A/N – This is my first fanfic! Yay, bring out the fireworks! I decided to have a go and write one after all, hopefully you don't think it's too crappy but feel free to tell me if it is, any sort of feedback would make my day.
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Maximum Ride or any of the characters *sigh* (a girl can dream).
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Ah, flying, Freedom. What could be better? How about a nice, safe, warm place to sleep at night? Food that isn't, at best, a day old. Yes, once again we were on the run. From what? That question is yet to be answered, either by the rather annoying but sometimes helpful Voice in my head or maybe this was another riddle I had to work out. Why do all my sentences make me sound like some sort of nut-job? I sighed loudly which made Nudge look over at me from where she was flying, close to my left.
"So where are we going?" She asked.
Good question! Voice? A little help here please. I thought, not really expecting an answer and when it spoke back to me I nearly jumped right out of my skin!
Head over to England, one of ITEX's branches is still running and they're after the flock, they want revenge. They have a new plan and it's even more deadly than the last one. You must stop them, Maximum, the lives of everyone on earth depend on you.
Whoa! No pressure! So, our mission to save the world continues. Interesting…
"England" I finally reply to Nudge's question, a massive grin spreads across her face.
"No" I say firmly, looking straight ahead to avoid the bambi eyes I know I can't resist "we're not going to visit any unnecessary tourist traps ok?"
"Not even Buckingham Palace?" She pleaded.
I risked a glance at her "You think I'll let Angel anywhere near the Queen of England after the whole President incident?" I smiled, she smiled back but I knew this would come up again later.
When we got to our destination, Washington Dulles international airport, I signaled for the flock to land. They all gave me funny looks but I ignored them until we landed.
"What are we doing here?" Fang asked, deadpan.
That was my queue to tell them all about the new mission, how we were flying to England, ITEX not fully destroyed, peoples lives at stake and all that. It was all starting to get a little repetitive if you ask me.
"So how do you plan on getting us on a plane, Genius?" Iggy asked me.
"We have a secret weapon" I said, winking at Angel, she giggled.
Of course our little six year old mind controller managed to get us seven business class plane tickets (Total insisted he get his own seat, we also couldn't carry Akila around with us because she was just too heavy, we had to leave her with Michael, Total was completely heartbroken) to England, this isn't the first time she's done it either. What's up with all this déjà vu?
None of us were feeling exactly comfortable on the plane due to the whole claustrophobia issue but hey, at least we got food!
About an hour into the flight I thought I might just rip open the emergency exit door and escape out of it as fast as I could, not because there were evil robots or other genetically modified animals after us, just out of sheer boredom. What was worse was that we still had seven hours to go! I would much rather be flying with my own wings, which were currently pulled in tightly behind my back, but I knew that couldn't happen so I just sat there watching Nudge beat Gazzy at checkers for the hundredth time. I did a quick scan around the plane, everyone looked safe but you never know who might be working for evil scientists these days. Iggy was fast asleep, Angel was talking quietly to Total and Fang was staring motionless out of the small plane window in the seat next to mine. He felt me looking at him and turned to face me.
"You look exhausted" He said.
"I'm fine" I replied but all of a sudden I had an overwhelming desire to sleep, a yawn escaped from my lips.
Fang smiled "Go to sleep, I'll keep watch" He turned back to the window and that's all I saw before my eyes closed.
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A/N – I know what you're thinking, where's all the action? Don't worry, it'll come. I just needed a chapter to start it off. If you're reading this note, it probably means that you've read the whole chapter, so THANK YOU! Review please. :)
