I do not own Maximum Ride, James Patterson does.

Sorry if the last chapter confused anyone, but I started with Sphynx's POV and then switched over to Max's POV. This chapters in Max's POV.

Chapter 4:

Max Pov

Everyone followed me as I led the way over to the main fight. Luckily Iggy's bomb took out all of the M-Geeks that we were fighting. I was the first to step out into the meadow and saw that almost everyone had stopped fighting except those girls from earlier. So I looked at the nearest white coat and said, "What? We're not good enough for you all to hunt anymore, but instead you go after these kids. Well at least you finally got it through your heads that you can't beat us." I looked around and saw that there were still about 200 M-Geeks left. I thought to myself, this is going to be interesting.

With that I launched myself at a few M-Geeks and took them out easily. We fell into step pretty easily with the new kids. I noticed that they were all wearing baggy pants and long-sleeve shirts, but I chose to forget about it for the time being. I looked over all the newbie's and saw that they were actually doing pretty well.

They must have been through this before. Could they be? No it's impossible, isn't it?

I saw that a little short-haired girl was just standing there as if in concentration and before a M-Geek could get to her it would run into something. What it was, I have no idea. The white-haired kid was moving fast and I mean really fast and he was hitting all of their weak points which was kind of weird considering we didn't even know where they all were. The boy with the dirty blonde hair was fighting like Fang does except not as strong but more agile. Looking at all of them I saw that they were really agile and a little flexible. When I looked over at the girls, on had large leathery wings and what looked like talons. The other girl was facing away from me so I didn't get a good look at her.

Which one am I supposed to help? Hey Voice some advice would be good right about now!

I mentally shouted in my head at the voice. Five M-Geeks decided that they would attack me at that point ,so I was stuck facing away from the girl and focused on fighting. I punched one in the face, then ducked to avoid being hit. I did a sweep and knocked three of them down and then before they could get up, I jumped up and landed on them with my knees, shattering their ribs. I heard the little girl scream and turned to see what she was staring at. The girl that was being attacked by the bat girl was laying on the ground and wasn't moving. As I looked closer I saw that there was something embedded in her back. As I turned to go help her something large and metal was thrown over me and pulled me to the ground. I tried to stand and get it off me but then it shocked me and I noticed that there were about five M-Geeks holding it down. Every time I tried to move it would electrocute me and believe me the things that were running through my head would have made a nun swear. So I'm going to skip to the part where I saw an idiot white coat pick up a gun, and this time I knew that it was a real gun and not a tranquilizer gun. I looked to see where he was shooting and saw that he had his eyes on Angel, my Angel. This just sent me into a rage but I still couldn't do anything because of the net. Let me just tell you this, it hurts like heck to get shocked by that thing. It's probably like grabbing onto a telephone line or something.

None of the others saw what was going on because they were in their own battles all except Fang who was trying to get through the M-Geeks that were surroundng me. Looking towards Angel I could see that she didn't know what the man was going to do. I couldn't move so I just shouted, "Angel! Look out!" by now tears were beginning to make their way down my cheeks. By the time she turned around it was too late because I saw him pull the trigger. In that moment there was a blur of movement. The girl that I thought was knocked out had jumped in front of Angel and had taken the shot for her.

Why did she do that?

That's all I could think even though I was relieved that it didn't hit Angel. As soon as the other kids saw what had happened they started fighting like mad men, and trust me when I say this. They looked absolutely pissed off. The white coat that had the gun was tackled by the white haired boy and got the crap beat out of him. The other white coats must have seen the difference in how they were fighting because they started to run off and so did the M-Geeks. Fang got the net off me and we both ran over to Angel. She was crying over the girl that had saved her life and said, " I can't hear her, Max I can't hear her!"

I went over to Angel and pulled her into my lap and let her cry. Everyone else started to gather around and the other kids were starting to cry as well. Not taking my eyes off of Angel, I said, "Iggy check and see if there's anything you can do."

Fang grasped Iggy's hand and led him to where the girl was lying. He grazed his hands over the wound and said, "She's lost a lot of blood and needs serious help, but I don't think she's dead."

He looked up at us with confused eyes. Angel sniffled a few times and said, "But I can't hear her."

The boy with white hair spoke up for the first time and asked, "What do you mean 'hear her'?"

"Angel can read people's minds." I replied and Fang gave me a look that said, "What are you doing?".

"That's because no one can read her thoughts. To anyone else besides us, she doesn't even exist."

It wasn't the white haired boy who had answered this time but the one with dirty blonde hair.

"Who are you all?" I asked finally looking up to meet their eyes.

"All I can say is that my name is Shadow, his is Milo, and hers is Ariel. Other than that our leader will have to explain." As he spoke he pointed towards the white-haired boy then the girl.

I looked at Angel and she continued to look at them.

We have to wait for her to tell us, because he doesn't know the whole thing.

Thanks Lambie.

She looked up at me and smiled a little after hearing her old nickname and we all stood up.

"You all can talk later but right now she needs help." Iggy said as he picked up the girl and got ready to take off.

I was a little amazed at how Iggy just took charge like that, but I'd talk with him later about it because he was right.

"There's a hospital about an half an hour from here, due East. We can go there but how will we carry them?" Fang said pointing at the others.

"You carry Shadow, I carry Milo, and Nudge can carry Ariel."

"What about me?" Total asked.

"You're stuck flying this time Total."

I heard Total mumble "Fine" , but he didn't seem to happy. (An: Total's in this because he's going to meet Akila at Dr. Martinez's house and live there )

We all got ready and then took to the skies. Trust me no one was looking forward to going to another hospital.

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Sphynx Pov

I woke up and saw that I was in a room that I didn't know. It was all white and smelled of antiseptics. My first thoughts were, I'm back at the school.

Let's just say that even though I hurt like heck, I hate the School even more than any pain. I tore the needle that was in my arm out and ran out of the room. People were in the halls shouting, but I ignored them and continued to run. Men and women in white coats were chasing after me, but of course I was faster. While I was running down a hallway, I saw that there was a balcony at the end of one of the corridors. I turned to my left and started to head for that. Everything was starting to get all fuzzy and blurry, but that didn't stop me from running. I was so confused that I couldn't think straight. I could feel that there were so many people around me that I couldn't stand it. I wasn't thinking about anything except that I wanted out. I guess that's what being in a cage for a majority of your life will do to you.

I heard someone shout behind me so I looked back. As I continued to run I ran into something hard and fell back, only to be caught by two strong arms.

I looked up to see that it was a boy with strawberry blonde hair, but before I could tell who it was, I blacked out.

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