“Today when asked if the three hundred million credits that the president daughter received as a advisor was a bribe. The American president claimed it was just what she was worth for a hours work. Many believe that it was a bribe to allow the sheik buy the statue of liberty. ” Webnews report

The mutant elephant was eating a car. Its trunk was ripping the car apart and it was munching on the engine like it was a lollypop. I zoomed in and spoke into my microphone “Ok I have got to put that down.” “Negative do not engage there is a retrieval team on the way. M corp wants it alive”

I built up my strength and began to create the nanites I would need to blow the elephants head off if it even looked at me the wrong way. My controller began to rant at me “Your building up your nanites stop that.” “Why the fuck would I do that? If you want me to retreat out of that things range let me know and I will run for my life. Otherwise I am going to get ready in case it looks at me the wrong way. It just ate a car.”

My controller began to rant “That elephant is worth a million credits you worthless bottom feeder” The elephant began to scream as things clawed there way out of it. It fell to the ground screaming and I decided that I needed to kill whatever was ripping its way out of the elephant before they ate me. I breathed in and opened fire. I blasted two dog looking things before they had fully ripped there way out of the elephant. My controller began to scream “There more valuable than you are stop shooting” I blinked and decided to ask the controller a question that was bothering me “So am I suppose to let them eat me or what?” “Of course you are I only get verbal warming if you die for every mutant you kill I lose a months pay”

The elephant was still alive screaming but since it was on its side I decided it was now the best time to loot it. I approached the screaming creature. My controller was screaming in my ear “What are you doing stop right now.” I pulled out my ear piece and walked carefully forward towards the elephant to examine the corpses of the dog creatures. Given I had already most likely been fired I would try and extract as much of the elephants and dogs nanite information as I could. A couple of gamers I knew called it experience.

I looked down on a horror. A dog with razor claws diamond teeth and boils all over it. As it looked like something I had seen I pulled out a old radio not company approved and made a call. “Its Max let Tom know those things that killed his brother Jerry it looks like there being breed by those dillholes. There in the elephants some kind of parasite.” I tossed the radio as I did not want the company to know where I was. With super powers you never knew what powers the company's supers had. It was lucky for me they were such misers.

As I doubt I was being paid I reached over and began to adsorb some of the nanites from the Elephant. I found one of the dogs half dead crushed under the elephant. It was in bad shape but still breathing. The elephant must have fallen over and crushed it as it was trying to escape. It took some doing but I ripped the elephant organs out and managed to grab the dogs leg. Extraction took a second I could feel my own nanites upgrading. It was time to leave before M corp found me and tried to sue me.

I moved away to try and find some water when a small glider arrived a scavengers appeared and began to rip apart the elephant for spare parts. Normally I would have been upset with my controller screaming at me to do something about unauthorised retrieval personal. Luckly I was no longer working for the company so I waved and was about to leave when there was a explosion from where I parked my hover bike. As I looked off into the distance I pulled out my rifle. Then I switched my company radio back on.

“We got that cocksucker good. Never saw us coming” “You wasted a missile on a civilian. I am taking it out of your pay.” I realised that the scavenger had a partner one who had been trying to rip me off. The helicopter must had come in with the sun behind it and blasted the scavenger with a missile. It was definitely time to send my resignation. It gave me great pleasure to aim and build up my nanites I aimed at the smaller rotor and fired. The beam of energy struck the helicopter and the nanites travelled threw beam of energy to the helicopter. The entire tail of the helicopter turned to dust. Which caused the helicopter to fall from the sky. I looked at the scavenger with the glider and brought up my weapon. “Drop your weapons I am robbing you.”

The glider was a piece of crap but it was reliable and worked on solar energy. Still it was slow and took me almost 10 hours to arrive at a neutral airport. Landing almost killed me as the glider motor suddenly cut out I got out and put the glider with the keys in it on on a small side street. I got out of the glider and I winked at a old granny I saw feeding her cats. Having no doubt she would have the glider dismantled about a second after I could not see her any more. I took off running keeping on the main streets they still patrolled them a bit so they were mostly safe it only took a half a hour to reach the airport. Looking around I realised everyone was watching a screen.

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The reporter stood next to the statue of liberty which had a massive brown stain in it. The reported pointed at the statue of liberty. “As you know the statue of liberty was recently sold to the Sheikh of the neo muslim state. Prince Ali ibn Abi Talib is seen here taking a shit on the statue of liberty. The sale was which was always regarded as being suspect is being called into question. There have been unsupported allegations that the president received bribes to push the sale threw”

The image went to another reporter The presidents has made a statement “We should be focusing on stopping all this global warming talk not on old relics. The fires that have started in in Washington will go away themselves. This is just a unusually long heat wave. I also want it on the record that I did not at any point receive money for selling the statue of Liberty and the Declaration of independence. The rumours that I sold the cure for the black goo to Canada is baseless. Those cures did not work I repeat they did not work in most cases.”

