A.N- Thank you to all my reviewers/followers/readers! I love you all with the intensity of a thousand white suns, and I hope you don't hate me for taking so long to update… Hope this chapter makes up for it.

Too Weak To Quit

May 27

(Fang POV)

I still wasn't sure what Xavier was going to do with me. I mean I get why taking my ability to move by myselfaway would help him, but why didn't he turn me into a mindless vegetable as well? How would having me be able to talk help him in any way? I would think it would just annoy him and get in the way, but whatever…

"So where are you taking me anyway?" I growl.

We'd been walking through hallways for about five minutes and appeared to be getting nowhere. I was walking to Xavier's right (against my will, might I add) and he was constantly checking some device at each turn. "Oh, you'll see when we get there." He tells me with his creeper smile.

"And why do you keep checking your phone? Texting someone special, are we?" I ask sarcastically. I swear I'm starting to talk like Max…

He turns to look at me with an angry face. I think I hit a nerve there. "No. This isn't even a phone, you idiot." He says, glaring at me. "Since you stupid mutants took your trackers out, we can't use those to track you anymore (Good to know). Instead, we use this device that's telling me where your friends are in the building. It only works in the building though since we have cameras here."

"Well I don't know much about these things since Max is usually the strategist and all, but isn't it a bad to tell your enemy what you're doing?" I ask.

He gives me a smug look. "Since you're never getting out of here, it doesn't really matter now does it?"

He must be really insane if he thinks they could keep me in here… Then I think of something. "Hey, isn't this place supposed to have the best mind readers?" I say, implying he wasn't. That's what Jake told us earlier, at least. "Why can't you just find them by reading their thoughts?"

"Aren't you supposed to be the quiet one?" he sneers. Touché… "I'll tell you anyways, not that it even matters. While it is true that we have the best mind readers of all Itex in this facility, not all of us are mind readers. Most of us here have mind powers, but not all of them are mind reading ones. Like me, I can control the brain and mind, but I can't read it." He tells me, sounding bored. He told me all this while looking at the little tracking device.

Maybe I could use that information to my advantage somehow. He was right though; I'm being very talkative today for some reason. It's not really like me, but I felt like I had to keep talking to him to get information I might need. I guess it's a habit to get information from people that take us. Since Max is usually the one that does it and she's not here now, I guess I just took over that role. Plus, having to be the leader of my own group for a while made me also get in the habit of talking more, especially to the enemy.

I stayed quiet after that because I couldn't really think of anything else, and I felt tired from all the talking. If you can even feel tired from talking… I wasn't really paying too much attention while we turned at yet another hallway. So when I saw people there, it sort of caught me off guard.

I looked around and saw it was the Flock and that they'd gotten Max and Kate back already. Also, Gazzy looked unconscious and was being carried by Iggy. "Fang!" Max screamed at me.

"Nice to see you too, Max…" I hear Xavier say from beside me, faking hurt feelings.

"Max." I say, my eyes widening slightly. I felt happiness in seeing her face again, after what felt like forever. She really needs to stop getting caught so much…

"Dude, what are you doing with that guy?" Iggy asks, adjusting the Gasman in his arms.

"We got Kate and Max, let's go!" Ratchet adds.

"I can't" I say back, with a straight face, feeling weak to have to say it.

"Fang is under my control now. He won't be doing anything I don't approve of for a while." Xavier tells the Flock, smugly.

"What are you; his mom?" Max growls. "You don't own him, let him go!" She orders.

"How about- no." Xavier tells her. Right as he's finished saying that, I feel myself move forward without my will to do so.

"I can't control myself. Guys, get out of the way. Now!" I exclaim.

"No, Fang. We're taking you with us. I won't leave you behind; ever." Max says, as I start to run.

"Max, get out of the way. I can't stop! Max!" I yell franticly, as I charge at her.

Right before I hit her Ratchet quickly, but as gently as possible, shoves her out of the way; taking the hit for her.

I'm now on top of a wide-eyed Ratchet, who I tackled to the floor. I start to punch him even thought that's the last thing I want to do since he just saved Max from me, but I couldn't stop. I tried to stop as much as I could, but it wouldn't work. It was like I wasn't even in this body any more. Like I was just looking on, in someone else's body, as they beat up my comrade.

"Ratchet, fight back dude!" I scream down at him. "Guys, stop me!" I yell at the Flock. "Please, I can't stop!"

Everyone was just kind of standing there, not knowing what to do. I don't think they wanted to hurt me, but I could really care less about myself right now. I'd almost tackled my pregnant girlfriend for God's sake; with so much force that it would have possibly hurt, if not killed, my unborn child.

They all finally decided to do something after what seemed like forever, even though it was probably only a few seconds. I'd managed to punch Ratchet a few times though, knocking him out on the third punch to the head. That's when two pairs of arms grabbed me from behind.

