So I recently read Max. In a few hours I might add! Anyway I decided to right my own sequel seeing as James Patt left a very unfinished story. Not that I'm complaining that means there will be more real sequels. Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Maximum Ride. If I did there would be a lot more romanticism between Fang and Max. So on to the story!

Fang's pov

Reasons to love the beach:

1: (The most important reason) Max in a bikini!

2: Waves.

3: Cool water on an abnormally hot Hawaiian day.

4: The beach goers already knew we had wings so we were free to spread them out.

5: Getting to watch Max get jealous if I so much as glanced at Brigid (Mental not: it is insanely funny to watch Max fume over "Dr. Amazing")

Yup so the Flock was still hanging out with the navy in Pearl Harbor. We'd decided after rescuing Max's mom we deserved a bit of a vacation. Clearly Max didn't get the concept. She was stretched out on her stomach (you can't really lay on your back with wings) soaking up the sun trying (and failing) to be relaxed but at the same time looking up and around for any threats every three seconds.

"Max would you calm down, how bout you go take a swim and cool your jets."

"I am relaxed!" she spit back as she once again scanned the crowd for any M-geeks, Flyboys, Erasers or any new kind of robotic or otherwise dangerous thing bent on capturing us.

I laughed out loud, "Max? Come on now you can't fool me."

She gave me a reproachful look before relenting and running off to join Iggy and Gazzy in the waves. I admit I stared the whole time. Had she always looked so hot? I thought back to all my memories of Max. I'd seen her crammed inside dog crates, worked to exhaustion by white coats, I'd seen her with so much dirt caked on her face I thought she had a tan! The answer was yes. Max had always looked hot. I smiled as I realized something, this amazing girl was mine! I carefully closed my laptop and slid it into my backpack. I stood up and stretched my back cracking at least ten times before I sprinted off to play-tackle my girlfriend into the crystal clear water.

Max's pov

I came up laughing. I playfully pushed Fang off me. He came up laughing too and I splashed him.

"What was that for?" he spluttered.

"What do you thing? You tackled me under water!"

"Yeeeeaaah," he said smiling. His smile made my heart flutter. Or was it his smile at all? Suddenly I could feel the water vibrating. Fangs smile faltered, he could feel it too.

"Do you guys hear that?" Iggy asked stopping mid splash at Gazzy. Of course Iggy could hear whatever it was already, his sense of hearing, touch and smell was way better than the rest of ours. His sight would have been better except something had went wrong when those scientists back at the school had tried to amplify them and he'd gone blind.

I started looking around doing a headcount. Fang check, Iggy check, Gazzy check, Nudge check, Total (our fancy smancy dog) check, Akila (the dog licking Total, eww) check, Angel…

"Where the heck is angel!" I screamed with an edge of panic in my voice.

Almost on cue she popped above the surface, "I'm right here! You should see the fishes down here they have the most colorful thoughts."

Yeah that's Angel for you my telepathic somewhat shape shifting baby, not to mention she has gills. She had probably been at the bottom reading the minds of fish while exercising her ability to stay under water indefinitely. Of course she isn't really my baby but we had escaped the school together with the rest of the flock when she was only two and I had taken care of her.

Now everyone could hear the noise. We all ran to the beach flapping our wings so that they would dry faster. Now we could see them in the distance. The noise was M-geeks, flying M-geeks.

"Max there are people here. We need to keep them away from the people," urged Fang.

He was right. I tapped Iggy's hand twice and whispered, "Twelve o'clock"

We snapped open our damp wings. Even Total (yes we know a dog should not have wings by any stretch of nature but then again neither should a bunch of kids. Yeah, we're a crazy bunch).

We kicked off the ground. I always loved the collective gasp as everyone saw us lift off into the sky. Clearly Gazzy liked it too seeing as he did a little midair flip, laughing his little eight year old head off at the newest responding gasp from the beach goers.

"Knock it off Gazzy; focus!" I shouted over the wind.

He smiled back but put on a berserk face. I smiled even though we were slightly out of practice every one was gearing up for a fight.

Gritting my teeth I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my veins. I clenched my fists and all hell broke loose. We submerged head on with all the flying M-geeks. I punched the first one square in its face then I brought my knee up into its stomach. It dropped like a fly and I carried on to the next one. This one I kicked out its flawed ankles and its wheeled feet just feel off. It punched me across the face unfazed by the loss of its feet. Stupid, I mentally scolded myself it can fly why would it need feet. This time I brought both hands down on its skull in a karate chop. Its head split into sections like a weird and gross onion. I took the time to look around, Fang was tearing through M-geeks like crazy, Iggy I don't know how he did it being blind and all but he was taking on three at once and I soared over to help him. I did a round house kick and practically beheaded the one behind Iggy.

"Fight fair!" I shouted after it as it dropped down to the waves below.

"Thanks," Iggy shouted as he gave another an uppercut popping its head off. "Man these things have some design flaws," he yelled back to me laughing as the robot plummeted.

I looked around to see if anyone else needed any help but it looked like everyone was good. Suddenly all of the M-geeks dropped back and droned in a weirdly human voice, "Mr. Chu does not wish to kill you but he will. Stop the Coalition to Stop the Madness or we will be back."

"Only after you KISS MY ASS!" Gazzy shouted after them as they rocketed away.

That was just too much we all burst out laughing. Gazzy held up his hand for Iggy to high five which the blind guy eerily never seemed to miss.

"Back to the beach!" Nudge shouted. I frowned we should probably report back to the navy base to tell my mom and everybody what happened. That's what we'd been ordered to do anyway. I smiled, but when had we ever followed orders.

"Back to the beach!" I agreed. They all soared back to the sand but Fang flew up next to me. He took my hand and we slowly made our way back.

