I know, I'm terrible at updating. I've had terrible writer's block. This chapter is a bit of a filler, because I want your feedback for next chapter in Fang's PoV. Would you rather have Star or Kate get together with Ratchet?

Five hours into the flight eastward (thank you inner compass!), we finally saw land growing across the horizon. The flight had been silent after we started going east. At one point, Dylan flew up to me to try to comfort me, but saw I just wasn't in the mood.

As we neared land, we saw the Statue of Liberty, and, once again, I was awed by its beauty. I tried not to think that if we failed to stop the DG, it could be a pile of rubble in only days.

Then I saw tiny specks flying from the Statue of Liberty. Way too big to be birds. I squinted, and made out grinning, wolfish faces, showing protruding yellow teeth.

Flying Erasers. And this time, they weren't struggling to fly. In fact, they were flying as gracefully as we were. Crap. More and more flew up, and before long, they were stretching as long as the land. I estimated 200 Erasers against the 5 of us. Double crap.

"Gazzy, Iggy, you wouldn't have happened to have any bombs left?" I asked desperately. The Erasers were still a good distance away, but were forming a huge cluster. Headed right for us.

The rest of the Flock caught on to what I was referencing, and their faces filled with amazement and disbelief. Iggy, sensing something off, asked, "Uh, guys? What's wrong?"

"There's about 200 Erasers headed for us," Dylan replied for me.

Gazzy and Iggy looked through their backpacks. After 30 seconds of searching, they looked up and Iggy shook his head solemnly. "Sorry, Max. We used them all on the ship."

I cursed under my breath. There was absolutely no way we could fight all 200 Erasers. And there wasn't really an escape route. Come on, Max, think! There has to be a way out, it can't be over…

Look up.

Before I could give the voice a sarcastic reply, a series of explosions blew up almost every Eraser. Those that hadn't tumbled downward into the water, loud splashes erupting every time one of them hit the water. Huh. That was unexpected. But something nagged at the back of my mind.

We didn't set off those explosions. So who did?

So, a bit of a filler, but it's an update. I'll update after I get three answers to that question. Again, Ratchet and Kate, or Ratchet and Star?

R&R?