Nudge the Quileute11

Saving the World and Reuniting the Flock

Nudge's POV

I stood there, stunned for a few minutes after the boys left. Then I said, "Fang shouldn't have left. We'd agreed that we would stick together no matter what happens. Now, I'm gonna, I just gotta, I can't, Max can we just get out of here, now, before the pain of the lack of HIM, catches up to me?" Max nodded and said, "Let's go to Europe." On the way to Europe, Max asked, "Is HIM who I think it is? Iggy?" Wincing, I said, "Yeah, and uh, this goes for everyone here, the name Iggy—"wince—"is not to be mentioned during this trip. You are to refer to HIM as HIM, HE, and HIS. This rule will include anything relating to HIM, as well, as long as HE'S not here with us, physically."

We went to England. We went on a tour of London and then I went online and looked for the Itex headquarters in England. We went to that headquarters, but then Max's Voice told her something, and she told us that France was calling our name. I said, "They're yelling for flying bird kids?" Max nodded and said, "Yep." We flew, like flew, flew, with our wings, and we went to France. We managed to talk Max into taking us to Paris, and I made everyone go shopping. What? I like fashion and shopping. Supposedly, the little pixie Cullen girl, her name's Alice Cullen, likes fashion and shopping too.

We then went to Germany and Max said, "Okay, nobody leave their socks lying around. That would send them right over the edge." I giggled under my breath and then we found the Itex world headquarters, outside a little German town called Lendeheim. We crawled closer, and then I saw a Nudge II. That was going to be a problem. I told Max, and said, "No, look. Four rows behind her." Then Angel saw an Angel II, which meant we were in trouble now. Angel almost came with a code word, but then I said, "I got a really good one." Angel, Max, Total, and Ari all leaned in, and I whispered it, but I'm not gonna tell you.

We were captured and learned that the Director, the crazy person behind the whole scheme was a woman and Max's mother, after hacking into a computer and sending Fang an e-mail saying that we needed him back. This was definitely the weirdest and worst thing that could happen to us. We were thrown in jail, in an underground, stinky, dirty, who-knows-when-the-last-time-it-was-used-and-I-probably-don't-want-to-know-what-happened-to-the-last-occupants, dungeon.

We were taken out of the dungeon, a few days later, and taken to a yard. Max looked around and said, "Let's see. High stone walls, lifeless span of grit, mutants marching around...I don't know—I'm thinking it says 'Prison yard.' What about you guys?" Total and Angel both agreed with Max and then I said, "Prison yard is too good for this place. Like cheerless, joy-sucking plain of despair would more like it." Then as we were walking around, Angel asked, "So is this what prisons will be like after the Re-Evolution? With the collars and everything?" Max said that Angel was probably right, but then I tried to figure what the point of still having prisons would be. "I guess so. I guess they have these things rigged up to shock us if we try to escape. They probably have tracers in them too." "Why would they still have prisons after half of everyone is dead? I thought the future people would be perfect. I thought they would quit fighting for stuff. If people are perfect, they won't go around committing crime, would they?" Max grinned at me with pleasure and, smirking, said, "There. Decades of psycho logic picked apart in three seconds by an eleven-year-old. Take that, modern science!"

Max got a note that said the rest of the flock, including my Iggy, were coming. Then we had to talk to some of ter Borcht's friends. When he first greeted us, Ari muttered to Max, "I hate this guy." Max said, "There's a club, the Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?" When we reached a lab room full of scientific stuff that I wanted that I wished I could destroy, Max muttered to us, "The meeting of the Haters of ter Borcht Club will now come to order." Ari and Total smirked, Ari hid his behind his hand, I struggled to hide a snort, and Angel sent a grin into everyone's mind.

We talked to some Chinese scientists, but since we weren't cooperating, the Director/Max's crazy mom, yelled at her for letting us be such smart alecks. I didn't care what the Director thought.

We were thrown back in jail and Jeb visited us again and started talking to Max, about the Director and all of the advantages Max would have if the Director was her mother. "Please tell me that icebox was kidding about being my mother." "The Director's a brilliant woman with a global vision." "Yeah, a deranged global vision." "She's a remarkable, gifted scientist." "Why can't she use her powers for good instead of evil? Like, cure cancer or something. And no, killing everyone who has cancer does not count as a cure." "Dr. Janssen is an ambitious, talented political strategist. She could very well end up running the world. One day, she might be the mist powerful person on Earth. As her daughter, you would be in a position of unimaginable advantage." "Except that I would have changed my name and dyed my hair and would be living incognito somewhere to avoid the embarrassment of having a ruthless, power-crazy Dr. Frankenstein for a mother." "Even if she were the most powerful person in the world and being her daughter would give you almost unlimited power too?" "If I had that much power, the first thing I would do is slam her into jail." "What else would you do?" "Put her in jail. Plus all of the others who lent a finger to this hateful Goldfinger plan of world domination. Plus, I would say that all wars would be fought on foot with only swords. No guns, no bombs, no missiles. Only swords. And I would seize all the offshore hidden bank accounts of companies and people who had contributed to ruining the environment. With that money, I would make sure that healthcare and education were available to everyone for free. Plus, housing and food for everyone. Companies that polluted would be shut down and banished. People in the government that ignored the environment would be booted out of office and made to work in the fields. And—" Jeb interrupted Max and said, "You just passed another test, Max."

We were freed and then Max had to face her final test. I asked what we were all thinking. "What's your final test Max?" Max shrugged and then said, "I don't know. Something asinine, probably life threatening, and guaranteed to make me angry every time I remember it for the rest of my life." In the middle of Max's test, right before the fight, all of the mutants rebelled. It was terrifying, but totally awesome, and the best part was that, during the fight, a hallucinatory Iggy, that only I and Nudge II could see, appeared and he helped me fight against the Flyboys and the whitecoats. I even heard his voice, "Nudge. Focus. Block it. Hard uppercut. Downward diagonal slash. Lure 'em in. Knock them back. Defend. Block. Attack. Back up ten feet. Feet first. Slam into their chests. Knock 'em off-balance. Sneak around behind them and snap the bases of their spines like Jeb said to." We all ganged up on the Flyboys, but then Ari died and when Jeb saw Ari dead, I thought to Angel, "Contact Nudge II, Angel II, and maybe Max II. We have to protect Jeb." Angel II, Max II, and Nudge II all ran over to join me and Angel and Total and we held off the Flyboys. Then Max yelled to me and Angel and Total to get to the walls and Max II grabbed Angel II's hands and Nudge II's hands and ran to the nearest wall as well.

Then after we saved the Director, after nearly turning her into flock splatter art, we went to France to rest up. Then we talked to the guys and went home. I ran over and hugged Iggy hard and faced Embry, "Did you protect Iggy?" "Yeah, I did." Then I hugged Gazzy and Ed and Fang. Then Gazzy asked Max, "Where do we go next?" I grabbed Iggy's hand and said, "Ed, Iggy, and I have to make a really quick stop in Forks and La Push."