A/N: I forgot to add this.

Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride.

Claimer: I own Leo Hawk Beth and the X-boys and the plot.

Chapter 1

It was all memory now. Just painful and useless memory. Right now I was watching the setting sun on the shore waiting for the flock.

"Max!"

I turned round. It was Leo.

He jogged up to me along the beach with Hawk and Beth. I remembered a year ago when they had found me in one of the dark alleys of New York.

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I had searched and searched for my flock, but I couldn't find them. All day I looked until I was so tired, and sat down on the concrete without much thought for the uncomfortable floor and muddy pools. I cried and cried for the flock but I was cut short by another Brain Attack. Then I blacked out.

When I regained consciousness, I heard someone whispering from the end of the alley,

'Hey Leo, check this out.'

'What is it?' - another voice said

'There's someone unconscious in the alley.'

I opened my eyes to see two teenage boys walking up the alleyway towards me hesitantly.

'She's awake!' - the taller one whispered

They got closer and when they looked at me, their eyes widened. I didn't know what this was all about and I was starting to feel uncomfortable when another teenager - a girl - walked into the alley from behind me.

'She's got the wings' I heard the tall kid say, and I immediately jumped up - or tried to. I crashed (literally) back down onto the concrete and whimpered in pain.

'I think we'd better get her out of here.'

Then the three of them lifted me off the floor and took me to an empty building only a few blocks from where I was lying down. They introduced themselves, and took care of me. Now we were like a family, just like my old flock had been to me.

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Leo, Hawk and Beth reached me finally. Leo was 17 like me. Hawk, who could've been Leo's younger brother, was 15. Beth was 16 and had a lot of similarities with Fang.

"We're all set to go." Leo said simply. He shouldered his backpack. Did I mention? We were going to meet mom in Arizona. I hadn't visited her since the rest of the flock was taken down, and this was the first time my new flock was going to meet her - so I wasn't surprised that Leo was slightly nervous.

"Let's go."

We set off from the beach an hour later, after we'd checked our backpacks and everything. We flew silently across New York, towards Arizona. In the air, I felt as if I was free of every worry I had - with that blissful feeling of being in the air. But for me, thoughts like these never last. I wonder why. Anyway, as soon as we left New York, Hawk saw the X-boys. They flew in near-perfect formation, about a hundred of them. Half human and half robot, they were better than the former Erasers and Flyboys. Sometimes, they actually scared me with the array of weapons they had and their gruesome looks. I bet whoever made them was as ugly as one of these.

Beth immediately made herself invisible (her power. it's quite scary sometimes when she does that) and the rest of us got into defensive stances in the air, ready to take on the X-boys. But then they decided to start firing their tasers and we immediately had to fly for it. I mean, we weren't armed, so how were we supposed to fight against bullets? Bullet-proof clothes would be nice here, as long as it's light!

But unfortunately we didn't have any bullet-proof clothes or anything to protect us, and a taser bullet grazed my skin and I immediately shot away with my super-speed. Hawk basically transformed to a hawk (his speciality) and flew off quickly. Leo was shot a few times - never at fatal places, though - but with his quick healing (and I mean quick) he was able to fly without slowing down.

We were chased all the way through the night, and still the X-boys would not stop. I hoped they ran out of ammo or something, but once that happened, they always seemed to have an extra clip.

About 3 hours later, we only just managed to get away from them. We landed in a large cave in the side of a large mountain facing the woods and hidden very well. It was only when I came right next to it did I find out that it was a cave, you know. We hid deep inside the cave, just to make sure we weren't seen. If we were seen, then we would be trapped, and I didn't want to think about that.

"Damn the stupid X-boys!" Hawk was furious. He was always angry about the X-boys. He never really had a reason, except that he hated them.

"Calm down, Hawk. We lost them, so just calm down." Leo tried to calm Hawk down.

Just then, Beth appeared in front of us, and we nearly hit the top of the cave (which was about five foot above our head hight). God, will she ever warn us she's there.

"I don't think they were after us" she said simply, ignoring our glares.

"What do you mean?" I asked

"When we were chased, only half of them came after us"

"But what would they have been going after other than us?"

"I thought I heard something about escaped experiments. Five of them I think"

"Can't you get any more specific?"

Beth thought. Then, "The experiments have wings. Like us."

It's my first FF so plz review and give me some tips!!