Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Torchwood, or Maximum Ride. Those rights go to Russell T. Davies and James Patterson respectively. *sigh* sometimes, I wish I could though.

Spoilers: None, actually, as far as I can tell. Let me know if you see otherwise.

So basically, I'm have an encounter of Torchwood with the Flock. It's all set after "Dead Man Walking" and before "Fragments". There is Janto(Jack/Ianto), Owen is back from the dead, and Jack is, well, Jack. Oh yeah, and the flock is yet to be discovered by the world. So not very well known. Straight from the "School", you might say, but Angel has her powers. Mind-reading and whatnot. Please read, and I hope you enjoy. I'll try to stay as true to the characters as possible.

Chapter 1

Jack sauntered out of his office and over to Tosh's work place. "So Tosh, what've you got?" he asked casually.

"Nothing, actually, which is really surprising. The rift hasn't been active for days now. That's really strange." said Tosh as she looked at the steady spikes on one of her monitors. "And there have been no reports of any alien activity in or around Cardiff."

Jack whined like a child.

"But I'm so bored."

"Well go read a book or something" replied Tosh. "Just leave me alone. I need to finish cataloging the tech we got from when we busted that illegal alien arms dealership."

"I've got an idea on what he could do." said a smarmy voice behind them. Jack turned around to see Owen standing by the door of the medical bay. "If you're so bored, why don't you go and shag teaboy down in the archives?"

"I've tried that, but for some reason he keeps pushing me away today. Says he needs to get his 'work' done."

Gwen walked in as Jack was speaking. "Maybe its because that's ALL you've been doing this past week. Honestly, every time I come into your office, I always interrupt you and Ianto. Ever heard of a sock on the door?"

"But that would take too long" Jack laughed as he said this, his eyes crinkling at the corners. Then he sighed. "Oh well, if anyone needs me, I'll be down in the archives trying to get Ianto to see my way."

"Fine" replied Tosh. "But after you're done with him, bring him back up here and get him to make us some coffee. You've been keeping him to yourself this week and he hasn't made a bloody cup."

"Will do," said Jack as he smiled and strolled down the stairs, his coattails swishing behind him.

Gwen looked at him go. "Look, I know they're cute together, but I'm starting to feel sorry for Ianto. Tosh, we need some sort of distraction for Jack."
"I KNOW!" Tosh almost yelled. "I'm trying, but I can't just make the rift work and spit something out."

"Ok, Tosh, but you really need to try harder." said Owen. He shuddered as he said his next sentence. "It's my turn to look over all the CCTV cams at the end of every day, and I don't think I can stand anymore videos of them shagging. I get my kicks from it as much as the next guy, but it's getting old."

Tosh just growled at the both of them. Couldn't they see she wanted alien activity as much as they did. She was sleep and coffee deprived and needed some action. Instead of saying anything to them, she simply turned away and began furiously looking through the reports to see if she had missed anything. About twenty minutes later, she spotted a blinking out of the corner of her eye and turned to one of her Cardiff activity monitors. She clicked on the red dot, read the report, then grabbed her bluetooth. "Jack, Gwen, Owen, Ianto, you had better come up here and see this."

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Max and the whole flock were flying through the clear night skies over Cardiff, looking for a nice place to rest. She had promised to take the kids sight seeing in London, but they needed to rest, since they had been flying over half the Atlantic Ocean.

"Come on" she said when she saw a rather branchy tree, perfect for hiding and sleeping in."Let's get down to that tree."

As they collapsed from exhaustion on the branches, even Nudge, who was usually so talkative, didn't say a word.

Gazzy was instantly snoring next to Iggy, and they both lay limply like rags. Max should have been worried about them falling out, but she knew they would be ok. They had been so many other times.

