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AN: Okay, I am posting this at one thirty in the morning, Chicago time, after barely sleeping last night and have been taking tons of allergy pills (like Benadryl) which make me VERY, VERY, VERY sleeply. I'm only writing this because I had the sudden urge to write and an idea for this chapter. I'm struggling to keep my eyes open as it is. So sorry if there are any typos, mistakes, if I repeated stuff, and/or I messed parts up. If there are, please let me know. Thanks!!!
Chapter Ten: The Conversaition of the Max'es
Current Max's POV
I woke up, startled. My body tensed, already to fight if necessary. I quietly walked towards the noise. I found a girl who looked just like I imagined an older version of me would look like. She was a feet away from the deer. That must have been the noise I heard that woke me up.
Suddenly, memories of the previous day flooded my brain. This girl in front of me was me; well the me from the future.
"So you believe me?" the future-me asked curiously. Uggh, I remembered that she was able to read my mind even with the mind blocks up. "I told you it's because our minds our more attuned to each other… your mind is my mind and my mind is your mind and all that," the future-me explained.
"I know," I said out loud. "It's just a bit too much to find out that in the future the Flock breaks up, causing Itex to take over the world and the only way to save the world was for you-er, me- to come back in time for you-er me- to remind me, or you, whatever it would be that the Flock needs to stay together."
"It is confusing," the future-me said. "I can barely wrap my head around all this." The future-me gestured towards the trees, the sky, the grass, etc. "I am literally reliving my memories."
Memories. That made me think especially of last night's events. When I somehow "accessed" my future-self's memories. I didn't want to ask how I did that; or at least right now. So instead I tried to make conversation. It was weird, when I thought about it. I was really talking to myself.
"Don't think about it," the future-me advised, "it'll just give you a headache. It goes around and around and around in circles. A paradox… an endless paradox."
So I went and started the conversation I was going to before. "It must be hard for you," I said. It was kind of repetitive. I remembered more of our conversation last night. But maybe I'd learn more about the-future-me.
For awhile the-future-me was silent. Then she finally said, "Yes. Like I said before, all of the Flock are either dead, my enemies, or total strangers."
I was about to open my mouth and ask who was dead, who betrayed us, and who were like strangers; but the-future-me responded before I could get a word out. "No, I am not telling you who betrayed us, who is dead, and who is just a stranger."
"How come?" I asked. The information would help. If I knew who would die, I could try and save him or her. And if I knew who'd betray us, I could try to stop him or her beforehand and…
The future-me interrupted my thoughts, "See? See what you're thinking?" the future-me asked in a slightly agitated tone. "If I told you who betrayed us, you would never treat that Flock member the same again."
I thought about that for a moment. I guess I would treat whoever is supposed to betray us differently.
"Yes, you would. You wouldn't trust the person, even though he or she hasn't done anything wrong. And on top of that, treating him or her might be the reason he or she betrays the Flock in this timeline," the future-me said; and she was right. If I knew who betrayed us to the School or Itex in the future (or the future-me's future), I would never look at he or she the same way again. I wouldn't let him or her into all the important details, go on certain missions, etc. And the future-me was right; just by treating a member of my Flcok that may or may not betray us would undoubtedly lead to his or her betrayal.
"Yes. you're absolutely correct. And besides…" the future-me said, letting her voice trail off for a moment. "If I succeed in making sure you guys stay together and you succeed in saving the world, then chances are that the person who betrays us won't."
"You were right about the whole paradox thing," I said. I know you're thinking, wow, paradox, a big word for Maximum Ride. But I did learn something at that nightmare school in Virginia with that traitor Anne.
"I know, this time travel stuff is confusing, isn't it?" the future-me asked me, the current-me. Wow, it really was confusing. I couldn't really think of it that much, because if I did I just got a ignoramus headache.
I glanced at my watch. It was around seven-thirty western time in the continental US. That was the bad thing about living on the run, flying to different places every few days… the time zones. Luckily our bodies are able to handle the time changes better than a normal human, so we didn't get jet-lag that often.
"I should go wake everybody up," I said, not really to anyone in particular.
The future-me nodded. "You probably should."
"Yeah," I said. "We can't wait for the results of Fang's test…" I added jokingly. I believed this girl who claimed to be me from the future, or for the most part at least. The future-me smiled at me, obviously hearing those thoughts. I groaned inwardly. I had just learned how to but mind-blocks up against Angel, and now I have to deal with the future-me reading my thoughts. I guess they really are, or were, her thoughts too, though.
"I'll help you with you're mind-blocks and mind reading," the future-me said. I was surprised, I was under the impression she was here just to say, 'hey, mini-me, don't let the Flock break up so you can save the world. Okay?'.
