Reluctant Heroes
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Last published Wed, Nov 5, 2014
It's year 2078...And the world is at it's worst...
No, scratch that...
It's even more horrid than that.
Being 'at it's worst...' is an understatement.
Around one hundred men have created some gas of some sort that can kill someone without them having any time at all to react, Ana manages to live through it all...Losing everyone close to her and getting herself nearly killed attempting to escape the town.
Ana has a plan, she wants to figure out what they've made and she if there's anything that she can do to stop it and whatever their plan is.
How she's going to do that alone...Is a mystery to her.
All she knows is the fate of the world, and the lives on it, are in her hands now...
And it's up to her to save everyone else before they die of this strange phenomena...
But her biggest question is...
Can she do it?
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