Max's POV
What I saw made me question everything. All the people I know. Wondering whether they've lied to me like one of the people I'm looking at now. Because apparently the 'woman's voice is Angel. She set us up to draw us here. The man she is talking to is Jeb. I would've thought that Angel was above his crazy influence, but maybe she's just as crazy as he is. What with her 'knowing' things. And her 'warnings'. I quickly turn back around the corner and begin to contemplate my next move. What should I do? Should I show myself and kick the snot out of them both? I know I could. Or should I just silently follow them to see if I could maybe find out what their plans are? I decide to show myself and wing it from there. So I step out from behind my hiding place around the corner and ask, "You talking 'bout me?"
Angel and Jeb both whirl around quickly at the sound of my voice. "Max!" Angel exclaims with surprise and a guilty look.
"You know, I don't think traitors deserve to look guilty." I say wryly.
"Max, you don't understand. I can explain." she says with a grimace at my words.
"Should've thought about that before you had me scouring California to rescue you," I say.
"Maximum, so glad you could join us." Jeb cuts in.
I turn on him in a heartbeat, "And YOU, you're one of the crazed scientists that probably caused this. Are you the one that gave her the visions? Are you why she knows things? What have you done to her?" I say with a glare that he visibly flinched at when I turned to him.
"Max, please listen to us. He's trying to help." Angel pleads.
"Yeah, trying to help kill people and use as a science experiment," I scoff.
"No it's not like that. Just listen for a second." Angel tries again.
"You know what? I've listened for this short period of time and haven't heard s single thing I've liked so far. I think I'm done listening now." I say and storm around my corner and go straight for Jeb since I want to avoid hurting Angel too much. I've obviously caught them by surprise with the speed I move at. In almost no time at all, I've stormed over to Jeb and punched him good in the gut. As he keels over from the force of my blow and wheezes, I grab the back of his neck and squeeze as I whisper into his ear, "By the way, my name is MAX." and then turn around and slam him into the wall behind us. I slam him hard enough that he is knocked unconscious from when his head hits the wall when it snapped back.
One of my problems temporarily solved, I turn to Angel. "Why?" I ask simply.
"They want to use you and Fang to create a new world order. He said that you were born to rule. To lead us. He promised me he'd fix my inferiority. He said he would make me as great as YOU Max. Maybe better." she says to me with a look in her eye that I'd say looks pretty close to fear with an underlying of shame, but I also see the defiance. There is a confidence and slight anger in her voice when she says this. I don't believe this. The girl is twisted to the point of no return almost. What does she mean leader? New world?
"They want to make everyone have some type of modified DNA once everything is perfected. Humans are too weak the way they are now." she explains as if reading my thoughts. Oh wait, she probably can. She nods at me as I think this. I almost groan aloud. Grrreeeaat. Sarcasm people.
"They're lying to you. This can't be serious. And if so, I'll stop it." I say.
She looks at me in pity and says, "You can't. It's too late."
"Then I'll try. You need to decide Angel. Are you with us or against?" I ask.
"Don't do this Max." she pleads.
"No, YOU don't do this Angel. What about Nudge and your BROTHER? Do they mean nothing to you? What do I tell them?" I exclaim. She just looks at me pitifully.
"Well then when you decide why you want to do, you know where to find us." I say calmly and run past her to try to find Iggy and Fang to tell them what just happened.
"IGGY! FANG!" I yell as I run through the corridors of the building. No reason to be discreet. I already found what we were looking for. Random scientists peek out in the halls when they hear me yelling and not too long after a security siren starts to go off. I don't care; we'll be out of here soon. I see a dark shape moving in front of me.
"FANG!" I yell over the siren. He sees me and runs over to where I am.
"What's going on?" he asks.
"Don't worry about it. I'll explain later, but right now we need to get out of here so help me find Iggy." he nods mutely. We start down a hall adjacent to the one I found him on yelling for Iggy the whole time. It doesn't take long for HIM to find US actually.
"Max! Fang!" we hear him yell down a hall.
"What's going on?" he asks when we get to him.
"I'll explain later. Let's just get out of here." I say.
"What about Angel?" he asks.
"Don't worry about her. Let's just GO before we become part of these freak experiments!" I exclaim. So we have to begin a search for the exit we came through. On the way, we meet quite a few guards which we quickly take care of. We're good for something at least. Sooner or later we find the exit though. We race out and don't stop until we reach the car. By the time we get there, we have to lean against the batmobile to catch our breaths.
"Ok Max...you owe us one HELL of an explanation as to why we left Angel in that place without finding her." Iggy manages to gasp out.
"I did find her." I respond.
"Then why did you leave her!" he yells.
"I didn't leave her! She didn't want to come with me!" I respond with just as much heat.
"Wha...what?" he asks.
"Thank you for letting me explain. When I found her, she was talking to Jeb. She set us up Iggs. It was part of some plot to get Fang and me here. She's working with them and when I offered her the choice to stay or go...well let's just say it's the reason she's not with us right now." I see the information slowly sink into Iggy. His face starts to fall and when I look at Fang I can see astonishment in his eyes as he processes what I'm saying as the truth. None of us could have possibly imagined this.
"Why?" Iggy finally asks. I think about what Angel says about wanting to be greater than me and how they want to change humans and inwardly shudder.
I decide to keep it to myself and say, "I don't know," in a whisper.
"Let's just go." Fang murmurs and gets into the driver's side of the car.
There begins our drive which went by in utter silence except for a muttered, "We should've blown the place sky high," from Iggy. Personally, I agree.
Either way when we get back, Nudge, Dreslin, Ashley, and Gazzy are waiting for us just like before. Their faces fall when they see us arrive without Angel also like before, but this time when Ashley asks, "No luck?" I have something to tell them.
"We found the place. And her." I say. I watch their faces and Gazzy's quickly becomes anger.
"Well why didn't you bring her back!" he exclaims and jumps up.
"Sit down Gazzy, there's something I have to tell you all." I say.
He sits and I continue, "Angel set us up. And Jeb helped her do it. I gave Angel the choice to come back when I found her, but obviously she chose not to."
Now I watch their faces fall or become surprised. Just like with Iggy and Fang.
"Well why didn't you drag her back her no matter what she wanted?" Gazzy asks.
"I'm not a dictator. I couldn't force her." I say with a sigh.
They ask questions. I decide to keep the specifics of the scientists from them and just say, "I don't know," to their questions about it. I tell Ashley and Dreslin that we're going to be staying with Gazzy and Nudge for the night and escape to Angel's room as quickly as possible. I don't want to be bothered. Today has been crazy and I can't even believe half of it happened. So I decide to try and go to sleep although it is by no means a peaceful one.
AN: I'm sorry I'm just now updating, but I considered taking down this story for a few days. I'm not as happy with where it's going as I ought to be. My original plan for this was soo different. I actually feel bad about it. The reason I wrote this chapter is the two reviews I got for the last one. Thanks(you know who you are). I'll keep going with this and maybe it'll become better. The next chapter will be longer so don't lose faith in me. I'd like at least seven reviews for this. Just so I know people still read it. In case you need a little help, here's a universal topic: Twilight vs. Harry Potter. Thoughts?