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Max

Once he was out, I threw the bag over his head and grabbed the card, swiping it to unlock the door. I ran in, knowing we were on camera, and began to unlock all the cages, ignoring the cheers and questions from my flock. "Everyone just hold on. I'll explain later!" I shouted, "We just need to get out of here!" Adrenaline flowed through my veins and I was back in my natural environment- busting out of creepy science labs and kicking butt. This was much easier to handle than emotions or relationship problems. Once everyone was out, I picked up Angel and barged out the door past a passed out Jeb. We did an up and away and without taking time to speak, bolted away as fast as possible. My flock knew to act now and talk later. It was what kept you alive.

After about twenty minutes of silent speeding away, I addressed Angel. "Hey baby, how are you doing?" I asked softly. She was frighteningly light. As I said that, though I had a strange feeling in my gut, as if it wasn't right to call Angel my baby anymore seeing as I really was going to have one that actually was my biological child. I still couldn't wrap my mind around the thought. Me and Fang. Again, memories of that night came rushing back to me. I wondered where he was now.

Well with Angel being gone, I hadn't have had to worry about keeping my thoughts hidden and could think freely so I nearly fell out of the sky when I heard Angel audibly gasp. "Max!" She hissed, "Come on, you have a mind reading seven-year-old here, please keep your thoughts PG rated!" I felt bad and embarrassed that she had to witness my thoughts of basically Fang and I having sex, but I wasn't used to having her around and it was going to take me a while to get back into the habit of not thinking about that stuff when she was around.

"Sorry kid, but you're going to have to learn how to block out my thoughts if you don't want to see a naked Fang again." I couldn't help but laugh. "I've got a lot going on right now so it's going to be hard for me to control my thoughts."

"Max?" She asked quietly.

"Hmm?"

"Are you and Fang going to have a baby?"

I sighed heavily, "Yeah. We are. I really messed up sweetheart and I don't know how I'm going to fix it. After all, I'm supposed to have Dylan's kids and Fang is supposed to die." I chuckled bitterly, "I guess I'm so outdated it's all I'm good for at this point. You know, after I casually save the world."

"That's what you and Jeb were talking about?" She asked.

"Yeah. They were going to keep us for tests so I had to get us out of there. And they were going to be angry if they found out the father is Fang." I replied sadly.

"They were going to kill it." She said, reading my thoughts.

"Yup." I said. That was really all there was to say. "Just don't any anything, okay? I'll tell everyone when the time is right."

"Of course Max." She agreed, "And Max?"

"Yeah, Ange?"

"I think it will be fun being an aunt." She smiled.

I had to laugh, "Yeah, well I see lots of babysitting in your future." She giggled too and snuggled in closer to me, eventually drifting off into sleep. I watched her and realized I was exhausted too.

Then, Dylan caught up to us, "Hey how is she? I saw that you guys were talking."

"She's okay." I replied, "She just needs rest and food. She's so thin." I wearily looked down at her as Dylan studied me.

"You look tired, let me take her." He stretched his arms out and we flew in sync so that it was a perfect hand off of her sleeping body.

"Thanks." I mumbled, "We should probably land soon so I can explain what is going on to everyone and we can all get some food and rest. We're heading south now, just outside of San Francisco so we can land and call it a day, I'd say. We need to decide our next move. It's time we get out of hibernation and back to figuring out all this doomsday and 99% plan stuff." I was actually happy to go back into business mode because it distracted me from all my other problems. Except my pregnancy was something that was actually going to become more a problem, not go away. I'd deal with that when the time came, though.

We landed in the woods just outside of a town and then walked the rest of the way until we found a motel. Once we'd checked in, the girls and I went to our room while the boys had their own next to us. Angel was still sleeping so I rested her on one of the beds and decided I would share that one with her and give Nudge, who was a diva anyway, the other one. I tucked the little girl in and then turned to face Nudge who was already raiding candy out of the mini fridge. She looked up at me and grinned. "You know that's not free." I informed her.

"I know." She replied.

I shrugged, "Yeah, well give me some of that!" I flopped onto the bed with her and she laughed as I stole a Snickers out the box, realizing how hungry I was. I wondered if I was going to have to start "eating for two" or whatever pregnant women say as an excuse to eat a ton of random food all the time. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I had no idea what I was doing.

"So Angel is back." Nudge said gleefully as she watched the blonde girl sleep.

"Yeah." I said affectionately; see there are those damn hormones again. Even Nudge gave me a strange look at my sappy tone. "And you better leave some for her because she's going to be starving when she wakes up. The poor thing looks like she wasn't fed the entire time she was there."

