6 months later
-FANGS POV-
It had been about 6 months since the last time we saw Max and to tell you the truth we all still kind of missed her. Every time we went somewhere the kids would look up and down the streets for her. We all so flew a lot more to see if we might bump into her. Also they all acted a little funny. Like Nudge does not talk as much as she used to, Angel does not read minds as much as she used to and lastly Gazzy and Iggy both stopped making bombs all together. I know creepy right; I mean I can't believe we have gone 6 months without a single explosion.
"Guys its time, get your stuff and get ready to fly!" Angel yelled as she ran down the stairs and into the kitchen where the rest of us were sitting.
"Angel what is it time for what?" Nudge asked walking over to get her jacket.
"To find Max what else?" Angel yelled as she threw Iggy's jacket to him. It landed on his head since you know he's blind.
"What?" Nudge, Iggy, Gazzy and I all yelled at once.
"Guys get with the program; it's time that we start to search for her." Angel said as she headed for the door. I looked at the rest of the flock their mouths were wide open like they could not believe anything Angel just said. I mean I could not believe what the heck she was saying.
"Are you sure Angel?" Gazzy asked.
"Gazzy you really need to start trusting me… to tell you guys the truth over the past few months I have been getting visions about Max, like instructions on how to find her. The first instruction told me to take you guys into town and go up and down the streets. We will see Max but it's not time to talk to her yet or even let her see us. She's been through a lot… if she saw us she might just loss it. Oh my gosh we have to move we only have an hour to get into town!" Angel said running out the door before anyone could ask any questions. Nudge went running after her with Gazzy close on her tail. Lastly I graved Iggy and ran out the door. They were already flying away so I and Ig had to fly pretty fast to catch up to the kids. Once we were in the town (I can't say where cause you know us we never do that.) we landed on the tallest building.
"Okay Angel what know?" Iggy asked.
"SHHH! She will be walking down this alley any second now… and if anyone of you do anything that she notices us I swear it will not be good… Oh my gosh look, look, look there she is!" Angel said in a loud whisper. We all looked down to the street and sure enough there was Max walking down an alley looking like she could be better. Nudge and Angel gasped and Gazzy's mouth was wide open.
"Holy crap that cannot be Max." Was Nudge's only response.
"But it is… I can't believe this. What did they do to her at the school?" Angel said with a shocked and worried look on her face.
"We have to talk to her." Gazzy said standing up. Angel proceeded to jump on top of him and held him down.
"Have you lost your mind?" Gazzy hissed. But Angel had already slapped a hand over his mouth.
"Everyone down!" Angel said in a loud hiss. I saw Max looking up at us, me and her made eye contact before Gazzy dragged me down and I got Iggy down next to me. Angel was staring at us… and if looks could kill I would not be here to tell you guys about it.
-MAXS POV-
I was walking down the alley I always go. When I looked up and swear I saw Fang and Iggy. But when I looked again I did not see them. I shook my head and continued walking. Just seeing them reminds me of the school and how I escaped. I got out after Ari had torn up my wings. The tunnel lead me about 3 miles from the school I ran all the way into this town and have been here ever since. Now seeing them or thinking I saw them is kind of messing with my head it had been over 6 months since I last saw them. Okay I was really freaking out.
-FANGS POV-
6 months later
We had spent the last 6 months watching Max from a far; Angel's stupid mind powers still told us not to talk to her… until today. Today was the day that we finally got to approach her. We had our ski masks on and were on buildings that were around the alley Max walks down every day. We were all going to jump down and try to get Max not to freak out. I saw Max and once she was in position I nodded and we all jumped off our buildings at the same time. We all landed and surrounded her. Max gasped, and looked us all over.
"What the heck!" Max yelled at us.
"Look we mean you no harm, you should just stay calm and no one gets hurt." Gazzy said in a deep voice. We are having him do all of the talking since he can talk in different voices.
"Ha you will be the ones getting hurt… what are you guys anyways? I mean you're like super short muggers or children muggers either way you're not all that threatening. If you guys knew me you would know that I have been in many situations that are far worse." Max said as she clenched her fist and prepared for a fight. That's your Max.
"Look if you hear us though there will be no need for fighting." Gazzy said in his funny voice. Max just smiled… Crap this is bad, I know that smile that's her "wanting a fight." smile. In the next second she had landed a kick in Iggy's chest and he hit the ground with an oof.
