Sheik: Hello! To those of you who don't know me, this is my first attempt at a story, and this is from the Max II's point of view. Kind of a spoiler if you haven't read the second one yet. Well, it's after the two fight and now she's reflecting on everything and who she is. Please enjoy!

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Maximum Ride. Maximum Ride. Maximum Ride! God, how I hate her! That one fateful day when it was down to decide who shall live and die, she had to win. Jeb wanted her to win. I know he did. How he hated me. Now even Ari hates me. Because I'm not her.

What's so special about you Maximum Ride? Is it your name? Maximum Ride?

Maximum Ride. Why did you have to let me live? You just had to be the hero didn't you? You just had to be the perfect one. How could you let me live? Now I'm living in this hellhole, being told to live a lie that I am not. They tell me I'm Maximum Ride. No! You're Maximum Ride!

Maximum Ride. Maximum Ride. Your name still rings in my mind. In our minds. I'm supposed to be you. I'm supposed to be better than you! How did you win? Am I obsolete? I'm supposed to be the better. Why are you better? I'm supposed to be perfect! So then, why do you act so? I'm supposed to have a flock to lead! Then why, whydo you have one?

Maximum Ride. Why didn't you just kill me when you had the chance? Why couldn't you think with your head instead of your heart? Maybe then, they wouldn't have made me. Maybe then, they could have spared their time and money on me. Maybe then, I wouldn't have to live.

Maximum Ride! How I hate you! I want to just rip your wings right off your back and watch you plummet from the sky! No, because then I would just be watching myself fall. Why can't you see I was meant to be the one to live! I was meant to lead the flock to their destiny! To our destiny!

Maximum Ride. Your name that slices through me like a hot knife, yet feels like home. Why did you have to have my name, our name? What if I had a different name? What if you had a different name? Would I still have to hate you? Could we be a flock?

Maximum Ride. You want toknow what they did to me when I failed to complete my mission? They cut off my wings. Yep, they sliced them right off my back and shoulders. I'm obsolete, Maximum Ride. You're the better one. You're the superior. You're the dominant. I'm not.

Maximum Ride. They've left me to dwell in the isolation chamber that they left you to die in. That proves you're the better. You got out. I have to stay in. Now I'm seeing everything now. I'm seeing for the first time that I was supposed to be the better because I was made to lead with my mind and not my heart. I see now that a true superior leader has to have a heart to lead.

Maximum Ride. Go on. You can continue to be the better. The hero. The perfect example the world is supposed to rely on. I'm dying anyway. Why would I have to care? My conscience is clear. I can finally rest knowing who I am. I am me.

Thank you, Max