(swear warning)Currently un-named story-By Max

[Max]

CHAPTER 1: Pain
" Come on Max, give it back ," A girl screamed, a male who seemed to be 13 standing over her. In the boys hands was a small book, writing covering the front, a small lock on the side.

" What’s the magic word ?" The male asked sarcastically the girl eventually giving in and muttering please, the boy smiling slightly as he dropped the book.

" Max! Olivia! Get down here!" A female voice called from downstairs, an air of sadness seeming to surround it. The pair looked at each other, as if to ask what did you do before running down the stairs.

" Its happened ," Was the only words the woman muttered as the pair entered the living room, only to be silenced by the sound of a growl and smashing glass. The girl screamed, the woman gathered the girl into her arms, the boy reaching for the lamp at his side.

That was me, the kid reaching for the lamp as the beasts entered. I want to put a stretch on was. That was two years ago, a few days after my sisters birthday, the book I had a hold of was her diary. Simple yet effective. That was my old name to these guys, these bastards that are keeping me looked up in here. To them, I’m just number 237.

" Come on 237 ," See what I mean? My ears twitched slightly as I stood up, the figure in a white coat instantly pulling out his gun, aiming it at my back as I began to walk down the corridor. Most people called it the death walk, I called it fun. See how many scientists you could infuriate before being sedated.

Now where was I? Oh yeah, number 237. The bastards I was speaking about was these white coats, the ones that gave me that one injection that led to all this. All the pain. All the suffering. All the fun really. You see, I’m an experiment, a misfit, something that shouldn’t be but is.

" Keep going, freak" Oh yeah, forgot that one. A freak. Door opens, I step in, door closes. " Now are we going to do this easy, or am I going to need to use the gun?" The scientist asked as I mouthed it. Same thing every single time. I shrugged slowly before swinging a punch at the scientist in front of me, a smirk on my face. Ah, sweet revenge. I turned, round hose kicking the scientist to my left, hearing a crack. An astonished cry broke a pair of familiar lips.

The head scientist had just come in. Black mail time. I turned and lunged, a loud screeching coming from behind me as my claws dug into the clear floor. A shot echoed, the familiar sensation of the dart hitting my shoulder. So close.

" God, will he ever learn?" one of them muttered as I hit the floor. One elephant tranq. Was that it recently? A growl escaped my throat, a last desperate swipe at the scientist before I normally blacked out, knowing when I woke up Id be in the exact same cage, with the exact same faces looking at me. I tried to stand up. YES! The tranqs weren’t working so well now. I was on my feet, an orchestra of gasps seeming to flood around me. I lunged forward before the gasps turned to laughs. It hadn’t been luck they hadn’t worked. It was a plan. One came behind me, shoving me towards another, in turn another, like one of those circles of bully’s at school.

" How do you like it?" Damien, or the head scientist, asked me, my head spinning as one of them punched me in the stomach, most likely Damien. Another started to kick as I hit the floor, hearing a slight crack, pain flaring up as one of my ribs broke. God, I was going to be feeling this tomorrow. Anger seemed to burn behind my eyes but I couldn’t do anything, the pain keeping me down as another one began to kick as well. Soon I just blacked out, my body refusing to move.

[Max]

Chapter 2: Meetings

I stared at the ceiling of my cage, head throbbing, feeling as if I had just woken up from after a night of partying. I slowly pushed myself to my elbows, wincing slightly as pain flared up my right side. I would have to get em to check it out sometime. I sighed, looking out at the rest of the sleeping experiments, hoping they didn’t get the same treatment I did. They never put up as much of a fight as I did. " M-Max?" A voice queried behind me. I turned my eyes to spot a face I knew.

" Mornin Elly ," I said calmly, not noticing the worry in her eyes. Had she seen when they had dragged me back in? I switched to a sitting position, looking at her with a smile on my face, hiding any pain. She was like myself and everyone else in the room. Each of us had been a test to see how kids, namely teens, reacted to animal d.n.a. I had been one of the first, my dad having led it and all before he had been killed in an accident, unlike the rest of my family. They had all been on purpose. She had been given flying squirrel. Me? I had been given leopard.

" What happened to you last night?" She asked, her voice full of worry. I smiled lightly, her blonde hair falling over her sapphire blue eyes. She was so innocent, so kind. She was one of the reasons I was fighting. To try and save kids like her. She leaned forward in her cage, looking at my cheek. That’s were that bastard had punched me. " Max ," She said. I didn’t want to tell her. Shed just get worried over me.

" The scientists got revenge ," I said, almost skilled at not giving away how far they had actually gone. I smiled at her lightly, her face showing she was worried and relieved at the same time. I’m sure if we weren’t in cages she would have hugged me or something. That was the sort of person she was. Always putting others first. I leaned forward in my cage, my arm managing to reach into hers. I gently wiped away a tear that was rolling down her cheek. " Hey, don’t worry, I’m fine ," I said, hating to see her crying. She nodded slowly, smiling as my hand wiped away her tear. She was only 8. She didn’t deserve to be involved in stuff like this.

" Everyone else was worried after you didn’t come back after an hour. That's how long it normally takes for them to get it over and done with ," Elly muttered quietly, motioning to the other younger injected. It was her, Josh and Simone. There were other older ones, but they only cared about themselves really. There was always Danielle if something happened to me. She always looked after the others. Almost always the first one to rise.

" Mornin ever-MAX!" There she was. I turned, smiling at the panther injected. She probably would have tried to hug me as well. Heck, most of them probably would have, including Josh. Her tail flicked lazily behind her, her eyes looking over me. Obviously she was worried but she would never say it to my face. I leant back slowly, my own tail flicking, paws tapping the floor of my cage. At least this weeks worth of tests were over with.

