The land of Austian is considered
one of the most appealing sectors of this new age which was ushered in when the
effects of global warming were finished.
It still had a considerable amount of the old earth appearance with so
much to see from the amazing golden beaches to the spectacular forest to the
south and hot humid zones to the north. Sector 1, Zone 8, part of the far northern
piece, is mainly known as a farming community with its noble Mammoth herds.
Zone 8 has the latest technology to
supply most of the world’s food source. The most fortunate thing is that
scientists were able to save most of the valuable plant life and develop a
Mammoth herd from cloning the DNA from a perfectly preserved species discovered
in the Antarctica prior to the ozone depletion with that of an elephant. The ironic thing is that now the elephant is
extinct and the mammoth lives on. Sadly,
as much as the elephant fascinated humans for centuries, we could not save them
from the earth’s changes that drove them into extinction.
The number eight was assigned to
this farming community for it represents the number meaning of continuous life
or eternity. So the scientist daubed it as so. When a person would visit this
zone, you can feel invigorated with all the vegetation and herds of mammoths.
Each and every mammoth has its own individual distinctive personality. These enormous beasts are capable of showing
sadness and joy. And as you gaze upon the herds, you will find them playing
games with each other.
A lot has changed with the world’s
food supply since the year 2010. For one thing, was the ban on using growth
hormones to enhance poultry size and speedy development. After numerous
studies, scientist discovered that it was one of the main reasons for extreme
obesity after the cattle extermination due to Mad Cow disease. Not long after
the cow extermination, all types of fowl were dying off accordingly to the
excessive heat brought on by the intense UV rays which made their egg shells
too thin to support any new life. Alas, unfortunately scientist weren't able to
rescue or help the birds from extinction. The only thing they were able to do
was store samples of each genus in hope that someday in the future they too
could be cloned as it was done with the mammoths.
Before the complete depletion of the
ozone layer, dome covered cities were created in order to protect human kind
from over exposure of these ultraviolet rays.
Besides the human race being over exposed, all of the earth was robbed
of its natural minerals and resources. Amazingly, the only thing that didn’t
seem to be affected by these harmful rays was insects. After doing series of studies, it was
determined that a certain chemical compounds found in their outer shell was
what was saving them from the exposure. Scientist soon was incorporating this new
chemical into the sector dome’s material.
After the extraction of this chemical from the insect, it was found that
the grasshopper had a high protein and mineral content, another convenience for
the scientific world. And you guessed it, they were able to use the squashed
insects to make a paste and food additive. One of the side benefits to this
pastes was with the trace chemical that protected the insect, it was showing to
protect humans from the ultra violet light.
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Mary who was a tall thin woman found
to be in her mid-thirties, had strong hands and a lean look of the other women
found in this farming community. Her
hair was a chestnut brown and her eyes were almond shape with a hazel color.
She worked hard every day but enjoyed being around other people. Like any other
day after a long twelve hour shift at the food plant, Mary was at home
preparing her family’s night supper.
Paul, her husband, a six foot tall rugged looking man, was still at the
farming plant working late on this season’s harvest. And Simon, their son, a boy of twelve years
old, was still down at Mammoth barn section of the plant while his father was
still at the harvest. Most children had this duty because these beasts craved a
lot of attention. Naturally since children no longer had to go to school
because of SX Mind Upgrade, it was expected of them to take care of their
assigned Mammoth. Even though Simon’s mother told him not to name his Mammoth
because it would make it harder for when it came to butcher the beast, Simon
called him Brutus.
While Mary was in the middle of
making the family’s favorite steak covered with the grasshopper paste, the mail
monitor started to buzz. Trying to
ignore the irritating buzzing she kept working in the food center of their
living unit. Finally the constant noise hit her last nerve, so she went over to
answer it even though she already knew what the message was going to be.
In bright glaring red letters a
stream of words came across the monitor.
YOU HAVE THREE DAYS TO UPGRADE OR SUBJECT WILL BE LOCKED INTO AGE LEVEL
12.
This was just too much for her and
Mary breaks down into tears, sobbing uncontrollably. Like most things of fickle fate, they
wouldn’t have the money for an upgrade until four days from now. Earlier, her
family tried to get an extension, but it was denied by the government. The official who had spoken to her with no
emotion, just coldly explained that if they would do it for their family, they
would have to do it for all families. Not knowing the secret agenda of The
Elite not wanting everyone to be able to upgrade, Mary and Paul just plainly accepted
the excuse. Everyone knew that they were in a farming sector and their family was
considered one of the poor.
