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One week pt.2

Zhone
I walked into the bakery and smiled at the nice looking lady behind the counter. The human contact only made me a little nervous, since I knew my hoodie hid my huge bat ears and wings.
"Welcome! How may I help you?" Her voice was kind and pleasing to the ear.
"Uh, a dozen chocolate chip cookies, please." I answered, pulling a small wad of cash from my pocket.
She grabbed a bag and placed twelve hot, fresh cookies in it, humming a song quietly to herself. "That'll be eight-ninety seven."
I handed her the money and took my bag, turning to exit the store.
"Your change, sir!" She called after me, and I called back.
"Keep it! You seem nice!"
I heard her laugh in surprise as the door closed behind me. I hid the bag in my hoodie pocket and jogged back to the spot where we separated. To my surprise they were still in sight. Cork was steadying himself on Coral. He looked uneasy.
"You guys ok?" I yelled, and they all turned to me.
Cork nodded uncomfortably, and I quickly made my way to them.
"I got a surprise." I grinned, and Coral gave me a one of her signature looks. Curiosity with a dash of unknowing dread and a big heaping handful of Zhone-I-swear-if-you-make-anyone-scream-I-will-kil l-you.
I laughed. "Don't give me that look. It's a good surprise. Now everyone close your eyes and hold out your hands."
Max scowled. Iggy nudged her with his elbow. "C'mon! What could it hurt?"
She sighed and did as she was told, along with everyone else. I pulled out the bag and placed a warm cookie in each of their hands, took one for myself, and handed the rest of the bag to Max.
"Open em' up!"
Nudge squealed happily. "Oh wow, Zhone! That's what you were doing! You got us cookies! I love cookies! But not as much as Max! Max loves cookies! I bet these cookies aren't as good as her mom's, but almost all cookies are good. Except Max's..."
She trailed off at the end and shuddered, making everyone laugh.
"Zhone, I gotta give it to you. That was the best surprise I've had in a long time." Ig mumbled through his mouthful of partly melted chocolate chips and cookie crumbs.
Max didnt say anything, but the delight showed plain on her face as she bit into her treat. I mentally patted myself on the back.
I also did a mental happy dance, and Angel laughed loudly, spewing a few cookie crumbs. I laughed right along with her. We all finished our cookies, and continued our walk, enjoying the quiet streets.
Iggy and I stopped dead at the exact same time. I heard something, but I wasn't quite sure what it was. Looking around to make sure there were no other people there, I flipped off my hood and twitched my ears in search of the sound. At first I heard nothing, but then when the rest of the flock fell silent, I caught it.
It was the distant, whup, whup, whup of a chopper.
"Chopper. Northeast. Allyway. Now." I muttered, and everyone obeyed without question.
We silently ducked into the dark allyway, listening for the chopper. I hoped desperately that it was headed the other direction, but of course, the sound quickly gained volume. We watched as it landed in the forested area outside the town, and Max groaned.
"We need to get out of here. We head to the other side of town, into the forest there, and up and away, got it? " She ordered without hesitation.
We all nodded and set the plan into action.

Max's POV
Stupid whitecoats can't even give us a moments peace can they?!
Max. I told you not to underestimate them.
Well, hello voice. I would say nice to hear you again, but I've been told lying is wrong.
The voice made a tsk, tsk sound, but stopped talking.
We ran almost silently to the other side of town, luckily not seeing any other people. Breaking through the line of trees, we stopped to take a breath.
"Dumb... Whitecoats...and their dumb... Choppers." Iggy grunted angrily, kicking up dirt.
"Up and away." I breathed.
We took off immediatley, the heavy canopy of leaves only slowing us down a few milliseconds. It felt good to stretch my wings. Zhone was still straining his ears over something. Looking at him quizzically, I motioned for him to speak.
"I can still hear them speaking... I think they're yelling at each other." He muttered, his giant ears twitching constantly. "It's very faint. A man said, 'we tracked her near here.' Then a woman said, 'but you don't see her, do you?' The man is talking again. She may... Have... Lean... No, seen... The chopper. Keys...no, uh, she's... smart. Something, something... Other side of sound. Oops, uh, town."
My internal alarms went off.
"Let's go. They know we're here."
The flock followed me quickly. My powerful wings pushed downward, and I soon got into a steady and farmiliar rhythm. For once, we were safe, out of harms way, home fr-
A searing burst of pain shot through my left leg, and I cried out, gritting my teeth.
I've been shot.
"Max!" Gazzy called.
I swiveled my head in search of the source, spotting the chopper in the distance. Thanks to my raptor vision, I manage to pick out the barrel of a high tech sniper rifle poking out the window.
"Crap!" I yell, still holding my left thigh. "Down, down!"
We all drop to the canopy of trees, now highly alert.
"What happened?!" Iggy asked frantically.
"Max got shot." Fang replied quickly.
"She what?!" He yelled, making his way over to me.
"M'fine Ig." I mumbled.
"Where'd it-"
Another bang sounded in the distance, and Fang instantly tried to cover me with himself. He grunted.
"Fang!" I was immediatley trying to figure out where he got hit.
The shoulder on his shirt was a slightly darker shade of black, and his other hand reached up to grasp it.

"it just nicked me." He muttered.

I bit my lip against my own pain and flew a little faster. "C'mon guys. We need to get out of here."

Cork was completely frantic. "We can't go faster than them! They have a chopper for crying out loud! Unless you people can fly over 100-200 mph, we can't do this!"
I ignored him. We had to make it. We will. We-
I yelled out again as another bullet pierced my side. I was loosing blood, fast.
"We need to land!" Fang commanded immediatley.
For once I didn't complain. It could be because I knew Cork and Fang were right and we couldn't out fly this thing. It could also be because I was rapidly becoming dizzy and faint due to blood loss, and I really didnt think I could fly much further anyway. We made our hasty descent, landing softly on the welcoming grass. I instantly collapsed, causing everyone to gather around me worriedly. We all heard the chopper closing in on on us.
Fang grunted as he leaned me against a tree, readying himself for battle. We heard voices, and about 15 bat-geckos flooded onto the scene. They looked different somehow, but I couldn't place my finger on it, probably thanks to lack of blood to my brain. Then I heard the dreaded sound.
Click, click.
I braced myself, but the sound heard was not the distinct bang! of a gun.
Swoosh.
I felt some sort of netting cover my body, and was instantly struggling weakly. I almost didnt notice when a whitecoat wearing a gas mask came by and threw some kind of sphere into the middle of the fighting. The thing began making a hissing noise, not unlike the geckos did. Iggy, who was standing closest to it, stopped dead mid punch. He cautiously sniffed the air, and instantly choked the breath back out. He becan hacking violently, and I realized the thing must emit some kind of gas. Iggy was soon followed by Cork, Gazzy, and Nudge. Angel ran for the nearest tree and climbed it to avoid the gas. Fang was the next victim, then Zhone. Coral climbed a tree as well, successfully avoiding the poisonous fumes.
They were all too busy to notice when a whitecoat dragged me away, still encased in the net. He tossed me roughly into the parked chopper, and I landed with a solid thud. The blades on the massive machine started to move, lifting me further and further away from my flock. I watched fuzzily as the remaining geckos below vaporized, and felt a small pin prick on my arm.
Wha-
The world turned blurry, distant, then black.

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