a really long post about our mission Part 1

Okay I’m starting to feel really unappreciated here! When Fang started his own blog he got a lot of followers, AND comments and questions and stuff! What should I do, die my hair black and go emo! Okay I know it’s a bit wasted to put this on my blog and all but really where is everyone! Did the end of the world come and I missed it or something, did Max and her flock fail or something.

I know me and my flock or whatever are sorta the plan B but shouldn’t someone tell us if it’s our turn in the spotlight to be the save the world flock, and where the hell is my creepy voice in my head, don’t I get one (hmm I wonder if Zander has one, *leans in closer to Zan and tries to hear his thoughts* just a random thought here but seriously *Zan moving away uncomfortably, stares at Lex* can he have one, should probably ask Glaice to read his mind sometime, I’m just wondering!)
Our flock is just drifting around, surviving mostly, but what if it was our time to step up to the plate, stare some megalomaniac in the face and try to stop him. Could we do it? Can we actually fill the great Maximum Rides shoes and stand and fight when everything is against us, not just Erasers and evil scientists! I know I should be happy with how things are for the time being, heck we were all save, we found food every day, we had each other, can’t I just be happy and forget all this plan B stuff. Oeps now that I think about it, I haven’t told you guys about the plan B mambo jumbo yet, he-he, my bad.
Anyway make yourselves comfortable, grab a soda and a bag of potato chips ‘cause this is going to be a long post . . . . are you ready, here it goes.


The next day came, today we would meet up with this mystery person, late last night Alex messaged the details of the mission to T.K’s cell. Zander and the left behind flock wished us luck and told us where to meet them after the meeting with the person.
“Just hear what this person has to say, don’t just go all Lex on her-” Zander said, what’s wrong with going Lex on her, “-you know what, just let Jay do the talking, Lex you just keep your mouth shut.” I stared Zander down, me, what did I do wrong, okay sure I one time almost attacked that waiter at the restaurant, but he was giving me lip, and he strangely resembled an Eraser.
Jay did a half smile, and Glaice, Em and Lily started to giggle, Mark and T.K made that ‘ooooh trouble’ sound. I gave each one of the flock a look which I hoped said ‘if you love your life you’ll stop laughing’, okay actually my look was lost on T.K so I just dropped it, don’t get mad get even.
Jay took off silently, knowing it’ll be better for his health, Glaice followed, she waved a good bye to the flock, in her own Glaice way. I turned to Zan and reluctantly took off after the other two, I quickly caught up to them. We flew silent in the pre-dawn sky, the cool air brushed against our faces, it was soothing actually.
“You okay Lex, you know if she even thinks about springing a trap I’ll know about it!” Glaice said confidently and smiled warmly at me, she truly was a BFF candidate, he-he as if anyone other than a bird kid could qualify.
“Ya, we were smart to bring the girly British mind reader to a meeting with a stranger!” I said in my usual Lex joke tone, I smiled back at Glaice reassuring her that I didn’t mean it in a mean way. I looked over at my brother, his hair was way longer than what is normal for a boy his age, but the shaggy brown locks really suited him (he’s probably gonna kill me when he reads this). He was totally focused onto the ground and our surroundings (open sky), talk about paranoid, I’m so proud.
“See anything, chopper, flying Erasers, UFO’s, anything?” I only half joked.
“Na, nothing yet, only pre-dawn sky and a few puffy pink clouds.” Jay said while scanning the sky and the ‘puffy pink clouds’.
I heard Glaice giggle a bit and almost did myself, ‘puffy pink’ are two words you almost never hear a boy say, and if that boy happens to be an almost Emo bird kid, well you can guess it, you never ever hear that.
As soon as he realized we were giggling at his word choice he turned red all over his face, I had to keep myself together not to burst out into hysterical laughter.
“Hey guys, I think I see the contact!” Glaice finally said saving Jay from another flash of red and protecting me from giggling like a little girl again.