Mary and Paul sacrificed so much in
order to get Simon the best education so to move to a better zone. They even only had just one child so to pay
for these upgrades since birth. These upgrades were necessary only for the fact
that the UV rays had affected parts of the brain with the people of Austian. It
was essential that they received these upgrades.
At one time, everyone was entitled
to upgrades, but the government soon found that nobody wanted to do the trivial
things in life. Their best solution was to limit upgrades by charging for
them. In a way, society reverted back to
the days when the poor only ended up with a sixth grade education. This was the ideal way to ensure there were
still laborers.
Just a few seconds after the
flashing red letters vanished off the screen, the monitor became snowy and a
man’s face appeared who looked as if he was more Arabic than anything else.
When the figure spoke, all Mary could hear was weird squawking noises. When the
humans evolved into other races, it became harder to communicate to each other
species.
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Holding back her tears, Mary
suddenly realized that this person must be part of one of the richer sectors.
Maybe he was of the Euridean Sector. It hit her that this guy way
trying to speak with her live. “But, why?”she thought to herself. “Turn
on the interpreter Dummy!” Mary pushes the translator button and immediately
she can understand everything this man wants to convey to her.
“Mary. My name is Omar. I am
here to represent a client of a name I cannot mention. He has been
looking through your biological profile and found it quite favorable.
Your parents did well when designing you. They must have paid well
to pick out your best DNA features. He is asking if you will be willing
to, so to speak, to give a piece of yourself. Your family would be able
to live a life of ease for the next five generations. I will give you a
few days to think about it.”
Just as fast as the figure on the
monitor appeared, it was gone, leaving Mary in total shock what had just
transpired. Never before in her life has she been approached about her
DNA. She could feel the hair on the back of her neck stand up along with a
chill running down her back.
Omar, after his brief introduction,
was considerably pleased with himself. For this was real gem he found in
the biological archives. He knows all too well that the longer she holds
out, the better of a price he will get from his clients. She already has
over a dozen rich slobbering over her profile. If he plays his cards
right, he may even get the Illuminator’s attention. Her DNA is certainly
top notched. The “rich” mainly consisted of three groups, The Elite, The
Privilege, and The Masterminds. Omar
wasn’t just yet in one of these clicks, but next thing to it.
Around one hundred years ago, in the
1980’s, scientist referred to this era as the Era of Disease.
One of the most deadly was HIV which
soon wiped the whole continent of Africa out. That was just the beginning
of the shift of world powers. Soon after that came the deadly flu viruses,
Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, and West Nile Virus while the Mad Cow Virus ran
rampant in Europe turning people’s minds into mush. Many had speculated
whether germ warfare was to blame for all of these events. Others surmised it
was genetic engineering gone badly. Along with HIV, other sexually
transmitted viruses mutated in the early 2000’s that almost wiped out the age
groups from twenty to thirty year olds. Scientist had to scamper to create
a way to procreate without sexual contact. This was the beginning of Designer
Babies of which Mary’s parents used to select her best DNA qualities from their
gene pool.
Most people aren’t permitted to have
real physical sexual contact, but only through cyber and holograms. When
it is time to reproduce, a couple would go down to their local Designer Babies
clinic. Depending on how much they are able to pay, lets them choose
certain physical attributes. If they have good quality DNA, the couple
can actually sell some their DNA to less fortunate couples and in turn help pay
for their baby’s characteristics and strengthen their own gene pool. The
industry really exploded after the AIDS crisis was over.
Only the rich are able to have direct
physical sex, but it can only be done through agencies like the one that Omar
owns. His clients put their interests on a profile so that he can go
through the
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biological archives to find a
match. Another way for Omar to find woman who may be tempted to profit
from his agency is to go through SX Mind Upgrade System for people who might
not be able to afford the upgrade for their loved ones. He hopes that in
desperation, women will give into the temptation for his unquestionably spectacular
offer. If he is able to strike a deal with these certain women, the SX
Mind Upgrade System still gets a cut of the profit. It is a no lose
situation for SX Mind Upgrade System.
In reality, The Illuminators and SX
Mind Upgrade System don’t need Omar for only the simple reason is that with the
chip implant they could easily cohort anyone into doing their deeds. But, even with all this technology, they
still can’t control a person’s will power. The rich are after the game of
control over one or another. The more a person resists the offers, the
higher that person is worth. More or less the chase is on! Since Omar’s
last contact with Mary, her profile worth increased 130%
The Illuminators have been here long
before humans ever existed. In fact, The Illuminator race created a
well-known figure in human legends, the angel Lucifer. They have been
tampering with our DNA since the day we were all were apes. At first there were five separate species of
these hybrid apes, but like all things of survival of the fittest, one species
took over and endured. It was the
homosapiens.
