Disclaimer: I do not own maximum ride or any of its characters; I do how ever own the new characters and the story line.

"Mommy!" Alana and Darren ran into my arms as soon as I landed in the cave, knocking me backwards into Kevin. He wrapped his arms around my waist and buried his face in my hair.

I was still mad at him so I quickly pulled away and went to sit down. "What happened to you?" Darren pointed to my arm and I caught the flock frowning at me. "Nothing, mommy was just being clumsy and fell into a bunch of trees."

"Come on, we can go wash up at the river." Beverly tossed me my bag and I mentally thanked her. I smiled as both Maria and Beverly grabbed their bags to come with.

"Me too!" Alana and Darren yelled at the same time as they went to get their backpacks. I gently pushed Maria toward the cave entrance as Beverly ran and jumped off, snapping open her wings and hovering a safe distance away.

Alana and Darren excitedly watched Maria and then followed, at first I wanted to jump out of the cave and save them, but they snapped open their wings at the same time and happily waved.

Next was me, I saw Kevin start towards me so I pulled a Beverly and ran to the mouth of the cave and jumped. Not snapping my wings out right away I let myself fall, the wind whipped me hair back away from my face and then snapped them out a moment later.

As I flew over to the girls and Darren, I looked back at the cave. Kevin was standing there looking absolutely terrified. I laughed to myself and blew him a kiss; he shot me the bird in return and then went back into the cave.

I was still laughing to myself as Beverly and Maria led us to the river.

XXX little while later XXX

"Ok, everyone done?" I looked around as I finished braiding Alana's hair. Beverly was reading while Maria and Darren played red hands. They all looked up and nodded. "Ok, then lets head back, before daddy freaks out." I helped Alana to her feet and walked over to the pile of backpacks.

"Look at the pretty little birdie" I frowned and spun around, just in time to see Jason walk out of the woods with other erasers.

Beverly, get help

She closed her book and quietly edged away from the clearing. "Cant you come up with better lines Jason; you've had forever to work on them." I saw him wink before morphing and charging at me.

What the heck did the mean? Was he on our side still?

I debated what to do for about a millisecond and then punched him, lightly. He smiled and fell to the ground, pretending to be knocked out. I heard Alana shriek and looked around, Maria was pushing Darren behind her and Alana was running towards me.

An eraser grabbed her and I watched as Maria used her super speed to ram into him. He fell over and Alana threw her arms around Maria. "U and A!" I shouted and rushed over to Darren.

I picked him up and threw him into the air, whispering "hit them with those energy balls of yours." He nodded and snapped open his wings. I rushed over to the erasers surrounding Maria and Alana, kicked one and clamped my hands over another's ears.

A second later he fell to the ground and the eraser I had kicked got hit with an energy ball. I looked up and smiled at Darren. He was dropping those things like crazy while Maria rammed into the erasers.

By the time all of the erasers were out Alana wasn't scared anymore and Beverly was back with the flock. "Nice timing" (note sarcasm) I rolled my eyes as the flock looked around the clearing in shock. I walked over to where Jason was lying on the ground and gently kicked his side.

"Up!" Jason smiled again and demorphed, standing up he looked around and whistled. "Remind me not to make you mad."

The next thing I knew Kevin had flown into him and slammed him against a tree!

"KEVIN!" Both Hunter and I rushed over and tried to pry him of off Jason. "Stop, he's the one who saved Darren and Alana!"