Oxygen

The one thing that we need most is killing us.

Two hundred years ago, scientists discovered that oxygen, although essential to our survival, was actually killing us. It was just taking around eighty years to do so. Humans were never meant to die.

However, when a new gas is found that can sustain humans without hurting them, the entire future is changed. People will now be able to live forever.

Today 2214, human life is thriving, as no one grows older than his or her prime. ‘Societies’ around the world are full with peace and prosperity, death rates are lower than anyone ever imagined and the ‘new gas’ is working wonders.

But the world isn’t overcrowding.

Babies are taken to outside facilities where they breathe oxygen to help them grow and learn everything they need to know. The smartest and the best are then released into society at the tender age of twenty. The dumb, the un-talented and the ugly … disappear.

No one knows where they go; no one knows what happens to them. The family move on and never question because if they did … they might disappear too.

The biggest secret of the government is hidden just outside the gates of the cities: What is it?

The only thing left to do to stop a sadistic, controlling government is for a group of rejects and 'socials' to band together and fight.

Oxygen is deadly to humans, but there are worse things out there.