This idea has been forming in my head for a while, and I like it a lot. Hopefully, I'll finish it!! Don't forget to R&R!!!

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or there would be for FAX.

Max POV

My flock and I were flying through the sky. We were heading towards mom's house (Dr. Martinez, for those of you who don't know), coming from New York.

I looked around to check on my flock. Nudge and Angel were diving through the clouds laughing and giggling when they came out wet. Iggy and Gazzy were tucking in their wings to fall for a while, then opening them out after a while. Then they would fly back up. Fang was carrying Total, not doing much of anything. He felt me watching him, and he turned to look at me and gave me a small smile. My heart fluttered and I gave him a smile back. Sigh.

Fang. I was going to have to give some thought on him. But I was too happy to think. This was a rare happy moment with my flock. Normally we were always running (well flying) away from Erasers, or now, Fly Boys. Most of the Erasers have expired. Poor Ari expired with them.

I felt my eyes water, and Fang looked at me. "Its nothing." I saw quickly, and wipe my tears away. Sigh. This was such a happy, easy time…

"Max!" Gazzy shouted, with an urgent note in his voice. I spun around, to look for him. When I found him, he pointed to a dark cloud from behind us. I squinted. Fly-boys. Damn.

"Ok guys! Get ready to fight! Fly-boys coming! Iggy! 12 o'clock!" I had to tell Iggy where they were so he'd be ready. Normally, he can hear them, but there was a slight wind today…

I tensed my muscles, getting ready to fight. I could already feel the adrenaline rushing through my veins. Ok. These are just flyboys. There are roughly 20 of them. We can do this. I thought to myself. Nothing bad could happen right?

Here them come. I charged them, taking quite of few of them out. I started tackling as much as I could, I didn't want any of my flock to be taken away for hurt. Not on my watch.

I was taking on three of them. Done. I moved on to the next. With a quick glance I saw Fang taking on five of them. Iggy and Gazzy were holding up fine. Nudge was good. Angel was making them fall on their own. I was so proud of them. My little troopers.

Suddenly, I felt a crushing pain on the side of my face. The fly-boy landed a punch on my face! I went to attack him, literally ripping his wings off. One of his hands grabbed my ankle, and was dragging me down as he was falling. I twisted around to kick him. My flock was still holding up fine…

"MAX!" I hear someone shout. Suddenly I have a searing pain in my shoulder. Ugh, it got my wing too. Everything seemed to be going into slow motion. I looked up, and I saw a fly-boy holding up his right arm, which was actually a gun rather than a hand. Ugh! That jerk actually got me! Asshole. Fang punched him and took the gun and threw it far off. Great.

Suddenly, everything was back to normal. As in not slow motion anymore. I was falling. Fast. I frantically tried to start flapping my wings again, but the wing that got hit, curled in, so I was falling with one wing out. I was falling horizontally. Huh. Besides the searing pain in my shoulder and wing, I might actually try this sometimes.

I looked up, and I saw Fang flying down as fast as he could to come catch me. "Fang!" I screamed! I raised my good hand to come reach him. I saw a small trail of my blood from my arm falling too.

I was falling. Down to earth. I must look like a falling angel. HOLY SHIZ I was close to the ground. "FANG!" I screamed afraid. Was this the end? Oh god, please no, there's still so much I need to do…

Fang got to me and grabbed my waist. Phew. We were safe. Then I heard us crash before I felt it. We landed in a bunch of trees. Fang was only seconds to being too late. Fang picked me up and carried me to the ground, then he put me down.

Ugh. Now that that terror was over, I could actually focus on my pain. Damn! My shoulder is KILLING me. The rest of the flock joined us. I tried to get up, only to feel dizzy and I layed back down. I looked next to me. The ground was turning wet with my blood.

"Max? Are you gonna be okay?" Nudge asked uncertainly. Ugh. My head was spinning. I tried to look at her, but I was seeing double vision.

"Nudge? Ugh, yeah I'm ok." I put my hand over my face in an attempt to stop the dizziness.

"Are you sure, Max? That's a lot of blood…" Gazzy said sacredly.

"I'll be fine." I assured them, and I tried to get up to show them, but I winced. Fang helped me up. What a guy.

"Ok guys. Max's obviously in no condition for traveling, so lets camp out here tonight." Fang said, as he was ripping an extra shirt to stop my bleeding.

I looked at him and gave him a look that said, Thanks.

And with that, I fell asleep.