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Chapter 27: Set Up
Omega's POV
Time: 23:34
I threw the ball against the wall again, pissed off. It made another hole in the wall. I sighed.
The ball was The Fallen, The Angels and I while the wall was Itex. We've only made dents.
And right now, it looks like that's the last things we're going to be making.
I heard footsteps down the hall and immediately thought of the papers on my desk. For the last 8 hours I had been trying to figure out an antidote to the virus, but I haven't found an exact one, only concoctions that can inhibit it for a few hours. I went to my desk, put the papers in the drawer and sat on my desk. No one can get these papers. They are my last chance.
Dr. ter Borcht walked into my room, smiling and holding a gun in one hand and a small Blackberry looking machine. My heart went a bit cold. What is he planning now?
"Omega, hov very nice to see you," ter Borcht hissed. The hairs on the back of my neck went up.
"Yeah, nice. What do you want?" I said, keeping my voice steady.
"You haf become a fery important part in de Angels and de Fallens next mission," ter Borcht said. "And you'll do it whether you like it or not."
I eyed the gun. "Explain."
"Vith dis gun, you vill shoot Maximum and infect everyone in de Angels vith de virus," ter Borcht said with a malicious undertone in his voice. "Once Angel is infected, the vhole vorld is mine!"
I felt my eyes widen. "No!" I protested. "I won't no matter what!"
"Have it your vay," ter Borcht said, pressing a button on the Blackberry looking remote.
That's when I lost all control of my body.
I have failed…
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Hunter's POV
Two days later at 05:16
There were Erasers everywhere. They were flooding through the windows and into the house with murder in their eyes.
"RUN DAMMIT!" I heard Shadow yell. I looked at her. She looked haggard and too thin. She was glaring at Iggy whose defiance was written all over his stance.
"No! I won't leave you guys here to die!" Iggy yelled back. He whirled around and started fighting an Eraser. They started going in between us, separating Shadow and me from the younger ones. I felt my body start fighting against the closest Eraser.
Where was I?
"NO, get out of here Iggy! Take the others and run, we'll hold them off!" Shadow hollered.
"GO RIGHT NOW!" I yelled, trying to see who was there. There was Angel, Nudge, Iggy and the Gasman; the humans weren't here.
"No Hunter! I'm sorry, but no!" I heard Nudge shriek. Panic and anger was making me clumsy and an Eraser raked its claws against my arm. Shadow looked at me, her eyes widening and then looked at the others.
"U AND A NOW! GO!" she bellowed. I heard a howl of triumph and I saw Angel, bloody and unconscious, being tossed over a shoulder of an Eraser.
"NO!" I yelled, trying to get to the Eraser. A few others jumped in front of it and snarled. They can't take Angel too, they already took Ari!
Wait...what was I thinking?!
"Oh no, ANGEL!" Shadow screamed behind me. I looked back at her and for the first time, I saw actual panic and fear all over her.
This was bad.
"GET MAX AND FANG!" She ordered Iggy.
"I can't, I'm busy!" Iggy yelled back. He threw something into the kitchen and it exploded. Even though those Erasers were done for, there were still more.
We've only made a dent.
"Hey birdie," one of the Erasers said. All of them stopped and looked at me. Shudders went down my spine.
"What?" I spat. Then he held up a photo.
My mom.
Gunshot wound to the head.
Dead.
"Your mother is dead."
Numb, so numb inside. My mom, the best mom in the world…
"-will be the same." I looked up at the Eraser. I didn't realize what he was still talking. He had a mischievous glint in his eye.
"Wait…MOVE!" Shadow screamed. She shoved me forward. I stumbled, heard gunshots and looked back at Shadow, to see what was going on.
I choked back a cry as she fell to her knees. One of her hands were at her stomach, the other was trying to stop the blood flow from her neck. I looked at her eyes, and her usually silver eyes were now a dull grey.
She was gone before she hit the ground.
All my fault…
I woke up and sat up, feeling my head. I hate it when I wake up groggy; it always seems to mean that something bad was going to happen today.
"Fang?" I rasped, searching the room for my right hand man. I saw black hair coming out of the blankets next to me and I lifted them. "Itex is giving me bad-"
"Hunter, I swear to God," Shadow hissed. I jumped backwards. "This is the fifth time! I'm seriously considering sleeping in the basement!"
I smacked my forehead. "I'm sorry Shadow, I'm really sorry. It's just that I'm used to Fang there and I've been having weird dreams and I used to confide with him when I had them."
"Sure," Shadow spat, sitting up. She ripped off her headphones and yawned. She left an unsaid scolding in that 'sure'. I felt my face go red.
"No, seriously! Did you sleep all night or you couldn't because of my stupid kind of sleepwalking impulse thing? I'm sorry, I'll work on it. You won't have to sleep in the basement, we kept you down there to-"
Shadow raised her hand. "You're rambling. Shut up."
Even though Shadow and Fang weren't the same in terms of gender, they were in terms on bluntness. Shadow continued. "I woke up 9 minutes ago because your computer broadcasted that you had mail. You're lucky I wasn't that sleepy, or else I would have shot it." I looked at her face for any sense of joking. I found none.
I looked at the computer, "I hardly ever get anything important at this time in the morning."
"Check it anyways," Shadow said. I moved the mouse and the screen brightened to life. I clicked on the bold e-mail that said [no subject]
I read it, sighed and ran my hand through my hair.
"What?" I heard Shadow say softly behind me.
"We have to go on a mission," I said feeling miserable.
"When? Why? What's it about?" Shadow got up and looked over my shoulder.
