Okay, this chapter would have been up a lot sooner, but a catastrophe occurred… All of my fan fics were stored on my USB stick alone, stupid now I think of it, but whatever. All the chapters I'd written as well as the ones I hadn't were stored on there. Then the day I was going to upload a chapter for another fic, I put in the stick and every single document with my fan fics were gone and those alone. I don't know how if it was a freak accident or why if someone did it on purpose. If I find out they did, I will personally slaughter them. So I apologise now for the delay there'll be. I'll work my hardest to re-write the chapters; hopefully they'll be as good as the originals…

You'll have to forgive there not being a song in here okay? It's the only one that doesn't have once 'cause it's quite busy and I couldn't find one to match . I apologise for saying that this chapter would be funny in the previous one because I thought I would get around to writing about phase 3 in it and I didn't . But the next chapter will be about phase 3 and it will be hilarious lol. Anyways, hope you like it and you know you're supposed to review to let me know what you think lol ;)


Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Maximum Ride, I do however, own the plot idea.
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Fangs POV:

I let out a low grunt of pain as after spending the whole night awake on watch, I'd moved to find I had the biggest crick in my neck I'd ever felt. I lifted my hand to massage the side of my neck and proceeded to stretch out. Hours of sitting still against a hard tree trunk do not do wonders for the body. It hurts, period. But the time it gave me to think meant I had every part of my plan thought out. Nothing could go wrong. This morning I was going to continue to ignore her until she finally cracks and phase 2 would come into action. Then when she downright refused phase 2, as I knew she would well do, phase 3 would come into play. And I was going to have my revenge and boy would it be sweet. This day would become infamous a day neither Max nor me would forget. This day was…wait for it…Revenge Day. Catchy, huh? Well maybe it needs the creepy ominous voice saying it for effect, but whatever.

The only little problem I might face is having to ignore Max in front of the flock, they would become suspicious and want to know why, and I didn't need everyone knowing about my humiliation. Right, I had to keep that on a low-down.

And no, I haven't forgotten about the little mind reader we have in our midst. Today, my mind was going on lockdown. The last thing I needed was Angel listening to my thoughts and telling Max, that would wreck all of my phases. So from now on, no thoughts would run through my mind, and I know what you're thinking, you're thinking that's impossible, right? Wrong, fair enough you mere humans find it extremely difficult; just kidding, it has nothing with my bird DNA, more to do with the experiences I've been through that most people on the planet couldn't even dream of. Let me explain: for most people when you try to clear your minds you usually end up with the same thought running through your head, the 'I'm not thinking anything' or the 'My mind is blank…woooo!' thought. Or a noise or something visual distracts you. Well for me, and I'm not sure about the rest of the flock but I can easily shut down my mind. I've had years of experience; I had to do it in The School to remain sane. Slowly I built up the strength to block everything out, to think of nothing, that way I didn't have to focus on the pain I was feeling or think about various plans of escaping because at the time escaping was impossible. Until we met Jeb. But you guys know the story from there. So my mind was becoming a blank.

I got up and walked to Iggy, who was making breakfast for the rest of the flock who were scarfing down their food like there was no tomorrow, yeah I haven't seen this scene, like, every day of my life. I took my plate of sausages, I know, nothing like great cuisine, right? I had nothing to complain about though, Iggy's a genius, he can make a tasty meal out of anything. I, too, scoffed my food as fast as possible, while being forced to listen to one of Nudge's riveting dreams.

"And there were these pink ponies, like off of My Little Pony, man I love those. Can I have one Max?" She asked, becoming side-tracked. I looked up to see Max's reaction, having to fight the evil smile that was itching to spread across my face. She, however, merely shook her head tightly, her eyes not leaving her plate. Well, Max certainly seems a little cranky this morning. Whoops. Nudge's face fell and then brightened when she realised she still had more to tell Angel.

"Yeah, so anyway, I had a pink pony and you had this sweet lilac one and there were yellow and pastel blue ones too. They were running around this really cool field and we were flying alongside them. Then this really amazing thing happened we-"

"Yeah. Pink ponies. You having a great time. We get it Nudge. Now, seriously, stop boring us, before I kill myself." Iggy's face and tone were harsh. Ouch. I wasn't the one he directed that at and I winced a little. I saw Nudge's eyes begin to water and Angel, Gazzy and me all looked to Max to see her reaction. She seemed completely oblivious to the whole scene, so Iggy got away with being unnecessarily harsh towards Nudge's affliction and Nudge was left with no one to comfort her apart from Angel who didn't know how to handle the situation. Was a bad mood catching around the flock this morning?

