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Chapter 1
THE LAST OF US
By Nigel ANDREWS, Nacim MAZOUZ, & Sarah DELIBA
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« The Last of Us » It has been a month since Brandon set off to save humanity.
In 2155, mankind took a huge step forward in robotics and revolutionized it. They created a sentient humanoïd robot for the first time. A group of scientists called “The enlightened” were deemed as the brightest minds of this century. They established a factory where they manufactured the said robots and set up a reactor that would fuel them wherever they were. Although they were the smartest people around, they enslaved the robots and overlooked the resentment they could develop from it. They also got greedy and decided to create a new series of robots called “Destroyers”, for the army. The “Destroyers” weren't pleased with the robots' treatment and betrayed their makers.
Five years later, humanity was forced to hide underground, ninety-nine percent of it died during the genocide perpetrated by the “Destroyers”. The largest community was based in Detroit and had roughly about 2000 survivors, it's name was “The Shelter”. Most of the communities had around a hundred people, but many also decided to live in small groups- two to ten or sometimes a bit over. Brandon was a small lad living in “the Shelter”, he wasn't very strong but he was quick and cunning. He had enough, he couldn't stand staying more than a minute still stuck in that cave. He decided to steal supplies from the scarce stocks left since nobody had the courage to go scavenging, and he headed off to Arkansas, driven by either hope, despair or madness.
In order to survive, Brandon broke into the robots' facility in Detroit where most of the vehicules were kept and stole a small very old buggy that was 2
close by. It took him a month to arrive in Arkansas. The factory was a huge fancy building, built with weird metals and alloys. Brandon snuck in quite easily due to his small stature. He found some scraps in the dumpsters and made a iron mask so he could avoid being detected by cameras and he took rocks with him to create openings by distracting guards or workers. The reactor was two floors below and in the center, guarded by turrets that shot lasers. Brandon also brought along a bigger metal scrap with him so that he could deflect the beams like some kind of mirror shield. However, he encountered another problem, he had absolutely no idea how to destroy the thing. He tried throwing rocks at it in vain, he then tried to shake the device but nothing! He finally pulled the power cable but the backup battery kicked in and the facility's alarm went o. The turrets started firing randomly towards his general direction so Brandon picked up his shield and started flailing it around and panicking. He then accidently deflected a few beams onto the device's control panel, causing it to overheat and blow up and every single robot in the room dropped dead.
Shocked and surprised, he warily exited the building and saw a sea of dead metal men. He then connected to the control tower's speakers and shouted “People, we are free!� as loud as he could. Humanity survived once again.
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Chapter 2
VAPAMA
By Patrycja, Valentino & Marina
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VAPAMA The plane from Paris to Boston crashed on a deserted island in 30230. Out of 50 persons only 9 survived : Mary, Victoria, Scarlet and her beloved Smith, Miranda, Katy, Jack, Harry and William. The island was deserted so they were found only one week later. They were taken to the hospital where they checked their wounds. After several days of reeducation, they were able to be tested in the VAPAMA machine in order to know if they had healed after the accident.
The VAPAMA machine consists in creating hallucinations approved by scientists to check if the person is able to live normally with people. The test is in five stages : - The labyrinth - A puzzle to solve - The giant Rubik’s cube - The board - The code to track
- Mary, Victoria, Scarlet, Smith, Miranda, Katy, Jack, Harry and William went inside the machine.
They immediately experienced hallucinations.
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They started with the first stage : The labyrinth.
The group had to choose one person who must go into the labyrinth so they chose Mary because she was courageous. The rest of the group stayed in a room to guide Mary in the labyrinth and she had to trust them. She found the exit and opened the gate to the labyrinth to the others.
The second stage : the puzzle to solve.
All the members of the group had to help each other to solve the puzzle. Jack was really stubborn and thought that his answer was right but it was not. If the others had listened to him, Jack would have died. In this stage as in the first one nobody died.
The Third stage : The giant Rubik’s cube.
In this stage, they had to solve a giant Rubik’s cube. Unfortunately, Scarlet was extremely impatient so she gave up and died. But because Smith and Scarlet were in love Smith died too.
The fourth stage : The bridge.
This stage consisted in crossing a narrow bridge.