One World Order, once was a
secretive elite power, was able to prove that religion was just a myth, but
never was able to stomp it out completely being that a certain mind set needs
something to believe in. Like most myths, it starts out with real facts
and somehow the facts get twisted into something else. Probably due to early
humans had limited mental capacity, religion was created to help those to
comprehend their origins?
It was the Catholic Church that knew
about the true beginning of mankind and how The Illuminators was involved which
they had buried for thousands of years in Vatican City. The only ones who had
true access to this privileged information were the reigning popes. They kept this
deep secret hidden in order to use religion as a way to control the masses.
The rest of the evening, Mary was
still puzzled over what had transpired today between Omar and her. What kind of
offer was he going to give her? Being in the farming sector, she really
didn’t hear too much from the other sectors. She was curious, yet scared. As she
went to retire for the night, she thought to herself, “I will wait till he
calls back again.” Wearily, she falls into a troubled sleep.
After what seemed like hours of
tossing and turning, around three a.m. Mary was woken from what was finally a
deep sleep, by this soft pale light blue glow that was in the corner of her
bedroom. She was in that half asleep and half-awake state when she heard her
name. It almost felt that the voice was traveling up from inside her chest to
her brain. The voice seemed intensely peacefully calm and that of a man.
She felt warmth and love radiating all through her and the room. It felt
so wonderful to her that she didn’t want the experience to stop.
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“Mary. I am here to give you a
message. Someone will visit you tomorrow. Don’t be afraid of this man.
His name is John. He will help you.”
“Who are you? Are you a hologram?
How did you get in here? What do you want?”
“I am a messenger of The White Illuminators.
We felt your distress. We are here to help.”
As soon as the figure appeared, it
was gone. Mary wondered, what had just happened? With all the
events that happened today, her head was spinning. Should she tell Paul about
any of this? She decided it was best not to. All he needed now was
to think his wife was going crazy on him. On top of feeling weary, now she
also felt bewildered.
Later the next day, Mary was making her
way back to her living unit when she saw this young man who appeared out of
nowhere and was wearing a cloak with a hood on it. It had a little bit of an
ancient look to it, but the man seemed to only be in his early twenties.
She tried not to appear to be staring at him and she felt a little uneasy
as he drew nearer to her. The next thing with a blink of an eye he was
standing right next to her. “How did he do that?” she wondered.
“Hello Mary. My name is John.
I know you were waiting for me. I am not of this sector, so I will
make this short. We know of your dilemma with Simon and having no money
for his upgrade. I am here to help you. We have been helping people
of your nature for centuries. All we require is that your son will be a
member to our society. We are The Truths Seekers.”
“Truth Seekers?” I thought
that they were a myth along with religion. Why should I believe you?
What proof do you have? Why haven’t you contacted my husband too?”
“Mary. The Truth Seekers are
the only thing left from religion. I am able to contact you because you still
possess ancient mind powers of clairvoyance. We heard your plea for help.”
With that John raised his cloak and instantly the two were in a room that
she never has seen before. It looked more like the old fashion operating
rooms she had read about as a child.
“Am I here for real or all of this
just an illusion?” Mary demanded.
“You are here through
teleportation.” John answered. “It is an ancient way the saints use to
move around. This is where Simon will get his mind upgrade.”
“Will get his mind upgrade?
You sound so sure!” Now Mary was getting agitated. How could he make such
assumptions!
“Mary, we know that a dangerous man
called Omar has contacted you. I know that you are not of that
nature to sell yourself no matter what the cost is. He will do everything
to convince you to trade yourself in order to pay for Simon’s upgrade. We
may have to hide your family from this man.” Suddenly, it is crystal clear what
Omar meant when he said he wanted a piece of her. How
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could she have been so naive! Her
head was spinning again as all these events were getting to be overwhelming for
her. What was she supposed to do?
Two more days and counting, that
was the thought that ran through Paul's head. How were they ever going to
be able to pay for Simon's upgrade in two days! All these hours he worked
was for what? He was just a poor farmer trying to make an honest way to
live. Mary and Simon deserved something much better than this Paul was
thinking. Maybe he should just go and join the military like his father
wanted to do in the first place. At least Simon would keep getting his
mind upgrades for free for the rest of his life. The thought of being
separated from him family just ripped him apart. It saddens him to think
that he couldn't provide for his family like he wanted to.
He sat quietly munching on his
breakfast that consisted of toast with grasshopper paste on it.
