Chap. 18
The Furry and Scaly Thingamabobs
Fang POV
Max was laughing. At ME! No one laughs at ME. Okay, they laugh with me, but they sure as heck don't laugh at me.
An idea hit me.
I tackled Max, and heard the satisfying oof of her breath being knocked out. (A/N: I think I heard this phrase in one of the MR series)
"Get off!" said Max, giggling uncontrollably.
"Nope."
"Faangg," she whined. Ugh, that's not fair. Max whining is like Angel or Nudge giving you Bambi eyes. My grip on her loosened.
Max took advantage of my hesitation. Pushing me off, she jumped to her feet and laughed triumphantly.
"Ha!" she shouted.
I rolled my eyes. Max gave me her signature 'I'm-irresistible-and-I-know-it' look.
That just made me want to kiss her. I thought, hey, why not? And I did.
Max POV
Five hours later, we were still bored out of our minds.
We (Fang & I) were watching TV, Fang on the couch and my head in his lap. I just discovered that the worst absolute way to spend a day with your –gulp- boyfriend is watching ESPN.
Stupid basketball.
"I wanna see that soap opera on channel 50 – something," I complained.
"One more game," hedged Fang.
"But -" Suddenly (A/N: again with that stupid word!) I could hear screaming coming from the front yard. Fang met my eyes, and in a split second we were on our feet, racing for the door.
Fang was in front of me, and I was hot on his heels. He threw open the front door and collided with Nudge.
"Max!" she shouted. "Fang! They took them! They took Angel and Gazzy and Iggy!"
"Breathe," I told her. "Who took them?"
"I don't know they were like… cats! All scaly, too! Kinda like snakes! And they morphed, like Erasers. They took them, Max!" Nudge was in hysterics.
"Shh," I soothed her, "How did you get away? Why didn't the rest of the flock make it?"
"It was all my fault," Nudge sobbed. "They wanted to fly home, but I told them to walk, and they did, since, you know, you put me in charge today? And then Iggy was gone, and we were looking for them, and these… cat-snakes started morphing and attacking us!" she broke off.
"Do you know where they took the Flock?" I asked urgently.
"No, but they were taken away in helicopters, and," Nudge sobbed again, "the big leader guy, I think he was, said 'Tell Maximum Ride we have them and you can't get them back' or something, and I was so scared when he grabbed Gazzy, so I just flew away! I didn't even try to fight!"
"Calm down, sweetie," I said gently. "It wasn't your fault. It was just your bird instincts kicking in, the 'fly away and save yourself' thing."
I collapsed into a chair. They took Iggy and Gazzy. And Angel. Angel, my baby. How COULD they?
I grit my teeth.
Voice, got any good help for once?
I half expected it not to answer. I hadn't heard from it for a while.
Yes, Maximum. The cat-snakes are mutants, experiments, from Chu Industries.
Damn. Way to throw a bomb.
The Voice continued, The headquarters is in South America, Brazil. You need to leave, now.
"Okay, guys," I told Fang and Nudge. "We're going on a trip to Brazil. There's another… School-ish place there. It's the headquarters for Chu Industries."
"Uhh," moaned Nudge, "I'm sorry. I'm so, so, sorry, Max."
So off we go to Brazil. Toward the evil, soul-sucking whitecoats we had run away from in the first place. What the heck is wrong with this world?
A/N: This chap.'s a little shorter… a lot of people say they didn't like that I switched POV's so often, so now it's 2 POV's per chapter, maximum. I was actually supposed to switch back to Fang, right about now. Tell me if you think it should be 2 or 3 POV's per chap. But anyways, I'm going to be updating soon (yay fast internet!) so KEEP READING.
I know the Flock wasn't supposed to be kidnapped, but I really couldn't help myself. I hate the kinds of fics where they just focus on FAXness and forget all about Max's people-are-trying-to-kidnap-us-all-the-time problem. Hope you liked this chap.
By the way, WHERE THE HECK ARE MY REVIEWS?!
The # of reviews (per chap) went down… a lot.
Reviews are like... no, scratch that.
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