Hey y'all! This is a fan-fic for Maximum Ride, one of my favorite book series. I had fun writing this first chapter, and it took like, two hours to do (I had a few popsicle breaks…) and just so you know, I have no idea where I'm going with this, so just bare with me as I try and figure things out alright? I'll try and post new chapters every so often, because I've just started this. Please tell me what you think!

Chapter 1

The white coats opened my dog cage and tried to lure me out. I crouched farther back in the cage, untrusting, uncooperative.

"Come here" a female white coat coaxed, "We won't hurt you"

I didn't believe her. I had been at this place for as long as I could remember, stuck in these cages, being tested, being pushed to my limit, and the white coats just kept asking for more. There was nothing I could do to stop them. Nothing I could do to save myself. I was an experiment here. I was a test tube child for these white coats.

"Come" the white coat tried again. I had no choice. I crawled forward a little, maybe an inch.

"Good!" she said, mock enthusiasm in her cold, fake voice, "A little more?" she asked.

I moved forward, close enough to see her ugly face. The bleach blonde hair pulled back in a bun. The pale, pale blue eyes that looked straight at me, not blinking, and mostly, the big, fat mole on the side of her face.

A male white coat bent down to look at me, his hair a dark brown, his eyes as black as ink. I spat in his face.

"Arrg!" he cried, falling back. The female made a grab for me, and I bit her hand. She yelped out in pain, and I sunk back into my cage. I was trembling with rage, but also fear. They would surely punish me for this. I looked over to the other cages, the only experiment I knew that was like me was crouching in the back of his cage, watching.

The female kicked my cage in rage and helped her associate up. They grabbed my cage and started to carry me away, I growled at them, showing my teeth. The female growled back, revealing abnormally sized canines.

I've seen these creatures before. I've heard the white coats talk about them. Erasers. Humans that the white coats had infused with Canine DNA. They could morph into were-wolf creatures anytime they wanted, and this Eraser looked about ready to kill me.

I stuck out my tongue at her, and she snarled. The male white coat put his hand on her shoulder, and she growled at him, but stopped harassing me.

…

I sat in my dog crate and watched her bite the white coat in the hand. I smiled slightly at the sight of that. But I wouldn't let them see me smiling, so I wiped the grin off my face. The female white coat kicked her cage, and the girl winced. I growled deep in my throat, and locked eyes with her.

They carried her away in her crate without breaking a sweat. We weren't very heavy. They didn't feed us much, but the fact that we have hollow bones made us extra light. We couldn't weight more than 40, 50 pounds each.

The white coats had infused us with avian DNA when we were babies to see what would happen. Test tube babies as they called us. Me and the girl had wings. Real wings that we could stretch out and move, wings that would enable us to fly. My wings were tucked into my shoulders; I didn't have enough room to stretch them out.

My wings were a dark russet color to match my hair. The tips of each feather were white, and black speckled the tops of the feathers. When I stretched them out, I had an eight foot wingspan, which the white coats said was impressive for someone of my age.

Another thing, I didn't know my age. I didn't even know my name, if I had one. The white coats kept everything a secret from us.

…

I spit in the Eraser's face and she dragged me out of the safety of my crate. I snarled at her and kicked her in the face. She roared and a snout started to form. I shrieked and kicked her in the chest, making her drop me. I fell to the ground and hit it hard. My head rattled and my arms were a bit shaky, but I jumped up and launched myself at her.

Even if I did have super-strength, which I did, I was no match for a full-grown Eraser. Me ramming into her only winded her, and she grabbed the collar of the thin dress I wore and hoisted me up. I struggled, and couldn't breathe, the collar was choking me. I thrashed my arms around and tried to hit her, but I was small compared to her; and she was now full morphed.

The male white coat yelled something to her, but I couldn't hear it, I was dizzy and was losing air fast. She dropped me, and I collapsed on the floor. The male white coat was yelling something at her, and she was snarling. I slowly got my senses back, and my breathing became regular.

The male picked me up and placed me on an examination table. He pulled a chair up and sat, looking at me expectantly. I could only lay there and stare at him. I didn't know who he was, but I already hated him.

"Are you alright?" he asked. I growled at him and spit in his face. The Eraser lunged at me but he held her back.

He then took the Eraser's hand and wiped the spit off his face with it. The Eraser started trembling with rage, but did nothing. He was clearly the alpha here.

He tried again, "Are you okay?" he asked.

I snarled at him, and he sighed.

"Can you talk?" he asked.

I looked at him and paused. Should I pretend that I couldn't speak? Or should I openly insult him? My temper won over my common sense.

"Of course I can speak you retarded dipstick!" I yelled at him.

