Chapter 2 (Bio-War)

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The worse wasn't over.
About five years later biochemical warfare started, a lot of people were infected.

Some died immediately after being infected, others lived with deformities. Some deformities you could see and others were internal but even they were exterminated...
Yes you read that correctly...
They were called to the med tents or visited by a med technician and given an injection that they were told was to help them but it in fact slowly killed them. Not all the med professionals agreed to this but those who did were cold and cared nothing for the surviving families feelings.
Others complied just so they and their families wouldn't be considered a problem and be false diagnosed and than injected.

It terrified Claire when their bell rang. "Shannon?!... None of us are!.."

"Claire it's okay...
I just came to check on the boys.
I want to make sure none of you are having laten effects and...
I need a favor." Shannon coughed as tears formed.
"Anything...
Shannon are you..." Claire could tell Shannon was infected.
"Yes...
Don't worry it's not contagious...
its actually the effects of the drug...
I need you to take my son...
Here are his papers it states he is a Dawson.
The son of Noah and Claire, its all official no one will question it.
Now once I give you all a clean bill of health you need to go to the train.
They are moving this area to the new City where you'll live like Kings and Queens.
I put you as my heir Claire, my doctor benifits and the fact I died here in the field...
Well let's just say is excellent for you.
Just make sure Lang becomes a doctor or something he likes as long as it keeps him in high standing." Shannon explained.

She went on checking everyone, everyone checked out healthy except Gabe.
"This can't...
He can't...
I need him!
Don't you dare inject him!" Elexis snapped and was ready to attack but Noah held her back.
"Calm down your infant needs you to stay calm...
Gabriel you were in the medical field before you tried to flee with your family, right?
I want you to go to the bomb shelter I will join you soon, maybe we can find a cure." Shannon explained.
"But you said..." Claire started
"Its just a flu shot I gave myself and a few others in the other blocks that came up positive.
They'll think the poor will eventually die, while they evacuate the healthy and wealthy or that were able to get enough together to make the list after the lottery.
Those I tried to prolong will be in the shelter as well, they are going to blow this area but we in the shelter should make it.
I put supplies needed for us in there." Shannon explained.

Elexis hugged and kissed her husband goodbye, Gabe scooped up and hugged his son for the last time along with his nephew.
Noah hugged his baby brother.

"I can't believe I'm leaving you a second time." Noah sobbed as he hugged Gabe. "Your not, I'm leaving you this time.
Now take care of my family never let them think I'm dead, because I'm going to find all of you this time." Gabe smirked at his older brother who he reconnected with only to have to let go of him again, along with his family.

"I won't...
I'll tell them how you chose to stay behind to help find a cure and one day we'll all be together again." Noah said with one last hug.
Claire also gave him a hug.
"You take care of yourself and promise me we'll see each other again." She whispered in his ear.
"Don't make me promise something I can't control but if its God's Will we will see each other again someday." Gabe kissed Claire on the cheek.

It was total chaos at the station.
Kids crying for their parents, they either got separated from or had just lost to the injection.
They pilled everyone into the train like cattle.
Blocks 20 to 100 in one car that was about over a hundred men, women and children, not to mention the children's car that consisted of over two hundred screaming children alone.
Lang screamed for his mom but none listened to his cry, they were all busy morning their own loved ones they lossed.
Noah held and comforted the seven year old the best he could.

"Its okay she wanted you to come with us so you can stay safe and healthy." Noah told him as he stroked his back. The boy leaned back and looked up at Noah than at Claire.
"I know mommy told me, your my mommy and daddy now and Justin is my brother." The boy said as tears filled his eyes once more.
Noah too teared but squeezed the boy before he could see.
"Yes Lang you are my son and I will always love you as my own." Gabe cried...
Sebastian Black sat with a basket of two new born boys next to the Dawson's.
"Their beautiful." Elexis said as she looked into the basket.
"Thanks." Bash was cold sounding, Elly assumed he must have just lost his wife.
"Was it the Biochemical that took her?" Elexis pressed.
"No these two." Bash grumbled.
The way he pinned the mothers death on the infants sickened her.
Elexis was going to question more even scold him but Claire stopped her.
"What are their names?" Justin asked.
"Cameron and Johnathan." Bash grumbled.
Noah pulled Justin away and onto his lap to sit next to Lang.
The women spoke no more to the man but kept looking at the two precious babes even held them when Bash ignored their cries.
Another mother who was still Brest feeding took them one at a time to feed them.
"Hopefully they'll have formula...
For a price I won't mode being a wet nurse as long as you don't mind my little girls." The young woman smiled.
"How much?
Where's your husband?" Bash asked.
"He died seven months ago.
He was trying to get us a ticket.
When they figured it out they gave me one.
Personally I don't have an amount just enough to keep my daughters safe." She smiled.
"Mam if you need a place I have a big home.
My name it Troy Daniels this is my boy Travis." Troy introduced.
"Thank you.
Sarah.
My girls are Ariel and Kay.
Its funny how our family already looks like a match." Sarah smiled as she changed the pots diapers than went on tending to her own.
"You know thank you but you have your handful already I don't want my boys to take from your girls.
Be funny if one day they grow up being friends.
Or something more special." Bash chuckled for the first time on the train....

