me: Here's the next chapter!! I can't wait!!

Iggy: Yey, next chapter, lets throw a party.

me: It's a good chapter! It comes.

Iggy: The creepy killer clown?

me: No. The Elmatrix. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm so evil!!! Let's just say, it's gonna surprise a lot of people what happens. This may be sorta long cause I have to pack a lot in here. I just don't want to make you wait so long.

Iggy: I'm not gonna forget again, disclaimer!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own MR. I am a girl, not a man, so therefore I cannot.

CLAIMER: I DO own this plot and anyone you don't recognize such as Thomas and the Elmatrix.

me: Might as well put this.

WARNING: Slight voilence, why else would I rate it T? I don't curse.

me: So ENJOY!!!

Even though I had my dream a week ago, it still scares me. And to know that it's really gonna happen is too much. I break down crying every day, such as right now in the jet. Fang put a comforting arm around me. We had been sticking close, knowing the Elmatrix would be coming for us. Fang bent down close to my ear. "If that comes for us, we'll get away. I'm not going to stick around glued to a tree when we die."

I chuckled. "You better not. If you do I'm letting it kill you. I'll just run off saying 'Every man for himself!'"

Fang frowned. "Only if I can do the same for you."

"I wasn't the one standing their waiting, now was I?" It was the same conversation all the time. Let's just hope my dream doesn't come true.

"MAX!" Ella yelled, bursting through the door. "Come quick! You gotta see this!"

Fang and I exchanged looks before getting up and following Ella. Then I heard screams. "What in the--" I said as I jumped out of the plane. Something was crashing through the streets, something that looked just like--I screamed. "No!"

It was the Elmatrix.

It crashed though the streets, not caring who or what it hit. It was looking for something, looking for us.

"We can't let that kill all those survivors," Fang said. "Where were we in your dream?"

"I don't know! In the woods, somewhere. We can't, we can't, what are we going to do?" I buried my face in my hands. This was totally unlike me. Admitting I don't have a plan is like saying the earth is square. Just not logical.

"Lead it into the forest, Max. Don't stop running. I'll catch up as soon as I can. I have to get something from Thomas." He turned around and ran to where Thomas's tent was. I looked behind me, where Brigid stepped up.

"That's...that looks like--"

"You," I finished. I looked back at the thing, standing seven feet tall as it shoved a kid out of it's way. "It looks just like you." I slipped off my shoes. I always run better without shoes.

Brigid sighed. "So terrible you had to find out this way."

I spun around. "What?!"

Her smile was too evil. "That I'm trying to kill you, maybe? Sue-Ann was discovered when that seal just so happened to attack her. But no one suspected me. Making that idiot Fang fall in love with me was all a way of keeping my cover. How else do you think Mr. Chu found you when you were in that hole? All thanks to me! But no, I failed then. Mr. Chu flew me out here and deserted me, telling me this was the perfect way to set off our next plan. What are we doing standing here talking? It's lights out for you, girly." She rolled up her sleeve, where I saw a red spot where her elbow was and touched it. Of course! She had wore long sleeves and a coat in Antarctica, and I've never seen her in short-sleeves!!

The Matrix changed directions and headed for me. Everyone ran, gasping and screaming, including my group. That thing was so fast! "How could you?" I yelled and slapped Brigid, before running into the woods. It wasn't twenty yards from me, and gaining quick.

Hurry, Fang, hurry! I thought. The forest was so packed with trees it was hard not to hit one. I tried to extend my wings, nothing. I heard the heavy breathing and grunting behind me. I thought Brigid was our friend! Dr. Amazing isn't so amazing apparently. I stumbled along as fast as I could, I could have gone much faster if I could have flown. It sounded like a rabid vampire, someone call Animal Petrol!

I tripped on a root and silently sweared. I jumped up right before it's claw met my throat and ran faster then I could go, stumbling and tripping as I ran. Then, I can to a clearing. The same clearing as my dream. Sure enough, I saw a black figure standing by a tree on the far side of the clearing. Flashbacks of my dream appeared, and real life took over.

