Monday, April 4, 2011

Science Fiction Story Project

I wake up on the cold hard floor, my body absolutely freezing and my head feeling completely dizzy. I wake up in a dark and freezing room with many wires and electrical gadgets spread out throughout the entire room. Once I stood up, I noticed that the floor was slightly damp and cold; and when I turned around to see what it could be, I noticed that there was a row of gigantic cybernetic capsules that were empty and cold as the one behind me, and a few of them were still closed, but the bodies in there turned out to be frozen carcasses with hardly any flesh left on them. “What…… is this place…?” I moan out, still feeling pretty dizzy and cold. A few minutes later, a door slides open and steam start to flow out of it. When the steam cleared up, a man in a thick, dark lab coat and two men in cybernetic protective gear show up in front of me. The man in the lab coat smiles, removes his glasses and says to the men next to him “The last man finally came out, gentlemen. And with only three casualties out of the ten people total, our capsules were an overall success.” “Ok, what’s going on? Where am I, what are you guys doing, and what do you want from me?” I say in confusion and slight anger. “So you are awake” the man replied “You were a part of a test of a new scientific breakthrough; to be able to literally be frozen in time with nine other lucky people. The experiment began in the year 2011 with the help of the United States government, and now it’s been exactly 100 years since the experiment started. The other six people got out of their capsules between one and five years ago, and living their own basic way of life. I should say that you’re a lucky young man for being able to see the world truly rise in your time, and then see what the world looks like now and how advanced things are compared to your time. Welcome to 2111, my friend!” “……100 years….?” I murmured “Let me get this straight, I have been frozen for 100 years, with all of my family and loved ones dead as I missed out on all of the important things in their life, from the marriage of my brother to seeing my friends graduate in college and getting the jobs they dreamed about their entire lives?! Why the hell did you guys choose me to be a part of this corrupt government experiment?! Why me of all people, I was having a good life with a great family, fun friends, I was looking forward to heading to college, and now you guys took all that away from me all for that damn experiment of yours!” I managed to yell out. “We knew there would be something unique about the ten of you. We weren’t so sure what, but we knew it could change things when you woke up in the future.” The man said feeling quite sad about what I said. “I sincerely apologize that we took everything you held so dear away from you, even though I know you’ll never forgive me. Come on, we’ll take you outside of the lab.” He grabbed my arm, taking me outside of the lab; and as we were walking, he happily said to me “I almost forgot, you can call me is Professor West, and don’t worry, we already know who you are, Alex.” After about five minutes of walking up many sets of stairs, we finally made it outside. The city area was very technological and cybernetic, with many slick, cybernetic cars driving by the streets with tons of people walking by. Many of the buildings were taller and much more technologically advanced than any building during my time, and everything looked so magnificent, well done and very lively. In a way, it looked like a technological part of my modern day Tokyo that finally made it to America. I stared at amazement of the cybernetic metropolis for a few minutes, then Professor West grabbed my attention and said “There is still more to show you, like the other great technological advances in this period of time.” We didn’t have to travel very far, just about a few buildings over to a very unusual looking hospital. We walked by a window where doctors were performing surgery for a man that has very severe bruises and gashes on his body. The doctors covered the man in a plasma-like substance, and all the painful marks on his body suddenly healed up from his body. “In this time frame, we can heal up almost anything life threatening disease or injuries with the help of plasma. It can even be used to help put destroyed organs back to normal.” said Professor West. “They use more than just plasma to heal up injuries; many interesting elements and chemicals have been discovered and mixed together to cure people, and there are times where technology is used to heal up any kind of disease as well. There are still a couple more places I’d like to show you.” This time, we had to travel mach farther from the city, right at the edge of the city’s border, and as we were traveling, we went past a very rural and decimated part of town with hardly anyone around and a few futuristic looking soldiers guarding the area. We came across an extremely long electrical force field-like fence with hundreds of soldiers training with an amazing militia. Professor West continued his talk “As you can see, our army force has a much stronger arsenal in their hands. Not only do they have the ability to fire their guns normally at enemy soldiers, but with more help from our plasma technology, they can even blow up a whole vehicle or a base just by firing a single bullet. Soldiers can even take refuge in the cyber robotic tanks and armored vehicles that drive and take out enemies by themselves. Oftentimes these soldiers guard the dangerous parts of the city that have high crime and murder rates.” I noticed that he didn’t look that happy at all when he was talking about the army, almost like he was forced to take me there and tell me about them. As we left the area, many more soldiers left the camp area, probably to guard the rural of the city. We went back to the building where the lab was and they showed me the main room in the lab complex. “We always experiment and try out many new technological advances that can help to help make our lives safer and easier, and we work on those experiments almost nonstop every day. So, do you have any questions now?” he finally concludes. After being silent for a few hours, I finally yell put “Now that I’m here, do you guys plan on making me you guinea pig for your freakin’ experiments?” “Nope. Now that you’re here, you can choose to live the life you want to live now; find a job, join