Chelsey Seal

Zen

Imagine a world where amputation, transplants, and eventually even cancer could be totally fixed or cured. Experiment Zen was intended to help teach cells to transfigure into different types of cells that could then be used as part of surgeries and other procedures to then produce cures to major diseases. However, Experiment Zen was never meant to learn how to breach outside of the program walls. For young five-year-old Kate Cruz, it went much further than that. Her parents were two of the lead scientists conducting the experiment, but Zen, while bordering success, was one of the biggest scientific failures ever known. With no warning, the scientists put up a losing battle with forces beyond their control. Once Zen had been completely programmed, it was activated and placed under intense surveillance. The night before the observation was the last time Kate ever saw her parents alive. All that she had left to remember them by was a heart-shaped pendant that her father had given her mother to celebrate their new creation. Now, twenty years later, the world is very different from the things we learn in our history books.