The story is nearly done

The story is nearly done!! I think I'll finish it tonight…

Disclaimer: I do not own MR. James Patterson does (darn it, I want to be him!!)


11

Nudge POV

So, being captured by Flyboys and Ari hadn't been all of a picnic. I mean, I'd fainted when that bomb thing hit me, and then…I don't really remember anything, except waking up in a sack, not being able to breathe, with Total next to me. There weren't any holes in the bag at all. So for I don't know how long, Total and I sat there. And then Total passed out from the lack of oxygen, and I was starting to get dizzy myself. And just when I was about to pass out, I heard Max calling, and I responded. The sack was torn open, and I could breathe again. Max grabbed me, and we basically ran for our sorry lives. And no, I did not forget Total.

The downside? I hadn't eaten or drank anything in I don't know how long, so I fainted once we'd landed. The fact that flying burned a lot of energy didn't help. But, anyway, that was what had happened. Now, it's back to the present.

I opened my eyes. It was dark, and I was surrounded by a lot of trees. Total lay next to me, his warm, fuzzy fur acting like a blanket for me. I could hear Max, Fang, and Iggy talking some few feet away. I pretended to still be asleep, so I could hear what they were saying.

"So, how do we tell her about Gazzy?" Fang asked. His voice was calm, like normal, but I could tell there was something wrong. I felt fear creep into my system. What about Gazzy? "I don't know" I heard Max sigh. "She was so close to him…" Iggy didn't say anything. Wait, was? Had something happened to Gazzy? An icy coldness gripped me, blocking out the warmth of Total's fur. "It's going to be pretty hard to tell her" Max continued, sadness sprinkled into her voice. "I mean, how do you tell an eleven year old kid that one of her family members is…?" Her voice trailed off, but I knew what she was going to say. Dead. Gazzy was dead? No! No, he couldn't be dead…

"What did she mean, Angel's at the School?" Iggy finally spoke. "Well, duh" Max said. "It means that Angel's at the School and we need to go save her. Gosh, did you eat an extra bowl of stupid this morning?" I could feel Iggy's glare, even with my eyes shut and several feet away.

Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that Angel had not been with me when I woke up in that sack, and that I'd heard a few Flyboys laughing about how she was at the School? No? Well, now you know.

Max POV

Nudge woke up some time in the morning. We told her about how Gazzy was gone and everything. She pretty much broke down crying, but she tried to hold it in. Her brows had furrowed, and she'd been blinking a lot, to keep the tears away. I felt so sorry for her, and a rush of pride at how brave she was being. We also told her how Iggy could see now, and we basically filled her in on everything. She was still pretty upset about Gazzy, and to take her mind off of him, we questioned her about Angel. She told us that she'd woken up in that sack that I'd found her in, and Angel hadn't been with her. She'd heard a few of the Flyboy creeps laughing about how Angel was at the School.

Well, I think you people know what we need to do now.

"Max? I'm hungry." Nudge's voice rang through the cool night air, as we flew along through the night. Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw Iggy smile and roll his eyes. It was so typical of Nudge to say she's hungry in the middle of a freaking rescue mission. "I know you are, Nudge" I said. "Once we get Angel, we'll eat, okay?" Nudge didn't respond.

The School came up in sight, its bright lights illuminating the darkness around it. Oh, by the way, when we'd saved Nudge, we'd been somewhere on the California border. I tilted my head downward, toward the trees that surrounded the School. "Down there" I said. My mini-flock and I landed in the middle of some bushes, being completely concealed by the undergrowth.

Slowly, hesitantly, we crept toward the School. As I neared, I could see the electric fence that surrounded it. One shock from that baby, and you would be gone, baby, gone. It carried nearly twenty thousand volts, to keep intruders out. "C'mon" I whispered.

Fang POV

I crept beside Max, along the wall that led to the back entrance to the lab part of the School. You're most likely wondering how we got in. Well, that's top secret classified information, but let's just says that one Flyboy wasn't too happy with us once we'd stolen his key from him. The wall brick against my back was freezing cold from the freaking winter air in the middle of freaking summer in California! Why is it cold? I can honestly say I've no idea.

Iggy shivered on my other side. I could tell that he didn't like it here at all. None of us did. I mean, this is where we grew up, where we were tortured and tested on, and pretty much lived our whole lives. If you had to experience even one-tenth of what we went through while we were here, you would stay out of the Death Valley area forever. I heard Nudge's stomach growl on the other side of Iggy, and Total growl very quietly. Max gave us the signal to keep quiet.

We still crept along the freezing brick wall, toward the steel door that would lead us down a long hallway, to the lab, which was where the cages where, and presto, to Angel. If we could get in there without any alarms going off, or anything trying to kill us, then we would get out of there alive, with Angel. If anything happened that could possibly take any of our lives, well, then the flock would have to learn how to deal without me being around. I would do anything for the flock…anything. Even give up my own life.

Max POV

I enclosed my hand around the heavy, cold, metal handle of the steel door. "Everyone ready?" I whispered, addressing my mini-flock. The others nodded. "One three then" I whispered, which really meant on one. "One!" I turned the handle to the steel door, pushing against it, and expecting it to not budge. Surprisingly, it opened, and I half fell into the bright hallway in front of me.

I stepped in cautiously, and looked around. The hallway was brightly lit, with shiny, white marble floor, and blinding white lights. Steel doors lined the hallway, various noises and sounds coming from them. I shuddered. I hated this place. I began walking along the hallway, the flock coming in behind me. There were no Flyboys attacking us, no surviving Erasers jumping out at us. It was like Christmas time in Heck.

"This is too easy" Iggy whispered. I looked around, staring at the cameras on the walls. They weren't moving, and their power lights weren't on. Iggy was right. This was too easy. Within a minute and a half of pure torture I rounded the corner, and reached the door labeled "The Lab/Cage Room". I swallowed, an unwelcome rush of adrenaline pouring into my system. I turned to the mini-flock. I looked at each of them, almost smiling at how out-of-place Fang looked, surrounded by all of this white. The mini- flock nodded to me. I closed my hand around the cold metal, and swung the door open. Very surprisingly, it wasn't locked, and swung open. Again, I tumbled in, the others following behind me.

The Lab was big, with ten rows of cages in front of me. That was only a fourth of the room. The other three-fourths were dedicated to evil science, lab tables, test tubes, the smell of burning chemicals, and any other kind of torture device that you can name that has to deal with whitecoats was in there. I saw the awful, blank space of floor that they used for the "maze". In the middle of the ten rows of cages, I saw a little, golden curly haired head, rocking her cage back and forth…

"Angel!" I cried, sprinting down the aisle. Angel's head immediately turned to me. "Max!" she cried. "No! It's a trap!" And before I could scream "what?" a heavy Flyboy dropped down onto me from the ceiling. I struggled. "Get off of me you stupid, freaking Flyboy!" I yelled. "It ain't no Flyboy!" a familiar voice whispered menacingly in my ear. "It's me!" I groaned. Ari. Before I could even yell "get off of me you stupid, freaking, idiot traitor!" I felt cold metal knock into my head, and I felt my head hit the floor. I'd forgotten that Ari had a heavy metal bar. Oops.


Okay, I think I'm going to finish the story tonight. PLEASE R&R!! I'm begging!! Lol…but seriously…review…now! Before I release Ari on you!! Lol…