A.N- I had no idea how to tell the voice's story while still telling my actual story, so I hope you don't get too bored by this chapter. Also, sorry for all mistakes you might find. This chapter is so long that I really don't want to look it over again…

Gracias: MockingJayBirds, Burnin'blackandblue, dopeycookiemonster, lax4life22, MAX-FANG-FAX (haha), toxicmarley, LOVE HATE DUH, & Drakefire.

Damn It Dylan!

(Fang POV)

For about three hours, Jake told us about everything; and I mean everything. We actually got to our destination after about half an hour, then took a few cars here, but continued talking inside the building they pretty much lived in.

…

So here's the complete story:

The voice was created by Jeb and Jake to guide Max through a mission they had planed years ago, and as a way to communicate with her when she was far away, or just being plain stubborn (which is all the time). Jeb had obtained this building specifically in the crowded city of New York because he knew, for a fact, that Itex wouldn't look here. Since Jeb had done this all while still holding Itex's trust, they never suspected anything and he could always be on the inside. He was able to get some (a lot of) money from Itex, and all the machinery he needed, without them knowing. Jeb didn't use the voice much, be he could. Jack was the main voice and decided to normally give the flock their privacy, so that's why the voice only appeared when Max needed help on something. Livy was in charge of always keeping an eye on Max's vitals, so she knew when Max needed help. Gavin was in charge of the rest of the flock's health; and Chris was in charge of all the tech stuff. Everyone was easily capable of doing one another's jobs though, in case something happened.

Jake had been a scientist, one of Jeb's closest colleagues actually, and was unwillingly injected with some experimental animal DNA. He said that it made him realize just how inhumane the whole thing was, and so he convinced Jeb to help him to get rid of Itex. So they started on a plan that would need several years of patience and hard work. They got their other colleague, Silvia, into it too since they knew she hated Itex as well.

The thing is, that even if you hate what Itex was doing, you still weren't allowed out of it. You weren't allowed to quit, because you now knew too much. If you somehow got out of it, you would soon be killed. One of the only ways to escape Itex was death, which is exactly what they planned to do for Jake.

About a week after Jake's injection, Silvia and Jeb were able to fake his death and pass it off as a bad reaction to the DNA. Jake didn't have close family members, but they even had a fake funeral for good measure.

Jake was relatively new to Itex, so only that building really knew of him. Jeb was able to get him to New York, and Jake just took residence in the building they bought shortly after. They waited a few years, until his death was no more than a failed experiment in the Itex files; which Jeb later got rid of, for good measure.

They didn't used their equipment for a few years because Jeb first had to get the flock out and make sure Max could survive on her own with us (the flock), and take the lead. He also had to get Chris and Livy out before that too, to use as assistants. Jeb was able to fake their deaths as a bad Eraser accident, and put himself in charge of disposing their 'mangled' and 'un-dissectible' bodies. Chris and Livy had already trusted Jeb through some instinct they had. So when Jeb told them the plan, they were all for it.

It took Jake about a year to train Chris and Livy completely, at the same time that Jeb busted the flock out. They had to learn not only how to work the machinery, but also self defense and basic survival skills (just in case).

When Jeb left the flock and went back to Itex, he told them it was just an experiment to test our survival skills, and that they could get us back in a couple of years to see how we adapted. In the time he was gone they'd made little Ari into an Eraser to test Jeb's loyalty. He was forced to accept what was done willingly, so as not to blow his cover and he had to pretend he didn't care. Jake could tell that it was killing him inside though, but no one ever found out.

Their general goal with us was to take Itex's mission for Max, which was to save the world, and add a little more to it. The whole flock would now have to help eliminate Itex, to end the mutant testing and spare future souls from having to endure that.

Then Chris and Livy told us their part of the story with more detail. They said that they were pretty much an earlier version of us. They were twins taken when they were only a few hours old from their parents, which were told that they didn't survive. They were both made when Itex was first finding which bird genes contributed to wings, so Chris and Livy were the first successful Human-Avian experiments.

Chris was crossed with Cardinal genes and Livy with Blue Jay genes. They even showed us their wings, which looked unreal. This coming from a guy that has wings himself. But their wings were really colorful. They wings were slightly smaller than ours though, and I doubt they can actually fly with them. But that did kind of explain their hair coloring a little.

Jake told us he was injected with Gecko genes. He said that since he was already developed when it was done, that he didn't get much from it and his body didn't change because of it. The only thing, which I think is pretty cool, is that he can control hands to grow into Gecko pad-like surfaces. He said it's not enough to support his weight, but it is enough to get a really good grip on things, which would be great for climbing.

…

Max had been battling sleep the whole time and lost ten minutes ago; falling asleep on her side of our really comfy couch and eventually dropping her head on my shoulder. They offered to give her a bed, but I didn't want to wake her up or have her out of my sight, so I said no.

"So what's your story?" I ask in my usual quiet voice, looking at Gavin.