Angel tiredly came down on the tree branch next to Max and settled down in her lap. Max just stroked her soft blonde curls and smoothed her ruffled feathers. She, Angel, looked the most innocent of them all, she was so young. "Don't worry Max," the small girl murmured sleepily as she drifted off. "I can take care of myself." But then, Max remembered with a smile, Angel was also the most devilish, with her reading of others peoples and influencing them.

As she began to close her eyes, Max noticed someone was missing. "Fang?" she called out softly into the darkness.

"I'm keeping watch down here." replied a cool voice.

Max looked down and saw Fang, standing against the tree, his wings tucked behind him and his arms folded across his chest. "You get some sleep. I'll wake you when it's time for your watch."

One could never be too careful when there were Erasers around. There always needed to be someone looking out when the flock was sleeping, and Max was suddenly grateful.

"Thanks Fang, but remember, 4 hours ONLY. We need you tomorrow in case there is any fighting." said Max.

"Of course." Max couldn't see in the dark, but she could tell Fang was giving her one of his rare smiles. Then, Max began to drift off to sleep.

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Jack was just getting Ianto's shirt off after 15 minutes of persuasion when Tosh called him on her bluetooth. "You might want to come and see this," was all she had said.

Jack felt torn. On one hand, he really wanted to go out there and take out whatever had alerted Torchwood. On the other, what him and Ianto had going right then was turning out to be promising, but he didn't have time to make that decision. Apparently, Toshiko had called everyone on their Bluetooths and Ianto was dressed before Jack turned back to him.

"We really should go up there, sir." The Welshman spoke in a soft voice. "You've been going on all week about how you weren't getting any action, and here's your chance."

Jack pouted. "But I like what we were getting started here. THAT was action in my book." He tried to slip Ianto's coat off of him, but Ianto gently, but firmly, resisted.

"I'll be here when you get back."

"What are you talking about, 'be here'?" replied Jack laughingly. "You heard Tosh, she wanted all of us up there. You included."

Ianto just smiled as Jack pulled him into the main Hub. He really loved that man.

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Tosh was already beginning to explain the situation to Owen and Gwen as both Ianto and Jack rushed up the stairs, breathless and red in the face.

"Took you long enough to get up here." jibed Owen. "Been having a little fun have we?"

Jack smiled and replied "Why yes, yes we have." Ianto said nothing. He just flushed a little more and turned his attention to the screen Tosh was pointing at. After all this time, he still hadn't gotten used to the idea of the team knowing about him and Jack's relationship, especially since Owen always felt the need to bother him about it.

Tosh looked cross at being interrupted but continued with what she had been saying."So, basically, what the witness told the police was that a bunch of human sized creatured flew over his head. He said he couldn't get an exact number, but that it was at least 5 or 6. The witness wasn't drunk at all or anything, in fact we've been getting several reports, and from the look of it, the creatures seemed to be following some sort of trail. Now, there's been no recent Rift activity so that means whatever it is, its been on this side for a while. Whatever it is, it has adapted to this world and managed not to be seen. That means its got some sort of intelligence. We may be dealing with something like Mywfawny or something completely alien. Either way, whatever caused it to come out of hiding may have made it angry, or scared. Ianto, you're coming with us because we don't know how many there are and we might need backup."

"Of course, Tosh." replied the Welshman. The rest of the team nodded to show that they understood and so they all walked out of the Hub, each secretly excited to be able to get some action once again.

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Max was woken up by a quiet shake from Fang. He gave her the signal that meant someone was coming. She looked up into the night sky and sighed. It was cloudless and the moon was shining brightly. They might attract a lot of attention if they decided to go up and away, and she didn't want to chance fighting someone who had guns.

She heard the quiet whispers as Fang silently woke up each member of the group. Both Gazzy and Iggy yawned loudly, but were instantly silenced by Fang's quiet shush. Angel was already crouched on the branch, ready to fly off, with Nudge beside her. I shook my head NO, and Angel nodded as she read my thoughts. We sat quietly perched in the tree for a few minutes, waiting to see if they would pass us, but as the voices got closer, I realized that wasn't going to happen.

