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Adam's eyelids twitched as he recalled his last bit of memories before stepping inside that escape pod-shaped structure inside the massive tower, leaving behind a heartbroken man looking at him with concern. Opening his befuddled and hazy eyelids, Adam looked over his thin, malnourished legs, revealing a slight smile on his scrawny face.
"I'm still a cripple.." he muttered.
He still was a cripple, despite being genetically modified into a Meta-Human of 2099. He didn't have a choice as well either. It was already too late in the future to cure his ailments. And surprisingly, he still had it, even after undergoing a Cryopreservation, which was, theoretically deemed to accelerate his cell's regenerative ability and cure him of his ailment.
Unfortunately, all the genetic modifications he went through at the age of 20 did nothing except for improving or better said, enhance his already sharp brain, making him one of the living geniuses of his Era, far surpassing the millions of talented individuals of 2099.
But that was all he had to his life. In reality, being a genius was neither a blessing nor a curse.
In his modern era of technology, being a genius meant work and just, work. And practically anyone could become one, but only if they managed to amass a huge amount of money for genetic modifications. One needed to be wealthy and that's it! You became a genius!
And going by that logic, he wasn't famous at all.No one praised him except his mother and mentor. People treated him like an object, a super-computer perhaps. He was not that great of a genius at all either! All he had was 50 more IQ points than an average adult and a hardworking nature, even without genetic modifications. There were far more intelligent and talented people than him by 2099, mostly due to genetic modification. However, he was an Assistant in the CRYENGINE project for a reason. If he were that big of a genius, he might just lead the entire project and be the hope and glory of humanity.
But humans, by 2099 had achieved, the so-called perfection, both physically and mentally. There was no shortage of handsome and beautiful individuals neither was the shortage of talented ones. But then, just ten years after he was born, the so-called "PANCREA", the miracle medicine was invented which gave birth to such golden spooned genetically modified babies. But unfortunately, it only worked on newborns essentially freeing them from all kinds of physical and mental ailments from birth to death. If only he was born a bit later, he might be able to live his life properly...
Sigh.
Sighing profusely, Adam gave off a wry smile as he basked in the deary sunlight all the while leaning on the massive tower, feeling the warmth of the same bright ball of fire and the cold of the snow, both penetrating his skin, slowly soothing his mind.
"But here I am, alive...just like a cockroach.." he muttered.
Moving his lanky arms, Adam massaged his thin legs, before coming into contact with the snow-covered surface of the earth. Feeling the wet droplets on his fingers, Adam brought them closer to his face before licking them off his finger.
'The snow is melting. I need to hurry up and leave this place he contemplated.
Turning his body, he looked over to his specific pod in the massive tower. Placing his hand over its cold, frosty surface, Adam closed his eyes. A blue hue enclosed his hand, before a strange rune in form of a question mark formed on his thin wrist, making the white snow below his body blood red.
Finishing off the process, Adam checked the rune on his wrist before cursing out loud.
"Damn, old man! Make the process painless, will you.."
Licking the excess blood off his wrist, and as if he knew what to do, Adam tapped his wrist twice. Instantly a hologram popped up from his wrist, revealing a bearded middle-aged man, wearing his signature lab coat over his thin body. It was Dr Issac!
And with his signature all-the-time serious look, the hologram looked at Adam, revealing a slight grin on his otherwise stoic face.
"I see you are alive, wannabe Professor X."
Hearing the mocking tone in which the hologram talked, Adam's lips twitched, trying to hold up on his anger. But despite that, the hologram continued.
"You know what you are? A Cockroach! A bloody Periplaneta! How can you leave me and go off in the future, hmm?"
"Who will feed you now? Who will clean your shit now! Who will massage your feet now? Tell me! You bastard", said the hologram with an enraged tone.
But after some time, the stoic face of Dr Issac was completely wiped off and was replaced by an enraged expression, eyes filled with insurmountable rage as he continued rambling about how Adam won't be able to take a shit without him wiping his ass. But Adam all this while, just continued smiling at the hologram, perfectly realising that the old man was already dead and this was just a recording after he stepped inside his preservation pod.
However, before things got out of hand, the hologram of Dr Issac regained its calm, before addressing Adam again.
