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OK! New stuff up here!

Claimer:Anything that isn't in the Mr books, I own. Not the places though. It would be cool to own the places though!

Disclaimer: I don't own Jp, Mr, The Flock, Total, Max,Fang,Iggy,Nudge,Gasman,or Angle.But, I wish I did! I don't own the School,Whitecoats,Erasers,Flyboys,or Itex. Who would want to own 'em?

Sorry:I don't have spell check. I ask people how to spell words, but most of the time, I'm the only one in the computer room. Please, I'm trying to work on my spelling, I know it is an isusse. Please stop pestering me!

Also Sorry:If you haven't read the third book, I'm reaviling some thing about the third book. Like, for you Fax people, Fang sortta choughkissedchough Max.

AND! I made some mistakes in my chapter numbering! But, I got it right now! This is chapter 11.

Sam's POV

Looking for Iggy was as hard as looking for Nudge. And I kept thinking about when Zack said that they would see us soon. He emphsized the word soon. Lilly said that she talked to Zack and Maddy about us leaveing. Did they make a plan to follow us?

"THERE!" Lilly randomly yelled, interupting the silence and my thoughts. "Iggy! I know it's him!"

"How?" Will asked.

"He was thinking about makeing bombs, but needing a kid called Gazzy to do it, 'cus he needs someone to tell him what wires and stuff he's using! He'd get his girlfriend, but she'd think he was a tereorist or something."

"Yeah. I know." I said. Anyone would think he's a tereoist for haveing bombs!

We landed next to a small two story house. Wow. Nugde is rich, my family is avarge- Well, not avarge, but I'm talking liveing standars and money and stuff. And Iggy looks like he's...not below avarge, but not a normal living style. We walked up some steps onto a porch. I almost rang the doorbell when I heard an 'OW!' from behind us.

"ZACK! That was my foot!" Maddy said.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Zack said sarcasticlly. "I must of not noticed it was there! What, with my being blind and all!"

I looked at Lilly.

"Lilly!" I said.

"What?!" She looked as inocent as Bambi.

"You said you talked to them about us leaveing. And Zack said he'd see us soon. Did you come up with a plan for them to follow us?"

"NO!" She said as if she had just been excused of starting WW3.

"Maddy! Zack! Come over here!" I said. We already explained all this to Will.

Maddy and Zack walked over to us.

"Sorry, Sam!" Maddy said. "but, Lilly didn't want to leave us! And We didn't wwant to leave her! We had to come! Let us stay! PLEEEEEEEEASEEEEE!" Pretty pleeeeeaseee with a RELLY BIG cheery on top!"

"Yeah!" Zack said. "Maddy, Lilly, and I made the plan for us to follow for a reason! You can't send us back! We've come all this way! We left our mom a note! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease let stay! Please! We'll do whatever you say! Even if means haveing to take a bath and eat healthy food!"

AWWWW! Their begging and they have little sad faces! I CAN'T say no!

"Fine!" I rolled my eyes to make it look like I wasn't just giving in. Like I was about to send them back, but changed my mind.

"YAY!" Maddy and Lilly cheered.

"Lilly-boo." I said.

"Yes Sam!"

"Did Zack say 'You,Maddy, and him made a plan for them to follow us' ?"

"Sorry Iied! I had to so you'd let them stay!"

How dose lying make me let them stay? Oh well. I rang the doorbell as Will introduced himself to Maddy and Zack. Footsteps were heard. A cat screeched with pain as if someone stepped on its tail. A man with cheery blonde hair opened the door.(a/n: I haven't read the books for a while. I read them like, last Agaust. I just finished book three. I think Iggy has Blonde hair. I forget. Tell me is I'm Wrong.)

"Hello?" he said. His eyes stared blankly in our genrel direction.

"Um...Hi.I'm looking for James Grffiths. Also know as Iggy." I said.

"Max?" He shook his head and mumbeled something along the lines of 'couldn't be'. "I'm blind, so I can't see you, but I don't want to talk to you."

"But, you have to be Iggy!" Lilly said.

"Ange-Look, No one has called me that for years! GO AWAY!" He began to close the door.

"MAXIMUM RIDE IS MY MOM!" I yelled.

The door flung open.

"What did you say?"

"Ma-Maximum Ride is my mother. And Fang is my dad." I said.

"Should of know Max and Fang would end up together." Iggy mumbeled. "How many of you are there?"

"Um..Maddy,Zack,Will,Lilly, and Me. Five."

"Come in." He opened the door more and let us in. The house looked a little run down. But, still perrty desecnt. There were three cats lying on a couch. One of them meowed. "Stupid strays." Iggy said. He walked over to were the noise was and showed them away.

"HI!" Maddy said. "I'm Nudge's daughter! And I have a twin brother, Zack! We're 9! My mom has told us a lot about the Flock. From what she told me, I could of sworn that you two would end up together. But you didn't. Oh, well. So, Zack, do you have anything to say?"

