Hey. Fang and Alex here.

Alex: Iggy and Jay are doing Jay's geometry homework, and she wanted us to post this chapter...

Fang: So, before we start fighting, here it is...

Fang POV

"Everyone to the door." Max said. Alex gave her an odd look. She smiled innocently and she hurried the Flock out the door of the hotel.

Soon the eight of us were lined up waiting for the next bus to Alex's suburbs.

"Max, Alex, I have to go to the bathroom." Angel said. She looked at Max and gave her the 'Bambi eyes'. Max groaned.

"I'll take her. Nudge, you need to go too?" Nudge followed Max and Angel to the nearest café. I sighed.

Iggy and Gazzy had their heads together, and they were sitting on the bench, holding something between them. Total was eyeing them cautiously.

"Iggy. Gazzy." I said warningly. Alex looked over and frowned. "Bomb." I said knowingly. Gazzy and Iggy flushed and pocketed the bomb.

"Bomb?" Alex asked paling. I nodded.

"They're not going to build anymore, right, Iggy and Gazzy?" They nodded sheepishly. "You might want to search them." I said to Alex. "They like being armed."

"Uh." Alex seemed to be at a total loss of words. He swallowed and went to confiscate the bombs. He ended up with at least thirty palm-bombs, which he promptly gave to Max upon her return.

"Ig. Gaz." Max sighed. "Didn't I tell you only ten each?" They nodded sadly and Alex gaped at her.

"Ten bombs?! You let them keep bombs?" He asked incredulous, but trying not to attract attention.

"I'll explain later." She handed ten palm-bombs to Iggy and another ten to Gazzy.

The bus came a little after, and Max paid with money she swiped while taking Angel and Nudge to the restrooms.

Alex and Max sat in one seat, Iggy, Total and Gazzy next to them, and Angel, Nudge and I in the one behind Max. Angel sat on my lap and she was talking non-stop to Nudge, who was talking non-stop back.

"We have wings." Max was telling Alex.

"Wings?" He whispered.

"Yeah. We're avian-human hybrids, or if you prefer, mutants. We were 'created' back in a lab in Death Valley, California." Max was giving Alex the full story. I sat back and decided to try and nap, which was virtually impossible with Angel and Nudge talking a hundred miles per hour next to me, so I sat with my eyes closed all the way to Alex's house. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Alex POV

Right after Max finished her story of how everything happened, up to and including what was really going on in the hotel room, the bus stopped just down the street from my house.

"Time to move, come on, we're here!" I said and picked up my pack, Max and the Flock was right on my tail. Once Angel had both feet on the sidewalk, the bus started to pull away. Total leaped out, and flew over to where we were standing.

"Stupid public transportation." Total said. I gaped. Max's story must be true…

"You bet!" Angel said and looked around. "Where's your house?"

I pointed to my late Uncle Ian's house, down the drive. "There it is." I said. Nudge started yapping and I just tuned her out. I began walking toward it, and Gazzy flew past. His wings were just a shade darker then pure white, and he had a wingspan of at least ten feet. I froze, watching after him. This is going to take some getting used to.

Max POV

Jack took the wings pretty well. We had come in with them out. She tried not to stare, and she didn't even probe. She knew some things were better untouched. I immediately liked her.

"I'm Maximum Ride." I held my hand out to her. She shook it politely and I began introductions.

"That's Fang, then Iggy, that's the Gasman, Gazzy for short, Nudge, and Angel. Total's our tagalong dog." I added. She nodded.

"Tagalong. Pff. I'm not a tagalong." Total said miffed. I rolled my eyes. Jack's eyes widened.

"Don't mind him. He's a little touchy." I said. Jack looked at me weird, and I shrugged. "We're genetic mutants from America trying to save the world, but MI6 decided that we needed a babysitter while we're in Europe."

"Genetic mutants?" She repeated. Fang smirked.

"Two percent avian, ninety-eight percent human." Fang said, placing a hand between my wings and rubbing. "We have raptor vision, hearing like a hawk, and we fly. And eat a lot." Fang said.

"We also have unique perks. But the most important at the moment is Angel's ability to read minds, and control them." I looked over to Angel who was arguing with Gazzy. I rolled my eyes. Jack looked frozen.

"But she's only six." I said. Jack looked between me and Fang and sighed.

"I'm used to not being told anything, but being told this…" She shook her head. "This is nuts."

"Sadly, I agree. But then again, the people who decided to make our life totally bizarre were nuts." She looked at me sadly.

"I'll order dinner. What do you want?" She looked at me.

"Nothing with beans, but that's totally fattening and cheap. So maybe McDonalds?" I said, accounting the fact that Gazzy and Taco Bell don't agree well. She nodded.

"What does everyone want from McDonalds?" She asked loudly.

Fang POV

Jack was honestly really nice, and totally accepted us like her whacked-up kids. And everyone, including Max, took a liking to her. A couple minutes in the house and she offered to buy dinner for us.

I felt kind of bad for ordering those seven double bacon cheeseburgers, but she said 'as long as you are here, I'm going to consider you family', so then we all felt better. Jack was like Anne, with out the whole 'I'm Jeb's boss' deal, and she was a totally better cook.

When Jack got back with the food, we instantly tackled the bag for our meal.

"Get out of the bag you vultures!" Jack said and slapped each of our hands. "I'll give them to you in ten seconds. Now, sit down!" We all sat down, and Iggy missed the chair. His legs went straight into the air, and we burst into uncontrollable giggles. Well not me, but everyone else. "Iggy? You okay?" Jack managed between giggle-spasms.

"Yeah. I'm fine." Iggy stood back up, his face ten shades of red.

