Maximum Equestria

"Beta where the hell are you," screamed Ari in my earpiece as I continued to follow the Flock as they flew through the skies north.

Growling back into the earpiece I say, "unlike you pup I am doing my job. Just follow my signal and you'll have the Flock soon," I said while thinking to myself, 'that's to say if there is anything left of them after I get through with them.'

Smiling to myself at the thought I hear the mutt growl out on the other end of the comm's, "fine. But remember that Max is MINE! No one kill's her but me understand!?"

"Loud and clear dogbreath," was my curt reply before I turned off my earpiece.

As I followed the Flock I couldn't help but think back to what had led up to this point in my life.

I was grown from a fetus like all of the other Eraser's and injected with wolf dna to make me a hybrid. But they did something different with me. Instead of just adding wolf dna they decided to throw in a little avian dna as well. Later I would find out that they had tried this on many other experiments but I was the only one to survive.

From then I grew very quickly. By six months I was already physically the age and mentality of a toddler. Within under a year I was a teenager being taught how to shift from my normal human appearance to my full out eraser form. I was taught to use my wings to fly as well.

They would let a random animal loose and have me hunt it down and kill it with my bare hands to get accustomed to death and the thought of killing. For a while this worked and I was nothing more than the companies little killing machine. Then she came. The one being that I actually didn't want to hurt. Her name was Jesse Queens and she was a biologist working for Itex. The very same company that created me and owned half of the world.

She became a surrogate mother to me. She taught me things other than killing, she taught me survival and everything school related. I knew she wasn't supposed to do this but I didn't care, I was just happy to have someone that saw me as more than some mindless beast.

It was because of her that I gained an interest in the medical field. Especially the part of using natural remedies to treat injuries. She said I was a natural at it and I took great pride in that. In no time at all I could safely say that I was one of the leading medical professionals in the world! And I owed it all to her. The one I had taken to calling mother because it just felt so right.

So it was understandable how distraught I was when I found out she had died in a car accident. I didn't talk or eat for days, instead I threw myself into my training just to try and forget about the most important person in my life.

I went through numerous test that were supposed to improve my already superhuman abilities. With them I gained many nifty enhancements all meant to aid me in the greatest mission the erasers as a whole had ever received. The elimination of the Flock.

Jeb Batchelder was the lead scientist on these six experiments and was our source of Intel on them. Unlike the other erasers though I actually took the time to study their files so when I faced any of them I would be prepared. These experiments were put out into the world as a test to see how well they could survive in society. Maximum Ride or Max as she liked to be called, was created with the sole purpose of changing the world. She was given numerous tests of real life scenarios to see if she was up to the task. Sadly for her and her little group she was deemed unfit for the job and so was scheduled for immediate extermination. Jeb tried to prolong it as long as possible with misdirection's and last minute saves, but he was only delaying the inevitable.

My prior planning skill isn't the only difference between me and the other erasers though. For one I was definitely shorter then them by a good margin and a lot lighter to due to my avian dna making my bones hollow so I could fly easier. When in human form they stood a solid six five while I was six one. They were also a lot more quick to get violent than I was.

Basically I was the runt of the litter and they let me know it everyday. But even though they had size and strength over me I was still the better fighter and could easily best any of them. Even Jeb's son Ari, who was made an eraser when he was seven years old, was no match for me. It sucked that he technically outranked me.

I knew the only way to get out of my current position was to take out the Flock and be promoted. This lead me to where I was now. After that pup Ari attacked the Flock and failed again I decided to follow them and wait for the opportune moment to strike. I would be the one to end the infamous Maximum Ride and no steroid enhanced brat was going to stop me.

All day they flew North until they finally stopped at an abandoned cabin by some beach in upstate New York. After memorizing their location I go to get set up for the night ahead that would lead to the Flocks death and my ticket to the good life.

I booked in to a cheap hotel and quickly went to my room. As soon as I entered I tossed my bag onto the moderately sized bed and make my way to the shower since I needed to relieve my sore muscles. The hardest part about washing myself was the wings since they were extremely sensitive and needed to be cleaned thoroughly for proper flight. After washing up I step out of the shower and head to the bathroom mirror where I couldn't help but stare at myself.