He sighed, and wrote something down on a clipboard. The Eraser looked over his shoulder and began reading what he was writing. The white coat looked over at her with a 'seriously?' look on his face and dismissed her. She grumbled as she walked out the door.

He blinked slowly, and rolled his eyes. Then he turned his attention back at me. But he didn't say anything. I sat up and looked at him. He seemed… different from the others.

"My name is Ty" he said. I stared at him, suddenly curious.

"And I want to help you. You can trust me"

I didn't believe him for a second, and now I didn't even want to like him. But it was hard not to. He tilted his head and looked me over.

"Do you trust me?" he asked.

I answered immediately, "No"

He sighed. He seemed to do that a lot.

"Why not?" he asked as if he were seriously curious.

I wanted to strangle him. Why would we trust him? People like him stick us in cages! People like him useus as experiments! People like him starve us and make us work way more than we can handle! I pass out most of the time, and where do I wake up? In a cage. Typical.

I didn't answer him, and he seemed to understand.

"Aren't you curious?" he asked.

I was suddenly interested, but I tried not to show it.

"About… what?" I asked.

He smiled; I had fallen into his trap. Great job! I yelled at myself.

"About your family" he said, "And about you"

My heart stopped, "I have a family?"

"Well" he said, "It's a little more complicated than that"

I didn't respond, and waited for him to continue.

He sighed, "See, um…your family doesn't know you're alive."

My eyes widened, "What?" I shrieked.

Ty continued, "Our staff at the hospital told your parents that you had died after you were born, and then we took you"

I roared and threw myself at him, slashing at him yelling, "What is wrong with you?"

He caught me in the air and held me by the wrists. I dangled and kicked my feet, which were only 1, 2 inches off the ground.

"Hey!" he yelled, "Don't you want to know about you?"

I stopped struggling. What kind of question was that? OF COURSE I WANTED TO KNOW! I've only wanted to know who I was for my whole life time!

He placed me on the table and sat back down in his chair. I didn't say a thing, I only waited. He smiled.

"That's better" he stated.

No duh I thought in my head, most people don't want others to attack them.

"Well" I said.

"Now you're curious" he said.

"First question" I told him, "Me and that boy… are we the only ones with…" I unfurled my wings from my back and looked at Ty. He smiled and said,

"No, you're not"

I almost collapsed when he told me that. That means he did this to more people. They did this to more people. I fought back tears, and swallowed.

"Second question" I said, "How old am I?" I asked, and then added, "And that boy?"

Ty rolled his shoulders, "How many questions are there going to be?"

"Answer!" I yelled.

"You" he said, "Are 11 years old, and your birthday is April 17th. And that boy is 12. His birthday is February 21st."

I thought for a moment, and then asked, "What about my name? And his name?"

He smiled, "You seem very interested in this boy" he said.

"Just answer!" I yelled at him.

He held up his hands and answered.

"We don't know" he said.

I surveyed him.

"You're lying" I told him.

"True" Ty said, "Very true. We took your birth certificates when you were young. We know your names and where you're from. Who your parents are…"

He was just taunted me now. But I was determined. This may be the only time I get this information out of him… or anyone.

"Our names" I demanded.

"Okay" he said, "Okay. You my dear, your name is Alexis Grace Mattice."

Alright. Not the worst name ever. And besides, I kind of like the name Alexis… maybe I'll be called Lexi for short. I can dig that.

I continued, "And the boy?"

"Flynn Logan Barlow" he told me.

"Last question" I told him.

"Shoot" he said.

I looked at my wings. Tawny colored, streaks of darker brown, just like my hair. I fingered my hair, it was knotted, tangled, wavy and about to my shoulders. I moved my wings, stretched them out a bit.

I turned to Ty.

"Why?"

Flynn: nice first chapter

Me: oh thank you, I worked… very hard on it

Alexis: uh, no. You took like 7 Popsicle breaks while you were working on it

Me: Popsicles are delicious. You're just jealous

Alexis: I am not jealous

Flynn: you haven't even had a popsicle before!

Alexis: Uh yeah! I've been stuck at the white coat place! They only feed us stale bread!

Me: (White coats are scientists by the way)

Flynn: I know… I was there and was forced to eat stale bread too!

Alexis: yah no duh I was stuck looking at your ugly face every day

Me: OKAY! Well, the next chapter will be along soon, I'll try and post A.S.A.P., so while you wait… I don't know, eat a Popsicle or something.

Alexis: Or not!

Me: do it…

Flynn: can I have a Popsicle?

Me: NO! THEY'RE ALL MINE! AHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA! *runs to kitchen*

Alexis: craaaazy!

Flynn: tell me about it. I can't believe our fate is in her hands.

Alexis: We're going to die