Author's Note: So here is Part 2 of this series!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Maximum Ride characters, only the OCs and even then they are based off of real people I know.

Chapter One: Feathered Friends

Its been a whole year since the first of the ninjas had landed in the living room. We had now moved back to Kuwait and had moved back to our old house. My mom and dad had gone on vacation in Singapore. They left me and my younger sister, Calen, to stay at the house. Our neighbors and friends across the street Fatima,Ali,Hamad,Panda,and Aboss were to come and check up on us.

An origami cat I had made to look like my old friend Star hung from the light fixture in my room. A black origami angel hung beside it. I often sat on my bed wondering what Star had wanted to tell us before she had to go, but every time I came close to remembering something interrupts me and I forget again.

On one of the walls I had hung up a picture of a mouse I had drawn. Below the mouse hung a picture I had printed out of the Naruto characters that had visited the real world last year. Another picture of Star hung beside the mouse, to form and upside down triangle on the wall.

I still wondered what connected the three. The supposedly fictional characters, a very smart and strange cat, and a mouse that was said to have something to do with the Naruto characters coming here.

"Sammie!" I heard Calen call from downstairs. "Come here! You need to see this!"

I sighed and got out of bed. I went downstairs to find a sight that I thought I would never see. There, in the downstairs living room, stood six children ranging from the ages of six to fourteen, dressed in ripped and blood stained clothes. I quickly looked at each of them. A girl with long blonde hair and chocolate colored eyes, about fourteen-ish. Maximum (Max) Ride. A boy with black hair,dark eyes,and olive colored skin, around the same age as Max,with an expressionless face. Fang. Another boy with blonde hair and sightless eyes. Iggy. A girl around the age of eleven with cocoa-brown skin and dark brown hair. Nudge. A blonde haired blue-eyed boy around age eight. The Gasman (Gazzy). And finally, a girl with blonde hair and sister to Gazzy around age six. Angel.

I had six bird-kids standing in my living room. Almost the entire Flock, missing only Total the small Scottie dog.

"Where are we?" Nudge asked.

"Your in Kuwait." I said. The Flock turned to look at me, as if they had just noticed I was there.

"Where's that?" Gazzy asked.

"The Middle East." The Flock stared wide eyed at me. Max and Fang's eyes narrowed, they probably didn't trust me. I really can't blame them, what with growing up in a dog crate in a mad science lab.

OK, now for those of you who are completely lost and have no idea what the series of books (and more recently manga) they come from is, let me first say that the series is called Maximum Ride after the main character, Max. Max and her Flock are mutants created by the white-coats (scientists) that work at a place called the School. They are 98% human, and 2% bird. About four years ago they escaped from the School with the help of a white-coat named Jeb Batchelder. Jeb had disappeared two years after their escape, presumably dead.

Two years after Jeb's disappearance, human-wolf hybrids called Erasers found them and kidnapped Angel. The Flock eventually gets Angel back from the School and go to New York where they find Total. I'll explain other events later on when/if they are mentioned.

"Exactly how did we go from a vacation home in Colorado to the middle of a freakin' desert?" Max shouted. "And what happened to Ari and Total?" Ari is Max's half-brother, he's seven years old and was turned into and Eraser when he was three. The white-coats later patched wings onto him.

"Um, if it makes you guys feel any better you aren't the first to have appeared." they stared at me. "Some others had appeared last year, they're gone now, though."

"Exactly how is that suppose to make us feel better?" Iggy asked.

"Because what ever brought them here eventually brought them back?" I suggested. "I don't know the specifics. Here, come with me to my room. I'll tell you everything that happened while the other people had been here, from beginning to end." I could see that they still didn't completely trust me, but I guess that they probably had Angel reading my mind, looking for any evil intent that I had. Which I didn't. And yes, Angel can read minds and even control them sometimes. She really starts becoming creepy later on in the series,well to me at least. The Flock members all have special powers of their own. You'll probably learn about those later, it depends on where on the MR time-line they are. I'm guessing since Max mentioned Ari traveling with them and that they had been in a vacation home, that they were somewhere in the third book.

The Flock followed me up to my room. I sat down on the bed and showed them the pictures that I had up on the wall. I then proceeded to tell them everything that had happened. By the time I had finished the Flock was silent, digesting this new information. I hadn't seen Calen, so I guess she left me to deal with them since the last time visitors from another world showed up I had left her to deal with the first of them.

"So..." I said. The Flock looked at me. "I guess I need to expand my mind-map thingy."

I then left to go to my sister's room, where the laptops and printer was located on two desks at the right-hand side of the room. I quickly got on the internet and printed out a picture of the Flock, as well as a picture of me,Calen,Aboss,and Panda that I had saved on my computer.

I went back to the Flock that I had left in my room. I moved the picture of the mouse towards the top-left hand area of the wall. I moved the picture of Star towards the top-right hand area. I put the picture of the Naruto characters on the bottom-left corner and the picture of the Flock on the bottom-right. I put the picture of me and my family/friends in the center.

"What's that for?" Nudge asked me.

"I made it a couple months ago. I'm trying to use it to make sense of why a bunch of people are starting to randomly appear at my house. As you can plainly see, I haven't actually done much with it yet."

"So your using it as a thing to help you figure out the connections between everything shown here?" Nudge asked.

"Pretty much."

"Anyway, so we're pretty much stuck here until whatever it was that brought us here brings us back?" Max asked. I think she's kinda started to trust me a little, but not much.

"Yup, and according to Star that has something to do with him or her." I said, pointing at my mouse picture.

"So your going to trust what a cat told you?" Max said. I hissed at her in response. "Whatever."

"Anyway, I have school tomorrow."

"Ooh! Can we go to school too?" Nudge asked.

"I don't think it would be wise for us to go to school, Nudge. I think you know why." Max told her. And so did I. The last school that they went to was one in Virginia. There they had stayed with someone who turned out to be a white-coat. Her name was Anne Walker and they had met her after Fang had to be taken to the hospital after Ari had injured him badly. Ari really hates Max and her Flock, but if they are at where I think they are on the MR time-line then he will have stopped all of that and turned good again.

Angel's eyes had widened a little. "How do you know about us going to school in Virginia?" she asked me. Crap. I forgot that Angel could read minds. The whole Flock visibly tensed.

"Well, uh. Perhaps it would be better if I just showed you." I told them. I might as well tell them, the cats out of the bag anyway. "Follow me."

As it turned out, I still had in my bag the fourth MR book. I walked out of my room and down the hall, towards the stairs. The Flock wasn't following me. They probably thought I was trying to lead them into a trap or something. Heck, if I knew Max like I thought I did (since the books are in her point of view) she probably had Angel reading my mind right now. I got the book out of my bag from downstairs and brought it back to my room where the Flock had waited for me. I handed it to Max.

Her eyes widened when she looked at the cover. "What is this?" she asked me.

"In this world, you guys are kinda a series of books. That's the fourth book." She handed book to Fang to look at. He flipped through the pages. He frowned.

"They're blank."

"What?" I said and pulled the book away from him to flip through the pages myself. "They aren't blank." I handed the book to Max again.

"So you pretty much know a lot about our lives then, huh?" Max said. They seemed to be taking the fact that they aren't suppose to even exist in this world pretty well. Scratch that, they weren't suppose to exist even in their world. In their world even mutant bird-kids aren't suppose to exist. They were just created by mad scientists.

"So," I said "anyone want something to eat?"