The train ride felt like days in the dark cramped car with no seats, once they arived at the city gates they were assalted by the bright sunlight, as they exited the train.
They were ussured into a huge chamber like building.
Women were sperated from the men and the children were also seperated from the adults.
"Sir its perfectly okay their ankle brackets match up with yours on your wrist.
I assure you they will be safe.
Squeaky clean once you get them back." The young nurse smiled as she looked at the boys in the basket.
"Thats good not many fathers seem to want to keep their infants.
These two are identical too.
The young doctor said as he did their med check...

"Place your clothes here, they are of no use to you anymore, you will be fitted with a new outfit for today, place personel belongings here so we can decontaminate them if possible." A male or female guard said in each area of the decontamination center.

"You need to remove your gold tags sir... Ladies...
Boys." Each of the Dawson's and Daniels were told in their designated area.

"Please let us keep it on, it can be washed, we don't want to lose them, its the last thing we got from my daddy, besides our parents have one too so they can identify us." Jake insisted, the young man appointed to help Justin and Travis sighed.
"Its metal, it'll get clean in the shower." He said to the young gaurd as he led the boys to a group stall where he could make sure all four boys properly cleansed.

Neither of the Dawsons or Daniels had to remove their necklace, the adults told their gaurd the same as the boys and because it was metal it was allowed.
From that point on they didn't bother anyone unless the jewelry was made of something other than metal.

The adults were than led into stalls that had shower like heads.
An announcer spoke over the loud speaker while a towel giver stood at the end handing the soaps in the order anounced.
"When the water turns on, use this for your hair, than this for your face and last this for your body.
Towels will be provided once your water turns off.
If you feel you did not have enough time to rinse completely alert your towel giver and you can stand back for a quick rinse before the next group is brought in." Instructions were given as people stood exposed in front of the clothed towel givers.
Children who were too young to clean themselves properly were helped.

Once they were clothed they were led to a waiting area, there they waited till loved ones or children were ready...
If they were a single young adult or elder they were sent to the apartments immediately.
If they were orphans they were chipped, placed onto another train and sent to an adjointed city where they will be tested immediately for placements within the City.
If they were infants they were chipped and placed in the infant store where wealthy barrens can buy a baby, yes buy a baby to raise as a proper person.

Not everyone was chipped they were fitted with bracelets that contained a chip.
Eventually they plan to chip everyone but they did not want to start a panick because it implied the bible saying about receiving the mark.

They had a children's waiting area for those who were waiting on their parents, they moved through faster than the adults, because they had an aid, every child was fitted with a chipped bracelet that matched their parents as they borded the train before coming to the city so no one could try and claim another's or try and claim an orphan, sure some had the rights, they might have gotten separated durning the chaos at the station but that took weeks to months to convince the Court's, by than the child if they were of age to be tested for placement was already placed within their group and would never have contact again with anyone who claimed to be their guardian.

The chaos of it all overwhelmed Elexis and Claire, they were concerned about their boys, they were relieved when their escort led them to the glass room where children of all ages played on big indoor playground sets.
Infants where also in there the girls watched the two sets of twins for a moment till their parents claimed them.
"I hope to see you again." Sarah hugged both Elexis and Claire as she left with Troy who was carrying her babies in the new basket.
They were than advised to sit on the bench within the room to wait for their husbands.
It pained Elexis because Jake was it and the baby she was secretly keeping because there was a rumour births were being terminated if they were conceived before or during the biochemical outside the City, just to insure that there was no recontamination.

"Miss what of...
Oh I see never mind follow okay everyone follow me." They were escorted to a trolley that would than take them home.

They were last to get off the trolley, it stopped at the biggest most beautiful marble mansion, where an instructor was waiting with an access pad.

He scanned each of their bracelets programing them to the house's master system.

"You will have access to everything within your home.
Parents you will find a manuel on how to child proof for the youngsters or if you have another later on.
Inside you will also find a book with the new rules.
In about a few years the boys will be ready for testings to see where they'll be placed within the city limits. If they pass with high scores they may be trained to be leaders, fathers or gaurds. Depending on their guard rank they can still have a family.
Than there are those who will become breeders, not the best but still okay, they are still treated as part of the community.
There are farmers, that's for those who are good with agriculture and farm animal.
Now the foundry workers, they'll be placed as outcasts and they are never to be spoken of again, they will be like the dead to us, they may run earands within the city but you as family are not to have contact with them.
I know that would be hard but that is the worse case and that is normally the placement for missfits or girls who are unsutable for marriage and/or breeding not so much for boys." Their arrogant instructor explained before he left.

