Uh…… yeah. Don't kill me…* puts up hands to protect face*… Sigh… anyways… if any of you have read my story, Max Moves to Forks, (which you probably haven't, but it's alright), you must know what a hard time I've been going through, which includes, but is not limited to, My Grandfather dying (he and I were so close, that's it's hard to imagine), my sister getting into a horrible accident that almost caused her death, (I was supposed to go with her, and evidentally, if I would have been in the car, the passenger's side was mangled, and I would have died. So… yeah. I was kinda depressed for a while, and then come time around my birthday, (when I was able to post another chapter for my other story), my parents took my immediate family and we went on a three week vacation, which helped to cheer me up. Anyway, since I haven't talked to my twin since like, the beginning of the summer, I don't know if she hates me for not updating. I mean, I will willingly say that I wouldn't blame her if she did. Anyway, I'm totally sorry twin. I mean, if there's any way that I can make it up to you. And I'm sorry readers. But anyway…. Enough of my incessant rambling. Here is the official first chapter of our story!!!

Max POV

Hey normal people of Earth who can read!

If you haven't been caught up on who I am, and what my purpose here on planet Earth is, let me catch you up on what you've been missing!

My name is Maximum Ride, Max for short. I'm tall, blonde, and probably stronger than most girls my age. Which is 17, I think.

I am a natural born leader, which comes in handy when trying to control five hormonally challenged teenagers, and one dog. There's Fang, who is second in command, and about the same age as me. I've known him since even before I can remember, and he has helped me through so many things in my life, that I stopped counting after the first couple times. He is quiet, way too quiet sometimes, and he is tall, dark, and mysterious.

Iggy is next, and he is almost the complete opposite of Fang. He is about the same age as both of us, tall, and represents light. His whole appearance is light based, with his too light blue eyes, pale skin, tousled blonde hair, always wearing light clothing. He is the best cook in the world, even though he just so happens to be blind from a horrific accident when we were younger.

The chatterbox is next, but we don't call her that. Her name is Nudge, which fits her talkative attitude better then you would think. She is supposedly 14ish. One word to describe Nudge would be warm. She has dark brown skin, brown hair, brown eyes, a never ending smile, never ending energy, and an ability to cheer up and annoy anyone that comes in contact with her.

Gazzy is next, short for the Gasman, which again, explains his personality. He is about 11. He has explosive farts, and is always cheerful. With his blonde hair and blue eyes, he seems like a perfect little angel.

Which brings me to another person. My baby, Angel, who is 9. She is creepy deadly when she wants to be, but always sweet and courageous. She is the actual sister (as in, they are blood related) of the Gasman, which makes her adorable with her blonde hair and innocent blue eyes.

Total is the dog that accompanies us and he is a little black Scottie. He can talk, which freaked us out at first.

Oh, I forgot to mention something…. We have wings! Oooh… scary…. No. It's not like that at all, I mean, we aren't the normal 100% humans that most of you reading are. We have 2% bird DNA within us, but the 2% had more effect on our physicality than you would think. Not only do we have wings, but we are super strong, always hungry, super thin, (no, not super model, scary thin), extremely tall, we have air sacs, and we all have our own super powers. Duh dun duh!

So your mad at me for not telling you guys our powers when I first explained everyone? I didn't think it was important, so I guess I'll tell you now!

I can fly at speeds up to 250 mph, faster than anyone else in the flock, I can play dead (effectively, like shutting down my organs and not having any heartbeat), I can breath underwater (which I learned in a horrible situation), and I have a creepy voice in my head that tells me things.

Fang can disappear if he sits still long enough, has gills like me, and (sigh) can travel up to 240 mph, close to my top speed.

Iggy can tell who the person is by feeling their fingerprints, can see colors by touching them, and can see shapes of things when he is nearly snow blinded.

Nudge is a skilled hacker, can see what has happened previously at locations, can attract metal when she wants too, and is an expert with cars.

The Gasman has explosive farts, can whip up a bomb (with the help of Iggy), and can imitate any voice or sound (which has put us up to practical jokes all the time).

Angel has the most powers out of all of us, which scares me most of the time. She can read minds, communicate through peoples minds, make people do anything that she wants them to do, she can breathe underwater, talk to fish, can change her appearance, and has a knack to disobey because she often thinks that she is smarter than me.

Anyway, with all of the introductions out of the way, we better tell you what we are currently doing. What with the wings, we are currently flying over New Mexico, trying to find my mother's place so that she can maybe help us find Fang's parents. Even though the school has told us multiple times that she was a druggie, and doesn't even know that she has a son, we have found everyone else's biological parents, and it would suck if we couldn't find the last pair.

Everyone else practically hates their parents, and after finding them, they all decided to come back to the Flock. They never really left, but seeing as we have wings and such, we thought of the going back and living with normal people a bad idea.

