Hi! Welcome to my first fanfiction! I might mess up a lot because I've never done this before. Just remember that. Thanks! And please review!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the books, but the idea of this story and everything that's not in the original books are soooo mine!

Chapter 1

Fang was gone. Gone. He won't even be here to help me save the world. Will I even be able to do it?

"Yes. He was supposed to leave, you have Dylan now," the Voice said.

"Leave me alone Voice! He's not supposed to leave! He's supposed to be here with me! I don't want Dylan! I want Fang!" I cried in my head.

"Snap out of it, Max! You've been like this for a week! You've got work to do. Just because Fang left you, you're going to let the world get destroyed? Huh? You have to save the world, Max. It's what you're meant to do."

"What I'm meant to do! What if I'm not meant to do anything? What if I'm supposed to be like this!"

"What? Sit around and do nothing? Sitting here, crying and living over past memories instead of getting out there and being the leader of your flock? Your family? What about them, Max? They're sad that Fang left too, but they're not moping around."

"They didn't love him the way I did."

"But they still loved him. Be the leader of your flock, Max. Be strong."

And with that, the Voice left. Man, he's annoying, but I still couldn't help to think that he is right. Just because Fang left me, I shouldn't be all sad and not do anything. No! I should be stronger than ever! And that's what I'm going to be! So, right then, I got off the bed, wiped away the tears, and left my room for the first time since Fang left.

"I see you're finally up, Max. It's ok, we're all sad too." Angel said while leaping into my arms.

"Yes, but I decided that it's not going to hold me back, and I'm going to be the best flock leader ever!" I said with more confidence than I had in a while.

"That's good, Max. Now let's eat lunch. Iggy's cooking pasta!" Angel said happily while jumping out of my arms and skipping down the hallway. I happily walked after her. When I first got downstairs, the first thing I saw was the shocked faces of my flock. Well, except for Iggy, but he knew something was going on from all the stillness. But once they realized that I'm getting over it, their shocked faces turned into grins.

"Good to see ya, Max!" Gazzy shouted happily.

"Wait, what? Max is back?" Iggy said all confused. It wasn't like I was gone, but I just wasn't myself.

"Yup, and I'm ready to finish what I started. Taking down Itex." I said. Dylan just smiled at me.

"Oh, really? That's great! And once we finish Itex, we can finally take a break, and maybe even go on a vacation! I was thinking we should go back to an island, since last time was so fun! Or maybe-" Iggy put a hand over Nudge's mouth. Good thing too. I felt like my ears were going to pop out of my head.

"Yeah. Maybe. Well first, we gotta get a plan. The kids from….. last time," I couldn't really say 'Fang's Blog' because it reminded me of Fang and it still hurts too much just saying his name. Or even thinking about him. "did a good job of taking down part of Itex, but Itex is still alive, and we have to kill it." I said in my leader voice while everyone nodded.

"Any ideas?" I asked. Everyone started to think.

"Wait, I have one!" Gazzy said.

"What is it, Gazzy?"

"Well, maybe we could start at one of the Itex places and I could fart and knock everyone out and you could shut them down."

"And how am I going to do that?"

"Well, you could…. you…. could….. I got nothing." Gazzy said giving up.

"Exactly. New plans?"

"Well," Angel started, "maybe we could-" Of course. Right then, an army of erasers barged in. Wait. What happened to the new high tech creations? Oh well. I'll think about that later.

"Oh, look at all these birdies." One of them sneered. The one in the front of the group. I'm going to kill him first.

"Yeah, they look sooo delicious!" The one on the right hissed.

"Ooooohhhh…. Look. Maximum is getting all mad." The first one said again. "Are you sacred, little birdie?" That's it, I snapped. No sarcastic talking back. I'm going to do all the talking with my fists.

I lunged at the first one, while Iggy handled the one on its right, and Nudge and Gazzy started fighting the one on its left. Dylan started beating up random ones. He was better than I remembered. Angel started controlling a bunch of the eraser's minds to make them kill each other. I gotta say, we were doing pretty good. Once the first one was down, I took the mistake of seeing how the others were doing, that's when I got attacked and knocked out.

Everything was blank from there.

Sorry, I feel like the chapter is short, but I just had to get Max out of depression and back into action. Tell me if you like it or not. And if I made any mistakes, please tell me because I haven't read the books in a while and I forgot how some things go. Sorry. But please review! Thanks!