AN: ILuvMyFangPlushie here.
Thank you Glitters for reviewing. My eyes are okay, but add to the fact that I was exhausted and sleepy, my eyes sucked even more.
Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride, cuz if I did they would have gone fishing at least once.
WARNING: THERE ARE NEVERMORE SPOILERS IN THIS CHAPTER AND THE ONES THAT FOLLOW RELATING TO the VOICE!
If you do not want to know who the voice in do not read. Hopefully I didn't discourage that many readers. Readers make me happy.
Here is the Font key: Telepathic toy talking to each other will be written in bold italics. Telepathic toys talking to Angel will be in bold. Max and anyone else thinking back to the voices is in italics. Angel speaking telepathicly is underlined.
Chapter 9: Beginnings of THE Voice
The flock members merge into the crowd of children entering the zoo.
It was a school day. No one else is allowed inside.
The security guards did not let the Erasers in. The Erasers are frustrated.
The little ones love it. All these animals that they've never seen before. This place that they've never been to before.
Max and Fang are uncomfortable.
Max is uncomfortable. They bring back too many memories. It makes her feel sick.
Yes. Just how we want her to feel. Bring doubt and dispair into her mind.
Fang worries for her. He sees that this is making her feel sick.
She announces her feelings.
They leave.
They talk of the new Erasers while they eat and snack.
They walk.
We need to enhance her needs to see Valencia. She needs to remember. We need to build their connection. To do that, we need a common element. Something positive that will make her, subconsiously, miss her mother even more than she already does. We will use the cookies.
It's hot today, it might be a good idea to take the fan to work.
Early this morning, the Mrs. Field's shop owner decides to bring in the big fan. She puts it near the window.
A scent of cookies and baked goods carries out the door and into the air.
The flock members walk by.
Max stops.
She smells the cookies.
She buys the cookies.
She eats the cookies.
She savors the cookies and thinks of Valencia.
They need answers. The little ones are tired.
Max sees a library.
They go in.
They go to the computers.
Max signs in as Ella Martinez.
Yes. The connection has been made.
They look things up.
They leave.
The little ones want to take the subway.
They hear voices and find an underground city.
They settle onto the side ledge.
We must bring in more pain.
I must give her more answers.
Angel is completely unaware of the pain. The pain that comes with these visions. The pain she brings to Max.
Max sees images. Images of the future. She just doesn't understand what they mean.
Earlier in the day, a boy wanders around New York City. A boy with a computer. He decides to make his way into the subway. He wanted to go, almost like it was where he was meant to go. He finds the underground city. He walks in. He rests.
His computer starts to go wild. Showing images and words that he doesn't understand. He gets angry. His computer is all he has. He tracks down the source and makes his way to Max. He accuses her, unaware that he is here. Here to deliver a message.
He shows Max the images, drawings, streams of code, film clips of talking people. She sees these images. The images she has been seeing.
I must help Max, help Max along the way. I must not let her know who I am. I should start with a greeting.
Hello Max. Welcome to New York,Angel uses her telepathic powers on the boy's screen while she pretends to be asleep.
I knew you'd come. I've got big plans for you, Max hears in her head.
More drawings and plans and chaos.
The Institute for Higher Living, the screen says.
Max and Fang look at each other
Max, Fang, Iggy, and the boy talk.
The boy leaves. He's scared. Scared that they would do something.
The flock members go to sleep.
They wake and agree not to tell the little ones anything about what happens late night.
They leave the subways.
The smell of peanuts blows in the air.
They buy peanuts and they eat the peanuts.
Max tries to dial 411.
They didn't give the information that the flock members needed.
Max needs information, but I want toys.
Angel sees the TVs inside of the electronic store window.
Good morning, Max.
Angel is bored. She wants toys.
Playing is learning, Max. Games test your abilities. Fun is crucial to human development. Go have fun, Max.
Max screams her thoughts out loud.
THe other flock members look at her with concern.
Get on the Madison Avenue bus. Get off when it looks fun.
She's slowly breaking. Perfect.
Fang tells the other flock members the voice Max hears in her head.
The flock members get into the bus.
Well, Voice. What now?
Max thinks of her family. Her flock family.
She will not let her family down.
Voice? If you're going to make me let everyone down, you're going to be sorry you ever... entered my brain.
We will not answer direct questions. We will not give her exact answers. She will need to figure everything out on her own.
"Okay, people. Fifty eighth Street! This is where the fun is!" the bus driver says over the PA system.
They get off the bus.
It's a toy store.
AFO Schmidt: the world's most amazing toy store. Where kids think they've died and gone to heaven.
We're here. The home of our beloved leader. The strong. The powerful. CELESTE!
AN: Did you enjoy the story?
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The creepiness is only beginning.
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