Nudge the Quileute10

Returning to the School, being told I've been slated for termination, learning about my expiration date, meeting Roland Ter Borcht, learning about and warning the Packs about the By-Half, meeting the Cullens, talking to Esme Cullen, Carlisle Cullen's wife, and splitting up

Nudge's POV

I was tired and worn out from the fight in the Itex headquarters, even though I hadn't fought anyone. I managed to get in the van we'd stolen so we could head west, Max's idea, like every other plan we, and by we, I mean she comes up with. The rest of us don't get a say in anything, except for when we went to Disney World. I was honking the horn as we entered Louisiana and it bugged Max. I stopped, because Max yelled at me, well not technically, but she said to stop.

We all went to a football game, Iggy started begging Fang to continue describing the cheerleaders to him and I hissed angrily under my breath, and Iggy quickly said, "Oh, but I'm sure that none of them are as beautiful as you are, Nudge." Then someone, probably some annoying kid who had nothing better to do but get involved in other people's business recognized us and we had to run away and hide, again, like we always do.

We found a little canyon, and we hid out and camped there, like usual these days, because we've been living in caves and canyons for a little while now. I am a little sick and tired of caves and canyons and wished we had something besides desert rat. I hate rat. I admit it, I'm of the girly-girl, the sissy one, in the flock.

The flock's Ed, or Embry Call, Maximum, Max, Ride, Fang, Iggy, my soulmate, the Gasman, or Gazzy or Gasser, me, Nudge, or Monique Amanda Black, and Angel. Oh yeah, there's also Angel's talking dog, Total.

Max and Fang left to find the rest of us a new home, and Ed and Iggy were left in charge, but mostly it was Ed who was in charge. Ed told Iggy and me, that even though Max and Fang were gone, we couldn't go off and be all lovey-dovey with whole imprinter/imprintee relationship thing.

Then, after Max and Fang were gone for a few days, were attacked by a group of Erasers. We were just flying around, goofing off, having fun, and then they attacked us. Angel was confused and said, "I didn't feel them coming." I frowned and launched into the fight and then, when the fight was almost over, I heard Gazzy yell, "Yo! Fire in the hole!" I rocketed out of there as fast as I could and then we learned that the new Erasers were robots.

A few days later, we were attacked again, and this time we were captured. I was terrified about the whitecoats and what was going to happen to us. It was going to be an experiment, awful and painful, usually involving needles, flashing lights and scary sounds.

I shook my head to dispel my thoughts and that's when the Flyboys stuffed the sack over my head. I saw them put the sack over Iggy's head, and I fought back, hard. I twisted, writhed, squirmed, wriggled, struggled, and trembled, with a rage that I couldn't hold in, but they eventually overpowered me, and forced the sack on over my head. I smelled something that was sickly sweet and it burned my nose. When I regained consciousness, I had no idea where Angel was and I already had several bruises forming on my arms and legs.

I did know one thing though, we had to find and rescue Angel and get out of here. I told the others and then, after the Flyboys left the truck, I had an idea. I quickly said, "Gazzy, Total, Iggy, get me and Ed, mad, really mad." Iggy asked, "So you want us to get you and Ed so you can phase, but how are we supposed to avoid getting hurt?" I said, "Stay back though. Ed and I phase to wolf, free you guys, Gazzy, you and Total will climb on Ed's back, Ig, you'll be on my back, and then we'll race out of here for La Push." Just seconds after Ed and I phased and freed Gazzy and Iggy and Total, the Flyboys reentered the truck, but Ed and I plowed right through the Flyboys.

We began to run and I thought to Ed, "The sooner we reach La Push, the sooner we'll be free, safe, and clear." Ed thought back to me, "I agree, Monique." "Have we lost them?" I thought/screamed to Ed. He sniffed the air and said, "No, but we're close to Forks. I can smell the Cullens." "Is that good or bad?" "Good, that also means we're at least fifteen miles away from La Push." "Good. The sooner we get to La Push, we'll be safe, but we might have to hide with the bloodsuckers." "I agree, but I really hope we don't have to, Monique."

