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~Lex~

Just so you know who Maximum Ride is . . .

okay so here is just some info for ya about Maximum Ride if your wondering:

Maximum Ride is a series of six young adult science fiction/fantasy books, written by the award-winning American author James Patterson. The series chronicles the lives of six human/avian fugitives. Bred in a science lab called "The School", the Flock endured scientific experiments that rendered them 98% human and 2% avian. Through the first three books of the Maximum Ride series, the Flock spends much of their time running from human-lupine hybrids created by the School called Erasers. Book four is mainly about the flock rising against global warming, while Book 5 is about saving Dr. Martinez from a man named Mr. Chu, while battling environmental pollution. The reason for the change in style of the books is reportedly because the series is to be made up of two trilogies: The Fugitives (books 1–3) and The Protectors (books 4-6)[citation needed].
Plot
The first book in James Patterson's Maximum Ride series focuses around the rescue of Angel, the youngest member of the Flock. The Flock is safe in the mountains until the day a pack of Erasers, cruel and bloodthirsty, half-wolf half-men, appear out of nowhere and kidnap Angel. The Flock must return to the dreaded School, a horrifying place that holds terrible memories of their past, to rescue Angel. Max is deeply confused when she finds out that Jeb Batchelder, the kindhearted, parental figure who looked after them and rescued them from the school, has reappeared on the bad side, and that Ari, Jeb Batchelder's son, has become an Eraser. While Max is thrown into struggles of looking after all of her Flock, saving Angel from the evil clutches of the white-coats, and realizing how complicated love can be, she is trying to figure out why she has a mysterious voice inside her head that no one else can hear, one that is telling her that her mission is to save the world...
After being reunited with Angel and adding a Scottish Terrier named Total to their group, the Flock heads off to look for their parents through papers they found in an underground lab called the Institute for Higher Living. Max is still reeling from Jeb's enigmatic scream over his dying son that Ari was her brother - does this mean Jeb may be her father? Or is it just another "test" designed to confuse her even more? On the way they run into flying Erasers (with patched on wings), which one turns out the be back-from-the-dead Ari, who leaves Fang fighting for his life. What they didn't expect was to get enrolled into a real school with teachers, students, and classes. And to find a motherly figure after all these years. Along with Total developing into a talking dog, which, of course, just adds to all the strange things happening to them. But all the people surrounding the Flock may not be who they claim. The principal is evil and works for the Institute and in school after Max spots Fang kissing a red-haired girl (who Max calls The Red Haired Wonder), she now is jealous while also being kidnapped and replaced by a clone Max that looks just like her but acts really differently, a fight will leave only one Max standing as Jeb makes it clear that there can be only one Max.
In the third installment, Max is faced with the task of saving the world from the Itex corporation and the evil Director - the company behind the School - who want to terminate all recombinant species and cut the population of earth by half. While all this is happening Fang is trying to persuade Max to find a permanent home where they can just live. The Erasers were some of the first to be destroyed and have been replaced with new threat of Flyboys (robotic-like Erasers that can fly). Further issues arise when Max invites Ari - the single remaining Eraser- to join the group, leaving Fang and half of the Flock to split off in protest, with Max the leader of one group, Angel, Nudge, and Ari, and Fang the leader of the second, Iggy and The Gasman. But then Ari dies, and, with all the other crazy things happening, Max finally finds out who her parents are, which turns out to be a good thing and a bad thing.
With the help of Max's newly found mom and dad, the Flock is taken to Antarctica, where a scientific team requires their assistance. But danger finds the Flock in the remote location, and they must fight when they find an international organization, led by the Uber Director, who Max calls UD, attempting to use them for evil by auctioning them off to evil leader of foreign countries to be used as weapons and mercenary. Total meets the love of his life, Akila the malamute, while he has grown wings. Fang kisses Max a couple of times and Max starts to notice that they are meant for each other even though she doesn't want to admit it.
The Flock have barely recovered from their Antarctica adventure before they are pulled into another one. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and something—or someone—is destroying hundreds of ships. The government enlists their help to find out the cause after being unable to themselves. While the Flock is undertaking the task, a criminal mastermind is tracking their every move. Then, Max's mother is kidnapped and is being held in an underground submarine. They must try to save the ocean, Max's mother, and protect themselves from the criminal mastermind's own ideas for them. During the struggles, Fang and Max's relationship is stronger, and Max feels that she loves Fang. The story was originally supposed to be titled, "Maximum Ride: Waterwings."