"You're Nudges kid alright." Iggy said.

"I'm Zack. I'm blind too. I'm 9. I like to mess up my sisters hair by puuting stuff in her shampoo! I can't make bombs like you, but I can make the shells bombs go in!"

"I'm Will. I'm 14. I'll be 15 soon. I can't make shells that bombs go in, but I can make stuff explode."

"Hey, maybe you two will be like me and Gasman."

"I'm Lilly! Angel is my mommy! I'm 7! Everyone says I look just like her! But Maddy straied my hair, so it's not curly right now."

"You've been around Maddy to much!" I said. "I'm Saxim. Everyone calls me Sam. I was woundering, do I call you Iggy or James?"

"Uncle Iggy." He said.

Told you!

"Is kindda weird that we just showed up here?" Lilly asked.

"Nope." Iggy said. "I knew one of these days something like this would happen. Will, which member of the Flock is your parent?"

"None of them. When my mom and dad were kids, the School caught them. They got away befor the School could make them bird kids, but they got lost. They were walking around the School, and got thirsty. They found something that looked like a safe drink, and drank that. Turns out it was the stuff that helps make them bird kids. They didn't get wings, but I did."

"Ok." Iggy said. "Are you guys hungry?"

"Yup!" Lilly said.

"YEAH! We haven't eaten for a while! I'm starving! Are you starving Zack? I am! I need some food!" Maddy said.

"Yes will do." Iggy said. He walked into the kitchen and we sat on his couch.

"So, you're 14 about to be 15?" I asked Will. He nodded. "Geuss that makes you leader."

"What? Why?" He asked.

"I'm 13, about to be 14. I'm younger. You're the oldest."

"MAN!" He said.

"You don't want to be leader?"

"I don't relly care, but if the leader is the oldest, then I gotta tell the truth! I'm really 13 about to be 14. I'm just tall, so I say I'm 14 about to be 15."

"What month were you born in?"

"Agaust."

"SAM IS LEADER!" Lilly yelled.

"I was born in June. Lilly is right." I said.

Will's POV

Now you Know my real age. Happy? Good!

Sam's POV

Iggy came back in with some sandwhiches and deviled eggs. (s/n: Is it doubeled or deviled? I can never tell how people say it!) We ate and then got to the topic of why we were here.

"And, now, we need your help." I finished. (a/n: i felt like you already knew the story, lets just skip the whole explinaing it to Iggy thing.)

"Knew Max and Fang would have more then one kid." Iggy mumbeled. "So, you have a voice? And It's cailms to be you, yet it's not you? It's giving you fourtune cookie trash?"

"Yep." I said.

"You are just like Max. You sound like her too."

"Yeah, when I answer the phone, people think it's my mom." (a/n: that's happens to me more times then I can count!)

"So, you need my help? Well, if I could get help from someone who can see, I'll make some bombs."

"I'll help!" Zack and Will both said.

"I want to learn to make bombs!" Zack said.

"I need to know how to make bomb shells and time bombs!" Will said.

"Follow me!" Iggy said. The boys went to so their boy thing. I looked at Maddy and Lilly.

"Do you guys know how to fight?" I aksed.

They shook their heads.

I let out a loud sigh. "Then we have to start from square one." What is Square one?

Glad you asked. "You know how to fight?" Ask Iggy if you can go train. He'll know what you mean.

"Lilly. Maddy. From now on, we have to fight to live. If the Erasers/Flyboys attack us, you have to fight. I'll be to busy trying to get them off of me. And so Will and Zack. So, We're gonna learn to fight."

"But, Sam, you don't know how to fight!" Lilly said.

"I learn. Not teach." I told her. "Follow me."

I found Iggy and asked if we could train. He showed us a traing room he had.

Go to that punching bag and kick the way Corin does in karate class. "Ok." I kicked it karate style. When Corin has karate class I listen and watch. Now punch it and give it a round-house kick. I did that. Tell Maddy and Lilly to do some streches and then copy what you do.

"Ok." I tried to sound like a leader. "We're gonna do some streches, then you two will do what I tell you, ok?"

"But, you can't fight! And how are we gonna practice in here?! It's a mess!" Maddy said.

"Part of our streches will be cleaning up! And, the other me in my head will tell us what to do."

We began our clean up. Lilly and Maddy got a good work out outting the punching bags that fell back oin their things that held them up. I swept up all the dust. There was a lost of dust on the floor. We got a could work out cleaning up this place. It was a MESS! But, when we were done, it looked normal.

Now, do what I say. On that punching bag, punch, karate kick, step back as if someone was trying to hit you, then punch were the face should be.

