Quinton Carter

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No one is sure how long it's been since the uplink went live. We all thought the virus would be the worst of it. Millions of our people had perished from the virus that was once thought to be no more than a common cold. Only this virus just kept mutating. The leaders of the world developed a vaccine that adapted to the mutations of the virus. Using nanotechnology, scientists had finally found a way to combat the virus. They successfully eradicated it almost 15 years after its first case, but the virus had done its damage. The decline of what was left of our peaceful society, after all the devastating losses, was rapid. There were riots and looting in almost every major section around the world. Violence among regular citizens peaked as hundreds of people were gunned down in the streets every day. Clashes between militarized police units, and citizens ensured those numbers would more than triple. In an effort to gain control the police had ignited a war. Apparently, this was the least of our problems. Scientists knew there was something up with the atmosphere long before the reports of the Atlantic ocean's temperature rising hit the airwaves. A rip in the atmosphere had been the culprit. The water directly beneath the rip had reached its boiling point. The world had been experiencing a blistering heat wave, triple digit heat almost everywhere. The temperatures had been rising for quite some time. Efforts to use different chemical releases in the lower atmosphere to combat the temperature had only made the problem worse. The polar ice caps were melting at an alarming rate, causing a series of catastrophic floods. Half of California was underwater while the whole eastern seaboard had vanished beneath the waves. All the while the temperature kept increasing. States in the southwest had been abandoned as the heat was no longer tolerable. More than a few minutes in what was once Phoenix was no different than holding your own personal nuclear reactor. The damage done to our atmosphere was irreparable and in our effort to save it, we only made it worse. Of course, the government had been tracking this all along, and while the vaccines did wipe out the virus they had a secondary purpose. No one knew this of course until the day the president got on TV and finally gave us the "The Good News". I heavily emphasize the quotation fingers used here. He along with the rest of the world's leaders explained what they had been up to, and what had been decided in order to preserve the human race. A last ditch effort to save us all! Those who previously refused the vaccine were given 30 days to vaccinate and receive the Nanites. After this deadline no one else would be allowed to take it as it would no longer be available. Our once lush blue planet started to take on the shape of a desolate waste. Void of life. Earth was quickly becoming a twin to its already famous red neighbor.