Disclaimer: Do not own Maximum Ride, belongs to James Patterson.

Max

BOOM!

The explosion happened and the ceiling cracked. I pulled as hard as I could and my chains came free of the wall and I saw the flock doing the same. I grabbed the mini-bomb from Gazzy and attached it to Angel's neck and poof, the collar was opened. By now the flock was free and I saw some guards coming in from a door I never knew was there. Angel, seeing her chance, ran out the door and into the corridor just as a giant chunk of ceiling landed behind her. I looked up and saw a gaping hole in the ceiling all the way to the surface and dirt was rushing in from the hole. "Up and away!" I yelled and started flapping. I emerged, from the hole, covered in dirt and one by one, each of the flock pulled themselves out of the hole.

"Report!" I shouted when I was pretty sure everyone was out of the hole. I heard four voices answer me back. "Alright flock, we're headed to a little island near LaSalle. Angel will meet us there." I said, once we were in the air again. "Gazzy, do you know where that is?" I asked him.

He nodded, "Yeah, I saw a picture of it in Angel's head." He replied.

"Good, you lead then." I replied and we set off. After about five minutes of flying, we landed on a small island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. It was close to another island that was much bigger. Angel, are you here, baby? I called out to her in my mind.

"Over here, Max!" I heard her call about 100 meters behind me.

"Angel! I screamed and ran to her as fast as I could. I pulled her into a tight hug as soon as I got there. "Don't you EVER that off again, hear me?" I whispered furiously. Then the flock gathered all around us and was reunited with Angel. She told us her story from beginning to end while we listened without a sound.

"I found out that they had been creating new mutants, a lot of them, like an army of them, and I suspect Dr. Gunther-Hagan was behind all of it." Angel concluded. Dylan had an unreadable expression on his face when he heard this.

"Yeah, well, it's not like Dr. God has ever done any good anyways." I said, then seeing Dylan's pained expression quickly added, "Except for Dylan of course."

"Well, on the way out, when I ran into the corridor, it was actually to free some of the test subjects." Angel said. My teeth clenched, when were they going to learn that we were people and deserved respect? Not just some kind of lab rat. "They should be arriving within the next day or so." She added.

"Okay, buckle down guys, today was a long day." I said and settled into a nice tall tree. Canada was full of them, trees I mean. "Iggy, you're on first watch." No one gets within a 500 meter radius of us with the blind guy watching, er, listening. I fell asleep really fast, too fast and it seemed like one minute later Iggy was waking me up for my watch.

Fang

I can't believe Angel is gone, even after she kicked Max out of the flock. I've always had a soft spot for her, but no one could've survived that explosion, no not even a super human bird kid. I tried to console Max as much as I could knowing family was her first priority, but I had my own flock to take care of now. I have to admit, I'll miss Angel's annoying mind-reading, that cute smile of hers and the Bambi eyes. No one could do it like Angel could (I don't know if it had to do with the mind control or not). But the Gang was tired and I was their leader, I couldn't make them stay for personal reasons and Maya convinced me it was time to go. So we were off again and since we booked the first flight back to the United States and taking some time to look into the Doomsday Group even more. We landed in Chicago and booked into the first hotel we saw. We immediately crashed too tired for anything else. I woke up at noon the next morning and Maya was already up, she had already freshened up and gone to the grocery store. She was humming to herself as she cooked breakfast. Unlike Max, who, would burn down the house if she cooked anything. The thought of Max brought a little twang to my heart. I miss her. A lot. She has Dylan now and I could see the way she was looking at him. It was the way she used to look at me and I couldn't help but feel a little jealous. But I had Maya now, and I loved her too, in a different way. She was easier to talk to than Max and much more vulnerable emotionally. Max? She was like a brick, it seemed like nothing could ever hurt her.

"Good morning sleeping beauty." Maya called cheerfully and I went to see if she needed any help in the kitchen.

"Need any help?" I asked.

"Nope, I'm just about done here, although you might want to wake up the rest of the gang." She said chuckling. I groaned Star sleeps like a dead log. She chuckled again, "Yup, which includes waking Star." She teased. I sighed and turned around to go wake them up. Of course Ratchet with his super senses was already up and Kate was rubbing her eyes. Holden was in the shower so that just left Star. Of course.

"Ratchet, since you're already wide awake, want to help me wake Star up?" I asked, chuckling.

"In need of my very creative services I see, so what will it be this time? Foghorn? Dangling out of the building?" Ratchet asked, prank mode set for go.

"How about an old classic?" I asked.

"Ah, perfect." He said as we filled up a bucket of water with ice and water.

"When and if she wakes up and tries to kill, I'm not protecting any of you." Kate chortled.

"Key word, if." Ratchet replied.

"Okay, on the count of three, one, two, three!" I said and we dumped the bucket of water of her.

"AHHHHH!" Start woke up screaming. She saw us laughing our heads off and she gave us her death glare. "It is on!" She yelled and in an instant, she was dragging both Ratchet and I to the balcony.

"Next time, I will not hesitate to drop you off this balcony." She warned seriously and I snorted thinking, yeah, I have wings. As if she could read my mind she said next, "Oh and Fang, I will cut your wings off first." She threatened. Then she dragged us back inside and sat us at the island in the tiny kitchenette. "Now you two think about what you did and I will be back to punish you after my shower." She chastised and Ratchet and I remained stone faced, as soon as she left the room though we started laughing our heads off and giving each other high fives.

"Yo, good one bro!" he choked out between his laughs.

"Yeah, great idea Ratchet." I laughed along with him.

"Okay boys, time for breakfast!" Maya said with an amused expression on her face. We immediately dug in. Hey who can resist food? Not to mention that Maya is an amazing cook.

Yeah, I don't like Fang being together with Maya or Max and Dylan, but its part of the story. Please read and review. :)