A/N I just had an awesome idea for this stories plot, this is gonna be so much fun hehe, enjoy it and review for me. I'll try and make this as funny as I can seeing as my other stories are sad and depressing and serious. So time for the fun. Not so much in this chapter but the future ones will be.

Chapter 2

It was always the same. They were always the same. They either wanted you to do something or just wanted to have you in using distance. They came in a sat down with huge grins plastered on their faces.

Jeb tried to hug me, but once he saw my fists clench he backed off. Brigid sidled up to Fang on the couch, practically clinging to him like a leech, and gushing about how he saved my mom all on his own. I think she must live in a fantasy world, she totally grinded my grill. The only one who I thought was okay was Captain Perry, he just sat down calmly and spoke to Iggy and Gasman on how many different missiles his submarine had, oh, and little tips on what they were made of. I would have to talk to those two later about how dangerous making missiles could be. Especially if one went off by accident.

I was standing in the doorway, again I was acting like an idiot and isolating myself from my family. Jeb grinned up at me and my eyes narrowed. "What do you want?"

The room practically fell silent when I spoke. I kept my gaze centred on Jeb, Brigid got up and actually went to put her hand on my shoulder. I snapped my head around at her and stalked away. Mwahaha I am evil Max, be afraid be very afraid.

"Now tell me what you want or get out." They stared at me like I was mad. Heck maybe I was, but Jeb was looking at me like he wanted something. And he probably did, it made me feel like an experiment again. And yes I know I am an experiment, but there's a difference from feeling like an experiment. And trust me, its not a nice feeling.

"Max what makes you think we want anything? Can't we just come over and see how you all are?" Brigid said sounding ever so sincere.

"Yeah you could, but the odds stack up against you. It's not every day a Navy captain, and two scientists come to see me, and in that combo it starts feeling a bit sneaky."

Brigid opened her mouth to say something else, that was probably another lie. But Jeb clapping cut her off. "Well done Max, you aren't as laid back as everyone else is. It's good because you must keep on your toes, anything could happen and you must be ready for that."

I rolled my eyes. "My god, will you just quit it with the cliché movie liners. Its like you've been preaching all of my life. Oh wait, you have."

The flock looked pretty confused and the three guests just shifted nervously, apart from Jeb of course.

"Fine I want to know if you are going back to school? Before all of this happened you decided to go to school. Are you still going?"

I shivered every time he said the word school. I ignored that the flock were excited about the prospect of going to a normal school and learning. I focused on Jeb, if that was all he wanted then why were Brigid and Captain Perry here?

"What's the catch? Because I know sure as hell that you want something."

Captain Perry smiled at me and nodded his head, then looked at Jeb. I followed his gaze.

"Max, lately you have all been developing new abilities. We want to monitor you and try to determine if it's going to affect you permanently, and also how you control those abilities and if there's any side affects to you using them."

Well if I was a kettle I would be blowing steam. My eyes hardened and my back straightened. "You mean you want to use us." I snapped

"No that's not what I said-" I cut him off.

"Oh, I know what you said. You're acting like a white coat. You want to study us, see if you can make others like us, or if not how you can use us. But we have a choice, and we are done being studied for the rest of our lives. We can go to the school if we want without being monitored and tested."

I walked up to Jeb and he stood up to meet me. For some reason all the anger and confusion from the past days boiled up inside of me. "You should have kept your notes Dad, from when I was a kid."

Now Jeb was angry and he got right in my face. "I am your father-"

Again I cut him off, it was fun but still I was serious. "There is a difference from being my biological father to actually being my father, but apparently no one clued you in on that fact of life."

Jeb looked so blinkered and flabbergasted, hm I wonder why. It couldn't have been the fact that I had pointed out that he was a failure as a father could it? On second thoughts maybe it was.

"Now unless you have anything else worth my time to say leave."

Jeb glared at me and turned around and stormed out, slamming the door behind him.

Brigid followed but turned to face me halfway out the door. "You know I think it would be okay and right if you let us try and help you."

"Yeah and help you get your Noble prize in the process."
She left after saying goodbye to everyone but me. I turned to face Captain Perry. "Why were you here?"

He grinned sheepishly. "To try and stop you from putting yourself in jail if you tried to kill either of them. I was playing the bodyguard."

I smiled at him, he was one of the few people I actually liked. But still I was a cautious person.

Iggy cleared his throat and I realized for the first time there that there was a tense silence in the room. But thankfully Iggy knew how to clear that.

"Well Msx, you cleared the room better than one of Gazzy's farts."

Crude but effective seeing as we all burst out laughing and Gazzy demonstrated his skill causing us to throw open a window.

A/N Review people. And thanks for reading.