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The Thirteenth Step
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The virus spread far and wide, eliminating everything that stood in its way.

"Hello my name is Mr. Smith", the clean heavy set man said in his country north Kentucky accent.
" I am here to talk to you about
p.b.t's and the honnocker method".

The small group of maybe twenty adults watched mister Smith with undivided attention.
"Ok so about twenty years ago the Saar's virus and it's many variants made a jump". He proceeded to explain that saars a man made spike protein virus had been causing manking troubles for a long time.
He then continued to explain that because of progressive jump the virus had made twenty years ago the effects of the virus where so detrimental to ones health that mankind had had to move into government and privately owned indoor cities with synthetic oxygen and known as a intermetros.
Mr. Smith then explained how to read p.b.ts personal blood tests and how to use them. Then he got into the honnocker method that says what to do if an infection caused by the jump the ergon variant breaks out in the city basically a person must put in a code into the honnocker app then a coded piece of paper that says the results of the p.b.t
if the p.b.t comes back positive then when the result is scanned into the honnocker app it locks down the entire qaudrant and a strong intoxicating powder that would first cause euphoria then kill after a deep sleep was induced , would be administered to everyone within the entire sector.
The class seemed appalled that so much life could be taken so easily Derek Ward a twenty five year old freshman said to Smith.
" that would kill my whole family are you sure it's that dangerous that we have to exterminate all those people"
Smith looked at him with a grim expression and said to him "oh yes I'm certain".
after the class let out Derek along with the others picked up their p.c's.
tiny computers that would accompany them the rest of their lives they where extremely advanced and a person could do a lot with one. However they where always a grim reminder of the implications of activating the honnocker application.
Derek was twenty five year old male with brown short hair blue eyes and we'll kept facial hair. he was generally honest person and he didn't have much problems making friends, He was going to skip finishing school apl together but had decided to go into science and try to save the world from the deadly variant.
He was extremely gifted at science and mathematics and he had been reading everything he could about science for as long as he could remember.

Derek after leaving his studies quickly made his way to A-13 one of his favorite spots to socialize and drink he walked inside their was new music playing oddly it was new but it sounded old thanks to some new audio effects a new form of classical music called simply awe had taken his intermetro lovingly called the stash box by some of it's occupiers the real name of the place was Atheos, but it would Always be the stash box especially by it's poorer occupants in A sector.
The music had flooded the heads of many with so much emotion they had began to cry upon hearing it
however when he walked into the bar he walked to the back to the V.I.P area in the third door on the left his significant other Jennifer Jagdon waited patiently Jennifer was a thirty six year old p.c specialist she could do anything on one of the tiny computers. she had been taught by her mother when she was a youth and had continued learning her whole life. she was a beautiful woman with a soft but serious face and a healthy physique.

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