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\chapauth{Ben Biddick}
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\chapter{Human Existence}
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Rogue Davix looked at his arm. Just above the wrist, three large, scabby
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lumps bulged. They moved in and out, like they were being inflated and
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deflated again and again. The first lump increased the rhythm as each
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other lump formed. The first lump was going faster than the second lump,
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and the second lump was going faster than the third lump and so on. The
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flesh around the three lumps was cracked, flaky, and dry. Rogue squeezed
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his fist together in pain and wiggled at the burning pain. He squinted
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at the four men in lab coats. Why were they doing this? The four men had
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each given Rogue a shot and that was when these lumps had sprung
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up. Were they mad scientists? What the hell were they doing?
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``Stop this!'' Rogue screamed. ``Villains!''
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Purple liquid suddenly spurted from a tiny hole forming in the first
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lump. Three drops came out and dripped down the minute cascade. Yellow
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liquid suddenly erupted from the cracks in the flesh around the sores
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and spurted upward about a foot. One of the men in lab coats quickly put
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a beaker on the arm and collected some of the fluid. He took the sample
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to a small machine and poured it into an aperture where green light
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flowed from its opening. The scanner on the front lit up in strange
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markings that Rogue couldn't read. The four men watched it carefully and
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sighed at what they saw. One or two of them looked over at Davix and
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startled him as the expression cut through his pain straight to his
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soul.
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Suddenly, two more lumps began to be born. They pushed their way up and
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Rogue screamed in even more agony. After those, three more lumps began
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to push. They sprung up and the first two lumps exploded, throwing flesh
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and blood everywhere. A chain reaction happened and the lumps increased
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in creation. The lumps covered Rogue at an alarming rate. They exploded
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one of at a time. Rogue squirmed at the pain.
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One of the men in lab coats ran to a control panel and pressed a
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button. A transparent screen lowered in front and around Rogue. Blood
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and a variety of colors of liquid hit the screen and dripped down. Rogue
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stopped squirming and had uncontrollable tremors. His tongue stuck out
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and his teeth clapped down on it. The tongue bounced off Rogue's body
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and fell to the floor. His fingernails pushed their way back into his
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skin, squirting blood in spatters. Yellow liquid squirted a foot into
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the air from the dry skin around the exploding scabs. Rogue soon died.
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The men in lab coats all sat down and looked at the lump of flesh
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strapped in the chair. They sighed in disgust and one of them cried.
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``The destruction of planet Earth's environment and ozone is
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terrible. This species called human cannot live on our planet, the tests
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we have given show that. They will no longer exist. There is nothing to
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be done.''
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