I do not own Maximum Ride, or any other references made or thought to have been made.

MAX POV

My life has been pretty hectic lately. We just stopped Mr. Chu, but he got away. I am finally dating Fang, but now someone else is here (we'll get to that later). And Dr. Wonderful is out of the picture, but she is secretly meeting with the bad guys. Those are my current pros and cons. Not to mention all the problems that go with being a 2% avion hybrid. So let's get started.

After dealing with Mr. Chu, my family and the Flock. Both are the same thing really. My Flock is my family. But anyway. We decided it was time for a change of scenery. My mother had this crazy idea that if the responsibility of choosing our new home was placed on Gazzy's shoulders, that he might mature a little. NOPE! He just decided to have fun with it. And after getting my mother to promise that we would go there, under the impression that he was being serious, he decided to choose Las Vegas, Nevada. Why? Only God knows the answer to that and for now the Voice is the only one telling me anything. The Voice has been quiet lately.

So we all went to Vegas. And that is where the trouble, in our life of many MANY troubles, began.

CURRENT DAY:

"Max!" Nudge had to yell up to me. "Why did you want us to go flying? Is something up? The Voice?"

I looked back at her. "No, I just thought that we had been doing so much that we never got time to just mess around." And with that I bolted straight up while the others all scattered around playing their games. One of them, however, stayed right on my tail feather (See I can make the whole bird-joke thing). As I came to a stop and just floated there, Fang came right up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist and pulled me closer.

"I could take you down easily if I wanted to." He whispered quietly into my ear, brushing his lips against it. Though we're already "together", that kinda stuff from Fang still makes me shiver.

"But could you really?" I whispered back.

"No. But I will do this." He suddenly folded his wings around me. I had to fold mine the same way. And then we fell, wrapped in Fang's black wings.

"How far from the ground do you think we are?" I asked him.

He unfolded his wings, we were going about 100 mph at a falling speed and the desert's sand was within a hundred feet. We broke out of our position and arched back up, Fang still above me.

"Too close." I said to myself.

"Max it's time." Iggy yelled to me. "Dr. Martinez wanted us back by three." He said while pointing to a watch on his wrist. How he knew the time from a watch while he was blind I will never know.

"You're right. Mom wanted us back so we could go look at the Vegas strip."

"Can we go see Sigfried and Roy?" Angel asked coming up behind me. OH MY GOD! My little Angel is so cute.

"Can go gamble at the Rio or the Palms?" Gazzy asked. Not so cute, but still a little cute.

"Maybe to the first, no to the second." I told the two.

"Didn't the Rio close?" Nudge asked.

"Heck if I know. Let's go."

"No, the Rio didn't close." Angel told Nudge.

"And how would you know?"

"Cause I can hear people thinking that they are going there." Angel said matter-of-factly. There's a mind reader for you.

"Can we go the Eiffel Tower or the Arch?" asked Iggy, who flew up to my left.

"Why would you want to go to either?" I asked.

"Well," he began sadly, like he just remembered that he was blind, "I want to see how much I can hear from the Tower. And the Arch is white, so I could see it."

"Well we'll see if we have time." I replied, only to ge my wing get hit by his. I guess he thought I was making fun of him.