It was a normal day, we had just finished our shooting drills and were putting our gear away. I decided that I was going to look around the place. We were aloud free reign around the entire facility except for a single room. It seemed as if Mike built it to keep us out. It had a retinal scan instead of a lock or fingerprint scanner because we had already learned to crack those. So to me, it was intriguing, I wanted to know why Mike needed to keep us out so bad.

So for the next week I watched as a single operator would step out for his lunch break at 2:00 sharp every day. However he would come back after only 5 minutes. So if I was going to do this, it had to be fast. My plan was so stupid, nobody would ever suspect it was a plan at all, the whitecoats would think it was just an accident. I was going to lube up the floor outside of his office so that he would slip and fall. Hopefully the blow will knock him unconscious, I will then use his eye to gain access to the room. And hey, if it didn't work, it's so stupid that no one would suspect a thing.

The next day when we finish up training I head straight towards the room with a bottle of gun lube. Hey, it was all I had don't judge. I made sure no one was looking and I dumped it on the floor. I walked to the end of the hallway and waited. At 2:00 sharp, I mean really this guy was just so predictable it was pathetic. He exited the room and slipped. He hit his head HARD. I quickly ran over an held his eye open to the scanner. The door swung open and I entered.

What I saw sprawled across the table was a CD labeled "OperationTyler". I couldn't figure out why it was named after me, but it didn't matter at this point. I pushed the disk into the computer. It was an audio recording of Mike.

"We have acquired 6 new experiments which we will use to reacquire Maximum Ride." He started. None of this was new and I was about to leave until I heard this. "When they find Ride, she will most likely tell them the truth about us. When they find this out, they will turn against us and we cannot afford to have this happen." He continued. "When they send Ride and her flock back in the prison chopper, we will blow up the chopper holding Tyler and his team."

I left the room appalled, we were being used. There won't be any reward for our efforts, our months of training. We trusted Mike for nothing. But I can't tell the others and I need to pretend that I never found the tape. We will go and make it seem that we are going to capture Maximum, but we will not return. We will let Ride go and live a life on the run, but it's better than dying.

ONE MONTH LATER

It was the day before we are supposed to ship out. At 0800 we are called down to the conference room, where Mike is waiting and quickly starts the presentation.

"They have taken residence in an island 100 miles off the coast of the Hawaiian mainland. Basically in the middle of where which is why it took us so long to find them. There will be no air support. The mission needs to be quick and silent as there are too many other inhabitants for a full scale takeover. The helicopters only have enough fuel to stay running for 10 minutes after touchdown at the island. You've training for months for this mission. Get in, get out, and bring them to us. Any questions? No? Good, you are dismissed. Clean you weapons and prepare your gear." Mike finished.

We filled out of the conference room one by one and made our way to the equipment room. We started to remove all un-necessary gear from our lockers. When we left tomorrow all we wanted to have to do was put on our plate carriers, grab our weapons, and load into the chopper.

"I'm not putting plates in the rear of my carrier" Said Randy

"Why not, it's only 8 more pounds, and we don't know what kind of firepower they have on that island of theirs." Said Ava.

"I'm not exactly planning on getting shot in the back running away." Retorted Randy.

We all laughed at that last statement.

"Don't come crying to me if you do." Said Connor jokingly.

We all laughed again, but I could tell we were all nervous as we went to our bunk that night. We turned the light out right away and went to bed, it was going to be a long day tomorrow after all. I heard footsteps come across the room towards me and climb into my bunk.

"Hey." Said Ava.

"Well hello there" I replied " I thought I was going to get kidnapped again."

She giggled and said "I haven't told anybody this but, I'm nervous about tomorrow. What if we don't come back?"

I brushed her hair back and told her "I'm sure we'll be fine, we've been trained well." I leaned over and kissed her forehead. She responded my rolling over on top of me and started to kiss me roughly back. I was surprised, but quickly returned the favor. Just then the lights turned on and I heard laughter.

"Well, well, well. Caught in the act I s..." Teased Trevor. He was cut off when a pillow hit him in the face.

"Shut up Trevor" Ava said. She rolled over.

"Guys, go back to sleep." I said. "Big day tomorrow."

Tomorrow was going to be big, even bigger than any of us could have expected.