This story idea actually came to me in a dream. It's meant to be a trilogy for my own story series. Maximum Ride will prove the Flock wrong about her by fighting against the likes of Marik and his Rare Hunters, Yako and his Wicked God Cards, and even against Zorc The Dark One when they go to get the Pharaoh's memories back! Now, ladies and gentlemen… sit back and enjoy the show!

*I don't own the franchises known as Maximum Ride and Yu-Gi-Oh! Never have, never will!*

"I summon the Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon!" = Normal Speech

'I activate Swords of Revealing Light!' = Thoughts

(Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon: [Monster/Effect] Dragon/LIGHT [8] ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500]) = Card Stats

"Mirror Force, reflect his attack!" = Yelling

'OH MY GOD, IT HURTS SO MUCH!' = Mental Yelling

Prologue: Abandoned By The Flock!

Max's POV.

'Those ungrateful bastards! How dare they?!'

Flying at hypersonic speed, I made my way across the vast ocean that seemed to be nothing but an endless expanse of blue on our beautiful planet. My heart feels like it's been ripped out, stomped on by a pair of spiky cleats and thrown into a garbage disposal set of puree! Even now, I find it hard to see with all of the tears welling up in my eyes and falling into the briney blue below.

Oh, right. You probably don't know who I am, do you?

Well, I'd be surprised if you didn't, seeing as how I've saved the world from threats like Itex and some weird director who was using weirdass technology to keep himself alive. But I'll tell you anyway.

My name's Maximum Ride. Just call me Max. I'm the former leader of a group of human/avian hybrids known as The Flock. I'm sure you've read up on us from Fang's Blog.

Now a lot of you might be wondering why I used the word 'former'.

Well… It's because I'm not going to live long enough to lead them anymore.

That's right… my Expiration Date finally showed up on the back of my neck.

It happened about three days ago. We were doing our usual thing with the Coalition To Stop The Madness, a group that my mom Doctor Valencia Martinez, founded in order to help us spread the word about how we've been destroying our planet and to try and get more people to help save our world. Mainly through things like finding clean alternative energy sources and protecting the animals and wildlife that we have left on our planet. But before one of our airshows, Fang noticed something on the back of my neck.

He pulled me aside so we wouldn't worry anyone else in case it was serious. And boy was it.

You see, we recombinant life forms, even the successful ones, don't last as long as ordinary humans or other animals do. We have these built-in expiration dates that appear on the back of our necks when we're close to dying. It happened to my dear little half-brother, Ari, and now it's happened to me!

I told Fang that we would at least wait until after the show to tell the rest of the Flock and my mother about this. He agreed to wait that long at least.

After the show, which was a huge success even with Gazzy not sticking to the choreography again, we gathered the rest of the flock along with my mom, Jeb, and my sister Ella Martinez. We showed them the expiration date and Jeb honestly looked more surprised than he ever has in all the time I've known him. Apparently, being the most successful recombinant life form meant that I wasn't supposed to have an expiration date. That said, there was only one thing left to do at that point…

The Flock had kicked me out once again.

I couldn't believe it! After everything I've done for them! Everything I've been through just to try and save the world and keep them safe!

The death… the loss… the suffering…!

WHO ARE THEY TO DECIDE THAT I SHOULDN'T CONTINUE MY MISSION UNTIL MY LAST BREATH?!

Oh sure, they TRIED to feed me a bunch of bullshit excuses for kicking me out. Saying that I should just use my last days alive to relax and live in peace. But I've had enough of that! I didn't even stick around to hear what Ella and Doctor Martinez had to say about the subject. I just bolted out of the building and flew off as fast as I could fly. Which is pretty damn fast, if you think about it.

And so, I've spent the last three days flying at literally maximum speed to try and tire myself out enough that I might die before letting this damn expiration date do me in. So far, I haven't stopped to really do much of anything. I haven't slept, I haven't eaten, and since arriving over the ocean I rarely even use the bathroom.

As I continue to soar over the open sea, I begin to wonder just how much longer I'll last until I finally lose all of my remaining strength and fall to my doom. Who knows? Maybe a shark will come along and eat me for dinner.

If it does that, will I taste like chicken to the shark? Or will I just float along as a decomposing corpse until I reach the bottom of the sea and get covered by sediments and stay dead long enough to be dug up later on by future paleontologists?

Questions for later.

'Come on you dying excuse for a body, just shut down already! What does it take to freaking kill myself from exhaustion?!' I mentally asked myself.

But it seems like my wish is about to come true. My vision is beginning to blur and I'm slowing down, having a harder time keeping myself awake. I smile as I realize something.

This is it… the moment I've been waiting for. The moment of my death!

As my wings stop flapping and can't keep me airborne any longer I think about my dead half-brother, Ari. His whole life taken away from him after being turned into a human/wolf hybrid known as an Eraser. Hopefully, he's found peace up there in the afterlife.

And maybe… Just maybe… I will too…

'Well, cruel world… goodbye and good riddance!' I think while cursing the world.

And with that, I finally close my eyes and lose consciousness just before I hit the water. Too bad for me, I can never seem to catch a break when it comes to destiny.

*To Be Continued…*

There's the prologue to the story for you, everyone. Now remember, I've posted a poll for the deck that Max is going to use in this story, so be sure to vote on the poll for that, so be sure to vote. And if you have any decks you'd like me to add to the poll, send them to me in the reviews. Be sure to include the Deck's rarest card. Until next time, everyone!