The perfect city was made up of people who were chosen especifically to live there, good people or in other words perfect people. It also had specially made people, like the first group, who were humans modified to have super intelligence and the ability to control technology, at first people thought they would become a problem to the city, as they could build almost everything, but the modified babies were placed in the most loving and caring homes, where the perfect balance of being strict and being caring took place. You may notice the word "perfect" come up a lot, but that's how we were raised to think, that our city was perfect.
The other group of special humans was actually divided into two categories. The first one was people with the ability to fly and have inmense strength, the second group could fly at ridiculous speeds and have strong shield powers. The first group was very slow in flying compared to the second one, even though they were still faster than any airplane. But the second group only had enough strength to carry three times their weight, which evened them out. These abilities would help keep the city safe from disasters or terrorists.
And the last bunch of superhumans were given healing abilities, healing abilities that could heal almost anything with proper training.
These three groups of altered people lived in our perfect city, they were assigned jobs and were monitered to make sure they didn't loose control, but they adjusted perfectly. They had kids and their kids had kids and so on, and our little city grew. Everything stayed calm for many years, that is until the goverment started using the altered humans for wars. The perfect combination of people, flying superhumans with super strength or shields, perfect medics able to cure injuries in a matter of minutes, and super intelligent people able to make tactics as quick as a computer.
Other contries started to target our city, and kidnap kids from their homes to make them soldiers, and little by little our city fell and so did the world. They started to use the modified humans' genes to implant them to others. And so they fought, they fought for many years and our earth and city became a wasteland. Normal people were afraid of us, as they knew if we were close to them they would hunt us down and they would never be safe. No matter how many specially enhanced medics were made, they couldn't cure everybody and so we went into hiding, the intelligent group made a syrum that when checked if we were modified it would hide it. The flyers went around the world with a medic giving it to the enhanced. It took a couple of years but slowly they weren't able to find us and the war ended, but not the hunting. The new world was built on top of our wasteland and rich and important people started to live again, while the rest of the world became scavengers. Of course enhanced children were still being born even to rich people and though a machine couldn't identify them, their parents could. It was a almost a law amongst us that in each place that had people living there someone would take on the mantle of teaching these kids how to blend in with the people and in the worst case scenario take them away and protect them. Of course civilazation was scattered all around the world, they could be in groups or be alone like me and my family.I walk through a destroyed street, I'm one of the flyers with shields, flying is forbidden when you're part of a group but since we're on our own we have the liberty to do whatever we want, but if a helicopter or goverment vehicle find us, it's game over. I walk to our home, for now we are staying in an old house in a destroyed city.
I open the door to my house, put down my backpack and go to the kitchen. I call out for my little siblings, twins, a girl and a boy. I'm 8 years older than them.
"Jess! Toby!" I hear footsteps and two little kids run towards me and tackle me to the ground. "Hah get off you two! You're much bigger now!" The step off and put their hands behind their back.
"We're huungry big sis!" Toby pouts. Toby and Jess both have enhancements, Jess has the healing enhancement and Toby has a flight and strength, which means I am weaker than a 7 year old...damn.
"I know you're hungry, I am too" we haven't had much to eat this week, it's hard to find food. There's a group of people about 10 km from here, north of us. For me that'd be easy, it would take me less than a minute, I could probably steal some food during the night, but even though normal humans don't like us they do use us to get protection from other groups that might want to attack them. You might think, well why don't the enhanced humans make a sort of colony and work together? We're scattered all over the world and we don't risk long flights that a radar could pick up, I risk being caught and leaving my siblings unprotected.
"Sis, are we gonna eat today?" I sigh.
"Yeah, you can have my can of beans, just share ok?" They look at each other and then back at me.
"But...what will you eat?" Jess asks me. I pat her head and kneel down.
"I'm not really hungry, you guys" I lied, they shouldn't worry about me. They're just kids.
I cook the beans and watch as they eat, my stomach growls. I am very hungry...
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The City
Science Fictionimagine a world where people were given powers to create the perfect society