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Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride, James Patterson does.
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Nudge POV
Crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-CRAP!!! I said each word with each step that I ran toward Iggy, who was pretty much holding out strong. I had cramps in my feet and legs, and I think I might've broken one of my toes, but I kept running toward Iggy as fast as humanely possible.
"Iggy!" I cried. "I'm a little busy at the moment" Iggy replied, planting a roundhouse kick at an Eraser's chest. "Max is down!" I shouted, punching an Eraser in the nose. "Fang says up and away". Iggy stopped in his tracks. "Okay then fine" he replied. "You go, I'll make sure Fang goes".
"No, you're coming with me" I said, unfurling my wings fast as lightning and grabbing Iggy's arm. I flew upward, and Iggy had no choice but to follow me.
Fang POV
Oh crap. I ran as fast as I could at Ari, avoiding as many gun bullets as possible. I tackled him from behind, holding him in one of those wrestling moves that wrestlers do. Ari threw me off and launched at me, now raking his claws down my stomach.
Oh crap, I can't even freaking begin to describe how much pain that put me in, but I sucked it up. Anything for Max.
I launched myself right back at Ari, kicking him in a place below his stomach. Ari keeled over like an Eraser that had just got kicked in the…well, I think you know where I kicked him.
Anyway, I took advantage of Ari's temporary state of uncontrollable pain. I raced over to Max, picking up her wrist and checking for a pulse. That was good, she still had one. I turned my head quickly. Nudge was a few feet away, looking pretty darn beat up, but still fighting pretty hard.
"Hey Nudge!" I said. Nudge turned, still kicking at Erasers. "Tell Iggy I said up and away!" Nudge nodded, kicking a clear path toward Iggy.
Okay, now for the uncomfortable part.
I picked Max up, bridal style. Trust me, I've lived with Max all my life, and she was like a sister to me. Carrying her like this was extremely awkward, and Iggy would probably tease me about this for the rest of my life.
But I couldn't worry about that now.
Hey Angel I thought to myself help me take care of Ari, will you?
My extreme hearing had picked up Ari finally sucking up the pain. I heard him jump at me, and easily side stepped him, still carrying Max. Ari snarled and lunged at me. He stopped dead in mid-jump and fell to the ground. He began banging his head on any rock or tree he could see.
Kudos to Angel.
I opened my giant wings. Fourteen feet in length, and completely black, they lifted me up into the air, where the rest of the flock was waiting.
"Okay guys, lets go" I said.
I surged upward, gaining altitude as I flew. I heard Gazzy quietly saying "Three-two-one-"
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zero.
I looked down to check on Max. She had her wings unfolded, and one of them was bleeding pretty hard. Her long blond hair was blowing back in the breeze, and she just looked so pretty laying there. And I couldn't help but feel a wonderful whoosh in my stomach as I looked at her.
I wanted to slap myself. Snap out of it-snap out of it-snap out of it-SNAP OUT OF IT YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!
"GUYS!" Iggy suddenly yelled. "DUCK!!!!"
"Why" Nudge asked. "What-?"
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iggy POV
Nudge tugged on my arm, upward. She threatened to pop my arm out of its socket, so I followed her. When we were hovering over all the Erasers I said to her "Jeez girl, you've got some major muscle. You practically ripped my arm out of its socket". I heard Nudge giggle.
Then my ears detected gun shots. "Nudge, serpentine" I yelled. Each of us flew higher, dodging the bullets with amazing accuracy. We met up with Gazzy and Angel, who were a good 50 feet up.
"What's happening?" I whispered to Gazzy.
"Fang just picked up Max" Gazzy whispered. "Ari's coming at Fang. Fang sidestepped. And Ari is…whacking his head on a bunch of stuff? Oh, Angel's controlling his mind. Now Fang's coming up to us". "Fang is carrying Max?" I asked. Fang was normally really calm, and he hardly showed any emotion at all. Just even the corner of his mouth twitching was a big step up for him. "Yeah" Gazzy replied.
God, I was so going to tease Fang about this later.
I heard Fang's voice. "Okay guys, let's go".
And then my ears detected it. A faint, nearly undistinguishable beep-beep-beep-beep-beep. A bomb. And it was right in front of us.
Oh. My. God.
"GUYS!!!!!" I yelled. "DUCK!!!!"
"Why?" Nudge asked. "What-?"
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fang POV
The freaking bomb exploded in our faces. The before effects of the bomb took place. Wind blew my hair back, and I could feel heat against my face. Without really thinking, I grabbed Angel's arm, who grabbed Gazzy's, and sailed downward. I could heard Nudge and Iggy following us.
Crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-crap-CRAP!!
I still held on to Max, and sailed downward, the wind making my eyes water. "Uh, Fang" Angel's voice said behind me. "I think we have a problem".
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Aw, crap. More bombs. And they were big to. And right behind the flock and I.
The explosion caused me to wiggle around. And then there was the horrible effect of not being able to control my wings. And the awful, horrible experience of crash landing. Right in the middle of hundreds of freaking ERASERS!!!!
Okay, I can't hold this back anymore.
Shit.
Gazzy POV
Angel grabbed my arm, and I felt myself sailing downward towards the ground. Fang was pulling Angel, still carrying Max. I heard Nudge and Iggy following right behind us, flying as fast as they possible could. And then I heard Iggy say "Oh crap!"
And that's when I heard the ticking.
Of seven bombs. Maybe even more.
Angel must have heard it too, because she yelled at Fang "Uh, Fang. I think we have a problem".
And then what should happen, but the bombs explode.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The waves from the explosion made us all wiggle, and lose control of our wings. And we just happened to be above about- oh I dunno- ABOUT 300 FREAKING ERASERS!!!!!!!
And I just happened to hit my head reeeeeeeally hard on a rock. And I just happened to lose consciousness. Aw, crap.
Fang POV
I knew that the flock was unconscious. Because I mean, come on: We had hit the ground pretty hard. Even I, being myself and all, was beginning to lose consciousness. A dark shadow fell over me. I heard Ari laugh. With a last effort to stay conscious, I punched Ari in the knees. Hard. Ari buckled over, but remained standing.
And that's when I remembered that Ari had a freaking metal bar. And that he could easily use it on me. Which he did.
Blackness began engulfing me, and I remember thinking this last thought: Please let the flock be ok.
Max POV
God, my head hurt. Hurt like heck at that. Why can't I ever just have a normal day? Like say, not get attacked by Erasers, or have the voice in my head talk to me. That's what I would consider normal.
Oh crap, why did my head hurt like this. I felt like I had just had one of my famous "brain attacks". And my wing was hurting too. It felt as though I'd been shot. Something hard was under me. A rock. A ROCK! A stupid freaking rock! That I had hit my head on.
It all came back to me. Ari. Fighting. Getting shot. Knocking my head. The flock. THE FLOCK!
I sat bolt upright, my head and wing positively screaming in protest. I was in a large clearing, bathed in moonlight. Blood was splattered all over the grass, and as I looked around, I saw a tree with a large bird-kid sized indent in it.
But as I looked around and clutched my oozing bullet wound, one question came to my mind: Where was the flock?
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