A/N: Hope I didn't take too long. Here you go!!

Chapter 3

"Well I'm lost." Nudge said, clearly confused. "Where are we?" She asked. "The only country that has kangaroos." Iggy said. Nudge looked at him blankly, which was a total waste. There was a long pause as Nudge tried o work it out. "Australia! Everyone knows that!" Iggy shouted irritably. "Oh, right." She said. "Isn't Australia just, like, bush and desert? Because on that movie, Australia, it was totally the middle of nowhere and that doesn't sound like f- She saw our, let's just say, unsupportive looks we were giving her and shut up.

"There's only one way to find out." I said. Knowing there wasn't anywhere to land besides the clearing we were in, it was pointless flying. So we went old school and started walking.

After 15 minutes, we had had enough, the immense heat sucking up our energy like a sponge. Not to mention the fact that we had just been flying for hours.

"Honestly Max, did you just expect civilization to jump out of nowhere?" Fang asked me quietly. I pulled some bushes apart and all of a sudden, a long blur of colour sped past me about 3 inches away. I stepped back quickly.

"Yeah, pretty much." I said, my breath catching in my throat. The others looked. "Racetrack." Fang said unnecessarily in his monosyllabic way. I nodded. This would be interesting. I'm sure they're used to kids running across the track seconds before a car squishes them.

We scattered across the road, without being seen and remained relatively un-flattened. "Must be a practice lap or something." Fang said, eyeing the car speeding past. Across from the track was a stadium of plastic, tiered seating. It was then hat I realized the sun was setting and we had nowhere to sleep.

The Stadium was an option, but we would be seen by Count Speedalot when he finished his twilight practice lap. The only other option was… a tunnel? I looked over at Fang who must have had the same idea as me. "We'll be back in a second." I said, instinctively tapping the back of Iggy's hand.

Fang and I wandered down to the underground tunnel. There were heaps of exciting cartoon pictures of people and racecars. There was something distinctly eerie about it, but it would do the trick. "Freaky." Fang said, almost inaudibly. "Should be an alright place for one night." I said, whispering for no apparent reason. It just seemed like the kind of time when you were meant to be quiet.

Out of the blue, Fang flung his forearm against my chest, soundlessly sweeping me into the wall next to him. Before I could ask what the heck had just happened, Fang motioned for me to stay quiet as he gazed down the tunnel.

Then I saw what he meant. Two men who looked about 20 were walking down the tunnel toward us. So What? I thought. As long as they weren't Erasers-which they weren't- we could take them down easy. But then I saw the gun. Normally, we would just U and A, but that's kind of impossible in an underground tunnel.

I locked eyes with Fang. He looked calm and collected as usual, except for the slight tightening of his jaw, which gave it away to me. "Stay very still." Fang mouthed to me, his arm still locking me against the wall protectively. The men kept walking further down the tunnel, their footsteps echoing spookily on the wet cement floor.

They really did have the whole bad guy thing going on. From the tattoos to the evil smirk. New generation from Itex? Possibly. Who knew what those sick, heartless jerks who call themselves scientists would throw at us next?

"Mate, I told you. No one'll know." The tougher looking guy said. The other guy gulped, then nodded unconvincingly. "What do you have against this bloke anyway?" He said. "All you need to know is that you'll be getting paid for your efforts, and it'd unfortunate for that girlfriend of yours if you were to slip up." Tough guy said. "You bloody touch her and I swear I'll"- "Whoa, whoa. Calm down pretty boy. Keep your mouth shut and no one gets hurt." Tough guy interrupted. 'Pretty boy' seemed to be biting back his words, knowing that the guy he was talking to did have a gun in his rather filthy hand.

Tough guy tightened the grip on his gun, but was distracted by something, looking straight at us. Crap. Crazy man with gun just found us. Fanfreakingtastic. I stayed dead still as he walked toward us. I watched in horror as he looked me right in the eyes. I started panicking. Oh God, what would the Flock do? I hope they'd get away somehow. Finally breaking the silence, tough guy said "Doesn't that look like Johno?" pointing at me.

"Yeah." Pretty Boy said reluctantly. I was all wound up, ready for the impact of a bullet to my head. He moved even closer. My breathing got shallow as I realized that this was it, but Tough Guy just shrugged and walked back over to his accomplice.

"Anyway, let's get going. I'm missing Underbelly." Said Tough Guy and they moved on down the tunnel until they were out of sight. (For humans anyway). Stepping away from the wall, I looked at Fang in shock. What had just happened? I asked. "So it does work." Fang said with that darn smirk on his face.

A/N: So sorry, I switched to my dads laptop which is heaps faster… anyways PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE REVIEW!!!! You know how it feels when people don't review…