"Guys that is her wanting a fight smile." I said as I started fighting Max. She really had no idea who I was because she was surprised about how well I fought. She stopped for a second to stare at me then she shook her head and continued to fight. She turned quick and punched Nudge in the face. Nudge stumbled back but then regained her balance her nose was bleeding slightly. By then me and her were already fighting again. To tell you the truth I was going easy on her to not hurt her. I decided I should kick it up; I then did a side kick to knock her on to the ground then had her hands behind her back. She could not fight me any more so we could finally tell her what we wanted to.
"Look Max you need to chill." I said not even thinking. Nudge gasped, Angel gasped, even Max gasped.
"How the heck do you know my name and have we met you sound familiar?" Max said as she struggled.
"Crap." I mumbled. "Look let me explain. Here this might clear things up, Ig your up." Iggy walked in front of Max and removed his mask. Max gasped and struggled out of my grasp. Just to be sure Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy blocked the exit. I stood behind her ready to grab her if she decided to fly away. She walked over to Iggy. She just stood there looking shocked; she shook her head a couple of times then just stood in front of him.
"Well say something, I can't see your expression." Iggy said sounding irritated.
"I have nothing to say. I know good and well that this is just another stupid way to get me back to the school!" Max swung her leg out to hit Iggy in the head.
"Crap!" Iggy said as he ducked. He could feel her kick, her foot in the air so he could time it right to not get hit. "A little help here, blind guy here about to get his butt kicked by Max!" Iggy said as he took another blow in the chest. He fell to the ground; Max put her foot on his chest and pulled out a switch blade. Nudge's eyes got 3 times bigger, Angel screamed and Gazzy's mouth dropped open when they saw Max put the blade to Ig's neck.
"Max don't! You have no idea on what your doing" Gazzy yelled in his normal voice.
"Max drop the knife!" I yelled at her. Iggy looked white as snow. A drop of blood ran down from his neck, crap.
"Fang do something, ANYTHING!" Nudge screamed at me.
"No one move our I'll kill him." Max said with a steady hand. "Now every one of you remove our mask starting with you the tallest girl, the one I punched in the face." She was gesturing to Nudge. Nudge stepped forward and took of the mask. She had blood dripping down from her nose. Max kept her face as solid as a rock showing no emotion. Nudge managed a weak smile that quickly faded when she looked at Iggy.
"Hi Max." Nudge said sounding scared and weak.
"Next you, the youngest boy, oh what let me guess your Gazzy." Max said turning her head to look at Gazzy. He removed his mask and had a scowl on his face.
"Look Max your out of control! You need to take the knife away from his neck; you would never ever do this to us. You're like mentally insane!" Gazzy walked over to Max and just stared at her.
"Listen twerp, your so right I would never do this to my flock but you know what you're not my flock! You're a bunch of freak little clones sent after me to get me back to the school! Well guess what I'm not going back, not with you, not with anyone! It did not work the first time what makes you think it will work this time?" Max said as she pressed her knife harder into his neck.
"Max chill, calm down!" I said as I took my mask off. Angel did the same since there was no need for it.
"Well, well, well the gangs all here now aren't we." Max said with a cruel smile.
"Guys lets show Max here my new power." I said staring at Max. She turned to look at me suddenly seeing the kids smiling. I froze time around her. I ran over and saw her hand holding the knife. Iggy did not move a muscle.
"Oh my gosh! What are we going to do if we move the knife Iggy will die?" Nudge practically screamed.
"Thanks for that, Nudge." Iggy choked out. Nudge ran over and took his hand in hers.
"Okay one thing we are not going to do is freak out." I said as I took Max's hand in mine. I took the switch blade slowly out of her hand.
"Fang be very careful." Angel said in a quiet voice. I gave her a shut up look and she looked away.
"Look I'm just going to close the blade I will probably cut him a little but if we are lucky he'll live." I said. Nudge's mouth dropped open and Iggy looked like he was about to pass out.
"Great my life lies in your hands." Iggy said sounding sarcastic. I slowly pulled Max's hand back and shut the blade. I think we all let out a breath we were holding. I only cut Iggy's neck a little so he did not die.
"Next time I vote we make sure she does not have any weapons before she tries to kill me!" Iggy said as he brought his shirt up to his neck to stop the bleeding.
"You could not have frozen her earlier!" Nudge yelled at me.
