

Hawk and the Flock break into Fang’s prison, only to find his cell empty he has already been taken away for execution.
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However, the surgery is delayed, as the doctors cannot figure out how to keep her wings viable. Sedated and paralyzed, Max ends up an operating table. McCallum wants her wings cut off and grafted onto one of his soldiers. Overjoyed to find her, they set out together to rescue Fang and the kids.ĭuring her trial, Max realizes to her horror that she has been imprisoned for ten years. They recognize her as Phoenix, and Ridley as a pet given to her by Fang. Hawk flies to the city, where she meets a group of winged people like her: Nudge, Gazzy and Iggy. He tells her to look for his friends in the city and they will help. He describes her wings to her to prove that he knows her, shows her his own wings. Hawk and Clete, unable to rescue them, return to the laundry room to make a plan.įang calls to Hawk again from his cell, telling her that he’s been looking for her. Using Clete’s hacking skills, they sneak into the Labs, only to find their friends drugged and hallucinating with implants in their skulls. Dismissing the man’s claims to be her father, they prepare for a second rescue attempt of the other lab rats. Hawk wakes up to find that Clete has brought her back to the laundry room. As a metal claw descends to grab Max, he says that she will be executed. Governor McCallum makes an announcement, screaming them into silence. She tries to rally the other prisoners and inspire them, but instead they start brawling, trying to kill each other for more food. Later, she learns that he has died, and she will receive extra food as a reward.

She last saw her family when she was badly wounded and had to leave Phoenix with a friend, Rose Simmons, while Fang took her to get help.Ī fellow prisoner tries to kill Max, but she tricks him into falling down the stairs. She has lost track of how many years it has been. Meanwhile, Max has been imprisoned for years in McCallum Island Penitentiary, or Devil’s Hill. When they walk through the prison with laundry, the murderer calls Hawk “Phoenix,” and tells her that he’s her father, and her mother is Maximum Ride. She returns to the children’s home, where Clete tells her the soldiers took everyone. He also kisses her, but Hawk has to hurry away because his father, Giacomo Pater, has returned home. She goes to the Paters’ luxurious home and finds Pietro, who is stunned by the sight of her wings but gets her medical care and fresh clothes. Hawk opens her wings, revealing them to others for the first time, and flies away.

They carve a C into her cheek and prepare to cut out her vocal cords. Despite herself, she returns again to her usual street corner.Ī group of Chungs out for revenge think that Hawk is Pietro’s girlfriend. While the others hide, Hawk flees and wanders the city. That night, the kids hear soldiers approaching to collect them for experiments. Hawk is surprised when Ridley flies to him and lands on his shoulder briefly, and when the man stares intensely at Hawk. The only other ones remaining are Clete, Moke, Rain and Calypso.Īt the prison next door, a murderer is brought in. She returns to the McCallum Children’s Home, where she lives with other children trying to evade those who would take them away to be used in science experiments. As she heads home, two men start to follow her, but Hawk takes off into the air with Ridley. They intentionally miss each other, only for another Pater to kill Pietro’s opponent. Hawk’s childhood friend Pietro, the heir to the powerful Pater mafia family, holds a gun duel with an opponent from the rival Chung gang. Hawk and her hawk, Ridley, wait every evening on a street corner for the parents who once left her there. It is filled with drug-addicted Opes and gangsters from the ruling families of the Six. It's an execution.įor ten years, 15-year-old Hawk has lived in the violent, poverty-stricken City of the Dead, run by Governor McCallum and enforced by with the audio Voxvoce weapon. Someone is coming for her.īut it's not a rescue mission. She stays under the radar to survive.until a destiny that's perilously close to Maximum Ride's forces her to take flight. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her. She doesn't know who her family was, or where they went. Now she's just a fading legend, remembered only in stories. Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight. A story for a new generation of Maximum Ride fans! 15 year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City.