Later that afternoon, Angel had woken up and after being washed and fed, she was able to walk around, but we still hadn't tested out her wings. I looked them over and saw that they seemed fine, but she said they did experiment on them. Just before dark, I took her outside to try them. "Alright sweetie," I said, "We're just going to see if anything really is wrong with them, okay?"

She nodded. "I'll be right here, so I want you to try to fly. Go on, just flap and see what happens." I ordered. She was very weak, but slowly she started to flap them and her fluffy white feathers swayed up and down as her wings began to beat faster and more powerfully. Then, she was able to lift herself inches off the ground.

"Max! Look!" She exclaimed happily, "I'm off the ground!"

"Great job, now try to go a little higher and go forward." I told her. And she did just that. As her wings became more accustomed to the movement, she went higher and higher. Then, she was going forward, backward, up, down, and every other direction. We even went for a little joy ride together.

"I can't believe they are okay Max!" She laughed happily in the wind. I had to smile too at the sight of the little girl's joy. "Wheee!" She took off in front of me and then we raced home. Of course, with my super speed I could outfly anyone, but I stayed right with her. She could read my mind and knew I was holding back, but we were just having so much fun she didn't care. It was just like old times. I was almost sad when we got back to the motel and had to land because that meant I was back in reality and had to face my problems.

Fang

Ratchet, Holden, and I sat in a café in San Francisco. We were looking online for signs of where trouble might be. Holden was reading online articles while Ratchet was talking to people, asking about it and I scanned my blog. I still kept it up and it was interesting reading people's comments. They really did care about us and some of them actually gave helpful information. I yawned as I took a sip of coffee and continued to scroll through pages of comments. Finally, I came across an interesting one. It read: "Hey Fang! So I live in a town outside of San Francisco and I saw on your blog that you are going there. I just wanted to let you know that there have been rumors going around town of sighting of large, ugly, wolf creatures and it kind of sounded like what you call Erasers. I'm not sure if that's much help, but I'd thought I'd let you know and you could check it out if you wanted to. They're supposedly in the woods of my town of Novato. Good luck! –Elle D."

"Hey Holden!" I leaned over to him, "come read this. I think we should check it out." He read the comment and nodded his head.

"Okay boss sounds good. I'll go find Ratchet and tell him." With that Holden got up and went to look for him.

I leaned back and read some more comments one particularly hit me hard, "Hi Fang. I read about Angel and I'm really sorry about her! I can tell you loved her even if she was a little crazy. And now you and Max are split up again! What is wrong with you two? Just get together already, please! Her little girl is gone and she probably needs your support more than ever now! Forget Dylan. Go after Max! I believe in you two! - Anna J."

I read the comment and felt a stab of regret. Maybe Anna was right. But at the same time, the entire world was at stake. How could I just forget that and go home to Max? Paris was a total disaster and a bad idea. Well, not all of it. I thought about that night we spent together. Her beauty, her touch, her lips pressed against mine, she was so exposed and so amazing. I could wake up with our bodies pressed up against each other like that every day of my life. And the sex. It was just perfect. All that pent up emotion we had was just poured into the act and it was just so passionate and exhilarating. I ached for her presence here now and the more I thought about it the more I regretted leaving her. I wondered if she just went right back to Dylan when we separated or actually thought about it like I did all the time. I really did love her.

Holden and Ratchet came back and sat down with me. "Alright," Ratchet rubbed his hands together. "So who's ready to kick some more Eraser butt?"

The next morning, we took off for Novato. We arrived in about an hour in our falling apart van. We got out of the car when we reached the forest Elle had told me about. "So…what now?" Ratchet asked, "Do we go in and look for them or do we wait for them to come to us?"

I shook my head, "No. We're going in there and we're facing those flea bitten bastards." With that, I marched in, not caring about anything but killing Ari.

After hours of trekking through the woods, Holden plopped down on a rock in the middle of a clearing. "Dude we've been walking so long." He panted, "Can't we just take a break?"

"Yeah, I agree with the Starfish." Ratchet took a seat as well. I felt as if I could have gone forever, but I agreed and let them have their rest. It didn't last long, though, because after a few minutes we were joined by my old friend Ari and his pack of mutants at last.

They swooped down and landed all around us, enclosing us in the clearing. "A little birdy told me you were looking for me" Ari laughed a deep, scratchy laugh at his own "birdy" joke.

"Yeah, that's right. I'm going to make you pay for what you've done." I growled angrily.