He looked up at me and says, "I was one of the mutants you rescued, I went off on my own and somehow Jake found me." He says simply.

I look at Jake. "I tried to track the mutants that you set free after Jeb told me about it. We could only find Gavin though because he was the only one who left the group. The others, as you know… were retired." He says sadly.

"I'm confused." Nudge starts.

"What about?" Jake asks.

"Well if you say that you hate Itex, like us, and want to end it or whatever… Well then why are you working for them?"

"We're not working for them, we're not even under their name. I just say that we're the good Itex because we have a lot of their things and all of us came from them, but we're not really Itex. We're far from being them. We do have some other people that work with us that are currently working for Itex though, but we trust them; they're our spies, like Jeb." He explains.

Nudge looks over at Max. "I'm pretty sure that if Max were awake right now, she'd say something like 'what makes you think we'll do what you say?' because that's what I'm thinking right now… I mean we just met you and you want us to trust you fully?" She adds.

"Well, ultimately it is each of your choices, but I was hoping that you would help us. And maybe in the future you can trust us fully, but right now we only need a little bit of trust. Enough that you'll let us take those microchips out of you." Jake says.

"Let's talk about this later, when Max is actually awake." I say.

"Yes, you're right. And she should be awake when we discuss the microchips."

I nod. "Hey, could Max get that bed now?" I ask.

"Of course," Jake says and gets up. "follow me." He adds as he leaves the room.

I try to get up, but Max was on my shoulder. I carefully hold her head so it wouldn't fall, and then get up from the couch and grab her. I was carrying her bridal style as I looked over at Livy, "Hey, she'd OK right? She's usually a really light sleeper."

"I would have to go to my computer in the next room to make sure, but she looks fine to me. She's probably just really tired." Livy tells me, getting up as well.

After I lay Max on the bed Jake gave her, in a room all the girls will have to share, I hear a knocking at the door.

"Come in Dylan." I say, not even looking up from Max.

"So she actually never woke up?" He asks me.

"No. I tried to not move her around that much when I carried her here, but she would have normally woken up from that." I say.

"She looks fine though…" He says, confused.

"Psh, then you haven't seen her stomach. I swear, that kids gonna break her in half." I say, not sitting up in my seat with my forearms on my legs.

"What?" Dylan asks.

"I'm guessing she didn't tell anyone." I say calmly.

"No. What are you talking about?"

"The baby's been kicking." I say. "Really hard." I add.

Dylan looks over at Max, just in time for her to twitch a little from a kick.

"I don't think we can do anything about it though." I say.

"I felt that, and it didn't feel good at all. I can't believe Max's been putting up with that. Maybe I could try to calm him or something." Dylan suggests. "Maybe he's just stressed because she is."

"Yeah, try that." I say. I couldn't stand to see Max getting beat up like this and not be able to do anything about it.

Dylan comes closer and sits on the bed my Max. Right as his hand lightly touches her medium-sized stomach, which I was trying to keep myself calm about, she finally wakes up.

Oh, oh…

(Max POV)

I felt something on my stomach and instantly my eyes shot open and I instinctively kicked the blurry figure that was leaning over me.

There was a loud *bang* and then a whispered "Shit…" from the wall.

"Max, calm down, it was just Dylan." I hear Fang say beside me.

My eyes were now adjusted to the light, so I could see. I looked to the wall and saw that the figure I'd forward-donkey-kicked was, in fact, Dylan. "Oh my God, Dylan, I'm so sorry!" I say, looking at Dylan, who was now sitting against a wall with a dent in it.

"Why do I always get thrown at walls?" He asks, getting up and rubbing the back of his head.

Then I get kind of mad. "Why were you touching my stomach in the first place?" I ask angrily.

"We wanted to see if we could calm the baby down." Fang tells me.

I look at him. "What?"

"He's been kicking you too much. We thought that it might be because you're both stressed. So I thought that maybe I could calm him." Dylan tells me.

"What's going on!" Jake asks, barging into the room.

He looked around and saw me wide-eyed, sitting on the edge of the bed; Fang calmly sitting in his chair beside my bed; and Dylan rubbing his head and standing beside wall with a hole in it.

"What happened in here?" He asks again, walking over to the wall and examining it.

"That was my bad." I say, raising my hand and blushing. "I got scared and kicked Dylan into the wall, sorry about that."

"Um…" He says looking back at us and then giving up, he walks out of the door saying, "Don't break anything else."

"Pretty chill guy." I say.

"You got that right." Dylan says.

Fang nods.

"So can I calm him down now?" Dylan asks.

I give him a confused look until I realize he was talking about the baby. "Well he's not kicking anymore, so…" I say.

"Maybe it's because you're calm now, but we should test to see if it is stress that causes it. So we'll know in the future and we can see if I can help." Dylan rants.

"I don't want Max to get hit on purpose." Fang says defensively.

"This will be controlled, so I can just undo what I did and it'll all be fine."

