Holy Crap, I'm in Oz?
Maximum Charging Off Danger Magnet Batchelder Martinez Ride's POV
My name is Maximum Ride, but no one calls me Maximum, unless I'm in serious trouble, or if the world's in such trouble and saying my full name is the only way to get my attention. Everyone just calls me Max, whether they're my friends or my enemies.
After my Voice told me that we'd have a better chance of survival if Fang and I were leading two different flocks, I sent Fang to find some of the other mutants from Itex, at least those who had survived—we would need them to finish my work to save the world.
I was sitting down alone, one day, when a cold wind whipped around me. I scrambled to my feet and called, "Angel, if you can hear me, you're in charge until I return." The last thing I saw, before I passed out, was Angel grinning happily, because I'd left her in charge.
When I came to, I saw a green-skinned girl, leaning over me and a girl sitting in a wheelchair. I scrambled to my feet and tensed for a fight. The green girl demanded, "Who are you?" I glared at her and spat, "My friends call me Max. But you can call me Maximum Ride." The green girl turned, slightly, to the girl in the wheelchair, always watching me, and said, "Nessa go home." The girl in the wheelchair, Nessa, nodded and left, but called back, "I'll get Father," and the green girl watched me cautiously, and then nodded. The green girl hissed, "My name is Elphaba Thropp. No, I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, and no I did not chew grass as a child."
I nodded, bracing myself for her attack, and she sprang at me. I knocked her back to the ground. We battled it out for several minutes, until her father arrived, and Elphaba said, "Father, that girl just attacked me and Nessa for no reason." I glared at her and said, "Will someone tell me where the heck I am?" The girl's father said, "You're in Munchkinland." I stared at him and said, "Munchkinland as in Munchkinland as in the land of Oz as in the land of Oz in the Wizard of Oz?" Elphaba and Nessa's father nodded at me and I sank to the ground. Then I stared up at Nessa and said, "You all might want to cover your ears." Elphaba scoffed, but both her father and Nessa covered their ears. I then opened my mouth and said, "Oh, holy crap." I also unleashed a whole bunch of, shall we say, colorful words, basically my entire vocabulary of swear words. Then I said, "You can uncover your ears now." Nessa and her father uncovered their ears and Elphaba stared at me.
