*Click*
*Static*
The image on the screen is dark and blurry. Details are thick and indistinct, indefinite.
Camera suddenly pans up, and focuses in on a girl who appears to be holding the camera at arm's length.
"Hello? Is this on?"
She reaches to the side of the camera and fiddles with a knob on the side. She intently studies the screen, then, dark green eyes appearing satisfied, she nods, once, then continues talking.
"I don't know who will find this, or what shape the Earth will be in when this is found. But, you see, I have no choice.
"I am part of a government experiment, something that has been kept secret for many, many years. I'm not… human. The government has been playing with ways to make humans more durable, stronger, smarter, tougher. Well, I'm all those things, but one aspect of the experiment failed: I can't feel pain. I could fight myself to death and not know it. People who can't feel pain are liabilities; we're willing to take more risks because we know it can't hurt us. Nothing can.
"After determining that the experiment has no hope of being salvaged, the scientist were told to terminate us." She glances behind her right shoulder. Sunlight glints off her long blonde hair. "Before they could, the government collapsed. I alone was able to escape the fire pits and make it out here.
"They won't be able to find me. I can go places they can't." She takes a step back and opens what appears to be a pair of bat wings. "They miscalculated the amount of bat DNA we would need for echolocation, the intended effect. The scientists accidentally gave us their wings as well. I'm saying this so that when a new government forms, it won't make the same mistakes. For the rest of my life, I won't be able to live in society because, before I was born, someone played with my genes and made me a mutant freak. Forever.
"However, these are troubled times. War has broken out across many nations as each fight for control of the survivors, this Maximum Ride and her flock. If any of them were to get their hands on me-" She breathes out shakily. "I would be the perfect weapon. Fast, strong, hard to kill, can't be stopped or overwhelmed by pain or injury. I can fly higher than most weapons can fire. I couldn't be stopped, not even by the immortal flock."
She flinches as a branch snaps behind her. She goes completely still, not even breathing for several minutes. After a quarter of an hour, she turns back. " I can't stay." She mouths, so softly the camera just barely picks it up. "I'm leaving now, and no-one will ever hear from me again. I know a place where no-one can access it without wings or a helicopter, and most of those were destroyed when the world ended the first time. Who ever you are, goodbye. If you're like me… Well. I'll find you." She opens her wings again.
*click*
The man in the black suit stood still, watching the screen as it went dark. After it had, he said softly to the man standing behind him, "This was posted to 'Fang's Blog'?" The other man inclined his head silently. The boss - he was clearly in charge - nods, as if something had been decided.
"Find her."
The second man nodded, pulling his pistol from its holster and walking out the door, shutting it soundlessly behind him. He never looked back.
