Chapter five:

Mr. Chu rubbed his hands together in anticipation. His plan has been running smoothly, though there was almost a hitch, one of his M-geeks had almost killed one of the bird kids, but his plan involved them being very much alive.

He had made his M-geeks stronger to keep the flock busy for longer than they would with the weaker M-geeks. But he also made them breakable, so the flock would win.

While the flock was busy fighting the M-geeks one of his officers went into the house and found where the flock's next safe house would be. All of the rooms were under surveillance.

Mr. Chu had a private grin, when he remembered where he put the bomb.

Chapter six:

Well we were on our way to our next safe house. Were we flying? No. And you can guess how I feel about that.

Any ways, so now we were being driven so our next safe house in Ohio. OHIO. WE WERE IN FREAKING ARIZONA! NOW WE ARE DRIVING TO OHIO.

These next several hours will probably drive me insane. Just FYI.

I looked over next to me; Fang looked a lot better than he did in the car. We are now flying because I could not stand another freaking minute in that enclosed space. Fang and I were both unbelievably twitchy in that car now we could relax; now I could feel the wind through my feathers and the warm sun on my back.

Fang felt my eyes on him and gave me a quick half smile and looked away.

"All right guys we're here!" I shouted and we all landed.

We headed into the house and into our rooms, which had already been chosen through pictures of the house.

Now Max we need to start thinking about your next steps voice was back.

I need some air. I thought

"I'm going for a fly." I told Fang as I was walking down the hall.

"Here I'll go with you."

"Actually I need some time alone."

Of course this is Fang so it didn't hurt his feelings,

He just nodded.

I took off. I love the feeling of soaring through the sky, almost like you don't have a care in the world. Then you are blasted back to reality with an annoying little voice that you can't get rid of.

Turn around Max

I turned just in time to see several M-geeks throwing a net over my head.

Not again!

Chapter seven:

Mr. Chu was walking on air. It was time.

Chapter eight:

I was carried to a large conference room with about twenty TVs on the walls, oh joy. Well at least I was conscious.

One of the M-geeks sat me down- still in the net- in one of the chairs and held a gun against my head and told me not to move. Mr. Chu came in.

"Ah Maximum Ride. So good to see you again." He said in a really creepy voice.

"Wish I could say the same Chuey. Not to be rude but aren't you suppose to be in jail for illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the ocean?" I said.

His whole face turned red and he slapped me across the face.

"We really should stop meeting like this." I said although my face hurt like heck.

"You stupid girl, you don't know how much power I have right now." He said. He turned on the twenty TVs one by one. They all showed live views of all the rooms in our current safe house, I almost cried out when one came on with Fang looking worriedly out my bedroom window no-doubt waiting for me. "And now for the best part." Mr. Chu zoomed in on what appeared to be a bomb, in a place where no one would notice it. The top shelf of the cabinet in my bathroom connected to my room. "You make one wrong move and your flock gets blown up." Mr. Chu grinned evilly.

"Alright." I said reluctantly. "What do you want from me?"

"I want you to go home like nothing happened; I'll know if you tell anyone about the bomb with these cameras, so stay at your safe house while I tell you to. You will have this Bluetooth in." he handed one of the M-geeks what looked like an ear plug and stuck it in my ear. You couldn't even see it. Crap.

Mr. Chu said "With this I will tell you what to do and you will obey immediately or your whole family goes ka-boom. You understand?" I nodded. "Good. I will have one of my associates escort you home."

Chapter nine:

Fang's POV:

I was seriously started to worry about Max. She had been gone for three hours. I was just about to go look for her when out of nowhere she swooped in and landed gracefully in her room.

"You were gone a long time. Where were you?" I asked

She shrugged. "Swooping around. I was trying to get rid of a headache. Didn't work." She said as she rubbed her temples.

I rubbed her shoulders. Then I noticed on her arms there looked like there were rope burns like she was caught in a net. "What are those from?"

"Do you honestly think I remember where I got all my cuts and scrapes?" She said sarcastically, but something was off about it.

"What's wrong?" I asked

"Nothing it's just this headache." I stayed silent, listening. "Well I'm gonna get some sleep, are the kids in bed yet?"

"Uh, yeah."

"Ok well, night."

"Night Max." I said and I leaned down and kissed her forehead, which made her expression look less tense. At least I know it's the real Max. I thought as I left her room.

Max's POV:

That was close. I thought as I fell down on my bed. Why does Fang have to know me so well?

"All right max, I'm leaving for now but I'll be watching you. Any hesitating in answering this Bluetooth will result in you and your family being terminated." I heard the phone click off.

I sighed and fell asleep.

Chapter ten:

I woke up to an annoying vibration in my ear. I bolted up and pressed the talk button.

"Maximum, today you will leave your flock, but you will make sure you say goodbye to them. You will come to my headquarters and I will do with you what I will."

"But if I tell them I'm leaving they will try to stop me." I said shocked, this was low even for him.

"Then leave tonight and leave a note for them, be sure to tell them how you feel, and if you dare write about the bomb I will kill all of you immediately." He chuckled "Be sure to write one for Valencia as well, I wouldn't want to leave her out, she was so nice the last time I saw her in person." He was talking about when he kidnapped her. I was going to kill him. I heard the phone click off.

Respect your enemies' abilities or they will win, I've told you this before Max.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, voice. He is still going down. I thought.

I went downstairs and started putting bread in the toaster, feeling miserable. Iggy came downstairs, yawning followed by a sleepy Gasman, who immediately plunked down in front of the TV.

"Hi Max" Said Gazzy. I went over and ruffled his hair.

"Mornin' Ig, mornin' Gazzy, Ig can you make some-"

"I'll make some eggs when I feel like it." He mumbled.

"I'm glaring at you Ig."

"Fine. I'll do it now." And he started getting ingredients out, knowing where everything is just by feeling around the house for about an hour last night.

All of a sudden a hand was on my shoulder. I nearly jumped out of my skin.

"Jeez Fang could you be anymore unnoticeable?"

"Maybe." He said and he faded into the background of the kitchen walls.

I rolled my eyes but smiled at the general place he would be.

Then I remembered what I had to do tonight and I felt my smile fade. That was when I realized I was scared.