Summary of things that have happened:

Max, Fang, Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, Angel, and Total were going on Max's tour. They were kidnapped around Death Valley and brought to The School, and now they all have wings. Angel has her ability to read minds and Total can speak, while everyone else has yet to discover their powers. Iggy was also blinded. There was a meeting and it was found out that the flock was made to test their survival and Jeb also sent Laurent to let the flock go. Hints were dropped that Jeb is vulnerable to mutiny.

This Maximum Ride

Chapter 13 – Max POV

The door to the cell slammed open, "All of you with me." A whitecoat stood there and waited for us to follow. I heard him sigh from across the room with my new super hearing. Or maybe it was just how small the distance between us was. After his sigh his feet carried himself into the cell. Wrong move, mister.

My instincts kicked in and I shot toward him. Flinging my arm back I delivered a swift punch to the nose. It was a normal punch, one that would have been enough to make him stager, but not fall unconscious. After all we did need to know how to get out of here and didn't want to run into more trouble than they had to. And how could we trust this whitecoat, one may ask. Well we had Angel's mind reading ability on our side.

"Wait," The whitecoat said before I could make another move to punch him again, "I'm here to get you out of here."

"He's telling the truth." Angel said, surprise lacing her words. Despite everything that 8-year-old had been through she was still able to be shocked.

"Fine." I said. I'd never been one to give up as easily but I trusted Angel. If she said this guy was okay to follow I'd listen.

We all made our way out the door with the whitecoat leading the way. In the wide hallway we were able to all walk in a line, not giving anyone to the chance of losing the group. Fang immediately came and walked next to me, putting his arm around my waist. On my other side Angel tugged at my hand and Nudge was walking right beside her. On Fang's other side was Gazzy with Iggy following close to his side. Everyone had a hand connected to someone else's except in Iggy and Gazzy case where Iggy had a finger through a belt loop on Gazzy's jeans so he could lead Iggy to safety.

The whitecoat led us down a series of winding halls until we finally came to a stop and a big red door. I was guessing this was the exit. My reason why? And it's not because this was the only door that was red, because there were others. No, instead it was because there was a window in this door and I could see the surroundings of outside.

I went first just in case there were any traps. Of course Fang tried to get through the door before but I wouldn't let him.

When I walked outside I was hit with a blinding flash of light. It reminded me of the paparazzi and their cameras. Except that the flash didn't keep going on and off, it stayed on. The sun. It blinded me from its spot above us. Now was the time for sunglasses. Too bad I didn't have any.

My eyes finally adjusted to the light and I now saw that the tour bus was a few feet away.

"Your bus will take you back home to Canada." The whitecoat informed us, "When you back your tour will be over. No one will know that you've been missing.

"We've already got everything planned. There have been Photoshoped pictures of all of the gigs you missed circulating around." He placed a folder of what I guessed contained those pictures in my hands, "The only thing you need is stories about what happened at said gigs. There's suggestions for that in the folder too."

How did I even know he was telling the truth? This bus could be transporting us to some remote location in Australia or something. Wait, that's not right. In order to do that the bus would have to travel over water. But don't think I didn't notice how the whitecoat said Canada instead of Toronto.

We'd probably be better off flying home. Why didn't we just do that? Well we've haven't really had the chance to test-drive our wings yet. So for that reason it was probably safer for us to just take the dreaded bus. I would make sure we would get home.

'We're going home Max!' I looked over at Angel and saw that she was excited. But of course she was, what 8-year-old wouldn't be happy to go home and see their parents?

"Fine." I just sighed and got on the damn tour bus. My family could see how hard this was on me, listening to the people who had done all of this. I'd be better when we get out of this dreadful place.

There wasn't much fighting I could actually do on the subject though. I just had to get my family home. If something happened and we didn't end up in Toronto I'd stay strong and make sure to get everyone out of it.

Of course I did have an alternate motive. I wanted to confront my mother. Everything else that Jeb had said seemed to be true, maybe he was right about my mother too. But I wasn't counting on it.

Everyone followed me onto the bus and the first thing I noticed was that everything was exactly where we left it. Exactly. And that's pretty much saying a lot because even when we were on the road everything was rattling around. Kinda freaky there.

I looked over towards the bus driver to see that he was turned to the wheel and I couldn't see his face. In the mirror, however, I could see him more clearly, or well I could see his eyes. They were glazed over and he was staring blankly ahead of him. Creepy. I quickly looked away.

The whitecoat had followed us onto the bus and decided to say something more, "You will not under any circumstances show anybody your wings."

"Well, what's your name again? Larry, that's kinda hard considering they're attached to our backs."

"You'll take any measures to hide them then. And it's Laurent." He gave a grin similar to the toothy grin Jeb had used, only his grin made him look mad scientist crazy.

"Yeah well, like I said Liam, big wings are a tiny bit hard to hide. How am I supposed to play shows for G Major. You can't actually think a windbreaker is in style, can you?" I asked with my eyebrows raised

"Well then you better find a solution. Otherwise the show must not go on." He said.

'Max, he's got tons of answer and it's really not worth it. Please Max? I want to go home.' Angel sent to me.

"But what about the others? In September they all have to go back to school. They can't always be expected to hide their wings." I said as the idea came to me.

"Then you are in charge of making sure they do. Maximum, no one will know about us. And think about what will happen to you if people found out about your wings." He was actually right. Everyone would want to touch or see my wings. It was enough to be Maximum Ride, pop star, but I really don't want to add Maximum Ride, avian hybrid, to that. It was a recipe for disaster.

"Fine." I sighed and sat down on one of the bench seats that were connected to the table. I turned towards the window, defeated. I could deal with this later.

"So basically you had a great tour." He turned around to leave but kept his head facing our direction, "Oh and the bus driver will snap out of his trance in a few minutes." With that he walked out the door of the bus, slamming it behind him, and didn't turn back.

"Don't let the door hit you on the way out." I mumbled quietly, finally turning back around.

"I don't think it did, Max." Fang smirked.

"Well, it should have." I told him as he sat down next to me.

"I know." He said, taking my hand in his.

"So now we're on the road again." I said as the bus driver snapped out of whatever trance he happened to be stuck in and started to drive away from that hellhole they call The School.

"Yep." Angel said and she sat down on the bench on the other side of the table. Nudge sat down beside her and Iggy and Gazzy took the couch.

Chapter 14 and 15 are almost already done. I just have to add Kelli's song to chapter 14. Suggestions for songs are still welcome for chapter 15 though. I was thinking of trying to add a little more Fax to it. Review please. Reviewers get a quote from chapter 14.