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Chapter 1

I don't know how I ended up in these situations.

I was riding in the car with Jeb and my three siblings Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy. Okay, I'm sure you have some questions already so let me explain. Jeb is our adoptive father; he picked each and every one of us out of the millions of other kids who could use a good home. And as for the names, well…let's just say Jeb had a knack for picking out accurate nicknames.

Oh and by the way, I'm Max.

So back to the problem, I'm riding in the car with my family on the way to some place none of us have ever heard before. All Jeb told us was that it was a small town and we probably wouldn't be able to get into trouble there.

Speaking of trouble….I turned around to glare at Gazzy from the passenger seat, it was his fault we were in this mess, this was our fourth move in the past two years, all because we couldn't seem to stop getting expelled from our schools, and for once it wasn't my fault. The last three moves had to do with me not being able to resist helping the underdogs, I had gotten in a little too many fights with the bigger kids and that was it, we were on our way, but of course the one time I decide to be good and not get into any fights we still end up getting expelled.

See Gazzy has a very weird love of anything explosive, it doesn't help that Jeb is a scientist either. The way Gazzy tells the story, apparently these kids were making fun of him for his digestive problems, he's always had a problem with passing gas, and my god does it stink, like to high heaven! Anyway, so I guess these kids were making fun of him and he decided he would get back at them by making his own personal gas bomb. And where does he put it you might ask? Right in the poor kids locker! As soon as that kid pulled open the door, BOOM! Of course Gazzy was instantly outed as the culprit and off to the office he went. And now because of him we were on our fourth move.

"I said I'm sorry Max what more do you want?!" Gazzy whined finally noticing the death stare I was giving him

"I want you to go back in time and not make that bomb." I said. Gazzy stared at me sheepishly. I knew I shouldn't be berating him like this since he's only a kid but I was too angry to care.

"Come on Max it'll be fun! We can meet new people and make new friends and have new teachers and just think of all the cute bunnies and horses we'll be able to see because we're going to live in the country! Oh I wonder what our new house looks like? I bet it's just like those fancy log cabins I see on TV, oh it's going to be great Max I can't wait to…."

"Okay Nudge you can stop now." I said holding up my hand in the universal "stop" sign. She was known around our house for never being able to stop talking, sometimes I wondered how she didn't run out of breath and pass out during one of her many famous monologues.

"She's right Max, it'll be fun." I heard a tiny voice squeak. It was Angel, my baby, my little girl. She was the youngest out of all of us but by far the sweetest, I would never admit it to anyone but I loved her the most.

"We'll have fun." she whispered causing my anger to melt away. I could never be mad at Angel.

"She's right Max, just calm down and give it a chance." I heard Jeb say beside me. I grumbled slightly trying to maintain my pissed off aura.

"Okay whatever." I grumbled. I grabbed my headphones out of my pocket and plugged them into my phone beginning to play the most loud, hardcore rock music I owned. I could no longer hear the voices around me talking and very slowly I drifted to sleep against the car window with the angry voices of rock and roll singers to soothe me.