I realize that the last chapter was really bad. I'm SO SORRY! I was really rushed so I'm gonna repost over it. Once again I apologize. For those of you who havent read the old version of it, great. For those of you who have, soo sorry ignore it.
I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR MAXIMUM RIDE.
It wasn't until lunch that we finally met the infamous Madame Umbridge. And let me tell you, it didn't take long for me to hate her.
We were coming in from a long, and relatively interesting Care Of Magical Creatures class. I was right at the door to the Great Hall when she came in.
"Ah, you must be Maximum Ride and her ever loyal flock?" Umbridge said in a really high squeaky and majorly girly voice walking down the Grand Staircase. Mentally I flinched, the last thing I needed was awkward questions from Jet about why she said flock, but he didn't seem to notice. Out of the corner of my eye I say Iggy cover his ears in agony. Umbridge looked like a walking, squeaking flamingo. Literally; she was wearing bright PINK!! And you all know how much I love the color pink now don't you. She reminded me of one of those really preppy girls from that school that Anne sent us to.
"And you must be that annoying pink Popsicle that I threw out a week ago, back to haunt me." Jet said from beside Iggy. Even Fang chuckled. She how ever did not. She turned and glared at him. He glared right back, like they had a history already. Truthfully I don't know that much about him, so for all I know he probably did know her.
"Mr.Falcone, how nice to see you again. I hope that you aren't getting into any trouble again." She said putting emphasis on again. I wondered what that could mean. Note to self, ask Jet about his past.
"Bite me Pepto-Bismol." He said. Even Jet knew that he had to show respect to teachers, so when he said that I knew for sure that I was missing something here.
"Detention." She said. Now that I think about it she does look like a bottle of Pepto-Bismol. "Now, I've heard an interesting rumor about this supposed Young Marauders. And that you two are the ringleaders." At this she pointed at Iggy and Jet. Iggy did one of his famous scowl/smiles, while Jet gave her a cocky lop-sided grin.
"No kidding. " Fang said dryly. First thing he had said in a long while. And I know you're all wondering if Fang and I are together. The answer is no. But I couldn't say for how long.
"Well, since none of you have been here before, I'll let you know that I will do my best to get you expelled if you doing anything of the sort." She said. By now the Entrance Hall was empty. She glanced around and then leaned in so only I could hear her. "And I know your little secret. And if it were up to me none of you would be here." I opened my mouth to say something back when the door opened and Harry, Ron and Hermione came in. They all stopped at the sight of me about to square off with Pepto-Bismol lady.
"Mr. Potter you wouldn't be actually be thinking that you are allowed to be the captain if you're not on the team, would you?" She said after a short pause, pointing at the badge on Harry's chest.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked angrily.
"I believe I gave him a lifelong ban did I not? So how can he be captain if he's not on the team?" She said. The color from Harry's face drained a little. "Now I wish you good day." She said walking off. Jet flipped her finger behind her back.
"She can't do that. Dumbledore will stop her." Hermione said glancing at Harry. Nudge, Gazzy and Angel walked out.
"What happened?" Angel asked.
"Long story, I'll tell you later." Iggy said. "But don't worry Harry. We won't let Pepto-Bismol stop a Young Marauder from playing Quidditch."
(That night. Jet's POV.)
God, I hated that woman. And she hated me, wow, who would have thought of that. But am I gonna tell you why. Wait for it… Nope.
Anyway, Iggy and I had come up with a brilliant plan. Now all we need to do is get the YM's around. Silently I walked around tapping them on the shoulder. Unlike the DA we didn't have any sneaky coins or anything. For those of you keeping tabs the Young Marauders consist of: Me, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Harry, Ron, and Ginny. But I'm sure that we could recruit Fang, Max and Angel sooner or later.
We all went and gathered in the guys dormitory. I know so high-tech! So secretive! So obvious!
"So why did you call a meeting?" Harry asked. He had seemed kind of down after Pepto-Bismol told him he couldn't play Quidditch. But that was all about to change.
"Well, as you all know Pepto-Bismol aka Umbridge has announced that she wants to give Harry his life-long ban back. Iggy and I have come up with a way to stop her. The only way that we can think of is to have us sneak into her office and find have a little fun." I said.
"For anyone to be banned from anything the Headmaster would have needed to sign a piece of paper agreeing with Umbridge. And if it's gone she will have to get another. And seeing as Harry has done nothing wrong yet, he won't' get banned." Iggy explained.
"That great, ho-ho that swell. But how do you plan to get in there? She puts spells on the doors and windows to tell her if someone broke in. If she even suspects that we did something, we'll be busted." Ginny said. She and Nudge were sitting on the floor in front of the window.
"Then I guess we have to go through the vents." Ron said. We all turned and looked at him.
"Vents? Since when does this place have vents?" Iggy asked.
"Fred and George told me about them. But if we can get through the vents then we could nick the paper." Ron said.
"Harry, we need the map." I said looking at him. Ginny gave him a funny look as Harry pulled out the Marauders Map. She didn't know about it. He tapped it with his wand, quietly muttering "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good." I went over and slowly traced my finger over the vents, thinking of the best way in. If we took too long, someone would notice that we were gone.
