A/N: Hey, so I bought the new book yesterday (don't judge me it only came out less than a week ago in England and they didn't have it in the shop then) and finished it already. So...Thanks for all the subscriptions and such like guys :) now you can have the next chapter. And k.k. what are you confused about?? This is set after the final warning but before MAX if you leave me another review telling me what you don't get i will try and explain it to you as best i can, especially this next chapter which i admit is confusing. Sorry if this chapter took a while to write, it was a little harder than the others.
So, where were we? Ah yes, So the Voice gave me some crazy grid reference, giving me another majorly painful brain attack, causing me to fall out of the sky into a forest, with no Fang here to catch me this time – which was entirely my fault of course. So after I rested, painfully I might add, in a tree for a few hours, yes more time wasted, I headed out here. To this... wait for it because you know I won't like it...skyscraper! If there is one thing I hate (other than the obvious being kept in a dog crate in a lab thing), its small enclosed buildings with limited exits, and skyscrapers, based on previous bad experiences of course. So now I'm wondering...where do I start? The voice can be so vague...and who the heck is it? It's bad enough having Jeb or Angel in my head...but someone I don't know and it just basically drives me insane.
I skulked around the building for a bit, doing a bit of snooping until I figured, hey I don't have a clue what I'm doing, so I should just go for it, as I'm here anyway.
The guy on the front desk eyed me up accusingly as I walked in, but I just batted my oh-so-innocent eyelashes at him and sauntered on over to the lift. Oh yeah, 'cos I'm so cool. So by the time he shouted for security, the doors were closed on me...oh snap...small enclosed space, small enclosed space...absolutely zero exits... this is not, I repeat NOT my idea of fun.
So I made the lift go down to the basement, basements are always a good place to start when you're dealing with evil people at least, not that this red-haired FREAK was evil, I didn't know that. But I knew she had MY Fang, and I didn't like it one bit. So as soon as I'd gone down one level, I practically burst out of the doors for oxygen, to see this: You guessed it, some red-haired FREAK with my Fang... but not only that, they were...woah! Kissing? That just wasn't right was it? I backed away slowly, silently against the wall and hid round a corner. I didn't want Fang to think I was spying on him or anything...and here was me coming to RESCUE him...he didn't need rescuing at all. He was doing what he LOVED most, kissing some red-haired SLUT.
So I figured...heart-broken and all, this couldn't just be it...because if it was and Fang was free to leave any minute he was sooo gonna get his Butt kicked. So I skulked off...again...to check the place out. Where the hidden cameras and hidden evil Fang stealers were...figure out why this red-haired THING had wings?
So check this out, I found this crazy room with a list of "targets" and my name was at the top, along with Fang...and Lyndsey (the red-haired thing I guessed) was on the list as "bait". What the heck?! Who were these people? I really needed Nudge here to hack in for me. On that note, why had the Voice made me split from the flock. And who was he/she/it?
"Hello Maximum," Wow that was scary, the voice wasn't in my head anymore. I turned round to find a Red-haired man staring down at me...looking an awful lot like Brigid Dwyer come to think of it.
"My name is Dr. Bernard Dwyer." Ahhhh that would explain it. "I believe you've met my sister." With that Brigid a.k.a. Dr. Amazing came round the corner.
"What do you want from me?" I asked uber confused. (and yes k.k. i've stolen your comment...having uber confused myself here).
"Max, we're here to help you. Honestly!" Said Dr. Amazing-now turned not-so-amazing. Ha yeah right. The day I let you help me is the day that I stop loving my flock...and that's just not going to happen lady.
"Max!" Now that was a voice I wanted to hear. Wait a minute...no I didn't, this is the traitor who 5 minutes ago was locking lips with Dr. Amazing's ...well whatever relation they were. But they were connected somehow. "Brigids going to help us. Isn't that great? I can't believe you're here. Where's the flock?" He looked expectantly.
"They're...they're not here." I avoided his gaze. "But Fang, we need to get out of here...now!"
"What? Why aren't they here Max?"
"It's not safe. Let's go Fang. Sorry Brigid, we just have somewhere to be right now." I grabbed his arm.
"No Max, we need to stay." Urged Fang. "Get the flock, it's perfectly safe. Nevermind I'm sure they're on their way...right?" I shook my head "N...."
"Max, listen to Fang. You should stay...the flock are perfectly safe. Look" She flicked a switch on the wall and a television screen showed a film of the flock sitting around my Moms house doing normal flock stuff. But something wasn't quite right. No one looked worried, like any of this had just happened. No one was looking for clues like I had told them to. I checked the screen for a date but all my raptor vision could catch up on was a newspaper...wait the front page had last week's news plastered on it. Now THAT wasn't right, but what tipped me off most was when mom and Ella walked into the room and joined them on the sofa...and Ella had DEFIANTELY been wearing that t-shirt last week.
"Max, follow me, you and Fang should get settled here, whilst the flock stay safe at Dr Martinez's house. We don't need to bother them with this important business."
"Wait! If Mom and Ella are "safe", what are you trying to help us with?" Now I was MORE confused than before.
"To save the world Max, and to stop Jeb...you see he's targeting you wrongly Max, you should see the plans he had for you," Bernard answered me with a trying-too-hard smile that I would sooooo never trust.
"Oh yeah? So show me those "Plans"".
"Not now Max, it's just not that easy. We'll explain it all later. But right now you and Fang need to follow me." Bernard said...his voice (now that I thought about it) seemed shockingly familiar.
When we reached the end of the corridor, he led us into a dark room, why did I get the feeling I wasn't going to like this. There were two sleeping bags on the floor, with a set of clean clothes on each...oh so they had some level of kindness in them, and an adjacent bathroom with a sink and a toilet. "We'll bring you some food in a bit," Dr. Oh-so-not-amazing smiled, then, get this, she LOCKED the door.
Now I was sent here by a voice that had set me up, he had wanted me to go to Fang all along so that they could capture us both, though why, I have no idea. And why had Jeb set us up...did he have something to do with this...in which case they were lying about helping us from him and had some other purpose. But right now I was stuck in a LOCKED room, with no real bed, no shower, no food and Mr. I-was-your-friend-but-I-so-prefer-locking-lips-with-red-heads.
A/N: so I'm really tired tonight because I've just been to a concert but my ears were ringing too much to sleep and I've been trying to get to the point with this chapter for 2 days now and thought I'd just finish it. So I'm really sorry if I've confused you guys too much here. If there's anything you don't understand, then leave a detailed review/comment or whatever and let me know. I'll do my best to explain for you. If you have any recommendations as to what should happen next then I'll try to fit it in and then I will give you full credit for it. Thanks again for the reviews and subscriptions...they keep me going.
