A/N: thanks everyone that reviewed! I'll try my best to get this chappie done proper.

Disclaimer: I'm not JP

Claimer: The 2nd flock, and the X-boys are mine!!

Chapter 2

Fang POV

I'm free again!

Oh, hi. I guess you don't know what I'm talking about. Well, we were captured by the School nearly a year ago (I think. My minds gone weird after such a long time being caged and experimented on), but only yesterday, we were rescued by Max - and she still hasn't told me how she did it! Oh well, it doesn't really matter now 'cos we're well away from the School now. Apparently, we - the flock - are sitting in our campsite in a clearing in the woods somewhere in the US, eating our dinner. God, was I hungry!

Anyway, we were just talking about our future, since Itex was destroyed - a year ago, actually.

"I want to live in my own house, for once! And my own bedroom that we won't have to abandon every few days!"-Gazzy

"I wanna go to New York. There's always food when you need them, and we were going to go there in the first place weren't we?"-Nudge-"Oh, and after that I want to go to Disneyland again! There were loads of stuff we didn't go on before because of the Erasers!"

etc, etc.

They were doing my head in. I could barely focus on my dinner with those kids screaming across the clearing. But I couldn't help smiling for a second by how happy they looked. They seemed to have totally forgotten about the School. Even Total seemed to have forgotten and was talking to no-one in particular about the dinner.

"I'll look around for more wood"-it was Iggy, and it was kind of a joke 'cos he's blind, but Max just let him go. She looked distracted, as if she was talking to her Voice, which was probably what was happening.

I lay down beside the fire. Ah, it was nice to be able to forget about the school and all the 'saving the world' stuff. I was just about to have a little nap, when I heard a boom from somewhere in the woods. I mean, block capitals on the boom, like BOOM! The flock fell silent immediately, and Max and I shot up, muscles tensed and ready for a fight. Just then, Iggy came running back through the trees - which happened to be the direction of the explosion. He must have been experimenting with one of his bombs. He had loads of them stashed away somewhere, and Max wasn't going to let him off so easily.

"Max! There are X-boys back there!" Iggy shouted, spreading out his wings at the same time.

Max responded immediately "Fang, Nudge, bring the backpacks! The rest of you, U and A! NOW!"

In 3 seconds we were up in the air, running- i mean flying away from the clearing. I glanced back just in time to see the X-boys emerge from the trees. They were armed with all sorts of weaponry. Including rocket launchers. Which they fired, right at us. I shouted to the flock and they all split, just in time too, because the rocket shot past the space we had occupied moments ago. I glanced back again, and I saw that the X-boys were already taking to the sky. "Crap."

The X-boys started to fan out, trying to get us surrounded, but in the sky, that's kinda hard, considering you could always go up. Which is exactly what we did, just as another rocket shot past below us.

"Rockets? What're they up to now?"-Iggy asked. I've got no idea how he knew it was a rocket.

I grunted. Then another rocket flew past us, this time from below. It barely missed me, and continued upwards through the air. I coughed slightly as the smoke trailed past and I looked up at the progress of the rocket. That was when I saw a glider about two hundred feet above us. I gasped, and just as I did, the rocket hit one of its wings, and fire enveloped the small plane. Next thing I know, there's a glinder plunging down towards the low mountains ahead. The flock and I watched it fall and crash against the mountainside, sending up flames like a miniature nuke. And the sound, it was incredible!

"Holy..."

"What was that?"-Iggy, of course.

I explained what happened as we flew away from our previous camp, towards the crashed glider. That was another good day spoiled. The X-boys seemed to have forgotten us already, deciding against following us. Unless they were setting up a trap. But so far, I didn't see any.

"Well, at least they were kind enough to give us a chance to exercise our wings" Angel smiled as she said. Max smiled faintly, but didn't say anything. We just saw a glider crash and burn - obviously we were in a state of shock!

"Look, hawks!" Nudge was pointing at the sky above the wrecked glider, and we all saw the hawks circling above it.

"I guess we'll have to spend the night in there." Max said. It was nearly sunset even though nobody had noticed it. So we flew towards the wreckage.

A/N: I don't think this really makes sense at the moment. But please R&R! Hopefully any confusing stuff will be revealed in the next chappie.