My name is Wolfe. Wolfe Armstrong, actually. Not bad for a name that I thought of myself, huh? Wolves are pretty amazing, if you don't combine them with humans. So, you know, add the 'e' to the end and it looks and sounds cool. And Armstrong. I know, you're thinking 'Neil Armstrong,' the guy who first set foot on the moon. Come on, just because one of my kind named herself after an astronaut doesn't mean I have to. Lance Armstrong? I admit, he's cool, but no. Actually, I'm a huge fan of Green Day, so… yeah, you can probably see where I'm going. Billie Joe Armstrong.
Now, what do I mean exactly when I say 'my kind?' Well, when I was a kid, crazy scientists somehow got me away from my parents and started doing some tests on me and some other kids. Long story short… Somehow I ended up two percent bird, ninety eight percent human.
If you know anything about Maximum Ride, then you probably get the idea of what I look like. Yeah… Wings sprouting from my back, the whole package of bird stuff. At least they didn't screw up my face or anything like they did with the Erasers. Wolves and humans… not as fine tuned and good looking as birds and humans. And that's not me bragging, that's a fact.
Seven years ago, I escaped the scientists and their prison/scientific facility, the School. Nobody noticed. Supposedly, I'd been exterminated. I had been giving the scientists a rough time, so they got one of their men to kill me. You know, there's plenty of bird kids out there. They could afford to let one go. Thing was… the guy who was s'posed to kill me thought some other dude was going to do the job. So really, according to the world, I'm dead.
But I'm not. And what I have to say is almost as important as what Max has to say. Sure, I don't have any destiny to save the world. But still, I try and help any way I can. Besides, If you're not interested, you would have stopped reading halfway through the 'Armstrong' explanation. You didn't, though. And I'm going to trust you to keep on reading. 'Cause trust me, it's more that exciting enough to keep you focused once you get into it. And you'll get my message.
I'm counting on support from humans, too. Full, one hundred percent humans. You're one of them. So, yeah, I need your help. I'm not sure how to start this… so I'll just do dive in, and hope you will understand.
-Wolfe Armstrong