Ari just laughed again. "Oh yeah? You and what army? You see, you forget that this isn't your invincible flock. As we've already discovered, you've got quite the gang of fragile cowards." He taunted. "We could easily bring you down in a matter of seconds. Oh, speaking of the flock, I had a little run-in with your ex about a few weeks ago. And let me tell you, she is not looking too good. Although I have to give her credit, she did break all of them out of the School including the little blond one; Angel is it? Only took about two days. I believe it's a record and they would have stayed there if it weren't for our idiot father who practically let her escape. He always did like her better for some reason." Ari knew he had gotten to me and waited while I slipped out of attack stance and processed what he just said. What did he mean she's not looking good? What was wrong with Max? And Angel was alive? They were at the school? Where were they now? My heart was a rollercoaster at the moment.

My opponent smirked. "I've got you all excited now, don't I? Too bad you won't be around for the reunion." And with that he and all his goons attacked us. We did our best to fight them off and I kicked and punched left and right, on the ground and in the air, but to no avail. There were too many of them and not enough of us. Ratchet was looking pretty beat up and weak and Holden could only hold off so many at once. I was focused on Ari, but I just couldn't seem to find him anywhere. Just when I honestly thought we were going to lose, the four Erasers that had me pinned down were suddenly swept off me and went flying sideways, knocked off by something that fell from the sky.

Stunned, I scrambled up just in time to hear, "Freaking bozos. Learn to pick on people your own size." I recognized the voice better than my own. I looked over to see the back side of a tall girl with long light brown hair tied up in a ponytail. She turned on the heel of her beat up sneakers and began to dust herself off while the Erasers darted off into the woods. As soon as she was completely turned, we made eye contact and I was suddenly lost in those beautiful brown eyes. It was Max.

Max

We had been staying in the motel for a while as Angel healed and she was pretty much back to her normal size and strength. I, on the other hand, was growing out of my size. At almost four months pregnant, nobody but me could really tell the transformation I was going through. Well, no body except Angel. But I wasn't really showing yet, except in my boobs. I was always on the flat side, but now they were popping out of my bras. Yeah, even Dylan the perfect boy who would never do anything un-gentlemanly, would stare at times. Hey, I would stare too. This was only the second time in my life that I was glad Iggy was blind, I swear, because if that sexist pig could see them, he'd definitely say something. And openly stare 24/7. It was a good thing Gazzy was too young for that. Other than that, my morning sickness was somewhat beginning to go away and I was becoming a super expert at hiding it. Even Dylan didn't suspect a thing.

We were going for a joy ride when I looked down at a clearing in the woods we were flying over on our way to the beach. I nearly froze when I saw what was happening. Undoubtedly, there were Erasers. And it looked like they were attacking people! "Dylan!" I called, "Look down!" And my entire flock looked down and gasped in shock.

"We've got to help them!" Nudge called. It looked like there were only three of them against a pack of Erasers.

"Angel," I addressed her, "Can you pick up anything down there? What's going on?"

She looked down and frowned, "I can't really tell. There's too much going on at once. Too many thoughts all screaming at me. I'm sorry Max. But mostly above all is simply 'Kill." Yeah that sounded about right.

"Alright, we have to go in there okay?" I asked and they nodded, assuming positions. "Ready. Attack!" And with that we all dived down simultaneously in perfect 'V' form. Closest to me, it looked as if maybe four Erasers were tackled on one of the guys. I needed to knock them off so I used my super speed to gain enough momentum to knock them all off at once using my body weight. And it worked. I collided with the first one and they all went flying with me, crashing into the woods. Stunned and injured, they scrambled away as fast as they could. Boy that felt good to see Erasers running from me once again.

"Freaking bozos. Learn to pick on people your own size." I muttered as they ran and I dusted myself off as I turned to face my damsel in distress. I wondered why they were picking on random people anyway. When I turned, though, I realized they weren't. The damsel in distress was more of a distressing damsel to me. Because I found myself looking straight into the eyes of Fang.

He stood there just as dumbfounded as me. Sure, he looked a little beat up and bloody, but he looked the same nonetheless. On the other hand, he could tell I looked different as his eyes flickered confused up and down me. We didn't really have time for a greeting, though because an Eraser was creeping up on him. "Watch out behind you!" I called as he whipped around just in time to doge an attack and was able to send it flying from a kick in the jaw.

And we went back to old times. Kicking the living snot out of Erasers. I noticed that the other two with him were Ratchet and Holden from his gang and I didn't really have time to wonder what had happened to the others and I saw my flock, even Angel fighting hard alongside them. In order to defeat them, we were going to have to all work together. Even Fang and I. So in unison, we took to the skies and a few Erasers followed, but we were ready. As if we hadn't stopped doing this for a day, we went back to fighting back-to-back. I kicked and punched and dodged and I could feel him behind me doing the same. We had been at it for a while when I heard a ferocious howl behind me and did a 360 to find Ari pelting full force at Fang. We both surged up to avoid it, but he managed to snag Fang's shoe and the two of them plummeted to the ground. My heart stopped. I had just gotten Fang back; there was no way I was going to lose him again. And this time it would be permanent.

