This is about 1 week after you last saw the flock…. This is the sequel to Ready, Set, Fly.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the flock wished for their wings to disappear. Well this is that story.

FYI: I don't own Maximum Ride that would be JP's job… As for the plot this is my idea.

-Max's POV-

"Fang!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. I was upstairs with blue paint in my hair... yeah you read that right. I heard footsteps pounding up the stairs. I was scowling at the kids when Fang got there.

"What… oh." Fang said as he turned around the corner and stopped dead in his tracks, he just stared at us.

"When I said watch them while I was at the store… that did not mean help them build a paint ball bomb." I said turning around to stare at Fang. I crossed my arms over my chest while Fang looked behind me at the kids.

"Who told I helped?" Fang asked. I rolled my eyes. They must have planned that because Angel pointed up at Iggy who was standing behind her, Iggy pointed at Gazzy who was standing by Angel, Gazzy pointed at Nudge who was standing behind him, and Nudge was pointing at Angel. I just looked at Fang. Fang shrugged. "They were bored; it was either that or a stink bomb… I also told them to use it outside." Fang said glaring at the kids. I let out a sigh, and turned back to the kids.

"Okay… I'm going to go get this paint out of my hair. You guys are going to clean the paint off of my walls and Iggy you are going to make dinner." I said as I turned and walked into the bathroom.

3 showers later I walked down stairs and into the dining room to see the kids eating. Everyone fell quiet as I walked into the dining room with a towel around my head.

"Hey Max." Fang said walking into the dining room caring some cups with juice in them.

"Hey." I said "Fang can you come here." I walked into the kitchen and heard Fang come in after me.

"What's up?" Fang said. I turned to look at him then took the towel off of my head. Fang's eyes got bigger when he saw my blue hair. I scowled at him and put my hands on my hips.

"What kind of paint did you nimrods use?" I asked, taping my foot on the tile.

"Umm I don't know some paint Nudge had." Fang said. I felt my anger grow and I marched into the dining room.

"YOU USED HAIR DYE IN THE BOMB?" I yelled, then I saw all of them staring at me and Angel had her fork half way in her mouth.

"I don't know why do you ask?" Iggy said. I walked over to him and put his hand on my hair.

"Well what color is my hair?" I asked. Iggy's unseeing eyes grew wide and he opened his mouth but then decided to close it.

"Why didn't you guys tell me it was hair dye?" Iggy hissed still "petting" my hair. I pulled away to stare at Nudge.

"I don't know… Why does it matter." I just looked at Nudge then she jumped up from the table and I chased her around our house.

"Fang! Fang! Fang! Do something!" Nudge was screaming as she run up stairs then back down and into the kitchen.

"NUDGE!" I screamed at Nudge. I ran back down the stairs and into the kitchen after Nudge and ran into someone. I slipped and landed on my butt. "Watch where you're going, can't you see I'm in the middle of something!" I said looking up at Jeb. I looked around Jeb and saw Fang. "You unfroze him!" Fang pulled me off of the kitchen floor and I stood looking at Jeb.

"No. I just opened the closet door when I heard banging and that's what I found." Fang said. I gave him a look that said, well thanks for warning me!

"I like what you've done with your hair." Jeb said smiling. I then marched out of the kitchen with steam coming out of my ears. I looked at the kids.

"Have you guys ever thought of doing normal kids' stuff instead of building bombs?" I asked. Nudge sat down and smoothed her hair.

"We aren't normal kids. And how are we supposed to know what normal kids do? We grew up in a lab." Gazzy said.

"He has a point I mean if we were normal kids then maybe we would do normal stuff. I mean you Fang and Ig don't do normal teenage stuff." Angel said. Nudge looked appalled that she was not included in the teenage group.

"How do you know what normal teenagers do?" Fang asked as him and Jeb walked into the dining room.

"I don't but I can tell you what they don't do. They don't raise kids that are not related to them all of the time I mean they may babysit them but that does not mean they live with them 24/7, fight erasers, and they don't get into fights with scientist. But I'm guessing they do go shopping, go on dates, go to school, and have fun with friends. Last time I checked none of you guys did any of that." Angel said crossing her arms over her chest. I was going to say I've been on a date but decided not to.

