Hi everyone!! This is my first fanfic so please be nice. If you want to give me suggestions it will be greatly appreciated! So please review! This is a spoiler for the third book just so you know so read this after you read the third book.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Max Ride characters…James Patterson does.

I do own any other characters though.

Chapter 1 Max POV

So here we are, again, flying away from Dr. Martinez's house, or should I say Mom. Of course Mom's house is the only place I actually want to be. Isn't it weird how you always end up leaving the place you want to be and go to the place you don't? Unwillingly that is. Oh, I guess I should explain this. I am Maximum Ride. THE Maximum Ride who is supposed to "save the world." I am fourteen years old and you're probably wondering "flying?" Yes you heard me. I have wings along with the rest of my flock. I am the leader of my flock, as you probably can tell, and I have the ability to fly over 200 mph. I also have a voice in my head. You all are probably saying that everyone has a voice in their head, right? Well do you have conversations with this voice? Yeah, that's what I thought. My voice isn't me. It's my "dad" Jeb. Jeb is the person who set us free from the dreadful School. I loved him and I always wished he was my dad until he left us. We thought that he died, but he returned to the School. That traitor. I still don't trust him. The School is a place that is so horrible that Hell has some competition with the most dreadful place ever (if there is a Hell that is). The School is pure hell. They take babies at birth and experiment on them. That's why I have wings. I am 98 human. The Whitecoats, the people who work at the School, would test our ability to run and think by having us run through mazes until we found the exit. If we stopped running, we would get shocked. We lived in cages when we weren't being experimented on. That's why I don't ever want to go into a pet store. It'll bring back memories of my past.

Anyways, there are six members of the flock including me. There's Angel who is six. She's my baby. She may be cute but I would watch out. Underneath her little smile is a person you don't wanna mess with. Trust me on that. She has the ability to read and control minds. Yup, you heard me. CONTROL minds. Although it's scary, it can be useful. She also has the ability to breathe underwater and talk to fish. This can be useful too because if you're starving, you can go to a lake or ocean and be like, "Fish, you, come out of the water and onto the fire," and there ya go…dinner.

Next is the Gasman, or Gazzy, who is eight. To know the reason why he's called the Gasman is well…it's self explanatory. He has the ability to mimic any voice. It's only funny when it's not your voice he's mimicking. It's gets very confusing at times. Angel and Gazzy are the only actual blood related siblings. We all consider ourselves as family, but Angel and Gazzy are ACTUAL family.

Next comes Nudge, eleven, our motor mouth. God, I love this child, but she needs to learn to…how do I put this nicely…shut up? She can sense where people have been and about them just by touching an object. This really does come in handy.

Next is Iggy, who is fourteen like me. Iggy is blind due to a failed experiment. The Whitecoats tried to improve his vision, but instead they just made him blind by accident. He can hear extremely well though. He and Gazzy also have an obsession on explosives. Whatever they get their hands on, they somehow make it into a bomb. Sometimes I don't even know they're carrying bombs.

Finally there's Fang, who's fourteen too. Fang is my right hand man. He's Mr. Tall, Dark, and No Emotion. He can read me like a book. He's my absolute best friend and I can tell him anything although things have been weird between us lately. I don't know how I feel about him. I mean I like him as a brother, nothing more. Right. Just as a brother. Right. Right? I don't know. Right now, feelings for Fang are at the bottom of my list. I have other things to worry about like, you know, being captured and taken to the School, chased by Flyboys, and being killed. You know, the usual.

Now you're probably wondering "What the hell is a Flyboy?" Well it's JUST a mechanic robot that has wings. They chase us around all the time to bring us back to the School because they have no life. Literally. They're robots so they have no life. Get it? Haha…ok the point. They model something called an Eraser. An Eraser is what chased us before the Flyboys. Erasers are part wolf. They can look normal, but then they morph in to an Eraser. It's quite disturbing actually. Flyboys took the place of the Erasers because all of the Erasers are dead along with many other failed experiments. You see, the Whitecoats think that they can improve the world if they get rid of all the people who failed. It's called the By-Half Plan. But really, killing off half of the world's population won't do anything to improve this world. It's really going to their heads.

So now we're on the run from Flyboys and God knows what, AGAIN! Oh, did I mention we have a dog? Now I know your wondering that if we're on the run, how can we take care of a dog? Well Total isn't just any dog. He can talk and jump really high. He's an experiment just like us. He doesn't eat dog food. He eats what we eat, that is IF we eat. If you ever feed him dog food, you will never hear the end of it.

Now, here we are, flying. We've been flying for about 4 hours and I'm gonna see how long we can go before Nudge pops up those 3 favorite words of hers. I'm hoping maybe another half hour or-

"MAAAAX!!!" Oh boy. There goes that plan.

"I'M HUNGRY!!!" Well what else is new?

"Ok Nudge, we'll keep an eye out for a place to eat."

"But I really can't wait. You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach that shakes and stirs to tell you that you're hungry? Well that little section is going crazy!! I think we should go to a chinese restaurant. Or ummm...an Italian restaurant where we can eat spaghetti and meatballs. That's so cute when two people share spaghetti and meatballs. They always end up kissing! That's such a cute way to kiss! I want my first kiss to be like that. It reminds me of Lady and the Tramp. That's such a cute story!! Do you remember-"

"-what it's like to hear? Well yeah, I remember. That was BEFORE you started talking," Iggy said finishing Nudge's sentence.

"Sorry. It's just, there's so much to talk about and…ohhhh!! Max look! There's a Friendly's down there! Can we go pleeeease?!"

"How about we just fly a little longer guys. C'mon" Oh no! The Bambi eyes! Don't look Max. Don't look. Don't lo- aw crap.

"Um ok I guess. Let's go guys!"

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