Me: Hi! I'm Penny, and I do not own Maximum Ride or any of its affiliates, just Kaito.
Kaito: Hey! You do not own me!
Me: Yes I do, Kai. You're fictional. I created you. Get over it.
I woke up to the sound of our deafening alarm clock. I'm Kaito, BTW. Mutant bird child. One of the only successful ones. Call me Kai. Or Toto. Anyway, back to the clock.
The alarm was our cue to be standing in our enclosures, ready for roll call. They basically treated like zoo animals. Except zoo animals were never experimented on by guys in lab jackets. I call them LJ's. My enclosure was just me, luckily. It was about 2 meters by 4 meters, 10 meters high and had a small dog bed in the corner, a bowl of food (no, not dog food. A special cereal made by LJ's that supposedly has all of our nutrients.) and a bowl of water. LJ's were kind of like pet owners. 8 year old pet owners. We didn't always get food and water.
"Subject 1.3? Eraser with more advanced defense mechanisms?" An LJ called. No answer. He went to peek through the glass into Subject 1.3's enclosure. I could imagine his lifeless body in a crumpled heap on the ground. Poor Terrance. The LJ snapped his fingers and I could hear people go in to clean out Terrance's enclosure.
He continued with roll call, as if a human (somewhat) life hadn't just been lost. Suddenly I got an idea. A great idea. A very great idea. I smiled to myself. I got down onto the ground in a position that looked as if I had dropped dead. I stopped all my organs except my brain. That was a special skill I had. I forced myself not to giggle when I heard the LJ call me.
"Subject 14? Human-Avian hybrid?" No answer. "Subject 14?" He frantically peeked into my enclosure. I tried to look as dead as possible.
"Oh no! No, no, no! The directors gonna kill me!" He snapped his fingers again, but this time the glass covering my enclosure retracted, leaving a small pit that I was in. Yes! Just as I hoped for. I unfurled my wings, leaping into the air. I broke through the huge stain glass window and started flying. I laughed with pleasure.
I was free. Okay, the first thing I had to do was get some money. I patted my back pocket happily. I had one of the LJ's credit card. And it tapped endlessly into the governments funds. AND I knew the code. 093385. My registered experiment number. Okay, second thing. Use said illegally obtained money to buy clothes, food, etc. So, stop one? A wal-mart. Okay, I knew we were in Idaho. If I could fly to an unpopulated area and land, I wouldn't mind walking all the way into town.
I guess now would be a good time to maybe tell you some about me. Ummm. I'm Kaito, like I said. I am Japanese. I was actually born there. The LJ's stole me from my mother and injected me with the DNA of a bluejay. I'm 93% human, 7% bird. So, I was basically human, but I had wings (blue, 17 feet wingspan, pure awesome.), air sacs, a faster heart rate, different blood type, so on and so forth. Oh yeah. And I could speak to birds. Very useful.
Finally, I landed in the woods. RIGHT IN FRONT OF FIVE FREAKIN NORMAL KIDS THAT SAW ME FLY, LAND AND UNFURL MY WINGS!
"Max? Nanaya Hurbo Lushito." The youngest whispered. She had blonde hair and I could tell she was a sweet devil.
The oldest girls looked at each other and stepped forward.
"I'm Max, and this is Nudge. You can fly, huh?"