"Max, are we almost there?" I heard Angel and Nudge whine.

"I think so guys, just keep holding in there." I replied, hoping that it would calm them down, even though they could probably just see right through my façade. I was so incredibly tired and I just wanted to fall out of the sky.

My eyes closed for a second and I thought that I would pull in my wings and just fall asleep.

I felt arms wrap around my waist, and I pulled my wings in and curled upwards, resting my head into Fang's chest. "I know how tired you are, just rest for a while, I'll watch the flock." He smiled his signature crooked grin at me, and I kissed his cheek before leaning into him more.

In the background, I heard Angel and Nudge go aww, and I silently vowed to myself to not let them make fun of me for it.

"Thanks," I whispered in his ear, giving him a quick peck on the lips.

"No problem, beautiful." He whispered right back.

You see, after so many life threatening moments, Fang and I grew super super close, and we started to "date". It's been a wonderful three years.

As I felt his strong wings carrying me, the soft humming in my ear calmed me down enough so that I could finally fall asleep after about 5 days without sleeping even a little bit.

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"Maxxy!" I heard my mom call, waking my out of my dream.

"Mom!" I screamed, leaping out of the strength and warmth of Fang's grasp. She was one of the most understanding mom's that I had ever met, but that meant pratically nothing because the only other mom's that I had met were the flock's parents.

"Max!" Ella yelped, running out from inside the house. She was my half sister, and I loved her so much. She was now about 16, and she had grown up since the last time I saw her.

I ran to them and hugged them both, and heard my mom wince, and I immediately stepped away. For a moment there, I had forgotten that she had sustained a permanent injury after she was kidnapped three years ago in Mr. Chu's pitiful attempt of making her stop her Ecological protection program, for fear that we would find the radioactive material in the seas, which we did anyways.

"Total!" I heard Total yell, it seems like he was getting tired of our welcoming party, and he wanted to get his name out there.

I heard Angel giggle, and I smiled, despite the fact that I didn't want to. Total could be highly annoying, and since the fact that he had wings now didn't help when I've to get rid of him multiple times.

"Max! You wouldn't!" Angel gasped in mock horror.

"No, no. Of course I wouldn't!" I replied back sarcastically, implying that if he got me mad enough, then I would definitely try to. "And stop reading my mind little missy!" I scolded, and heard her giggle yet again.

"Max, Fang, I have something to tell you," My mom began, with a gleam beginning to show in her eyes.

Fang caught up to me as we started to head into the house and grabbed my hand. A small blush found its way up to my cheeks, and I mentally kicked myself. I have gone completely soft in the past three years. Sometimes it helped, and other times it worried me deeply.

You see, I'm not the completely tough girl that I was. I've grown more outgoing and sometimes I even let things slide. Grr…. What's gotten into me? I've been thinking lately what can happen in three years, but then I look back on my early childhood, and I stop wondering it.

"Max? Are you even paying attention?" I heard my mom call out to me. I stopped my mind wandering, and looked at her directly. I need to stop thinking about things in depth.

"Anyway, as I was saying, I remembered from my years at the Itex corporation that there was an international database that held everyone's personal information. They had erased my mind right before I left to make sure that I didn't know to much. I didn't know about this major fact until the other day when Jeb made his way over here to give me back what I needed to know. Once he said the IDSB, which stands for International Database of Supernatural Beings, all my memories caught up to me." My mom said, as if she were trying to force it all out before she forgot it all again.

"So wait… they stole your memories?" I heard Iggy ask as he walked in through the door.

"OMG! That's like all of those sci-fi movies when they don't want people to know about what they know and stuff like that! That's so cool, yet freaky at the same time, because… you know? I mean, they stole your memories! But… at least you got them back… right? Right??" I heard the chatterbox go off, and I also heard Iggy covering up her mouth with his hand, shutting her up.

"Anyway, I looked it up, and seeing as I remembered the software, I know where to get the information. But…" she led off, looking at us with uncertainty lining her eyes.

"But, you don't have the right password anymore, so you need Nudge to hack in?" Angel supplied the finish.

I could see the gleam in Nudge's eyes as she started to head towards the computer.

"Now, you know that I wouldn't ask you guys this if it weren't extremely important, but those files will contain who Fang's real parents are, not the fake parents they wanted him to believe he had." She said a little bit hesitantly, not wanting to be someone who tells someone else to hack into a database. She wanted to seem like a good mother, not letting us do it until it was necessary.

"Don't worry, it will be fine, Mrs. Martinez." Nudge replied quickly, practically jumping into the chair.

"Now I have to let you guys know that this is some advanced stuff-" she began, only to be cut off by Nudge already finished with hacking.