I zoomed in at super speed again and caught up, kicking Ari in the wing and snapping it just before they hit the ground. He yelped in pain and I grabbed Fang's arm and pulled him upward as hard as I could. As soon as he was un- paralyzed from shock, he began to flap and I was able to let go. "Thanks." He breathed.

"Anytime." I huffed back. He gave me an odd look, but I zoomed back down to avoid dealing with him at the moment and to help my flock below. I took out an Eraser that Angel was battling and got ready for the next one when I heard Dylan call my name. Angel gave me a reassuring nod and I flew over to Dylan.

"What's up?" I asked and he pointed to Ari who had crashed into a tree and now suffered a bleeding head and broken wing.

"Give it up Ari" I warned, "Or I will kill you." I stared down my mutant half-brother who was actually not much older than Angel. I was in no mood to play around. You threaten me; I kick your ass and make you never forget. You threaten my flock; you die. He eyed me and I stared him down, trying to fight of the feelings of sadness that I felt for him, looking into his sad young eyes. I was not going to let my emotions take over. Not now.

"Fine. Do it. I don't care. Get me out of my misery. Nobody, not even my own father cares about me. I'm pathetic, trying to please him when he only ever cared about you." Ari snarled weakly.

"Just get out of here." I ordered and picked him up off the ground, shoving him towards the woods. "Give Dad a message for me. Tell him that I get to make my own decisions in life and that I'm never coming back." Feeling pumped on adrenaline, I grabbed Ari by the scruff of his neck and growled into his face, "now call your flea bags off." With that, I let him go.

"Troops! Retreat!" He called out hoarsely as the fighting stopped and they turned and darted back into the woods behind Ari. I turned around to see the faces of Fang and Dylan staring dumbfounded at me. I was hoping that had brought be back to bad-ass leader status.

Suddenly, though I heard Nudge squeal, "FANG!" And all heads turned this way as she ran up to him and engulfed him in a hug, not caring that his blood was dripping all over her clothes.

"Dude you're back!" Iggy called out as Gazzy dragged him over to greet him next. And finally, Angel, thankfully unharmed, flew over and landed in his arms. He held her close as she buried her face into his chest. Even Total ran over to greet him. The reunion of the flock was complete. I watched my family together again and my heart swelled up with happiness. It had been so long since we were whole again and for once in a very, very long time, I felt like everything was perfect. Even though it was far from it.

Once they all let go, Fang turned to look at me. He was still trying to figure what was different about me, I could tell. One thing I did notice was that he could tell my breasts were larger. Yeah, I hope he got a good look because it was him that did this to me. Little did he know that the extra weight I had put on up there was because of his unborn child I was carrying. Pig. Fang Jr., as I had creatively named it, was also peeking out a tiny bit in my lower abdomen but it was only noticeable because I was out of clothes that didn't smell so was forced to wear a simple white tank top that three months ago hugged my skinny stomach making me look like a freaking model.

He gave me a smile that only belonged to Fang and opened his arms to which I came running at full force. I missed him so much and thought I'd never be able to see him again and feel his embrace. I buried my face into his shoulder and wanted to crawl into it forever. "I can't believe you're alive." I half sobbed, half whispered.

"Of course I am. I'm not going anywhere." He pulled me in tight and I could feel him wince as he tried to use his bloodied shoulder to hold me. Unfortunately, though, I could feel Dylan's eyes watching us and I tried not to squirm under his stare.

Once I was finally able to peel myself away from Fang, I had to turn around to see Dylan, his eyes locked on us. "I'm going to go make sure that they're gone." He announced and then turned around and headed off into the woods without looking back. I didn't care, though. Fang was back and my flock was happy. That was all I needed.

"Ugh," Ratchet finally spoke up from where he stood next to Holden. "You guys kind of freak me out, you know one minute loving each other the next hating each other's guts. And going around dating clones and other freaks who sing but then being jealous of the other one. So…we're just going to uh…follow him." Holden nodded in agreement as they took off into the woods in the direction Dylan had just come from. Things were silent for a minute after that awkward interruption.

Then, I clapped my hands together, "Alright you guys. This calls for a celebration! Let's get back to the motel and have a proper reunion! Nudge, order pizza! Iggy, bake the desserts! Gazzy and Angel, go clean up the room! Total…well do something useful." I said, not knowing what I could order him to do and that received laughs all around as Total huffed.

"I can most certainly be useful."

"Come with us, Total!" Angel said, picking him up and cuddling him as he licked her face.

"Alright, break!" I shouted as they all took off in separate directions. Fang and I watched our little gang of merry mutants go; and get this, actually chuckled. And for that split second in time, I thought things were going to start looking up.


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