"Can you all stop talking about me like I'm not here?" I scream. "God, you're worse than white coats…" I whisper to myself.

"Sorry, Max. What do you want to do?" Dylan asks.

"Although I would rather not get hit, I still want to know because he might be telling me that he's not feeling good or something, so you can do the 'test' thing." I say.

Dylan nods happily.

I wonder about this boy sometimes…

He walks over to me and sits beside me on the bed.

I think it's cute how Fang is looking at Dylan's every move so intently right now.

"I'm going to make you stressed and see how he reacts to it, OK?" Dylan informs me.

I nod. Fang looked like he wanted to leave, but at the same time not.

I felt myself getting really tense and realized that Dylan was already doing it. "I don't feel him doing anything." I say and then suddenly feel him move in me. "Never mind, he's moving now." Then he kicks me. "OK stop Dylan, he's kicking me now." I say, putting a hand on my stomach.

"I'm trying to calm you down, but try to help me. Calm down Max." Dylan tells me.

"Why'd we do this goddammit?" I ask loudly. He kicks again, "Aw fuck!"

Nudge came in the room and looked mad, "Max, the baby can hear you! Quit it because I can hear you from the other room..." She tells me, then starts blabbering on about how cool it would be to make him listen to Mozart like in TV or something.

"Nudge shut up! Ow! I think he's kicking my intestines!" I shout.

"Dylan!" Fang screams.

"Max calm down!" Dylan tells me.

"Don't tell me to calm down! I swear if this hurts so much, I can't imagine what giving birth will feel like. My God, I'm gonna get my mom to castrate you both!" I tell them.

Dylan's eyes widen and Fang rolls his eyes and hit Dylan's head. "Fix this!" He tells him angrily.

Everyone was now either in the room or in the hall way.

Livy rushes into the room looking worried. "Stop whatever you're doing, Max is getting internal bleeding!" She tells us.

"Do you think I enjoy this?" I scream at her, as he kicks my guts again (nasty).

"Hate you tried to calm the baby directly, instead of just Max?" Someone says in the back, I think Gavin.

Dylan puts his hand close to my stomach, making me tense even more. It really aggravated me to have people close to my stomach for some reason, even in my own flock. Except for Fang or Iggy. Iggy because he was like our medic and I was just way too used to Iggy to really mind.

He stopped kicking me instantly and I looked up at Dylan. "Why didn't you try that sooner." I say through my teeth.

"I- I don't know." He stutters. "Sorry." He tells me, ducking his head.

"We are never, and I mean NEVER, doing that again." I say and get up. A stab of pain goes through me and I sit down again, clutching my stomach.

Livy rushes to me. "Max!" She screams at the same that Iggy, who was beside Fang, kneels on the ground.

"What hurts?" Iggy asks, looking a little calmer than Livy was.

"I don't know. Like around here." I say, pointing under my ribs.

Iggy puts his hand just above my baby bump, and starts to feel there for a moment. "I think you have a broken rib." He says looking at me. "Don't move too much because it might puncture something." He tells me, a little more worried now.

Livy was now beside Iggy. Jake was telling everyone to leave or at least make room.

"We have a medical office down the hall." Livy tells me. "We should get you checked out."

I think about it. "Fine, Iggy come with us." I say. He nods and stands up.

She lifts me up very carefully, which surprised me until I remembered that she was a mutant too.

"We should get her an X-ray." She tells Iggy.

"If you have a lead sheet, then OK." Iggy says.

"A lead sheet?" I ask as we slowly walk (me carried) down the hall.

"They're to protect from the radiation that X-rays give off." Livy explains. "And yes, we have those. I'll put two on her for good measure, like you're supposed to, but I doubt that it'll do anything to the baby anyway." She says.

After they get the X-ray, Livy tells me that it didn't puncture anything so I'll be fine. The rib only cracked a little and I just have to stay still until tomorrow, for the bone to set.

So here I am; lying down on my bed with my back to the mattress, which the winged don't do because we have wings on our backs. But I had to since the bone was setting and if I lay on my side, it might set wrong. So here's my face as I look at the ceiling [ :| ],I grunt loudly.

"You'll be fine." Fang tells me smiling. He was sitting beside me and holding my hand.

I smile. Well at least I had Fang. "I hate Dylan…" I say, now frowning.

"I know you do." He tells me soothingly.

A.N- Super long chapter… Sorry about that, but I hope this answers some questions about the voice. And just to clear it up for you guys, the voice isn't just Jake. The voice is a group of people that try to help Max out for a mission that Jake and Jeb came up with. It's mainly Jake, Chris, Livy and Gavin, but there are other people actually in Itex that also help. Jeb left Itex so that puts him in danger, but so far they haven't gotten him. It also makes him a little less valuable for the voice because he's not high up in Itex anymore, and he can't get good info.

Te quiero mucho! Y perdon por hablar tanto:/

~L