The e-mail was from Jeb, I knew that. My stomach re-twisted as I heard Shadow read it quietly under hear breath in disbelief.
Itex has antidotes to your expiration dates. If you don't get them, you're going to die.
Real soon.
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Max's POV
Time: 07:32
"Please stop pacing Max," Fang said.
"I can't! It doesn't make sense!" I huffed. Why is it that all of a freaking sudden he doesn't get it?! Right now I needed my supportive right hand man, not overly concerned boyfriend. Is that too much to ask for?
"You're not helping anyone by not sleeping well," Fang said calmly, being the annoying voice of reason as usual.
"YEAH WELL, I'm THINKING!" I said, stomping. I saw movement at the doorway and I jumped backwards as a shoe flew right in front of my face.
"MAXIMUM. RIDE. GO. TO. SLEEP." Chris yelled from the doorway. Her hair was frazzled, her whole body was tense and she was practically foaming from the mouth. And everyone thought I needed to chill out.
Total trotted towards us and looked at her. "It is regular sleep for some people, but for others, it's called beauty sleep and you need a lot. I recommend cucumber slices on the eyes; they do WONDERS for the owl circles," Total said and walked back to Angel's room. Chris stared in Total's direction and I saw her fists clenching and unclenching.
"CHRIS STOP THINKING OF HURTING TOTAL! YOU'RE MEAN!" Angel shrieked from her room.
"I'LL GET YOU MY PRETTY AND YOUR LITTLE DOGGY TOO!" Chris yelled, running into Angel's room. I heard laughter and then silence. I groaned and put my head in my hands.
"They feel it when you're not well. It affects everyone," Fang said quietly, shifting his position on Shadow's bed.
"I can't help it!" I said, exasperated. "I know that the memories are real. I just need proof."
"Max?" I heard Nudge yell. I huffed and marched into Nudge's bedroom.
"What?"
"I think I know how you can maybe get proof. See, I made this program on our computer, it's much harder than it sounds but I put all the street addresses that exist in America on this program and Cass told me that the purpose of this program would be to sort of jolt your memory into remembering the address so we can go there, get proof, come back, get some sleep and then present it to The Fallen. Then we'll become a whole big Flock again and get some more sleep. If this works, can I get TV rights for like, the next month? Ella kept distracting me from making this and it was a bit annoying but that's okay. So Max-"
I cut her off, "Honey, I get the point. So how does this work?" If I hadn't cut her off, she would have gone onto this distant tangent and would have never come back.
Nudge got up from her seat and held up a pair of headphones. "You sit down, put these on and just not think about anything. Like, don't concentrate on remembering the place to hard cause then your mind not going to be as accurate, get me?"
I nodded and sat down. I hadn't noticed that Fang had followed me into the room. He half-smiled in my direction and I smiled back.
I was happy he was here. I felt somewhat complete.
But I need the rest of the Flock to feel completely complete.
I put the headphones on and shut my eyes trying to block out everything I was thinking of. Jeb, Itex, the Fallen, Erasers all were put on pause.
"Ready."
54 Sun Street, 12 Wayward Way, 5 Bone Street, 67 Road, 89 Bear Lane…
I was trying to block out my annoyance. This was never going to work, there were too many addresses and the machine was saying it too fast. How was I-
20 Eastern Way
"20 EASTERN WAY!" I shouted, jumping up. "Max and Fang left you guys in a cabin and I remember on the map it said 20 Eastern Way and it was a bit into the forest!"
Nudge jumped and clutched her chest. "Jeez Max! A little warning?!"
But I was too excited. I grabbed and hugged her. "YOU'RE A GENIUS NUDGE! ABSOLUTE GENUIS!"
I let go of her and looked at Fang. "Pack up! We're going to 20 Eastern Way!"
"Ummm Max?" Cass said, timidly looking into the room. I didn't like the sound of her voice… "We have a problem."
"What is it?"
"Giovanni wants us to go on another mission," Cass said.
"Oh please! He can totally wait! This is like, discovery of the century! Way better than Facebook or the Internet or the Nintendo Wii!" I said, blowing it off.
"No, this one is important."
"What is he sending us to do this time then? Save the president?"
"No. This time it's to save yourselves."
"Cryptic. Specify," Fang spoke up and stood next to me. Cass sighed.
"You guys have expiration dates and Gio has located the antidotes to stop the expiration dates from activating. If you guys don't stop it, you will all die. You won't find out anything, you won't get to save the world."
I felt like someone just throw a brick at my face minus the bruising, swelling, blood and broken bones.
Fang put his arm around me and I felt him lending me strength. I stood up straighter and said, "Fine. Let's go."
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Chapter 28: I'm Going In [Preview]
Shadow's POV
I rushed in past the smoke and debris. Note to self: Yell at Iggy and convince him to make smaller bombs. Bigger isn't always better.
"Shadow c'mon! You're slowing us down!" Ghost yelled from somewhere up ahead. I felt irritated and ran in the direction of the sound. I saw him looking around in the smoke in confusion.
"Over here human! Here boy!" I yelled at him. He looked in my direction and narrowed his eyes at me and started to follow me. We ran out of the smoke and slid into a hallway where Hunter and Iggy were waiting.
"Let's go, I think I heard-" Iggy started to say but then was cut off by Erasers tumbling to the ground out of the smoke. I tensed up and felt anger run through me when I saw Max, Fang, Chris, Ella and Nudge emerge out of the smoke.
"Max," I said, clenching my fists. She looked at me and narrowed her eyes.
"Shadow."
"I love Western films," Ghost said.
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