Being a teen with wings—constantly on the run—has never been easy, and Max and her flock are getting tenser than ever. First, on a trip to Africa, they meet a mysterious billionaire whose intense scrutiny of the Flock makes her fear the worst. Then, a cryptic message from a young girl arrives, warning them "The sky will fall." And as if an impending apocalypse weren't bad enough, canny bird-kid Angel makes a dire prophecy about Max's soul mate: Fang will be the first to die. Angel is never wrong. Max's desperate desire to protect Fang brings the two closer than ever. But can the flock weather the storm, or will the turmoil rip them apart for the last time? On top of Max's stress level comes a new boy. Dylan, Dylan was created to be Max's perfect half. He was raised, like the flock, in a cage. The only difference between them is that Dylan was made to be with someone, the flock was created to save the world. Max was created to save the world and Dylan was created to be her other half. Will she choose her soul mate, Fang or this new boy, Dylan?
Film adaptation
In January 2007, it was announced that a film would be created based on the Maximum Ride series. James Patterson will be the executive producer.[14] Avi Arad, one of the producers of Spider-Man, X-Men and other Marvel movies, will also produce alongside Steven Paul.[14][15] In an interview with James Patterson, it was revealed that Arad has already planned out the first two movies.[16] On August 7, 2008, it was announced that Columbia Pictures bought the screen rights to the franchise. The film is currently slated for an early to mid 2010 release.[17] Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) will direct the first movie, with Don Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) writing the script.[14] In January 2010 it was announced that the film will go into pre-production as the film's director Catherine Hardwicke asked for a script rewrite as she wanted more action to Maximum Ride, making a 2010 release unlikely.[citation needed].
Characters
Main article: List of characters in Maximum Ride
[edit] Max
Maximum Ride, or 'Max', is fifteen years old (ages in 'Fang') and is the oldest of the avian-human hybrids and the leader of the Flock. Her powers include "warp drive" when flying and breathing under water. She also has a voice in her head, named "The Voice" that gives her advice. Her biological father is Jeb.
[edit] Fang
Fang, like Max, is 15 years old and is commonly the second in command of the Flock. He is able to virtually disappear but, if he stays perfectly still he can also walk while still invisible if he breathes very slowly and is the same speed with everything in his body (like heartbeat,etc.) and is described as a strong and silent person. He is also able to breathe underwater.
[edit] Iggy
Iggy is the sarcastic, wisecracking member of the flock who is slightly younger then Max and Fang. He is blind because of experiments done on his eyes when he was young although he can see if the background is white. His powers include being able to "feel" color also he can never miss a high five. Iggy and Gazzy are best friends but are always making bombs out of anything they can get a hold of.
[edit] Nudge
Nudge is an twelve year old of African descent. Her real name is Monique and she loves to talk. Also she can hack into computers with her ability to sense leftover emotions and draw metal to her when wanted.
[edit] The Gasman (Gazzy)
The Gasman is nine years old, and he earned his name by being born with a strange digestive system and, therefore, has a problem with flatulence, which eventually develops into a power. Gazzy can imitate any voice flawlessly. Gazzy is just as mischievous as Iggy is, and is a pyromaniac as well. At birth, both Angel (the Gasman's blood sister) and The Gasman were sold by their parents for $10,000 to Itex.
[edit] Angel
Angel is the Gasman's seven-year-old blood sibling. She obtains seemingly random powers at random times; breathing underwater, talking to fish, being able to read minds, being able to control minds, and can change appearance. In, Fang she kicks Max out and takes over the flock while Max and Fang are together, she is slowly getting eviler and has her own voice in her head. She wants to takes Max's role and lead but Max gets her role back after Angel goes to a doctor and almost gets fang killed.
[edit] Jeb Batchelder
Jeb Batchelder is a brilliant scientist. He used to work at the School where the Flock was experimented on. He rescued the Flock and brought them into the mountains, where he lived with them and "took them under his wing" as his children. Jeb disappeared, leaving the Flock very distressed and to fend for themselves. Jeb is Ari's father and is Max's biological father.
[edit] Ari
Ari is Jeb Batchelder's son but also Max's half-brother. When he was a baby, he admired Max when she was at the School. But when he was three, he became an Eraser. He never knew that he was Max's brother, so he of course, tried to kill her and "the flock". Later on, Max finds out that they are brother and sister after she kills him in the secret tunnel. She doesn't want to believe it but it is true.
[edit] The Erasers
The half human half wolf Erasers were bred by the School to be guards, but end up hunting the flock. They have the ability to morph into wolves, have superhuman strength, and eventually gain wings that are not as good as the flock's. Jeb's son, Ari, is made into an eraser, and is the last one to die when Itex "retires" all the Erasers and replaces them with the robot flyboys.
[edit] Ella
Ella is Maximum Ride's half-sister. She lives with Dr. Martinez; Max's mother. She is described as fun, bright, energetic, and funny. She has dark brown hair; A straight cut with bangs. She lives a not-so-adventurous life, and she has no superpowers.
~Lex~

