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When I came over, Aaliya began to read out the information on the piece of paper out loud:

"One of the most successful experiments that was made at the facility, or the school, was the avian hybrid. There were six of these experiments created from either test tubes or natural births and they called themselves 'the Flock.'

"One of the main experiments 0945638m1, better known as Maximum Ride, was built for a special reason; to save the world. The others were made to help her accomplish this task, and over the years they were put through a series of tests to see if they were capable enough to do so."

I nodded as I took all of this in.

"So, they were experiments?" I questioned.

"Looks like it. And I guess that they grew up here too." She answered.

I nodded at her to continue.

"Most of the tests proved that they were capable of this and Maximum showed great physical and mental strength throughout her testing as did the others.

"There was also a lot of experimentation done on the test subjects while they stayed here and some proved to be great successes, while others were failures. Some of the successes were Maximum's flying speed which we managed to increase by 100 kilometres per hour, and it got faster as she got older. Other successes were experiment 094780453n4, also known as Nudge, who could hack into computers, experiment 953879432g7, also known as the Gasman, who can mimic voices, and 04593857a11, also known as Angel, who can read and control minds. Experiment 084563967f4, also known as Fang, has shown no signs of mutation, although, like most of the others, showed signs of mutation later on.

"One of the experiments that we failed to complete was an enhancement of night vision on experiment 085760483i4, also known as Iggy. After doing the experiment we decided not to retry the experiment as it left him blind forever. However, later on........."

Her voice faded out and she stopped reading. Aaliya looked shocked and horrified.

I put a hand on her shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

"They're talking about my dad." She said quietly, frowning at the page.

I guess that he hadn't told his daughter about the crazy, nutcase scientists making him go blind. I wouldn't of either.

"Hang on, keep reading." I said looking at the page. I took it from her and continued.

"However, later on it was proven that Iggy could 'feel' colors and was an expert at making bombs, along with the Gasman."

"At least we know who the two Pyro's from the movie are; Iggy and the Gasman." I said happily. Things were finally starting to make sense.

"But that's the weird part, my dad isn't called Iggy. His name is Jeff Martinez."

I froze. I had heard that name before. Not the first one, but the last one. I didn't know where, but I was certain that my mom had said something about it before. I brushed it off.

"If they were experiments here, maybe they didn't want anyone to know their real identities. They could have come up with codenames and started new lives." I suggested and then kept reading.

"Each of them had a special skill and they used that to complete their mission and save the world from global warming. In the end the flock went their separate ways and started a family. Maximum and Fang moved to New York and had a child which they named, Heaven. And Iggy moved to Arizona to live with Max's half sister Ella Martinez........."

That was when it clicked. I had heard mom mention the Martinez's before, I just never knew that she meant her half sister!

"So, if Maximum is your mom, and Ella is my mom, does that mean that we're, like, cousins?" Aaliya asked looking at me excitedly with a grin on her face.

"I guess so, but more like, half cousins."

"But still cousins, that's awesome!" She exclaimed while punching the air.

I smiled at her and went back to reading.

"..........and her mother Dr. Valencia Martinez. Eventually, they moved out, bought a house and had a daughter who they called Aaliya.

Nudge moved to Los Angeles and met a human named Peter. They had a son named......."

I was cut off by the sound of the door opening and three scientists stepping into the room. They had a small boy with them of about 7 or 8, and he was thrown into the room and they left once more.

He pushed himself up on his hands and looked at us.

He looked exactly like the dark-skinned girl from the movie.

It took us a while but eventually we made it up into the sky, and we were flying freely once more.

I had managed to trip over my own feet twice, I came crashing to the ground after takeoff once, and Fang had managed to fly into a tree once, before we finally got a good rhythm going. But once we were up in the air, it felt great.

I guess that when it comes to flying, you never really forget.

However, what I did forget was how amazing flying really was. I forgot about the feeling of weightlessness and freedom and what it felt like to propel myself strongly through the air with my wings. But I remember now.

I looked over my shoulder and saw Fang gliding gracefully through the air like me and........smiling. He was actually smiling. He had a huge grin on his face and I could see his perfect white teeth in the sunlight.

For twenty years, Fang and I had been Maxine and Nick, living normal lives and pretending to be something that we weren't. But up here, in the sky, he was Fang and I was Maximum Ride once more. We were ourselves again and we didn't need to pretend.

I couldn't wait to see the flock again. We had only split up because Fang and I wanted to buy a house after Heaven was born. We had all agreed to the idea that we wanted our children to live normal lives and have a good childhood, unlike ours, so we got Jeb to help us. When Heaven was born, he injected a drug into her system which hid the wings and made them go numb. We never did like the idea of cutting them off, which was the more extreme option that Jeb's crazy Whitecoat mind could come up with.

The flock all met Heaven when she was a baby and then Iggy announced that he and Ella were going to get a house in Arizona so that they could be close to my mom. Fang and I then moved to one of his favourite places from our childhood, New York. Nudge, Angel, Gazzy and Total moved to L.A, because it was one of the places that they wanted to explore. Then, when Angel and Gazzy were old enough, they moved away from Nudge to Paris, under strong influence of Total, and bought a house of which they shared.

A few months after Heaven was born, Iggy called and told us that Ella was in labour, so Fang and I rushed over to Arizona to help them out. They had a baby girl named Aaliya, and we got Jeb to do the same thing as he had done for heaven. After that, we said our goodbyes and went our separate ways once more. After that, we saw no need to meet up again, as we all lived so far away from each other. No need that is, until today.

Nudge, Angel, Gazzy and, surprisingly, Total, who was still alive after all these years (It must have been the human in him), had all agreed to coming to Arizona to help us get the kids back. And, like Iggy, they had all been surprised when I had called them by their real names.

I looked over at my right wing man and gave him a look. His smile seemed to grow wider and, at the same time, we folded our wings in and started freefalling. I felt the familiar rush of adrenaline as I fell from the sky, and just as we were about to hit the trees I unfurled my wings and shot up into the air like a bullet. Panting hard, I looked over at Fang and smiled.

Just like when we were kids.

I stood outside my house feeling anxious. I clenched and unclenched my fists, itching to go. I took in a deep breath and started to run. When I had enough speed, I jumped into the air and unfurled my wings. I flapped hard to get aloft.........but then came crashing down again and landed on my stomach.

"Ow," I muttered and rolled onto my side.

I could hear Ella laughing hard behind me.

"Yeah, yeah, have your laugh. But this is a lot harder than it looks and I'm out of practice." I said as I pulled in my wings and got to my feet again.

I stared ahead of me and could see very little; a few blurry outlines of trees and green shrubbery. My eyesight had gotten better over the years, to an extent where I could see a few blurry shapes every now and again, but sometimes I got nothing.

I closed my eyes and took another deep breath before running ahead. I felt my feet thumping hard on the ground and my heart pounding in my chest as I jumped into the air once more. I unfurled my wings and flapped them as hard as I could and, this time, I got aloft. I felt the familiar sensation in my chest as I rose higher and higher into the sky.

I opened my eyes and saw lots of green blurs, which I assumed were trees, and stretched my stiff wings out as I flew. I tried doing a few turns and huge arches in the sky to get used to this again. To put it simply, it felt awesome. I hadn't felt anything this good in ages, and I felt like me again. I never realized how much I actually missed flying........flying with the flock. Things were so much easier when we were together, even if we were on the run almost all of the time. Don't get me wrong, I loved Ella, and I always would, but I really did miss my family.

And I knew that I would see them again soon.

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