And this is the next installment of Journey To Nowhere. Hopefully this is a good one as well. Thanks to everyone who reviewed the first chapter, you are my inspiration to make this second one. Now there is one thing that I am unsure about that I will ask you to help me out with at the end of this chapter. When you review, please address the question I ask at the end.

The next day of traveling brought us to Nebraska. Have you ever been to Nebraska? We haven't before so imagine our surprise when we saw…….nothing. There is nothing there. Nebraska is flat. There are pretty square patterns of all the farms and crop fields, but that's it. There is one road, I-80 that takes you all the way to Colorado. But otherwise, its open sky all around you.

That is a problem for us. We can't be seen and obviously, with no trees to cover us, we would be seen in Nebraska. So we had to stop. We had to rest and wait until nighttime to travel again. It was an easy decision to make.

"Who wants to stop and wait until nighttime to fly again?"

Fang: "Well, duh. We'll be seen otherwise."

Gasman: "I don't care."

Angel: "I do! Total needs to rest too."

Total: "She's right. I hate taking care of my business in the air. It'll just drop down and hit some poor person on the head. Ugh…"

Now let me get that image out of my head before I continue. Okay, it's gone.

So how is that Voice? Do we have time to stop?

I wasn't under the impression that you liked to listen to me anyway.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I offend you that last time?

It doesn't matter. I know you didn't mean it. Let's just settle down before someone spots you.

Sounds good. See anywhere we can rest?

Why don't you ask the flock?

Oh, yah. Why didn't I think of that?

"Hey gang? Where do you want to stop? See anywhere that looks good?"

Gazzy looked at me questioningly. "Fang just asked us that. We're gonna go there." He pointed at a small cluster of trees. It looked like a forest of some kind. It looked ideal. But there was still a problem.

"But there's people there. Tons of them. And a huge parking lot. What if it's the zoo or something?"

Fang shook his head and sighed. "Max, the zoo is over there. We already went through this. Why weren't you listening?"

I glared at him. "The Voice and I were chatting it up, deciding where to land. You know, Voice comes in handy sometimes."

Hey thanks.

No problem.

Fang snorted. "Sounds to me like the Voice is just getting in your way. We already knew where we were gonna land. You just wasted your time by talking to the Voice."

I turned away, frustrated with myself. Was I really so off of my game? I'd just missed a whole conversation. I shrugged off the feeling. "Let's just set down, okay?"

We landed in between the trees. I later found out it was a national park called Fontenelle Forest. But we didn't care then. All we wanted was a quick nap, and then we'd be heading out. As soon as it got dark. But I sure as hell wasn't gonna sleep. Last time I slept I had to be woken up when it was time to go. I don't want that to happen again. I'm supposed to take care of the flock. Not the other way around.

So now, it was time to wait.

Is there anyone else out there like them? Someone who has escaped the clutches of Itex? Maybe even someone with wings? What about adults? Are there any adults out there like them? Or does that just defeat the purpose of the flock? Please answer and that will affect the upcoming stages of the story.