Mike falcon is just another collage student who are going day to day. with news about everything that is wrong messes with ones head. mike once considered himself one of good ones in the society until everything change, people see honesty as another angle to exploit. caring is just investments. children grow indebted  to their parents and extended family. church is just another good check in social media. world seems sparling down to oblivion.

mike wakes up to another day. going out of bed he goes and brush his teeth, wash up and dress for another school day. there was a time when he would make his bed and eat breakfast but what's the point when you can just eat later and he'll use the bed again later.  going down the stairs mike would greet his neighbor but that ended when mike raised his hand to say hi only to get sucker punched on his stomach. vomiting on the neighbor making him back off mike. 

walking down the crowded street makes it better, the first time he gone down early witnessing a girl get pushed down who looks like seniors, mike did the right thing and interrupted what was happening by videotaping and telling the abuser only for the girl to come up to him and ask if he wants a blowjob, replying no was apparently the wrong answer cause the girl slapped him across his face for wasting her time, what looks like a shakedown of bullies turns out the nerd was a drug dealer, someone was beaten blooded was actually someone trying to impress a girl by being a though guy and his attackers are just his buddies. teacher who wants "help" after class just want him, mike still avoid eye contact to that teacher during lunch. 

collage also not safe after hours, library full of strict parents girls waiting for guys to "talk" to in hidden crevice, what ruined the library is when mike was reading about military history of the city only to get ruined by crusted liquid. the court is just a  way to show muscles attracting both girls and guys. the park is full of pervert getting aroused when he takes a walk as if he can't see them. 

At home was no better at first mike was really in on his mother bringing other girls to book club until he snooped to find the discussion is about how hot they think the male lead is, not to mention how the other girls taught his mom about crystals, she was really angry when mike boiled one of those so called crystals only to melt into plastics, another sold a fogger as sanitizing agent made the fireman was very mad, responding to smoke only to find me desperately fanning the fog out of the apartment while mother cried in a corner mumbling about how it was supposed to do that to sanitized everything. supper tasted like chemicals. 

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only respite is his games mike like to play military simulation whether as an induvial soldier or as a commander detailing how units moved. he loved to much that he developed tactics mostly a like to actual military rules. of course as much as he wants to follow those rules mike tends to do what he wants and just reference them. that did not stop him from earning his rank in the top 10'. commander mike is known throughout the gaming space. 

reporting to the commander. candidates for the new army are available sir.

progress in connecting them to respective system is now out going. 

all project timelines are nominal sir.

very well you may leave. 

the commander sits across to different screens where multiple surveillance feed are shown, scientist are working, engineers progressing towards unlocking what the strange cubes are. and what does that mean for humanity. the center screen shows a large cube. black with bright blue lines pulsing and blue fog streaming out.

mike reached his school watching a drama show seemed to make him lose focus and reflect on everything that happened the last few years. a boring day in school continued mike is eating his lunch with solemn expression, next class is art class which miss thirsty is teaching, everyone in school knows that this teacher will tease and sometimes go all the way with students. if only somebody told mike not to dress in the tight fitting school dress code, or not to follow miss thirsty to "help" her. sighing mike will probably be told again that his work lacks "passion" and needs more "work" and all other such nonsense. according to curriculum they should be in the 20th century styles and history but his class is still stuck on nude models and expression of human emotions. 

mike tried to tell his teacher to moved on but nope that only earned him the class scorn, some boys even told him to just enjoy the show and shut up. and it isn't like mike was to blame here as he can easily kick anyone's butt, having inherited his fathers genetic illness. he got muscles like someone who goes to the gym everyday. this makes his figure more defined. bell rings.

the teacher is now rambling about how the human body is the best expression of art. when sudden earthquake happened everyone quickly hid under their desk, looking around miss thirsty. got hit on the head and was disorientated that when the earthquake stopped it was mike who told everyone to line up and go out. of course everyone only heard to go out and ran, mike had to carry his teacher out of the school, all other student also came out of their classroom, lining up with his classmates dense fog seems to cover everyone. mike has been trying to call his mother for a time now and still no answer...