A random junkyard
Max: Okay. We're at a junkyard.
Total: No duh.
Max: We're gonna steal a car again.
Fang: There's a problem. This is a junkyard.
Max: So?
Fang: Why do cars usually arrive at junkyards?
Max: Because they're obsolete?
Fang: Or because they don't work.
Nudge: What if we take parts out of other cars and go off with that Toyota Echo over there.
Fang: There's a problem. Who here is a college-educated professional mechanic?
Flock: [is silent]
Fang: Who here is an uneducated fugitive bird kid?
Flock: Everyone.
Total: -Ahem-
Flock: Except Total.
Author: [whispers in Fang's ear]
Fang: Okay! Actually, since this is a parody, we can do whatever we want. So, car it is.
Flock: YAY!
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Interstate 95, somewhere in Florida
Max: Slow down!
Fang: Okay.
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State trooper: [on radio] I've got a speeder. [puts on siren]
Siren: [stops]
State trooper: Aw, crabcakes, my siren broke. I'll just do it the fun way! [takes out frequency jammer]
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State trooper: [through car radio] Stop your car.
Fang: [stops car]
State trooper: Show me your license, registration, and insurance, now, or else I'll do something!
Angel: You're not interested in us. You need to go.
Trooper: I'm not interested. I'd better go. [Goes]
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A random motel
Max: Okay, let's settle down.
Fang: Do you think we'll be successful tomorrow?
Gazzy: Maybe.
Max: Good nigh-AAAH! HELP Mmmmmff--
Ari: Got her. Ready?
Max II: Yeah.
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~The next day~
Gazzy: Max?
Max II: Yeah?
Gazzy: I'm hungry.
Max II: Yeah. [goes over to stove to cook]
Nudge: You're going to cook!?
Max II: Yeah. [cooks]
Flock: [sits down to eat]
Nudge: Max, this food is great! Hey, wait a minute... This food is great!? WHAT THE HECK? WHAT'S WRONG WITH MAX!!!???
Angel: Are you alright, Max?
Max II: Yeah. Hehehe, this is gonna be easy. Nobody'll even figure out that I'm a--
Angel: YOU'RE A CLONE!
Max II: Yeah.
Fang: I knew it all along. Score one for the mind reader.
Max II: Yeah...
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Itex building - Isolation tank
Max: Where am I?
Voice: Do you want to know?
Max: Yes.
Voice: Are you sure you want to know?
Max: Yes.
Voice: Are you SURE you want to know?
Max: YES! YES I'M SURE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
Voice: Well, too bad. Like I'm ever gonna tell you that you're in an isolation tank in an Itex building. Wait a minute, did I just say that? AW POOP!
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The forest near the Itex building
Max II: I've just gotta lead them to Itex...
Iggy: Not so fast, CLONE!
Nudge: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MAX I WANT ANSWERS WHO SENT YOU AND WHY!!!!!?
Max II: Yeah.
Nudge: "YEAH"? That's all you can say is "YEAH"!?
Max II: Yeah.
Angel: Oh, yeah, she's thinking of taking us into Itex. And she's gonna take us to the real Max. Right now.
Max II: Uh... [looks confused] Yeah.
[Max II starts walking towards the Itex building. The rest of them follow.]
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Itex building - Isolation tank
Max: I'm going to play dead now. I'M DEAD I'M DEAD I'M DEAD
Whitecoat: She's dead! We'd better let her out! [opens tank]
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Itex building - Hallway
Max II: [Walks to door]
Nudge: That's where Max is! [opens door]
Whitecoat: She's dead! We'd better let her out! [opens tank]
Gazzy: NO!!!
Fang: No...
Max: Hi.
Angel: Max II.
Max II: Yeah?
Angel: Max beat you already.
Max II: Uh... Yeah.
Max: Let's get outta here!
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Somewhere
Author: You're fired.
Narrator: Aww... [walks away]
END OF BOOK II