"Mini-me…" the future-me said with a smile. Oh, now I was going to regret saying that, I just knew it. "I like it."
I was going to tell the future-me not to call me that, but I realized it wouldn't be worth the effort. She was probably just as strong, tough, and confident as me, if not more.
"Good idea," the future-me said. I assumed she was talking about the whole 'mini-me' situation. "I'll try no to call you 'mini-me' unless I need to call you something."
"Why not Max?" I asked. The answer was probably appallingly obvious, but I wanted to know.
"Because that's my name…" the future-me said. "Well, it's your name too, but I've been called Max longer than you."
I just nodded. This was an argument I wasn't going to win. And besides, the future-me said that she wasn't going to stay too long.
"No, I'm not," the future-me said.
"So when are you going to teach me how to make a more powerful mind block and to the whole mind reading thing?" I asked. I was anxious to learn how to create a better mind block, and really excited about the whole mind reading thing. I have always been slightly jealous of Angel because of her cool powers. Now I can red minds, too.
"Like you already know, Angel's mind-reading abilities are different than yours-ours," the future-me said. "Anyways, maybe I'll start showing you later on today. But first we should wake up the rest of the Flock."
I nodded and went to go and wake up everybody else, thinking over what the future-me had told me (both last night and this morning) and what the Voice had said. I was really starting to believe that this girl is me from the future. She acts a lot like me, but is also slightly different. But I suppose an evil company bent on world domination actually succeeding in taking over the world would do that to you.
In a sense, I hoped that this girl was the future-me. She was pretty and seemed smart. I hadn't seen her in a fight yet (not counting that one in her memories) and I was willing to bet that she was an excellent fighter. And she was able to read minds and move objects without actually physically touching them… and who knew what else she could do? Most of all, this girl was strong. She had seen the end of the world, and kept going on. She had her best friends, her family either die, betray her, or become strangers. And yet she was able to rise above it all. She still had that fire in her, the will to fight… even after everything that had happened. I hadn't seen anything like it before. So would it be bragging if I say that the-future me was absolutely awesome, kick ass girl?
***I don't know if I've mentioned this, but this story takes place after Final Warning. But I'm going off the idea that Itex and the School weren't really completely destroyed. So they are still out there, somewhere... [cue creepy Twilight Zone music (the TV show, not the book)... dun dun dun du dun]
Okay, I hoped you liked this chapter. Next chapter will be with the whole Flock. I just thought that the Current-Max and the Future-Max needed some more time alone. This chapter might be a little shorter than usual, but I am working on writing shorter chapters and updating more often… and take turns updating my fanfics (in other words, I'm making smaller chapters so I can post them quicker and am updating all of my stories, not just the ones that I am really interested in at the moment).I'm sorry for not updating for awhile, I have been working on my other stories, namely "Maxamorphosis" (I said it was a fanfic written out of procrastination, because I have been procrastinating on updating this story along with a few others). This chapter wasn't too hard to write, but the plot is getting harder to write. I need input from you readers, because I'm not exactly sure how to go on with this story. So please review or PM me about which of the following you think would be a good way to continue this story. I'm really sorry to do this (because I hate when Authors do this), but I'll need aleast ten reviews or so before I update again, that way I can write the rest of the story the way the majority of the readers want it to be. SO PLEASE REVIEW!!! You're opinion and words are really important to me, as a writer. I need to know what you guys that are reading my stories are thinking. So the following are different ideas I have for the rest of the story:
1. Have Current Itex/the School come and capture the Flock but they escape (Future Max is caught too).
2. Current Itex/the School come and capture the Flock and fail.
3. Have Current Itex/the School come and capture the Flock and Future Max has to rescue them
4. Future Itex/the School send thier people back in time too (the whole in time was kept open somehow or they got thier hands on the research) in order to stop Future Max from saving the future
5. Future Itex/the School send people back in time to capture the Current Flock and the Future Max
6. Future Itex/ the School helps the Current Itex/ the School
7. Some good guy comes from the Future and tells Max that they'd won and helps Future Max (posiblly Future Fang...)
8. Or any other idea you can think of that I can't.
(By the way, on all of the ones where the Flcok gets captured, they escape somehow eventually)
So please let me know how I should continue this story. I'm not normally a person to do this, but I'll need about ten reviews or so telling me how they want me to continue the story. So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE review!!! To me, reviews are like good job cards and report cards and thank you cards; as well as cyber cheerleaders and pep squad to help me find my inspiration. So plase review! It means a lot to me (and I always try to reply to them, too). And if you review and let me know about your story, I'll read it and review yours. Fair trade: review for review. SO PLEASE REVIEW!!!
Thanks!
~Amanda
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