Max's POV
I smelt...burnt toast? I ran over to the toaster and quickly popped what used to be bread out of it. It was charcoal black.
"Nooooo. No. No. No. No" I wailed, banging my head on the bench. I couldn't even cook toast.
The toaster was hissing at me, even it thought I was a bad cook. It wasn't until a few seconds later that I realized it wasn't hissing at me, it was on fire.
"No! Stop it. Bad toaster" I yelled and splashed water on it. Apparently Mr. Toaster didn't like that, because he blew up.
It wasn't a big explosion, but it was enough to scare me into diving out of the way and land hurtfully on my hand.
"Owie" I whimpered. Stupid toaster.
I heard running feet and before I knew it Iggy was at the kitchen door.
"Max? Whaaa?" He looked speechless. He walked towards me like a brainless zombie. "It's ok Ig. I'm fine" I said getting up.
He walked straight past me and stopped at the black patch where the toaster used to be.
"You...You killed him!" He yelled, looking like he was going to break down in tears. "I didn't do it" I started lying. "I saw you. You killed him. Devil woman" he hissed. I knew I'd regret getting him his eyesight back. "And that's my cue to leave" I said, leaving Iggy there nursing a piece of blackened metal.
"Max, are you alright?" Dylan asked, walking up to me. "I umm...fine" I stuttered because he was standing there dripping wet with a towel wrapped around his waist.
"I heard the explosion from the shower" he said giving me a half smile and my stomach flipped. "So I can see" I laughed running my hand through his soft, wet hair and catching all the bubbles from the shampoo and he chuckled.
A shadow caught my eye and I sighed. Fang had just come out of his room. He looked at me with pained eyes, blinked and went back to his room.
"I think I'll go finish my shower" Dylan said sympathetically and turned and left. I sighed and went to my room. I flung myself on my bed, face down.
It had already been 2 months since we had rescued Angel from the doomsday group and Fang had returned to us while his group left to go find more information. But even now Fang and I were still awkward.
"Max?" a small whisper came from my door. "Yeah sweetie?" I asked, sitting up as Angel crawled in beside me.
Since we had rescued her she had been...different. She was like her old self but more quiet and anxious.
"Jeb's coming" she told me and I sighed.
Mum and Jeb had returned safe and sound. Ella on the other hand had been rescued but her and mum decided to leave us be for a while, they weren't like us, they didn't want to be mixed up in all this.
I got up and Angel took my hand and we walked down the hall. I knocked on Fang, Nudge and Gazzy's doors. "Get out here!" I yelled and made my way down to the lounge room.
Soon enough everyone was gathered in the lounge, Dylan was dressed and Iggy had managed to pull himself together, but I knew he was planning something evil.
A few seconds later there was a knock and I answered the door to come face to face with Jeb.
"We've been expecting you" I said evilly. I've always wanted to say that. He just rolled his eyes at me and followed me into the lounge room.
"So what's up?" I asked, flopping onto the couch next to Gazzy. "Well, there's... a thing" he said slowly. "A thing?" I asked. This was not going to be good.
"Well turns out that there was another part of Itex that not many people knew about" he said and I saw him twitch nervously.
"So like a secret, secret organization?" Gazzy asked. "I guess you could say that" Jeb shrugged.
"So, by not many people, I take it you were one of the special ones who got to know?" I asked sceptically. Lately Jeb and I had become closer and were better now, still didn't mean I wasn't still mad at him.
"Well I...was involved with one particular subject" he mumbled and I only heard him because of my 'good hearing'.
"What kind of subject?" I asked, sitting up. "Well there was this one project. Around about the same times each of you were born/created, there were others the same as you" he said quickly.
"Even me?" Dylan asked. "It was always planned for there to be 7 of you" Jeb said looking down.
"Get to the point Jeb" I snapped.
"Ok. Well you guys are pure good. Out there to save the world and all. And Itex made another experiment to make 7 bird kids the opposites of you all. That means their evil" Jeb explained. "Let me guess, they're out to kill us and destroy the world, blah, blah, blah?" I asked. Do these people never get tired of trying to kill us and everyone else. "Well, no actually" Jeb gave a forced smile.
"No?" Fang asked sitting up and Nudge went to say something but I gave her a look and she closed her mouth.
"Well. They're out to help you save the world" Jeb said. There was silence.
"Huh?" I asked, smooth I know.
"Ok, how do I explain this? Say you lot are a force of good. It's out balancing the world. Now your opposites, a force of evil, even it out. So you have to all work together to save the world" Jeb explained.
"How are we supposed to work with them? They're evil! E.V.I.L! They'll try to kill us! We can't trust them or anything!" I yelled, standing up.
"They're probably all mean and nasty and we'll hate them" Gazzy sneered.
"Why are you telling us this now? Why not before?" Fang asked. I was kind of shocked that he thought of such a great question while we were all flipping out.
"Well, some of them are very dangerous. More powers then imaginable, especially one of them. So we tried to keep them contained, hoping we wouldn't need them. Some of them escaped but it was never a big thing. But now, they've managed to group together as a flock. They will be upon you soon" Jeb said and the way he said it sent shivers down my spine.
Oh great.