Phew, let's go.

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride, it belongs to James Patterson.


Max sucked in a breath, wrapping Fang up in new bandages, the bleeding wouldn't stop! It was a couple hours ago that Iggy was taken and Fang mutilated. Max was tearing her hair out in worry for both Iggy and Fang.

The two oldest and most independant of the flock were unavailable, if Fang wasn't wounded, Max would've sent him with Gazzy and Nudge to go and locate Iggy, I'm planning to go with a couple of the kids too, and leave Gazzy and Angel behind to tend to Fang, but she was worried about that, everything was so complicated.


Iggy felt himself slowly resurface into consciousness. Reaching forward, his hand connected to a bar. Crap.

"Ooh, lookie here, he's awake."

Iggy jerked his head to the source of the sound, he narrowed his eyes, blue, pupil-free eyes.

"Eh, a cautious one. Fun."

Iggy narrowed his eyes, knowing it was an expression of annoyance, irritation, anger, or betrayal, whatever. He pushed himself up to a sitting position. "Who're you?"

"Jeez, what, did you lose your memory too? You should at least recognize. It's me, Ari."

"Ah, what a pleasure. I'm terribly sorry I didn't know it was you."

Iggy gripped his knees and closed his eyes. Not that it made a difference. "So, what now?" Iggy asked, just bored enough to start a conversation with the eraser.

"We need to test your problem-solving skills, by putting you in a maze, and you'll have to navigate by feeling around. "Ari replied, a bored tone in his voice.

"We'll take it from here, Ari." An unrecognizable voice suddenly burst in. "You can leave."

"Whatever."

"So, shall we start with the maze? Or hearing test?"

"Maze, defiantly."