A/N: So so so so so so sorry it took forever. I had a life to attend to. Okay, so I know there is a bit of confusion on what just happened. Here is what is going down: Max was kidnapped by Maya, who is like a daughter to Dr. GH but not by blood. Fang somehow has something to do with this and Iggy got involved in a way we don't yet know. But neither boys know they're involved. Maya knows everything, along with GH, but no one else. Jeb's role will be introduced in this chapter for any confusion on that. Thank you to all of the reviews. I like checking my email every day and seeing who reviewed, followed, and favorited my story. Sorry it took so long. BUT ENOUGH OF THIS!

CHAPTER 10!

Max POV:

I didn't remember how I'd gotten into the room but I was ready to kick whoever had in the head. Because that's about how my head felt at the moment. That was the the first thing that registered. The second was that I was shackled to a freaking chair! Looking around, the room was dark and there was a spotlight on me. I could make out a few things: the vacant chair not far from where I was, the boxes that were piled in the corner, and the screen on the wall in front of me and behind the chair. The door was to my left. There was a table next to the chair with my cell phone and wallet on it.

Well this was turning out to be a great summer. I love getting kidnapped by my twin and taken to some sketchy building. Thanks mom. The door opened and someone came in, sitting in the chair in front of me.

"Max, it's a pleasure to finally meet you in person." the dark figure said in a rusty voice. He was obviously a guy and he looked to be a tall and broad shouldered man. "My name is Dr. GH and I have been looking for you for quite some time."

I could make out a pair of glasses sitting on his nose and a tie around his neck. "Look, Dr. Frankenstein, I don't know if you knew this, but kidnapping isn't really polite in some parts of America. What do you want?" I spat at him.

He sighed "Max, if only you knew the whole story. About your father, your friends, everything." This caught me off guard. What was this psycho talking about? He could tell from my look that I was confused. "That's right. You think your Daddy left you don't you?"

I rolled my eyes "Enough drama and secretive crap, just cut to the chase!"

"You're just like him. Always impatient and hotheaded."

This game of his was getting really tiring and we had only been talking for about a minute. "Just freaking spit it out!" I shouted at him.

He leaned back in his chair and laughed at me. "You poor girl. So clueless to what really happened all those years ago."

Before I could yell at him some more, the door opened again and in came Maya. She held a remote in one hand and her coke in the other. When she spotted me, she waved and grabbed a chair, pulling it next to the Dr. Crazy. "Hey, Max." she said with a smile, "You look happy to be here."

I blew a strand of hair out of my face and scowled "Bite me."

She laughed lightly "Always a cheery one."

Dr. GH leaned forward and smiled "You're daddy wants to talk to you."

"Why would I talk to him? The selfish jerk left us. Speaking of us, Maya, what are you doing?" I asked her.

She sipped her coke and smiled "Enjoying the revenge."

"You're not making any sense. Revenge for what?" I demanded.

"Oh, don't worry," she stood up. "Dearest Father will explain everything to you."

Dr. GH stood up with her and the two of them left, but not before Maya hit a button on the remote and the screen in front of me lit up with the image of a man. He was tied to a chair and beaten bloody. But I could still make out his face.

Jeb.

Fang's POV:

We all sat in the girls cabin, starring at Max's bed. Maya hadn't been at the beach and none of her friends had any idea on where she was. I think I had a pretty good idea of where Maya was: wherever Max happened to be. And because we didn't know where Max was, we didn't know where Maya was. What kind of sick person kidnaps their twin at summer camp? But as soon as she showed up again, I wasn't going to waste a second. If she had any idea where Max was-

"Fang." Gazzy said, interrupting my thoughts. "You look like you're about to strangle that Dr. Pepper can."

I looked down and saw that the can I had been holding was now mangled and leaking out the side. "Whoops." I throw the can into the trash bin across the room.

"I miss Max." Angel muttered from where she was laying on the floor.

Ella crawled over to where Angel was and patted her head "I think we all miss Max."

Then Iggy came over to the two girls and put her arm around Ella. Nudge was next, sitting down next to Angel's head. Then Gazzy came over and sat by Iggy quietly until I was the only one sitting alone.

"Come on, man. Join the group mourning." Iggy half joked.

