Lie Tonight – Chapter 11

Alright, I made another mistake. This is the real Chapter 11. The Chapter 11 I posted was from my other story that also happens to be on chapter 11. Sorry.

By MyNameIsCAL

I turned on the light and opened the door. Gazzy stumbled in and I grabbed him, steadying him as he tried not to topple backwards out the door.

"Jesus, Gazzy, what happened?" I asked, putting his arm over my shoulder.

His nose was bleeding, actually, it was gushing. I got him to the couch and pulled a towel off the pile of newly folded laundry. He pressed it to his nose, leaning against the arm rest.

"I found Angel."

I stared at him. "Where?"

He closed his eyes, taking a deep breath through his mouth. "She's hiding up at our old place, you know where we were before erasers attacked us and Angel got kidnapped?"

"There?"

"I'm really nauseous…get the garbage can…"

I ran and dropped it in front of him just as he leaned forward, belching. He wiped his mouth on his towel, looking weaker than before.

Gazzy said, "God, I think it's broken. Jeb was there. All these…experiments. I got attacked. I couldn't get Angel. We…We…"

He leaned forward again and I looked away.

"We need to save her," Gazzy finished, wiping his mouth again.

Max came through the doorway now.

"Max, go back to bed," I said.

She stared at Gazzy and his bloodstained towel.

"Hi, Max," Gazzy managed to say.

"Alright, I'll call the others," I told Gazzy. "Stay here with Max. You need a hospital, or something. Your nose looks…"

"Smashed in?" Gazzy shook his head. "Alright, go. I'll stay here."

Max sat down next to him, a look of concern on her face. She turned to face me, her eyes meeting mine.

"Yeah, I know," her hand rested on her stomach. "Guess you get to go play leader for once."

She gave me a grin and I smiled back.

"Be careful," she added.

I nodded and then left the two of them.

Iggy and Nudge were quick to follow me. As we flew towards California, I explained to them what Gazzy had told me. Now that I thought about it, there wasn't much for us to run on.

"All this time Angel was being controlled by Jeb?" Nudge asked. "How could none of us have realized this?"

"Because we were too busy being mad and stubborn," I grumbled.

"Don't go blaming yourself," Iggy warned. "This is as much as Angel's fault as it anyone else's."

An hour later, we were there. We circled the place a few times before touching down behind some trees and bushes. Outside, these two creatures marched, keeping guard. Inside, there was a light on in the old kitchen. I could see Jeb and Angel sitting there, arguing.

"Angel isn't happy that Gazzy got hurt," Iggy whispered. I always wished I could hear as good as he could.

"Alright, I'll take out those two things guarding the way in," I told them. "You two get inside. I'll be there to help as soon as I can."

They nodded and I pushed through the bushes. The two guards immediately ran towards me. They were fast. I threw a punch at them, and they dodged. This was going to be harder than I thought. I'll admit, Max was always the best fighter out of all of us and this was like going up against her.

"Give up!" One of them said in a robotic tone. "You cannot defeat us. We were built to be indestructible."

I threw myself at one and the other clamored towards me. As I threw a punched at the other one, the one that was now grabbing onto me threw a punch at me, hitting me in the shoulder. I fell to the ground and the one that I had tried to throw a punch at was now pulling its arm back, punching into the air, hitting the one that had punched me.

"You two obviously weren't programmed to fight together," I chuckled.

The two things fell to the ground with loud thuds. Above, I could hear Iggy and Nudge flying to the roof. Clutching my shoulder, I took off and followed them.

"I told you we should have killed him!" Jeb shrieked as we plunged through the ceiling.

"Jeb, it's over," I said, Iggy grabbing me by the arm to steady me. "Give us Angel and we can pretend that none of this ever happened."

"No," Jeb shook his head. "Where's Max?"

Angel stood behind Jeb, holding one of the kitchen chairs. She threw it at him, but he dodged it with lightening speed. What had happened to him too?

"Now, now, Angel," Jeb scolded. "Violence isn't the answer to lash out against me."

I watched Jeb picked her up and he threw her across the room. Before I could even react, Angel crashed into me and I was on the floor. Iggy was stumbling back, Angel's foot had clipped him in the chest.

"Jeb, why are you doing this?" Nudge asked, the only one unscathed now.

"Because you all wasted yourselves with emotions and feelings," Jeb said. "I thought you would all be perfect, doing what you were told, but you wouldn't."

"We're more human than you'll ever be!" Angel shouted, pushing herself off of me.

"You may be right about that," Jeb laughed. "But I'll always be better."

Never before had I seen Jeb throw himself into a fight. But he charged towards Iggy and Iggy, sensing it, tried to move out of the way. But he grabbed Iggy and with superhuman strength, threw Iggy threw the window. That angered Nudge. As she started to fight him, I got up, my arm feeling like dead weight.

"It's broken," Angel said. "Distract him. I know how to stop this."

I didn't question her as she disappeared down the hallway.

"Care to join us?" Jeb turned, an evil grin on his face. He took grab of my wrist and twisted my bad arm. I howled in pain and Nudge jumped on the chance to kick him in the back. There was a cracking sound, but still, Jeb showed no mercy as he yanked my arm. I fell back to the floor.

"Fang!"

I thought I'd get some action into this story before the end! Anyway, I've been thinking up some new stories. And it seems like there's a lot of my stories that are drawing to a close, but don't worry, I'll have new ones up as soon as those are over!

Thanks for reading! Next chapter will be up sometime after the weekend.