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They are all holding hands to avoid falling except Miranda who preferred crossing the bridge alone. Miranda died because she did the stage alone. It is only after this stage that the group understood that they had to work in group and not alone if they wanted to stay alive.
The last stage : The code to track.
Each of them had to solve a math problem except William who had to enter the code in the correct the order. Harry found problem number 1, Mary : 2, Jack : 3, Victoria : 4 and Katy : 5. Willam immediately found the « trick » which was to put the numbers they found by the alphabetical order of their names. Harry : 1, Jack : 2, Katy : 5, Mary : 2, Victoria : 4, so the code was 13524. They found the right code so they woke up from the hallucination.
They realized that it was a hallucination so Scarlet, Smith and Miranda had not died. But because they haddied in the hallucination they were not able to return to their life normally with people. Furthermore they were « solitary » in their actions. Smith was an exception because he was in love and died because Scarlet had died so he was able to continue with his life. Mary, Victoria, Smith, Katy, Jack, Harry and William were able to take their lives back too.
The VAPAMA machine shows that teamwork is positive.
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Chapter 3
UNTITLED
By Leo, Sarra & Aniss 8
On a raining day in Central Park in New-York, a woman named Carole was trying to go back home when she noticed that she didn't have her phone in her pocket so she decided to look in her bag , undera big tree. Suddenly, an enormous lightning bolt fell on the tree and touched Carole. She fell into a deep coma and after few hours, a jogger found her and brought her to the hospital. When her husband learnt about it, he went immediately at his wife ‘s bedside. It lasted a whole week. When she woke up, her husband was so happy: "-Oh Carole you're alive! I was so afraid when the policeman came at home that I almost fainted..I love you so much! -Oh euh! sorry but I don't know who are you... -But Carole, I'm Hugo ,your husband... -I have a husband...Sorry but I don't remember... -You probably have a memory lapse ...but I don't care! I’ll stay at your bedside until I die if necessary! -Oh..." The love that Hugo had for his wife was so big even if Carole couldn’t remember him...But during the following night, a strange thing happened : a bolt of lightning emerged from Carole. She woke up and saw this lightning. She was afraid of this uncontrollable power. The sound woke Hugo up: "-Carole, what's going on here? -I don't know!"
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Suddenly the lightning hurt Hugo. She decided to go out of the hospital when some CIA's members came to arrest her: "-Who are you?What's going on?" A man decided to knock her out.
She woke up in a strange place,her hands, hips and legs bound. A man who looked like a doctor came towards her: "-Slept well? -Who are you? And where are we? -You don't need to know my name. The only thing that you have to know is that we are both in hell." And during many days, scientifics make horrible experiences on Carole. But one night, she successfully fled from the laboratory. After all this events, she decided to kill herselfherself.
The news of special human like Carole spread throughout the planet.
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Chapter 4
THE PEPPERIAN ROBOTS
By Kilyan, Amir & Gregory
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The story takes
place at New York in the 45th century, but for 75 years , the
world was ruled by a very important scientist who was called Dr. Pepper. This devilish man governed everything. Everybody was afraid of him because he had killed billions of people thanks to his army of robots. These killing robots were called the Pepperian Robots. The world was empty. The remaining human beings were prisoners inthis world.
« Brooklyn, Brooklyn? Where are you? It is 8 am, the Pepperian Robots will kill us! We have to run! » said Houston. Brooklyn appeared, he was full of dust. He was a young guy , less than 20 years old; he was tall whereas Hous ton was more than 20 years old, and he was small but muscular. Houston said : « Run, run, run! ». Brooklyn took his baseball bat and he followed his friend. They ran for 10 minutes, and finally, they were alone, with no one around. Only ruins and fragments of buildings. The world was dark and hopeless. Brooklyn and Houston were the last human in this world. In front of them, Dr. Pepper and his little dog appeared. He said : « There are some human beings here, kill them! ». Some Pepperian Robots tried to carry out their duty, but Houston and Brooklyn hid under fragments. Houston said : « Brooklyn, keep real quiet ». Brooklyn said nothing, he was not frightened. Half and hour later, the
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Pepperian Robots went away. Houston said : « Brooklyn, that’s ok, they have left. We have to free the last survivors! ». Brooklyn picked something on the ground and kept silent, he looked at his friend and tightened the metal object. Houston took the object, he turned it over , then he said : « 6666.160 E 38th St.PR ». It is a metal part coming from one of the Pepperian Robots. « We have to go to this place, it is an address and we could find some interesting things up there. Furthermore,I think these initials PR indicate the Pepperian Robots. » said Brooklyn. Not one more word, they went there to find this address. There were no birds, just a black sky.. very dark. Finally, after 1 hour of walk, both boys arrived at 160 E 38th St.
