For all human history, nothing was wrong with being born, children cried, life began messy, loud and human.

That changed 30 years ago,nobody noticed at first, not the parents, not doctors or the governments. The changes happened in the dark of wombs something unseen reached into developing bodies and rewrote them.

The governments of the world didn’t deny it but they tried to burry it and use it. Families were told the truth. enough truth anyway. Everyone knows anomalies exist, everyone knows pregnancies are heavily monitored, and everyone knows what happens is a fetus is flagged.

What families don’t know is where the children go. Every hospital is monitored in this futuristic world. Every maternity ward is watched and if a scan crosses a child and picks up an irregular pattern. Protocols being instantly. Children taken before they can cry. Every laying on their mothers chest. And doors lock.

Sometimes parents are told their child died during delivery, sometimes they are told the truth, then shown the consequences of speaking out and protesting. Careers erased, bank accounts frozen, other children “re-evaluated” silence becomes survival.grief is tolerated, questions are not.

The taken children are reclassified as Deviants, government property the moment they are born. Removed from civil records their existence becomes archives. Raised in sterile rooms given numbers instead of names taught obedience keeps them alive and tough only enough to keep them controlled,and creativity is ground apon.

Most don’t reach adulthood from the abuse of the system and neglect.

Those who do become assets. Weapons engineered before birth. Refined through pain and training, deployed into conflicts hopefully the public will never see. The rulers around the world insists this all is necessary that this future is safer. And even though there have been some protests nothing can be done by the average people.

Bohdie Brooks never was supposed to exist.his mother lived below the city among the homeless and collapsed tunnels and sewage runoff forgotten maintenance corridors where the servalence grin thinned of her city. She had no ID, no records, no legal existence.when she realized she was pregnant there was no hospital to go to and no scan to betray her she survived by her rule of thumb, “stay invisible to survive”

He was born in the dark. Rapped in rags, un scanned, unclaimed. Her shock was still relivant as nobody beside government has actually seen abilities. And like all ability’s he gained them in the womb. He lived with his mother in the slum alone with her. His ability is absence of space and shadows. This can include time, or physical objects. And location. Very powerful more than most.the power is quiet and clean.

He learned to control it the hard way by constant living in hiding. Bully knowing the city was not built for people like him….he was 12 when his mother died. She went to the streets outside the slum they lived to find food. And did not come back. When he went out to find her he found she was shot . And her body still laying on the hood gravel in the rain. He lashed out with his powers. Hurting many…and finally had been captured and put into custody. His name erased to a serial number. 0000315. Only at 12 years old…his understanding of the outside made him grow to hate all of the trainers and teachers in the labs. Unlike the other who were raised with it and it’s all they ever knew. He often caused violence and outbursts. Hurting people. He then was put into the lower levels in chained isolation a high rec room to keep his powers in check when he’s not in training or testing. He is used in battle often but has to have shock collars. Very hostile. It’s been ten years.. and he’s just the same…but now he is 22 years old and disciplined into an angry killing machine that wants nothing more than to get revenge on the government.

Will he ever get it?