A/N: Wow, I got a relatively good turn out on the last chapter. I got two new reviewers and one from the last chapter reviewed again. So this chapter is for you guys. Any way keep reviewing cuz it gives me incentive to write. And, I'm so sorry it took so long for me to get this chapter up. I just moved and my laptop got packed away and I just barely found it and then I had to wait for the internet to get setup. Now, on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but a bottle of pills that I use to control my tourettes.

Max's Pov

Ding Dong Ding Dong. God I hate doorbells, especially at four o' clock in the morning. (sound familiar) I got up and walked to the door. I opened the door and there stood Travis in a small speedo. Wow. "Travis, what are you doing he-?" he cut me off by placing a sweet kiss on my lips. I melted into the kiss and when we finally broke apart he was wrapped in my arms. I felt something on his back and froze. There were wings on his back, two giant wings. "What happened?"

"You happened, and it's ok. When the baby is born we'll be a happy family of freaks." I looked down and my stomach was huge and when I looked back up Travis was in a tuxedo with a ring in his hand holding it out to me. I sat up in bed and screamed.

Oh god, it was just a dream. Thank you, lord in heaven. All of a sudden there was a knock on my door. I nearly fell off my bed. "Wh.. Who is it?" I asked cautiously.

"F.. Fang." He chuckled from behind the door. "If you don't want to be late to school, I suggest you get out of bed." I heard his soft footsteps go off into the other parts of the apartment. I got out of bed and gathered my clothes while heading to the bathroom.

As I passed by the flocks rooms I thought of what would happen if Travis joined us. It is a possibility with how messed up Itex is. I finally got to the kitchen and started some toast. It popped up and I walked out the front door where everyone was waiting for me. We put on ski masks and jumped in the air and flew off. We got to school pretty quickly. We landed in the back where everyone broke apart to go to their classes. I was about to leave when I looked up and saw the biggest eraser I've ever seen, it looked like a giant bear with wings. There is only one, I could probably take him.

I put my ski mask back on and jumped in the air. I flew in front of him and punched him in the stomach. He backed up and dodged every one of my next attacks. He kept up this dodging act until he finally punched me in the stomach. There was so much force in that one punch that I got knocked out, what happened next was unknown to me.

Travis Pov

Ok, here is how it worked out. I was flying to school in my bear form while humming Barbie Girl. Hey it's a catchy song. Anyway, when all of a sudden this chick in a ski mask came up and punched me in the stomach. I flew back a little bit and kept dodging her attacks until it became too hard. So I punched her in the stomach. Itex must have sent her because of the whole flying act.

Anyway though, I must have hit her too hard, because she dropped like a stone. I swiftly flew down and caught her. I landed behind the school and laid her on the ground and put my backpack under her head. I'm too nice for my own good. Seriously, she just attacked me and now I'm helping her. I changed back into my human form and sat down next to her. I wonder if she's someone I know.

I gently pulled the ski mask off her head and immediately fell speechless. It was.. Max. But does this mean she has been playing me from the start or was it all a misunderstanding? I didn't have much time , so I stretched my wings out so I was ready for a quick get-away.

She sat up and rubbed her stomach. She looked around and saw me sitting next to her and gasped. "Travis, what are you doing here?" She was looking around nervously, probably for a way to run.

"Oh, nothing. Just trying to determine if you're a friend or foe." She looked behind me and saw my massive wings extending from my back. She started to get up but I grabbed her arm and gently set her back down. "Let's just talk for a bit, please." She nodded and started messing with the feathers at the end of her right wing.

"Well, I was an experiment for Itex and they made me into a bird hybrid." She stated flatly.

"Only a bird? Cuz' Itex doesn't go half and half with anything. " She looked up at me with a weird look.

"I'm pretty sure they would have told me if I was something else." I smiled at her and laughed. It lightened the mood a little and she smiled back at me.

