DISCLAIMER: Maximum Ride was not mine, is not mine, and will never be mine...
A/N: This is for x Step On Me x's Maximum Ride Challenge! I mean, I don't think anyone has done a Max/Ari switch yet... -squints-
"...experiment seems to be behaving normally... tests show blood levels are slightly elevated... shouldn't have happened... Batchelder will pay..."
I opened my eyes, blinking away blurry hazes. Where was I? Or rather, who was I?... Max... Yes, that was my name... I was tied down to a metal surface, and couldn't move. A sickly sweet antisepticky smell reached my sensitive nose. The School!
All those thoughts should have raced through my head in seconds, yet it took me almost a full minute to comprehend everything, I realized. Narrowing my eyes, I yelled – or tried to, only a groan came out – "What have you frickin' done?!"
My own voice surprised me. It was low, and gravelly, too... Kind of like...
"Experiment 2476 is awake!"
The panicky voice slowly made itself understood in my sluggish brain, but it was too late. There was a sharp pain in my right thigh, and then only darkness could be seen. I later understood that a tranquilizer had been injected into my blood system.
Damn.
My eyes snapped open. My arms were strapped to a steel-topped surface, my arms and legs immobilized. I quickly ran through what I remembered had happened, and realized the truth with a shock. No, it was just a dream, a nightmare. Me... Max... and Fang, too...
"Crap."
A feminine voice made its way through my throat. Anger bubbled inside of me, but there was nothing I could do, nothing... At least until the whitecoats came, of course. But it had all been a mistake! A freakin' mistake!
I, Ari Batchelder, had become Max.
A/N: Agh, short, I know! But, hey, an intro is an intro! I quite like this idea though... Reviews would be welcome?