Hello, everyone! Sorry about the wait, but I have a surprise for you! Today, in honor of Markiplier's charity and the fact that he recently hit 4 MILLION subscribers, me and my old chum Cecilia Green decided to have...

THE FIRST EVER CECILIA/CHYNA SUPER SPECIAL AMAZING UPDATE SPECTACULAR!

Yep! I'm updating like three chapters at least today! There's this, as well as two chapters for my slightly more popular story, The Mundy of Fabletown, which you can read when you're done here, if you want. Or, you can check out Cecilia Green's stuff! Or, you could watch the markiplier stream on his Twitch account all day today, and check out his youtube channel. He is a hilarious guy, and I'm sure most of you would like him.

Now, COMMENT REVIEW TIME!

Cecilia Green: Thanks, pal! There are a few other stories like this, but glad you like this one.

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Remember, leave a comment if you like, so I feel motivated to write more!

But enough blabbing. LET THE STORY BEGIN!

Ten minutes earlier...

"C'mon, Nudge!" I called, pulling over mid-flap so I could hover impatiently in the air. "Stay with the group!"

Nudge swooped over, attacking me with her most evil weapon: giant, cutesy Bambi-eyes. She blinked at me, eyelashes fluttering like a baby deer, and made her cutest pouting face."But Maaaax!" She whined. "Everything looks so pretty up here! Do we really need to be in such a hurry, anyway?"

She was right, of course. The countryside view was breathtaking, little patches of green criss-crossing on the ground, freckled with little shiny pond circles. But this wasn't the time for sightseeing. I stuck my hands on my hips in my best leader Max pose and steeled myself. "Yes, we do. We don't have time to look at every lake and tree on the ground. We have places to go, government bigwigs to see, adults to argue with yada yada yada. And my mom won't be happy if we're late. So come on!"

Nudge pouted and crossed her arms. "Fine." She took off, working her tawny brown wings to catch up with the rest of the flock, who were a couple of yards ahead of us. I sighed. Those eyes were going to be the death of me.

I mean, if Itex, Jeb, and the Flyboys didn't kill me first.

Flapping hard, I banked to the left a bit and came up besides Fang, who was carrying Total in his arms. As usual, the sight of him flying, looking dark and mysterious, dark black wings glinting indigo in the sun, made my heart stutter.

Ugh. Stupid girl emotions.

Shaking my head a bit to clear away any leftover Fang-fuzzies, I looked at him and poked his arm. "Want me to take a turn?" I asked.

Fang, per usual, shook his head silently, with a look that clearly said, "I am a big boy. I can carry a dog for ten minutes." Total, however, had other ideas. "Yeah, Max!" He yapped. "Let me fly with you! And go fast! I like feeling the wind in my fur!"

Fang rolled his eyes. "Fine. Go hang out with Max." He passed me the small black terrier, who, wiggling with excitement, promptly licked my face. Ugh. Gross.

"Max! Do you hear that?" Called Iggy from farther ahead. Heaving a giant sigh, I flapped over to Iggy, trying to ignore Total's little yaps of excitement. "What is it, Igs?" I called. "Hear what?" He shook his head, like he was trying to get water out of his ear. He looked at me with sightless blue eyes, somehow being able to look me in the face without knowing where my face was. "It's like a humming sound. You really can't hear it?"

I opened my mouth to answer that No, I couldn't hear it, but Total interrupted. "I can hear it, Iggy!" He barked. "Is it getting louder?" Iggy tilted his head, listened, then nodded. "Yeah. It definitely is louder now. Gazzy, did you turn on the Sonic Boom we made the other day?"

I gaped at him. "Wait, Soni-" Gazzy interrupted. "Nope," he chirped (Ha, get it? Chirp? Like a bird? Cause we're-ugh. Forget it.) "Remember, we made the coded button sequence so it didn't accidentally go off, remember?"

"Ok, hold up," I said, trying to wrap my head around the fact that these two had somehow managed to hide another bomb from me. Where did they put these things? When did they make them? "As worrying as this mysterious hum is, I want to know where the heck you guys are hiding a-"

"Max? I think you might want to see this," Fang called. I heaved another giant, lung tearing sigh (lotta sighing today) and turned, noticing that everyone else had stopped moving and was hovering in mid-air. "Can't it wait?" I grumbled.

This time, it was Nudge who answered. "Max, you really might want to see this now," she said urgently.

I felt a tiny twinge of panic. Was it Flyboys? Whitecoats with jetpacks? Something equally horrifying? Flying over to where everyone else had stopped, I stared.

Hanging in the air was a blue ball of glowy light. It didn't move, or anything, just hung there, like a giant blob of lava-lamp stuff. Nudge, Angel, and Gazzy were gawking at it, jaws somewhere around their knees. Iggy just stared blindly at it, the blue glow illuminating his sightless eyes. Fang had one eyebrow raised and looked almost amused. Total just leaned forward and smelled it. "It smells kinda like...horse!" he exclaimed, little black nose twitching. "Horse, and flowers, and rocks, and something else...something kinda...sugary! And it's humming, too!"

"Sooo, it's a flowery, humming rock horse eating candy?" I joked, trying to keep things light, while my heart hammered in my chest. What was this? Some new experiment? Some kind of bomb? What was it going to do?

I got my answer sooner then I expected.

Suddenly, the whole thing turned dark red, dotted with black, and started twisting and writhing in the air. "Whoa!" I yelled, backpedaling mid-flap. "Back up! Back up!"

The rest of the flock started flying away, until the ball of whatever it was started sucking air towards it like a vacuum cleaner. I flapped as hard away from it as I could, squeezing Total against my chest so I didn't drop him, but I was still moving backwards. "Max!" Nudge shrieked from somewhere to my left. "What's happening?!"

"I don't know!" I yelled back, spitting hair out of my mouth. "Hold on to something!"

With one last pull, I lost my balance and went tumbling through the air. Everything was dark red, and all I could hear was a rushing sound. I felt the others banging into me as we all were sucked into the giant red light. There was one giant, headache-inducing blast of white light, and a bang so loud I swear I felt something in my ears explode. Then, blackness swept over me in a crushing wave, and I passed out.