Nudge's pov

They were so cute. "Huh," I sighed as I looked up at Fang and Max with my hand shielding my eyes from the glaring sun. Why couldn't I have someone like that? Oh yeah because I'm a bird-kid freak! I looked around the beach all the people were nervously coming out of hiding and back on to the beach. All the hot Hawaiian guys are staring me. "Huh," I sighed again. They aren't really staring at me they're staring at my wings. Don't get me wrong I love my wings they were so beautiful and I loved flying but I wish I could have a normal life. At the same time I knew I'd miss the Flock way too much. I'd tried to be somewhat normal just a month ago and had come back after just a week. You don't live with people your whole life and go through what the seven of us have and then just leave. I should have known that.

I looked up from my tawny wings again, was I met the gaze of a guy who looked to be about thirteen. He was a few yards away and he was really cute. As usual he was looking at my wings. Suddenly he sprinted over to me and plopped down beside me in the white sand.

"Um, hello," I said shocked. Most of the people were like scared of us. Awed but scared. This boy was looking at me nervously but not scared at all.

"Hi," he stated calmly, "Um my names Lee."

He looked Japanese, not uncommon in Hawaii. "My names… Brittani."

His smile faltered and then was back so quick I wasn't sure I'd seen it. He wasn't looking at my wings at all He was looking right into my eyes. Was I sure He had even been looking at my wings before?

"Wow."

"What?" I asked, "The wings?" I spread them out for him to see.

He never looked down once! Instead he continued to look me dead in the eye. "No not your wings… not that their not pretty too… but your eyes. They're so…" He suddenly looked very nervous and he clammed up.

I blushed red. "They're so…?" I knew what he was planning to say but I wanted to hear him say it.

He grew red now too but not nearly as much as I was sure I was. "So pretty," he finished.

If I was red before I was scarlet now, "Thank you."

He suddenly had a burst of confidence. "Would you like to maybe get some Ice cream… with me?"

He was asking me out? A normal date! Me a freak bird-kid on a date with a cute normal boy! What's the catch?

"Of course I will!"

All the nervousness drained from his face. He stood up and offered me his hand. I took it and he pulled me up. His hand was hot but not clammy. He was definitely cute but now I scanned him up and down. No facial hair, Dark brown hair that hung slightly in his eyes, he was average height, his eyes were a light brown with little golden tints around the iris, (yes you can tell that from two feet away with raptor vision) and he was incredibly tan, but what do you expect we are on a beach.

"Hang on I just have to tell Max," I said before I snapped out my wings. I turned around and launched myself into the air. He still gasped but I didn't expect him not to. I flapped over to where the rest of the flock was busy splashing.

"Max!" I squealed, "That guy over there just asked me on a date! Can I go? Please, please, please?"

Max looked nonplussed. "Angel?" she asked.

"Well he doesn't sound dangerous," Angel said reading his thoughts. Then she giggled, "He thinks you have pretty eyes Nudge."

I rolled my eyes annoyed she was reading all that but secretly I was smiling.

"She's secretly smiling," Angel told everyone reading my thoughts this time.

Now Max smiled. "Alright you can go. But no kissing!"

I thanked her. I was going on a date! And I doubted there would be any kissing anyway. I flew back over to Lee. Landing gracefully next to my backpack I pulled out a tank top (It didn't cover my wings, pretty much everyone knew we were here by now) and a skirt.

"Okay let's go."

Angel's pov

We were back at the navy base The flock was all huddled on Iggy's bed listening to me tell them how Nudge's date was going.

"Now what's happening?" asked Gazzy. He was still immature enough to think this whole dating think was icky. I was more mature than that!

"Okay well they're just finishing their ice cream. "

Fang and Max were over on the futon on the other side of the room smiling while holding hands. Max was blushing slightly probably because she was sitting on Fangs lap. I read her mind. Yup that was why. Then I read Fangs. Aw good for Nudge. Huh, holding hands is nice but I'd rather have my arms around her.

I broadcasted to her, Max; Fang wants to put his arms around you.

She blushed deeper but took his hands and wrapped them around her middle. Fang's smile went ear to ear and I smiled. I was making the world a better place for love!

I went to read Fang again; dead bunny, road kill, bloody bunny. He must have caught my smile. He hated when I read his mind and knew how to get me to stop.

In disgust I went back to reading Nudges mind. Lee was walking her back to the base. I read his mind. He wasn't at all weirded out at all that she lived on a navy base. Back to Nudges mind. She however was embarrassed. They got to the gate. Nudge turned to him and said awkwardly, "well you can't come any farther."

"Oh well than can I say good bye?"

"Nudge is at the gate," I informed everyone. The reason we were at Iggy's room was because his had a view of the gate. All of us huddled to the window.

Nudge looked a tad red. I read her mind again. She knew what he meant and was unsure but she really liked Lee and wanted to kiss him to. She was just worried about her promise to Max.

Well I didn't technically promise h, she thought.

Through the window we saw her take a step towards him. They hugged and Lee leaned his head down and she stretched upwards. Then their lips touched. At the same time Max and me squealed. Nudge could probably hear us with her hawk hearing but she didn't say anything or look at us. It was a quick kiss and then she said goodbye. She walked back to the base from the gate. I read her mind again and she really wanted to fly back she was so excited but she was trying to act cool.

When she finally made it inside she screamed, "YES!"

She could hear us in Iggy's room so she sprinted to us and then threw herself onto the bed. Everyone tried to look innocent but everyone failed. "You know I heard you guys," she said to us.

"Yeah we know," said Max in a serious tone, "we also know you promised not to kiss him."

"Well techni-"she started.

Max cut her off though, "But I'm glad you did." Max's face suddenly broke into a smile and she gave Nudge a great big hug. Nudges smile was the biggest of all as she hugged Max back.