Ok guys. I'm still not completely back to my normal writing standards, but I just cant bear the thought of all my reviewers out there suffering and waiting for a new chapter, so I'm gonna give it my all, and write a new chapter right now. If it's bad, let me know. And I'm gonna say sorry in advance.

I will be putting in the ideas I got from reviewrs, so look for them! and this chapter is gonna blow your minds....or at least the beginning will....

Chapter 7: Explain

"Jeb! You son of –"

"MAXIMUM!" Mom said. "I don't wanna that type of language in my house."

"Sorry." I turned to look back at Jeb. "You'd better explain why you're here before I rip your throat out." Now you all know that I still don't trust or like Jeb, so seeing him in my mom's house after my Flock has be turned into kids….well that's just not my idea of a good time.

"Jeb!" the Flock yelled. And not in an angry way either. They all ran over to him, and hugged him. That's when I remembered that when we were at the school, Jeb took care of us, and that they probably wouldn't remember that he was the one who betrayed us.

"Hello everyone. It's good to see you all again." Jeb said, hugging them all.

"Ok guys. Let's get to our room so you can have some playtime before dinner." I said as I herded them into a room all the way in the back of the house and up the stairs. I put Angel on the bed and handed her Celeste, her teddy bear. "Ok guys. Stay here til I get back. Don't break anything in…" I looked around the room, and realized it was Ella's room. "Ella's room cause she will yell at you and punish you if you do. Ok?" they all nodded.

I ran back downstairs to find that Jeb was having a nice little cup of tea. I plopped myself down on the couch across from him, and got right down to business. "Ok Jeb. I know you're here to tell me something about the school and what happened to the Flock, so spill it so I can get back to helping them."

He started chuckling to himself before saying, "Ah Max. Still sharp as ever. Yes I am here to talk about what has happened to the Flock. They only have -"

"A year before they turn back to their normal selves. Look, I already know all that. The voice told me. It said that in one year, they'll return back to normal, and everything will be alright.

I never said everything would be alright Max. I said that they had a year. The voice said. Now I was confused.

"You should be Max." Jeb said. "I was the one that told you that the Flock had a year." Oh. That's right. I forgot Jeb could do the voice.

"Ok. So you're telling me something you already told me. Big deal. If you nothing new to tell me, then you might as well leave cause I'm not gonna sit here and-"

"I was wrong Max." he said, bluntly.

"What?" I asked, definitely confused.

"I was wrong. The Flock on has a month." He said in a low voice.

"Really!? That's great!" I was actually happy to see Jeb. He actually brought me some good news.

"No Max. it's not." But off course, he has to ruin my good mood.

"What do you mean? The Flock's gonna be back to normal in a month. That's great."

"No Max. They will be back to normal, but they're also gonna die."

I could feel the blood leave my face. I must be pale as a ghost right now. "WHAT!?" I scream at the top of my lungs which caused Mom and Ella to run in from the kitchen. "What do you mean they're gonna die!?" I jumped to my feet, clinching my fist. The blood came rushing back to my face just as quickly as it left.

"Max calm down." Mom said grabbing my shoulders and holding me back.

"You'd better start explaining Jeb or I swear I'll beat your face in!" I was really pissed.

He let out a deep sigh. "Back when they originally created the gas, it was meant to temporally reverse the aging process and return a person back to their selective age. The original test subject was an Eraser that's expiration date was close, so the school tested it on him. It was a success and he returned to the age of 3. They kept tabs on him since they weren't sure how long the gases effects would last. After a month he returned to his age mentally, but not physically."

"What do you mean not physically?" I asked.

"As the month went on, he slowly grew back to normal mentally, but his body aged twice as fast as it did before. By the time he returned to normal, he was unable to live from aging so much. They decided that they wanted to try it on the Flock back before I freed you all from the school. Since they didn't have any other test subjects that were that close to human, they tried it on actual humans, and the results were the same. If we don't find an antidote by the end of the month, the Flock will die." He said, looking straight at me.

I took a deep breath "Ok. So what do we have to do first?" I asked.

"You don't need to do anything other than take care of the Flock. Your mother and I will work on the antidote."

"Ok. But Jeb," I said, looking him straight in the eye "you do anything to hurt the Flock even more, and I swear, you'll wish you never used me to experiment on."

"I understand." He said.

I walked up the stairs with Ella right behind me. "Max, everything's gonna fine. I promise. Mom's gonna find a cure and we can all live together as a family." She said, trying to make me feel better.