I sighed and stood up, making my way over to our huddle and sat down by Gazzy and Iggy.

"Now what?" Ella asked "My sister has been kidnapped by her evil twin and we have no leads. Remind me why we're not calling the police?"

"Because I checked your families records and there is legally no Maya. So they wouldn't take us very seriously if we told them her evil twin kidnapped her. Also, it doesn't feel right to call them. Max wouldn't have." Nudge answered.

Ella sighed, "I guess."

We all sat in the corner of the room thinking to ourselves about Max. Man, I missed her. I couldn't help but recall the first time I had met her. She had run into me and apologized for it. The only person who had openly had a conversation with me other than Iggy, even though it was one sided. She had been wearing a Paramore t-shirt and old ripped jeans. Even the phone she had been holding looked like it had been made in a garage. Wait. Phone...

"Nudge, is Max's cell phone still here?" I asked her.

The girl hopped up and climbed onto Max's bed, digging through her stuff. After a few minutes, she came back down. "Nope. Which means either she or Maya has it."

I felt a smile coming on. "And?"

Nudge had caught on, along with the others. "And I can trace the phones signal."

I nodded "How long do you need?"

She opened her laptop and her fingers began to fly across the keyboard. "Crap. Uh, her phone company has quite the security system, not to mention that the phone isn't traceable. Give me thirty minutes."

Angel sat up from her spot on the floor where she had collapsed. "If the phone isn't traceable, how are you going to find it?" she asked.

An evil grin spread across Nudge's face "My way."

Max's POV:

"Hi, Max." Jeb slurred through his swollen lip.

I glared at him. "Hi? That's how you start this? Hi?"

He chuckled, winced and looked at me through his one good eye. "Max. You need to listen to me. There's more-"

"Oh? Well why should I listen to the man who up and left us? Give me one good reason." I spit at him.

"Because I didn't leave you!" he gasped. I could tell he was fighting to stay conscious. "I-I was at my office. They came in and pulled me out of my chair, knocked me out."

"Why did they take you? They had to have had a motive." I accused.

Jeb's shoulders seemed to slouch even more, if possible, "They did."

I stayed silent and waited for him to explain. He did. "Before you were born, GH and I worked together in a lab in Arizona. We were in the middle of creating a machine that altered the brains memories when he kicked me off the lab team."

"Why?" I asked him.

"At the time, I didn't know. After you were born, I realized that he had discovered that if you altered the machine, you could make a copy of something. He had stolen my formula for something similar and combined it with the brain altering. Somehow, he got it to work. I wanted revenge for the stolen work, so I planned to sneak in and get it back. But you started to cry, so I took you with me."

I could see where this was going but I didn't want to believe it. If Maya wasn't my twin, and if I went to the lab with Jeb then he may have accidentally cloned me... "So Maya is my clone? Not my twin? How come I don't remember this and mom didn't tell me?" I demand.

He tried to smile at me, but failed. "You crawled into the machine and it cloned you. I didn't know what to do. I fixed the machine back into what it was meant to be and altered your memory. It took me all night. We barley made it out of there without getting caught. Your mother was furious with me when I told her what I had done to explain how there were two of you."

"So, you took me to a dangerous lab when I could barley crawl, cloned me, erased my memory, and then disappeared? Aren't you father of the year." I laughed.

"It's not funny. Your mother never told you about the cloning because she wanted to protect you from all of the madness of our science. That's what she told me. When I disappeared, it wasn't on purpose."

"So you didn't try to come back? Didn't try to talk to Maya and tell her what happened?" I asked him, furious.

"I did. She wouldn't listen to me. GH poisoned her mind. He's had her for too long." he argued.

"Whatever. Just tell me the rest."

"Fine. When he took Maya, he thought it was you. He wanted revenge for-"

"Wait. He took Maya? I thought it was you."

"No, I was here." his voice had cleared up as he had talked and was less of a slur and more accurate. "Rotting away."

"So you've been here all these years?" I asked him, trying to believe him after what I had originally thought.

He nodded. "He took her here to kill her in front of me, but she told him that she was Maya. So I watched your clone help him find you, waiting for this moment when they plan to kill you in front of me."

"So, because you destroyed his machine that he stole from you, he's going to kill me?" I questioned.