"This'll be fun." I muttered. I stood up and turned to face the rest of the YM's. "The fastest most direct route is through the vent in Snape's office."
"WHAT!" Harry, Ginny and Ron all said at once.
"The vent in his office has the simplest path. We literally just have to go up and follow the path." I said.
"And how do you propose that we get in there?" Ginny said.
"Two of us will keep a watch on Snape. We can get Total to watch Umbridge. One of us will stay outside Umbridge's office and one outside Snape's. Then we can know if they come. And by having people there they can try and keep them busy so that neither Umbridge nor Snape will catch us." I said.
"Okay, let's plan it for Thursday. Jet and I will figure out all the details later." Iggy said standing up. Everybody got up and left the room so only Iggy and I were still there.
"Do you think it'll work?" Iggy asked looking in my general direction. That kid had amazing hearing if he could know where I was, you would never know he was blind unless you looked at his eyes. But I hoped his blindness didn't become a liability on the mission.
"We can only hope so." I said. I walked out, letting Iggy hear my steps so he knew that I was leaving.
(Still Jet's POV) (Thursday Afternoon.)
"Snape and Umbridge are in the teachers lounge. Do you copy Mr. Cuddly Bear?" Total said into the microphone. We had managed to get Fang to join us because we needed some one buff to lift us all out of Umbridge's office. Total had been unable to keep his mouth shut so all of Gryffindor knew he could talk. And let's just say that Fang didn't like his code name.(A/N: And this is why I wanted code name people so thank you for those that gave me names.)
"Loud and clear. But next time I pick my own name." Fang said coldly. He, Ginny, Iggy and I were all outside Snape's office waiting for Iggy to pick the lock. Yah, we could do it with magic, but we thought that Snape might have done something to the door to stop us. Harry and Ron were under the Invisibility Cloak watching Snape. Gazzy was watching the hallway outside Umbridge's office. Nudge was outside Snape's. And Total was watching Umbridge.
"What Mr. Cuddly Bear isn't manly enough?" Iggy teased. He stood up and tried the door. It turned and smiled as the door opened.
"We're in." I said to the walkie-talkies.
"Nothing on the map. You're all clear." Harry said back. We walked in waiting for something. Nothing happened so we walked in and began to look for the vent.
"It should be in the north-east corner of the room." Ron said.
"Yah that just great but which way is that Carrot Top?" Ginny asked. Ron's name was Carrot Top while Ginny was dubbed Flame because of her hair. So creative I know!
"Found it!" Fang- I mean Mr. Cuddly Bear said. I glanced over. It was really high up. I ran a bit and then jumped. My fingers caught the ledge. I pulled myself up. Fang gave Ginny a boost up and I helped her in. Then Iggy and Fang climbed in. Fang used magic to bring the grate back into place.
"Okay, Figgy now where?" It was pitch black in here. I lighted the end of my wand. Iggy pulled out his wand and pointed it at a grappling hook that we had made. Levitating it up was difficult when you can't see. But not for Iggy. He went and hooked it on the first try. I looked at the assembled YM's. I grabbed the rope and started to climb.
(A Fly on the Walls POV)
The empty hallway outside The High Inquisitor's office was empty. The walls were bared except for a lone tapestry on the wall opposite the door.
Suddenly the unmistakable sound of high heels started to come towards the door. Umbridge walked down the hallway to the door, glancing left and right. At the door she put in a key and tried to turn it. The key was jamming in the doorknob. Suddenly a loud crackling filled the hallway.
BANG! AHHHH!
The whole hallway looked like a swamp. In fact it had been turned into one. Umbridge was plastered against the door, looking like a fly caught in a frog's mouth. A small blonde head poked out from behind the tapestry. The head of Gazzy Ride laughed and then disappeared quickly knowing that Filch and Snape wouldn't be long.
(Jet's POV)
We were just about to drop into Umbridge's office when were heard a bang and a scream. We all froze like rabbits in headlights.
"What the bloody hell was that?" I asked.
"Me. Prong Jr. told me that Flamingo was coming so I used a 'Swamp-In-A-Corridor' to pin her." Gazzy answered. Everyone laughed at the thought of what Gazzy had just told us.
"Okay let's find that paper." I said. We all dropped in and began searching. It only took a minute until shit happened.
"Figgy! Snape and Filch have found Flamingo and there at the door! You need to get out of there!" Harry yelled at me. We all glanced at Iggy. He raced over to the vent.
"Mother of Pink!" I said under my breath.
"Hurry up! We gotta go!" He whispered. Everybody raced over and squeezed into the vent. I swung around and pointed my wand no where in particular and thought furiously "Accio Form!" I watched as the paper flew at me. I caught it and dove away as the door shot open. Snape, Filch and a green Umbridge came in. I didn't see anything else as I felt Fang grab the top of my robes and haul me out of there. We decided to exit far away from Snape's room. It took a bit longer but no one really noticed. We were all thinking that we had done it. We had finally done our first mission against the Forces of Pink. Well Forces of Green now.
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