Chapter 22:
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN MAXIMUM RIDE OR WRECK-IT RALPH. MAXIMUM RIDE BELONGS TO JAMES PATTERSON. WRECK-IT RALPH BELONGS TO DISNEY.
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A/N 2: This chapter contains HUGE spoilers from Maximum Ride's final book Never More.
Max's POV
Angel was sobbing into my arms after the grenade basically vaporised the house and everything around it in a ten metre radius. Including Total. I would hate to think how Akila would take it. She'd probably be yapping all over the place. Even though I wouldn't miss Total's talking I couldn't stand to see my little girl cry.
"Angel, you okay?" I asked her. She nodded but she couldn't stop the tears. I held her to my chest and rocked back and forth.
"Where do you think that grenade could have come from?" I heard Gazzy asking Iggy.
"Don't know. Erasers?"
"No it can't be Erasers, it can't be Flyboys, it could Dr. Gunther-Hagen."
"What? No it can't be. Possibly Max II, she'd go to these sort of lengths. Or maybe even Jeb. He's tried to kill Max before."
"LOOK!" Nudge pointed to something in the sky. I looked up and I saw something there. I automatically zoomed in and my mouth fell open.
"Max? What is it."
"It's Dylan."
"WHAT?!"
"Wait a minute, who are Erasers, who are Flyboys and who is Dylan?" I totally forgot that Vanellope was here. I saw Nudge think for a minute.
"Wolf/human hybrids. Flying robots and Max's perfect other half." I glowered at Nudge when she said that. She gave an apologetic shrug.
"Where are the Erasers at the moment?" She was inquisitive. I'll give her that.
"No-one knows at the moment." I told her.
"Yeah, apparently all of the Erasers have expired or something like that." That's right, leave it to Fang to stand up for me.
"What are Flyboys?"
"Flyboys are flying robot which Max dubs 'Flyboys' apparently, they've been taken offline." I heard Iggy say. Angel's little body stopped being wracked by her sobs.
"You all better now?" I asked Angel quietly. She nodded and got up.
Angel's POV
I could hear Dylan's thoughts even from where I was standing. "Damn. The grenade didn't work. Suppose I'll have to go kill him by hand."
"Max … Dylan wants to kill someone, although I don't know who." I told her quietly. I felt her tense up. I walked away and saw Max fly up towards Dylan. Everyone else saw it as well.
Max's POV
I shook my wings out and took off. Upward, downward, upward and so on as I flapped up to meet Dylan.
"Max …"
"Who are you trying to kill?"
"Max, you don't understand, it's for your own good."
"I'll tell you what I don't understand. What I don't understand is why you want to kill whoever it is you want to kill." Dang. That sounded lame even for me.
"I have to kill Fang." He said it so quietly I must have misheard him.
"Sorry, did you just say you 'have to kill Fang'?" He nodded. I was so shocked I nearly dropped out of the sky like a bomb. "Why do you 'have' to kill Fang?"
"I'm sorry Max I can't tell you." With that he flew down towards the flock, my flock. I surged after him and punched him right in the face. He spiralled down to the ground, a trail of blood was left from his bloody, broken nose. I heard a collective gasp.
"Max … why did you just punch him?"
"You would know if you asked the traitor." Vanellope picked him up and took him to somewhere. I don't know where she went.
Normal POV
Vanellope picked up Dylan's light-weight body and glitched him to a vet. More specifically, to Dr. Martinez. While everyone was wondering where the grenade came from, she quietly conversed with Angel via telepathy and Angel told her what happened up until she fell into the meadow. She was at Dr. Martinez's house and she knocked on the door. Dylan was getting heavy. A 13-year-old girl opened the door.
"Hello, are you here to see my mum?" Vanellope nodded and the girl disappeared inside the house to fetch her mum.
"Are you Dr. Martinez?"
"I am."
"This boy needs help. He's with Maximum Ride."
"Oh, oh I see. Bring him in then." Vanellope took Dylan in to be treated.
"I haven't seen you before. Who are you?" Vanellope was used to people not seeing her before. After all she did come from a video game.
"My name is Michelle Hicker." Vanellope made up a name on the spot. She doesn't know why she made up the name, she just thought it would be safer.
"Well Michelle, thanks for bringing Dylan here. I'll go treat him. Dr. Martinez took Dylan away and put him in the bathroom so that she could clean up his nose better.
She washed the blood off and it looked like his nose was bent sideways. 'That must have been some punch.'
"Ella, can you go get the First-Aid kit please?" Ella walked out of the bathroom to get the kit. She tried to straighten his nose as best she could and she wrapped it up heavily in two rolls worth of bandages. Martinez walked back out and gave Dylan back to Michelle. "His nose may be a little crooked but that's what you get from messing with some goons." Vanellope thanked her and walked back out the front door. She hid in the forest at the edge of Dr. Martinez's house and glitched back to where Max and the flock were.
Max's POV
"Where did you go?" I asked Vanellope.
"I thought he needed cleaning up so I went to get Dylan fixed up at Dr. Martinez's place. His nose will be crooked though." I smiled in satisfaction. At least there'll be an imperfection in that oh-so-perfect face.
What will happen next? Find out in the next chapter.