I turned my head and saw Kate and Jake holding each of my arms. I got really scared then, as my body started to struggle. "Kate, let go! Someone else grab me, I might hit Kate in the stomach!" I couldn't believe Kate had actually grabbed my arm after what I'd done to her boyfriend.

Kate quickly let go, following my orders. Probably out of habit from being in my group. Once she did, I elbowed backward pretty hard with my, now free, left arm. Kate still happened to be close enough to get hit in the stomach and let out a cry of pain.

My eyes widened, "Kate!" I cry.

"Maya, come here and help me!" Jake screams, as I freak out and Kate practically claws at her stomach in pain.

Max had been screaming at Xavier to let me go. Iggy had put Gazzy down and had gone to fight Xavier with Nudge. Kate was now leaning against the wall, with tears streaming down her face. I felt so bad; I wanted to just kill myself so I couldn't hurt them anymore. Not that I'm emo…

Maya and Jake had tackled me to the floor and were literally sitting on me so I couldn't get up. Jake was straddling my chest and holding my shoulders down with all his strength. Maya was sitting on my legs and holding my arms down. It was a pretty awkward position, but it was the best thing they could do at the moment. Although I was really strong and Maya was super light, Jake still weighed as much as a normal human adult male (which made it a little hard to breath…). Both of their weights combined with the position I was in made it hard to get them off- so I should be good for a while.

Then I heard the last thing I was expecting to hear at a time like this. "Guys? I think my water just broke…" Kate almost whispers, but we all hear.

"What?" Maya screams, letting my arms get a little looser. Jake also got a little distracted and looked back.

That's what my out of control body was waiting for and I start to thrash under them; causing them to fall off of me. Shit…

"Maya, go with Kate! I'll try to hold Fang off." Jake says.

"Don't hold back." I tell him. He nods.

Max had heard Kate and was now beside her, trying her best to support her with Maya's help. She looked over at me with a sad face.

When I saw her, I realized something. Max and I had been sparring partners for almost our entire childhood. That meant she knew my weaknesses, probably better than even I did. "Max, tell Jake any of my weaknesses you know of!" I say, as Jake punches me in the stomach. I let out an, "Oof-" which made Max wince. "Please." I beg, breathlessly, as I hit Jake in the face with the side of my arm and make his head go back.

"Okay, Fang." She agrees, reluctantly. "His left leg is weaker than his right- from when I broke it when we were kids." She comments, as Jake straightens back up.

"Try to break it." I tell Jake.

He looks at me questionably, but then nods. He tries to kick my leg, but my body quickly moves to the side and forward, and my elbow hits his back, hard, when he kicks. This makes Jake fall on the floor, and his breath quickly leave his lungs in an audible 'Whoosh'.

"What else, Max?" I ask quickly.

"I'm thinking. You're a really good fighter; there aren't many things that can actually take you down!" She tells me. "Jake, try to hold his arms back behind him and kick his legs out from under him. His balance gets a little off when his arms are held back. Also, when you see that he's about to dodge something you do, duck. Don't think about it, just duck. Or try to get some space between him and yourself. He always steps to the side and hits you with his elbow or a punch after he dodges a hit." Max advises as fast as she can, while Jake gets up and tries to get behind me.

After a while, Jake finally manages to get behind me and hold my arms back behind me. He then kicks me behind my knees. This makes me fall to my knees, but I think his gecko hands activated, or whatever you call it, because he came down with me, with only his palms on my arms.

"Crap, stupid hands." I hear him mutter. Yup, I was right…

My head goes back quickly and I feel Jakes Jaw hit the top of my skull. I feel his hands sort of peel away from my arms and so I stand. "I'm so sorry Jake."

"-'S fine." He tells me, while sitting on the floor, and spits dark blood to the side.

As he gets up, my body charges forward and my arm punches his stomach, hard. My fist moved upward, as he spits out blood at me. My eyes widen.

"Jake!" Max squeals. I look over to her and see she's running towards us.

"No Max, stop!" I scream at her.

"No, you're going to kill him!"

"I might kill you too if you come over here, Max! Stay back!" I growl, as my body straightens back up from the punch it just gave.

Jake was now collapsed on the floor, with blood seeping down from his open mouth and onto the white-tiled floor. I felt my leg muscles get ready to start to run.

"Max!" I yell, right as I charge at her.

I try my hardest to stop myself, but it's no use.

Right as I'm about to slam into her, she moves aside and sticks a leg out- successfully tripping me. I fall on my face and look up at her. She kicks my head to the side with a strong foot.

She gives me a smile. "Sorry, but I'm not like the others." She explains, smiling. "I know how to fight you and I'm not afraid to beat the crap out of you, either." She tells me as I get up. "Just like old times, huh Fang?"