With raptor vision (like Max likes to point out) we saw the woman before she saw us. I quickly exchanged a look with Glaice saying if-she-thinks-about-pulling-out-a-semi-automatic-you-warn-us or something like that. She nodded and I exchanged the same look with Jay, except this one said you-and-your-emotion-thing-better-calm-her-if-she-tries-an-attacks, okay the looks both looked the same, but they knew what I meant, I hope.
Finally when we were within normal human seeing distance the woman saw us, she waved us over, I mean hello, raptor vision, we don’t need someone waving us over we know where she was, jeez.
The woman was standing on a cliff, her brown hair blowing wildly around her head like some weird brown halo. I was the first to touch down a few feet from her, she smiled warmly and didn’t come closer. Behind me I heard Jay land, then Glaice landing quietly on my other side, I kept my eyes on the woman.
“Well, hello I should probably introduce myself, I’m Joe Parker.” Wait where did I hear that surname before, I looked at the woman, Joe, more intently, maybe I could remember her.
“Wait, our mothers surname is Parker!” Jay finally jogged my memory, that’s where I could remember her surname from, I saw a file about me with a Parker person as my mom, of course Jay’s had the same woman as his mother. The woman looked as if she suddenly choked when she heard Jay say that, I gotta say I almost choked too.
“Jayson . . . Ammm what can I say, you figured it out before I even had to tell you!” The woman, who I refuse to think of as my maybe mother, looked over at Jay longingly, it looked as if she wanted to take a step forward but thought not to.
I looked over at Jay, he looked totally different, he had some strange expression on, something between hope, sorrow, happy and anger. I had to say something, Jay was clearly thinking too hard to come up with anything.
“And you suddenly decide to check up on us why?!” I said as I got my tough don’t mess with me face on, it worked most of the time. “And I’m pretty sure it’s not to see if we’re okay and save.” Okay I know, I was totally sounding like a cold hearted fish.
“I can’t lie to you, I’m not here to make up or anything, I’m just here to help you with your mission, sure I’m risking my life for a bunch of kids who most likely hate me, but hey, here I am!” the woman sounded every bit as confident as I like to think I sounded, later Jay told me the woman even gets that same wrinkle between her brows like when I’m angry or frustrated, he said she even raises her arms up like I sometimes do.
Jay finally joined into this little family dispute again. “If you’re our mom, why did you leave us to be taken by those mad men? Why didn’t you protect us?!” He actually raised his voice at the end, suddenly Jay the calm, cool and collective angel turned into a vengeful one, his eyes actually looked ablaze as the sun of the new day lit the cool blue pools of his eyes (wow I sound poetic).
That one actually looked like it struck a nerve with this woman, I saw a faint glint in her eyes, which looked suspiciously like a tear forming. She looked a little pained by what Jay said, or rather asked.
“I had no choice, it’s a long and painful story but . . .” she started to say before Glaice suddenly broke in, reminding me she was here too.
“Buts can wait, ours is about to be kicked if we don’t move it, we’ve got company!”
I looked around us and spotted her ‘company’, it was a bunch of flying dots coming from the east, whoever it was, was smart attacking from the side where your enemy can’t see you coming from, like maybe an angle from which the dawn sun would blind them. I looked over at my non winged ‘mother’ and knew an up and away(meaning flying away to safely avoiding a fight, only works when all the people has wings) was out of the deal, her face looked calm, asif she has faced Erasers before, I could only see a little fear in her eyes. Oh man a clumsy human was the last thing I wanted to worry about in a fight with Erasers.
“Grab a stick or something, defend yourself!” I yelled at the woman, but as I turned to look at her to see if she had a stick, she pulled out a gun, one of those little pistil things (don’t blame my knowledge of guns, blame my crappy upbringing, as a general we bird kids don’t like guns, never have, never will!). “Whoa, don’t bring that thing near me!”
Me, Jay and Glaice ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped, this wasn’t going to be easy (but when was the life of a bird kid ever easy). Quickly we ripped out our wings, catching the wind like true avian hybrids, we were off to go and kick some butt.