Grasshopper paste had become one of
the staples because of its high nutrient value. There are different flavors
too. The one he liked with his breakfast had a hint of mint in it.
Mary came out to the food center
and sat down beside him. "Paul, we need to sit down to talk."
"Not now, Mary. I have a
lot on my mind," Paul said in a monotone voice.
"Why do you always avoid
issues? Can't you see we have a crisis on our hands? Why do you
always clam up like this? It is tearing me apart right now and you don't
even seem to care!" Mary could feel all her emotions welling up in
her and she knew she needed to get them back in control before she said
something that she might regret. She always wished that she could keep
her composure like Paul, but today she didn't think that was possible.
Paul quietly got up from the table
and walked out the door without even saying a word. Mary thought to herself,
"This is so typical of him, just let me here alone to handle things!"
Meanwhile, Simon could hear his
parents at it again. He was confused over what they meant by a crisis.
He really didn't care; he just wished they'd stop fighting. He
better get a move on because his Mammoth, Brutus, needed to be fed. Because
Simon didn't have any siblings, Brutus kind of took their place. He was
with Brutus ever since he could remember. With his closeness for Brutus, Simon
really hoped that they would be able to keep him for breeding purposes.
Simon hurriedly put on his boots,
grabbed some toast with grasshopper paste and ran out the door with his mother
yelling after him, "Do you call that a breakfast?"He just loved it
down at the Mammoth farm! His friends were down there and when their
morning chores were done, they would hang out for hours.
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Simon was like any other twelve year
old boy who was emerging into puberty.
Lately he found himself more and more attracted to a young girl his age
named Sarah. She was different looking then most of the girls in Austian for
she was fair colored skin, pale blue crystal clear eyes and dark blonde
hair. Now he found himself more and more
torn between hanging out with his buddies down at the Mammoth barn any chance
he could or being with Sarah.
Most of his time today was spent
with Tim his best friend. The two were like any other twelve year old
young men always looking for a new adventure. Tim was excessively happy
today because he just had his new upgrade chip installed yesterday and now he
was good to go for another year. He did notice that Simon had trouble understanding
some of the stuff he was telling him. This is one of the side effects of an
upgrade. Because of a leap in knowledge
comes so quickly, one had to adjust to their surroundings until the others
could catch up.
It was almost like Simon never heard
of some of the words that he was saying. This was really starting to annoy
him. He was getting tired of repeating himself to Simon every few minutes.
But at any rate, he knew that he and
his parents were happy that his upgrade went through and so was he.
Today Simon and his best friend,
Tim, were planning to take their Mammoths for a ride and do some exploring off
of the farm. He brought his handheld map guide that sort of looked like
the old GPS from the twenty first century days in his backpack so that they
would be able to find safe drinking water for their Mammoths. It will be
a real treat for Brutus to have real grass today instead of pellets made up
partially of grasshopper paste.
As usual, Brutus was happy to see
Simon. He affectionately nuzzled his trunk across Simon's face as Simon
was filling his feeding trough. Suddenly, Brutus pulled back and acted
disturbed.
"What's
the matter boy", Simon asked as he tried to stoke him. All of a
sudden the worst headache Simon ever experienced hit him hard. The buzzing
in his head was getting louder with
each
second. He heard a voice in the back of his skull echoing, "Twenty
four hour count down has just begun." With that, that was Simon's
last waking thought. He fell to the ground, his eyes rolled to the back of his
head and his body went into convulsions.
It was mid-morning when Mary was
down at the food processing plant doing her daily routine of packaging the food
from this year’s harvest. Her assembly line consisted of ten robots which she
had to monitor at all times especially after the gruesome accident last spring
when one of her co-workers by mistake entered the assembly line to do
maintenance on the conveyer belts.
Someone turned the line on and he
was ripped to shreds. It took days to sanitize and sterilize the whole
assembly line.
Without any warning, a figure
was standing beside her. It was The Truth Seeker John. "I wish
you wouldn't sneak up on me like that!" Mary blared at him.
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"Mary, you need to get down to
the Mammoth quarters now! Simon needs you!
Let me transport you
immediately!" And with a blink of an eye, the two were standing
before the ash grey body of Simon lying on the floor of the Mammoth barn.
He almost looked dead with foam coming out of his mouth and his pants
soaked with urine. Mary let out a milk curdling scream and fell to her
son's side hysterically crying.
"Mary, we need to act
quickly." "Let me take you and Simon to get his chip upgrade.