As soon as I had swallowed my last mouthful of sausages I felt Max's iron vice grip around my upper arm, pulling me away from the silence that had fallen on the flock. I resisted, keeping up the act that I was still annoyed with her, then gave up, because I actually wanted to be alone with her to put phase 2 into play, and she's stronger than I give her credit for. But I didn't just admit to that, okay? She shoved me roughly against a tree and set her jaw.

"Right, you're going to talk to me today whether you like it or not." She said matter of factly. I almost laughed, and if I didn't want to wreck my plan I would have done, how was she going to make me talk if I didn't want to? I fixed my eyes to the tree opposite, not reacting and watched Max let out a sigh of frustration.

"Look Fang, please? Last night was just some harmless fun, it didn't mean anything, let's just forget about it." I held back a snort, harmless fun! Is that what kids are calling complete humiliation nowadays? Pshht.

Seeing I wasn't going to respond she rubbed her temples and tried one last time,

"Fang, please talk to me! I'll do anything, please?" She pleaded. Get in. Those were the words I had so wanted to hear come from her mouth. Onto phase 2.

I carried on the pretence that I wasn't going to talk to her, just for fun, you know seeing Max beg was priceless.

"Fang?" Her voice almost cracked. Oh dear… No. On with the plan.

I shifted my posture so I was in control and she looked shocked, I put on my harshest voice, just for effect. I think I have a little evil in me, you know?

"You really want to know what you can do to make up for the complete and utter embarrassment I faced last night?" Surprised and, I think, slightly scared by my anger she proceeded to nod timidly. God it's good I'm such a great actor or this plan would have gone down the pot if I'd cracked up in laughter.

"Fine." I said tightly, "You said you'd do anything, let's see how this makes you feel. I want you to sing Christina Aguilera's 'Ain't No Other Man' while giving me a lap dance." I'd have paid money to see her reaction, seriously.

Her eyes widened and she looked completely dismayed I would suggest such a thing. Hadn't her sexist lectures worn off at all on me? Of course they had. I just needed her to refuse this and I could move onto phase 3. I watched her brow furrow and her eyes water slightly.

"There has to be something else…." She said hopefully, well yes there is darling but let's play with you for a little bit.

"No. There's nothing else." I returned. You know, I feel slightly cruel, haha.

A long silence passed until Max opened her mouth to speak. Thank god, now refuse and I can have some real fun.

"Okay, I'll do it." She reached for the ipod. I took a double-take, she'll what?! She didn't just agree to do what I think she did, did she? Who is this girl? She was willing to go against everything she believed in just to make me talk to her? Wow. I almost felt this was enough, but I still had that little evil streak running through me wanting to see phase 3 in action so I did a little backing up.

"What!" I exclaimed astonished, letting go of the tough guy act, "Where's my sexist lecture? You know I didn't expect you to agree to do it!"

Her face turned red as she realised I didn't mean any of it. How's the embarrassment feeling? Ha ha. Yeah, the evil's in there.

I could see Max was severely telling herself off in her head and it was hilarious, her fists clenched and when she finally regained her calmness she said something that did crack me up,

"So are we okay now?" Then she frowned at my laughter.

"You've got to be kidding, right? No. You need to feel what I felt. Then we're even." I managed to get out over the chuckles.

"And what exactly do I have to do then?" She sighed.

"Well, you're going to go tell Iggy he's in charge for the day. Then We're going to go to the nearest local high school and you're going to be a cheerleader for the day." I grinned at her raised eyebrows.

"Ha. Ha." She said dryly, "Enough joking, what do I have to do?"

I frowned, "I'm being serious now, Max, this is what I want you to do."

Her face cracked into a smile and then darkened when she realised I was being serious. Sweet, sweet revenge.

Eventually she spoke, "Don't I have a choice?" She asked uncertainly, "I mean right now, I'd prefer to do the lap dance." Haha. Even in the face of humiliation she can still make me laugh.

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