20xx-

a cloaked person takes a seat at a table, with 14 already sitting. as the person finishes getting settled, anther rises from the head of the table and begins speaking.

"thank you all for attending today. as of this moment, the meeting shall begin." A feminine voice comes from under the hood before taking a seat.

another rises shortly after, "I am glad to announce that HAMSTRING has been completed. if you would please take a look at the pamphlets set before you, I will go over it in finer detail." A rustling of paper occurs as everyone picks up the packets in front of them. seeing everyone having them in hand, the person continues, "as you'll see, HAMSTRING is incredibly effective. it has a 97 percent fatality rate among males, and among the survivors a 99.99 percent removal rate of the ability to produce male offspring. In females, within only a few hours, has a 100 percent success rate of causing miscarrige. it has been optimized to work solely on the himan population, and have no effect on either plant or wildlife. even further, it is able to be trasmitted via air, liquid, and pest, with the ability to survive for up to 2 weeks outside of a host." after saying such the person sits, and yet another rises.

"concerning operation AMAZONIA, all regulated commercial and industrial transportation has been outfitted with the devices required to spread HAMSTRING over the world with 100 percent coverage. all that we need is the word to begin the operation." the person says while looking expectantly to the person sitting at the head of the table before sitting.

"well, there we have it ladies," the person says while standing up and removing the hood, revealing a woman in the later years of her life. "thanks to our joint efforts over the past couple years, and to an unprecedented all woman world leadership, we can finally set into motion operation AMAZONIA. we shall begin on the second day of the next new year, January second, and continue for 2 days. this will ensure complete global saturation what with all the post holiday travel. thank you all for attending, and remember, all of this must be kept completely from the public. once the Institution is established, the director shall be informed at our discretion. this meeting is now adjourned." She turns and leaves through the door behind her seat as the others rise and leave through the main entrance.

-January 3rd, 20xx-

"Jon, Jon?! get the cameras off! what the hells happeneing?!" the tv beeps in the background as I look up to see a blue screen telling me the regularly scheduled programming will return shortly, after technical errors have been fixed.

"ugh, finally have cable, and can't even watch the news." I sigh as I gently rub my temples, an ears splitting headache coming on. looking over I pull up the news on my cell, and stare shocked at the headlines.

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Mass Casualties Worldwide. Unprecedented Hospital Visits. Global Plague?

Sighing I turn and head over to my computer, booting up into my favorite reading site, sitting down and going over a favorite of mine and beginning from chapter 1 of a xianxia esque novel.

several minutes later and several chapters down the road I hear my phone ring. picking it up I answer to one of my Co workers.

"Hey man you doing okay? everyone from work guy wise is in the hospital, your the only one we didn't hear from."

"yeah yeah, I'm fine, just a headache and a little nausea. do you need me to come in?"

"honestly, no. we're closed for the day with all the shit that's been going on. about 20 minutes ago yet another news caster collapsed on the air, and it's been going on like that since last night."

"Well ain't that just nice. any idea of the pattern to the collapses?"

"Only thing I know is the only ones collapsing are all guys. my roommates doing overtime getting them all admitted and checked up on."

"Well then. I'll definitely let you know if anything happens on my end. by the way the next chapters up. give it a read sometime."

"will do Cairn. bye."

"toodaloo." I say as I hang up. I chuckle as I get back to reading. "god damn, everyone's sick. well thankfully I'm on vacation all week."

-several hours later-

"...This is a mandatory Government announcement, all men are required to register at the nearest government building at your earliest convenience. this message will be repeated..."

I look over at the tv, and at the text message on my phone. shaking my head I get back to my game, "I'll just get that called in in a few minutes, only have a few minutes left on the dungeon."

*jurrasic park rIngtone plays*

I pick up my phone and answer it, too focused on the screen in front of me to check who it is.

"Thank god you answered Cairn. They're dying. roommate just got back and told me."

Shocked I stop playing completely and focus on the call. "wait, what!??"

"Our coworkers are dying," I hear through muffled sobs, "Alan, Cameron, and Lex died. Steven and Ron are on life support, but don't have very long left, don't know about the rest of them. What's happening? What's going on? and then that announcement came on.."

"Hang on hang on. calm down. there's gotta be some logical explanation for this. all those people smoke, so it's probably just a very lethal bug in the tobacco."

"It's not just smokers though, it's everyone!" the voice says in irritation, "and it doesn't explain the announcement."

"Well, to be fully honest, my guess is the announcement is to try and find what's going on and to keep track of who all isn't sick and if there's and possible vaccine for what's going around."

"makes sense I guess. oh by the way, loved the story, can't wait for more."

"Well I'm on vacation all week, so there should be quite alot more on the way."

"awesome, anyways, sorry for bugging you. just was worried and scared about what all was going on."

"sno problem, anyways talk to yiu later."

I hang up and look back at my game, kicked out of the dungeon for taking too much time in completing it. I huff in agitation before shutting down the computer and pulling on my shoes. headed towards the door I pull on my coat and check my pockets for my wallet before heading on towards the post office, that being the closest government building to me.