A/N- This is a bit of an AU story when it comes to the Maximum Ride character's ages. This story would be set right after STWAOES but moving the flock up to the ages they were at the end of the series.

Chapter 1

"Wow look at it now!" Nudge screeched, so loud that Iggy winced as her voice sliced through his head.

"All the purple and the green over there by the horizon. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen." She continued. The rest of the flock made quiet noises of agreement as they took in what Iggy could only assume was a beautiful sight.

Iggy fought the urge to tell her to shut up. It was the first time any of them had seen the northern lights and it wasn't Nudge's fault that Iggy was left out of the experience. Instead of dwelling on the fact that he was missing out Iggy slowed his flight and fell back so that he was flying behind the rest of his family. He took a deep breath of the cold Alaskan night air and enjoyed the clean sent of the snow and pine trees that were below them. He was looking forward to a quiet few months in the wilderness where hopefully they would be left alone by Itex and their many goons.

Max was six months pregnant with Fang's child and Fang had insisted they find somewhere remote to hide while Max was in her delicate condition. Max had then punched Fang for describing anything about her as being delicate. But after a lot of arguing Fang had finally gotten his way. The flock was on their way to a remote cabin in northern Alaska that Dr. Martinez had found and rented for them, all plans of saving the world put on hold for a few months. The doctor and her daughter Ella, Max's half sister, were going to join the group in a month and stay until after the baby was born.

Iggy was pulled from his thoughts when he noticed Angel drifting back towards him. "I'm sorry you can't see the lights." She said quietly, knowing that with his heightened hearing he'd be able to hear her over the sound of rushing air.

Iggy gave her a shrug and tried to make his face look as relaxed as possible. "No big deal, I just needed to get away from the ramblings of Nudge for awhile." He quipped.

Angel banked so that her wing brushed against her 'older brother's'. "It's okay if it bothers you sometimes Iggy." She assured him sounding so much older than her seven years.

"Almost eight." She pouted indignantly easily reading the thoughts from his head.

Iggy laughed and held up his hands in defeat. "Oh I'm sorry if my own private thoughts in my head offended you."

Angel giggled, "Well there's a big difference between seven and eight you know." She insisted stubbornly.

Before Iggy could reply he heard the whirring sound that was a dead give away of an imminent Flyboy attack. "Flyboys coming from our right." He called as he maneuvered to put himself between Angel and the gang of robots coming towards them.

"Iggy they've got a weird machine with them. Two of the flyboys are carrying it. I think it's a weapon." Angel informed him.

"Iggy nodded and listened as Max began to call out battle strategies. Without any warning that Iggy noticed the entire flock besides him began screaming at the top of their lungs, each of them obviously in excruciating pain.

"What? What's happening?" He shouted, feeling immensely frustrated by his inability to see. Instead of an answer he was met with eerie silence as each member of his family stopped screaming just as suddenly as they'd begun. It took a half second for Iggy to realize that the quiet he was hearing also included the flapping of his flock member's wings. He then felt Angel's limp wing brush his as she fell out of the sky.

Without stopping to think about what he was doing Iggy dropped into a dive bomb, his hands outstretched to grab Angel. After what seemed like forever but was really no more than a few seconds Iggy felt his hand collide with Angel's tiny boney ankle. Wrapping his hand tightly around her Iggy flared his wings to stop their descent all while pulling Angel up so that she was cradled in his arms. Her body was completely limp and she didn't respond when Iggy called her name. He breathed a sigh of relief however when he felt her breath against his chest, at least she was alive.

He listened intently for the sounds of his family but heard nothing beside the droning buzz of the flyboys. It sounded like most of them were moving away from him but at least two were now in pursuit of the blind kid. Iggy pulled Angel more tightly against him and then concentrated all his energy into pushing his wings as hard as he could. He desperately wanted to turn back and try to rescue the flock, but he knew that there was no way he could win fighting all of them on his own while trying to hold Angel. At least if he got away he could keep her safe.

The sound of the flyboys was steadily falling behind and Iggy was feeling pretty good about his chances of evading them. He was feeling good right up until he heard a loud pop and then felt a bullet hit him in the lower back. He cried out from the pain but forced himself to keep flying.

Twenty minutes later the Flyboys were still on his tail and Iggy was beginning to feel woozy from blood loss. Despite her slight frame Angel felt very heavy in his arms and she didn't show any signs of waking up. Iggy made the decision to land and try to beat the goons on the ground before he passed out in midair.

He listened carefully for the rustling of pine needles in the wind as he landed to avoid hitting any trees. The second his feet hit the snow he began running, hoping vainly to lose the flyboys in the forest. He ran until his lungs burned but still could hear the pounding of his pursuers feet on the frozen ground. Finally his foot tangled in a root and he fell to the ground dropping Angel's limp body as he landed.

He tried to get up but knew that it was a pointless effort. His thoughts began to grow fuzzy and he was pretty sure he was imagining the voice of a young woman.

"Garret don't breath I smell human blood." The voice said.

Iggy heard the whooshing sound of something approaching insanely fast and then felt a delicate icy cold hand on his wrist.

"They're both alive. Call Eleazar and tell him to get an ambulance to the house. We'll carry them back." The woman instructed.

Summoning the last of his energy Iggy reached out to grab the woman's wrist. "No! No hospital. Please you can't take us..." His voice slurred and trailed off.

"Ok, no hospital." She assured him.

"Garret tell Eleazar to call Carlisle."

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So that's it for the first chapter. I promise there will be more Twilight in the next one. I'm not even sure if anyone reads this crossover fandom anymore, but if you do and you like this a review would be nice. Thanks for reading!