This takes place anytime after Booth has the brain tumor and during the beginning of School's Out Forever after they get in the fight with the Erasers with wings. A few changes to the fight scene; They were loosing and all but Angel were left. Angel told the remaining Erasers to retreat and went down to the rest of the Flock. They were fighting over a field not the ocean. Oh and the FBI knows nothing about Erasers or Jeb or the School. Their powers are the same as at the end of Max (except for the gills and appearance changing) because I don't feel like re-reading the first book again. Also there is no Total, I'm sorry but he won't work in this story.
Most of the Bones scenes will be third person and The Maximum Ride scenes Max's POV. (Sorry for my horrible third person POV this started out as a writing excercise.)
The parts within the * * are parts taken almost directly from books.
Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride or Bones.
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"Bones we've got a new case," he called out as he entered her office with Sweets in tow, "Sweets is coming along, we need him."
"Why do we-" the doctor began to ask when she was cut off.
"Don't bother asking him, he won't tell me anything about what's going on." Sweets said.
"No Sweets I didn't tell you 'cause I don't feel like explaining things twice." They got into Booths car and began to drive. "Look Sweets, I was hoping you would help with the little kids they found at the scene. We have them surrounded but the youngest girl is just sitting there yelling at the officers not to go near the five other kids who are alive. She's covered in dirt and blood and it looks like she's injured. When we mentioned that we had doctors that could help them she screamed even louder at the officers to stay away and for someone named Max."
"So why are we working this Booth? The other victims must be recently dead?" Brennan inquired.
"You'll see when we get there." The rest of the car ride was spent in silence.
When they got there a young girl was standing in the middle of the field she was surrounded by dead bodies. She was completely unfazed by the bodies but was more preoccupied with making sure no one hurt her friends. Every time someone tried to approach she would yell stop and and they would instantly stop in their paths. The team was confused at why the officers did not simply keep going until they tried. As soon as she yelled Stop. The doctors and the agent immediately stopped in their tracks, unable to move. They stepped backwards and took a minute to figure out what was going on.
"Why the hell can't we get to them?" Booth asked angrily.
"Booth," Brennan called, "These bodies look as though they are part wolf and they have wings on their backs. Is this some kind of joke because if so it isn't amusing at all. How many are there?"
"Count outside of where we can go says 37." He stopped to look around and said, "They've checked a mile radius and they keep finding them spread out more than this."
"Dr. Brennan, Agent Booth, look." The young psychologist was pointing out the fact that one of the human girls had jumped up and was now walking around like nothing was wrong with the scene surrounding her, more focused on looking for someone.
What the hell? I thought as I sprang to my feet snapping my wings in first. My wing seared in pain but I knew that was the least of my troubles as I looked around horrified at the amount of flashing lights and saw Angel standing a few feet away.
"I kept them away as long as I could Max, but I'm getting tired and Nudge and Gazzy's wings are still visible," she told me.
I nodded and went to Nudge first she needed more time. I shook her, "Nudge wake up you need to pull in your wings." She stirred and made a grumbly noise.
I walked over to Gazzy who was already slowly waking up. "Gazzy pull your wings in."
The two of them were up in a few seconds wings retracted on full alert. I walked over to where Iggy was and saw his arm was in horrible shape. There was a bone nearly penetrating the skin and it was not something we could fix, we might have to get help from others. My worst fears were realized as I walked over to where Fang was crumpled in a heap. His wings were retracted but he had huge gashes across his front.
I looked around at the people surrounding us. Pulling a U and A was out of the question. I was pretty sure my wing was damaged and I was the only one who could carry Fang. Iggy was conscious now as he walked over to me cradling his arm. "Angel says we're surrounded. What are we going to do?"
I had absolutely no idea but I knew we were going to have to trust someone. I just didn't know who. Iggy pulled out a strip of cloth to hold up his arm. The situation got worse as Angel collapsed from sheer exhaustion and I realized they would soon be able to come to us. I walked over and picked her up and went back to where Fang was. Apparently they realized it too because three people began to walk towards us. I took a fighting stance until the Voice said to me Trust them because you can't trust anyone else.
I stood up straight and we gathered around Fang. Iggy checking the extent of Fangs wounds. I wondered if we should use our real names or how much to tell them about us. Tell them everything the Voice said.
They had reached us and the woman instantly went to help with Fang when I went to block her. Trust Max. I stepped back and allowed her to help them
"Who are you?" the younger man asked.
I took a deep breath and said, "My name is Max, this is Nudge, Gazzy, the one I'm holding is Angel, Fang's the one on the ground, and the one next to him is Iggy"
They nodded as the doctor asked, "Do you know what these things are?"
"They're called Erasers. They are human-lupine hybrids and I guess there is some avian in the mix this time too." I said waiting to see if they would laugh or just stare. They took the second option until the woman spoke up.
"His heart beat is fast and erratic and he's losing a lot of blood, we need to get him to a hospital, fast," she said.
I looked at the others covered in bruises and cuts and said, "Alright, but we aren't being separated and we'll only talk to you."
The older man nodded his head and called out to the EMT's, "Lets get a stretcher over here quick!"
The woman was still next to Fang when she saw Iggy's arm. She asked him, "May I look at your arm?"
