I DO ONOT OWN MAX RIDE OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS AND TRAITS. THEY ARE THE SOLE PROPERTY OF MR. JIMMY PAT. THANKS JIMMY FOR SHARING!

Four hours later the flock met up with Dr M. and Ella at a small cafe just inside of Denver.

"Where they got her?" Fang asked point blank as the rest of the flock scarfed down hamburgers and shakes.

"Two blocks from here. In a lab. It's heavily guarded by military. From what I can piece together it is some sort of Amry experimental hospital. One not readily known by the common public. " Dr. Martinez answered wuickly.

"Place got a name?" FAng asked, finishing off his third double cheeseburger.

"It's called Labtronics. It is an eight story building plus a basement. It has very few windows and is is surrounded by an electric fence and soldiers. With guns. Only cars I have seen go in and out were plain black...all stopped at the gate to show I.D. and be let in. There are two gates. A main entrance and a delivery entrance round the back." Dr. M said as she sipped her coffee.

"We don't need no gate. Just an adress."ggy semarked with a grin.

"And Jeb" Angel asked suddenly.

"He hasn't been seen since he carried Max through the door into the lab." Ella answered this time.

"Doesn't matter. Max is there...then that's where we're going." Fang said in a distant cold he stood, downed his shake and said "Time to fly".

"Bout time" Ig retorted as he shoved the last of his fries into his mouth. The other kids stood finisheing off whatever food was in front of them as well.

"Wait . Don't you need a plan or something? It is very dangerous to just go over there. You'll all be killed" Ella exclaimed in a panicked voice.

"Get Max. That's the plan." Fang said.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Gazzy added as he wiped his greasy mouth on his shirt sleeve. And with that FAng led the flock out of the restaurant and to the back parking lot. Dr M tossed a few twenties onto the table as she and Ella followed the flock out.

"Bring her back. Fang. Bring her back home." Dr M said in a suddenly sad low voice. Fang stopped for a second, nodded once and then stretched out his wings and was air borne.

"Looks like this is it" Angel said, pointing to a building that looked more like an abandoned warehouse. Fang just nodded and led the flock into a row of trees on the east side of the building.

"Okay I think they are about to change shifts for guard duty. Look, the guards keep looking at their watches. And two of them just went inside. Gaz, you and Nudge enter through the back door. YOu are gonna have to take out the two guards there to get in. Watch their guns. Swoop down and surprise them. Ig, you and Angel take the side. There are two windows open to the left...third floor. That's your bombs as you go, but set their delay for about say 30 minutes. That should give us time to find Max and fight our way out." Fang said in a 'follow orders or else' voice. The flock all nodded and took off. They already knew they had to be ready to fight. And all of them were willing to for Max. After all, how many times had she risked death to save all of them?

"I'm coming Max." Fang mumbled to himself as he launched off of the oak branch and headed straight for the roof entrance.

Gaz dropped down in front of the taller guard with ahuge grin on his face and hovered mid-air."Ever seen a kid fly?" he asked the guard suddenly, causing the guard to jump in surprise. The guard recovered from his shollk quickly and went to raise his gun.

"Oh no you don't. " Nudge yelled as she dropped down on the guard, kicking him in the face twice before he had time to react. Gazzy kicked the barrel of the gun causing it to shift and go off...hitting the second guard in the side just as he was running back foward them from the back door. a couple more kicks and punches and both guards were out cold. Nudge and Gazzy did a high five and entered the building. They were on the second floor when they found a room with two computers and several filing cabinets.

"GAz...look! " Nudge said as she walked over to the computer. She touched the screen and it began to scroll with names, codes, numbers. GAz turned to look at the second computer on the other desk. "Nudge" he whispered as he pointed to the scren. Nudge's eyes widened as she read the monitor...'Ride-lab 7B. 1800 units sodium glutenate.3'000grams Hcg 16ml Bo6.'

"We gotta find Max. FAst." Gaz said urgently.

