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Chapter 12: I Wanna Be Like G.I. Joe!

Who is that? Oh, it's just a girl. She's walking away from me. She seems familiar. Oh look, she turned around. She has a nice smile. That hair, those wings, those eyes...what's her name? "Fang...Fang...". She's calling my name. It hurts. Why is it hurting? God, stop calling my name!

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I woke up to find Iggy hovering over me, yelling my name and about to slap my face.

"Ok, I'm up" I said, pushing him off of me. I sat up quickly only to have my head start spinning. I put my hand to my head and scanned the area. I was back in the hotel room, and the rest of the flock had mixed emotions.

Total was pacing again while eating something. Gazzy was trying to drown out his sadness by stuffing his face with what smelled like breakfast.

He wasn't succedding.

Angel was on the bed with her legs drawn to her body and her face hidden. Iggy and Nudge were huddled in a corner; Iggy had his hand on her back, consoling her. Everything that had happened last night came flooding back in my mind, but I forced myself not to think about it too much.

"She knocked us out AND left us!" Total said with his mouth full, so it sounded like muffled gibberish.

"How'd she knock us out?" I asked.

"I don't know. I heard a click and I was out" said Gazzy as he stuffed a pancake in his mouth.

So it wasn't just me, I thought. Nudge stood up and handed me a piece of paper.

"She left this, along with some others" said Nudge solemnly.

I looked at the paper and caught my breath. It was a picture of us, my family, sitting by a campfire and laughing. It was so detailed, I felt as if I was actually there again in that field, cracking up at a joke that Iggy had made.

"Where would she go? And why would she just leave without saying goodbye or something?" asked Total.

"Do you really have to ask?" I said, standing up from the bed that I was apparently on. I almost stumbled, but I caught myself at the last minute.

Suddenly, I felt something on the back of the picture. I turned it around and saw it. Just like what I had witnessed that day in the field when I was reading her diary. The letters were tiny but eligible, and my throat tightened as I read over each word. She was still in contact with us, although maybe not consciously.

I turned to face the others, who were now looking at me with confusion written all over their faces."You guys ready to go on a rescue mission?" I asked. Their faces instantly lit up with excitement and anticipation.

Iggy and Gazzy slapped each other high fives."Alright, let's go blow up some retards!" said Gazzy.

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"Ha, I was right about us being near the ocean. It only took me a couple of minutes to get to it from the hotel.

I think we were in Virginia or something...I already forgot...man, my head hurts; and can this ocean be any longer? I mean, flying in an airplane would be faster than this, but I don't think that I could sit in that cramped space for God knows how long just to go to England.

Grr, I don't even know where I'm supposed to go or even what to look for! I just had to be the nice person and decide to leave my laptop with them. I hope they're ok now. I did leave them some money that should last them for awhile.

Maybe they didn't even bother taking it. They probably even burned the pictures that I left. I don't blame them...I would hate myself too if I was in their shoes. It took all of my strength to just leave them like that. Especially Fang...the look he gave me was heartbreaking...if I hadn't cried my eyes out earlier, I probably would've started crying right then and there, and I would never have left.

Well...I'm not too far...maybe I could go back and at least say goodbye...no! No, you have a job to do! You're going to save your sister! Besides, going back means putting the rest of them at risk, because you know that they would want to come...but what if she's not...alive?

What if I left them for nothing?

Then I'll be back to me, myself, and I. Only this time it will be worse. I made friends...which means new wounds...no, she's alive. I can feel it.

But I don't know how long I can keep this up. I'm already getting a bit tired...HEY LOOK A SHIP! OH SWEET JESUS, A COLOR OTHER THAN BLUE!

Now if I could only land without being caught...".

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I had read that entry over two hours ago before we all had a quick grab-n-go kind of breakfast and Angel "convinced" the desk clerk that we were never there and that we owed them nothing. Even with the money Ember left us, we couldn't possibly pay for the bill, so we decided to split. Now, we were over the ocean, looking for any signs of a flying girl.

"Ok, ok. I spy with my little eyes something-" started Total.

"We are NOT playing the 'I Spy' game" Iggy growled.

"Where is she going exactly?" asked Gazzy.

"Most likely the School in England" Nudge said. We all looked at her.

"There's a School in England too?!" Gazzy screeched.

"I guess there are Schools everywhere" Nudge continued.

"Well then why is she going to England if they are everywhere?" Iggy asked.

"To save her sister" I replied, my eyes scanning the horizon.

" Apparently, her parents were born in England, but they moved to the U.S., but when her sister turned 4 and she turned 11, 'cuz apparently they have the same birthday, they were kidnapped and taken to the School. They caught Ember's sister, but Ember managed to escape, and after that they sent Ember's sister to the School in England" said Nudge.

"So she's going there to see her sister before she commits suicide?" Iggy asked.

Iggy got two hard hits in the head by Nudge and Angel, an elbow to the side by Gazzy, a bite that was hard enough to hurt a little bit by Total, and a hard glare by me, even though I knew he couldn't see it. It was my job to be the silent pessimist, but this was not something I wanted to joke about.

"She won't die, you doofus!"said Total, looking ready to rip someone's throat out if they said something like that again.

"Ow! I'm sorry, but going against those odds, you know she won't have the upper hand" Iggy said while rubbing his head. I clenched my teeth together.

Iggy was right. If she was to have any chance of escaping with her head still attached to her neck, we had to be there to bail her out.

"Too bad we didn't give her any bombs to use..." Gazzy said quietly.

"Yeah, because the last thing we need is for her to use bombs made by two pyro-maniacs that could easily destroy the wonderful place known as England" Total said under his breath. Angel and Nudge laughed, Iggy and Gazzy started to argue with Total, and I smirked.

Maybe things will start to look up.

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