-Dream-

I ran barefoot towards the woods, ignoring the pain of every rock and twig I stepped on. But I saw something against one of the trees, a human figure. As I neared, I saw that it was Fang, leaning against the trunk of an oak, one foot propped on the tree. His arms were crossed and he watched, his face blank, as the Elmatrix neared. "Fang!" I screamed. "Run! Fang! Fang! It's coming! The Elmatrix is coming!"

He was ignoring my screams, just watching blankly, not the least bit frightened. I grabbed his shoulders as I passed him, but he didn't budge. "Move!" But it was like he was glued to the tree with extra-stick glue. He wasn't about to move. I screamed as the Elmatrix neared, its fangs bearing and its claws slashing, aiming at us.

-Dream End-

Sure as luck, he snapped out of la la world and pulled us behind the tree and the Elmatrix's claws glazed the bark of the tree. He grabbed a gun he had taken from Thomas.

"Fang, I have to tell you something! It's about Brigid!"

"Tell me later!" He jumped out and pointed the rifle, shooting about a dozen times before the Elmatrix looked a least bit injured. Then, the unthinkable happened. "No!" Fang yelled as he pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. The rifle had no more bullets! "Thomas!"

"We can't fight this thing, Fang!" I said, shaking his shoulder. "One punch and we'll be out cold!"

It was getting up, a look of hatred in it's eyes. Fang gasped. "That's...that's Brigid!"

"Yes!" I said. "Brigid is a trader!"

After the shock of discovering Brigid was a trader, the Elmatrix was stalking towards us, it's leg covered in blood. Maybe now we can outrun it. Fang turned and ran, pulling me with him, but I once again tripped over a root. I groaned. "My ankle twisted!"

Now, as I tried to stand up, the Elmatrix was nearly on top of me. Fang was already a good ways in the woods, thinking I was following him. "FANG!" I screamed, ducking to the ground as the Elmatrix swiped a lazy arm at my head. Fang slammed the head of the rifle to the monster's head. It shouted unrecognizable words as it stumbled backwards.

"You're so clumsy!" Fang said, draping an arm around my right shoulder, hopping as fast as I could through the woods.

"I'm not clumsy," I insisted. "The ground just hates me!"

Fang shot me a confused look and tried to fly, picking me up bridal style. But he didn't get in inch or two off the ground before the Elmatrix's claw caught his wing, making him drop me and us both fall to the ground. I stumbled up, supporting my good foot. Fang got up and we ran for Thomas's tent, the Elmatrix catching up fast despite it's bad leg.

"Thomas!" Fang and I yelled together as his tent came into view. Thomas's head popped out as Fang and I slid down the cliff. Fang threw the gun at Thomas before we were on the ground. "It's empty!" Fang said. "Got any more?"

"I always have more," Thomas said, and disappeared in the tent. He brought out two rifles and threw one at Fang. "Fully loaded, I promise."

"GET DOWN!" Fang yelled. I jumped to the ground just as bullets started shooting over my head, straight at the Elmatrix. About twenty shots from both rifles brought it down. Fang held me back as Thomas stumbled up the cliff to check on it.

"Dead!" He reported, a grin on his face, holding a thumbs-up. He started to stumble down the mountain.

"Now what about Brigid?"

"Fang, she's with Mr. Chu," I said. "Sue-Ann was found, but she gained your trust to hide her cover. No one thought there was anyone else but Sue-Ann working for him. There was a 'red button' on the crease of her arm that told that Elmatrix where we were. She had been wearing coats and long-sleeves every time we saw her, so we never saw it. She's one of them!"

"I don't--" He looked at the dead monster on top of the cliff and sighed. "I guess your right. But the Elmatrix is dead, and it's time to go back to the Flock."

I caught his shoulder. "No--Brigid is still there. She thinks the Elmatrix killed us. If we go back she'll kill us herself, and nothing, not even death will stop her! We can't go back until we know she's gone."

"Max, we've fought countless things over the past years, and we just killed a monster. I think we can take Brigid."

"You killed it with a rifle. I just wonder how Angel didn't know."