In front of them, there was a big dark building without windows. Houston and his friend went inside, there was blood everywhere on walls and on the ground. This room was a real shambles Houston said : « Oh my god… I hope that it is not the blood of the survivors. This is scary! » Brooklyn said nothing but he grinned. In the back of the room, there was an open hatch leading to the roof. Brooklyn went to this trapdoor and Houston followed him. They arrived on the roof, there were a lot of Pepperian Robots and the Dr. Pepper. Houston said « Oh God, it was a trap, Brooklyn, we have to run away! »
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Brooklyn said nothing as usual, but he joined Dr. Pepper. Houston didn’tfollow, he was lost. Suddenly, Brooklyn shouted something : « take Houston out and kill him! ». Dr. Pepper shook Brooklyn’s hand, then he squeezed hard Brooklyn’s hand and he said : « Kill them both ». Houston was shocked, they were taken by the Pepperian Robots. But some of the robots released the boys. Dr. Pepper was surprised ed and said: « What are you doing? Dont let them run away! » But, the robots removed their armors, it was the survivors. Brooklyn had known itsince the beginning. Everybody fired at Dr. Pepper. Brooklyn and Houston hugged to celebrate the victory. It was the end of this chaos. All the resistants and the boys rode in aflying saucer to join the moon. Months passed and years also. Everything ended at the best thanks to these young boys.
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Chapter 5
2047
By Serhat, Halima and Ines
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It will soon be thirty years that they had died, because of him, because of us a l l , b e c a u s e o f m e . Our world in 2047, is only a world of chaos, as gray as rain-bearing clouds, as dark as a coal mine. Nothing was more ghastly the Earth today. I am call e d E d w a r d , I a m 4 7 y e a r s o l d b u t I l o o k m u c h m o r e . My life is so deplorable that I am sad to tell you my story but I must. 3 years ago my friends got killed, during the war, the war for freedom as they c a l l e d i t . We could not continue like that. They discovered us before we could finish our work. When I speak about “they” I 'm talking about the soldiers of the nation. They do not have any humanity and live under the orders of the first Immortal Man, I name “God T” as he wants to be called. No one newly born knows his name. I am not one of them I know who he is.
The former people took him to the power when all went very well in 2017. But five years later all rocked when that Terry Winston, a famous researcher discovered a means to reproduce and rebuild dead cells or abysses. It thus gave rise to a new technology which God T seized. Indeed, Winston had resurrected human beings or rather conjured up immortality. Which simply gave the means to God T to hold power. He cut out America from any contact with other territories by building walls where borders stood . That caused famines and important crises, not only for the United States, but also for all the other countries in t h e w o r l d . Europe, Asia and South Africa declared war to him, a war which lasts for thirt y y e a r s b y n o w . All the population died except for those having the means to survive. It's not my case and I sometimes wish I'd die. But I cannot leave this world before having s o l v e d t h i s p r o b l e m .
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Therefore I created a machine, a machine going up in time. We had already begun it when my friends were alive but it was destroyed and my friends killed . But luckily , if I may say so, I have kept the plans intact. I rebuilt it entirely in total secrecy, if not I would not be here t o w r i t e t o d a y. Unfortunately I realized that I cannot manage on my own , but I do not know anybody w h o c o u l d h e l p m e e x c e p t f o r m y s e l f a n d m y d e a d f r i e n d s . Therefore I decided to leave in 2017, during the winter. “ June , hurry up” shouted a voice down the stair. A boy was sitting on the first step of the wooden staircases. His elbows resting on his knees, to hold his head up. “ Two more second please” It might have been there for twenty minutes, waiting for his friend. This scene was repeated each morning, so he was accustomed to it . He always arrived at quarter to eight in front of June's house but nobody was ever there. Suddenly he heard a door open then a girl appeared in the doorway with a large smile. “ Good morning Edward” said June. Her hair was separed in two stuck braids which flew when she stooped . “ At last ! Are you really ready ?' asked Edward She looked at him with her blue impish eyes and disappeared in another room. “June, we will be late , stop ! I’ll go alone! Amy shall be angry again” he threatened.
