A/N: Again, sorry it's been a while but I have the next few chapters planned out (I say few, there are lots!) and I will keep going as fast as I can, but I have an exam next week so don't kill me if I can't update or anything. If there's anything you want to read in this story, or you think the story needs it, don't be afraid to review me and let me know, I love hearing ideas and always try to slot them in where I can and you'll get full credit.

So as promised my thanks go to:

LE trex… your review was probably most helpful so far so you get special thanks! And I've tried to include as many of your suggestions as possible. Anything in particular you want explained after this review and let me know. Thanks.

Asidill

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Lizbet – yes sorry, I do understand you review perfectly, and no worries, I don't care about flames I'd rather you tell the truth. Later when the story is finished I may go back and change this one but it was kinda important for it to be like this for Max to get the information in this chapter, but I will keep this in mind in the next chapters as well. But remember, Max has beaten the crap out of erasers etc. in her time, and she hates brigid pretty bad (maybe I should have explained this better when writing) so she has every reason to be a little violent. but maybe I'll cool it off a bit in future haha.

Anyways enjoy your fine chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Max Ride or other characters, and for the record, though I haven't mentioned it I don't own any of my chapter titles, they are all songs and at the end of my story I may put a special disclaimer in to mention the bands, but for now I'll let you guess the song artists, if your just that cool you'll know some ;)

And lastly, even though youre probably bored of this comment, there isn't any FAX this chapter, I'm rreeeallllyyy sorry, there may not be some for a while *gasps* but there will be some good FAX later I promise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lots of it!

Max POV

Angel, my baby, was safe and that was all that mattered in the world to me right now, I sighed a huge internal sigh of relief and faced my captees with a new sense of control, everything was going to plan, and I had the upper hand.

"So what's it to be then? What the hell are you trying to do with us here?"

"We told you, Max, we are trying to help you, Jeb is a traitor!" Said Bernard with the same patronising voice as Brigid.

"How? Exactly how is he a traitor? I'm starting to not believe you, you know, I don't believe anything you've said so far so why should I believe that my own Dad is plotting against me?" (Apart from the fact that he's done it before and abandoned me and the flock to go back to the whitecoats.)

"Because Max. He's done it before, he left you to go back to the whitecoats," Brigid said. Damn!

"Right, so what exactly does he want with me?" I wasn't going to fall for this that easily. I haven't been doing this sort of thing for years without learning never to trust anyone outside the flock (with the possible exception of Mom and Ella.)

"Max, he's started up a terrorist organisation. He wants to blow you up! Well, strap bombs to you and your flock, separate you and send you to the major cities in the world, and blow them up. That's what he was doing when he was making you choose Fang or the flock. You were never supposed to choose Fang in his opinion, he wanted you to go for the flock and leave Fang for himself to take and train individually and brainwash him. That's why Bernard tried to step in, tapping into your thoughts and sending you to Fang, Jeb wouldn't have gone for the flock yet, they weren't at risk. But you didn't listen Max, so we had to send our daughter in to get there before Jeb and rescue Fang. Shows how much you care about him though." Explained Brigid, way too calmly.

Woooooow! Wait a minute? Their daughter! You mean…they… and she… ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That would be like Gazzy and Angel having a baby. EWWWW! I knew there was something odd about their close little relationship they had going on here, I couldn't say I didn't expect it. They obviously saw me choking over my thoughts because Bernard began to stand and creep towards to door, Woooow no he wasn't going now! It was way too soon, I needed to get to the bottom of things. So I dropped another kick into his chest and send him flying against the wall again in pain. A/N: sorry if it's still too OOC for you Lizbet, I couldn't think of a way round it here and it's my story anyway I can put a slight slant on the character.

"Hey, so why does your…" I couldn't say daughter, it's just not right for a brother and a sister to do that. "…Lyndsey have wings then?" I wanted ALL the answers here, not that I believed any of the mumbo-jumbo crap they have just come out with.

"Ahh, well you see. We wanted the perfect daughter, one that would help you, and one that would grow and mature very very quickly. So our genes, of course were the first choice, being a pure bloodline, we couldn't have it tainted, so after Brigid became pregnant with Lyndsey last year and we discovered Jeb's plot, we had avian DNA grafted into her, to give her wings so that she could help you as well as a very small amount of hamster DNA, see the hamster only has a short life expectancy, and matures and grows to full size very very quickly, which is why Lyndsey is your age after only a few months of development. Of course there are down sides, she will only live for a few years, unlike you Maximum and so we need you to succeed quickly before she expires, and we had to get the DNA combination exactly right, so that she wouldn't possess any unnecessary hamster qualities. She is the perfect combination of DNA, when we are done with her, she will simply die." Bernard explained. Wow what a cold heartless b******d. He didn't care about his own daughter, she was simply an experiment to him, "bait" in his useless plan. Hold on… this still didn't explain why we were "targets".

"So why and where in this little plan of yours, are me and Fang targets?" I asked, still untrusting of their every word.

"You see Max, that was just us messing around, you are simply called Targets, because we needed to target you two. Fang, because he was in danger, and because he would help us to persuade you, and you Max, because you are trhe leader of the flock, and so you are the one that makes and breaks plans, you are the one who has to stop Jeb, so we had to target you to tell you this, it would be useless on any other member of the flock, they would just get scared."

That was it, even if only marginally he had offended my flock, I was out of here. He had called them useless, said they'd be scared, but not my flock.

That's right Max, not us! That's my Angel, my little fighter. No doubt she was reading my thoughts and filling in the rest of the flock right now on what was going on. Time for me to go find them. I had everything I needed to know for now. Whether it was true or not, I had reason to stay away from Jeb, and the Dwyers, well, they may WANT to help me, but I don't need it. And I still don't know whether to trust them or not.

So bye Brigid, bye Bernard, I thought, and without a second glance, spun round, ran out the door and bolted all of the bolts, man there were a lot! No wonder we couldn't get out. Then I ran off the way I could remember entering in search of Fang.

A/N: So what did you think? Have I explained everything. Sorry if it ended a bit abruptly but I've been writing for ages and I'm tired and was supposed to be revising for my French oral this week. Hence not having updated for a while. But let me Know if I still haven't explained things clearly enough. There will be more to come of course, the story is still very young. And thanks to my reviewers, after all you keep me going.