After dinner, we were assigned rooms. The boys were staying in Alex's room, and the girls were staying in the guest room next door.

Everyone fell asleep almost instantly, except me. I lay in my bed until eleven, and then got up. I needed to fly. I needed to fly with Max.

I snuck quietly out the room, and over to Max's room. Max and Angel were on the floor on either side of the bed, because Nudge had kicked them out. I tiptoed over to Max and picked her up. I carried her over to her window and jumped out. I fly around the house, and landed in a meadow, not far from the house. When I set her down, she woke up.

"Fang, just wake me up next time." She said quietly. I laughed, knowing it would make her happy.

"I just wanted to go for a fly with you. I also wanted to see if I could carry you this far." I smiled.

"Well, okay." She stood up and extended her wings. Her beautiful wings. I snapped myself out of it and smirked. "Race you? From here to the lake?" I asked.

"You want to race?" She raised an eyebrow and smirked. "I'll give you a race." She planted a kiss on my lips and took off. I stood there for a moment, dazed then remembered the race. I leapt into the air and caught up easily with her.

"Cheater." I said. She shrugged, and went into 'warp-drive'. I sighed. She had already won. The race and my heart.

When I landed, she was already there, sitting cross-legged.

"What took you?" She asked. And I gave her a look.

"Hey, I raced. You were just too slow." She said defensively. I sighed.

"Cheater."

Alex POV

"Max and Fang are missing! We need to call the police!" Jack was going nuts.

"Jack! Maybe they just went out for a fly!" I yelled back.

"Oh, right." She calmed down. I noticed that Gazzy and Iggy were missing, and so was my alarm clock.

"Do you know where Gazzy and Iggy are?" I asked.

"Downstairs. Why?"

"They took my alarm clock." Jack gave me a funny look.

"They are going to build bombs out of it." I said seriously. Jack's face went from confused to murderous instantly.

"If they—" She was cut off by a big explosion. We ran out of my room, and ran into a panicky Angel.

"Gazzy and Iggy are outside. They blew up all of the extra bombs! They think it's cool, but it blew a lot of water out of the lake." She ran down the stairs. "Follow me!"

Jack and I booked it outside and froze. There were fish on the bank of the lake and Iggy and Gazzy were flying back, slapping high-fives.

"Why?" Jack asked once they landed. "You blew half the water out of the lake!"
"We didn't know how else to get rid of the bombs." Iggy said blushing. I rolled my eyes.

"Can I have my alarm clock?" Gazzy shook his head.

"We used it as a timer for our safety bomb. Set it for a minute and chucked it out over the lake."

Jack groaned. "Inside. Grounded. Don't know how long." She said and marched them inside. Now to find Max and Fang…

Fang POV

"We need to get back." I said waking Max up. We had stayed outside to look at the stars, but ended up falling asleep.

I heard an explosion sound in the distance. Max sat up, and we flew back.

"We need to get back NOW." I said. She nodded and took off. I took off right after her. I saw Gazzy and Iggy flying toward the house. A mad Jack and a grouchy Alex were waiting.

We landed after Jack took Iggy and Gazzy inside.

"There you are." Alex said. "Jack is going balistic. Iggy and Gazzy decided to dispose of some bombs, and my alarm clock." Alex looked concerned.

"Where were you two anyway?" He looked at the direction we came.

"The meadow in the forest." I said. "We were stargazing last night, and we kind of dozed off." Max nodded. No need to tell him about the race.

"Well Jack will be happy to see you." Alex ran back into the house. I had a feeling we were in trouble too.

Max POV

After we got chewed out by Jack, Fang and I hid up in the girls room.

"We need to get going with destroying that 'weapon' the Voice told you about." Fang said.

He's right, Max. Speaking of the Devil…

"Hold on, the Voice made an appearance."

There's an organization called Scorpia, and they're planning on destroying the world's future. They're going to mass murder half of the population of kids. Including the Flock and Alex. My eyes widened.

Anything else, Voice, like where we could find Scorpia? I skeptic about getting anything out of the Voice, but I had to try.

Scorpia is based in Denver, Colorado for this next mission. The Voice responded.

Anything else?

Yes. Alex is going with you.

Why?

He's dealt with Scorpia before. He can help you. Get Alex to take you to MI6. The Voice actually told me what to do. So, I guess it's important.

"Fang, get the Flock rounded up. We have to go to MI6 headquarters."

Alex POV

"Tell me again why we are going to MI6?" I asked.

"My Voice said so. The little fortune teller thing that frustrates the crap outta me." Max said.

"And it also said that Scorpia is planning on killing off half of the world's population?" I asked quietly. She nodded.

I groaned. A little disembodied Voice is in my mutant twin sister's head telling her what to do, and she was listening. Great.

"My Voice bugging you?" She asked with a smile.

I nodded. "Just a little."

"Welcome to my world."

We got off at the bus at the Royal and General Bank. Max walked up and read the plaque.

"This isn't MI6…" She started. "Where is it? The basement?"

I shook my head and smiled. "It's behind it. We have to go around." I began walking around the block. Max and Fang were walking on either side of me.

We arrived five minutes later. I pushed in through the glass double doors. The interior was plain and boring. Mrs. Jones was talking to the secretary, when she turned to look at us.

"Alex! What are you doing here?" Mrs. Jones had finished with the secretary.

"We have some insider information for you." Max said with a steel edge.

Fang: So. Alex gets doubled up on missions.

Alex: And it's saving the world. How original!

Fang: It's original because you actually have help this time.

Alex: -sticks tongue out at Fang-

Fang: -hits Alex on the head, making him bite down on his tongue-

Alex: OWWW!!!!

Fang: Jay will post another chapter later...

R&R and Geometry!