AN: Next chapter! Hope you like it. As always, RATE AND REVIEW PLEASE!

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Maximum Ride franchise. All credit for that goes to my favorite author, JAMES PATTERSON!

Iggy's POV

Max is one of the scariest people I know. She's bloodthirsty, for instance when someone hurts someone she loves, or when someone hurts her, or when one of us sneaks a few bites of her chocolate cake.

But Nudge? She's not usually that scary. I'll remember to keep that "usually" in mind after she burst in our room today.

The Gasman and I had been working on making heat generators for each room, to keep everyone warm underground.

"Hey, Ig, can you pass me the copper wire?"

I felt around in my lap to find the wire that we had scrounged up before we hid in our gigantic hidey-hole and passed it to Gazzy.

"Don't forget to put a resistor on the wire, Gas, or the-"

"-thing will short circuit, yeah, I know," he finished for me.

We worked in silence for a bit and I guess that shows how much changed. Before everything happened, me and the Gasman used to joke around, or at least try to make something explode, just for kicks.

Now it felt like the dirt all around us smothered that feeling, like the freedom we used to have with this sort of stuff cost a price we couldn't afford.

Maybe I'm just imagining it. I honestly don't know anything for sure anymore. Not since Ella…no, you're not going to let yourself dwell on this. She's DEAD. You need to get over it. I could feel a lump in my throat forming, but I tried to swallow it.

That's when:

"Gazzy, Iggy, you two are so screwed!"

Gazzy POV

Huh. Wonder what's gotten her PO'd...

"What did we do this time?" I said casually.

"Recognize this?" she snarled. I got to admit, it was impressive. She almost looked like an Eraser. Oh, if there is such thing as a God, don't let Angel know I said that and tell Nudge.

She held up a battered looking purple top that I remembered right away. We were trying to see if it was cotton since Nudge had pulled the label out. It was one of our first days down under and we were just trying to make a fire. No reason why, just for fun. I frowned. We haven't done anything really fun since that time. Gotta fix that.

Nudge was still waiting for an answer. "Well?"

I smiled up sheepishly at her. "Sorry?".

Her face darkened. "Oh, you're gonna be,".