Sorry about the wait. I've been busy with other projects and had writers block. Also, I don't own Doctor Who OR Maximum Ride. Enjoy the sixth chapter! Be warned, this chapter has a couple of swear words in. Lock children in the cupboard.

Maximum Ride: The Time Lord

Chapter 06: Fall of America

(America, California)

California Militia. America's training camp was situated near to the dreaded School. Not that they knew, or had any warning, when metal men burst into their camp, killing all soldiers.

"What the hell?" Jeremy Rivers, an officer, gasped as screams echoed from outside. He loaded his pistol, and dashed out. Immediately, he saw a man in a suit of metal touch a nearby Soldier, who screamed as blue sparks ripped through his body.

"What the hell?" Rivers repeated again, sending a useless array of bullets at the metal man. But there were more of them, and the bullets kept bouncing off. Hundreds, thousands of metal men, marching on California Militia. Rivers lobbed a grenade towards the nearest metal man, who just shrugged it off as it blew up, setting already dead bodies, piled five or six high aflame. Rivers turned a corner, and screamed as a metal man touched him, sending him to the ground.

"The age of Men is over. The Time of the Cybermen has begun," The Cyberman stated, walking over the corpse that had belonged to Officer J. Rivers.

(Australia, Sydney)

"What's going on?" asked a man called Bill Rose to nobody in particular, panting, running away from the metal men behind him.

"The metal men!" screamed another man, dodging a fireball from an exploding car. "They're everywhere – They're –"

His last words were drowned in a scream as a metal man touched the human nearest to Bill.

"Shit… Shit!" Bill cried, dodging a metal man, and then another fireball before backing into a clothes shop. He turned, and saw the lift that was nearest to him. Bill dashed towards it, opened it, and climbed in. He cried out in pain as the metal man behind him touched him, sending blue sparks through Bill's body.

(UNIT Headquarters, England)

(Max's POV)

"Max," said my mom impatiently. "Come and have a look at this. It's urgent."

I entered my mom's room, to see her and Ella watching the television. Ella was under the bed covers, shaking in terror.

"Arizona… America. They're all gone," she whispered, terrified.

"What?" I asked, shocked, looking at the television, which was showing wastelands. I noticed a sign saying Welcome to Arizona, sticking out of the ground. "Oh my God. That was Arizona. It's nothing. It's just… Wasteland. Everything. Everyone we knew… where are they?"

As if to answer my question, the news reporter said, "At this moment, we have no idea where the people of America are. However, there seems to be one building still intact."

Doctor Smith entered the room, and then grimaced as the news showed the picture of a building. It looked very familiar.

"Max? Where are we headed?" I was in the dream again. There was Tiffany-Crystal, flying next to me. Wait – Flying? She had wings. I had wings. What sort of person was I? A mutant? A freak?

"I don't know," I said sadly, looking at her.

"You don't know?" asked Zephyr, flying next to me, looking shocked.

"But Max always knows," Nick joked. He had wings, too. Was this some sort of fantasy?

"I'm sorry guys. I don't know," I replied, and then I began to fall. "Help Me!" I screamed, plummeting down the floor. Nick dashed after me, tried to catch me, but something had blocked his view. A flying wolf was looking down on top of me, and I screamed as he dug his claws into my face.

Then, I woke up.