"If you looked at earth now, the world would look like a mess."
"Empty cities; some claimed back into nature, others left black as they are caked in chemicals."
"Dead areas of land that not a single plant would dare stretch a root into and animals dare venture.
World roomed by monsters in the dark night as humans struggled to survive it."
"Pockets of populations that are still able to hold on in strongholds, the last ditch plan of humanity for a chance to come back from. Underground cities that stretch out like ant colonies."
"We will never know what really happened. The disaster happened when all parents' generation were children with very little memory of it themselves."
"Over fifty years ago, as the world was still fighting political wars online, when the most important thing to people was the fast flow of memes or tv shows to keep them distracted as resources were extracted and the world heated up."
"That world changed overnight. Monsters attacked in the night, no one having an answer as the governments in the world keep these all under wraps.
The word vampires was thrown about even then before the panic and the eventual end of the internet as it had been."
"At least that is what is taught to us. But with enough research of old forums from people that were far more insistent with recording the horrors that caused a war that totaled the world. Biomasses of flesh that overtook cities that the governments then bombed in the hopes of ridding them, learning the fire worked far better, far too late."
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A raven black haired teen stood in front of her class, her power point behind her. One that she didn't need to stick as many photos as she had in it playing automatically.
'And now look at us here in our safe little classroom,' she said and looked between the many faces that didn't have a single interest in what she was saying.
All thinking the same thing, that she was crazy, that she should be happy living as she is.
She glared at them all, taking in a breath to prepare for her next part.
'Which is why I think we should be picking up our firearms game, since fire works so well. Why not make a gun with a concentrated beam of energy.' She announced and whipped the gun she had strapped across her back, aiming it out into the room.
That would get them to listen. And it did in fact make everyone jump in their seats and gasp. All focused on her. A gun normally did bring attention to you.
'Here with my newly improved gun that will surely cook the inside of any of the monsters out in the wastes,' she said, chuckling a bit, letting her aim lower. 'Calm down babies, it doesn't even work.'
She froze as everyone looked at each other and started to calm.
'Yet, it doesn't work yet,' she hissed out and aimed it up, scanning around. 'Who said it didn't work.'
There was a long sigh that cut through the moment, Uzi looked over to her teacher's desk. Who, she never did ever remember what his name was, he said it once at the start of the year and then never again when someone asked.
He was strange and Uzi couldn't go asking anyone what it was. Not even, who she believed, were his kids in the class.
'Firstly, this was a thought experiment assignment about watermelons,' he started and Uzi sent him a glare. One that he didn't even give a reaction to.
'Oh and this Magnetically Amplified Photon Converger, can't be considered much better than that?' Uzi asked, trying to turn her voice sweet.
'No,' he sighed and she dropped the act.
'Secondly, you can't make a photon converger in your bedroom so rename that, again, and thirdly is it meant to be glowing red like that.'
Uzi barely managed to look down and gasp before an explosion blasted within the metal room, not only deafening everyone inside but also filling the room with smoke. The only one ready for it was the teacher, who did not warn his class when he plugged his ears.
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The nurses station was a simple thing, being stuck in the middle of the highschool for all the typical things that teens do.
Explosions didn't used to be common till Uzi started to walk its halls, but they were prepared in advice from the primary school, even if things had been getting bigger from simple fires or tiny explosions that were just meant to scare someone.
Uzi didn't have to say anything when she arrived, without a doubt there was a notice to explain it to the rest of the school because she arrived to have her hands given ointment to give it time to return from the burns. None of the nurses ever bothered giving chatter, most of them.
'Well then dear, that should save them from future nerve damage. Luckily we still have plenty of this ointment but do tell me if something starts to react, it is a bit old after all,' spoke the one nurse, she was there almost every time she arrived. Uzi wasn't even sure if she had ever seen her anywhere else, maybe she just lived there and lived behind a wall attached to the room.
Uzi flexed her hands, there had been tingling for a few moments before returning to normal.
'Thank you future magic goo,' she hummed and the nurse tilted her head. Waiting for something else, she always did this. 'Thank you.' Was all Uzi said quickly to get it out of the way.
