Sitting on your bed, you're as bored as ever. School just ended a few weeks ago and all your friends are ghosting you.
"What an excellent way to live through another horrible summer..." You thought to yourself as you absentmindedly played with your fingers.
Walking around your room, your tired eyes scanned the bed you and your siblings loved to jump on. The drawers and closets that caused many shrieks of surprise from spiders. The family photo that stood on the old desk that held up many late and forgotten assignments. Your too-silent AR glasses (augmented reality glasses) that was usually buzzing with unread messages. And of course, the window you and your siblings used to look out of at the starry night sky. But that was all before the riots started.
A few days ago people were killed, fingers were pointed and of course, chaos ensued. Things couldn't have gotten any worse. But the world likes to turn on us like that.
Nowhere was necessarily safe anymore, you could be walking to a nearby gas station and next be tied to a chair at gun point. The world is a big, wild place. But you have to expect it. After all, welcome to Kinetown.
But then a buzz snapped you out of your thoughts. In the matter of 0.2 seconds you were at your AR glasses, unlocking it as fast as you could and opened the Messages app.
Justin: Guys you know what day it is!
You: Wot?
Allie: WHAT?! You forgot the day of our serum injections?!
Serum injections...? Serum inJECT- OHMYGOSH! IT'S MY INJECTION DAY! YEEEAAAAH!
You: OH! XD yea... but now I'm super hyped up! Now summer's WAY less boring!
Allie: You realize that you could always take a walk outside and break some disgusting Freak noses.
Justin: Bruh, we've done that some many times it's getting boring. Why break the noses when you could break the neck or skull?
You: The police would have something to say about that.
Justin: Don't forget my parents! Lol
Allie: Why worry about them when they'll be Crippled soon? We'll be Military, we could beat them to a pulp and say, "it was only for practice!"
Justin: lmao!
You: XD
Freaks are the worst. They're the biggest mistakes in the world. It's too bad there's so many of them we can't kill them all! They show up every injection season. I with they'd all disappear once and for all...
Some bell chimes from my AR glasses signaled it was time. It was time, for me, and all my training to become a Military, to pay off, AND GET THE INJECTIONS!
I could barely keep from screaming in excitement as I walked downtown through Kinetown and towards the main hospital. Some of the taller adults bumped into you, it was normal. You just followed the sea of camouflage shirts, those were the Kinetown uniforms. As long as you were wearing at least one piece of visible camouflage then you were a true Citizen. It granted you citizenship and a place higher than those who weren't. A lot of people wore camouflage hoodies, you preferred the original t-shirt with black pants or shorts and combat boots. The people around you were dressed similarly, black hoodies with a camouflage armband. Going after a Military style you thought as you entered the sleek, modern, glass doors. With the familiar smell of cleaning supplies filling your nose you entered the already long line.
As I waited in line, I spotted Allie a little ways before me. Justin called out to me and we waited in line together.
"Excited?" He asked, breathing heavily since he decided to be a big idiot and run from his apartment to the hospital. Houses were for the honorable Military, they were still deemed Military instead of being Corrupted.
I scoffed. "Heck yeah! Who else wouldn't be?"
"The people who have to suffer from being unfairly misjudged." A voice said to my left. Across the hall, was a Freak. I could tell from their black armband with an orange triangle. A Military wears a white armband with an orange circle. A Citizen wears a grey armband with an orange square. The Crippled wear no armband at all. No armband means you're not a part of Kinetown, you're an outsider, a stranger.
"Scram, Freak! Before I break those disgusting noses of yours!" Justin yelled, enjoying every second of it.
The Freak walked off and before exiting the hospital stole a glance at me. His yellow pupils gazed into my [eye color] eyes, and I had a feeling I would be seeing those eyes again soon.
"It's a shame the training camp has to loose a good solider like you, [your name]." Justin remarked, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I scoffed again. "You really think so?"
"Well, duh! You're #1 in every subject!" Justin replied, waving his hands a bit.
A nurse motioned me inside and I took a sharp breath in. I looked towards Justin, and he smiled.
"See you on the other side, Soldier [your name]."
When I sat down to be injected, I felt the pinch in my arm. But then something beeped. I knew something was wrong, I didn't hear that sound when previous Citizens were injected.
But then another pinch made me panic even more.
Are they... sedating me?? What's going on?!
My panic increased when I felt my eyelids getting heavy.
When they opened again, I looked around frantically.
I wasn't at home.
I wasn't at the Military base where I was supposed to be.
I was where the Freaks live.
I was a Freak.
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Don't Feed the Freaks (character x reader style)
ActionAs a Citizen, you're granted infinite happiness, wealth and success. As a Freak, you're granted endless violence, inequality and hate. It all depends on one. Little. Beep. Inspired by the Autodale series by David Armsby, Game Over and Strings Attac...