-Max POV-

Ouch, I hit my head on something over me. Where am I? Finally it all came back to me. Fang, Iggy, Ari, the kids and the school, everything came flooding back to me, everything I had ever known had just been stripped away from me. I was in a cage, back in the school, trapped again. I was just glad that Fang and Iggy were back with the kids, safe. Something inside me told me that, it told me that somehow all of us were going to get through this and some day we will be back together. I hope that I can live through the time in between.

-Fang POV-

I finally got the kids to go to bed. Well Angel and Gazzy, I let Nudge stay up because now she is really one of the oldest.

"Night sweetie." I said to Angel.

"Goodnight Fang, love you." Angel told me, as she sat up and wrapped her arms around my neck.

"Love you too sweetie, now get some sleep." I told her as she laid her head on the pillow. I walked out and shut the door. Gazzy already a sleep in the other bed.

"Ok the kids are all asleep." I said

"Good, now what's the plan?" Ig asked. He was sitting next to Nudge on the couch.

"What do you mean? There is no plan." I said as I sat across from them.

"That's a joke right? I mean there is always a plan? I mean how else do you plan to save Max?" Nudge asked looking at me.

I sighed then said "We aren't, no one is going to save Max." the look of disappointment that came across her face is indescribable. "Look, I made a promise to Max. It was a while ago but I did make that promise."

"Well what was the promise?" Ig asked me.

"She asked me one night if something ever happened to her that if it put you guys in danger or anywhere near the school that we would not go after her." I said with a sigh. "She made me promise and right before Ari knocked her out she gave me a look that said remember your promise. So no, no plan, no going to save Max and Iggy you remember what she said that applies here." Their mouths were wide open.

"Well then. I guess that we will not be saving Max we will just have to wait till she comes back." Ig said. Nudge jumped up.

"Are you both crazy?" Nudge screamed at us. Just then I heard Angel whimper.

"Great…" Iggy grumbled. I stood up and went into the kids' room. Angel was lying down whining. She must be having a nightmare, I thought to myself. Just then she sat up.

She was screaming "Max, Max, Max!" She had tears rolling down her face, but she looked like she was still half asleep.

"Shhh! Sweetie calm down, don't wake your brother." I walked over to her and sat down on the side of her bed. She was still yelling Max's name. So I did what all good people do, I slapped my hand over her mouth one hand, and I picked her up with my other arm. She was kicking the whole time I carried her out of the room. Nudge and Iggy stood up as soon as they heard us come in.

"What is going on?" Nudge said as I came in holding Angel upside down with a hand over her mouth. Angel was kicking and waving her arms around like crazy as I carried her carefully through the doorway.

"I think she is having a nightmare. She just kept yelling for Max. I did not want her to walk Gazzy up so I put a hand on her mouth and carried her out, if you don't mind help me calm her down." I said as her foot came dangerously close to my head. I flipped her and laid her down on the couch and Nudge came over to hold down Angel as I tried to wake her up. Iggy had the great idea to dump a glass of water on her. Nudge and I just looked at him.

"Really?" Nudge yelled at him, but it worked. Angel woke up coughing and crying.

"wha, what's going on?" She asked us.

"Shhh, sweetie, it was just a dream." I said smoothing her hair as she sat up soaking wet.

"Why am I wet? Oh never mind… Fang it was not a dream!" She turned to face me. "It was real, wait what are we doing at a hotel? We were on a street, and Max was walking down it, we were on roofs wearing ski masks. She walked down the alley and then you gave the signal..." Angel started to cry again. "It had to be real… It just had to be!" She was crying harder than before.

"Honey its ok. Here what did we look like?" Nudge asked.

"Well we looked a little older then we are now. Like our hair was longer, and me, Gazzy and you were taller. Iggy also looked fatter." Angel said with a smile all over her face. Nudge started laughing when she said Iggy was fat.

"Hey! So you're saying I get fat." Iggy said.

"No! I'm saying you already are fat… but you get fatter!" Angel said

"Hey!" Ig said to Angel's general area.