'Good, you can wait outside if you want,' she said and Uzi slid off the bed to make her way out. She should ask her name, but its been so long. Years that she had been taking care of any burns or cuts.
Nope, would be far too awkward now. Uzi simply gave her a nod and exited. Maybe next time.
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Uzi barely got outside to sit next to her errored gun, still on a cooldown. She wanted to fiddle with it to find out what exactly had gone wrong besides the obvious. It hadn't been ready to heat up, not without the final part that would have had somewhere for the heat to go instead of building up.
She just didn't want to cover it with the goo medicine, but she could stare out into space and think on it.
She could hear two people snickering behind their hands in the hallway, Lizzy and Doll. Very quickly running off as they giggled. Uzi rolled her eyes, irritated but the two of them soon ran off.
Uzi barely got a minute alone before hearing someone else.
Thad walked in after calling out behind him.
'Classic masculinity Chad,' he called back out before turning in with a sigh. 'That won't end up problematic.'
He saw her and seemed to somehow brighten a bit more, he was naturally a cheery person.
'Hey, Uzi,' he called out and came over to sit on the bench next to her.
Uzi's eyes narrowed.
'What are you doing here talking to me Thad?' Uzi asked with her arms about to cross fully before she remembered the medicine, fisting her hands to finish the cross.
'Eh, need to see the nurse for personal reasons,' he said, shrugging without a care but Uzi was sure there was more to that.
'What, are your testosterone levels too high?' Uzi said in a jab.
'That can happen?' he asked out in a panic before chilling right out and leaning back into his chair. 'Awesome.'
'Speaking about awesome, that project of yours is cool,' he said right after catching her completely off guard. 'I really felt the fear with it being aimed at me.'
'Oh right,' Uzi said slowly, she vaguely remembered his reaction being up front but she had looked out towards the bulk of the class. 'Sorry about that, but that was the vibe I was going for.'
'No, no, I understand. Nothing interesting happens around here anyway,' Thad said and raised an eyebrow at the gun leaning against the chair next to Uzi. 'So what is it?'
'You mean my sweet as hell railgun?' she said and pulled it into her hands, forgetting about the goo to grab hold of it to aim it out into the room.
'Tomorrow, I will be sneaking out with the scavenging crew to find the final part,' she said and held a hand out. 'To save the world and show my dad I was right,' she paused to look at him. 'But mostly to save the world and to be respected in this place.'
'Cool but doesn't your dad make awesome doors that keep us safe in here,' he said and froze as the gun was turned on him.
'No, no more comments on my gun or motives today,' she hissed and he raised his hands.
He was able to stay silent for just long enough for Uzi to pull the gun away.
'I thought we already had guns here,' Thad said and Uzi rolled her eyes.
'Yeah, ones that are old and boring. We never even had any of the good ones, not ones that could kill a vampire,' she said in looked ahead with a smile. Thad looked confused and she looked back when he didn't say anything.
'Like Twilight?' he asked and she hissed.
'No, real ones,' she snapped and Thad raised his hands. 'The ones that ended the world as it was, those ones,' she glared at him. 'Why was that your first version of vampires?'
'Sorry, sorry,' he quickly said and shrugged. 'That is like the only version I know of.'
'We have a whole archive of movies and shows, that can not be the only one you know of,' she shook her head the moment she said that. 'Stop distracting me.' She huffed to her feet, grabbing her gun as she did.
'So, how do you know the gun will even kill them?' Thad asked out and Uzi paused before turning to look at him. She opened her mouth to speak and found nothing came out.
'It has to.' She could only say and Thad shrugged.
'It's not like you will see one the next time you go out anyway,' he said and nodded to himself.
'If I see one then I will kill it and prove it works,' she said and nodded with a grin. Thad looked up at her.
'Well good luck with that,' he said with a smile, a genuine smile without a hint of sarcasm. Uzi was already mad at the gun, now she had to deal with a good guy.
'Ugh, bite me,' she snapped and stomped out, only to turn at it to look back. 'I am not actually mad at you by the way.' She quickly added and left with a thumbs up.
She had the morning to prepare for.