The HyperZone is an eight by eight mile block of land in Washington D.C that was bombed ten years ago. At exactly noon, three bombs went off in a small park but this was no ordinary bomb. It had capabilities that no U.S citizen with a rank or security clearance had ever seen before. It rearranged atoms, biostructure, and turned that block of land into a war zone.
The U.S has never given into terrorists, even terrorists that remain unidentified or unexposed. Over this section of the city, they rebuilt. It became the first city to sit seven hundred feet in the air. An architectural marvel, monuments were rebuilt, buildings mimicked and factories built so that this new city-in-the-air over passed its original set boundaries and placed the old Washington D.C below it in shadow. The new metropolis sprawled over six miles of the old D.C, to be exact.
The security here is top notch; you can’t even enter the HyperZone without a security pass of at least ten. My father is an independent science consultant for a company that’s based in the HyperZone, so both my father and I have a security pass around our necks with the number seven, or age, ethnic background, blood type and residence. But my pass is different. I am filed under a minor, so my key card is smaller. The molding checkpoints and locks around the city remember all the information on your pass, record how often you enter the building or sector, and can even track your movements through a giant database run by the FBI and secret service. I can’t even go to the bathroom without someone knowing about it and when I start getting my period even that has to be recorded on my card.
Still, that’s life in the HyperZone. I am one of the lucky ones. Unlike my friends who are all security clearance five or higher, I can leave the HyperZone and visit my mom. My parents are divorced, you see, so I have more freedom than the other teenagers. Or, at least I did, before the White House hired my dad and the FBI boosted my pass from a level seven, to a level two. Now strange things have started to happen, things I wish would just stop.
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