"I see you are alive...and I can also see you have a foolish smile on your face as well. But.. enough of that. There are some things you need to know, now that you have woken up."
"I presume the world most probably not the same anymore and there are many things that have happened after you went into your slumber. I will explain it shortly, so listen carefully before venturing out. And remember that this is only a recording and nothing more. This file will be erased as soon as you have completed hearing it. So be attentive. "
The hologram paused as if looking at Adam, before addressing him again.
"After you went into your slumber, the world...itself mutated. And by mutation, I mean that all the seven continents joined together, giving birth to the great [Pangea] of the Paleozoic Era! " Said Dr Issac while opening his arms in a heroic T-pose.
"It was a massive event which happened in just 24 hours after you went into hibernation, on the 25th of December. But along with it came massive changes all around the world."
"Massive Tsunamis, a major shift in the tectonic plates which caused cracks to form all over the roads, floods, loss of habitat along with Demonic overflow of Earthly lava, you name it. Everything was similar to the Bloody Apocalypse movies you used to watch. But this is not where it ends."
"The [Pangea] which was created, soon was overwhelmed by the cosmic energy termed as Mana, which further divided the entire Pangea into 9 different continents."
"Alas, It was only me who got to witness this, as by then all the habitat was lost. And that was when I became the last human, stuck in a space station to live"
The old man paused for a second, as he closed his eyes before continuing again.
"But that was only for 5 years of my survival as after everything was over and I had concluded that the Earth was finally devoid of habitat, a strange phenomenon happened."
"Our space station channels started picking up life signals of new species emerging from the surface of the Earth!"
"I was extremely overjoyed! And proud as well!"
"How many of those damned Scientists could claim that they witnessed the birth of a new species! No one is right! But I did! I was akin to a god that time!"
"Anyway, by the time the species started proliferating the Earth, I was already too old. A hundred years old perhaps. And considering the limited amount of food supply in the entire, space station, I concluded that I would be able to live at least 100 years at best."
"Even at this moment you are seeing this clip, I may not look like it as I also have been genetically enhanced later in life to look young, I am already close to 188 years old."
"Heck, I might have died of loneliness, if not for some holographic images of your mom in her bathing suit to keep me company... "
Hearing this Adam's lips twitched as he heard the perverted old man ramble about his mom, all the while grabbing the white snow out of anger.
"Ahem..where was I, ah yes.As I was saying that I am 188 years old. But that's not an issue when I have some organic life to look after. It's quite enjoyable to play god."
"Imagine, being stuck in outer space, utterly lonely and bored, all the while looking at organic life proliferating and civilizations being built."
But suddenly, the hologram's eyes squinted as he stated.
"But, there was that one thing that bothered me very much during the time I looked over these organic lives"
"I expected dinosaurs and other aquatic life to roam about the Earth, but there were already species similar to humans roaming about the Earth. And the most astonishing thing was that they had weapons. Like weapons similar to Swords and Axes.First-order weapons, to be precise. Furthermore, they wielded this specific energy called Mana, and performed miracles! "
"And all this happened in a short period of just mere 80 years! As if these creatures were already there, to begin with, and just came out of hiding! And you know what, magic is real!"
"And by the time you hear this recording, the world is already far in future and I am long dead. But the thing is, the situation doesn't look good, according to what I had seen in the 100 years of my observation through the live footage of the rapidly advancing species from the area-wide space stations network around the Earth."
"Seeing the species adapting rapidly, I had a premonition that it was good for the entire mankind and it won't be long before we reach the apex of technology again, but there were no improvements at all. There was stagnation."
"These species made kingdoms, started slavery and even indulged in cannibalism, all the while going through wide political and civil wars causing things like mass genocide and vices similar to our history of the Dark ages. Furthermore, there was no development in the living conditions of these species. It was as if they had reverted to dark ages of manslaughter and political unrest."
"Furthermore, there is something mysterious threatening these species and I'm afraid, these mysterious beings are the reason for the Cataclysm which wiped out humanity"
"So this was the time, I realised that I need to do something about this to at least let these new inhabitants of Earth who looked similar to humans live peacefully. And that was when you 9 preserved, genetically modified humans came into play." Said the hologram, pointing its finger at Adam, causing his iris to shrink as a dreadful feeling swept over his entire body.
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