On a sunny morning in the middle of a research base in Arizona.

The research base, or better known as Ara, was designed to study the very limits of human abilities and understanding.

But this day was different, on March 3 of the year 2028, the old world collapsed, and a new world rose from its ashes

Ara was having its annual bring your child to work day. And Rex was thrilled that his parents were bringing him instead of his older brother who could care less about anything other than gamming.

The start of the day was as a typical tour would be, a bunch of adults explaining how their job functions.

But Rex was never paying attention, for he heard a strange voice in his head. 'Come here' it told him. This voice creeped him out, but it’s not like he could make an outcry that he was hearing voices in his head. That would get him a one-way ticket to an insane asylum.

The day continued, when suddenly they stopped in front of a lab door. On the door it read experimental room.

The tour lady was still giving her extremely boring speech about how they will improve the world with their inventions. And soon she ushered them into the lab room, which held a ton of surprises. Inside the room was 9 long tables holding an object inside of a glass case.

This is where everything would change.

Rex felt the voices in his head grow louder as he got closer to the glass cases.

The tour lady was explaining that these orbs were from an unknown dig site from a few years back and that the orbs seemed to be completely useless. They just sat there. But the only thing that they were able to find out was that the 9 orbs were completely indestructible by all human and machine interactions.

They even demonstrated how strong these orbs were. They hammered it, ran it over, chemically dissected it, and even created a nuclear explosion to try to get rid of it, but none of these did the trick.

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She then let everyone hold the orbs for a few seconds. Rex was the last in line to receive the orb.

The orb had a sudden reaction when Rex touched it. The orb grew hot and melted into his hands, but this process was not painless. Rex screamed loudly, because it felt like insects were digging into his hands.

The tour lady was shocked, because this was very bad. Since they could be sued for hurting a child.

But time waits for no one.

The orb that magically melted into his hands soon released a very reactive wave into the air. The wave had a water rippling look to it. The ripple was not small; in the matter of seconds the rippled had touched all ends of the world.

The wave itself didn't create a panic, because it became invisible as soon as it left the laboratory.

This was not the end of this. Soon the other 8 orbs rose up and melted through the glass and into Rex's body making him the center of another 8 ripples.

When all 9 orbs finished melting into his body, which only took about 10 seconds, an implosion occurred. This implosion was like a small, weak black hole. It sucked Rex and 3 other children into a wormhole and closed after it sucked them in. The children were fine, but they blacked out.

Inside the research base

Everyone had a surprised look on their face as they watched the 4 kids disappear into thin air.

Rex's and the other three kid’s parents went into hysteria. These were their flesh and blood children, disappearing into a suspicious wormhole, who wouldn’t worry.

But they were very intelligent, and soon got started on researching a way to bring them back. Realistically it was impossible, because they had never left in the first place.

The rest of the world

Soon people discovered that they had supernatural powers like flight and super-strength. People rose up and conquered those who didn't have powers.

The ratio of those who had extraordinary powers and those who didn't was 1:10,000.

The ratio of those with powers and those who didn't was 1:100.

But most of people’s powers where completely useless in combat.

People with extreme powers conquered whole states and sectors of a country. New country’s and alliances were formed overnight and soon even the geography of the world changed. The world expanded by an unknown degree. New continents soon formed from the increase in lava at the earth’s core.

But peaceful times never last, because the biggest change wasn't the planet or even the humans. It was the beasts. Monsters that should have died millions of years ago soon rose up from the soil with skin so tough that nuclear bombs would have no effect. Animals that already existed gained unimaginable strength. Farm animals that humans raised soon revolted against them.

Animals took back a lot of the forest and wild areas from the humans.

The humans believed that their new powers where a god send, but soon they will know that even with their powers, they will still be powerless for what’s to come.