He went out of the house and began to walk. It was a cold winter day., Edward's foot sunk in the fresh white snow from last night. This year, the cold started earlier than theyear before , it was too harsh. June's house was about ten minutes away from their school so they had not to walk for a long time. He got his hand out of his pocket, looked at his watch then he stopped. Back to him, June was running, she almost fell but she caught up to a post. 17
“ EDWARD WAIT!” she howled She was still out of breath. She looked frightened. “ Have you seen the man ?” questionned June. “ What man?” answered the boy “Him!” she whispered pointing at something behind. Edward moved in order to see better but she pointed at nothing. Maybe a tree but it was not a human being or the man his friend described. “ Are you okay June? There is nobody in this street except for us.” “ No, it's impossible, he was just there” Suddenly, she turned and may have realized the truth because she joined her friend,and kept moving. They were once and for all alone.
At school, everybody was talking about the Presidential election of 2017 which would be held in one week. Nobody would vote but it was one of the firsttopic of conversation . Several celebrities as such as the current president said that the crowd could chose its future in democracy or in dictatorship. The choice was between Wright, the man wanting to make justice reign by sharing the rights of each one and Turner who wanted to dig a gap between America and the rest of the world.
Edward joined June who was discussing with another girl, their best friend, Amy. She was telling her why they had arrived later than the others days. He thought her insane or not being awaked yet. Later in the evening when we returned on foot like every evening, we dispatched a shade to follow them . The wind was making them scared. The old standard lamps were glimming on top of our heads. “Who's this shadow?” asked Amy scared “ I really don't know but hurry up, I don't want to die today.” Edward said June turned over each minutes to observe behind them if they were alone but a giant shade took shape under the light of the standard lamps each time she looked back. 18
Suddenly, the distressed young girl pushed the group in a dark lane. “ Can we stop here please? ” she whispered. “Why? ” “ If the shade we saw means no harm ,it will ignore us and will pass us.” *** The shade was quite disposed, so was Edward but they didn't believe it , this is why I sent them into the chaotic world of 2047. *** “ Where are we ? “ asked Edward lying on the floor. Nobody answered..
The ground started to burn the skin of Edward who jumped and looked at his reddened hands. The night was cold, cold enough to burn your skin. June and Amy moved slowly then had the same reaction. All three were covered warmly but not to enough for this freezing cold. “ What happened ?” questionned Amy. “ I don't remember” mumbled June “Isn't the weather a little too cold for a winter night?” said Edward but nobody answered. They continued keep close to get as much heat as possible but the wind was keeping them apart Heads down , they had not noticed yet all the houses destroyed in the streets. All of a sudden, Edward stopped, he was staring at the ground then he looked up. . “ Girls! Come on, do you see what I see ?” On the ground, a screen was stuck, which was odd for people coming from the year 2017, but strangest for Edward and his two friends was that... the date being displayed on the screen was: December 19th, 2047
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Thirty yearsahead of their time. *** I had been sent myself 30 years later. It was dangerous but I succeeded. I met them in 2047. I expected that it has a problem to see myself with 30 years less but all worked as I expected. The soldiers of the nations did not even notice us or them. I explained everything to them. They understood, with difficulty but the most important is that they understood. Then I sent them with a little training to Washington DC in 2022, at the time of the presentat i o n o f t h e fi n a l p r o j e c t b y Te r r y W i n s t o n . We are connected through time. I can from now on guide it in order to destroy the work w h i c h c h a n g e d t h e w o r l d . *** “Hello , ladies and gentlemen, we are here together today to present you an invention , MY invention, which will revolutionize social sciences; Here is the wonder product to y” shouted a bearded man raising small bottles in front of immense crowd. “it is a sample of the Fountain of Youth” The small group of three was in the middle of crowd, struggled to push aside people who barred the passages towards the platform. But suddenly they found themselves in the limelight. “But first of all, let us accommodate beings who come from the past or future, in any case who travelled in space time…. I name Edward, June and Amy! Hello you” The crowd started to applaud...
