Chapter 1: The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
Date: 17-9-2070

James slowly awoke to the sound of bleeps and voices. His vision was blurry, but he could make out the outline of someone standing over him. He quickly sat up, looking around. The figure began to speak.

"So you're finally awake then." The voice was female and middle aged. James looked at the figure as his vision slowly returned to normal. The figure was a middle-aged woman wearing a white doctors jacket and a blue shirt.

"Welcome back James, you've been asleep for ages...how do you feel" It was at that point that James' head started to ache. He led down again, bringing a palm up to his head.

"Like there's a full scale riot in my head...and the police just brought in reinforcements...where am I" The woman smiled a little.

"You're at New York Hospital. I'm Dr Hunt"

"Nice to meet you..." Dr. Hunt folded her arms.

"Do you remember anything from the incident?" James nodded a little.

"Yeah...some psycho tried to kill me...he threw a knife at the back of my knee and two knifes at my back. He also stabbed my chest...think where the right lung is." James looks down at his body to find himself wearing hospital pyjamas. He lifts up the top and looks where the madman stabbed him to find the wound had healed. He checked the back of his knee; that had healed as well.

"Man...you doctors do a good job...healed in no time at all and no scars!" Dr. Hunt just looked at James and sighed.

"James it wasn't in no time at all....you've been here a while..." James nodded.

"Ah, about a week or so, maybe a few days even?" Dr. Hunt shook her head.

"No...Twenty years." James was silent for a while, then he started laughing.

"Twenty years, good joke doctor." Dr. Hunt shook her head again.

"I'm not joking, you've seriously been here twenty years...here, I'll bring you today's paper" Dr. Hunt walks towards a table and picks up a newspaper from the table, bringing it back to James.

"Here, check the date" James nods, looking for the date.

"Alright, but I don't see what- Thursday, 17th May, 2070?!!?" James couldn't believe his eyes. He really was there at the hospital for twenty years.

"....ok doc, could you tell me what the hell is going on?" Dr. Hunt nodded and brought a chair up to James' bedside, sitting in it.

"Ok, here we go..." And so Dr. Hunt told James everything that had happened in 20 years; He was brought in and operated on. The operation was almost a success, but he needed his aging process to be stopped so his organs wouldn't grow in order for him to live normally. A year later a man called J.C. Denton caused a worldwide panic by starting what is now called the Collapse. Versalife was shut down and UNATCO was disbanded. A company called Tarsus was created and developed training schools, which were named Tarsus Academies. James listened to everything Dr. Hunt said, scared, and amazed at all that had happened since 2050. After she had finished, James took the time to think about this.

"So New York has changed as well?"

"Yes James, if you were to go out there now, you wouldn't recognise it probably." Another doctor, middle-aged male, walked up to Dr. Hunt.

"Are you going to tell him the 'other' thing?" James looked confused.

"Other thing? I thought Dr. Hunt had told me everything..." The new doctor shook his head.

"Not quite...you see as well as having your aging process stopped, you were also put into a cryogenic chamber so you wouldn't wake up early. Also, 5 years ago we introduced your body to biomodification to speed up the healing process." James blinked

"Biomodification?" Then he remembered about what the madman had said. The age of biomodified humans.... The male doctor nodded his head.

"Yes, biomodification...oh yes, I almost forgot. I'm Dr. Gillard." The doctor brought out his hand and James shook it.

"Nice to meet you....so what does this mean?"

"It means that you're kind of like a cyborg...well not yet, it's not fully activated, we were waiting until you woke up to begin the final stage."

"Fully activated?" Then Dr. Hunt began to speak.

"Yes, it means that all the systems will be active. Which means you can get status reports on your body, keep track of your health and bioenergy, se-" James suddenly interrupted Dr. Hunt, waving his arms a little.

"Hold on, hold on, wait a second, bio-what?"

"Bioenergy, allows you to use your Biomods." Dr. Hunt replied. James blinked and then shook his head.

"Ok, this is going to need some getting used to..." Dr. Gillard nodded a little and then put his hand on James' shoulder.

"We're going to need to do another operation to activate the biomods, you ready to continue" James looked at Dr. Gillard.

"Hey, I haven't been awake that long and now you wanna put me back to sleep?! Why couldn't you have activated the biomods when you put them in me?!"

"Because we needed to know if you were going to live, no good activating them if you were going to die" James rolled his eyes.

"Great..." Dr. Gillard sighed. This was going to be harder than he expected it to be.

"Listen, we'd rather we get this over and done with quickly. That way we can release you from hospital early." James put his hand to his forehead.

"Do I get any choice in the matter?" Dr. Gillard nodded and James sighed.

"......All right then, fine, I'll go through with it" Dr. Gillard clapped his hands together.

"Alright, we'll get the operating room ready for use. Just stay put for the moment." James smirked a little.

"Well where else am I going to go?" Dr. Gillard chuckled and walked off, Dr. Hunt following. James looked up at the ceiling and sighed, slowly closing his eyes and thinking to himself.

Guess what James? The life you once knew is over...looks like this is going to be the first day of the rest of your life...