"Yea. I know it will." I said. We walked into Ella's room to find that everything seemed to still be intact. "Hey guys." I said.

"Max!" Fang said, running up to me and hugging my leg. "I thoughts yous was nots comin back for us."

I picked him up, and hugged him. "Now why wouldn't I come back for you guys? I love you."

"I loves yous too Max." he said before he gave me a sloppy kiss on the lips.

"Eww!" all the flock said. I was trying not to say it myself as Fang glared at all of them except Angel who was giggling.

"Thanks Fang." I said putting him down. As soon as he turned around, I tried to wipe the drool from my mouth. Now don't get me wrong. I like Fang, and I don't really mind it anymore when he kisses me. It's just…I don't like baby drool!

"Max, looky whats I teached Angel!" Nudge cheered, pulling at my pants leg. I looked up at Angel like Nudge said, and I was amazed. Angel was actually standing up. On her own!

"Oh my god!" I said picking her up. "Angel, that's great! I'm so proud of you!" I said, snuggling her up to me.

"Um, Max?" Ella asked, tapping my shoulder.

"Yea?" she them pointed down to Nudge, who had tears in her eyes. "Nudge, what's wrong?" I asked.

"You lies Angel bestess. And I teached her that, and you only saids you proud of her." Oh man. My heart sank a little. I handed Angel to Ella, and picked up Nudge.

"Nudge, I am proud of you. I'm proud of all you guys. You know that, right?"

"Yes." She said, sniffling and rubbing her eye.

"How about you take a nap, and I'll wake you up when dinner's ready?"

"Ok." She said. I laid her down on Ella's bed, and tucked her in. Ella and I took everyone else downstairs to the living room. I put on Spongebob, and they all shut up and started staring at the TV. Note to self: when annoyed, put on Spongebob.

I walked into the kitchen to see Mom and Ella making dinner. I sat down at the table. "Mom." I called to her.

"Yes sweetie?"

"You don't have to make as much food anymore. And is it possible if you and I can go to the mall tomorrow?"

"I thought you didn't like the mall?" she asked in a mocking tone.

"Haha, real funny Mom." I said with a little sarcasm. "I don't, but I need to get the Flock more than one set of clothes if we're gonna be here for the next month."

"Sure sweetie."

"Oh! Can I come?" Ella asked excitedly.

"No." Mom said like she already answered that question before this. "You know you're still grounded."

"But Mom…" she whined.

"The answer is no Ella, and I don't wanna here another word about it. besides, we need you to stay and watch the Flock."

"What'd you do to get grounded?" I asked Ella, holding back a laugh.

"She's failing Math, and she snuck out of the house last week to go to the movies with her friends. It was pretty funny when she came home and snuck in through the window and saw me sitting on her bed waiting for her."

I started laughing my butt off. "I can't believe Ella actually did something bad!"

"Shut up." She said, ticked off by my constant laughing. "Just go get the Flock. Dinner's ready."

"Ok, ok. Calm down. I was kidding." I walked into the living room. "Guys, dinner's ready."

"Yay!" they all cheered. I walked up the stairs and into Ella's room. Nudge was still sleeping. I walked over to her, and stopped for a moment. Something smelled stail. It was weird since I hadn't smelled it before. I ignored it and went to wake up Nudge.

"Hey there sunshine. Walk. Dinner's ready." I said, shaking her a little.

"Ugh. Nh uh," she said, shaking her head in the pillow. Well at least that never changed. She was always hardest to walk up.

I rolled my eyes. "Nudge, get up now or-" then I stopped. I looked at where Nudge was laying. She was lying in a puddle of pee. She wet the bed. And not just Any bed, but Ella's bed. "Oh crap!" I whispered.

I picked up Nudge, and took her into the bathroom. I turned the water on and started stripping her. Once the water was perfect, I placed her in the tub.

"Max, why I gots to take baf?" she asked.

"Cause you accidently peed in Ella's bed." I was, washing her.

"Oopsy." She said, a little sadly. "She mad?"

"Well she doesn't know yet." But of course, my luck wasn't that good.

"Max? What's taking so long?" Ella said, coming up the stairs.

"Ella, wait, don't-" I tried before….

"AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! MY BED!!!!" she screamed.

"Oh boy." I said.

Ok. So that's the new chapter. I used a lot of different ideas from many different reviews, so I hope you liked it. please review, and thank all you guys for your support of me and my friend. I'm workin up a new chapter for this story, so I'll try to put somethin up soon.

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