good news gotta follow the bad ones right?

While we were gone

Okay firstly it’s really beautiful out here in Washington, too bad we can’t do a little more sightseeing.
Reason for that, well it would have something to do with Erasers and such starting to show up every where we’re going! Washington’s starting to get a little too crowded for my liking, and thanks to my freaky power of instinct or whatever I constantly have this edgy feeling, the slightest sound makes me jump and I’m not exaggerating on this. We think the reason for the Erasers everywhere are because they want to catch Zan and his marry band of renegade bird kids.
Well before we left on this month long ‘mission’ I told you guys that maybe we wouldn’t return or worse. Well worse happened but luckily we al survived, that’s sorta why we were ‘built’ wasn’t it, to survive and do something big like save the world or some other crap they keep ‘telling’ us! Anyway lucky for you I’m still able to rant on this blog so you’re not going to die of boredom or if those whack job guys in the labs are right, you’re also not going to die of some random event/war thing from which we’re supposed to save you from, wow my life’s’ weird!
Anyways the mission I was talking about started out as just meeting someone who had info on one of our flock’s parents, this info came to us via a phone call from a girl who knows T.K and Zan. Her names Alex (don’t know her last name), she’s part of this other flock that travel around the country, she was friends with T.K long story short T.K and Alex escaped together from the ‘school’ where they were kept together since they were taken, they were found by Erasers shortly after tasting the sweet taste of freedom, they hit T.K over the head and left him to die(they thought he died so technically he’s a free (bird) kid now but he has this major grudge against the institute so he willingly fights them), after he was left and near death Zan and the others found him and nursed him back to health, after this Zan also discovered that when avian’s are away from the ‘school’ and their drugs and stuff we sorta mutate further and T.K actually mutated a power to heal people(he’s still working on that).
Anyway you probably want to know what happened on the mission and things like that don’t you, so before you start a war here’s the story, jeez.