"There, his parents are there." She said, a little bit out of breath, but with an amused smile planted on her face.

Right on the screen was his official experiment number, along with some information that was misplaced. The only thing that was there was an address, along with one word: BEWARE. Maybe they had some trouble taking Fang from his real parents?

My mom copied down the address, and Nudge went to press a button when all of a sudden, the computer had something pop up on the screen, including the message: Committo, vos must ago per eventus.

And then, as if everything was happening in slow motion, the computer shut down, and Nudge cried out in pain. It was as if she was connected to the computer. She started to shake and shiver, her eyes rolled back into her head, and she began to recite the same phrase, over and over again.

"Nudge!" All of us cried out. Iggy had been the closest to her, so he grabbed her shoulders and picked her up into his arms, trying to calm her down.

"What does it mean?" I asked my mother frantically.

She had gone pale in the face, and she slowly replied, "Intruder, you must live with the consequences."

Something must have happened since Nudge could basically become one with the computer. It was probably only meant to crash the computer to no return, but it had had a major effect on Nudge as well. Slowly, her eyes closed, she stopped reciting the phrase, and her body became still.

"What just happened? Angel!" I screamed, hoping that she could give us the inside scoop.

"Nudge had just gotten a new power. She could take all the information from the computer, therefore basically connecting her to the computer. When it shut down-" she cut off, her breathing becoming faster. "She shut down too. There's nothing going on in her head except that phrase, and nothing."

Suddenly, right when Angel finished, the computer started back up, and Nudge's eyes flicked open.

There was pain, loneliness, and fear playing across her eyes.

"What… happened?" She said, slowly, as if she wasn't sure she was still alive.

"You just… shut down." I said, trying to put it as lightly as I could.

"Oh. All I remember was that the computer was telling me that it was going to shut down in order to save… something… but… yeah. Me shutting down explains what happens more." She smiled weakly at me.

"Just go to bed Nudge, you'll be all right." I smiled at her, but could feel the worry lines showing on my forehead.

"Ok." She said softly before shutting her eyes, falling asleep immediately.

"What was that!" Ella whisper-yelled incredulously.

"I don't know, but whatever it was, it didn't like us looking at Fang's page!" Angel said, whisper shouting just like Ella so that they wouldn't wake up Nudge.

"You know what? I think Angel is right. There was something different about Fang's family that none of us liked when we had first taken him." My mom mulled over the thought as the rest of us listened to her every word.

"We need to go see his family then." I said, making it final.

"No." Iggy said, sadness paling his impossibly blue eyes even more. "I'm not going to leave Nudge until she feels better." He said, his eyes looking exactly at Nudge as he said it, his fingers skimming over her soft skin.

"And I can't leave her either." Angel said, smiling nervously at me. "She's not in her right mind, and I need to be here for her."

"I'm not leaving without Angel, so I stay here." Total practically barked up from the ground. (Ha, ironic. Barking.)

"Angel's my sister, and I couldn't leave her again." Gazzy looked down at the ground, avoiding eye contact.

I smiled inwardly. Their knack for staying together had grown so much, and even though they were choosing to go against me, I understood their reasoning.

Fang looked up at me, and I saw it in his eyes. He was coming with me. I squished my eyebrows down, and he understood my unspoken words. He nodded his head, and grabbed me by my waist. His lips touched mine in a sweet, yet passionate way, and I smiled through it all.

"Okay everyone, I will head towards Fang's parents home to check them out. Normally it would be a suicide for me to go alone," I chuckled at my joke because of how often I get in trouble on my own. "But, Fang and everyone else will stay here and make sure that Nudge recovers, along with figuring out what Itex wants to hide. Even though we destroyed them a while ago, I think that they are trying to come back and destroy the world again." I sighed.

"Max, are you sure you should be going alone? The thing said Beware! Isn't that a hint that something wrong is going to happen!" My mom looked at me and I could see how worried she was.

"I'll be okay. I promise." I smiled at everyone, kissed Fang again, hugged my mom and sister, and thought calming thoughts to Angel, and kissed Nudge's sleeping forehead.

I ran out of the house grabbing the paper with the address and jumped into the sky before I could change my mind. I shot off, headed towards where the paper directed me to.

Where the heck is La Push?

Ahhh! So I finally finished it… I hope that it satisfies everyone that actually read it, and again! I'm so incredibly sorry to my twin, don't blame her at all! And the reason Max is different is because she has had a more laid back three years, and it has made her not only softer, but it has made her more easy going. Even though she can still go from easy going to vicious in a split second. So… please don't comment that she is a little OOC, cause everyone changes in different ways over three years of peace after so long of torture… Now… I can't promise anything for my twin, but I bet she will put up the next chapter ten times faster than I did. So… please please review!

~Del3195