Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, and most of the story line belongs to James Patterson.

Max's POV:

"WHAT?" I screeched, shocked.

Fang frantically motioned for me to lower my voice.

"Sorry." I whispered, "What do you mean?"

"They took an x-ray of me, and then I caught a glimpse of it and I had a weird looking blob in my arm. I didn't think anything of it until I heard the scientist's talking." Fang murmured. I opened my mouth again, to ask him what they had said, but he cut me off.

(A/N: Sorry, but I'm going to write what Fang says as its own little scene so it's easier to understand who said what. It'll still be in Max's POV, but it'll be more like a short scene change like in a movie)

""They thought I was asleep, but I had just woken up. The blond one began….

"It the tracking device working properly?" she asked.

"Yes, as far tracking goes. But for some reason, it's malfunctioned in the boy only, because he lacks any special skills we've programmed for him." the one with the bushy beard replied.

"How do you know it hasn't malfunctioned in all of the mutants?" the blond one challenged.

"The littlest one has surpassed them all in abilities. She can talk to fish, breath under water, read minds, and control thoughts/emotions. The African one can attract metals. The leader has developed warp drive, and the small blond boy, the one they so aptly named Gasman has, well, has gas. The blind boy can see bits of color. But this one here, he can't do anything special."

"Makes sense. Have you replaced the chip?"

"Yes. We can't send anything after them for a few days because if he were to cut his arm, the bone has not grown enough to secure the chip, and he may break it again."

The blond one nodded again, and they started moving towards me so I closed my eyes and made my breathing shallow."" Fang finished his story.

(A/N: And now it's back in present day perspective :D )

"Wow." I gasped. "That's…that's terrible. Why would they be giving us powers? And setting Erasers after us to test them? Is that what they're doing?"

Fang shook his head. "I don't know why, but I get the feeling that they didn't mean to give us powers. I mean, they're powers now, but I think they have ways to use them against us."

I was confused. "How can they use warp drive and mind reading and magnetism against us?" I asked him.

He shrugged. "I've told you all I know. You're the leader, figure out a plan." He sat down and cracked his back.

I glared at him. For such a smart person, he could really be a jerk sometimes.

Fang's POV:

"I've told you all I know. You're the leader, figure out a plan." I sat down and cracked my back. I could feel Max glaring at me, but I didn't look up. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her expression switch from angry to thoughtful, to determined.

"Got it." She announced. "Break out of this hell hole. Meet up with the flock. Continue on our original plan."

It was my turn to be confused. "Wait, which plan, and why?"

She smirked at me annoyingly. "The let'-and-let-her-take-the-chip-out-of-my-arm-plan, now revised to the: let's-go-to-Dr. Martinez-and-let-her-take-the-chip-out-of-our-arms-plan."

It did make sense. I shrugged my agreement. "How do propose we escape?"

She grinned at me, and I got the feeling I wasn't going to like this crazy idea of hers.

"Simple. You tell them where the Flock is when they threaten to torture me again. They go, and they probably take us. They fight, we fight, we all just go up and away." She explained, making it sound like it was the easiest thing in the world.

"First, how do you know they'll threaten to torture you again? Second, why would they take us with them? We'd be a hindrance, they know that. And we don't even know where the Flock is?" I pointed out the many holes in her plan. Gosh, it was so good it was comparable to Swiss cheese.

"My point exactly." She said, and leaned in closer and told me the rest of her plan. And then I was grinning ear to ear.

For someone so small and pretty, Max was awfully vicious.

…..

The next morning, surprisingly enough, Jeb showed up at our door. It was the best case scenario that Max had planned out, and I was thrilled at our escape starting on such a good note.

"G-g-good morning Jeb." Max said weakly, flinching as if he was going to hit her.

As evil as Jeb had turned, he still had some sort of fatherly instinct for us. He quickly unlocked the cage and hugged her tight.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Max said, and when Jeb quickly pulled away, he could see tears start in her eyes.

"Sorry, honey. I'm really sorry. This is all Fang's fault. If he had just given me the answers, you wouldn't have had to go through that." Jeb cooed at her, hesitating whether to hug her again or not.

Yeah, right. Max would have killed me if I had said anything. And she could have just as easily told them what they needed to know.

Max just nodded and starting sobbing, and lucky for us, Jeb was eating this up.

Max belongs on Broadway. Honestly, if it hadn't been planned between us, I would have totally believed her too.

Jeb leaned in closer, as if to hug her again when I pushed her away gently, stepping in between the two of them

"Don't touch her." I growled. There was a slight pause in Max's sobbing. This hadn't been planned, and she had no clue where I was going with it.

Jeb's expression quickly changed from one of concern to anger.

"Okay, Fang. I won't touch her." He spat at me. "It'll be you with Ari today, instead." He glared at me coldly and I stared at him right back, refusing to back down.

"Fine." I said, my voice steel. The plan was screwed over, but I didn't care. We'd do it later. Right now, I didn't want Jeb within a 10 foot radius of Max.

"No!" Max cried out from behind me. Both I and Jeb turned towards her, surprised.

