggy could see. Finally. He was so nice.

But the part that broke my heart the most?

Iggy's reaction to his death.

POV: 3rd omniscient

Iggy walked out of the make-shift hospital room, barely holding back tears. Dylan was dead.

"Iggy?" the Gasman asked quietly, the room tense.

"He's dead," the former blind boy choked out, his voice thick in his newly acquired accent.

"I'm sorry, Ig," Max told him softly. "Things will get better. You'll see." She smiled sadly at her lame pun.

"No! It won't! Not for me at least! You'll get over it! You didn't really know him! You didn't know who he was! You didn't know that legally, he was only five years old. In a fifteen year old's body. Designed to love you. He was five, Max. FIVE. And now he's dead. No kid should die at five years old!" he yelled, his accent getting thicker out of anger, tears running down his face. "And you know the worst part? I was supposed to protect him. And I failed. My little brother is dead, Max. And he had no memory of me at all, because they took me when he was one. Joey is dead! And you're telling me it'll get BETTER?"

The others stared in silent shock as he stalked away, locking himself in his room. Only one word passed through their minds.

Brother?

Whoa, intense much? Haha, I totally ruined the moment. I just thought I'd give you a few little fun facts of useless stuff in relation to this fic. I named this To The Sky because it was – weirdly enough – inspired by Owl City's "To The Sky" which I LOVE. I had this sudden vision of Numbah 3 singing along to it happily and Iggy watching with a knowing smirk. And then I thought, "okay, why's he there?" And thus, this tale was born!

Lately, I've been really into Iggy stories because my friend Abby is in love with him and she's got me wishing he was my big brother. And since she loves the Maximum Ride series so much and it was her birthday last Saturday, I made her Angel's past self before she was kidnapped at the age of two.

I really enjoyed writing this, especially Iggy's emotional speech. That was my favorite part. :)

Anyway, I'll shut up now.

This is Numbah 827 of the TND, signing out!