Alrighty, so here's the scoop with this story. If the first sentence of a paragraph is in bold then Liz wrote everything to where the first sentence is underlined. That's when I (Amy) pick up. So basically, bold=Liz until further notice. Underlined=Amy until further notice. Now that that little detail's worked out… Erasers are back! Just cause they're awesome like that. I guess this takes place like… a little after MAX (best book in the history of the world, just thought I'd let ya' know that)

Chapter 1

Wings, Jobs, and Giant Robots

Whoknew the middle of summer could be so freakin' cold? Well, then again, we were really high up in the air……

Why were we so high up in the air, you ask? Well, long story short, because we are mutant freaks with wings. And yes, obviously we can actually fly with the wings, otherwise we'd be dead meat, no, sorry, dead pancakes right now.

I looked around me. The sky was so blue, the clouds were so white and fluffy, Fang's eyes were so beautiful when he stared into mine.

Forget I ever said that.

Flying down below me, Angel looked up at me and winked. I glared back down, and she smiled in her 'it's okay because I know you're not really mad and even if you were I wouldn't care' kind of way. And I have to deal with that every day.

Fang flew up to next to me, and his large black wings brushed gently against mine. "Maybe we should stop somewhere, like, you know, somewhere with people, and not hawks and other flying creatures,"

"Fang, wherever we go, there's always gonna be at least seven flying creatures," And just like that we all veered downwards and landed in the woods a little ways away from a big hotel-like place that had luckily come up out of nowhere.

As we were walking (wow, who knew walking on solid ground could feel so weird? I mean, we have been flying for a while…) towards the hotel, our wings tucked neatly in behind our jackets, we heard voices. I was pretty surprised we hadn't heard them before, seeing as we had raptor hearing and all…

Anyway, all of us froze immediately. The voice was strangely familiar somehow….

"Miss Montez, I am truly sorry to do this, but I have to put a second strike on your employee record. A third one, and you're out,"

"Please Mr. Fulton, this was all my idea. Gabriella had nothing to do with it…"

"Yes, well, see that it doesn't happen again,"

They sounded pretty harmless. Except for that old dude. He seemed pissed. I glanced at Fang, and he nodded. We walked forward, out of the woods…

Just then, a giant yellow thing came blundering across the… well, I guess it was golf course. It was like… freaky. It was all metal and looked like some sort of giant robot.

Nudge looked totally freaked. She clung to my arm and I thought I heard her whimper, but it was hard to tell through all of the screams from the three humans nearby. Gazzy, on the other hand, looked completely fascinated. He was whispering excitedly to Iggy, whose eyes widened in awe. Angel was staring at the thing. She looked like she was concentrating. Probably telling it to start doing the Macarena while standing its head and eating a pineapple. Fang… well, Fang was just being Fang. Big shocker there. Me… well, I guess I was just a little confused. Why did everything in our lives have to be so freaking weird?

The robot thingy (I'll name it Bumblebee because of its black and yellow pattern) was looking curiously at the three humans, who were scrabbling around on the ground trying unsuccessfully to escape. Humans just don't have any idea how to use adrenaline.

Then Bumblebee turned to us. It clumsily made its way across the grass, leaving huge torn-up patches where it stepped. He kneeled down next to Angel. Nudge squealed and buried her head on my shoulder.

"Where is this place?" It asked. Angel just shrugged. Bumblebee looked crestfallen.

I guess they talked in their heads for a while. Every once in a while Angel or Bumblebee would shake their head or nod.

I don't know how long it was before Fang tapped me on the shoulder. "You might want to get Nudge out of here before she has a panic attack." He whispered. Nudge was still glued to my side. Now she was shaking uncontrollably. I nodded at Fang.

"Alright, Nudge, let's get out of here." I tried to pry her off of me, but she just shook her head frantically. "Stay here with Angel." I ordered Fang. I rounded up the others with Nudge still clinging to my arm.

"No, I wanna stay here," Gazzy protested, and Iggy nodded.

"Fine," I sighed. I don't know if the flock understood the saying

possible danger, escape while you can

anymore. Actually, I don't know if that's an actual saying, or…

Wait a minute.

The Voice!