"Shhh! And what do you care it's just Iggy!" Gazzy said looking at Nudge. Nudge did not answer Gazzy; she just got up and walked over to where Angel was sitting staring at Max.
"Anyways when I unlock her from frozen time you guys block the exit I will deal with Max." I said as they moved to block the exit and I stared at Max. She unfroze and jabbed the hand she was holding the knife with down. Nudge and Angel gasped and Max turned to face me.
"How on earth did you do that?" Max said as she stood in front of me.
"If you weren't so stubborn you would know!" I said as I walked towards her.
"Wow they out did themselves I mean you guys are really like my flock… like Fang you're a butt head with good hair." I smirked. "Angel you won't stop reading my mind, which is new since the other clones did not have powers, and Iggy you looked really scared when I had a knife at your throat, but the others did not have emotion… now that I think about it you guys are more real than any other clones I have ever seen." Max let her voice trail off as she thought it over.
"Max trust your heart not your head." I said walking closer to her. I put a hand on her shoulder and surprisingly she did not pull away.
"I do trust my heart that's how me and my flock got so far." Max said her eyes not leaving mine. "Do you know what my heart is telling me?" I shock me head. "It says that you guys are the real thing. The other clones did not care about each other. You guys looked scared when I threatened to kill Ig, which let me tell you I would not have unless I knew you guys were clones." She smiled and jumped up and wrapped her arms around my neck. She was practically crying with joy, I hugged her close to my chest and spun around to face the kids. They could not have looked happier. I had never ever seen them so happy. Once Max was done hugging me she spun around and stood to look at the kids. She was run over by the kids and picked Angel up and cradled her in her arms. Angel was sobbing uncontrollably with tears of joy, so was Nudge. I was really happy to see them so happy. Max put Angel down and hugged Nudge, Nudge clung to her like this is just a dream and she needed to prove to herself this really happened. Next Max went over and bent down to Gazzy's level then she scooped him up into her arms.
"Max!" The kids were shouting.
"Oh my little trooper!" Max said as she hugged Gazzy and ruffled his hair. She then stood up and ran over to Iggy who was standing up against a wall. Max stopped in front of Iggy.
"Are you going to stab me again?" Iggy asked with a smile as he opened his arms for a hug. Max ran into his open arms she had to stand on her tiptoes to get her arms around his neck.
"I'm so, so, so, so, so super sorry! I have never felt so bad in my life!" Max said as she hugged Iggy. She was now crying hard with a smile on her face. I think she was a little overwhelmed. "I can't believe I actually put a knife to your throat!" she pulled away from Iggy and looked at the kids and me. "Now how did you get me away from him? One second I had a knife to his throat the next he was gone." She was now looking at me.
"I may have frozen time around you." I said with a hint of a smile. Max's mouth dropped open and her eyes got really big.
"No flippin' way!" Max said walking over to me. "You got a new power?"
"Yeah… we will tell you all about it when we get back to your house. Now come on lets fly." I said opening my wings.
"One little problem I have to go back to my hotel. You know I have to get some stuff." Max said as she turned and walked out of the alley, I looked at the kids and they shrugged their shoulders. The kids all followed Max as she walked away. I closed my wings then followed her and the kids
"Well why don't you fly… that would be quicker." Nudge asked as she skipped to keep Max's walking.
"No it's right here." Max said as she stopped in front of a tall building. We all followed her inside and up to the top floor. "Now wait here I don't want you guys seeing anything." She walked into her hotel room and we waited in the hallway. Max came out holding a backpack and a coat. "Ready?"
"Um yeah I guess so." I said as I started to walk.
"Oh wait I have to show you guys something before we continue." Max said smiling at Angel. She reached into her bag and pulled out something black and fuzzy. Angel, Gazzy, and Nudge all gasped when they saw what she had.
"TOTAL!" Angel and Nudge screamed at the same time. Max smiled one of her amazing smiles and looked at me.
"Angel, Nudge, Gazzy, Iggy, and Fang I thought I would never see you guys again!" Total said as he jumped into Angel's arms.
"Oh great!" Iggy mumbled and rolled his eyes.
"Okay lets go… oh by the way Fang you will have to carry me where ever we go… I'll explain later." Max said as she looked out a window. I nodded in agreement. I picked Max up and jumped out a window that was in the hallway. I snapped open my wings and the kids did the same. Max's smile grew two sizes it was like she had never flown before.