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Chapter 26

I was in my room thinking over and over about what the Voice said. What does it mean it's not freaking over? It had to be! We destroyed the School! We've been wanting to do that since we were born! I kept yelling at it to answer me in my head, but it kept silent. It hasn't explained to me about Zaxery yet either! I was so mad! So mad, I didn't notice that Fang walked into my room until he cleared his throat. I looked up at him and he walked over to my bed and sat next to me. We didn't say anything for a while until I admitted to him about what the Voice said.

"You're freaking out too much, Max." He replied, massaging me on my back in between my wings after I was done explaining.

"Maybe. But still. The Voice hasn't been wrong yet." I said.

"Then think… what else is there to do besides destroy the School?" Fang said. My mouth dropped open as realization dawned on me and I turned to face him.

"That's it! We only destroyed the School! But there's still Itex! We have to get rid of Itex to get rid of this totally! That's how we saved the world! You're a genius!" Before I knew what I was doing, I kissed him. I pulled away, startled. "Umm… let's go tell the flock." He raised an eyebrow.

"About our kiss?" He asked.

"No! About Itex!" I said and I quickly hurried out of there before I could make a bigger foul of myself.

After I explained everything to the flock, I sat down next to Angel and let the magic begin. Everybody was busy trying to think of how to bring the whole company down while I was thinking about my kiss with Fang. Angel looked over to me and smiled deviously. I really shouldn't have thought about that with a mind reader right next to me! I glared at her and she just smiled "sweetly" and went back to "her" thoughts. I decided to keep my thoughts more locked up after that. And I tried to think of a plan. I can't tell you how many times we've been in here trying to come up with plans so far. Now it seems like an everyday thing to us. But you have to admit our job is hard. Let me explain: we thought that since all those kids took down all the Itex schools, all this would stop. But it turns out Itex had a back-up plan. They've been running an underground lab this whole time in case their lab above ground got destroyed. Angel found out when she was flying through the air to the old main Itex lab location (without telling me!) and saw someone come out of an underground door that was hidden in the woods—I still don't see how she could've saw that—and read his mind. There's one huge lab under there (only the School continued on above ground). So now we have to figure a way down there, destroy it, and leave unharmed. But the problem is, is that it's underground so a bomb could kill everyone and it would be hard for us to get out since and we can't jump out a random window and fly away. They told me all this a couple days after Fang left, but I wasn't exactly myself then and I didn't think it through… or actually care for that matter. This isn't possible.

"You can do it, Max." The Voice suddenly said.

"What? I've been yelling at you in my head forever earlier, why didn't you answer?"

No reply. Of course.

"Ugh! Well, the least you can do is tell me about Zaxery." I demanded.

"They gave Zaxery the power to communicate with you in his mind and they filled his head with thoughts that made him believe that you were really his twin sister."

"Ok. But why didn't you tell me?"

"Because they erased your memory."

"What does that do with anything?"

"Because I'm you. I speak you deeper thoughts out loud. It's a power." This surprised me.

"What? What do you mean? How could you be me? You even predicted the future sometimes!"

"Your physic, Max. You just haven't realized it yet."

"What about the time you made me look like an Eraser every time I looked in the mirror?" I asked the Voice. I just can't believe this.

"An allusion."

"But I didn't want to see that!"

"Yes, but it taught you a lesson. This is why I'm a power, Max. I can tell you things that you didn't even know you knew, make your predictions more obvious, and help you through the saving the world." Unbelievable.

"Yeah, but what about the time you said Dylan was going to take Fang's place. Fang is back now and obviously going to stay!"

"You were scared, Max. That was your own fear talking."

"I don't get scared!"

"Everybody has fear, Max. You're no different." I kept thinking about what the Voice said. It sounds impossible, but maybe the Voice really was me. Maybe I knew the answer all along…

"Wait, Angel has been saying she had a Voice in her head…"

"You're not the only one with this power, Max."

"One more question: how do we defeat Itex for good?"

"You know the answer, Max. Just look for it."

Then the Voice was gone. I would've yelled at it, but I started to think. Maybe I do know the answer after all!

Ok, maybe that was a bit of a confusing chapter, but it finally fills in a lot of the holes this story had. Please R&R! Thanks! :D