The Company
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Things aren't what they seem when a scientific research company comes to the Fitzgerald Academy For The Gifted and asks for volunteers to "join" them. They're especially strange when it begins to change some of the students.
It begins to grow even stranger when a group of suspicious students begin to investigate, and some of them don't aren't enjoying it as much as others.
But what has been going on? Why are people needlessly joining, even rebelling against it?
Well, you will just have to listen to the story from the point of view of clarinet major Michael Jones as he tells you the story of the rebellion against the Company.
Taking place in a not-so-distant-future where technology is becoming more and more advanced on an academy so big that it's on its own island, this is the story of "The Company."
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