I did it while explaining to the girls what I was doing. Maddy copied me first. The Voice, that is now what I'm calling the other me, told me what she did wrong. I told her. She did it right and Lilly went next. This countinued for two hours. Then Lilly asked me a question.

"Why do we have to fight? Why do we have to do this?"

"Lilly, I'm not gonna sugar coat it, or make seam nice a pretty. Those wolf thing, They're called Erasers. They want to kill us. They want to rip our thorts out, or lock us in a cage. I don't want them doing that. They want to take us back to the Detention. That sicence lab you were in. DO you want to go back?"

"No." Lilly said.

"Then, do what I say, when I say, and be ready fight at any second. That gose for you too Maddy. I'm the leader. They want to shoot us, kill us, lock us in cages, and much worse. You knows those bad guys in t.v. shows?" They noded. "These guys are nothing like that. You don't get a chance for them to just rant on about their plans. You don't get a chance to prepare. You get one second to jump up and fight. Thats it. So, faster then," I snapped "that, they will attack. You need to know what to do when that happens. We're lucky they haven't found us yet. And, food gonna be hard to get know. If we find food in a dumpster, we are lucky. We can't stay here long. And, if you wake up in the morning and someone itsn't holding a gun to your head, be happy. Be thankfull. And don't forget any of this. DO NOT FORGET ANYTHING I JUST SAID! It could cost you a lot. And DON'T forget anything I am teaching you hear. If I teach you how to duck at a certien time, remember it. If I teach you to hit a spacific spot, remember it. It's imoprtant. Lilly, I know you like to say 'I can do this.' , but if I say stay somewhere and don't move, you do it. Anything I tell you to do could save your life. Don't forget it. Maddy, same gose for you. If I tell you, don't talk, don't mave, don't whisper, don't do anything, you do it! Lilly, if you 'I can do this' and I tell you 'NO!' you don't do it! I'm in charge. Remember it!"

I had to say the whole 'I'm in charge. Do what I say.' thing over again 'cus I know Lilly. She'll say 'I can do this!' and do it. I have full control over what she dose. Ok, not full control. God has full control over her life, not me. I'm just her parent from now on. This is my Flock. I know I said I want to be the Flockers, but thats lame. We are the new Flock. And, even though I think I can't be my mom, I'm the new Maximum Ride. And, now, I'm in charge of my Flock.

When we were done, which was three hours later, we found Iggy and the boys still makeing bombs.

"Have you been makeing bombs for five hours?!" I asked.

"It's been hard to teach Zack. And, I have to teach Will how to make diffrent kinds of bombs. Then, I have to teach them both how to contect the bombs to the outer shells." Iggy said.

"Thanks Uncle Iggy!" Zack said.

"Yeah, Ig! You're the coolest!" Will added.

"Call me Uncle Iggy. I know your not a kid of the Flock, but call me Uncle Iggy."

"Actually, he is!"

All eyes were on me.

"He's a kid of My Flock." I explained.

"WOW!" Uncle Iggy said.

"What?" Zack asked.

"When Sam said that, I could of sworn I was back in the past, when Max got reunited with the Flock. Ya know, after the whole Itex in Germany thing." (a/n: If you didn't read book three, SORRY!)

"Well, I don't think I'm as good as my mom and dad, but everyone says I am. So, I believe everyone." I said.

After a few more hours, the oys finished. Uncle Ig said they mastered it. They are bomb experts. I believe him. Why? While I was sleeping that night a stink bobm went off. Uncle Iggy calimed to be inocent. Zack and Will were laughing. I got on to them. I told them that in the futuer, we won't have a lot of stuuf to make bombs out of. So I told them not to waste 'em.

The next day, Uncle Iggy showed them how to make bombs out of stuff that people can find in the wilderness of in cities. Then I told Iggy that I need to teach the boys to fight. Will knows I can't fight. He told Zack. Both boys burst out laughing. I told them about the day before. Zack said, "Prove it!" I proved it. I whipped both their skinny butts! They were begging me to show them how I did that. Well, helf of it, the Voice was reminding me what to do. The other half, I was remembering what to do. Iggy and I showed them and then, when they got caught up with Lilly,Maddy, and me, Iggy showed us more. The Voice pipped in every once in a while. We did good.

I went to bed that night. Know what my dream was? The Voice talking to me. Sam, we need to be ready.You learned how to do normal fighting.With rules, and stuff. Tomorrow, tell Iggy you need to learn streat fighting. "Why?" 'Cus, Flyboys fight with programs. They have rules they must follow. That's the fighting you learned. Erasers fight with no rules what-so-ever. They play dirty. They hit below the belt and smash heads. You need to learn to do that. "Ok. I'll tell Uncle Iggy when I wake up." I'll be right there to remind you. "Good night!" Good Night Saxim.