We focused our eyes on to our targets, the now almost visible flying Erasers, ignoring the glowing orange orb behind them. Staring at the sun isn’t considered save, not even for a super tough bird kid. The Erasers quickly grew, there were at least five of them, what we’re not trouble enough to have at least 20 now!?
“Okay let’s focus on this problem and handle the non winged one when we’re done here.” I made myself sound like a leader, and if I do say so myself, I did sound like an awesomely good leader, maybe Zander should watch his back from now on.
Suddenly we heard the unmistakable deafening sound of a gunshot. I whirled around in an instant, being a bird kid and all you always expect something bad to happen when you hear a gunshot, ether you get shot or one of your own. Instead of maybe feeling a little holey myself or seeing a bird kid falling from the sky, I saw a big-al ugly Eraser fall from the sky, he yelled all the way to the ground, after the yelling we heard branches break and something (Eraser) hit the ground.
One down four to go, I thought to myself and doing the math in my head, pretty good for a girl who hasn’t seen the inside of a Math’s class in her whole life.
“Lex, heads up!” Jay yelled from somewhere behind me, the same instant my instincts told me to go down and ready myself, without doubting him, or my instincts, I dropped out of reach of an Eraser who was just about to grab my neck. I quickly shot back up with a sneaker full of hurt for the unlucky Eraser who thought of strangling me. My sneaker connected with the Erasers lower jaw, I heard his teeth knocking together and he forgot to flap, falling to the woods below to join his pal. I gave a pleased smile and turned to the others to see how much Erasers were left. Jay was starting to fly back to the cliff where our ‘mom’ was still standing and watching our battle, his Erasers all done for.
But when my instincts told me to look over at Glaice, I look, and I got the scare of my life. She was hovering in place staring down an Eraser twice her size, she was actually smiling. I turned my gaze to the petrified Eraser, his red eyes filling with fear. Erasers almost never get scared, so whatever Glaice was doing was falling into the realm of ‘I REALLY don’t want to know!’ I looked at her eyes, they were glowing silver, it suddenly made me scared too, what was she doing?
She gave one rueful smile and suddenly the last remaining Eraser’s wings folded and he suddenly fell like a rock out of the sky, not even yelling like the others.
I thought to myself ‘hey, instincts do I want to know what she just did’? and like instincts normally go, you don’t get an answer, well they don’t talk as much as a voice normally would so the thought was kinda lost.
“Let’s go down and deal with problem number 1. Again.” I said only shaking a little bit.
“’Kay!” Glaice smiled innocently and swooped down back to earth, I followed.
“So who are you really?” I asked the woman the second I touched down.
She rolled her eyes and said it slowly “Well, I guess I’m your mom, but that’s not why I’m here, to make nice and all, I’m here . . .” I had to stop her.
“So why are you here, Joe?”
“Like I said, I’m here to help you stop the institute and what they are doing at those schools!” I got ready to chip in again but before I could, Glaice covered my mouth, did I ever mention I DON’T LIKE PEOPLE DOING THAT! “They have this large cloning plant in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, it’s really bad and has to be destroyed!” She sounded really serious so I didn’t try to sound cold this time.
“So what do you want us to do?” I asked.
“Stop it.” Wow so descriptive, but wait isn’t that like lotsa miles away, almost a whole continent.
“That’s across the continent, I know we look strong and al but we can’t fly that far in one shot.” Glaice spoke up.
“I didn’t say you’re doing it alone, I happen to know someone who can fly us there without your wings.” Joe got a wry smile on and I couldn’t help but get that one word out of her statement.
“Us? You’re talking as if you’re coming along.”
“I am, what responsible parent would I be if I didn’t accompany my kids in a cross country flight?” She made her voice sound all innocent and caring in a sarcastic tone, like a mom would have, (oh no, I’m falling for the trap, nooooo! Just a joke I didn’t buy her story for one millisecond).