[Max]

Chapter 3: Past
Life went by moderately normal from then on. I didn’t put up a fight when they had taken me in to check out my rib. When they asked what had happened I gave them a glare. As if they didn’t know. When Elly tests came I put up a fight, saying to take me in her place. They agreed and I got another brutal treatment. The kid was terrified of the scientists and I wasn't about to let her get upset. Her and Simone needed looking out for. Josh was a bit of a hard head sometimes, but still, I looked out for him in secret. Shh, don’t tell anyone.

“ Max, come on. Please!” Speaking of the little devil. “ Josh, no. You can not try and fight against one of the older kids in our group test !” I said forcefully, almost knowing what was coming next. “ I HATE YOU!” Josh yelled, instantly turning his back on us. Five minutes and he’d be crying to come back. The kid might have been given bull but that didn’t stop him being a nine year old orphan. Heck, all of us were orphans in here. The scientists killed every single trace of our existence. Everything had been wiped out of the database. The only things we had to remember them by was the single photo we had been allowed to keep. Mine was of me, my mum and my sister. None us showed the others. We didn’t want them to know about our pasts.

My sister. She was the one I missed the most. She had been like myself, taken from out mum, forced to watch them slaughter her like a pig just because our dad was the old head. She had even been given the same d.n.a. as me. We were literally the same. Apart from the obvious anatomical side of things. Then one of her tests had shown a decrease in her strength. A virus had gone in with her d.n.a. and it was slowly eating her alive. They couldn’t do anything so I begged them to kill her swiftly and painlessly. That was the first time they had shown they were human. They actually did it.

“ Max, are you OK?” I heard Danielle whisper through her cage, breaking me from my memories. I hadn’t noticed but tears had started rolling down my face. I wiped them quickly, glad no-one else had noticed. Even the big leader has to show emotion sometime. “ Yeah, just thinking about Olivia ,” I muttered, putting on my best smile. The panther injected nodded, knowing who I meant.

“ I’m sorry Max, I didn’t mean a word of it. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry ,” Josh said, turning around with slightly reddened eyes. Wow, he’d actually cried after what he’s said. I meerly reached through and ruffled his hair, knowing my voice would betray me. I sighed, leaning back in my cage again, seeing everyone talking happily again. Life just seemed so easy even if we are a bunch of mutant freaks. I thank Damien for that little insult. The guys a real whiz with words.

“ So, we really gonna try it tomorrow? Really gonna try and break out,” Elly asked, her voice barely more than a whisper. I nodded, going over the plan I had told them so many times in my head. Basically it was a list like such:

Me: Distraction
Danielle: Leader of break out
Josh: Back up power
Simone and Elly: Cute mascots cheering us on and getting out

The plan: Once we get out for the test I start a fight, the rest of the group start to move toward one of the fences. Danielle and Josh get Elly and Simone over, while I distract the guards and such. D and J then move out, I run and climb up the shocked fence, trying to feel no pain after getting the shit kicked out of me by the rhino injected. He’s always up for a tussle. After we get out, we run. Run fast.

There’s the plan, now to execute it tomorrow.

[Max]

Chapter 4: More pain
“ Move it! Out the way!” People yelled and called around me, myself silent. I kept my eyes ahead of me, going over as many ways of stopping the rhino from killing me before I got the chance to escape. So far, nada. I sighed lightly, putting on my best smile before charging through the rest of the experiments, the others following me. I had to find Blake, and fast. I wanted the others out of the area quick enough not to see me get speared by another experiments horn. Blake had been given black rhino d.n.a. and lord did he love it.

“ Guys, get ready to move ,” I whispered to Dannielle, who passed it on to the others. Blake was walking past and I already had my plan in my head. Atleast, how to get the fight started. Danni and the group were already fence, leaning on it as if they were talking. Blake was 3 seconds away and my foot moved, tripping him to the floor as I pounced, putting all my weight on the creeps mammoth like body. I felt him cough slightly before a hand latched onto my shoulder and gripping, hard. I winced already feeling my body being pulled back so the kid could get up. Blake was the same age as me, maybe a bit older, but he already looked like a master criminal. He didn’t talk much, his face was enough to get the message across.

“ Oh, its you Max. I thought maybe one of the others had tripped me, but it was you ,” Blake said coldly, almost hissing the last word, his gaze dead on me. The rest of the experiments had formed a circle around us, the ones who had grabbed me letting go as the guy charged, the horn sticking out of his forehead heading straight for my stomach. I meerly let him get close enough before jumping and landing on his back, pushing down and springing off it. Thank the lord for cat d.n.a. I heard the thud as he fell, only to feel a fist make contact with my face as another experiment got into the fight.

“ I’m going to have to fight the lot of yah, aren’t I?” I questioned as I tackled the one who had punched, feeling an elbow hitting my upper back. I coughed, a normal person properly hitting the floor. Not me. I gripped the figures arm and pulled, the person feeling rather light. He slid up my back before landing on the guy who had hit me. After a few more moments of single attacks, they started swarming over me. I couldn’t help but wonder if I was going to make it out alive. Not likely. I growled under my breath slowly before launching at the closest goon, my claws finding his face, leaving deep marks along his nose and mouth, only to feel around 10 fists hitting random spots on my body, my form falling to the floor. After that I think it was mostly kicks and the occasional elbow to the back when someone tripped. Then I think I just gave up, eyes closing as my breathing became raspy. I could feel marks on my back from other cat injected. Eventually my body just quit, losing consciences quite quickly after another claw mark to the back of the neck. A final groan escaped my lips as a final attempt to make a sound before I went out completely. I’m not sure what happened after that, me being as good as dead to the world.