"Fangf will find her. Come on...lets see if there is a disk somewhere we can copy this onto...then try to take out as many scum lab coats as we can." Nudge said and they began to look through desk drawers. The third drawer opene dcontained a new pack of diskettes. "Bingo" Nudge said.

"Hurry up Nudge." Gaz said looking out the office door to see two lab techs coming. Gazzy pointed to the underside of the desk and Nudge quickly crawled under. Ad the two entered the room Gaz stepped out form behind the door.

"Where's Max?" he demanded. The lab techs turned in shock to face Gazzy who was hovering in front of them now.

"They really can fly" the one with dark red hair mumbled.

"And fight" GAzzy added and hit the red headed one square on the jaw. Nudge lunged out form under the desk then grabbing the second one around the legs, tripping him. Two good kicks and a punch later the smaller tech lay out cold in the floor. Nudge stood and turned to see Gazzy get hit in the head with a book. She jumped on the red heads back wrapping her long slender arms around his neck and forehead into a sleephold. Gazzy kicke dhim in the stomach and he slumped down.

"Where's Max?" Gaz asked the now groggy tech.

"It's too late. The I.V.'s have been started. Jeb will never let you get her." he mumbled.

"Jeb doesn't hav eto 'let ' us anything. We take care of our own. And Max is our leader...not one of your lab rats." Nudge said angrily as she tightened her hold on the tech. Seconds later he slumped over dead asleep.

"Nudge, he hadn't told us where Max is yet." Gaz said.

"We know she's here. And we know she needs help..now. LEt's go" Nudge said as she pulled the disk out of the drive and shoved it into her pocket.

Iggy and Angel managed to slip in under the radar through an open window and were setting bombs in various locations. With Angel's mind reading they were able to mentally hear when someone would be coming and managed to hide out of sight. They had set about 12 bombs when they ran into GAzzy and Nudge. Nudge filled them in on what had happened downstairs and they joined the two setting the bombs at strategic points in the building to cause it to cave in on itself at the right time.

FAng had watched the others gain entrance before flying up to the roof top and going the seventh floor he found an office with two scientists sitting at a table discussing their latest experiment...namely Max.

"Hello boys" Fang said as he walked into the room. The scientists looked up startled at the strange voice.

"It's one fo these birdkids. Quick!" the husky dark haired one said as they jumped to their feet, lunging for Fang. Fang flew upward laughing as the men bumped into each other arms reaching into thin air. He then kicke dfirst one then the otherthree times before the shorter one grabbed his left swooped to the side and twisted, landing his other foot square on the doctor's right temple. The doc let go of Fang's leg as he howled out and touched hid ducked a punch from the taller one then, grabbing the two by their hair and ramming their heads into one another. The short man fell to the floor unconcious. It took two more right hooks and a left jab before the taller lay one the floor beside his friend. Fang looked at the two and shook his head before removing the taller one's lab coat and slipping it on. He glanced up and down the hall before slipping out the door , careful to close it behind him.

Down the staircase and across the second hall three doors down FAng stopped when he heard a familiar voice.

"I am not sure this will work director. The subject's mental state may actually cause loss of any implanted specimen. " a lab tech was saying. FAng peeked in the room. Jeb shook his head as he rubbed his chin.

"We are gong to try. If we lose the first set of implants ...well...then the subject will be retired. " he replied to the tech as he walked over to a bed surrounded by I.V. poles and monitors. "come on Max. Don't let me down again. You have dissapointed me enough." Jeb said. Anger flared in steppe into the room and cleared his throat. Two lab techs turned, looking scared and shooked at him. Jeb slowly turned to face him with a sly grin.

"Well, Fang. So they found you." Jeb stated calmly.

"Get away from her Jeb" FAng ordered, hate filling his voice. The lab tech stepped toward FAng then, but Fang frabbed him with one hand around the neck, lifting him off the floor and tossing him aside. Teh second lab tech pressed a security button undr the lab table.