A/N: This begins at the beginning. So basically none of the books happened. However, some of the abilities that the Flock members have which cropped up during the later books are still fair game.

This story starts off sounding like TAE but it's definitely different. Like...expect more Fax. :D

Btw, expect short chapters. But hopefully there will be a lot of them.

Note: Max and the Flock do not yet know about the whole expiration date thing.

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My name is Maximum Ride.

I guess the first thing you should know about me is that I'm...not human. Okay, maybe I'm 98% human.

The other 2%?

Well, aren't you in for a treat.

I'm part bird. And the best part is that...I'm not alone.

In fact, I live with five other science projects. Fang. Iggy. Nudge. Gazzy. Angel. Together, we are the Flock.

We're not related-well, Gazzy and Angel are, but the rest of us aren't. And maybe if we had regular lives we'd never even, like, look at each other. I mean, personality-wise, we're all pre-etty different. We've got Fang, the stoic man of few words; Iggy, the hilarious pyromaniac; Nudge, the sweet motormouth; Gazzy, Iggy's partner in crime; and Angel, Gazzy's younger sister and my baby. Oh, and me. The leader. Well, I mean, someone's got to do the dirty work, right?

We all live together in a house shaped like an "E" that hangs over the side of some mountains in Colorado. It's a nice place, I guess. But I mean, things are tight. By 'things', I mean like, we kinda live by a meal-to-meal basis, and other stuff-clothes, toys, whatever-are basically just snatched up when an opportunity presents itself.

All because of stupid Jeb. But I'll get into that later.

A/N: Short prologue, so Imma post chapter 1 as well. R&R! (As in, the amount of reviews I get is directly related to how often I update ;D).