Chapter 3

"She is whos little sister?! What the fuck Fang?!" I pushed him back. I knew he wasn't the one responsible for it… but I had to take my anger out on someone.

"Max! Come on seriously she hasn't done anything wrong. It isn't her fault that you hate Brigid." He got quieter as he went on. I felt my eyes narrow.

"Not her fault that I hate her huh? Well are they identical twins then Fang?" I tried acting happy about it as I lunged for him.

"MAX!!!!!" I looked up as Fang and I fell off tree branch to see Lissa flying towards us. "Let go of him!!"

I could feel my eyes sting and I closed my eyes before I let go of Fang. "Sorry… Do me a favor and look after the others… I need some air…" I flew off with my eyes still closed all I knew was that I was flying upward so I wouldn't hit anything. I slowly opened my eyes when I felt the air was cold, I felt tears slide down my cheeks.

I looked down to see dots moving towards me. "Why can't anyone ever leave me alone?" I murmured. Of course it was the flock… But the closer they got the more I saw of metal. The flock didn't have any metal on them. I could see that they were the Fly Boys now. "Shit. Nice move Max go up here all by yourself and now you have to fight off all of these losers…" I growled to myself. Shooting downwards and stopping just in time to start fighting some. I put my wings in and dropped like a rock it apparently wasn't fast enough because they followed me.

"Don't try to run Maximum. We will only hurt your precious little bird family." One that was significantly larger moved out of the pack and stopped in front of me near the ground.

"What do you mean?! You took them?! I'll let you in on a secret buddy I don't like it when people take my family!" I shot forward and ripped his head off. It wasn't easy and I almost wished I hadn't. My hands were cut and bleeding and the other ones stayed where they were. A screen popped up and showed the flock plus Fang and Lissa tied up in a metal jail cell. All of them were unconscious except for Fang who someone kept smacking every time he looked at the screen with a pleading look or tried fighting back.

The person who kept smacking Fang walked away from him and towards the screen. "Maximum Ride, I believe we have some unfinished business." He smirked. "We also know what will happen in your future and we want this experiment to run smoothly. Now you will listen to everything that the bots tell you and you will not fight back or-" He pressed a button and I felt a shooting pain in my arm where the chip was and screamed in schock. I didn't notice that I fell the last ten feet to the ground from being distracted and fell on my wings and screamed again from hurting them. The man laughed as Fang started fighting back again. "Yes Maximum that chip comes in handy now and again. But if that doesn't work we know we have leverage with having your flock and you will do anything to protect them. Now back to business the purpose of this is to experiment with your reproduction cycle and of course that is why Dylan was created so that the experiment would go much quicker and more smoothly than it would with Fang." He smiled wickedly.

"Fuck off!" I growled standing up and slowly puling my wings in. "You can shove your little experiment up your ass where it belongs because there is no way in hell I am going to 'reproduce' with Dylan." He pressed the button again and this time it was stronger and made me crumple to the ground in pain. I've dealt with a lot of pain and usually I have no problem with it. But this was awful I felt like I was being stabbed in every inch of my body. It stopped just as suddenly as it came.

"Disobedience is not tolerated Maximum." He sneered. I could tell he was smiling.

"Like I said. Fuck off." I growled. I was holding myself up with my arms and my hair was covering my view of the screen. He pressed the button again and I closed my eyes and tightened my lips. Pain is just a message, nothing else just a message. I kept repeating it in my head. I could hear him get frustrated when I didn't react to the shock. "So Doctor… you know what I don't care. What are you going to do to make me listen to you now?" I stood up slowly fighting back the pain.

"Look up here Maximum." I looked at him like he was crazy. My face fell when I saw Dylan holding Fang, Fang couldn't fight back because he was tied up and a new piece of duck tape over his mouth so he couldn't scream and walk the others.

"No, no please don't." I tripped over my words and stood up not quite sure what to do, because I saw a gun in Dylans hand and I knew for Dylan he wouldn't have a problem killing Fang. I sighed and started to cry. "I'll do it, just don't hurt him."

"Excellent, I'll see you in a few hours time then Maximum. See how easy it is to cooperate instead of fight against the authority." He smiled and the screen disappeared. The Fly Boys dropped on top of me and I blacked out from the pain in my arm.

I woke up in a large elegant suite. I sighed. Then I remembered everything I shot out of the bed. I looked around frantically and saw Dylan sitting near a window reading that days paper. "Morning Max."

I felt a faint breeze and was freezing. I looked down and saw why… "Please god tell me I did not black out that long…"

"You did long enough for the scientists to make sure everything would work they even got to test it out on a different subject." Dylan didn't smile and I could tell he wasn't happy he was the exact opposite.