That's when we were recaptured by the Flyboys. They tied Iggy, Gazzy, and Total back up and forced me and Ed to phase back to human. They gave us some clean clothes and forced us to get changed and then we were tied up and all five of us were thrown back in the truck.

Then I heard a racket and I really hoped that Max and Fang would get thrown in, all messy and sore and looking like they'd just fought for their lives and ours, too, but it was only Jeb and Ari. I rolled my eyes and looked like I was bored, and thought, "Sure, Jeb and Ari. Show me something new," and that's when I caught sight of Angel. I couldn't believe that Angel would betray us, but then Max arrived and Angel told Max that she no longer cared about and wanted nothing more to do with us.

When I woke up later, I realized, right away, I knew where we were, the School. I glanced over at Max and when I looked at her, I knew right away that she had no plan, we were in way, way, way, over our heads, and we were doomed.

Later, Anne and Jeb came to visit us and we were told that everything that had happened to us had all been a dream. I glared at Angel and snapped, "Are you here to say goodbye, traitor?" Angel flinched, and even though I felt slightly guilty, I was glad that I had hurt her half as much as she had hurt us.

I rolled my eyes and said, "So, if everything that happened to us was a dream, was Jacob, Sam, Paul, Jared, and my Uncle Billy Black all just a dream?" Jeb nodded and said slowly, "Yes. The Quileute legends are merely spooky, old, scary stories and I can prove it. Embry Call and Monique Amanda Black, I want the two of you to try to phase."

Ed and I started shaking like crazy, vibrating our beds, but nothing happened. We were finally tired out and we both frowned and Ed and I both thought "We should've phased by now." Jeb, Angel, and Anne all left the room and Max attempted to break the bonds holding her down, but failed.

Ari came and gave Max a tour of the School, while the rest of us were asleep and then the next day, we met a creepy, psycho whitecoat guy named Roland ter Borcht. I decided right away that I didn't like him, and he started talking about us like we weren't even there. "Dese are dey?" Max rudely said, "We be them."

I was tired of being treated like an experiment and then he motioned to Max and said, "Dis vould be de vun called Max?" Max snapped, "I would not only be Max, I am Max. In fact, I've always been Max and always will be." "Yes, I can see vhy dey've been slated for extermination." Max snickered and shot back, "And I can see why you were voted 'least popular' in you class. So, I guess we're even." He stared at me and said, "Dis vun can't control her mouth or, obviously, her brain. Something vent wrong vis her thought processes, clearly." I glared back at him and snapped at him, "Bite me." He judged us and said that Ed was never supposed to have designed, that Ed was a mistake right from the very beginning. Then he started on Iggy. "Dis vun — vell, you can see it for yourself. Multiple defects. A complete failure." Iggy glared in ter Borcht's general direction and muttered, "Takes one to know one."

I grinned with pleasure and then the creepy guy, ter Borcht, I'm gonna call him creepy guy from now on, started questioning us. Gazzy smart-mouthed to the scientist who snapped, "Enough. You. Do you haf any qualities dat distinguish you in any way?" I faked thinking and then said, "You mean, like, besides the wings." He nodded and said, "Yes. Besides the vings." "Hmm. Besides the vings. Umm...I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!" He scoffed and said, "Hardly a special talent." I shot back, "Yeah? Let's see you do it."

Then he talked to Iggy and I listened closely to every word that Iggy said. "Does anysing you vork properly?" "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." When he called Iggy a liability, I was mad. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you always hold on to someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?" Iggy grinned and quickly said, "Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert." Max said to the assistant guy who obviously worked for ter Borcht, "Write that down. He's a notorious dessert stealer."

We all gave him a hard time and he left the room, furious. Afterwards, Ari gave Max another tour and she told what she had learned about the By-Half Plan. Ed and I both thought, at the exact same time, "We have to warn Sam, Jacob, and the rest of the Pack." Someone came and tried to take Iggy and Gazzy away for testing the next day. Max told him off and then our room was gassed and we all passed out.

