A/N; Heey there fellow Maximum Ride lovers! Thanks for checking out this story and giving it a chancee, I really appreciate it. I'll do my best to make this story enjoyable for myself and all of you readers! This is my first MR fanfic ;$ This takes place somewhere in Angel before the unfortunate ending..
Warning: OOCness is in here, but you'll understand it more further in the story. Anyways, here you go! (:

Chapter 1: Definition of Cruel

Head pounding, heart racing, body floating. The free fall was indescribable (oops, I just described it. I lied) as my limp body plummeted to the ground. Before I knew it I was at the School.I think with my flock, and Fang's flock. Last thing I remember was flying over town for a break with the flock when suddenly a felt a bullet hit me. And here I am, face to face with the person I despise immensely.

"Hello children, it's really nice to see you again", Jeb says as if nothing in the world was wrong. I glare at him intimidatingly.

"What do you want, Jeb?", I hiss. He presses his lips together.

"You see, Maximum, the scientists at the school have been creative different generations of mutants with unique skills. Since we have retired all the.. unsuccessful experiments, there are still some arguments with the avian experiments. Also known as you and your flock", he explains. Allowing us to absorb the information, he continues.

"Just because we aren't the latest trend doesn't mean we deserve to be retired. We aren't just experiments, we actually have feelings and lives unlike you!", I protest, feeling my face is burning up with fury.

"As you know, we have been pretty successful with other generations, and they were thinking of the last of you avian experiments. But I have high hopes for you, especially you Max. But the only way to keep this generation going was to to do the ultimate test, we won't be retiring you", Jeb says calmly.

"What test? What do you mean?", I sputter, tired of all the guessing and confused out of my mind.

Exhaling a heavy breath, he answers. "This means only one flock can live. It's a battle to the death".

"No, no way. We are refusing to do this!", Gazzy exclaims.

"If only there was a choice", he says with a sad smile."It's either this, or you must be retired by us. All of you. Not only that, but the people you care about will be at risk". My body instantly goes stiff and my hands by my side clench into fists. My mom and Ella were the only people I truly loved other than my flock. The thought of them being in pain in the hands of the white coats makes me cringe in anger.

"We can only have one flock live to carry on their destiny of saving the world. The entire world is at state. So, what is your choice?", he asks. I hate him, I hate his guts. How is it possible for someone to be so cruel?

And that's when I hear him. After knowing him for my whole life, his words seemed so foreign. The one I trusted most, my second set of eyes, the one I loved.

"We'll do it".

"Are you insane, Fang?", Iggy exclaims. Fang ignores the fury in his tone and looks at us more calm than any of my flock.

"Fang, do you know what you're doing?", Nudge asks with pleading eyes.

"I'm doing what's best for the world, and my flock. We don't have any other choice, it's either one flock gone or all of us gone. Think about it, if we don't do it we can drag in people like your mom and sister", he explains.

"Fang, how could you?", I exclaim. "Leaving us wasn't enough? Now you back stab us!"

He stands up and "Maya", I prefer to call her "my clone", shoots up right after him.

"You know that we have to. You do what's best for your flock and he's the leader so he's doing what's best for his flock!", she practically snarls at me. Okay, I can take attitude, but attitude from myselfis going way too far. I lunge at her with all the anger acting as fuel to the flames. She lunges at me too but were both stopped. Fang is holding her back by holding her arms, I glare at him but he seems unaffected by it. Dylan is holding me around the waist, and I swear I saw a little muscle in Fang's chin twitch. This is the moment I reeallyy wanted to break out ninja-style, punching all three of them into a pulp.

"Look", Fang says trying to be calm. "We don't have any other choice. I'm not trying to turn on you or anything. But we have to, one of our flocks has to save the world. I don't want to do this anymore than you do". He looks at our flock, but I can tell he is mostly directing it at me.

"So, does that mean we are on with the test?", Jeb asks suddenly, I almost forgot he was there when he was cowering in the shadows.

I look at the flock for agreement. None of them look happy about it, but they agree anyways. This is everything we go against, but like Fang said, we don't have any other choice. Jeb looks towards Fang's flock and they all nod, also looking bummed out about the idea.

"Alright then.", Jeb says clasping his hands, "-we shall start immediately". At that moment, another cold-hearted-idiotic white coat comes in and stands by Jeb.

"Maximum and your flock goes into room 32B, and Fang's will be 34B, which is next door", he says with a scruffy voice. For some reason, I don't think that putting our room right next to each other is a good idea. Anger plus physically-enhanced mutants don't mix well, ever. "You may order room service or wear whatever there is in the room. At seven we'll have dinner altogether and discuss how everything will happen.". Yeah, cause that sounds just spiff, if we weren't going to be slaughtered by our former flock mate.

Aww, I'm so evil D:. I know you hate me for what I'm doing to Fang and the flock, but you'll see what happens. I got the next few chapters typed up but I want to know if you liked it, loved it, hated it? Please review, it makes me entire day. Like seriously, I smile like an idiot when I get one. (Old Hunger Games fanfics) And Jeb will be explaining what he means by the battle to the death in the next chapter. Anyways, review and tell me what you think!*bambie eyes* ohyes, I went there :D