No More Heroes

Chapter I: Nu York

Theo here and I'm back in action! since this is supposed to be a fresh start, I'll focus on this new story. hope you guys enjoy :D

Peckinpah

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“New York—the city that never sleeps”

                A moniker used in the olden days, New York got the name because of its bustling nightlife.  There was always something going on inside the city.  Hundreds of years passed and now New York is nothing but a desolate wasteland scarred by the wars between humans and Supers. New York wasn’t the only victim, though—the landscape from the states of Maine to Kentucky is nothing more than ruins. The lakes dried up and most of the land became a huge desert. The world can change a lot in six-hundred and eighty-five years.

                But no matter how disastrous the situation may seem, humanity just kept coming back like cancer. Above the harsh environment of what used to be a part of the United States of America was now a titanic mega-structure built in the likeness of the Supers’ old home—Haven. Floating a thousand feet above the wasteland and spanning almost entirely across it, The mega city the humans call Nu York was the symbol of rebirth and triumph over the disasters and adversaries the world threw at them. If Nu York was the son of the old sate, the father would have been proud. Being the largest and most commercialized city in the entire world, Nu York was the place to be—the land of opportunities, dreams and drama. Nu York was now the soul of the western world.

Being one of the leading cities in the new world, Nu York was also one of the leaders of the campaign against the Supers. Inside the floating city, humans are kings. The people who grew up in Nu York was raised and taught to hate the extra-ordinary beings.  Cartoons, movies, and comic books depicting heroism of a super-powered human being were banned and even possession of one of these items can result to incarceration. Nu York also has this law that makes it mandatory for their citizens to wear a bracelet with a Humanstone attached to it to prove that they are in fact, human. Anyone who forgot to wear theirs, may they be Super or not, are dealt with extreme prejudice. Humanity inside Nu York has goals that concerned the Supers—discriminate, identify, isolate, and finally, rehabilitate.

                Discriminating the Supers like labeling them the villains of history and that nothing good can prosper in being more than just human, it will make the Supers think twice before openly accepting their abilities. They say a Super sticks out from the rest of the normal people like a sore thumb—identifying which one is the super in a group of a hundred will cause you and the other ninety-eight to gang up and take that one percent down. Isolation damages the psyche of any person may he or she be super or not. Add in the discrimination and it will make a Super think that his or her ability was a cruse rather than a gift. What they normally do in this so-called isolation is setting up a special prison for a Super where he or she cannot use their abilities. And the last one is rehabilitate—when a super finally cracks, the desire to be human overtakes the Super and he or she asks for help to be “normal” again. This is where the great scientists of Nu York work their magic—They try to dissect the Super while inserting a piece of Humanstone at the back of the Super’s skull. Their theory is that somehow, a small fragment of Humanstone can neutralize the power by directly interfering with the brain waves of a Super. No Super has survived the operation yet but the media said that this method had “great promise”. They have been saying that for quite some time now.

Nu York really views the Supers as the enemy. The city looks at these people with such contempt like they struck down their father—with awe, fear and hate. The Supers, quite a few in quite a large city, hid like rats in the cracks and crevices where the light and authority never reach. Hunted down like criminals and treated like lepers, they can only rely on themselves. A Super can consider himself extremely lucky if he can even wear the Humanstone bracelet for a day without coughing up blood. Scattered and weak, the supers of Nu York were completely and utterly dominated by humanity.