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Iggy POV

After Nudge had stopped talking, we flew in silence until I heard Fang cry out in pain. His wing beats became a lot slower as he started to fall out of the sky.

"IGGY! GET FANG!" Angel screamed from somewhere behind me.

"On it!" I yelled back as I dropped to catch up to Fang.

When I was a few feet above him and falling at the same pace, I had an idea.

"Fang, fall feet first and hold up your arms! Then hold onto my hands!" I shouted at him urgently. We were still falling, but since Fang was still flapping we weren't falling too fast. I reached my hands down and waited for Fang to grab hold as we continued to drop. Eventually, I felt a tight grip on my wrists and I grabbed his back. Once I had got a good grip on him, I pumped my wings as hard as I could to stop us from falling and we slowly flew up to join the girls and Total again.

"Fang...you...need...to...stop...eating...rocks....man......" I said in between breaths. I had forgotten how much he weighed.

"Shut up," he groaned.

"Is there a place where we can land?" I asked as I dropped about three feet but rose back up quickly. I couldn't carry him for much longer!

"Yeah, over here, follow me," said Angel as she started to fly to my left. I followed her and, to my relief, we began to go down.

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By the time we had landed I thought that my wings were going to drop off! I left them slightly extended so that they could cool off. Breathing hard, I sat down a little away from Fang.

"Are you okay Iggy?" Angel asked sweetly. I smiled at her and nodded.

"Umm.....Ig, I think that you should have a 'look' at this." Nudge said, and yes, I did hear her emphasise the word 'look.'

"Ok," I said as I slowly stood up and walked over to where I could hear Fang breathing, which was almost as heavy as my breathing. Nudge took my arm and moved my hand to where Fang's wing was. I frowned in concentration as I gently glided my fingertips over his feathers. Everything was fine, until I came to the place where he had gotten shot two days ago. I could feel that it was red.

Crap.

Max POV

Gazzy and I had started to get really bored! And when I say really bored, I mean so bored that if we had to spend another freaking minute in this place, we would go out of our minds.

The Gasman had lived up to his name twelve times in the space of the one and a half days that we had been together. And I have been counting how many times that he has released his special gift because I honestly don't have anything better to do other than stare at the plain white walls. And if I would like a change in scenery, I could always stare at the plain, metal, grey door at the front of the room.

Whoopdy-freaking-do!

And if you're wondering about my voice, no I haven't heard from it the whole time that I had been here, so I didn't even have it to talk to.

"Would you rather...........be in a room filled with Erasers, or..........trapped in an elevator for four hours?" Gazzy asked with a grin on his face.

"What? Why would I have to choose between that?" I asked feeling confused.

"Nooooooooo. It's a game that Ella taught us. I give you two choices and you have to choose which one you would rather do. It is really fun! So, would you rather be in a room filled with Erasers, or trapped in an elevator for four hours?"

"Umm............Erasers." I answered. I didn't think that I could survive being trapped in an elevator for that long. At least if I fought the Erasers it would be over with very quickly.

"You're turn, Max." Gazzy said as he got into a comfortable position.

"Okay, would you rather be in a room full of Erasers or.........eat my cooking." I said as I glared at him. I couldn't wait to hear this answer.

"Umm.........." he paused for a while after this thinking about his option.

"Take your time; we have all the time in the world." I said with a smirk.

"Erasers," he said so quietly I wasn't sure that he had answered.

"What was that?" I asked, cupping a hand around my ear.

"Erasers," he said louder.

"That's what I thought you said," I answered as I made my way over to him.

He curled up in a ball and I started to tickle him. He started to laugh hysterically with his eyes shut.

"I didn't think that my cooking was that bad," I said still tickling him, but I had a huge smile on my face.

"Stop! Stop, Max, Stop!" He exclaimed between his laughter. Eventually I stopped and he looked up at me with a huge smile on his face. It was times like this that I remembered that he was only eight, but then he would set a off a bomb a few seconds later and that thought would be lost.

"I missed you Max," he said quietly before staring at the ground.

"Me too Gaz," I said with a smile.
And that's when the bolts on the door started to unlock one by one. Gazzy and I moved away from the door and leaned against the back of the wall. I put my arm around him protectively as we prepared for whatever was about to happen.

