Disclaimer: I didnt think of Max Ride for I am not anywhere near as cool as James Patterson is. All characters were created by him except the new baddy's. Hope you like this and please Review! :)
I absolutely love Maximum Ride so I thought I'd write a short little story involving the characters we all love. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did writing it.
Well Hello again. My name's Maximum Ride and as you all know by now I'm one of a group of six bird kids who like kicking butt and taking names. If you have no clue what I'm talking about right now please do me a favor and read the other books all ready, sheesh!
"Mmmmm, are those cookies I smell?" Gazzy asked , jumping up and down trying to get a better look.
Ok, first things first. Lemme get you guys all caught up on things. It's been about two years since our last little adventure, saving my Mom from under the deep deep ocean where she was being held prisoner, and not a lot has changed. Fang and I are still together, with the occasional fight here and there, but we always kiss and make up. And I literally mean the "kiss" part. Ha ha. Iggy and Gazzy are still causing mischief and blowing up the occasional unlucky squirrel. Angel has discovered a dozen more abilities that she can do, adding onto the list of being able to breathe under water and turning into a bird. She can now turn different colors and can also burp the ABC's. Not sure how effective those abilities are in a combat situation but hey, they're fun at parties. Ella, my Mom, and Jeb got some money together, with some help from a bunch of Fang's bloggers, and bought a hundred acres of land and built a house on it. The Flock and I can fly around as much as we want and nobody can see us, even though most everybody knows we exist. But it's still a place where we can call home. Anyway lets get back to the real story.
"Hold on buddy," I scolded. "Can't you wait five minutes, they're almost done."
"But I'm hungry now Max!"
"We just had pizza like an hour ago."
Remember, us Bird kids have really big appetites but Gazzy is definitely the pig of the group.
"But Maaaaaaaax."
"Stop whining Gazzy. Nudge, can you keep the Gasman company until the cookies are done?"
"But Maaaaaaaax."
"Oh boy, not you too!" I laughed.
"What Not To Where is on though."
"Sometimes I don't like being the leader of this group," I thought to myself.
"Oh, you and everybody else knows you're the best leader for us Max."
"Thanks Angel."
It's still kind of weird having a voice in my head other than the Voice. Speaking of the Voice, I haven't heard from him, or It, or whatever, in awhile. Hopefully I've accomplished my destiny and It'll leave me the hell alone. It only brings trouble with it. It was kinda nice to talk to when I was lonely. O well.
"Cookies are done," I yelled to the Flock.
Gazzy was the first to the table since he had been hovering about the kitchen waiting for the cookies to be done. Iggy, Fang, Nudge, and Angel all stumbled in from the living room. It felt pretty good to cook something for the Flock and for them to actually like it. I don't know if you guys remember, but I wasn't exactly the best cook on the planet not to long ago. I was the take out queen.
My Mom walked in the kitchen and sampled my work. "Looks like somebody learned from the best."
We all laughed, except Fang. I've maybe seen him laugh once in my life, maybe when I fell flat on my face trying to play soccer with the gang. Real nice boyfriend isn't he?
"Thanks mom," I told her.
"You guys better have saved me some cookies or there's going to be trouble!"
"Don't worry total, we saved you this extra special doggy treat cookie for you." I smiled.
I have to make him special cookies since, well you know, he's kind of a dog. I watched on T.V. that chocolate is bad for dog's. Don't know how true it is but it's better to be safe than sorry.
"Eeeeew, Gazzy!" Nudge yelled. "Could you please do that outside, or at least warn us?!"
"Hey, I can't control my bowels," the Gasman smirked.
"God, you're such a pig, I'll be in the living room if anybody needs me," she said as she walked away in a fury.
"You really should try to control yourself Gazzy," I laughed.
The whole kitchen was filled with laughter once more. We were one big, genetically altered family. Nothing could ruin this night.
Our happiness was ended when there was a blood curdling scream from the living room. The fun was over, I was in Battle Mode.
"Nudge!" I yelled.
I ran past the others towards the living room and was first there. I was always the fastest.
"Nudge, what's wrong?" I asked the shaking body laying on the sofa.
"Monster!" she said, her voice muffled by the pillow surrounding her face.
I let out a big sigh of relief and calmed down out of Battle Mode.
"Nudge, there's no such thing as monsters," Mom told Nudge.
"But I saw one, in that window," Nudge pointed towards a window next to the T.V.
"Alright, I'll go see for myself." I walked over to the window and peered into the dark outside. I saw nothing but blackness.