When we woke up, we were stuck in a giant cage, in the yard at the back of the School. Angel attacked ter Borcht and some of the other whitecoats and Ari busted us of the cage. He, Angel, and Total attacked the whitecoats, and then we escaped. Max yelled to Ari to come with us, which made me pretty upset.

Max led us back to the unused ski cabin we'd hid in when we were trying to rescue Angel and after Ed and I ate, we slipped out and headed for La Push. I paused two miles and said, "Ed, you warn Sam and the rest of La Push. I'll deal with the bloodsuckers and Forks."

Ed ran off to Emily's house and when he got there, he pounded the door, fear and anger racing through his veins. Sam opened the door and said, "Hey, Embry." "Hi, Sam, Collin, Brady, Paul, Jared, Quil, Emily, Rebecca, Claire, and Kim. There's this group of evil whitecoats and they're planning to annihilate half of the human population and a lot of people are in danger, like Billy Black." Sam quickly said, "Quil, go on to that blog, that was made by some Fang kid, you've been reading lately." "I know that Fang. He's like my brother. Quil, keep reading that blog. It's one of the only things that will help you help me and my friends save the world."

I ran to the Cullen place as fast as I could, thinking, "Whitecoats. Danger. By-Half Plan. 3,000,000,000 people will be murdered. We have to stop them. Not much time. Don't know when plan will begin. Running out of time. Expiration dates. Save world. Stop School. Stop the Director, whoever that is. Don't let them win. Hurry. Scary." Jake heard me and had me phase back to human, go inside where I informed the Cullens of the danger from the By-Half Plan to Bella. "Listen, my name's Monique Amanda Black and I'm Jacob's cousin. That's not important right now. What is important is that there's this group of evil 'whitecoats' or scientists who are planning to kill half of the world's population—3,000,000,000 people, probably including Bella—basically anyone who isn't perfect, isn't healthy. They're calling it the "By-Half Plan" or the "Re-Evolution Plan." It's really dangerous. I don't when the whitecoats will put their plan into action or how much time we have left, but I don't think it's that much, and not to mention the expiration dates, or my predetermined death date, and we have to save the world, stop the School, and the Director, whoever that is, not let the whitecoats win, and hurry and I'm warning you right now, this will be scary. But the most important thing is remember is this. Trust no whitecoats." "What about Carlisle?" one of the Cullens asked, Carlisle's wife, I'm guessing. She had long, luxurious hair that flowed loosely in caramel-colored tendrils, and golden eyes, like the rest of the Cullens. She seemed like she would be everyone's dream mother. Just by looking at her, I could see that. "He's a whitecoat, I guess, but he's good. He would never hurt anyone." "Well, uh..." "Call me Esme, Monique." "Well, Esme, in that case, trust only Carlisle. And here's a website. It's sort of my brother's blog." I hacked into the computer and got them onto the website and Esme scanned the list of who was going to be killed and gasped in horror. "Oh, no. Bella!" Jacob glared and muttered, "Edward, you have to ask my cousin." Edward, the bronze-haired boy, looked at me and said, "Monique, since you and Jacob are the true Alphas, I have to ask your permission as well as his, can I save Bella?" I glared at him and said, "You save her, I don't care how you do it, in fact, you don't save her, I'm going to come back her and kill you. Got that, Cullen? I gotta go." I raced off, phased back to wolf and thought, "Ed, we have to get back with the others before Max discovers us gone."

We got back with the others and then later, the very next day in fact, we learned that Fang wanted to leave, just because Ari had joined us. I couldn't believe what was happening. I thought hard and said, "Max." Iggy said "Fang," and I felt my heart shattering all over again. I said, "Embry, go with Fang, and protect Iggy." Gazzy went with Fang, and Angel, Total, and Ari all came with me and Max.