Well there, hi-I really like this chapter. It originally had some kinks, but with the help of Roo (my amazing Beta-and thank you so much if you are reading this) they've been worked out. People the fun is over the Flock is getting back to business! And hey maybe I'll have time to give you two chapters this week! That would be awesome!
I tossed and turned and look up at the ceiling for the 7th time tonight. I just simply couldn't sleep something just didn't feel right, something was keeping my mind from rest.
Maybe it was just me pitying Iggy, because of his earlier outburst. Or maybe we were being too quick to trust Vera and Emil and it was getting under my skin. That would make sense, like looking back adults for the most part cause nothing but trouble for us, and although the rules have been bent before, does that mean they will be bent now? How do I know I won't wake in a dog crate? Okay yeah well maybe that's being a little paranoid - but only a little.
At this point all I really wanted was sleep. Can't my conscience decide to bug me in the morning when I'm in the mood to think? No, of course not, that would just be too easy, too painless. So there I was, lying awake. At least I was in a bed.
Just playing with the possibility that I was being paranoid about the position we were in (which is very likely) what did I think was going to happen? Today was awesome, how could I doubt these people? I don't know, okay, and I can't think straight obviously…
"Max, you awake?" Angel's voice came from my behind my door.
"Uh-huh."
Angel walked in with circles under her eyes. "I can't sleep either, neither can Nudge or the boys."
"Great." So, it's not just me and my paranoia. Maybe we like have Jet-Lag, that happens sometimes, when you travel half-way around the world. So see, it's simple. Jet-Lag.
"Fang's thinking we should all talk, about like what we want to say tomorrow. And he's thinking about you." I rolled my eyes.
"Angel, how do you think Fang feels about you prodding in his head?" I had pushed myself into a sitting position.
"Um, do I have to answer that?"
I laughed "No, but just don't do it, alright?"
"Okay."
"You said everyone was up?"
"Yep, well Iggy's trying to convince himself this is just a bad dream, but he's conscious."
"Angel." And I wonder how she knows that, I really shouldn't complain, her mind reading can come in handy sometimes, but it's also a pain. "Let's get everyone together, Fang's room in five."
Angel nodded and went to get Nudge and Gazzy, I went to get Iggy, and we'd surprise Fang.
In about five minutes we were all sitting in the living room like part of Fang's room, with Fang looking very pissed about being disturbed by his flock in the middle of the night, and he kept shooting death stares at Angel. Maybe that will teach her and her morals? Unlikely.
"So, who can guess why we're here at some crazy time in the night?" I started, giving a little yawn.
"To prepare for tomorrow." Gazzy smiled, proud of himself that he knew the answer.
"Yep." I let out another yawn. "How do we want to prepare for tomorrow? I was thinking just saying everything we know, everything we need to do, and everything we need…help…with."
"Sounds like a plan." Fang was beginning to relax a little.
"So we know that Itex is based in China, Antarctica, and outer space. What do we think they are doing in those places?" We have to start somewhere.
"Well, China is like a really big country - with like the most people in it, so if they still are trying to cut the population in half that sounds like a good place to start."
Nudge stuck up one finger. "And then there is Antarctica, well don't they have like a lot of science places, like research hubs, and didn't Jeb say something like that was where everyone who was 'acceptable' was going to be kept?"
Nudge stuck up a second finger "And outer space they could like drop a bomb, a big bomb on the earth and kill everyone that wasn't 'acceptable' and stored in Antarctica."
Nudge stuck up a third finger. "So they are in China, to start sorting through the population, they like might use their army or something to get into other countries - cause don't they like have a really big one. Then whoever they like and want to keep is sent down to Antarctica. In Antarctica they might have like test and needles and stuff to like mutate the people who they like - maybe. Then from outer space they like drop a really big bomb to destroy all humanity that aren't safely stored away in Antarctica." Nudge repeated, then crossed her arms and smiled.
"Yeah that sounds like what we know. I wish there was some other way we could get info, do research."
Fang grabbed his laptop that was sitting on the coffee table. "Maybe…" he murmured before typing away. A few minutes later Fang turned the screen toward us, there was a picture of China with thousands of little red dots scattered all over it. "These are all of the Itex factories in China." He clicked something and then a map of the world came up with little red dots all over "These are all the Itex factories. About one third of the world's adult population, maybe more, works for Itex in these factories; do they play a role in this? Do we need to destroy all of those factories to destroy Itex? Do we really want to make all of these people unemployed? Crashing the economy would be an apocalypse of its own." I was dumbfounded for a second. Too many word in a row from Fang, but he had a point, the same point Ella had.
"Yeah, maybe that's one way Russia can help us." I nodded.
"I think we should like get the media onto our saving the world gig." Iggy said.
"No way, we are not going on camera. We need to stay incognito, if not from Itex from people in the government. Do you want to be locked in a school like facility or owned by some country or told like we had to be in a foster system with stuck up parents or…"
"We get it." Nudge let out a sigh "But Ig's right the world needs to know what's happening or it doesn't make much difference. Like Germany, two months later and beside the point everyone is still alive we haven't made much of a difference."
"Max, why do we have to save the world if we will never be able to fit in the world?" Angel asked.
"Angel! You don't want to kill the world do you? Plus, we wouldn't live after Itex takes control, and they want to kill us, remember? Life, even if it sucks a lot sometimes, is worth fighting for. When your dead that is the end, there is nothing more." What was Angel saying! I know her morals are twisted, but she wants to…no, she doesn't want that she's just curious. "Look Angel, I know the world isn't always the nicest to us, but that's mostly because sick, mad scientists made it that way, we don't want them to ruin other people's lives do we? It will be better when Itex is out of the way, I promise."
"Oh." Angel looked down at the floor, like she was super ashamed.
"So, we need to ask for help making a safety net for the economy, what else?" Iggy asked.
"Well, we need to take care of that bomb in outer space. And we need to destroy Itex - for good." I crinkled my nose, was this possible?
"Maybe, Russia can send Iggy and me up in outer space, and we disable the bomb. While you four are destroying Itex down here." Gazzy suggested.
"I don't like the idea of splitting up, but I do trust you two more than some bomb tech."
I scrunched my face up, this was hard, and worse this was the middle of the night.
"I know, but we might need to split up." Fang said. "Someone would need to go down to Antarctica and kick their butt down there."
"And someone would need to be up here taking care of China." Nudge finished for Fang.
"I know," I said, "I just really don't like the idea of splitting up. Space is dangerous, and what if someone doesn't make it through?"
"Max, it's only an idea." Iggy reminded me.
I rolled my eyes. "Again I know, but right now it seems like the only idea we have. Especially with all this limited information."
"Maybe we could send some Russian people down to Antarctica and only split with Gazzy and Iggy." Angel tried to smile.
"Sure, but can we really trust them to take care of this for us?"
"No." the flock said in unison.
"Shit." I murmured under my breath.
"Max?" Fang asked, with a baby grin on his face.
"Sorry." I rolled my eyes. "It looks like that's our plan. Two in space, two in Antarctica, and two in China. We need the Russian government to help us make an economy net - so we don't cause a world wide great depression taking away the main source of employment and household items, and maybe dare I say publicity."
The flock nodded, and then without saying anything more we all stacked our fists for the second time tonight, and went back to bed. And I dare say we slept.
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