"What do you mean they got to test it out on a different subject?! I was blacked out that whole fucking time and they experimented on me?!" I screamed at him and backed away towards a wall trying to cover up what I could of myself.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." He motioned his head to the far wall near the back. I looked and saw a screen that was like the one earlier that that man was in who freakin' tortured me with a button… Then I looked and saw that it went directly to a separate room where Fang was sprawled out on a bed passed out. He moved a little and sat up shaking his head.

I felt my face go tomato red and ran back to the bed and hid under the sheets of the bed. I could hear Fang cussing and what not and I already knew why. I was doing that in my head actually.

"Fang if you don't mind I would like to not hear your profanities any more." Dylan spoke annoyed.

"Fuck you Dylan. I'll stop cussing if you tell me where Max is."

"She is perfectly well just laying in bed right now enjoying herself." I could hear the smile in Dylan's voice as he antagonized him.

Fang stayed quiet for a long time. So I took the right to talk. I moved the sheets so that I could sit up with covering myself and glared at Dylan. "If you mean by enjoying myself freaking out the whole time yeah its great." I avoided looking at the screen although I could feel Fang starring at me. I could hear a door open and looked up to see that scientist walking in to the suite.

"Well Maximum? What are you doing just sitting there?" he glared at me like I was wasting his time.

I opened my mouth to cuss him out and then I remembered the flock… "Apparently im enjoying myself Doctor." I glared back at him.

"Well stop enjoying yourself! I have an experiment to run here Maximum." He turned towards the screen to look at Fang. "As for you, the previous experiment with you was a success. As for that red headed friend of yours she is already well in hand."

I could feel my face go red at the thought of what happened. The tears in my eyes that I had been trying to hold in started to leak. "Get out of here! And turn that damn screen or what ever it is off!" I screamed at the Doctor and he looked at me like I was the most disobedient person.

"It turns off automatically when an experiment is under way, Maximum." He smirked. "Don't worry about the other room though we are taking Fang out to see his endurance." He looked at Dylan. "As for you Dylan, this whole experiment could have been over a long time ago if you didn't make us keep injecting the serum."

"Don't you want your experiment to go smoothly?" Dylan looked up and I thought the doctor almost passed out.

"Yes, but if the serum is injected to many times we don't know what will happen and it could cause the whole thing to not work. At the moment we don't believe that it is dangerous now but it will wear out soon enough. So Dylan make sure you do your part of the bargain." The doctor looked down and walked towards the door and left.

"Max? Are you ok?" I looked at the screen and saw Fang look at me with some emotion. I couldn't tell though, I was out of practice picking up them I guess.

I looked down and thought about it… I was blacked out because they injected some kind of serum in my system? For this damn experiment… I could feel the tears slipping down my cheeks and heard them hitting the sheets. "Go away Fang…" I heard Fang arguing with someone about him leaving that room.

"Well. That was an interesting discussion with the Doctor hmm?" Dylan set down the paper and walked towards the bed where I sat. I didn't say anything. I just sat there, not sure what to do or say. When Dylan walked toward the side of the bed I was on I stiffened. His hand moved a strand of my hair out of my face. "Now Max, you cant possibly be upset by this experiment can you? I would never leave you like Fang did you know."

"That isn't the problem Dylan." I spoke quietly but with venom in my words. It hurt that he reminded me of Fang leaving again. I had to find a way out of this place and fast… Because if I didn't I might end up with Dylan's baby and I would hate myself for it for ever.

Dylan must have realized that he hurt me because he sat in front of me and moved so I was looking him in the face. "Max, I didn't mean it like that. I just want you to know that I would always be here for you and I know that this….. Experiment is not something you would like to take part in with me. I know that and it hurts me, but I don't care as long as your ok and well. That is why I decided I would do this, because if I don't you could very well be killed here and you know it."

I could feel my face soften and felt a sudden urge to kiss him. What no! I loved Fang not Dylan!

'Maximum you know what will happen to the flock if you don't do what these scientists want you to.'

Perfect timing voice! Now get lost…

'Just get it over with Max. The worst thing that could happen is that you would be pregnant.'

GET LOST VOICE

'fine but you know that they will hurt Fang more than the others if you don't do what they want Max.'

I sighed and cocked my head to the side looking at Dylan. He wasn't terribly bad… I mean I preferred my quiet best friend. But Dylan stayed with the flock and did his best to help out so that I wasn't stressed out so much after Fang left. He did a lot for me and I had to admit that I had started to love him… I couldn't help it anymore I leaned forward and kissed Dylan softly trying not to admit to myself how much I had wanted this.