Hi there! This is my first FanFiction. It takes place in the book NEVEMORE. This event never happened in the book, but I decided to write it! There is no specific spot in the book, its just after Angel was saved. If you haven't read NEVERMORE then I suggest you don't read this. It doesn't give anything too important away but it will tell you somethings. This is just one of two chapters. I really hope you enjoy it and please comment!

The Ari-failures started moving in on us. I knew we could win this battle: 50 Erasers vs. a tired angry flock. It wasn't even a question.

I lunged at one of the crazed wolves and gave him a strong kick to the head that I assumed would make him fall out of the sky. But this Eraser only fell a few feet. He regained his composure and punched me right in the stomach. I coughed and wheezed, wondering what Jeb and the Doctor did to these creatures that made them much stronger and faster than the previous bunch.

I narrowed my eyes, accepting the pain, and kicked the Eraser in the stomach then clapped my hands fiercely over his ears, popping his eardrums. The Eraser dropped like a stone.

I did a quick 360, checking out the rest of the flock. Nudge was holding her own against three others; Fang and Iggy had teamed up and were fighting 10 at once with another 4 coming for them.

I dashed over and gave one of the Erasers a good chop in the neck and a punch in the ribs making him drop a few feet before punching me in the nose.

"DUCK!" I heard Gazzy scream and I folded my wings in and dropped about 50 feet before snapping them out again to catch my fall. The rest of the flock did the same and when I looked up I saw the last of the Erasers had been blown to pieces.

I gave Gazzy a thankful smile before doing my routine flock check. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Angel, Total, Gazzy, Dylan. We were all together.

"Okay guys-" I began to say but I was cut off by the sudden appearance of one hundred more Erasers flying toward us.

I notice Nudge's eyes grow hungry and narrowed as she prepared to fight.

"Alright flock. Lets give these bozos a piece of our minds," I said.

I launched myself at the nearest Eraser and punched him hard in the head. When I pulled back to land another blow I noticed that he was smiling and taking something from his jacket. A gun.

Now as you know, I've never been okay with the flock using guns in our fights. And most of the time the enemy seems to do the same. But when I looked around and noticed every single one of the Ari clones had a fully loaded gun, I started to panic.

The Flock looked at me worried. Fang's eyes asking me, fight or flight? I nodded and announced, "Take 'em out!" Everything seemed to go in slow motion from there. I punched and kicked my way through 7 Erasers, dodging bullets on the way. Most of the Erasers couldn't hold their guns right so it was easy to knock it out of their hands. But even so I knew this was too big of a battle for 7 bird kids and a dog.

"Gazzy?" I asked, yanking an Eraser's wings down so he wouldn't be able to fly. "Do you have anymore explosives on ya?"

He gave me an almost scared look and said, "'Fraid not."

The battle continued until suddenly I heard, "Max!" And something large and heavy crashed into me sending me spiraling down for a few seconds before I could right myself. I looked around wondering what that could've been.

When I looked down and saw glossy white wings and blond curls falling. Fast.