A small Asian woman with a rather large gun began approaching the tree. "The last witness said he saw them fly into this clump of trees and never come out."
Crap, thought Max. I should have realized people would have seen us early tonight, since it was just as cloudless. But all I was focused on was getting my flock to safety.

Then the Asian woman said something that caused Max to mentally slap herself on the forehead. "I found the center of the forest. It's got a rather large tree in it and I think that's where they are hiding." She listened for a few more moments on her headpiece then nodded and slowly pointed her gun up at the tree.

Max realized that they couldn't fly out of this one. She couldn't risk one of her flock members being hurt as they flew through the air. They'd be perfect targets. Instead she motioned for them to climb down the side of the tree that was opposite the lady with the gun. As Angel, the last person to climb down, leaped off the lowest branch. Max heard a stick behind her a whirled around. A man in a World War Two overcoat stood with his gun trained on her, and a pleasant smile on his face. When he saw that they were kids, he frowned and lowered his gun. "Tosh," he called to presumably the lady on the other side of the tree, "all we've got here is a couple of kids." Soon, more people began to emerge from the bushes, two men and a woman with black hair, all holding guns. They relaxed when they saw what the man in the coat had said was right, they relaxed and lowered their guns. Max saw this as an opportunity to run and gave the single motion. Before anyone from Torchwood could react, the flock was up in the air.

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Jack stared at them in wonderment for a few seconds before he turned and began running. "What are you doing sir?" shouted Ianto after Jack.

"SUV" he called. "Whatever those things are, we've got to get them. They're not kids and they are certainly not human!"

Regaining their senses, the team began to sprint after Jack.

In the SUV, with Jack driving and shouting instructions to Tosh to not lose them, all of the team members never felt more alive.

Jack called to Owen. "Do you have the long distance, wide range stun gun?"

Ianto spoke. "It should be with the other guns. I just put it there last week."

Jack looked like he wanted to kiss Ianto, and then he said to Owen. "You're the best shot in Torchwood, try taking down one of those bird people."

Owen grabbed the already assembled and loaded gun, thanks to Ianto, and climbed onto the roof of the SUV. He aimed for the lowest target he could see. He was finding it hard to aim. The SUV kept bouncing up and down, and those bird kids were fast, but eventually, he took the shot. The bird shape began spiraling out of the sky and Owen climbed back into the car, pointing at where it had been falling.

They rushed to the scene, hoping to get there before the bird kids did, and they were in luck. There lay the sprawled shape of a tall, thin and pale teenage boy, his wings spread out. He began to groan and stir from his knocked out condition. Before he could fully come to, Owen administered some tranquilizer to him. Then, they gently picked up the "alien" and carried him to the back of the SUV. Gwen looked at his young face, and despite what Jack had said, she didn't believe they were bloodthirsty aliens, just scared, scared children.

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We had been flying for a few minutes before Max heard Angel screaming. "I can't hear his mind! Iggy where are you?"

Max spun and to my horror, there was no Iggy. A quick count told her everyone but Iggy was accounted for. Max looked down and saw the mysterious team that had cornered us earlier grabbing Iggy and putting him into the SUV. She tried to dive down there, but Fang grabbed her. "There's nothing we can do for him now. We need to hide, or else another one of us will get shot down. They've got guns, Max. The best thing we can do is follow them and rescue Iggy without getting caught ourselves."

"Fang is right" chimed in Angel. "It's better for Iggy if we follow them to their base and make a plan to rescue him."

The rest of the flock, though shaken, nodded in agreement with Angel's statement, and so we covertly followed the SUV, hoping not to be noticed.

Pretty rough meeting for Torchwood and the flock. Oh, and in case you hadn't guessed, the tall, pale skinny bird was Iggy. So now that Torchwood has Iggy, what are they going to do with him?What are the Flock going to do about their missing team member? Read and review with love please. :)