Like all of the other Erasers I had sharp features making me look like some movie star, my light tan skin probably came from the donor for my egg and did well to show off my defined musculature that all erasers are natural born with. My hair was a midnight black with crimson streaks that I died in since I wanted to stand out from the others. My hair had a wild and spiky style to it and reached to in-between my shoulder blades where I usually kept it in a tight ponytail. My eyes were my most outstanding feature though. They were a stormy grey and always had the look of a predator as if waiting for you to slip up so I can go in for the kill.

After examining myself I head back into the room and open up my bag where I pull out a pair of black and grey army fatigues. They come with a pair of black and grey camo pants. black undershirt with a grey vest over top, and to complete the look was a pair of steel-toe  boots.

When my attire was on I looked through my bag some more to see what my arsenal consisted of. I currently had, four smoke grenades, three frags, and five sleep darts for a hand held dart gun. It wasn't much to go with but I would make due. It was still somewhat Light out so I decided to read up on my targets once more and pulled out their files.

Night came quickly and with it I set off to end the Flock once and for all. Arriving at there current hideout I made sure to put up a mental barrier since the youngest of the group, the one they call Angel was a little mind reader and has been known to influence certain individuals. My mind barrier would prevent both giving me the advantage.

Landing near one of the windows I stealthily take a peak inside to see only five of the Flock in there. Just my luck that Max seemed to have gone on a little flight. No matter she would come back eventually and when she did I would be ready.

Deciding to even the odds a bit in my favor I sneak over to the back door and easily pick the lock and quietly make my way inside to find all of them asleep. Looking at their faces I easily recognized all of them. In order from oldest to youngest, Fang the ever stoic second in command, Iggy the blind one, Nudge the little chatter box, Gazzy the pyro maniac, and Angel the mind reader. Shame they would have to die so young but then again what do I care. They are but a means to an end.

Checking to make sure the clip of sleep darts was loaded into the dart gun I plant one in each of them without anyone waking up and they wouldn't be waking up for another twelve hours.

Just then my heightened hearing picked up the tell tale signs of wing beats and I allowed a grin to split my face as I rushed outside to see non other than Maximum Ride herself. Before she noticed me I had already taken flight, my raven black wings spread wide at an intimidating seventeen feet.

She had no time to react before I collided into her sending us both reeling through the sky. When we finally righted ourselves we shared a glance. Her's was of anger and hatred while mine was of predatory bloodlust. Not taking any chances I start to change my form to my full on eraser form. My muscles bulged to the point that if it wasn't for the elastic material of my clothes they would have ripped.

Black fur sprouted from my skin until it completely covered me, a muzzle pronounced itself on my face and was filled with razor sharp teeth. Claws sprouted from my finger tips until they were six inches long and sharper than knives. The final touch was the wolf ears that jutted from the top of my skull. I was now basically the perfect vision of what a werewolf would look like if they existed.

Giving a howl just for added effect me and Max class in a flurry of blows. Both of us matched never giving an inch. For every strike I made on her she gave one right back. So caught up in our fight neither of us noticed the winds begin to pick up and the water below us start to churn into a whirlpool.

After finishing our final clash we separate to catch our breathe. It was then I noticed the weather shift around us and muttered under my breath, "what in the hell is going on?"

Max took my momentary distraction to attack. I was so unprepared for her kick that I stopped flying. This made me fall towards the violently churning whirlpool below me. I was too late to realize my predicament and quickly found myself in the freezing ocean waters. I tried with everything I had to get out of the whirlpool as it steadily dragged me down but it was no use.

As Max watched me sink to my doom I thrust a claw at her and yell out defiantly, "DON'T THINK THIS IS OVER MAXIMUM! I WILL COME BACK AND WHEN I DO I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD!"

Those were my last words before I was dragged beneath the water and my vision turned black as I lost consciousness.