"It's just because, Itex does every experiment with a base animal. As you could tell, mine was a bear. The base animal is what gives the experiment its senses and we can change into that form." I stopped and she nodded for me to continue. "That's why we have powers. All the different enzymes from the different animal dna fused into us makes us gain certain powers. Sarah can sense other experiments when they are touching her and can tell what their base animals are. I can control photons, light energy, and bend them to my will. I can even shoot out solar beams if I gather enough energy. " she looked up and took in a deep breath.

"So, every experiment has a base animal?" I nodded. "Does that mean if I found out what mine was I could transform into it like you?" I nodded again. "Wow, that's a lot to take in." I stood up and offered her my hand. She grabbed it and stood up.

"Anyway though, I wanted to tell you that Itex injected me with some kind of super-pheromone and that you probably got a dose of it too. From what I could tell, we've got about two days until we go psycho with this stuff." She nodded.

"Yeah, I found the stuff in my home,too. They must want us to.. you know.. mate." I couldn't help remembering the dreams I had been getting recently. I shook my head violently, trying to get the dirty thoughts out of my head.

"Yeah, well, we should really get to class. We can talk to Sarah and your family after school." She chuckled.

"What a strange turn of events. You a hybrid just like us. Who would have guessed it?" we walked to our first period class in silence not really speaking. As we were walking I reached out and touched Max's hand and she took it and we just walked like that until we got to our class.

Bob the Whitecoat Pov

I walked into the school and went up to the front desk. "Hello, I'm looking for a Max Ride and Travis Gray." I said to the women at the front desk. I looked at her name plate and smiled at her. "Mable." She frowned at me.

"Relative or Guardian?" I looked away for a second to think. "Hello sir, are you retarded or just stupid?" I looked her way again. "I asked, relative or guardian?" I shook my head.

"No, I'm a friend of the family." I smiled triumphantly, I win, ha ha.

"Really, is that so?" I nodded again. "Good, then you can pick them up after school." What?!?!

"Excuse me, lady, but I was told by their parents to pick them up!" She smiled.

"Oh, ok let me call them for you." She picked up the phone and pressed a few buttons. Someone must have picked up because she started talking again. "Hello, this is Mable. I was wondering if you could come to the office please there is someone here for you." She hung up the phone and smiled at me.

"I guess I win." She laughed and nodded. Two security guards that could pass for semi-trucks if looked at the right angle, walked in. Mable pointed at me and laughed. "Oh shit" was all I said before they tackled me to the ground and started tasering me repeatedly. Zzzzz Zzzzz Zzzzz. After about five or so tasers they picked me up and threw me out the front doors. I looked up and saw two teenagers pointing and laughing at me. "What are you looking at you snot-nosed brat?"

He stopped laughing and punched me in the face. I thought , is my life a celestial joke or something?' I just walked away and drove off. When I got back to the apartment Dr. L walked out of the kitchen.

"Sit down." He said while pointing to a chair. I sat down and he looked at me good and hard. "Listen, I don't think you're trying hard enough." I choked a little bit on the water I was taking a sip from. "I think that maybe I should have you replaced. You haven't caught those two stupid hybrids yet, and it's been three days." I couldn't take this. I got up and walked into the kitchen. "What are you doing, Bob?"

I didn't answer him. I pulled a watermelon out of the fridge and walked back over to him. "You want to replace me? You think I haven't been trying hard enough? Well, guess what, I got a three pound water melon with your name on it." I threw the melon at his head and it smashed all over the place. He got knocked out in the process. I walked out of the apartment and got into the car. I don't know what I'm gonna do now, but I'm not going back to that megalomaniac.

Travis Pov

"Everyone pull out your textbooks and turn to page 289." My biology teacher, Mr. Dalton told the class while writing stuff on the whiteboard. I snuck a peak at Max and she smiled at me. "Today we will be learning about the use of pheromones in wild animals." I chuckled at the irony. "Mr. Gray, is there something you would like to share with the rest of the class?"

"No sir." I shook my head and heard everyone in the class stifling laughter.