"No." She said brokenly, and it was so painful for me to watch I wasn't even sure if she was still acting. "Not him too." She whispered hoarsely. "I'll tell you everything you want, Jeb. Just- just don't-" she broke of into another round of sobs.

Jeb looked thrilled. "That's great sweetheart! Come on now, tell me everything."

I looked from Max to Jeb, totally and utterly confused now. None of this was according to plan. Maybe it was my fault, for straying from the script earlier. I just hoped she had a plan, and the brave, beautiful, strong, smart, silly, perfect Max hadn't finally cracked.

"Angel heard the Eraser's minds and warned us that they were coming. I told Fang and Nudge to grab Gazzy, Angel, and Iggy and get out of there. My plan was to check it out, see if I could fight, and if I couldn't, I would warp drive it out of there." Max said.

Jeb nodded. I was totally scared now. This was the truth. She was telling him the truth! Not the story we had agreed on last night! We were screwed. I inwardly groaned, but then chastised myself. Max would never do that. She would rather that she and I both die than ever put the Flock in danger. She had proved that, many times over, the latest being when she withheld their sickening punishments.

" But Fang said no, said he wouldn't leave me alone. So I told the rest of them to retreat into a clearing at 1o'clock. They won't be there anymore, though. They're smart enough to keep moving. Even I don't know where, and that's the honest to god truth."

She went on, not waiting to see if he believed her, "And it's horrible, because I'm supposed to be the leader and I didn't even have a safe spot in mind! I was so stupid, Jeb! I forgot everything you told me. I didn't take any precautions!"

"So what are you saying, Max? You don't know? That's it?" Jeb asked.

"Well, that's the thing, Jeb." Max whispered. "The flock would have left us clues as to where they went. Clues only Fang and I would understand."

Both Jeb and I understood at the same exact time.

"Nope. Absolutely not." Jeb said, standing up. "You can't come with us, Max. We'd need to tie you up, and post security, and you could still be a hindrance. This was a plot to escape, right? Well, it's not going to work. You need to stay until we can experiment more."

Well, duh. Of course this was a plot. Kind of slow, aren't you Jeb? I thought. But I didn't say anything. That would have been pretty stupid of me.

"To escape? You really think we'd be that stupid, Jeb?" Max asked incredulously. "Huh. No. The plan wasn't that at all. Way off." She smirked and I frowned inwardly. If she laid it on so thick, he would know she was lying.

"Then what was it, Maximum?" Jeb asked rudely.

"Like I'd tell you." Max replied smarmily, all traces of whimpering broken girl gone.

"If you don't tell me right now, Max, I'll-"

"Hit me? Torture me? Hit him, torture him? Go ahead. Like I told Ari yesterday, I would rather DIE than turn in my flock. And just to let you know, the plan was that we'd get the entire flock here, and then escape. But I take my offer back. Even if you let me and Fang come, we're not going to. And we aren't going to help you find them." She was furious, beyond furious now, and I could tell by the tone of her voice.

"Fine." Jeb replied, his voice steely. "Round two." He clapped twice and two Erasers I hadn't seen came running down the halls and grabbed onto Max.

"No." I said. Everyone turned to me, surprised. I guess they'd forgotten I was here.

"Who said that?" grunted one of the Erasers. Wow, are they really that stupid? I was right here. But it wasn't just the Erasers looking around blindly, Max and Jeb were doing it too.

Whoa. I think I just developed a new power. Take that, you jerks.

"Where's Fang?" Jeb barked.

Max smiled so evilly it was sort of disturbing. "Don't mess with us, Jeb. It'll bite you in the butt." And then she disappeared.

I guess I should explain how that happened. Back when I first figured out I had my power, when the Erasers were looking around, I waved my hand in front of his face to see if I was invisible. He didn't flinch, so I knew I was. I was being quiet, but Max heard me, heard my footsteps on the ground. And when my hand accidently brushed the Eraser, he flickered for a moment. And I figured out I could make anything I was holding on to invisible too.

In the split second it too me and Max to understand all that, Jeb had realized I 'wasn't there'

"Where's Fang?" Jeb barked.

Max smiled so evilly it was sort of disturbing. "Don't mess with us, Jeb. It'll bite you in the butt." She snapped her fingers in the air, and left her hand there. It was milliseconds after that I grabbed it, turning her invisible too. And to everyone else, their prize prisoners had just vanished!

We were awesome.

Before anyone could raise the alarm, I and Max sprinted down the hallways until we came to rooms wide enough to hold our wingspans. We snapped out our wings, so loosely bound from the night we untied them, and flew above the ruckus below us. Red lights started to flash, but we ignored them as we flew higher, and faster, and raced towards the door. As we were about 20 feet away, they closed themselves and locked automatically.

The building had gone into lock down. I wasn't sure what to do, but Max let go of my hand, and burst out the nearest window. I followed immediately, all concerns of invisibility gone. I could see people gasping and pointing at us from the building, but Max and I didn't turn back once as we flew out.

Why would we?

We were free.

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