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Chapter 43: The Battle Truly Begins

FPOV

"Are you nervous?" I asked Max as we flew to the Cult.

She looked at me and grinned. "Sort of. But I'm mostly ready to tear any SuperErasers apart."

I nodded. "Good. 'Cause if you weren't, I'd think you were crazy."

She smiled and looked forward.

That was when we heard the first whine of a bullet streaking past us.

I saw Max's big brown eyes widen. We only had to exchange one look before nodding and doing evasive maneuvers.

"You ready for this?" Allan asked any of us who were flying.

Various nods and shrieks of gulls answered him.

"Let's land," I suggested.

Max nodded and we descended.

We were standing near the troops. We were about two hundred feet from the Cult's army.

I was shocked by what I saw.

Their army was huge. It had to be about three-hundred strong.

I saw regular Erasers, flying Erasers, Flyboys, those Transformer-bot things that the Uber Director used, M-Geeks, and mutants.

Max looked pale, but drew her bow and knocked an arrow.

Our army transformed back into regular human form. They all nodded to each other.

Then, an enormous sound resounded behind us.

We turned and found ourselves face-to-face with an army of mutants.

And at the lead was an old friend.

"Wassup?" Mike, the computer hacker from the New York subway tunnels, said, nodding at us.

Max stared at him in shock. "H-how…?"

Mike grinned and pointed to a woman standing behind him. "Mara here contacted me. Said that the mutants were gonna rebel. I wanted to be part of it, so here I am."

Max stared at the woman, Mara, and nodded her approval. "You're not working for the Director anymore?"

Mara shook her head. "No," her voice had a Persian accent to it. "I owed you and your family too much to turn my back on you."

Max smiled and bowed a little bit. "Well thank you. I can't tell you how much it means to me."

Max turned to Mike. "How many?"

He shrugged. "Two-hundred strong? I don't know. But we were hassled in California, I can tell you that much."

Max grinned, and turned back to the impending army.

Max looked at me and smiled. "Good luck," she whispered so only I could hear.

I decided that now couldn't be a better time, so I gave her one of my half-grins that she loved. "You too."

Her eyes lightened.

"ATTACK!" we heard someone from the Cult shout.

Then, with an almighty roar, the Cult's army ran at us.

"Battle up!" Max shouted.

Everyone got ready to attack.

"Good luck to you all," Max said.

Growls resonated within our army.

Then, Max let out a shriek of rage.

And we all attacked.

I'm gonna do maybe two more chapters today. I don't know yet. But keep checking back.

*Sob* This story only has a few more chapters left! We've come so far so fast!

Review? Please! That way I'll do the sequel.

-A$h