"Claire don't worry yourself about that, the boys are only children they have years before we need to worry about that." Noah assured his wife.
"Actually it states here that testing starts at age nine, Jake and Lang are both seven and the boys should have started classes at age two, they can even take them at a younger age if they are excelling pass their peers." Elexis said. "What?! That's insane..." Noah exclaimed as he took over reading the book.
"Its worse, says here all of us in the high level have a spending cap and if we don't use it we actually get a mark against our kids that will effect their scores and if their girls their suiters might over look them for becoming wives, seems to be the only option for girls, than breeding, if they have a higher score than a boy in any other level they might get to achieve what they excel in but in most cases the foundry is the main option for them.
They're barbarians, women's rites are no more, heck women are consider nothing except for making babies and keeping a man happy, heck even human rites are just as bad, if we are not proper people we get treated like dogs, says here if you don't meet your spending cap and your on the low income you could be banished like an infected, your family will be shamed, meaning the kids will most likely end up in the foundry.
Who made up these ridiculous rules!? We would have had a better chance staying with Gabe than living in this palace like prison!" Noah was enraged.

"Noah you need to calm yourself, if we stayed with them we don't know how Elexis' birth would have gone not to mention what dangers we'd be exposed to once the shelter of the tents and gaurds were no more, plus we would have taken how many others places in the bomb shelter to be safe from the explosion.
No this is best, we can make do, like Shannon said we'll live like royalty. I know it could be just as difficult with these unheard of rules, but if we raise the boys to understand the correct and this now incorrect way of living we might still raise proper strong children who could one day break free or change things." Claire tried to calm Noah while Elexis read through more.

"It gets worse...
Says here religion in all fashion is forbidden that includes articles like clothing, jewelry and books that refer to a religion they will be burned in the square.
On the day you arrive they will do a home inspection...
Noah what if they figure out the Bible tags?!" Elexis exclaimed as she clung to her's for fear of loosing it.
"They will not, only those who own them know what they are, other's will see it as name tags and that's what we will let them think.
Now it pains me to say this but I don't want you to hide one thing, if they see it fit for burning allow it, I don't want to draw any attention and make them want to take the dog tags just because they want to be spiteful." Noah instructed.

Sure enough as the rule book said, gaurds came to search the home for anything not approved of.

"Do either of you keep a journal or diary?" A young gaurd barely in his teens asked.
"No, we never had the luxury." Claire responded.
"Oh I see, some had them before going to the camps so I had to make sure.
Here this is for the book pub, they have books they saw approved and notebooks, you know after today it will never matter what you write as long as it stays privet, as for the books they approved, well if you ask me they don't know what is religious or not, it's impossible to eliminate it all and keep classics." The young gaurd winked, Claire got a glimpse of his chain. He noticed and nodded assuring it was the same as her's.

Once alone Claire told her husband.
"I think there are those like us here, that young boy gave me this, its for Pilgrims Progress, also he had a dog tag just like ours." Clair said as she handed the note to her husband.

"In the morning we'll go check out this glorified...
Or well...
City." Noah wanted to say prison again, but Claire gave a warning look, she didn't want the boys to repeat what their father was saying.

The next day they prepared to take their self guided tour of the city.
As they walked the streets Elexis was stuned by the name of the one store.
"A baby store?" Elexis questioned as they stopped in front of the big window set up like a hospital nursery.
"I'm going to take a look you two take the boys to the book pub." Elexis said as she entered. Noah was about to protest but Claire hushed him.
"Welcome Mrs Dawson." A young female nurse no older than twelve said as she approached with her tablet in hand. She noticed the questioning look on Elexis's face.
"The bracelet, its synchronized with the mother system it alerts us of those who come and go in all the buildings...
So if I may ask what brings you in today, its noted here you have a child your husband...
Oh sorry, and you live with your brother in-law, his wife and two other children, granted I think having siblings are the best for raising a healthy child and you have a good support system but they don't always approve." The girl explained.

"Sweetheart, I'm just here to well get a better understanding what a baby store is." Elexis explained.
"I know I hate the name too, it sounds like a pet shop, well just like any store you can browse, if you see a child you'd like to hold you may do so just be gental, which I know you already knew that being a mom and all.
My name is Sally if you need any help." With that the young girl went back to her counter.

Elexis browsed around, from newborn wing to toddler, all color coded for boys and girls but what sickened her more was the fatal wing, there toddlers to infants that were sick or not growing mentally or just seemed to be slower than most at their age were going to be well you know.

"Mam, if you want you can adopt these children also but you have to keep

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