Jeb's head hung low "Yes."

"Man, Ella's going to kill me. Oh, wait! I'm already dead."

He looked up at me with a confused look. "Ella who?"

I froze in my seat. "Ella. Your daughter?"

Now he was frozen. "That's not possible. Your mother and I never..."

We sat in silence for a few minutes. If Jeb wasn't Ella's dad, then who was? My mom had been lying to me this entire time? "You're sure?" I demanded. "There's no way you can think of?"

He confirmed by nodding.

"Great. My family is about as complicated at a freaking labyrinth." I sighed "Nice talking to you one last time. Do you know when the date is?"

"For what?"

I laughed "My murder sentence."

"What about your death is so amusing to you?" Jeb asked me.

I shrugged "Just that it means my death is over a stupid machine. You know, the usual."

My father looked to be ten years older than he actually was. He deserved it. "Tomorrow."

Crap.

Nudge's POV:

I was just about sick of Max's phone when I finally got a hit.

"GOT IT!" I shouted, louder than really necessary, but it was a happy moment.

Fang shot up from where he had been spending the past fifteen minutes (Max's bed) and somehow got to the laptop first. Even though Gazzy was like a foot away. He grabbed the computer from me and looked at the results, his face twisted in confusion. "Phoenix, Arizona. JW Storage? That doesn't make sense."

Iggy sat down next to him "No way. Your dad owns the place."

Fang turned to Iggy with a static look "No, duh."

Nobody else seemed to follow where this was going. Finally I spoke up. "Hem! Do you two yahoos want to explain what the heck is going on?"

Iggy explained "Well, Fang's dad owns JW Storage. The place is named after him. Jerry Walker. It just seems odd that Max would be there."

"Why?" Ella asked.

"Because me parents are out of town. On a cruise." Fang answered.

I clarified: "So you're saying that the guy who kidnapped Max, who could be Maya, is breaking into your dad's storage company and holding her there?"

Fang nodded "That's what it's looking like."

Gazzy sat up. "Well, I guess we need to get to Phoenix. Anybody know how to drive?"

silence.

I didn't really mean to make things worse when I told them who I knew that could drive. But when I said "Dylan knows how." all of the faces in the room turned to me, all sharing a look of question.

Iggy spoke up "Nudge, how do you know that Dylan can drive?" he asked me.

Sometimes I wonder what is going on in that brain of mine because I hadn't anticipated that question coming up. Dylan is my neighbor and I have seen him drive everywhere. I didn't realize how much of a jerk he was until camp. I told them this much.

Fang let out a short laugh. "Well, any other ideas?"

Angel raised her hand like she was in class. "pick me! Pick me!" she squeaked. For a fourteen year old, she could pass for seven.

I rolled my eyes, "Yes, Angel?"

She put her hand down and sighed, as if her hand had been up there to long, "Why don't we just steal a car and try to figure out how to drive it?"

That got more confused looks than my idea, and suddenly, I felt a lot better about it.

"Because that's illegal?" Gazzy tried to reason.

Angel blew out and exasperated breath. "So is kidnapping someone." she argued. "Which is more illegal."

I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing my head off. "I think Angel has a really good theory." I said between laughs.

Fang cracked a smile and suddenly everyone was laughing except Angel who asked "What's so funny?"

Ella answered for all of us. "You just look so innocent. It's funny to see that you're really quite a devil."

Angel smiled, catching on. "Oh. You think it's funny because Angel turned out to Devil."

"And then Iggy noticed that Angel had spoken in third person and decided he must to the same said Iggy" said Iggy. (A/N: that was weird to write...)

"Okay, so are we asking Dylan, or committing a crime?" Gazzy asked.

We all shared a look and said simultaneously "Crime."

Nobody liked Dylan that much.

A/N: Again, sorry it took my almost a month to post the chapter, but like I said, I had a life to attend to. The next chapter will be posted most likely on the fifth of August. Maybe a day or two late depending on if I have the time to write and update. So is there still any confusion? I hope I cleared most of that up. Anyways, enjoy your summer. Oh! And PLEASE REVIEW! I love reading what you guys think. This story was supposed to be simple without a ton of weird drama, but it kinda took a turn for crazy science. Tell me what you guys think.

~Brownie;)