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The world had changed a lot in the years before the experimental "Jacks" as they were called had escaped from Jerigo headquarters in columbia, and not for the better.
Sorry, I guess I should introduce myself before I get onto the story of how the Jacks have almost destroyed life as we know it. My name is Kaylee, Kaylee Gray, and I wish that I was your normal 14 year old girl who goes to school everyday and hangs out with her friends afterward, but that's not me, and it never will be.
My future was destroyed around the age of nine, or eight, I can't and don't care to try to remember. All that I thought was right about the world ended on the dawn of 2018, when all the insects being tested in Jerigo headquarters escaped and wrecked havoc upon the United States and the rest of the world.
Jerigo had been created on February 19 of 2017, and everyone left in the world knew the exact date because they were supposed to be the savior of mankind. The company had been created to discover a way to stop the massive influx of bats spreading throughout the globe.
Some sort of virus had apparently been spreading through the bats and turning them into bloodthirsty creatures of prey. The bats began to attack in massive numbers at anything living that they could get to, these ranging from swarms of insects to humans in cites to enormous whales that happened to come out of the water while the bats were nearby.
Anyway, Jerigo had been started as an attempt to stop these bats from destroying the world, since nothing short of a nuke had been able to destroy the armies of bats that went from city to city destroying everything and everyone and leaving nothing behind to be foraged by the few remaining survivors. The company had started to breed massive amounts of insects and injecting them with chemicals that gave them the abilities to survive very harsh climates and to group up and attack anything that was attacking them.
After a few weeks of breeding Jerigo released all of the gathered and bred super insects on the world in a attempt to wipe out the bats that had still been spreading, but not before having all the insects breath a certain type of chemical gas that would make them die within three days. This would supposedly let them breed enough to wipe out all the bats and then dying on their own after their job was done.
However, the most of the insects super-evolved after being released and became able to survive the venom that was supposed to kill them after they did their job, and they did do their job. The insects destroyed every last bat that was in the world, and I don't think anyone in our Troop has seen one since, but the insects never died. So now they are the ones that are destroying our world, and this time, their is no Jerigo or similar group to stop them.
As far as our Troop can tell about 90 percent of the world has been destroyed by these insects, which we all now refer to as the "Jacks", not to mention the bats that had previously been destroying the earth and its occupants, and thats your up-to-date story of how the world is going so far. I am one of the few left alongside in my troop. My family is dead and so are everyone that I have ever lived near or far from. I you care to hear this exact same story again, you can ask anyone else still alive in this world, since we have all lost everything and everyone we once had.
We are going on a food raid tomorrow in one of the cities near our hideout. Fortunately most of the insects are unable to break into canned provisions and we can sneak in and take it. The insects also normally leave the cities behind after destroying and eating everything, so there aren't normally any large swarms to deal with, but you never know, because in this new world, every day could be your last.
Part two coming next month, I do not have a name for this story yet
and will be taking suggestions.
If any of you read my previous post it is nothing like this, but after reading the Stung and Cured books I have come up with a completely new storyline that simply sounds both better and easier for me to write. This is why you see the big alarm sign at the top of the page.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of "Stung" and "Cured" and you did a good job here with being inspired by those stories and creating your own original work. I like the background here, this would be the exposition of a novel, and gives a great set-up for story. Keep it up with the description--more on the Jacks. In fact, wouldn't "Jacks" or "Surviving the Jacks" be a good title? Couple questions to clarify for the reader: Is the setting America? How did they super-evolve? What do they look like? I'm looking forward to more of this. Well done!
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