MAX POV

By the time we woke up, the whole team had found out about the engagement. Blaze still had to figure out who her bridesmaids were. Luckily all of her friends played both hockey and softball. Nudge was made flower girl since Blaze was great buddies with her ever since they pranked all of Blaze's brothers all at once… they were stupid enough to take showers at the same while we were all at camp… they had a fun time walking across camp in their towels only to find their clothes in the lake… CLASSIC!

The whole team was sitting in our room, eating breakfast and watching a Red Wing game because we could. Coach was fine with it as long as we kept our energy saved, which wasn't hard for me an Blaze, thanks to the mutant part of us. Our team was still mad at us about that. When they had found out the truth, they all didn't look all that shocked. Apparently they all knew that there must be some reason for our great skating. I know awesome people, right?

Blaze was sitting at the end of the bed, talking strategy with her oldest brother, Felix, who had come as the team's third coach that cheers us on from the bench. Apparently we needed someone to constantly tell us that we were doing great. To tell you the truth, I just found him annoying to have on the bench, and so did Blaze, but we both decided that while he was here, we may as well act as if he actually knew what he was doing… HEHEHEHE!!! Sorry, I just can't say that he could be a good coach without cracking up. I know, that's mean, but he's kind of like a brother to me so I can say was amazingly okay with the break-up, and we immediately started acting like we did before we were dating, because even then, we were great friend. We kept talking about wedding stuff. I was going to end up with him while walking up the aisle, since he was going to be the best man.

Not that that was a bad thing. I would rather be walking with him, rather than Tony's bizarre cousin, Black, that was going to be walking down with Rene; poor Rene.

Coach finally came in and told us to get into our warm-ups on, and to get motivated, which basically meant to listen to the songs he bought us for all of our iPods. It's kind of cool in a way, but its all weird bands from the 60's and 70's.

I got dressed up, and I even added the lovely touch Blaze and I made up. Blaze loves to tie-dye stuff, so we made rainbow tie-dyed shirts, hair scrunchies, and even shoe laces that we put on out light blue converses. When I walked out of the bathroom, I laughed both of us were wearing the same thing, right down to the high up ponytails that were almost on the top of our heads. We both laughed then did our lovely secret hand shake. *Aligned fists, then we turn them so our knuckles are pointing at each others chests. Hands travel up each others arms until we reach the elbow. Force arm down and say BAM!*

We walked down the hall to find Tony on the phone with his dad again. Tony seemed calmer than, yesterday, and I was glad to see it. When we got close enough to hear, we were extremely exited that Tony's father was starting to accept the engagement. Tony hung up the phone when he saw us and put his arm around Blaze, not saying a word about him conversation with his father, and we were okay with that because we had heard what we needed to hear.

We all crammed back into the bus, exited for our first game, and eager to show everybody that a team from Wisconsin is not to be trifled with. Our team was almost completely silent on the way to the rink, and it was even quieter in the locker room, while everyone was getting dressed. Everyone was anticipating the first drop of the puck. HA! They weren't the ones who would have to try and win the first puck, so they shouldn't be as nervous.

But the first line would be nervous, I mean, they were the ones that would be judged first. They were the ones that will represent our team first. They were the ones who would give people the first opinion of the Blazers.

A little nerve-racking, don't you think?

We waited in order, goalie's in front and the rest of us in numerical order. We heard the other team being announced as their girls stepped out on the ice, and I could have sworn that some of the names seemed familiar to me, but I stopped thinking about that as soon as I heard our team song go on; Crazy Train by Ozzy Osborn.

ANNOUNCER

(The girls skate out and wave as they are called)

"And now, they came all the way from Wisconsin, they defeated CYA and the ST. Louis Pretty Blue's to get here. The BANKTON HIGH BLAZERS! Starting goalie in number 1, Sally Marcello! Her backup, wearing 31 miss Dianna Greene! Playing defense for the second line, wearing numbers 23 and 58, please meet Quila Tads and Weara DeMax! Playing left wing for the second line is Danielle Grand wearing number 45! Stella and Sienna Ross are playing center and right wing for the second line, Stella wearing number 98 and Sienna wearing number 99! And now for the first line! Petra Hollow, number 29, and Kali Malcolm, number 83, will be playing defense! René Devin will be on the right side, wearing 75! Playing center, the speedy senor assistant captain wearing number 2, Maximum Ride! And playing left wing, the great senor, the aggressive captain wearing number 7, Miss Blaze Corollo! The Blazers are coached by head coach Mike Front and his assistant, Rick Parkinson. This defiantly seems like its going to be a great game folks.

Max POV

I swear, my heart nearly stopped the moment I saw them. It couldn't be… but there they were, sitting in the stands staring right back at me.

The flock!

Blaze came up behind me after telling the boys to play Starstrukk by 30H!3. Her smile immediately evaporated as soon as she saw them, too. I knew that she knew what they looked like since she could read mind. Plus, the moment she synced our powers, I read her mind and found that their faces were in it.

"You want me to fling a puck at them during the game?" she asked. I knew that the flock had heard her, so I should have restrained myself, but I couldn't help it.

I nodded and laughed. She gave me a grin and then started dancing to the music and got laughs from the crowd right away. Soon, the whole team had joined in her retardedness, including me, although I wasn't happy about the fact that Nudge was now sitting next to them. If she wanted to go back to them, I wouldn't stop her, but she wasn't getting back into my house again.

Fang kept staring at me, with his usual blank stare, and I immediately felt like slapping him. He had no right to stare at me.

We did our team cheer and went out to center ice, awaiting the drop of the puck. Right before the puck was dropped, it hit me. The team we were playing was from Virginia, the goalie was that girl, Tess, which Iggy had gotten along with, while we went to school there… They had gone back to Virginia, which meant that they were going to school with Lissa. Oh, great, not only had fang and I broken up while we were being kicked out, but he had to go back to the red-haired wonder… Great…

We had done it! We had one! That meant that no matter how we did in the next games, we wouldn't get worse than eighth in the country! Ha, in your face, Flock! And to anyone who was wondering, Blaze did fling a puck over the boards to get one of them, and she hit her target, hitting Fang on the top of the head, making me laugh hysterically.