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Chapter one
It was the 3021 elections for Presidents, Henry Chapman was selected as president, but it turned out to be the worst mistake ever made. Henry, being the cruel and miserable man he was, decided that he must select what people do in their lives, and not themselves, and the hospital must put a disk where their heart is and manipulate their DNA in a specific way. The only way of restoring them to normal is by a big red button in the most guarded place on Earth, Henry’s office. The people that were born like this looked like they had no soul, like an empty shell built for labor. Their eyes were dull and misty, faintly glowing with an eerie yellow light.
The number of these genetically engineered people increased drastically throughout the years, everyone on this planet was now controlled by Henry, or so he thought… There was one boy who managed to escape from the greedy, grasping hands of Henry. He was the only normal human left on this melancholy planet left apart from Henry.
The boy is a worker in a factory that manufactures iron tools, the work was gruesome and unimaginably boring. Day on, day off, he was doing the same thing. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day of his life, he could not take this for any longer. He despised the place he worked in, the continues smashing noise of the hammers, the heat that could melt one’s skin if you stood to close. The desperate whispers of the workers who had no will. No soul. No nothing.
On one awfully terrible day, the boy stumbled out from his dormitory on to the grey tarmac road to the cafeteria, he looked up miserably at the equally grey and miserable buildings that towered above him. It was 7 in the morning, yet the sky was as dark as the night. Suddenly, there seemed to be a burst of energy in him, the small, faint, flickering flame inside him suddenly turned into a roaring wildfire. He remembered when he was a very small child, his mother used to tell him about the beautiful environment. The warm sun, the green grass, the clear blue flowing water and the songs of happy birds. His eyes shone with frustration as he bellowed at the top of his voice into the smoky sky.
“It’s all because of you and your stupid factories! We can’t even see the sun now; because of all the pollution! You trapped yourselves in a ball of harmful smoke just for us to slowly die!?”Silence followed… absolute silence.
He stood there, very still, then suddenly sprinted towards the iron factory, stomped up all the stairs to where all the workers were working as usual. He took a deep breath through his mouth and shouted across the din of the room“My dear friends, we have been fooled and used by the Ministry. We are being treated like slaves, no, worse than slaves, locked up in here doing all the work.” He saw the hundreds of heads turn to him with no expression on their faces as usual, he shuddered at the thought of what might happen to him if one of them reported him to the ‘big boss’.
He plucked up all his courage,
“This is not what he promised us when he elected him in the election! He said, if we chose him, we would have a lifetime of enjoyment and happiness. Not working like dogs and having no freedom!” he panted, waiting for the reaction of the crowd…
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