"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

"It was cold....this shivery feeling had made my whole body go numb. What had happened? Was the one thought that kept pondering in my mind as I was in a complete state of being wholly incongrous".

(Gun shots are espied)

"Run! We need to escape!", hollered a man far ahead running unbeknownst to his surroundings through a rather peculiar shaped "zig-zag" hallway with security cameras on every cut, he was detected with 3 more people: a young woman in her thirties, a very young boy with a angry look on his face and an innocnet looking little girl, all who were vigorously pushing through the mysterious guards and attempting something like an escape. However in that moment, in fright with her clumsiness, the little girl tripped and fell to her own doom as the guards' aim shifted and she was no more. The young boy who was now drowned in blood started vomiting and eventually fainted, the rest were paralyzed and couldn't move due to the utter shock. They were all captured and taken while the oblivious man in the helpless state could finally move.

"Where am I!", he still pondered until he lifted his head and saw himself strapped in a stretcher, his heart began to beat rapidly which instantaneously developed into a panic attack and led him to scream so loudly it could tear one's eardrums or his own voice box although, to silence him, the guard swung his baton to his head knocking him out and then shifting him to somewhere else.

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"Subject: 60845! Subect: 60845, SUBJECT: 60845!!!

The man got startled and opened his eyes to a young attractive woman in a nurse uniform that had a never before seen emblem on her front pocket, he got curious of what it was but got interrupted by the nurse who claimed to him "Get Ready". She walked away and left him to be even more curious, on the spur of a moment another man laying down in the same type of bed approaches by saying "So, you're new here huh? Name's Omna..... I mean that's what everyone calls me here, I don't know why.... but anyways, a piece of advice if I may, it'll hurt at the start but you'll get used to it." "What do yo------AAAAaarghaahaarghahh---" Blind to his surroundings, the man was injected with a certain kind of fluid and at the moment of extreme pain, his whole body had gone numb and couldn't move, his vision started becoming red as blood accumulated out of his pupils, his mouth became dry and it felt as though his insides were overflowing, his weight had seemed so heavy it was holding him down and making the bed seem like the hardest surface ever known to existence, and finally his consciousness came to fade away and he blacked out.

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"Robert...." "Robert...Robert..." "ROBERT!!!!.....

The man called Robert opens his eyes to a beautiful young woman calling out his name constantly and asks "Brenda, Where am I?" To which 'Brenda' replies "In Japan, of course, Silly. The MK I is done, we have finished inspecting the area for launch and you're here dozing off, c'mon we need to evacuate, orders say we are launching in a few hours." Robert, surprised, asked Brenda "Wait, wait, wait... slow down, I just woke up from a really wierd dream and am shook, I was some sort of test subject and there was this big industry comprising other 'Lab Rats'....." "Oh really now, that's a unnerving fantasy if I know one, commonly morning nightmares come true", Brenda claimed

"God Forbid Brenda! Watch what you say, this wasn't a joke."

Brenda added "Yes yes, we know, now lets get a move on." Brenda goes to the exit door and starts to hear a itchy whistle that sticks to her ear and abruptly the ground ruptures and Brenda was gone in a split of a second and so was Robert. All of Hiroshima and the Pearl Harbour was covered in utter devastation and destruction. The screams of the people who were out of the perimeter of the explosion but were still affected with burns and radiation still echo to this day, and Robert is the one who will be constantly agonized by it, since he is the designer and creator of the MK-I Bomb also known as the "Little Boy".

Robert opens his eyes and gazes upon the grey empty night sky, there was an unmitigated silence, Robert was nonplussed by this scenario and environment but it came to him eventually, he realized he had already died but had gotten another chance at life, though it was a egregious begining, Robert still held hope.

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"Where in hell am I? I need to find a place to live, *stomach growling* and some food" Robert heads off to search and as he was walking and walking, slowly running out of fuel, if he took one more step he couldn't move that leg for another moment, he was drowning in sweat, his throat was suffused in a drought, his nauseatic feeling made him dizzy all over, until he found what he was yearning for, the light at the end of the tunnel, "help". He saw a sign: See Green City 'A New Begining" and an old feeble man nailing it, he was in the clothings of what a farmer would wear, he stopped his work and his attention swifted to Robert who was also approaching him as he was so desperate. They both made contact and it was as a stone wieghing more than a mountain wrapped around Robert's chest was lifted and things were getting biddable, Robert asked the old man for directions to this "See Green City" and he merrily without hesitance or stuttering navigated him the route, even though Robert was in the most fortunate situation he still was curious of why the old man didn't show any dubiety and went ahead to ask him, the old man just replied with "This whole land has gone to waste young one, there is no one who does not need any help. and you were one of them. Why wouldn't I help a man at the end of his tether, miserably finding a way, who's eager for support?" This wiseness lit a light under Robert's heart, he thought to himself that his journey was to be of patience but this life he has now would be of no regrets. The newly exuberated Robert had a surge of energy and he ran.........ran with a new spirit, to the directions given by the old man, what was known as "See Green City", which was a possible new home according to Robert. He ran...... and ran...... and ran....."*panting.....panting*", his breath became larger and deeper as he ran, he was slowly and slowly losing all his power and balance on his feet.

Then and there, he collapsed, on the road, under the heat in the bask of sunlight.