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Max's P.O.V.

"Fang! Let. Me. Go." I said yelling into Fangs chest. He had just hugged me and he wasn't letting me go. I mean has he realized that I don't like tiny spaces? Does he remember the submarine??

Anywhos, The Flock and I decided to settle down on an island somewhere and just chill. And its awesome cause my mom went and bought this HUGE house (emphasis on the HUGE). Everyone gets their own room. Eight bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a big backyard. Not to mention the swimming pool. It's a 10 footer… But I'm not bragging..

"Ooh! Max! Can we go swimming!" I heard Angel ask as Fang let me roll out of his grip.

"Yeah, can we? Please! Please! Please!" Nudge screamed as she streaked towards me.

I glanced at Fang. We looked into each others eyes. His revealing nothing. Then suddenly-

"Dude, I don't care. You're the leader, remember?" He said smiling. This was a very un-Fang like thing to do. But he's been doing it more often ever since we took a break. Like, this was a smile. Not a grin, or a smirk. A S-M-I-L-E!

The sight of him happy made my heart skip a beat or two. Made my world go round. Made my day as good as homemade chocolate chip cookies fresh out the oven.

But this next event burnt those cookies…

"Can we join?" Said an Ari like voice. I spun around in fighting stance. M-Geeks? Thought they were all defeated.

"Guys, Up-" I started to say .

"Up and away? Oh no Maxie. Not this time." When the leader M-geek called me Maxie I swear Fang barked or something.

And with unfathomable speed and precision the robots had tied us all up, strapped our wings down and drugged us.

2 hours later…

A white light gently burnt my retnas as I slowly blinked my eyes open. My eyes adjusted to the light and started to scan the room. And there were 5 horrifying things running through my mind at that moment.1. It smelled of antiseptic.

2. The Flock was missing.

3. Fang was gone.

4. I couldn't move.

5. I was sure I was in The School.

A whitecoat walked through the door and thought that we were buddies and decided to talk to me.

"Maximum, I apologize. My condolences." He said

"What the hell are you talking about?" I spat.

He was caught off guard but seemed to regain his composure. Bingo! One for me!

"Your Flock, they're all dead." He said as if the entire Earth and Mars knew. "Did you not notice the empty beds?"

All of it came back to me. My whole life flashing before my eyes. The good times. The bad. Everything.

Then I imagined Fang and I. The whole Flock. Happy. Then, it raining as I sat on my knees crying at their graves…

That rain didn't feel like rain. It felt as if the whole world got tired of itself and decided to sit on my back. It stung as the cool drops of world fell on my face and I tried to hold it all. It was too much. I couldn't live without them…

I sat up straight in bed. Sweat beading on my forehead. Running down my face and off of my chin. Hair sticking to my face.

I've been having the same dream for weeks now. I don't know why. After five years, the pain just came flooding back. It was too much. The fact that I haven't seen my Flock in what feels like a lifetime. And the fact it will be a lifetime until I see them next.

"Well, time to get up Max. Ya gotta go to school." I said to myself as I pulled my body out of from under the covers.

Your probably wondering why I go to school. Well ever since I went to the orphanage, I've 'existed' and have had to go to school. And it turns out I'm a smart kid.

I got a scholarship to the University of Hawaii and have been majoring in science.

Science. What great things it can do. And what horrible things it can do. Despite the whitecoats and all that science has put me through, it's what I'm studying. Its what I want to do so that I can be the good guy. So I can show those whitecoats how to be. So I can more importantly stop them from doing it ever again.

A 19 year old bird girl. What's more normal than that? Nothing. Hence, science major.

I got up, took my shower, got dressed and after saying later to my roommates, headed off to class.

It's a dorm…

So it's been five years. Nothing has really happened. The School and all of their minions disappeared. The schools aren't where they were when I left them. They're gone.

But one thing that did happen that surprised me was that a month after I moved in the orphanage I got a package in my name. Sent from The School. But the return address (When I went to go check it out) was just an old abandoned town home.

Inside the envelope were all these papers. Birth records, phone numbers, addresses. All this stuff that could lead a wondering child to their parents. Each member of The Flock had a nice and thick packet of papers and a picture of the parents and that member as a baby in the very back.

Man, would Nudge have loved this.

There in the bottom of the envelope, in another envelope but smaller, was a picture of all of us. Smiling. Happy and carefree. While I looked at all the smiling faces I felt that giant lump of cotton in my throat. I flipped it over and read the writing on the back.

"Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, Max, and Fang. No special occasion. Just a picture. 2008. Soarin' High."

Then came the tears. It was a little embarrassing crying in front of people I've known for only 30 days but I couldn't help it. Why couldn't everything stay gold? It shouldn't be happening this way!

" If it wasn't supposed to be happening this way, it wouldn't be."

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