I don't own Maximum Ride.

Please read this, and then review to tell me what you think. Whatever you think.

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All I remember now is pain.

There was one time, long ago, when I was treated a little better. I had a bed, and a blanket, and They made sure I wasn't sick. I think They called it a nursery. There were others.

Now I'm sick, and They don't really care. I make noise and cough, but no one hears. I rattle the bars of the cage, and They yell at me and hit me.

I live in a cage. Why? They aren't in cages. They, the people who used to be nice to me. They walk around, but They never let Us out unless They want to do tests. The tests are always very painful

Sometimes I get very cold in the cage. It's easy to get cold in it. There's only some paper lining the bottom, and They only gave me a ragged old blanket. It's covered in different colored stains, and it smells funny, and it has lots of rips and holes and tears. I think some of the stains are blood. The blanket doesn't keep me very warm.

I don't like it here, and sometimes at night when They are gone I cry. I cry and wail, and let the tears flow until my eyes hurt from the crying. I cry because of lots of things. I cry because of the cage. I cry because of the ways They hurt me, with all kinds of tests and sometimes with an electric stick thing. I also cry because last week, They took a little boy and when he came back he eventually stopped breathing. I cry because I feel like I have a big empty hole inside of me.

The hole hurts a lot, sometimes even more than the tests. I don't know why it hurts. I think it's because of Family. I hear Them talk about Family. They have other people they live with, and They are really happy with them. They have Friends, too. I don't have Friends. I tried to have a Friend once, but They killed her. I heard Them say it was an accident. There are a lot of accidents.

I don't understand why this is happening to me. Why me? Why Us? Why are They killing Us and hurting Us? Why isn't anyone stopping Them and helping Us?

Does anyone hear Us? Does anyone care?

I wail every night for someone to hear Us and come and save Us from Them. I hope Someone comes soon.

I hurt so much.

WHY?

Did you know that some of the events that occur in Maximum Ride could one day, very soon, come true? Scientists are already manipulating DNA and changing it. They've already made animal hybrids. They started with plants. With plants, I guess that could be okay. But with animals...

I've read and seen stuff. One time, scientists took a syringe and drew something out of a quail egg and then injected it into a duck egg. Then they took some of the stuff from the duck egg and injected it into the quail egg. They took X-rays or something like that, and saw what had happened. The duck had a quail beak, and the quail had a duck beak. Then they destroyed both animals.

They've done other things too. Like glow-in-the-dark fish and pigs with different-colored snouts, and goats that produce spider silk. Now, that doesn't sound too bad. But it could get worse. It might get out of hand.

I'm not saying the study of genetics is wrong, or that scientists are evil. But sometimes scientists play God and mess with DNA. That can be wrong. It could be painful for the animal. Or at one point, the person.

I really don't know why I'm adding this part. I'm not telling people to look for labs that do illegal genetic experimentation. I'm really not sure what I'm saying.

But would you want to live in a cage and be treated like dirt? Not even animals should be treated like the child in this story.

If this got through to you, please copy and paste it into an email. Or tell somebody to read it. We need to be careful with what we do with science.