Iggy waited for the go from me before he removed his arm from the make-shift sling. She looked at it very carefully and asked him, "How did this happen?"
He nodded at the field of Erasers laying dead in front of us and said, "One of them caught me by surprise."
"This break was from a frontal attack." she said.
"Yep, didn't see it coming." he said with a smile on his face.
All three of the people were confused so I put them out of their misery, "Iggy's blind."
They looked shocked and the woman said, "I couldn't even tell."
The stretcher came and they lifted Fang onto it carefully. The older man said, "You can't all fit in the ambulance. But I can take a few of you in my car."
I nodded as I said, "I'll ride with Fang and Iggy. Can you take the younger three? Can you carry Angel? She's just tired is all."
He nodded and took her from her arms as the EMTs were loading him into the ambulance. The other three were getting into a large SUV. I waved to them and hopped into the ambulance.
*The antiseptic smell inside of the ambulance made my stomach knot with nightmare memories of the School. I looked down at Fang's hand, now had a saline drip taped into it.
"He's fibrillating," one paramedic said urgently.
He pointed to the portable EKG machine, which was going thump-thump-thump very fast. "Get the paddles."
"No!" I said loudly, startling everyone. The paramedic held the shock paddles, looking surprised. "That's always how his heart is. It always beats really fast. That's normal for him." I don't know if the paramedic would have used the paddles anyway, but just then we roared into the
hospital emergency bay and it was chaos.
Orderlies ran out with a gurney, the EMT guys started rattling off Fang's stats to a nurse. And then Fang was wheeled out of sight, down a hall and through some doors. *
I followed Iggy into the room where they were having him wait until they could get someone to set his bone.
The agent and the two doctors had gotten the kids into the SUV and were speedily following the ambulance when the Angel woke up.
"Where's Max?" she asked sweetly.
"She's in the ambulance in front of us with the two other boys." the older man said.
"What are your names?" she questioned. "We don't really know what to call you."
"I'm Agent Booth, this is Dr. Brennan, and the man in the back is Dr. Sweets."
The three adults noticed the kids tense when they mentioned the doctors names. Again the youngest one spoke for all three of them. "You're good doctors right?"
"Dr. Brennan is the best and Sweets is one of the youngest in his field, so yeah they're pretty good."
"No I mean you're nice aren't you? You don't hurt people or experiment on them?" she asked. The question seemed morbid to the psychologist especially since he could tell she was serious.
At this Brennan turned around in her seat to face the little girl she saw that the other two children were waiting for her answer as well. "I don't hurt people, we work together with some other people to help catch people who do hurt other people."
"That's good and Max says that we can trust you with everything," the little girl said. "Why do you call her Bones?"
"She's a forensic anthropologist, she studies bones, so I – wait I haven't called her Bones since we met you." Booth said.
"Not out loud you haven't. I can read minds." I can also project my thoughts into people's minds too. Angel was giggling at the adults speechless reactions.
After they parked they went inside to find the three other kids. They found Max and Iggy in a hospital room. Agent Booth said, "You have some explaining to do."
I sighed reluctantly hoping that this was a dream, that I didn't have to do this. Maximum just trust them. "Please before I explain, can you promise me that you will only tell what is absolutely necessary to anyone else?" The agent and the doctors nodded, Angel filled me in on what they already knew. "You know those human-lupine hybrids? They were created to hunt us down and kill us. They were created at a place called the School. Which by happy coincidence is also where we were . . um . . made I guess you could say. We are human-avian hybrids, 98% human and 2% bird." I looked up to see if they were following what I was saying (they were!) when I continued, "We don't know if we were born with the avian DNA already grafted into us or if it was grafted after. Four years ago someone named Jeb helped to break us out and helped us learn how to fight and taught us that we shouldn't trust anyone. A little while ago he disappeared and we were left alone until our house was attacked by those Erasers. They kidnapped Angel and we went after them. We managed to get her out of there after we were captured. Angel had found out some information while she was there that our real parents might be out there somewhere. So we headed to this place in New York called the Institute for Higher Living. We got in through an underground entrance and released some of the experiments they had in there. Most of them weren't even human looking. Then Jeb's son Ari who they made an Eraser came in. He tried to kill us, he's only seven, he slipped and I kicked him. I got his neck, I think he's dead. There were more erasers coming after us, we had to go. Jeb was there he betrayed us, but the last thing he said was that Ari was my brother and that I had killed him. But when those new flying Erasers attacked us Ari was there and alive. He's the one who hurt Fang." I stopped, hoping they would not freak out.
"So you said you had avian DNA grafted into you. What did it do to you?" Dr. Brennan asked.
"Thats the part we have to show you for you to believe." They looked confused. My wing was still sore, I think I might have fractured it, Iggy was injured, and both Nudge and Gazzys wingspans were too big for the tiny room we were in. Angel you have the smallest wingspan could you do the honors?
"Sure Max," she said as she took off her windbreaker. She spread her wings as the adults looked on in awe.
AN: I'm sorry for leaving it off there but I have to finish filling out college apps. After that I'm basically done worrying about school or applications, so I'll have more time to work on this and my non-fanfiction writing.