The Alternatives (UPDATED)
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Ongoing, First published Mar 08, 2015
Mature
The year is 2038. Insane, mad scientists hidden in an underground bunker below the city in the state of Montana want to enhance human abilities. Put us so far above the food chain until cheating is considered natural. To make us stronger, faster, and heighten our senses. Like nothing you've ever seen.. Then send us out to kill the weak, vulnerable, and tyrannical. 

Each year, hundreds of little kids are kidnapped and taken underground, where they are kept in a facility of cells, clean white walls, but unclean air. They are then injected with hundreds of chemicals made to test out their abilities, and see if there are any side effects that need to be terminated. Handled their entire lives only by 'Shiners' men in white, full body suits and gas masks to protect themselves by the floating chemicals. Only the healthiest and strongest of the children injected with these nasty chemicals will survive.

Held captive since she was six, Eva is one of the very few children injected with many harmful chemicals to survive. All her life she has been forced to train as a killer, and see's no real problem with it. Until she finally understands. Experimented on, physically and verbally abused all her life, she's finally done with it.

Along her path to freedom, she befriends many of the other children, now teens, and tries to help them escape by forming secret groups hidden from their captors.
Just when they are about to put their plan into action, the government finds out about all the chaos happening below the city streets, and decides that these teens are highly dangerous if all they know how to do is kill. The government sends in their most skilled soldiers and troops to go underground and kill all these innocent children before they get the chance to take their lives back.
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