"Okay you have a point… but that does not mean just because Fang, Iggy and I missed out on our childhood, that you guys should too. You guys have a wonderful life ahead of you. I bet you guys can have a great life." I said looking all of them over.

"Easy for you to say… you have a great life." Nudge said.

"What's the difference between my life and yours?" I asked.

"You have your whole life planed. You save the world, rule the world, and run the next generation." Nudge said. That made me mad…

"You think it's so easy, I don't even want to do all the stuff they have planned for me! You forgot to mention that I'm being forced into all that stuff! I have to go to Germany with Dylan, and then I have to save the world with another kid that I have to raise when I'm 15! Then I have to figure out how to run a bunch of brats who last time I saw them tried to kill me, Dylan and Angel. Yeah Nudge that sounds like a great life." I finished and just looked at the shocked face Jeb had.

"Max you should be thanking me." Jeb said… ok so yeah that made me kinda explode again.

"THANKING YOU? You're the one who did this to all of us. You're the one who took us from our homes, graphed wings onto our backs, threw us in dog crates, saved us only to then abandon us in the Rocky Mountains with no way of providing for ourselves! You're the one that made me take care of a 4 year old, a 6 year old, and a 9 year old when I was only 12! With only two other 12 year olds to help me, we had no idea what to do. It's a miracle we all lived to be the age we are! But oh yeah thank you, Thank you so flippin' much!" I yelled at Jeb.

"I gave all of you so much. I'm the reason you all can fly, I'm the reason you guys have powers, and I'm also the reason you are special." Jeb stood and just stared at me.

"Let me tell you something. Maybe I don't want to be special, maybe I don't want powers and maybe just maybe I don't want wings. That just proves my point you think we should be so thankful to you. But you really ruined our lives. Take Ig for example, he lost his sight because of you. And now you guys think you can give him powers to make up for that, but if you had just left him alone and sent him home with his family he would have never lost his sight. Iggy would not have to feel color; he would be able to see color. So don't give me that crap!" I said.

"What are you saying? You would give up wings and being special just to be normal?" Jeb said.

"YES! I want to be normal; I want a normal family, to go to a normal school, to not be stared at when I walk down the street. I wish you never took me from that hospital! I wish I never got graphed with wings." I yelled at Jeb. I rolled my eyes and ran up to my room. I heard someone running after, and I guessed it was Fang. I ran into my room and locked the door I sat on my bed just thinking facing towards the door and away from my window… Fang knocked but I was in no mood to let him in.

5 minutes later I heard tapping on my window the only thing was that my bedroom was on the 2nd floor. I turned around and saw Fang and the kids outside my window. I smiled and walked over to my window. I just looked at them. They were just flying outside and Fang was tapping the window. Angel, Nudge and Gazzy were smiling.

"You guys are nuts." I said shaking my head and walking over to the window to watch them.

"Well are you going to let us in? It's kinda cold out…" The Gasman said. I laughed and opened the window.

"We were worried about you." Nudge said as I helped her into my room. I took Angel's hand as she closed her wings and climbed into my room.

"Yep I'm sure you all were very worried." I said as Gazzy climbed into my room.

"Well Jeb was worried." Angel said quietly. I helped Ig through the window and looked at her.

"I'm sure he is." I grumbled as I sat down in a chair and crossed my arms. Fang climbed into my room and looked at the kids.

"He did mention something about your wish coming true." Angel said a little louder.

"What do you mean." I asked.

"Jeb said if you wanted to never have wings and to be a normal girl…" Angel paused and looked at Fang.

"Then he can do that for you. For all of us, we would still remember our past as mutants but we would not have wings and the people around us would think we had been there all their lives." Fang finished for Angel.

"I don't want you guys doing that just because of me." I said.

"We wouldn't… I want that too. I liked it when we were at school and no one knew who we were. I did not like being famous because of my wings." Nudge said sitting on my bed looking at me.

"Ok so you guys want to do this… let's take a vote. Anyone who wants to be normal raise your hand." I said, and everyone raised their hand, even Fang.

"So let's do this." Angel said.