Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum ride blah blah blah

Now, 3 years later (so I figured) from the day my life was ripped apart, my family wouldn't have recognised the person I had become.

I'd cut my hair to my shoulders, shorter than it had ever been in my life. I was taller, my wing span was longer. I could easily kill a man with a single kick (I know this for a fact) and I felt nothing when his neck snapped. I hadn't looked in a mirror in a long time, but I was sure that my eyes were cold and murderous, judging from the way those pathetic whitecoats had stared at me like I was the angel of death before they ran away.

When I'd bought my house, along with the gym equipment I'd bulk ordered my clothes. Black combat pants, black t-shirts, black jackets and black trainers. The perfect take- down- the- giant- evil –company- outfit. When one set gets ruined, I just throw it away and put on another. There's only room for one thing in my mind. I knew it wasn't healthy, to be so focused on killing and destroying, but I couldn't help it. The only people who could have stopped me were dead.

I was headed for one of the larger schools. The blue prints reminded me of that castle back in Germany. A huge courtyard dominated the centre and there were thousands of maze- like corridors. There seemed to be hundreds of small identical rooms but I didn't know what they were for. From what I'd read, this School was merely a research lab, no experiments were kept there, just the White coats and their stupid test tubes.

I studied the blue prints at my little camp again and again until I had them memorised. Then I set to work assembling the bombs. I needed more than usual this time, it was a big place. All those years watching Iggy and Gazzy cannibalise my alarm clocks were finally being put to good use.

I knew this School would be harder than the others. I wouldn't do much damage just by dropping the bombs; the roof was made with reinforced steel. (Why they didn't build all the Schools the same I have no idea) I needed to plant them in key areas, and like I said, it was a big building. That meant I needed to be inside for a while longer, and the longer I was in there, the more chance there was for me to get caught. And while I really didn't care if I lived or died at the moment, I had bigger fish to fry, and to do that I needed to stay alive a little while longer.

When I finally thought I was ready, I stuffed everything back into my black army-grade backpack and jumped into the sky, flinging my wings out to catch the upward draft. For a few seconds I revelled in the feeling of freedom, of sailing on the winds without a care in the world, but then, as always, reality came crashing back down. I gritted my teeth and with a burst of super-speed I was at the School within 10 minutes.

I hovered in the air for a few seconds just taking in the view. Wow, it really was huge. The blue prints didn't do it justice.

I swooped down, dropping to the ground and folding my wings in. I couldn't just fly over and drop inside the walls. By now, they would all know I was going around and blowing up the Schools. They'd be watching the sky for me. So instead I was going to do what no one expected a bird-kid bent of destruction to do; use the front door.

There were two guards at the reception. Why did this place need a reception? I have no clue, but at that moment in time, I was glad they did.

"Excuse me Miss, this is a private facility. I'm going to have to ask you to leave." One of the guards stepped into my path. He was wearing a dark blue uniform with the Itex logo printed on the breast. My eyes flickered to the gun at his waist, too fast for him to notice. If I had to, I could take these guys. But hopefully I wouldn't have to.

I smiled sweetly, resisting the urge to just punch him in the face, and pulled out an ID badge from my pocket. After 3 years of near-stalking Itex and it's employees, it hadn't been hard to make a fake ID card. According to the badge I was Dr Jennifer Austin, one of the directors personal assistants and had level 5 clearance, the highest you could get. The badge had a chip in it that verified my identity in their systems, and only the director herself would know that I wasn't who I said I was. It had taken a while and a lot of hard work to integrate myself into their personnel files and I'd had to build firewalls around the files so stop anyone tampering with them and finding out the truth.

The guard handed me the badge back after he had scanned it. "Sorry, Dr Austin. Didn't realise who you were." He apologised "What can we do for you?"

"I'm just making my usual inspection rounds on behalf of the director." I told him. "It's just a routine thing." I assured him "But I'm glad that you stopped me, it's good to know we have thorough security men in place. We can't have just anyone walking in now can we?" I turned on the charm, flattery worked every time. "But do me a favour would you? Don't tell anyone I'm here. Everything has to run as normal." I smiled again. I couldn't have word getting to someone who knew that there was no Dr Jennifer Austin.

"Of course Dr Austin. Would you like me to show you around?"

"No, that won't be necessary. I know my way. Keep up the good work." I winked at him as I passed him.

Inside I was laughing. Itex was no match for the great Maximum Ride.