After a few minutes the door burst open and ten flyboys followed by about three white coats came in.

"Did you come for a visit? Oh, I'm sorry, visiting hours are over. Why don't you come back in a few days?" I said staring them down.

The white coat tilted his head as if he were signalling for something. The Flyboys came over and pried Gazzy away from my grasp. I did the best I could to fight back, but I was really out of practice and a bit weak from lack of food and water.

"MAX!" He screamed. And as fast as they had come, they left again, and they had taken Gazzy with them.

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Fang POV

"The hole that you got from the bullet has opened up again, Fang," Iggy said.

I looked over my shoulder at my wing and realized that Iggy's fingers were covered with my blood. He just wiped them on his jeans, sighed and began to rip up his jacket into pieces, to stop the bleeding I presume. I just swore quietly under my breath so no one else could hear.

"So what are we going to do? I mean, we can't just sit here and wait for your wing to heal while Gazzy is at the school doing god knows what, now can we? There just seems like there is no way out of this, we don't even have a good plan for when-"

"There's always a plan." I interrupted Nudge.

Max.................

It was time for me to take charge.

I knew that I couldn't fly all of the way to the school without falling out of the sky in pain again. And I wasn't having Iggy carry me all of the way there because I would never hear the end of it from him. I couldn't send them off by themselves because.......well I wasn't going to send them off to a possible death without anyone to help them!

"Awwwwww, come on Fang!" Angel whined. Dang it! Mind readers! "We can do it! Face it, we have no other choices. Think about Gazzy......." She trailed off and became quiet. I held back a wince as Iggy started to press his torn up jacket against my aching wing.

I guess that she had a point though. We had no other options and no matter how much I hated the idea of splitting up the flock........I had no choice in the matter.

I watched as the sun started to move higher up in the sky. It was about six o'clock now, so still pretty early, I let out a big sigh and looked at Angel.

"Okay Ange," I said quietly. "You can go and I'll walk back to Dr. M's house." I tried to sound as firm and confident as possible.

"If you guys aren't back in a few days, I will come and rescue you." I said looking at each of them in turn. I can't explain with words how much I hated this! I just couldn't believe that I was letting them go like this............

"What about you Fang? You can't go back by yourself, what if you get attacked?" Iggy said. By the sound of his voice, I knew that he hated this as much as I did, but understood why we were doing it.

"I'll be fine." I said confidently looking over my shoulder at him. He was still pressing that cloth to my wing, it was now going red with blood.

"You're in charge until I get there Ig." I said as he looked up at me. He seemed to stare at me for a moment before nodding and going back to putting pressure on my wing again.

"Fang, we're not letting you go off by yourself!" Nudge exclaimed suddenly, and then added more quietly, "I'll go with you." My eyes widened half a centimetre in shock.

"Nudge-" I started but she held up her hand. "No Fang! I am not letting you go off by yourself! And when you come back to help them you're going to need help! I am going with you and you can't change my mind!" She said as she put on her stubborn look. I sighed and then nodded. I knew that I couldn't convince her to go with the others and she was right.

"And what about me? What is my role in this little expedition?" Total asked as he stared up at me. I was about to answer when Angel walked over and bent down to his level.

"Total, I want you to go with Fang and Nudge. If you're with them, I know that you are safe."

"No, Angel! I am not leaving you; we have to stick together............" He trailed off when he saw the look on her face.

"Please, Total. Please do this one thing for me." She said as she patted his head. I saw a tear roll down her cheek and she quickly brushed it away. I wish Max was here to see how grown up that she and Nudge were being.

"Okay, be careful." Total said as he put his paws on Angel's knees and licked her face. She giggled and held him in her arms. I kneeled up and held out my fist. Nudge came over and knelt beside me and placed hers on top of mine followed by Angel, then Iggy and then Total put his paw on top. We tapped the backs and then I stood up. "It's time for you guys to go, good luck." I said as I turned to Iggy and Angel. Iggy nodded and Angel ran up and hugged me around the waist and then Nudge before they took off into the sky. I felt like I had just lost another two parts of myself.........

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