Looking around I found a American soldier obviously distraught and I moved over to him “Say would you be interested in giving that dip shit a little lesson. I happen to know the research for the cure of the black goo is. If someone put it online.” The soldiers face changed as he wiped a tear from his cheek his face changing from grief to determination.

After giving him a few email address of people who would like the information I looked at the various places I could go to. Corporation was a American company so America was out. I had enough of Africa and south America was suffering from more food riots. I took a quick look at the reclamation efforts in India. But I had heard of tribes of cannibals attacking those who had left them to starve. Europe was suppose to be in bad shape except for Germany . As this was the only place I could afford I decided to go to Germany. I hoped the soldier could distract M Corporation as I needed to hide for a while. I bought a ticket and as I fell asleep on the plane a fat woman complained in my ear “God dam hippies they want the cure for the black goo you have to pay for it.” I wondered where it had all gone wrong.

Waking up in Berlin was a shock it was actually orderly as I got off the plane I heard a piece of good news on my radio. The news was of a break in at a M corporation data centre. The news then turned to the Canadian Premier “I would like to say of course I bribed the American President. I admit spending one hundred million credits on a bribe to buy thirty million doses of black goo vaccine may now not seem worth it now that a cure has been released. But at the time it was well worth it. I would to say I am sorry we had to arm sixteen years children to stop the fleeing terrified Americans. But only teenagers can build up enough of a resistance to the black goo. As for the Americans request we send aid we will send what we can. But my priority will be my own people. I am certainly not going to risk my peoples lives to help a country that sold us a vaccine before helping there own. ”

The fat lady next to me was screaming at her phone “What do you mean they are producing there own vaccine. That is a licenced technology of our company. Right I am heading to file the legal papers right now. Wait what the papers were filled in before the release of the information on the internet. We developed that technology first we did not patent it but its ours. So what if a few million die without the technology. We have patented the development stages of the virus I would like to see how they produce there vaccine without infringing on those copyrights ” I looked at a the fat woman “Yo fat ass your a lawyer right why are you not in first class? You smell like a horses ass so next time head to first class so we do not have to smell you.”

I left the screaming woman behind and left the aeroplane. Finding myself in a long line with what looked like actual Nazi's inspecting everyone was a bit of a surprise. The fat lady from before began to scream at me. One of the black uniform men approached and then saluted me “Sir is this pig disrupting your movement” I could see the fat lady was about to rant at him but before she could begin he pulled out a stick and hit her right in the mouth. Teeth went everywhere and as I blinked more men approached me. They saluted and I realised with a shock they were all skin heads. I looked around at the airport where everyone was minding there own business. That's when it hit me I had not been keeping up with the news. I decided to do whatever I was told. Two of the men lead to a van which had red stains on the floor. I looked at the men who kept silent. One went to grab a bottle of water and began to wipe down the van. One of the guards ran over and purchased me a towel. He was young maybe 18 or nineteen and I could see the skin on his face drip down. At some point he had been much fatter.

My guards were changed with older skin headed guards who were armed with what looked like giant shotguns that looked like they wanted to use them on me. So I decided to do exactly as I was told. The towel was tossed to me and I sat on it. The van took off like a rocket I could hear cars swerve to avoid the van. When it stopped we were at a massive building I was quick marched out the door. I looked around in panic at the rooms with peeling paint. I tried to work out what was going on and more importantly how not to join the stain on the van I had just got out of It was not M corp that fat woman was more than likely a lawyer for M Corp. So it had to be someone else who wanted me. The two storm troopers lead to a room that had fairly decent furniture. I was sat on a older type leather chair without the nanite massage options. But it was fairly high quality for a government office. A older bald man was waiting he looked up at and me and spoke up “Max your about what I expected but still you are a hero. You have been awarded a second class medal for your assistance in spreading the black goo cure. Despite your horrible choice in girlfriends the new republic is ready to offer you a job. We are offering to pay you in food.”

I blinked in surprise as the old man continued “As you know the American president has claimed that this years temperatures will go down. The issue is the American grain belt all the crops grown there are now genetically modified. The crops there will all die if the temperature stay steady or does not drop. The seed crops were not changed to a variety that can withstand the temperature increase. It looks to my government that the companies are going for a insurance pay out by growing the non hardy crops. They get there insurance pay out. Plus they have begun to store food more than likely to sell off at a profit. Which brings us to your pay. I know many of your family are genetic undesirables but exceptions to our newer policies can be made. After all if there maybe riots due to lack of food. Your family will need somewhere safe to go to.”

It was fairly obvious this guy was a nazi or possible working with them it was also obvious the shit show that was about to happen and my family would need a warning about the food and maybe to be moved before the crash. I was betting Canada would be overcrowded. That left the really scary bald guy offer. I did not have much of a choice