I woke up the next morning. The boys learned more about bombs and bomb saftey. Finally! Zack almost set off a BIG bomb! He needs to learn bomb safty. And Will! He almost blow up the neighbors house! He needs some bomb safty leasons too! When it came time to fight, I walked over too Iggy.

"Uncle Ig. Can I talk to you?"

"Sure thing Sam."

We walked away from the others.

"Ok. The Voice said we need to learn streat fighting."

"I was gonna teach you that later."

"Well, the Voice said we need to learn it today."

"Tell your Voice it's anoying."

HEY!

"So, are you gonna teach us?"

"Best a blind man can." Iggy said.

"Thanks Uncle Iggy!"

"No problem."

The others were confused when Iggy said we were learning streat fighting. All Iggy said was "Blame Sam's Voice!"

Will and Zack learnd streat fighting fast. It took a while to get Lilly and Maddy to get used to not haveing any rules in fighting. Maddy never hit below the belt. Lilly was getting stronger, but she followed all the rules of normal fighting.

"Lilly, don't follow the rules!"

"But, Sam! I've always been taught to follow the rules! How am I sopouse to not follow them?!"

"You can't follow the rules if there are no rules!"

"What?! There are rules in fighting!"

"In normal fighting. There are rules to normal fighting."

"How are there diffrent types of fighting?! That dosen't make sense!"

"When you fight with rules, it's called normal fighting. When you fight without rules, it's called street fighting. Dose that make sense?"

"But, that means street fighting is breaking the rules!"

"Ok. Forget the rules! Nromal fighting and street fighting are two totally diffrent things."

"How?! They seem the same!"

"Look at Zack. See how he's fighting?"

"Yes."

"Now, watch me. WILL! Get over here!"

He came over.

"Now watch Lilly."

We bagan to fight. I did normal fighting. I won! But, it's not the point.

"You can leave Will. Lilly, did you see how I was fighting?"

"Yes."

"Do you see how diffrent my fighting was from Zacks?"

"Yes."

"Now, forget what I told you befor about Normal fighting being diffrent from street fighting. Ok?"

"Ok."

"Did you see how Zack was just kicking and ounching at his punching bag? As if he had no rules."

"Yes."

"Did you see how I kicked and punched with aim and timing? Like I had rules?"

"Yes."

"I was doing normal fighting. Zack was street fighting. They are diffrent. Did you see the diffrence?"

"Yes."

"You already know how to fight the way I did, right?"

"Yes."

"Well, now you're gonna learn how to fight the way Zack did."

"Ok."

Now, it was easy. She figured it out quickly. I told her that in most situations, she would have to street fight, so she should practice this more. Iggy got Maddy to stop being scared of street fighting. She was soon fighting like...well...someone who street fights everyday. Me? I got the hang of it. It was easier. There was no rules to remember. There were no places on the enemy that I coudln't hit. There was no limit. It was fun. Something I loved. And I couldn't wait to use it on those dog boys! Time to pay Ari 2. You tryed to kill me, and now, I'm taking you down!

"Sam!" Iggy yelled. "Training was over hours ago. You need rest."

"Sorry Uncle Iggy. Couldn't help it. I love this! I'm getting stronger! I'm learning to fight! Those dog boys are toast!"

"SAXIM! It's not that easy. And you know it. Don't underestemate them. Don't get coacky.And don't underestemate yourself. Don't think that just because you know a few tricks, that you can win. Go to sleep."

"Yes sir." I went to bed. That night, in my sleep, the Voice told me we had a few more days, then we had to go find Gasman. Lilly said he was in Arakansa. We need some plans. We have to be ready for anything. So, after few more days, we said our goodbyes to Uncle Iggy and the stray cats that live in his house. As we walked out the door, I stopped everyone.

"Whats up, Sam?" Maddy asked.

Iggy stared at me with blind eyes.

"I'm choosing a name for myself." Confused loos covered their faces. Iggy smiled, knowing what I was doing. "My mom was Maximum Ride. I'm Saxim Winder. But not anymore. Today, I become Saxim Fly. The leader of the new Flock. The one who will save the world. And, the new Maximum Ride."

"Good luck." Uncle Iggy said.

"We'll need it." I told him.

We flew off. No more traing with Uncle Iggy. But now, w have to find Gasman.

I'll lead you! "Ya know, I need all the help I can get and more. I'll take you up on that!" Fly south. And hurry!Gasman needs to see some familair faces."Ok."

A song came into my head. The song my mom loved. Holly Brook's "What I Wouldn't Give." "What I wouldn't give just to forget! So I can live again! Am I despertly losing this fight! When I should be really choosing my flight! OOO! Take me, take me, take me now! What I wouldn't give just to forget. So I can remember how to live again! I wanna live again! What I wouldn't give just to FORGET! So I can remember how to live!"

Saxim,Lilly,Maddy,Zack, and Willber Fly

(s/n: I've never felt more like my mom and dad.)