“Remember the machine that we found in the future one. Oh but I am stupid, if that happened in the future one you cannot recall anything . In all space time,, you have already died.”
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Chapter 6
THE CHOSEN ONE
By Saviru Koruwakankanamge, Lou Bonito ,Antoine Desplache & Ornella Imbony
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, was a man who has changed their nation destiny but he died doing his ultimate feat.He was hero for all citizens. What made him special? He had special powers which made him unique. The day he died an orator predicted that in few centuries, a reincarnation will appear on his twentieth birthday. We are on December 23rd 2350, it’s a period of civil war (JAMES POV) I woke up in the middle of the night due to a nightmare or dream I don’t know how to considerate it because I have been dreaming it every night for a few days now. I tried to go back to sleep but I just couldn’t, it’s as if my mind was preoccupied. Yesterday I was in the bathroom in front of the mirror looking at my reflection .I saw something had changed in me. I cannot put my fingers on it right now but I feel that I’m not the same person. I felt powerful. It is as if I was born to accomplish something big, really big. It was my 20th birthday, It’s the day everything changed in me, whether it be mentally or physically. Just let me introduce myself first, you probably wonder who I am? I am Peter Queen. I am in my second year of phycology. I live in Fuji, a big city situated on Mars. So I am not a good looking guy with muscles that make girls fall in love at first sight. I found myself ugly, nobody saw me. I am invincible to other’s eyes, and I am just in the background. That hurts me a lot .I wish that I could be like the cool kids, cause all the cool kids seem to fit in. You know there is a girl in my class , that I really like I find her very beautiful with her ocean blue eyes that made me fall to her but she never noticed me , I am sure that she don’t even know my name . I ll never do the first step to talk her, I just stalk her from the side looking how beautiful she is and wondering how it would be with her if things where different with me and my mind. If I were not too shy to talk to her. One day I saw her looking at me for the first time our eyes met and she directly turned her head away that was what I was thinking. I was just confused. So to return to the following day of my birthday, I was in front of the mirror looking at my reflction. But today there was something different about myself, I can really see it, because that’s not my face here in the mirror , I am sure about it because I am ugly and the 22
guy I see here is a handsome one that was not me , for sure .. What happened to me? I thought, I didn’t even know maybe I was dreaming. But at the same time , I heard my doorbell ring , I opened the door ,saw a letter on the ground took it and I read it . It read that I had a special power. I’m a mutant shapeshifter with the ability to psionically shift the formation of my biological cells at will to change my appearance and thereby assume the form of other humans and animals. I can also alter my voice to sound exactly like another person . That was all nothing more, no sign, nada. It was so sudden : twenty yesterday.
how could I considerate myself, these information, I just turn
It is a late gift? Don’t think so. I think, I was born to this day, to these powers. The next days after my birthday, I found a way to control my powers to change my appearance. Soone day , I went to college with a new appearance , to do my first step to the girl I liked , she saw me coming towards her , I just introduced myself but she didn’t seem interested in me , she just said that she had someone in her mind but she would never do the first step towards him. I learned by talking with her that the guy she was talking was me, the one she liked, it was me. So that day I just went back home, took my appearance back. I don’t know how to consider my feelings. Now that I know that she likes me too, I don’t know what do to? So then a few weeks had gone and I decided that it was the right time to do my first step to her as the real me. The next week she was my girlfriend, I just really loved her, now I realise that looks don't count .For she had eyes and chose me. You are probably wondering what I did with my powers? So I just joined the army, my duty was to spy on the enemies with another appearance and give them information. I am the one who changed my nation destiny without my precious information that I gave this war would never have ended. My girlfriend was proud of me. In my last mission, a soldier discover my identity and he shot me 3 times in the back. I heard my mom’s voice. She was calling my name “Peter!!! Peter!!! Wake up !!! you are late to school” And I realized, It was just a dream…
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