AN: Okay, this is a new series I am gonna make. This is an anthology of different stories that take place in a possibly not so distant future in our world. And because of that, here is the disclaimer.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, product names, inventions, organizations, actual events, etc. is purely coincidental. It does not endorse violence, ideologies, product placements, etc.


Punk'd Up Introduction

On the summer of 2024 in the Pine Barrens, a strange flash of light appeared in the forest at 3 a.m. A police force was called in to investigate but the light suddenly vanished when they were getting close. Not long after, cities started to be erased in many parts of the world with footage of "grey blobs" that have been destroying buildings and many of their inhabitants starting with Moscow, the entire eastern Chinese coast, and completely wiped out North Korea. Yet these same blobs replaced the cities with foliage and once endangered animals, turn deserts such as the Kalahari Desert and Thar Desert into lush and green environments with flowing water and fertile ground, dried up lakes restored, and animals that were endangered have multiplied. However, with many of the cities destroyed, the economy collapsed into a new great depression followed by warlords and the collapse of many countries. The Russian Federation was split into smaller countries. The People's Republic of China became a rump state that only controls Ningxia Hui, Qinghai, and Xinjiang. The United States did collapsed that later became the United Commonwealths of America that are only united in name only.

Yet not all have fallen into chaos. In Africa, two new superpowers emerged from the ruins such as the Horn of Africa in the east and the Mutapa Federation in the south. The countries of Europe were largely unaffected as the rest of the European countries joined. Other superpowers such as Brazil, Japan, Australia, India, and Saudi Arabia have risen up to replace the old superpowers with the UCA not far behind.

But among the chaos, something surfaced. Super powered beings calling themselves, "Punkers" have risen that wiped out the warlords, drug lords, and crime lords in Africa that gave rise to the new nations with their "Modifications" or "Mods" for short. They even replaced the government in Afghanistan with the newly named Punkistan and killed all members of ISIS, Al-Qata, and many others while also created a more liberal branch of Islam. Some of them even assist in seizing the vacant North Korea for South Korea, and even remove the gangs and criminal organizations of the world. The remnants have either joined these new gangs to become powerful or up and quit to be with their families. Those that chose the third option, the "FUCK YOU" option, didn't last long. The Punkers are using augmentations and upgrades from various forms of fiction that gives them power in order to fight against, "The Great Enemy". Whatever that is.

When the dust has settled, new stories have arisen. These are the tales of the people that face many trials with some able to stay alive and others died.


Prologue: The Fallen Soldier

In San Francisco, much of it was rebuilt after a major tsunami with three cubed-shaped arcologies with art deco exteriors. Yet on a rooftop of a skyscraper under a rainy night sky stands a man in his mid-twenties that is Asian-American in an army uniform, short black hair, and his eyes are twitching uncontrollably. His name tag, rank and badge were removed so it is hard to tell if this man was actually in the military or just a military enthusiast. He looks down and see a police car just sitting in the parking lot with two officers inside.

Inside the car, one of the officers speaks, "So, any idea on what the hell are we looking for?"

"It's more of a 'who' actually." says the officer in the driver seat. "Former Sergeant Lucas Kuo. His neighbors said that he's been acting strange since he got those mods from a moddoc."

He looks at his partner, "The guy went Punker?!"

"Probably did after the poverty riots a few years ago."

"Fuck. So any ideas on what kind of mods he's packing?"

"I'm gonna have to double check." the officer pulls up his smartphone to see.

But before he can do so, the man from the rooftop approach the driver seat before the officer took notice.

He put down his phone, roll down his window and ask, "Need any help?"

The man then grabs the officer's head with his arm mutated into a black, demonic one and squish the officer's head with it. The other officer panics and gets out of the car.

"THIS IS UNIT 3-4!" he shouts over the radio and the man stumbles towards him, "OFFICER DOWN! NEED BACK-UP AT THE MUSK FOUNDATION PARKING LOT!"

The man then lunges at the officer with his demonic hands that went right through him. Right through his chest with one hand on the ground with blood seeping out and the other holding onto the officer's heart. He put his foot on the policeman's chest and get his arms out along with the heart. He then proceeds to smash the heart before ripping the officer up with blood and viscera scattered all over the asphalt with some bone chunks. Ten police cars with their red and blue lights going off and sirens blaring with their headlights shining on the gruesome scene. The officers exit their cars and have their guns pointed at the man.

"FREEZE!" says one of the officers, "YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! HANDS UP, NOW!"

The man stops desecrating the police officer and looks at the police and their guns with his scalera turned black and iris blood red.

"Oh shit." one of the officers went.

The man then transform into a muscular, monstrous being with jet black skin and his clothes get ripped up, spines on his arms and back, his hair is now glowing blood red with his face looking like a tiger.

"MOD PSYCHO!"

"OPEN FIRE! OPEN FIRE!"

All the officers fire their pistols yet the mod psycho uses some kung fu moves and deflect the bullets.

The officers continue to fire with one of them screaming over the radio, "WE NEED MOD-SWAT HERE NOW!"

The mod psycho cuddles up into a ball and charges right at the officers. Crushing the cars and killed three of the cops. Then he unleashes a lighting breath attack that electrocuted two of the officers.

"FALL BACK! FALL BACK!"

The officers try to flee but the mod psycho fires his spines at some of them and kills them. Then he charges on all fours like a wild apex predator towards the remaining officers with blacken claws that give off a dark energy and slashes one officer in half. The mod psycho fires a ball of electricity yet misses because he got a sniper shot from a police VTOL. The mod psycho growls before jumping towards it and latches on.

"SHIT!"

The mod psycho uses his shadow claws and sliced-off his head before going after the pilot. The pilot screams before getting maimed by the mod psycho. From the north, three black vans with the words 'MOD SWAT' on it started to come in.

Inside the van, one man in futuristic power armor speaks, "Suspect has mods of Altered Beast, Crete, Prototype, and various other biopunk modifications. However, the suspect completely lost himself to his beast form."

One of the other armored cops raised a shotgun-like weapon, "Anti-bio weapon ready."

"Commence extermination."

A whole bunch of powered armored troops that look like they came from Starcraft yet are blue and white with MOD SWAT on their shoulders. The mod psycho unleashes a fire breath attack on the MOD SWAT officers but two of them use collapsible riot shields to block it. Two of them then fire their shotguns at the mod psycho yet the freak managed to create armor from Prototype to deflect most of the shots before using claw attacks.

"Get the flamethrower!" one of them ordered.

Three other officers got out their flamethrowers and start torching the mod psycho. But the mod psycho managed to leap up into the air and try to attack. But one officer use a more modified and powerful shotgun and blasted his belly completely with some of the organs and spine showing. Two of the officers then pin him down with rods that have electrified cuffs on them. But the mod psycho is not giving up without a fight. So, to finish him off, one of them stomps him on the chest and shoot him in the head. Everything fade to black. Yet a rewind symbol appeared and showed the mod psycho's final moments again.


In truth, what is happening is actually a video being watched on someone's smartphone by a Hispanic-American teenage boy with combed black hair and wearing a blue school uniform.

"Holy shit." he smiles, "Talk about schway!"


AN: Yeah, the first story is gonna be a sort of, kinda rip of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, but with many differences. Although the story will be similar. Just to give you guys the heads up.