A/N: Hey guys! Here's a new chapter. And I think it's a good one so hope you enjoy! Again, please send me any suggestions that you have! Also as of a week ago, I'm officially 18 #adultlife and I committed to a University and its an Ivy League so yay! (Not harvard though haha)

Hope you like this chapter... it's pretty intense and I just wanted to say that I feel like Nudge is a very underrated character and I think there's a lot more to her than we see. Although James Patterson created the character Nudge, I don't think he did her justice (Still very grateful for the series though haha). So, I decided to add to her persona a little... :)

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Chapter 27:

NEONA P.O.V

We had started packing to leave Boulder. I was walking around the cave house thing to look for a backpack that Max said was somewhere in Nudge's room. We were packing tonight, and leaving tomorrow morning. I walked into Nudge's room.

"Um… Nudge? It's Neona…" I slowly opened the door and walked in. No one was here? But I could feel her here.

"Yeah one second…" Nudge called out from outside her window.

What is she doing there? I walked to the window and looked outside. Nudge was sitting on the rocks that were growing little spurts of grass.

There was paper all around her with calculations or designs. "What's going on?"

"One second Neona." She said in a voice that I'm not entirely sure was hers.

I backed away from the window and stared. She was channeling some sort of energy… I could feel it. Suddenly a metal chain on her nightstand under the window flew towards her and she caught with a sudden swiftness. She opened her eyes and smiled… I could almost see devilish mischief in there.

"So, you wanted something?"

"Uh yeah... Max said there was an extra backpack in here somewhere?" I looked at the chain in her hand. "No one told me you could attract metal?!" I looked at her with wide eyes.

She swooped up all the papers on the floor and swung a leg over the windowsill.

"How could you know?" Nudge swung her other leg over and gracefully landed beside her nightstand. "There are a lot of things people don't know about me." She smiled mischievously. Almost immediately, she perked up and shook her head so her brown curls framed her face. Instantly, she looked 2 years younger.

"What were you doing outside?"

"Oh just a personal project…" She put the papers under her pillow and walked to her closet and took out a backpack.

"I know people say you talk a lot but I think you're very smart."

Nudge looked surprised. She pushed her hair away from her face and walked to her bed again. "Thanks… you know, if anything is bothering you, I could help… for example, helping break out Mai from Omega."

I was speechless… "You... you know about Omega? But how!"

"Like you said, I'm smart." She pulled out the papers. "The poem that you said… or rather said in your sleep. I remember most everything and that part about the masquerade... Obviously it has to be Omega."

"How could you possibly know about Omega… they just started the project-"

"-2 years ago. Right, but it's been in the works since we were at the school. The flock didn't make much of it because I was just saying things- useless things. I would always be murmuring about Omega this and Omega that but no one would listen. I heard the scientists talking about it and I knew what was coming. I've been preparing ever since."

I looked at the papers in her hand. It was a design for some sort of device. "So what is this for?"

"This? This is for Gazzy and Iggy to make. Can't get my hands dirty. I only do the mental work- most of the time." She laughed. "But if you're so curious, this how we're getting Mai out."

"Why do you care so much about Mai? You don't even know her..."

"Oh I know her. I saw her before…. At the school." Her eyes glazed over as she remembered. She shook her head. "Well for one, she's the key to prevent world destruction. Max can't save the world without her. That, and because she's important to you and you're family now."

Max's called from outside "Neona! Did you find the backpack?"

I smiled. I have a family now. "I knew you weren't all just talk and giggles. The happiest people have the most to hide-"

Nudge carefully unclasped the metal chain and put it around her neck. "-And the most powerful people should be the least feared-" She winked before letting her hair fall around her face and letting her voice go up an octave.

"I gave it to her Max! I was thinking that I should take this one because the pink stripe would go great with my shirt and she can use my black one because its seems to suit her perfectly and it matches her-"

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PHOENIX P.O.V

I was in town to get some last minute things for Max and Fang. They didn't want me going alone especially in the evening… not to mention that there were probably erasers after us, but I told them I could handle it.

"Sir, could you get that for me please?" I looked at the old man next to me and pointed at the bread that was 7 racks high.

"Sure thing sweety." He handed me three packets. "Where are your parents?"

I narrowed my eyes at him. "Why?"

"Just wanna make sure you're safe."

"They're around here somewhere." I smiled at him and walked to the counter and made sure to keep an eye on him.

I paid with the dollar bills that Daddy gave me and walked out of the store. I felt the hair at the back of my neck rise. I walked to the wooded area until I reached a clearing.

I turned around as my eyes turned red with heat and thrust a flame and my pursuer.

"Ahh!" An eraser yelled as he dodged my flame. "Chick's psycho!"

I deep, growly voice silenced him. "Shush! Focus! Kill the girl, despite her powers." He pointed at me.

Ah. So I was the testing subject for this eraser- a learning toy for him. I'm no toy.

"Go ahead. Kill me. But word of advice, no one who has challenged me has lived to tell the tale."

The younger eraser scoffed. "I seriously doubt that. You're just a little eight year old girl."

I smiled wickedly. "Okay fine. Do you want to see my play area? You want to see my arena? My playground? My power over you?!" I laughed and turned around.

"Go! Jeb will be proud!" The mentor pushed the mentee to charge at me.

I could hear him start to run at me. "Arghhhh—"

I turned around in some sort of trance. "SHH!" I lit the leaves in front of him on fire. I whispered. "My friends can hear you— and they're mad."

"What friends?!" The eraser was scared out of his wits.

"SHH!" I turned back around. "I'm playing."

I lit the entire clearing on fire and the eraser started screaming bloody murder. At first, I thought I was out of control… but no- I had perfect control. I knew what I was doing.

"Stop! Stop it! Please! Don't kill him!" The eraser was on his knees gasping for air as the smoke choked him. "He's my father!" He looked back but unfortunately, it was too late. His fathers body was only ashes. "Dad! You killed my father!"

"And you tried to kill me!" I crossed my arms.

"I've heard that you and your family are trying to be some kind of superhero's and save the earth. But you're not that much different than any of us."

"Don't say that! I'm nothing like you!"

"You're exactly like me!" His body morphed out of its wolf-like state into a normal teenage boy- not much older than Gazzy. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. Eyes those were lifeless and still. I watched as the flames engulfed him until he was nothing but ashes.

I ended the fire and looked at the damage that I had done. "What have I done?" I whispered.

I grabbed the packets of bread that were near me and walked to the pond that Fern and I spent our days at. I looked at my reflection. I was the same as him- a killer.

I saw a leaf float to the pond and saw Fern standing near the edge.

"Phoenix!" She ran to me and hugged me. "Oh you're burning… are you sick?"

I wiped the sweat and ashes off of my face. I splashed my face with water and turned to face my friend.

"Oh I know what happened."

"You- you do?"

"Of course… You don't want to leave Boulder not knowing how you're going to save your friend right?"

"Oh yeah… of course!" I gave a mental sigh of relief. No one would ever know about what I did.

"Well surprise… I'm coming with you!" She took one bag of groceries and walked with me to the burnt clearing. "Angel successfully cleared my foster parent's memory and the principal's so we are no longer missing children and I no longer have parents and I couldn't be happier. Woah, what happened here?" She looked around at the burnt area.

"Oh- uh… I thought someone was following me so I got paranoid."

"Ah… understandable… anyway, lets go!" She spread her wings out and leapt up into the sky.

I looked around at the ashes of the teenage boy. His words echoed in my head.

"We're exactly the same."

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Was it intense? If not, well too bad.

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