"Anyways, pheromones are a chemical made by the animal to attract a mate." He started writing on the board as he spoke. "The pheromone is emitted much like b.o. from a teenage boy. It then wafts over to the female, like humans. The only real difference is instead of the female being disgusted, she is overwhelmed and sent into a mating frenzy." He stopped talking and finished writing on the board. I saw Max raise her hand. "Yes, Miss Ride?"

"What if both female and male emit the pheromone? What would happen?" she was obviously trying to figure out more about our situation.

"Well, assuming that was possible, the pheromones would throw them into a bloodlust." He took a breath and went on. "Bloodlust is a state of mind where the animals gain extra strength and speed and will fight off anything that gets close to the mate. It doesn't last as long as the normal state of lust, but in this state the female is 300 percent more likely to get pregnant." Oh shit.. that's gonna happen to us in two days.

I raised my hand this time. "Yes, Mr. Gray."

"Yeah, is there anyway that you could cancel out the pheromones once they have begun spreading?" I looked at Max, who was tapping nervously on her desk.

"Yes, scientists find that if you blend different foods together they sometimes are potent enough when drank to cancel out the pheromones." Mr. Dalton said matter-of-factly. The rest of the class went on but I really didn't pay attention, and I'm guessing, neither did Max. Class ended and the rest of the school day went by pretty quickly.

When school ended I met up with Max and we headed to my house where I knew Sarah would be waiting. As we walked side by side she grabbed my hand and pulled up close to me. With how old we looked and the way we were holding eachother, you would probably think we were married or something. Not that I'm complaining or anything.

We got to my house and walked in. Max walked over to one of the couches and plopped down. I went into the other rooms of the house looking for Sarah. I finally found her in my room going through my stuff. "Uh.. What are you doing?" She looked up at me and smiled.

"Oh, nothing, I just got the urge to do some cleaning and I started in yo-" she raised her nose and started sniffing around. "Who'd you bring home, smells like a girl."

"It's Max, and I need your help with some stuff." She looked at me weird, and headed out of the room.

"What kind of stuff?" she said as she walked down the hallway. "Max-related stuff?" She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively and I nodded.

"Yeah, turns out that the world is chopped-full of mutants from Itex." She frowned a little.

"You mean, Max is an experiment too?" she asked as we walked into the living room.

"Yeah, and we need you to tell us what her base animal is. If it isn't too much trouble." She laughed and sat down next to Max.

"Like it's any trouble to help out my sweet younger brother." She smiled and grabbed Max's hand, who jumped a little but luckily didn't pull her hand back. "Let's see, let's see. Feels like a mammal, big mammal." I fidgeted a little in my chair and I noticed Max do the same. "I've got it." She let go of Max's hand and got up.

"What is it?" Max asked as Sarah walked over to our bookshelf. She started looking through our array of zoology books until she found the one she was looking for.

"Your base animal is a North American black bear. Kind of ironic don't you think, bro? You're a bear, she's a bear. Funny how it all works out." She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively at me and ran out of the room as I threw a couch pillow at her.

"A bear, my animal is a bear." Max stated flatly. I sat down next to her and wrapped my arm around her shoulders, pulling her close to me. "Well, now you got to show me how to change forms." She smiled at me.

"Yeah, we can head over to your house with Sarah and find out your whole family's animals so I can teach you all at once."

"Ok, let's do that then." She got up and walked over to the front door. Sarah walked over to us and locked the door as I stepped out.

"I heard the plan. Let's get this done with, I'm going to a movie with Lorrie tonight." We walked down the street and flew off with Max leading the way. We now had two days until something terrible was going to happen. The sad part, I didn't mind all this too much.

Hey everyone, it is I, your beloved leader. I am here to tell you that because I live in America, you guys should have some say in how the story turns out. So, I want everyone to come up with an animal for each one of the flock members. You don't have to come up with one for each member, just say what animal you think is best. The only animal I think is good so far is a black panther for Fang. So go ahead and tell me what you think.