This girl is insane. -_-'

(Nudge POV)

Right after Fang started to beat Ratchet up; I decided we should try to knock Xavier out. I figured if he wasn't conscious, then maybe his control over Fang would be gone.

I told Iggy my plan, and he put Gazzy down a little away from the rest of us. We ran to Xavier, who was busy yelling at a pissed off Max. Iggy and I actually managed to get pretty close before Xavier noticed there was a threat. By then though, Iggy had ignited one of his bombs and managed to throw it at him.

I'm pretty sure it was one of his and Gazzy's knock out gasses because it didn't explode like I was expecting it to. Instead, it started to give off a thick, white smoke into every direction as it spun in place.

Xavier realized what it was and rushed to it, grabbing it in one hand and turning around. He chucked it as far as he could behind him. He'd done all of that in only a few seconds, so not much gas was able to get out of the small metal sphere.

"Crap." I breathe out. "That almost worked. You wouldn't happen to be carrying any more of those, would you?" I ask hopefully, as I watch Xavier freak out and swat at the air.

Iggy looks down at me, from watching Xavier wave the white gas franticly away. He shakes his head, "Nope.".

Xavier walked back further away from our group, into a space that was smoke free. He looked a little loopy, but was still conscious. Not inhaling enough of the gas, plus having a strong mind probably made it easier for him to stay conscious- because that stuff was strong… Trust me, I would know. Iggy and Gazzy always try their bombs out before they take them on missions. There was this one time that they knocked the whole Flock out for the whole day. It was back when they started trying out knock-out gas at Dr. Martinez's. It went off in the afternoon and we woke back up in the middle of the night, the next day.

So anyways, I looked back and noticed how Fang was still fighting as strong as ever so I guessed that Xavier wasn't directly controlling his actions. Like maybe he'd ordered him to attack us, but wasn't in control of his every action. If that makes sense at all. I still think that if Xavier is knocked out, that he'll lose control over Fang, though. "Come on Iggy. We still have to knock him out." I say.

"Yes sir!" Iggy responds, saluting me by putting the side of his hand to his forehead.

I shake my head, "Come on, you idiot…" I say, and start running to where Xavier was standing. The little gas that was released in front of us had already dispersed. So when we ran ahead, we didn't inhale any of it. Xavier was looking on at Fang's fighting and probably controlling it further. So taking that distraction to my advantage, I didn't wait to give him a hard side-punch to the jaw. "Take that!" I spit at him (not literally spit, but you know what I mean).

The punch made his head turn to the side, painfully. His already droopy eyes were half lidded as he staggered to the side, and almost fell over.

Iggy, taking Xavier's stumble to his full advantage, ran to him. He grabbed Xavier's shirt and literally ran him into the nearest wall, then held him up by his shirt collar.

"Don't look into his eyes Iggy!" I remind him, from a few yards away. Xavier was probably not thinking straight, and might have not even thought to control us, but it doesn't hurt to be cautious.

Iggy was facing Xavier, who was pressed up against the white wall. "Don't worry, Nudge. I can do this with my eyes closed." He tells me, laughing at his own joke and still facing Xavier. He then stopped laughing and got serious, something that Iggy rarely ever does. "Now listen up, you bastard-" He hissed. Max would have probably made him wash his mouth out with soap for that, even though she herself curses like a sailor on a regular basis when she doesn't think we can hear. "-If you don't let Fang go (mentally) in the next three seconds, then I'm knocking you out with enough force to kill a fucking bull!"

Xavier looks at Iggy for a moment, as if trying to comprehend what was just said to him. "I control Fang." He finally gets out, sounding like a he was drunk.

I looked back to see how things were going for the others, and saw that Fang was now fighting Max. I could see Max had taken her wings out and using them as a sort of shield against Fang's hits. I saw Fang punch at Max a few times, each time hitting the outside of her wings. He then swung a hard kick at her wings and made her stagger back some. When he did that, I caught a quick glimpse at his face. He looked more pained than I'd ever seen him. Almost like he'd cry, he was so helpless; and Fang does not cry. I turn quickly back to Iggy's direction, "Iggy, hurry up! He's fighting Max now!" I cry.

I heard a 'thump' as soon as the words left my mouth. It took me a second to realize the sound had been Xavier's limp body hitting the floor.

Iggy turned back to me with a raised and bloody fist. "Please tell me that did it." He begs.

We both look back and see Fang passed out on the floor. Max was already kneeling at his side, saying his name in confusion.

A.N- Just to let you all know, I'm going to try to make the next chapter be the last of them in this facility. I think it's getting too dragged out.

So I read the summery for Nevermore… Kind of a mistake on my part:/ It sounds a little disappointing, but I guess I have to just read myself it to make an actual opinion.

Q.O.T.U- Have you read/ will you read Nevermore? If you have; then what did you think of it?

Love you all!

~Lucy:)