the army, do whatever you want.” he replied. “So where the heck am I suppose to live now that my original home and family are gone, and how am I gonna get a job with no college education, an expired driver’s license, and pretty much no record left of my existence?” I retaliated. After a few seconds of silence, he slowly replied “Don’t worry, with funds from the government, we can help set you up with the home and life you need, no government problems to deal with. We also have some of your personal information saved as well so you can get your job and to help you for anything else in life.” I was silent for a few minutes, even though it felt like hours, just wondering what I’m going to do now, what career choices there are and what am I going to do about college. “I just don’t know where to go now. I need a college education, and I don’t know what kind of career choices there are now.” “Well, if you don’t know or care what you do,” Professor West softly said “One option is that you can join the Army, or that you can stay here and train and become a scientist.” Almost immediately, I said “No way in heck I want to join the Army, and I’m not good at science at all, and I fear you guys possibly using me as your test subject.” Things became silent again, but the silence only lasted a few seconds before Professor West said “……Very well. Since you were about to leave for college before this incident happened, we will apply you to a nearby college that will provide the education you need and has the possible majors you want. You’ll start your college life next week, but for now, you’ll stay in a nice hotel by the lab with the help of government funding.” He grabbed something from a hidden compartment in one of the machines and hands it to me. “The crime rates have increased over time, so you might as well take the newest high tech rifle with you for now until you’re at college where your safety is almost guaranteed.” “But I’ve never used a gun before.” I quietly said. “Don’t worry, the ammo’s already provided in it and the safety is on, so you just switch the safety, point and fire, that’s it.” He said confidently. After a few hours of waiting, they set me up in an amazing looking hotel with robotic room cleaning machines and a big screen TV, and the people at the lab provided me with clothes and other basic necessities I need. They even provided a ton of money for me to have to spend on almost anything I want, so I decided to do some shopping at the many towering stores that were around. After shopping around until nighttime, I decided to head back to my room, with the newest gaming handheld, a phone that can play music a whole lot better than an Ipod, and can successfully do anything and much more than my modern day computer, reading material, and plenty of food and beverages on hand. There was really nothing to do the next few days, just some more exploring around the city and a little bit more shopping. On the day before I left for the college, there was a stand-off going on the road by the lab between a couple soldiers and a robotic tank and many gang members with a couple hostages as I watched from the window of my hotel room. The stand-off had been going on for a few minutes, and then suddenly, Professor West started to walk by, ignoring the demands from the soldiers. He took out a pistol from his coat and pointed it right at the gang. He fired his first shot right by the gang members’ feet, causing lots of debris and dust to fly at their faces and making them let go of the hostages. He then fired a second shot right at the gang themselves and made an explosion that killed off all of the gang members. The two soldiers lowered their guns momentarily and one of them said to him “Thank you for your help, but it seemed too dangerous for you to take them on yourself.” The soldiers then raised their guns back up and aiming them right at him. “However, you will be charged for interfering in the line of duty of a soldier and possible murder charges. Please come with us.” He slowly began to move away from them, then after one of the soldiers ordered him to stop, he redrew his pistol again at super-human speed and fired two normal shots at both of the soldiers and killed them before either one could react. And at the moment the robotic tank targeted at him and ready to fire, he fired a plasma shot and blew up the entire tank, with shrapnel flying about as high as the room I was at, some of it almost slashing my face off. A minute after the smoke cleared from the tank’s explosion, ten more soldiers stood guard with electrical shields in front of them as they stood right in front of him with three tanks behind them targeting on to him. When they gave him a warning to surrender, Professor West opened up his right hand from his coat and a missile the size of his arm suddenly slid down to his hand and was holding it on his arm like it was a small rock. When the soldiers began to fire at him, he suddenly vanished right above them, and he hurled the missile right down at them and incinerated them entirely as even more shrapnel from the tanks and the road began flying into the air. When the smoke cleared, Professor West slowly walked away, and as he was walking, one last gang member appeared, and he seemed to be the leader of the gang since he had the biggest muscles and was completely armed to the teeth. He was slowly moving up towards Professor West, and as soon as I saw him point his gun towards him, I shuffled towards the Professor West gave me, aimed it for about ten seconds, then obliterated that last gang member in one shot. I left for college the next day, and after a two hour cyber limo drive, the driver gave me a note from Professor West that said “Thanks for your help on taking out that last man. I knew he was behind me, but I wanted to see what you would do. The soldiers these days are almost willing to kill nearly anyone that threatens them, even if you try to help. Get that education you need, and I can guarantee you that we’ll meet again.” I wondered what Professor West’s new scientific plans are now and if he plans on rebelling against a strong, brave looking army as his own army. The cybernetic gates into the college campus opened, and all I could think about now was what my new life would be like and what else could possibly happen now in this new time period. I wonder what college life is like here in the future?

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