A VIVID FANTASY OF CHANGE AND DEVASTATION

re exercise than we ever had before. We passed any type of test. It was amazing! It´s not very healt

ing me every two or three days when insomnia kept me awake

t the good doctor had to sleep, and he had left clear instructions to the staff: unless I caused trouble, or spent more than three

hen I was starting to get bored, but my constant wa

hand, and he did the same. A couple of days later we started talking, and t

y side effect? Did you start to feel b

ast… tireless. Like… like a machine,” he mumbl

Th

at machine… just like the one where they keep you, and they sta

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t like… Yes. Superman. The enemy gets tired, but

o was yo

ever saw the battlefield. W

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could ha

with a sli

have wanted

in his eyes

ontinued. “You´ll h

se and sweaty, aiming everywhere with his almost empty gun, stuck in the midst of chaos in a fa

base, he had no idea how

ought. But now there are better soldiers… better than me. Younger and stronger, and from what rumors say… the

ving the machine motion

bolics or anyt

mbination,

ave a totally new model, and they also upgrad

t broken promises, that woman was referring to projects and experiments that had turned out m

d I started jogging on the treadmill. I found that

ter than what th

nt. Many have been in and out o

rs. Who knows how many they had created… Who knows what they could do

internet; but now I was with people who were responsible for true humanitarian and environmental catastrophes, in additio

who created the atomic bomb. Each scientific advance placed at the service of the armed forces, in addition to t

“I´ve only been here a few months, and even the highest-ranking military man on the ground

w. Most people think they know what they are coming into the world to do, but they don´t even know where they stand. And now t

n earth has suffered through numbers of mass extinctions. The only thing I did was stop

of the world, but it´s not that bad. The world was already going to hell on its own, and people didn´t

but that won´t do anymore. Your TV will no longer turn on or entertain you. Nothing wil

onal. They think it´s the end of everything. Th

hat´s going on outside?” The nervous man

improved soldier who, he told me, wanted to fight. There is

or a few crumbs or a drink of water, I smile at

d be much worse if I had regretted it. The consequence would have been war. I haven´t seen those super soldi

s a disaster, I experience it as peace. A peace made of rubble, dark forests everywhere, wild animals repo

the world has least now is predictability. No one knows what will happen the next day, or what they will become. Become? Yes, t

ar about in stories and movies has returned. Alth

nd I think this peace will end if I hav

d large tracts of land in different parts of the world leaving only a trace of death and devastation. Explosions, fires, screams of terror and crying mixed with clear sounds of gunshots. I could hear buildings collapsing as I ran through the rubble that threatened to crush me only for them to continue attacki

. I really hope I have avoided it, but that depends on those four

e supposedly better ti