“Let’s say I believe you and that you’re really here to help us and we’re going to climb onto that plane with you, but first answer this, why are you doing this, and how the hell does a person like you know all this stuff?” I was utterly puzzled, how does a normal person know this stuff, as far as I know all the white coats are ugly old men who still live with their mothers, Joe looked to be completely the opposite, 1) she was a really attractive older version of me, 2) she looked to be early 30’s somewhere (according to a few files I sneaked a peek at back at the school, our mom had us at about 18, she was in college and her parents didn’t like the idea of their kid having a kid while still learning, so in retrospect Joe gave us up ‘cause her ‘rents didn’t want grandchildren), 3) Joe wasn’t sporting a really unattractive white coat (hens the name) but rather a pair of jeans and a Guns And Roses T and black jacket. The other two also looked kinda puzzled like me, even mind-reading-eraser-scare’rer Glaice was puzzled. (should ask why she didn’t read Joe’s mind)
She smiled sheepishly and answered “well, I’ve been ‘working as a lab assistant to one of the scientists about 10 years ago, weird guy, anyway I saw a lab report which I wasn’t supposed to see, it was about hybrid experimentation on human infants, bad stuff, so I delved deeper and found stuff about kids being taken from all sorts of places, kidnapped from parks, taken from hospitals, and ‘adopted’ by people who doesn’t exist!” Me, Jay and Glaice listened intently to her story, Joe’s face looked grim as she continued, “So I sort of started to think of what had happened to my twins, I tried the adoption place I gave you up to“ I looked at Jay, his face looked a little pail “-they gave me a telephone number after a long debate, I called it and the number doesn’t exist, I got worried and one night snuck into a lab, certain that you two were taken for experiments, when I logged onto the network with the reports, my worst fears were realized, you were used, but that was all I could find before I had to leaf, the next day they beefed up security, I couldn’t find anything more, until a week ago, I suddenly came across a file strait from Mr. H’s office, he’s like the head of research in the area, it said something about twin avian hybrids having escaped from a lab in the Seattle area, I instinctively knew it had to be you two, so after searching everywhere I found a file containing a lot of info gathered from Erasers on the field on Escaped experiments and after trying everything I could I found a little red-haired girl and told her everything, she said she heard a friend of hers had twins in his flock so I asked her to arrange everything, the rest you know.” Joe looked little breathless after THAT explanation. “I also found out about this oil rig that doubles as a clone factory, its somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.”
‘Glaice, can you tell if she’s lying about any of that?’ God I hope she could catch that thought.
‘She believes it, there’s no intention of deceiving us in her mind, but I’m unsure, she’s blocking off a large portion of her memory, maybe she blocked a bad memory subconsciously.’ Glaice thought back to me, great this telepathy thing rocks, so long it doesn’t go the bad way like that Eraser incident.
‘Am, instincts not that I don’t trust Glaice and all but can I trust this woman’ still nothing, I don’t have a voice like Max. But luckily I could ‘feel’ like I could trust her.
“Okay, I’ll have a talk with Zander, our flock leader, but I sort of trust you on this.” Jay stared at me in surprise (I almost never trust anyone or agree to things), Glaice just stood there staring off into the distance. “But that doesn’t mean I accept the fact that your our mom, I still don’t trust you, only what you said.” I had my serious business face on, I hoped she bout it. “And I’m not calling you mom, to me your Joe.” I added in a less serious tone, but I still meant it.
Joe smiled and stuck out her hand “fine, we have a deal.” I stared at her hand until she pulled it back. “So, where is this Zander, and your ‘flock’?”
“They’re somewhere in the woods out there.” I said and pointed into the woods in general.
“If you show me where, I’ll drive us to them-“
“We prefer to fly thank you, just follow!” I chipped in before she finished.
“Or I can just follow . . .” she said as she walked into the woods on the opposite side of the cliff.
I peered into the darkness of the woods and saw a black Jeep in the shadows.
Jay jumped soundlessly into the air, followed by Glaice, I stayed on the ground and stared at Joe, she got into the Jeep and waved, I jumped into the air and joined Jay and Glaice, we started to fly into the direction we came from, back to the others or rather a roundabout route to where we were to meet, just to confuse Joe, and burn some gas so that she can’t drive off when we arrive at the ron-day-fu place.


~Lex~