Okay it all started when T.K suddenly got a call on his cell phone one night when we were camping out next to a little stream with a campfire warming us up (and why the hell did he have a cell? Easy, it was to keep contact with other flocks we meet, says Zan and since T.K knows someone in another flock he should have a cell, ya I don’t get it either). T.K switched the cell to loud speaker so that we could hear the conversation. On the other side of the line we heard a girl’s voice.
“Hey, hey Zan, guy’s, new kids. Oh first happy B-day T.K, my flock says happy too. Okay back to business, I called to tell you guys about something I found on the PC’s at one of the schools, it’s about someone who could, or actually should help you with finding one of your parents and maybe even your mission to bring down the institute and all!” The girl sounded excided. Oh ya T.K had his B-day on the 9th of April he turned 14, lucky kid, we had a whole Mc D’s feast out in the woods, and everyone in the flock helped to find the perfect gift, a book, sure sure your thinking why buy/steel a book for the blind kid, well it’s a special book we found out in a dumpster, a brail Bible or a piece of one, luckily he had a little training in reading brail back at his ‘school’ and he really wanted to ‘read’ something so it was a great present for him, he loved it even if it was a little stinky and was only a little piece of the Big book itself.
“Wow that’s great Alex, you’re an angel, but can we trust this person?!” Zander asked excitedly, I guess this could be a good lead then, not that I liked the sound of talking to someone I don’t know over a phone, especially a girl, not that I care, just forget what I said okay.
“Jip, she’s good, but she wants protection from them for her help, she also wants Lexis and Jayson to meet her first, she didn’t say why.” Alex said sounding very proud of herself and why the hell did this person only want me and Jay to meet her, was it a trap?
“Wait, wait, wait! Is this a trap, why only me and Jay!” I almost yelled out, okay I actually did yell out, but for good reason.
“You must be Lexis then, exactly like they say in your file, well heya anyway, and it’s not a trap, it’s sorta something more but I can’t talk about it over the phone, you just gota trust me on this.” Okay this must sound weird, but I for once actually wished my instincts would tell me it’s a trap and I shouldn’t go, but my instinct actually told me to trust her and meet this person, it’s just, I don’t know, weird! I cringed as if the thought actually hurt me, and I cringed harder when I opened my mouth to, ‘nother first for me, agree with her to go.
“Okay Alex, we’ll go.” I lifted my arms up in surrender.
“They’re not going if I’m not going for backup.” Glaice spoke up, sounding super sure of herself and uber confident (just FYI she finally got her new dress so she’s all cleaned up and girly now).
“Am, Zan, T.K, who’s the British girl?” Alex asked surprised, trying to whisper unsuccessfully, Glaice heard.
Before Zan or T.K could answer Glaice did, very Glaice-like I should say “I’m Glaice, and I’m surprised your ‘files’ didn’t mention me.”
Sensing the tension in the air like any good leader, Zan, who with the others only sat there around the camp fire(which I started) and enjoyed the show, finally spoke up “okay thank you very much Alex but we have to get moving now, you can just SMS the info they’ll need, and if you love your bird kid life you’ll just listen to what these two girls say, so just tell the person we’ll be meeting to suck it up, Glaice is going with them, bye!”
I heard Alex protesting on the other side of the phone but before she could get anything said Zan said ‘bye’ and pressed the red button, call ended.
Em was curled up with Lily next to Mark, today was ‘n long day, we avoided an Eraser attack and just barely escaped a supermarket without being noticed, thanks to Lily’s ability to turn us invisible for a while we got out. But how long could we go on like this.
The two younger kids were maxed out, and I wasn’t sure how long we older kids would hold out, a few days, a week maybe, we really need a vacation from being chased all the time. A nice island with lots of food, a nice shelter, no erasers, blue Warm Ocean, oooo, hehe sounds sooo nice but things like those are hard to find.
“Coke?” Zander finally woke me up from my day/night dream of being in a nice warm place, food, ocean smell, freedom . . . he handed me a can of Coke Cola, I took it and said thanks and instantly opened it. I looked around our little campfire and saw the rest of the flock fast asleep, everyone except me and Zan.
“Do you think Jay, Glaice and me are going to walk into a trap?”
“No, I trust Alex, she’s never sent us bad info.” Zander said gently, he took a sip of his Coke, and stared into the fire which was still going strong. “Don’t you have some spider sense thing going on? You were kinda jumpy and weird every time before an Eraser attack, later on I just looked at you to know if an Eraser would pop by.” He smiled at me. I could practically feel my cheeks flush bright red.
I smiled back at him, downed my can of Coke and stretched out. “Ya you could probably call my weird sixth sense thing that, hehe, I’m going to take a nap now, you’re on guard duty right?”
“Jip, sleep tight then.”
I curled up on the ground, it was kinda cold you know, end of winter chill still in the air.
I fell asleep instantly.
I tried not to think of tomorrow’s mission, or the fact that there’s maybe something wrong with my ‘spider sense’ and me, Glaice and Jay was walking into a trap, I pushed those thoughts aside and focused on the here and now, I was free, Jay and my new found flock was save, and we could find someone who could help us stop the institute if she turns out to be on our side.

Okay just because I can and I’m in the mood to be spiteful I’m going to add what happened the next day later, hehe so just watch this space.

One more thing, I see i have spelled Glaice's name wrong a few times, he-he sorry G, she showed it to me dureing our atventure mission thing, the correct spelling is Glaice, not Glaze or Glace or anything like that, again Glaice I'm sorry so stop hitting me okay?!
~Lex~