A/N chappie 9. enjoy. dont forget to tell me what type of ending.
Max's POV
I have a feeling I'm dreaming. I don't remember waking up, or for that matter where I am.
It's a town, from what I can see. A small one, with a few stores here and there, the classic Pizza Palace, a laundry mat, and a town hall. I'm standing in front of a school. Its brick with overgrown ivy walls and a rusty old chain fence that's partially unlocked. The lock isn't locked, but its still on the gates. The school looks as if it hasn't been used in a few decades.
Removing the lock and pushing open the gates, I step through into the overgrown yard. Inside the school are boxes, desks, cobwebs, and dust. Lots of dust.
My feet carry me through the school. I don't know where I'm going, but they do. I turn into a room that's almost empty, except for something in the corner.
It's a girl.
She turns around. I can't really make out what she looks like; I just know she has dark eyes and black hair.
"Max. I've been waiting for you." She says in a soft voice. I can hardly hear her.
"How do you know my name?" I ask.
"In time, Max. In time. But first I need you to do something for me." She says.
I look at her a bit longer before asking what it is she needs. This girl seems really familiar. The next thing she tells me, I don't want to hear. And before I can tell her I won't do it, I wake up.
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"Hey Ig, what's cooking?" I asked walking over to the fire. "Smells like bacon."
"It is. Found it in your backpack. Don't worry, I only went through the bag of food. It's not like I can see anything else anyway." He said.
"nah its okay. Nothing to hide. Appreciate the privacy though." I looked around. Nobody else was up. Deciding waking them up individually would be too much of a hassle, I stood on a nearby rock and yelled loud enough to reach everyone but not to have any nearby campers here me.
"GOOOOOD MORNING FLOCK! YO GUYS! UP AND AT'EM! I SAID GET UP! BREAKFAST! IT'S A NEW DAY, GET UP AND FACE IT! Ow!" I added as Fang chucks a rock at me. Huh what a time for my shield to not work.
"Shut up."
I smiled and continued to yell until he finally had to get up and put a hand over my mouth.
"Huh. Nudge, I am sorry I ever put my hand over your mouth." I said after removing Fang's hand from my mouth.
"It's annoying isn't it? But then again, sometimes it really is the only way, ya know? I mean like when someone talks and talks it does help to slow them down. Of course, they could always like lick your hand or something." Nudge shut up as soon as I stared at her, quickly taking back my apology.
"So what's the plan for today?"Gazzy asked after we ate. I never did get to tell him, because at that moment, Flyboys started to close in.
"Iggy?" I asked.
"I don't know. Didn't hear them." He replied, utterly confused.
"U and A guys." And up we flew.
It didn't take us that long to get rid of them. In fact, as soon as we took to the sky, they were gone. Well not gone gone, but like we had left them behind. They were new, but they weren't able to fly. One point to Team Maximum Ride, no points to Team Them.
"Max, where are we going?" Angel asked me.
"This direction." I so cleverly said.
Max, what happened to going to Michigan?
I don't wanna.
You don't really have a choice Maximum.
Max. We've been over this before.
I could tell the voice was about to say something more, but just then there was a high pitched buzz, and it tore through my skull.
Imagine a car slamming the brakes and skidding, then turn that up about oh, say 200 notches. And then up a few octaves. Oh and combine that with thousands of needles being drilled into your head.
I could feel my face break out in an expression made purely of agony, and I put my hand instinctively to my ears. I knew it was pointless because the noise was inside my head.
Do what I told you to Max. Or else. It's just a small favor.
That wasn't the Voice talking to me.
"Max. Max!" Fang called to me.
"BequietbequietbequietbequietbeQUIET!" I said to myself, still clutching my hands to my ears.
"Max?" Nudge asked.
"Just goaway, leavemealone, pleasegoaway, getoutofmyhead!" my words weren't spacing, I couldn't get it to go away.
And then I fell, still blocking my ears and yelling at the voice in my head, the voice that I didn't want to listen to.
I swear I hadn't even fallen like 5 feet before Fang caught me. But who was measuring. I just wanted to get this annoying buzzing to stopstopSTOP!
"Max calm down." Fang said, somewhat calmly. No. Fang don't talk.
"Too much noise." I managed to whimper. And then I passed out.
At least the buzzing stopped.
Max. That is going to keep happening until you do what I asked. I'm not asking anymore. I'm telling you. You WILL do as I say. Next time it will be worse.
I believed her.
I opened my eyes. We were in a cave. No surprise there. I looked at my flock. They were all surrounding me, looking extremely worried.
"Max, Max, what was that?"Gazzy asked.
"Uh, just a, just a glitch with the system." I said, coming up with a lie fairly quickly.
They didn't look convinced, and despite Iggy and Fang's demands that I sleep more, I wasn't tired, and so I took first watch. As soon as everyone was asleep, and that includes Fang, who took forever, I pulled out a notepad and a pen. They Flock would not be happy when they woke up.
I posted the note on the wall of the cave and looked back at all my flock.
"Sorry guys." I whispered. And leaving my backpack, I took off into the night.
Fang stirred right as I jumped. Well, at least he has a heads up.
A/N Reviews are lovely.