"That's what you get for dumping water all over me!" Angel gestured to her soaking body. Nudge started to laugh at Iggy, but I was really looking at the way Angel was staring at Iggy, then Ig nodded and smiled. So I guessed that they were communicating through her mind powers.

"Hey whatever you're saying you can say to all of us." Nudge spoke up and looked at both of them.

"Oh I just told him I was joking and that he was not the fat one. He asked who was… so I said Fang." Angel smiled sweetly at me. Nudge laughed hysterically.

"Oh yeah!" I said as I chased her around. I finally caught her and graved her ankle and held her upside down with one hand. She started to laugh, and I remembered Nudge had laughed. "And you think it's funny!" I ran over and picked Nudge up and flung her over my left shoulder. She started to kick her feet and pound on my back with her hands. Iggy just sat there looking amused.

"Put us down Fang!" Nudge said laughing hard.

"Fang, all the blood is rushing to my head, and when I laugh it does not make it any better." Angel said through laughter.

"Well don't call me fat and don't laugh at what the little blonde says." I said as Angel pouted over the little blonde comment and Nudge laughed even harder. I started to spin so they would get dizzy.

"Fang I'm going to puke." Nudge yelled at me.

"Fine I will put you guys down and Ig go get a towel for Angel, and Nudge get her some new pajamas for her." I said as I dumped Nudge on the couch. I then tossed Angel into the air and caught her in my arms. She was still laughing when Nudge and Iggy came back with the towel and clothes.

"Thanks guys." Angel said as I wrapped her in to towel.

"What's going on?" Gazzy asked as he stepped out of the bedroom. His entry brought on more extreme laughing from the girls. Gazzy just stood there looking confused.

"Long story Gazzy I'll tell you later." Iggy said.

"Well it's almost 4 o'clock in the morning… you guys want to watch a movie?" I asked as Angel climbed into my lap.

"Yeah sure what about a scary movie, where monsters try to tear apart little kids and take them back to the mad scientist's lair where they are tested on to further the knowledge of the scientist?" Gazzy asked excitedly.

"Umm I think I've seen that movie… oh wait I am living in that movie." Nudge said looking at Gazzy like wow very creative.

"Oh yeah… oh, oh, oh do you know what? We should make a movie like that I mean it could be one of those that is based off of a true story!" Gazzy said

"Yeah like that's a great idea…" Ig mumbled to himself as he popped some popcorn. I decided to just put something on. So I flipped on the TV and some show was on. All the kids went quiet and watched TV. After about 3 hours of watching TV everyone fell asleep, minus me of course. I mean I had just lost Max to Ari. Ick… I would hate to see what they are doing to her right now. I can't believe that she just let them take her; she did not even fight Ari. Stupid erasers, why on earth do they want her anyways?

-MAX POV-

I had spent the last 3 hours crying my eyes out. I really missed my flock. Why did they even want me, all I want is to be home with Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel and even Total! They were like my whole life, what am I going to do without them? Suddenly all the lights came on and I tried to dry my tears.

"Well, well, well how are you Maximum?" Ari came and stopped in front of my cage. I tried to ignore him but he would not go away.

"How do you think I'm doing? I just had everything that ever mattered to me striped away and now you're asking how I'm doing!" I started yelling at him, I was extremely mad. "How do you think it would feel if everything that every meant anything to you was taken from you."

"Well if you put it that way I guess you're not doing too well." He said bending down with a stupid smirk on his face.

"Oh you think? What do you want any way?" I asked then looked away.

"Oh dad wants to run some experiments on you." Ari said as he opened the door and slapped hand cuffs on my wrist.

"Great sounds like a load of fun!" I said sarcastically.

"Oh yeah it will be!" Ari said smiling evilly at me. I smirked at him before he threw me over his shoulder and carried me out. We went down a series of hallways till we came to a room with a metal table in it. Ari put me down took off the handcuffs and strapped me to the table. He left the room and made sure to look the door. I struggled a little but then I just laid there and waited for something to happen or someone to come. After about 10 minutes I started getting bored, so I tried to see if I could get loose. I could not and then my nose had an itch, great… would they just get it over with. Just as I thought that someone came in.