A/N: Obviously Maximum Ride was not set in 2022, but for my story it is. P.S. Sorry if anyone seems OOC.
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Prologue:

It had all gone so wrong.

We were under attack. The Erasers had us entirely surrounded with no way out. So we fought. We fought so hard. The flock and I were used to being on the run and fighting for our lives by now, but it hurt to know that this was our lives. The oldest of our merry little group of bird-kids, I prefer the term Avian-Americans, was only fourteen years old. That's me by the way. I'm four months older than the second oldest, and six months the third. The youngest in our group was six years of age. At these ages we shouldn't have to have bigger worries than school and imagination.

After the Pulse, life for ordinary people became difficult, but even then our lives would have been better. In 2009 there was a catastrophe. A large electromagnetic surge –the Pulse– caused havoc to the economy. Wiping all accounts from ones and zeros giving people their bank balances and leaving nothing but zeros in its wake. It was a modernized Wall Street Crash nightmare, which left a depressive bankruptcy all over the country.

Life could be worse though. The normal people could be living mine and the Flocks lives.

You see, the Flock and I, we're not completely human. 98% of our biological make-up was pure human DNA, the other 2% ... Not so much. Two percent, you think, isn't much. But that two percent causes a huge difference to our physical appearances. That other two percent of DNA is bird. The huge physical difference would be a pair of fifteen foot wings growing from my back.

The Flock consists of six members. These members are; myself, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel. Strange names, right? Well, we named ourselves. We were just little kids, what did you expect? Fang and Iggy are fourteen, like me. Fang four months my junior, Iggy six months my junior. Nudge, the motor-mouth of the group, is eleven years old. Gazzy was an eight year old boy. He was my little trooper. And the baby of the group, my baby, was Angel. She was only six years old.
But wait ... You already know who we are. If you hadn't figured it out yet, here's your biggest clue.

I am the leader. I am the oldest. I am Maximum Ride. But call me that? And I will hurt you. I go by Max.