WHOAAA! Chapter 6: The Flock Goes To The Zoo, a maximum ride fanfic

The Flock goes to the zoo.

Max's POV

"Geez Gaz, does it reek enough in here?"

He looked up at me with a grin, "Sorry," he said not really meaning it. He couldn't help it.

I walked to the kitchen with his empty dish and motioned for Fang to follow me. It was the way we always did things. Iggy cooked, Fang and I cleaned. It actually worked very well.

Today he leaned against the counter while I ran the dish under hot water.

"So," I said as I scrubbed it. "I was wondering… what is it you had to tell me the other night, because you never did."

I saw it click in his eyes as he remembered what I was saying but he shook his head, "Not important."

I sighed, anything I ever wanted to know was not important.

"Max?" Angel said from the doorway.

I glanced over my shoulder, never knowing what to expect with Angel I motioned for her to come in.

"Max, can we go to the zoo?"

I dropped the dish in the sink. "What?"

Fang who was halfway finished with swallowing a rather large bite of my bagel coughed and shoved me out of the way so he could hack it up over the sink. Looking for anything to do than answer her question I rubbed his back as he… whatever it was he was doing. He reminded me vaguely of a cat coughing up a hairball.

Surprisingly when he looked up and turned to me, he smirked as if it was amusing how I rubbed his back.

"Can we please go to the zoo?" She begged. Angel's twelve, but still pretty damn angelic.

I shook my head in disbelief, "Why in the world would you want to go watch animals in cages? That could just have easily have been you."

"But, but, they're cute and I really wanna go. Please, Max? I'll do every chore plus the ones that Gazzy doesn't do for a week."

I sighed, "Alright, I suppose that's a good deal."

"Yay!" She shouted before running out of the room with delight. Who could deny that girl anything.

Fang looked at me with a big mocking smile on his face.

"What?" I asked he laughed at me.

"You're very… motherly. Protective even…"

I threw my head back and laughed, "Good, I am your mom Fang, time to stop having bad thoughts about me."

"Yeah," he agreed, grabbing my arm, "But I don't want you to be my mom. Iggy can be my god damn mom, as long as I can kiss you."

I stuck my tongue out and backed away from him, "No kissing Mommy."

"Okay," he said following me, "I'll be bad and kiss my sister instead."

I laughed as he caught me in a tight embrace. He kissed me with passion, that made my head spin. And I never missed a second of it.

Iggy was miffed I decided to pack up and bring them all to the zoo. "I'm just waiting for someone to start screaming, 'Oh look! There are the escape convicts! Quick, shoot them with a dart gun and don't let them get away!' I'm telling you. We're going to end up in those cages."

That wasn't exactly what we were doing. The flock went insane when it came to the bird section. There were huge caged hawks that I knew reminded Fang of when he and Nudge were alone near Lake Mead.

"Mom, please? Please, Mommy." He nagged me jokingly. He always referred to me as Mom to piss me off. But in a big way that's what I was.

"Please what?" I scoffed annoyed at the flocks' behavior. They'd been screaming about the birds for the past five minutes. Sometimes I wished I didn't know them. But the others know if I didn't know them I would have given up on life a long time ago.

"I promise I'll be good." He begged.

I laughed and shoved him off my shoulder, "Fanggg, stop it."

He'd been imitating the kids in their begging ways. "But Mom."

"I said stop it," I scolded, "or you're grounded."

He leaned in and gave me a kiss right below my ear that could have been mistaken for him whispering to me. "I'm sorry Mommy. You can spank me if you like."

My face must have turned the "Ooh" expression and gone red because it was more of the other way around. Just as Fang said that he smacked my ass as hard as he could. It was actually rather loud. Even more to my embarrassment. There was an old man with glasses looking right at me. When he saw me looking he raised his eyebrows suggestively and motioned to Fang.

"Shit," Fang said looking around, "where did they go?"

I looked at him with a sigh, "This is what we get for going to the zoo."

"Don't worry." He said as he pecked my lips, "Mom and Dad to the rescue, we'll find them."

I rolled my eyes at his suggestions. We'd been going out for like, six years so it seemed kind of appropriate though, if I was Mom, there was no way in hell he was the estranged uncle whom was really my second cousin and made out with all the time. I held my hand out for him and he happily grabbed at it, lacing his fingers through mine and setting off.

