Disclaimer: I don't own Maximum Ride. Just, this plot so no stealing or I will sic Fang on you.
Fang: Yeah, yeah, what she said. No stealing…I come kill you if you do…and no stealing Max. You do and I kill you slowly.
Me: Cue the 'awww, Fang is such a love sick puppy.'
Fang: That's lovesick birdie. Get it right.
Me: What eva'. On with the story.
Warning: Faxness may occur in this chapter so if you hate Faxness then your going to have to deal.
Finally it was time to save the world. I wasn't thrilled about it but if it got stupid Jeb off my back then fine. It was now 2months from our escape from the Itex castle, Ari dieing. Finding out who my parents were (I was thrilled to find out who my mum was, my dad…not so much), and reuniting the flock.
Jeb told me that we had to sneak into the Itex headquarters and set off a bomb. He said that it had to be a big bomb. As soon he said bomb I thought to myself, "You had better not be suggesting that I give those two pyromaniacs permission to build a bomb then you have another thing coming.," To which he replied, "Max, it's not like you can pick up a bomb from the store and Gaz and Iggy can build better bombs then anyone. And in a whole lot less time to."
When I asked Iggy what type of bomb would take out a huge Itex building without harming any civilians in the surrounding area he replied that something like a 'RBL755' a British cluster bomb would mostly likely do the trick. Each RBL755 weighs 600lb(not sure how much in grams or kilograms) and breaks up in the air releasing 147 bomblets (baby bombs). Just one little bomblet has the power to destroy a tank. If it hits the right spot.
Iggy said that the problem with those bombs was that there was a high chance that it wouldn't hit the right spot. So he was going to redesign them so that they had inbuilt laser tracking systems. Kinda like a homing missile. He could get Nudge to build a long range laser tracking beam and then when he dropped the bomblets they would redirect themselves so that they followed the laser.
Basically he would point the laser thing at the Itex building while Gazzy dropped the bombs that would release the bomblets. Then the bomblets would fly around for a second and then blow up Itex. Then my job would be done.
Your probably thinking, 'Wait a second. According to what you just said, Iggy and Gaz are doing all the work,' Well if you thought that then you'd be wrong.
We're going inside the building first so that we can rescue any experiments and see if we can find any files on ourselves. Then we get out of the building, fly up high, then sit back (as much as you can while in the air) and let Iggy and Gazzy play with their toys.
We moved tonight. Right now we were camped in a cave not far from the Itex building. We had to make sure that we had every thing ready. 'Max, can I talk to you for a sec?' Fang called from the cave entrance.
'Yeah sure, just a sec,' I turned back to Nudge and finished showing her an attack that Jeb had shown me while we were at mums house after re-uniting the flock. 'Ok, then after the kick spin around so your back in facing them and thrust your elbow at their gut, like this,
' I spun around and thrust my elbow at Iggy's gut but not actually hitting him (he was being our attack dummy since I allowed him to make bombs. 'Then hit them in the nose with the back of your fist, then finish the attack with a roundhouse kick to the head,' I showed her out to do it, 'Now my little Ninja Turtle bird show me how it's done,' I told her using my nick name for her. Iggy continued his role as Eraser attack dummy and stood there, 'Gently,' I added as an after thought. I didn't really want Iggy to get hurt before we'd even gotten into Itex.
She started to attack routine that I had spent the last half hour teaching her. She turned to face Iggy. She did a roundhouse kick at his chest and when he caught her foot she brought the other foot up to his chest and pushed off.
She flipped backwards in the air and after landing on the ground with both feet and did a round house kick to Iggy's ribs, she was attacking him hard enough so that the breath left him but not so hard that she bruised any ribs.
She spun around and elbowed him in the gut, hit him in the nose and ended with a roundhouse kick to his head, which would have sent an Eraser flying to the side unconscious.
'Brilliant, they always said third times the charm. That was excellent Nudge, although I must say you attack dummy was standing a bit still, is he paralysed at well as blind?' Before Iggy could reply Fang's voice sounded through the cave, 'Instructor Ride, please report to cave entrance. You have a conversation with Fang. Repeat, Instructor Ride, please report to cave entrance. You have a conversation with Fang. Repeat, Instruct-'
Fang was interrupting from repeating the message for a third time by me yelling, 'Shut up! I'm coming. Males.' I muttered the last part more to myself but Fang must have heard me because he chuckled, 'Do we bother you Max?' I glared at him as I walked towards the cave entrance where he was waiting, 'Yes, actually you do.'
'Oh, come on. You know you looove this much,' he chuckled as he spread his arms out to show how much I "loved him". I punched him in the arm hard enough to hurt but not hard enough to do any real damage. 'I'm kidding. I know you were on Valium and you weren't thinking straight.'
'A little louder I don't think Iggy heard you,' I hissed at him, 'Yeah I heard 'im. Don't worry I already knew you guys were made for each other,' I wasted a shocked glare at him and picked up a medium sized rock. Aiming carefully for the space near his right ear I pulled my arm back ready to throw only to have Fang wrap one hand around my wrist and pry the rock from my hand with the other. I glared at him, he ignored my glare and chuckled, 'What did you want to talk to me about,' He immediately sobered up and looked me in the eye.
'Max, I know that you're still upset about Ari. He was your brother and even though I didn't like 'im 'cos he tried to kill you and me quite a few times I understand that you'd miss him. He was your family and I understand that but please, promise me that you won't go after any whitecoats or the Director or anyone else. That you'll just go in, rescue the experiments then get out. I don't want to lose you again, once was enough thanks.' I was shocked, that was the most he had ever said at one time. My eyes started to water and I wrapped my arms around him resting my cheek against his shoulder. 'I promise,'
He was stiff for a moment then he wrapped his arms around me and hugged my tight. 'I just don't want to lose you again. When we split…it felt like half of me was missing. And I'm sure I've said this before but I would make a terrible leader. My crash course with Iggy and the Gasman didn't turn out well.' A chuckled escaped my lips. 'I felt the exact same, you're my best-friend and when you three left…it tore us all in half. I mean, Gaz is Angel's brother, you're my best friend and I'm pretty sure that Iggy means something special to Nudge,' I whispered that last part to him so that Iggy wouldn't hear and he chuckled. 'And besides, even if something did happen and you had to take over then I'm sure that you would be absolutely fine.'
He tightened his grip around me and I did the same. 'Thanks, but, nothing's going to happen.' I pulled away enough so that I could tilt my head back to look at him and smile. 'You are talking about us remember. Something always happens when six bird kids and a dog come around for a visit.' He got this look on his face that was half smile and half frown. 'Come on, we have to get going.' I reminded him and we pulled apart from each other. I gathered up the flock and we took off from the cave entrance but not before we all hugged and stacked and tapped as good luck.
Itex, here we come. And we're ready for ya'.
Hope you liked it, if you did then review, if you didn't then review anyway. RBL755s are actually real bombs. I was researching types of bombs and my sister walked in and saw then told my dad and he just laughed. They probably think I'm going terrorist but I'm not.