The Masked Quest
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  • Reads 670
  • Votes 137
  • Parts 15
  • Time 2h 27m
Ongoing, First published Sep 03, 2017
Robots mixed with disease - just the usual, right?

At one point in the future, the earth's population has reached 12 billion people; technology has improved and the world is an even messier place than today. With the world in a terrible state, an unknown organisation is trying to cull the world's population with the help of an unknown disease, undetectable means, and robots. 
 
Alexis Waters, a scientific prodigy at just 22 years old, is one of the scientists behind the disease, forced to work for this group against her will. Wanting to escape, she waits for an opportunity, but as luck would have it, her escape doesn't end up going quite as she planned. 
 
Having had escape as the main priority in her mind, she is unsure of how to rectify the mistakes that she was forced to commit once she breaks free. As she and her newfound partner travel across England whilst trying to avoid the ill and becoming ill themselves, they're at a constant struggle to rectify the wrong whilst also trying to avoid the people who continue to pursue her.

PLEASE BE AWARE: I'm currently replanning this a bit!

1st place in Sci-Fi in The Belle Amé Awards 2k18!
2nd Place in Sci-Fi in The Digital Dreamer Awards 2018!
3rd Place OVERALL FAVOURITE and 2nd Place in Sci-Fi in The Blue Rose Awards (September)!
3rd Place in Sci-Fi in The Prism Awards 2018!
3rd Place in Sci-Fi in The Royal Rose Awards!
3rd Place in Sci-Fi in The Bright Book Awards!

Highest Ranking: #22 in Plague! #51 in robots! #916 in science fiction (out of 30.6k stories!) On 21/08/18. Can't believe it :') Thank you.
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