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Five Strikes by WillKrieger
Five Strikes
WillKrieger
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  • Parts 4
A revolutionary technology allows an implanted chip to decide the difference between right and wrong- the ideal judge in your own brain. When law is broken, enlightened strikes on the lawbreaker's wrists indicate how close they are to being justified. Icarus is a high school junior, who lives a seemingly mundane life. He struggles to live a life without flaw, just like everyone else. His world shifts when he realizes that the system he has become so accustomed to has its own flaws.
Scavenger  by writing_speaks431
Scavenger
writing_speaks431
  • Reads 1,152
  • Votes 114
  • Parts 50
From the day she lost her sister, Anastasia Scott has had no reason to believe in anything extraordinary. Forced to stay behind with her controlling mother and demeaning boyfriend, Annie has to find some way to cope with her newfound loneliness and the feeling that her sister's death was her own fault. But on the day that a shooter enters her family's memorial hospital, everything changes for Annie. She finds herself betrayed by her mother's assistant, whom she had seen as her only friend. Annie is kidnapped from a home that she never thought she'd miss, only to wake up in the most extraordinary place that she could ever be. The call themselves END, standing for Eliminate Needless Disorder. They are a secret organization of scientists with the goal of destroying the human race for the start of a better tomorrow. The president, Connor Theiry, is very familiar with Annie, seeing as he had previously tried to murder her mother over eleven years prior to their meeting again. Now, he claims that he needs her, along with the eleven other kids that have been brought into the headquarters. Annie, who is reluctant to be a part of something as horrible as this, attempts to make her escape, that is, until she is given one piece of crucial information that will fuel her until the very end of their twisted game. If she is to succeed, she will win her sister back. She is to participate in a twelve-day Hunt for twelve impossible items: truth serum, the list of END's future successes, a soul from the Underworld, the book of Lex, Alice Liddell, a newborn star, the blood of Ramsey, Eve's apple, a lost friend, Selene's fire, Pandora's Box, and the hero's heart. These items will create the disease. These items will be the end for humanity. Connor promises Annie that it will not be as impossible as it may seem. For one reason: The twelve players have been injected with superpowers. <><><><><><> Beautiful cover made by @xtruebeautyx
Penance by Missing_Puzzle_Piece
Penance
Missing_Puzzle_Piece
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  • Votes 6,050
  • Parts 21
In the near future, the human race has been forced to quarantine an entire country after the Known Virus, also known as the K-Virus, spread throughout their lands, killing millions and mutating thousands. The Alliance, the supreme government of the world, have imprisoned them all in specially designed jail cells, more than 200 million innocent citizens. Every time the virus emerges from within a person, soldiers haul them away, never to be seen again. Now, Audra, herself a victim of the K-Virus outbreak, has begun to show symptoms. The soldiers come, and Audra finds herself in a new world, and realizes what really happens beyond the cell doors... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cover credits to @RebellionOfALifetime
HUMAN-LESS by HazelClaireIvy
HUMAN-LESS
HazelClaireIvy
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  • Votes 2,483
  • Parts 40
A weapon unlike any other. A haunting tale of family secrets, madness, and healing. #10 Science Fiction - highest rank
Superior by starlightt
Superior
starlightt
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  • Parts 58
Delaney Escott lives in a world where popularity reigns supreme. If you want to be noticed, social status is everything. The government is run by the Superiors: a very exclusive group of individuals who are virtually flawless. They are smarter than us and stronger than us, and to join their ranks is the highest honor. The Superiors pay an annual visit to the top schools in the nation and evaluate the students, choosing one boy and one girl - the most Popular in the school - to go the Capitol and train for Superiority. Delaney thinks that she's the only one indifferent to (and perhaps even suspicious of) the Superiors, until Caleb Payne, the most popular boy in school, approaches her with a request. He has a task for her, one that he believes she is uniquely capable of completing. And as she helps him, Delaney discovers that the government is hiding many secrets - and that the truth of the Superiors is far from what people believe it to be. [Watty Awards 2012 Winner, Science-Fiction: On the Rise]