Fang decided he was going to kiss me in front of a fountain. Full out kiss me, not even just a peck. I mean it; his tongue was practically down my throat. Not that I minded, of course.

It was with his tongue in my mouth that I decided to open my eyes playfully. But after a second of peeking I shoved him away, resulting in him sitting on his ass. "What the hell? Oh my shitting God!"

He got up, "Was it that bad?" He mumbled with a laugh.

I shook my head with my mouth still open. I motioned to the huge screen that about five feet from us. On it, was Angel running out of some cage with a penguin in her arms.

The screen was slit in three; Nudge was flying out of some cage like a bat out of hell. In fact, there were several bats swarming out from behind her. And there was Gazzy with his familiar green mushroom cloud around him and there he was with the goddamn falcon.

Fang stood over my shoulder, "Well, on the plus side, we don't have to pay for these pets."

I was about to scowl and scream at him but he kissed my neck. Not only that but he rubbed my shoulders, "Max, stay calm okay? Don't you blow up. We will get through this I promise."

"How can you always be so sure. Somebody is going to end up shooting them down, Fang. What then?"

He nibbled on my ear in a sexy way that made me want to get into a huge make out session right there.

But there was no chance of that. The screen suddenly turned black as a huge explosion shook the ground. Immediately I was turned off. "Fang! I'm going to kill him! I'm going to kill Iggy!"

I spun on my heel in search of him. Fang, however, caught up to me. "Killing isn't a great idea. But I'm in for a total ass kicking."

I just growled at him as he tried to lighten my mood. A bomb in a goddamn zoo.

When I saw him I charged at him and threw him onto the ground. "Iggy! You're such a dumb ass, why the hell did you do that?"

He sat up, "It's fine, I swear. No one was around and I only did it to blast the lock off of…"

"Iggy, do you realize everyone is causing problems today?"

"Sorry, I guess." He sighed, "But I didn't want to be around with Fang making the moves on you every two seconds. You know what it means right?"

I scowled, "Iggy, it's not like that."

Oh how are you sure? The voice said in my head.

I glanced over my shoulder and jumped when Fang was right there. "Alright, well, we should find the others."

Nudge's POV

I laughed as I swooped in the open top cage. Elephants. No creature belongs in cages, even ones so big as elephants. I kicked the gate, again and again. But it would not budge. So I reached my hand into my pocket to the group of bombs Iggy had given me.

Sticking one near the lock I kicked off and soared high in the sky. It did not go… as it should have. The explosion caused the elephants to startle and run at the gate. Ten elephants charged right through. Shit. Shit, shit, shit! It wasn't the right way. It was a stampede.

Gazzy's POV

I swooped through the air, making loud noises as I did. With my friend the falcon we dive-bombed as huge piece of plate glass where the eagles were. Falco smashed right through it and the eagles made a happy noise before flying out. Yes! FREEDOOOOMM.

We formed a V formation and flew around the zoo finding any other type of bird that we could. We came up with owls, and parrots and lots of other things I didn't know what they were.

There it was. I had to save the emu. The flightless bird. I unlocked the cage and let it run out. Yes, this was getting to be quite fun.

As I was flying with my new bird friends I saw something shooting up from the corner of my eye. It was so fast I didn't have time to look. But I knew what it was when it plowed into me. It was Max, flying at hyperspeed. And man was she pissed. She started yelling the moment she'd gotten to me.

Angel's POV

When I saw Fang running toward me I was sitting on the back of a giraffe. Not good. I was in trouble now. I thought in my head for the giraffe to run, and just as I said it began running. Fang obviously didn't want to use his wings because he didn't catch up to me. Perfect.

I stopped at the lion's cage and got him out. This was perfect. All the animals were running around faster than anything. They were free.

Nudge's POV

"You're in a lot of trouble Nudge," Fang said when he'd caught me and sat me down on a bench with Gazzy. Iggy was standing guard. Great.

Angel's POV

"Go monkey's go! Be free! You're free!"

A hand clapped over my mouth. "Yeah but you're not."

Oh no. Max.

Max's POV

"I'm ashamed in all of you. I cannot believe you would convince me to go to the zoo just to do such a stupid thing like that. You're all unbelievable. And grounded."

"Max," Fang said to me quietly, "Can we not go to the zoo again?"

"Yeah."

Angel had her charm and asked me, "Maaaax, can we go to the aquarium?" Damn, she could breathe underwater too…