I turned to talk to Nudge. "See Nudge, there's nothing outsi-"
Just as I was almost done speaking the window behind me exploded into a million tiny shards of glass and a new threat jumped inside our once peaceful home.
Fang was first to speak up.
"What the Hell is that thing, a new baddy for us to play with?"
The thing that jumped in from outside was a really milky white color, but it was see through and you could see its organs and stuff, bleck! Whatever it was it was really freaky looking. You think the boogieman is scary, you should see this guy. Hey, that's what I should call these new bad guys, Boogiemen! I am such a genius.
"Nudge, take Mom, Ella, and Jeb upstairs and guard them!" I yelled.
Nudge didn't even respond, she quickly obeyed me and took the three upstairs to be safe.
I ran forward towards the new baddy and tried to punch it but it was one step ahead of me and tripped me, making me fall out the broken window. It must of looked really funny from the flock's view. I can just imagine Fang giving a little smirk.
"Max!" Fang yelled.
He too charged after the Boogieman, but he was a little bit more lucky than I was. He got it right in the head with one of his deadly punches. The baddy fell over, but quickly got right back up on it's feet.
While Fang and the Flock were busy inside with their new friend I was alone, outside in the dark, surrounded by maybe twenty Boogiemen.
"Hey guys! A little help would be appreciated thank you very much!" I yelled up to the Flock.
I heard Fang tell Iggy, Gazzy, and Angel that he could handle this one and to go help me. What a show off.
The three of them jumped out the window, right into the middle of the circle of Boogiemen.
"You ready guys?" Angel telepathically asked us.
"O yea!" we all shouted.
We charged different Boogiemen and started beating the crap out of em.
I grabbed one of the creeps by the shoulders and through him into the air. I flew up and caught him, only to through him even harder back down to earth. The Boogieman made a big "Splat" but got right back up and started fighting.
Back inside, Fang was still fighting the lone Boogieman. He had probably knocked him down a dozen times already, but the dang thing wouldn't die. Fang dodged a punch thrown by the Boogieman and came back with a quick and painful punch right to what I believe to be the heart. He punched so hard that he broke through his slimy see through skin and hit the heart. The inside of the creep turned red with blood and it fell to the floor twitching.
"Hey guys," Fang yelled out to us. " Found out how to kill them, hit em in the heart!"
He grabbed a couple of the fire place tools from next to the fire place and flew jumped out the non broken window.
"Always have to make an entrance don't ya?" I laughed, still hovering above the battlefield.
"Ha Ha, very funny, why don't you stop talking and kill these guys."
"I agree," yelled Gazzy, who was getting pumbled by two Boogiemen.
Fang threw a tool up to me and I caught it and swooped down towards the Boogiemen attacking the Gasman. A quick stab through the heart and both baddy's were down.
"Phew, thanks Max."
"No prob buddy!"
Fang threw another tool to Gazzy and now he was ready for some pay back. He took a small device out of his pocket and also a roll of duct tape, I wonder what else he has stowed away in those pockets. He took the device and taped it to the end of the tool.
"O baby, I've been waiting for weeks to use this puppy. Hey Iggy! I'm gonna use it!" Gazzy yelled excitedly.
"Sweet!" Iggy returned his enthusiasm. Wish I could see this!"
Knowing that when Gazzy has a toy in his hand it normally means there's going to be a big boom, I yelled, "Everybody get back to the house!"
Gazzy threw the tool like a spear and hit a Boogieman right in the chest. I looked over to the Gasman and saw he was counting down under his breathe.
"3...2...1..."
The Boogieman was engulfed in flames and disappeared behind a really bright light, so bright I had to look away. When I looked back out through the window the Boogiemen were gone. A nice crater was all that was left.
"Nice Gazzy!" Angel chimed. "We needed a swimming pool anyway!"
Fang wiped some blood from his forehead and walked over to me.
"You…Alright?" he asked, trying his hardest to be sincere. Hey, at least he's trying.
"Yea, but I think I could use a cookie, I'm starving now."
We all chuckled a little bit.
"Ok Nudge, It's safe now," Angel called upstairs. There was only silence.
"Nudge!" I yelled.
I gave a worried glance over to Fang and ran upstairs, Flock on my heels.
Nudge was lying on the floor, blood rolling down her face.
"O my god are you ok? Please be ok" I started freaking out.
She started to open her eyes.
"They took em. The new guys took Ella, your mom, and Jeb! I'm so sorry Max. I failed."
"It's ok sweety," I sobbed trying to be comforting.
Tears started streaming down my face and Fang came over to comfort me, followed by the rest of the crew. My mom was missing again, this time along with Jeb and Ella. Why does this keep happening to me?