Well, I know now! Angel hissed. Max, don't come back! Brigid IS the Elmatrix! Twice as strong as the one you killed, she can't die. Mr. Chu didn't want the whole Sue-Ann thing to happen again. You can't come back here, Brigid doesn't care about us, you're the one she wants, and she thinks your dead! She won't come after you unless she knows your alive!

Great. Tell Brigid we're dead, and talk to Mom and Ella, make a plan to get rid of her. We'll come back when she's gone.

'Kay. Good luck, Max. We'll have her gone as soon as we can.

Thanks, Angel. Can you talk some sense into Fang now?

I waited until Angel was done talking to Fang, and until he rolled his eyes and sighed. "If Angel says we can't go back," I said, "we can't go back."

"Fine, Max, fine. What's the plan."

"Hide out in the woods, maybe with Thomas, until Brigid is gone."

Thomas sucked in breath. "Um, I'm sorry, Max. My tent is much to small to house all three of us. But I can take you during the day if your settled with sleeping somewhere else until the woman is gone. I'll tell 'ya, I despised the woman first time I met her. My friend James lives just up that hill"--he pointed to a large hill--"His tent is much bigger then mine. Tell him I sent you and why, and he'll let you sleep there. Durning the days you can come stay in my tent. Except, you might not want to go on the missions any more. But we'll talk about that in the morning."

The sun was hardly visable on the horizen, and the full moon was coming up.

"Well," I said. "They say people act crazy during a full moon. When the werewolves come out." My eyes shot towards the Elmatrix. "Little early, there."

Fang pulled me over the hill, where we saw a tent, much larger then Thomas's. It was white where his was green. We ran down the hill and stopped in front of the tent. "Looks like we can't knock without scaring him to death," Fang said. "Mr. James? Are you in there?"

The cover was pulled back in a head popped through. James's blonde hair was windswept, his green eyes sparkling."Yes, I'm James. Who are you?"

Fang nudged me and I tried to get my voice back. "I'm Maximum Ride, Max for short, and this is Fang. Thomas sent us. We killed the Elmatrix that was barging through the streets earlier, and we need a place to stay because, well, there's a woman at our camp we can't get rid of, and she's....she's the Elmatrix. She's what called it. She's out to kill us. Thomas said he can take us during the day, but we need somewhere to sleep and he can't take us in."

"That thing before was called an Elmatrix?" James asked, stepping out of the tent. He was probably just in his early twenties.

I nodded. "The Elmatrix. It was sent to kill us."

"Ah, well. I have several things to do, I'm afraid I can't take you!" He tried to close the flap, but Fang and I grabbed it.

"Just durning the night!" I insisted. "Thomas can take during the day, just some place to sleep!"

"No!" James pulled the cloth out of our hand and zipped the door.

"Stubbern man!" I said. "We'll have to take refugee in the woods."

Fang looked at the sky, that continued to get darker and darker. "Come on, Max, it's getting dark, we have to find somewhere soon."

-Fang POV-

We decided to stay in the clearing that the Elmatrix had chased Max into. The grass was cut low, that was the only problem. We would easily be spotted. But Brigid, I can't believe it. She was such a nice girl--but Angel says she's a trader, and you don't mess with what Angel says.

Max's ankle was almost healed, and as soon as she laid down she was asleep.

I walked over and watched her, her deep breathing, peaceful look on her face despite the scare of the day. I gently stroked her hair and kissed her forehead. "Goodnight, Max. It'll be better tomorrow, I promise." I laid down in the grass and went to sleep.

Iggy: That wasn't too long.

me: Not as long as I thought it would be.

Iggy: I know your not smart enough to come up with that on your own. How many things did you steal?

me: Hey, I didn't have any help with that chapter. But the whole 'I'm not clumsy, the ground just hates me.' I saw that somewhere, I think it was on a piece of flair on Facebook. That's it. WinterSky said she'd be happy with it as long as you didn't die, Ig.

Iggy: Aww, thanks WinterSky! I...hope you don't die, either.

me: Yes, Ig, yes. None of us wants awesome to die. So I'll have the next chapter up soon, okay?

Iggy: One last thing to say, REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!