Baby Max
Loudspeaker "Specimen 234, Age: five years old, Gender: female, Intelligence: Level 12, Strength: Level 9, Endurance: Level 11"
Max listened to the voices impatiently. She wanted food. She wanted it now.
"Now, now Max, stop thinking about food. Once you finish five more mazes you can have lunch" said Jeb, bending down to look Max in the eyes.
Stretching her wings she shrugged and her five year old mind focused its attention on the maze ahead. There were sharp thorns all through it and if you slowed down the ground would heat up, burning your feet but Max was used to it, she'd lived here all her life. She was specimen 234.
Child Max
Returned to her small cage, Max tried to spread her wings but found restriction in the cold metal bars. Peering through said bars she saw a new arrival be set next to her, in the same sized cage.
A bird kid, like her.
She smiled… someone to play with.
He looked out from under his long dark hair.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Max, specimen 234"
"I'm Fang, specimen 452"
Fang pushed against the bars of his cage, trying to break them. Max watched as he scraped his fingers raw, wondering what this was.
"What is that?" she asked
"Defiance" he replied, staring intensely at the cage.
She turned it over in her mind, defiance; she liked the sound of that.
He told her everything, the lab coats have no right, and we are people too and that there was a world out there. Soon she became Maximum Ride and lost specimen 234.
Teenage Max
"You maniacs! You think you can just torture us? Huh?"Max yelled struggling against the lab coats.
Against her will she was brought to a small grassy area and shocked with long metal sticks. The lab coats then left and Max became aware of three erasers circling her. Standing up she took up fighting position as they closed in.
Once back in her cage, Max looked over her flock; Fang was ok, Iggy was good, Nudge was fine and the new arrivals Angel and Gasman were ok too.
Sighing in relief she checked herself over. Some scratches, nothing new. Max wondered what would happen next, who would be taken out for testing, would they all survive the next day? Her mind turned to a recently brought up topic, escape and how much she wished she could just get away. Away from the life of specimen 234.