It is emanate the he will die without it. His body is rejecting the
countdown. It may be a flaw in this chip. Thank God he has a strong
heart!" John whisks Simon into his arms and teleports all three of them to
the operating room hidden deep into the caves of Euridean.
The Truth Seekers knew of Simon's
condition due to the fact that they had hacked into the chip itself. John
was not sure if the chips monitoring system detected them or not, but whatever
happened, set off the countdown sooner than planned. The only chip that
they have that is ready for use was out of a twenty three old college student
who was studying aerospace engineering.
With this big of an upgrade, it
could either drive the kid insane or he may lose some short term memory.
The Truth Seekers weighed the risks
of the upgrade and it was determined that they needed Simon and the chance was
well worth to take. The war against The Dark Illuminators has been more
intensified these past few weeks. It was believed that The Dark Illuminators
were to activate their bloodline soon in order to take over the Earth.
Once the metamorphous begins, mankind will no longer exist, just the
mutated Illuminator race. Since, it is known that Omar sniffed out Mary, The
Dark Illuminators will definitely be after her DNA to enhance their dying race.
"Mary, I need you to wait in
this room while we do the upgrade now. Don't worry. We have the most
advanced medical team here," John reassured her.
And on that note, a glowing being
entered the room. He reminded Mary of The White Illuminators who she saw
the other night in her room. Instead of glowing pale blue, this creature
was emitting a pale green. Both creatures were strikingly handsome and
tall.
"Mary, my name is Raphael.
You may recognize my name from ancient folk lore from a time when our
race was able to communicate freely to your race. I am the healer.
Don't worry about Simon, he will survive." In a flash, Raphael
was gone.
"What am I to do? I
can't believe all of this is happening. I can't lose my one and only son.
I have to tell Paul about what is happening!"
Mary was starting to get hysterical
now and the only choice John had was to tranquilize her. She would wake
when Simon had his knew chip put in. Meanwhile at the food plant he
activated a hologram of Mary so her co-workers wouldn't miss her. The chip
extraction was the easy
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part. The hard part will be
implanting the upgrade. Not so much of the operation itself, but the
activation of the chip.
Simon wasn't under very long.
The chip upgrade is a fairly simple operation. Now for the real
test; Raphael held a device over Simon's head that gave out a high pitch signal
that only animals could hear. It was a sequence of sound that did a test
patterned prior to bringing Simon around. It was vital that they didn't
lose any information stored on that chip. The chip had some of the latest
technology from Dr. Dixon's experiments involving the Amerian race.
The implant was a success and no
data was lost. The next hurdle was to see if Simon's body will accept
this big of an amount of an upgrade? So far Simon's vital signs are good
and holding their own. Now it is time to bring Simon around.
"Simon, it is time to wake up.
Do you hear me? Everything will be all right. Can you nod you head if you
hear me?"
Meanwhile, Simon hears someone
talking. He is tired, but he is thinking to himself, "Who is this Simon
that they are talking to? Are they talking to me? Why am I seeing all these
pictures flashing before my eyes? Am I dreaming? They must be talking to me.
I better move my head."
"Good Simon. Now tell me how
many fingers I am holding up."
Simon opens his eyes, but the glare
makes it hard to focus. After a few more seconds, his eyes begin to focus
on the hand in front of him. The pictures that were flashing quickly
stopped as soon as he opened his eyes. "Two", he mumbled.
"Good. Now tell me what day is
today."
"It is September first,
2082."
"Very good. Can you tell me
what your name is?"
Simon's mind started to race. All
of a sudden he became aware that he couldn't remember his name. He knows
he has a name, but just couldn't remember it. A look of panic started to
run across his face.
"Calm down, Simon. This
is not unusual after a chip upgrade. You will remember your name in a few
hours. Your mother is here with you. You will be going home soon."
Simon thought to himself, "I
understand about the chip, but I don't know why they keep calling me Simon when
I am Alex. Why do they keep referring me as Simon?"
"My name is Alex. Why do
you call me Simon?"
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"You are Simon. It will
take the chip a few more hours to send out signals to craw your memory to
activate the chip. Just stay calm an things will go more smoothly,
son."
Mary hears her name and wakes up to
instantly wanting to see Simon. Raphael and John meet her at the door.
"Mary, I want to prepare you a little for what you will see.
The implant was a success. Normally the chip would have crawled the
brains memory by now, but once in a while it takes a little longer. What
we are trying to say is, Simon may not know you at first or even his own name.
So be patient and calm until this transition is complete. It will
go faster if Simon stays calm."
Mary walks into the room and sees
Simon just sitting there emotionless. He looks up at his mother and says,
"They say my name is Simon."
