the below is complete fiction. any resemblances to any real person is purely coincidental.

this is a story I started writing a few weeks ago. this is the very beginning. it is long. enjoy.

Dallas 2200

The year is 2007 and Kyle is about to get the shock of his life. While showering on a Saturday afternoon Kyle hears what sounds like his cat knocking stuff off of the counter and shakes his head and the crazy animal. Suddenly the bathroom door burst open and Kyle is freaked out to see 4 men standing next to his dripping wet naked body. The men grab Kyle and rip him from the shower leaving the water running. They toss him into his room and throw clothes at him while the man who appears to be a leader says "Damn it Kyle look at you, you’re not in shape at all. Get dressed!"

Frantically Kyle gets dressed and the men grab him again while exiting the apartment like marines, sweeping every door way and looking up and down. The leader explains to Kyle that he is humanities last hope to avoid a disastrous turn of events which renders the future world a desolate waste land controlled by the rich and powerful in feudal like system where men and women are born into debt and work their entire lives trying to get rid of it.

The men take Kyle downstairs and throw him into a car. Kyle tries to yell, but instead bust up laughing. He pulls out his cell phone and calls his friends to tell them he's being 'punked'. The men who have captured Kyle rip the phone out of his hands in frustration and continue explaining.

This is Dallas the man says, he pulls out a digital device that lights up and begins to show slides of the once great city crumbled and herds of people dragging crates across the landscape. One slide shows a large red structure sticking out of the ground a ways. "Holy shit that's the statue from North park", Kyle begins to grow uncomfortable as the men speed on.

The leader of the men explains to Kyle that if they hadn't taken him out of his apartment he would be dead. "This isn't the terminator kid, there is no ****ing smart machines killing everyone, no Skynet. This is reality; you are the only person who can help us save the world from the future we live in. Right now there are assassins in your apartment looking for you. Your neighbors are probably dead by now as they try and beat your location out of them."

Stunned and perplexed Kyle just stares blankly forward. The man continues to tell Kyle that him and the other three are part of what is known as the "Free Republic of Men" or FRoM for short. He tells Kyle that here in Dallas almost 200 years in the future men have come together to fight the wealthy and to restore the world and the USA to it's proper glory.

Continuing he explains that in 2008 Jeff McCarn, a decorated war veteran, is elected president. Under his presidency he declares that he will unite the world and begins to establish 'free trade agreements' with the entire world. Soon McCarn's White House officials announces the combination of the USA, Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, Guatemala and El Salvador as the 'North American Union' along with the announcement McCarn tells every American that they will be embedded with a small chip in their ears to translate language, all children must have this done at birth, originally this is done with English so that the non-English speakers of the NAU can understand the English speakers and vice versa.

McCarn dissolves the USA Congress and replaces it with a representative congress of the participating nations. This new congress determines that the nations need a new currency and demand the new Union Reserve Bank to begin printing only one currency that all the nations will use. The congress also approves measures that will increase interest rates for consumers and give the URB incredible power over credit.

Soon more nations join and the NAU turns into the AU as the member nations stretch to encompass all of the Western Hemisphere. McCarn is defeated and the next AU President is elected from Mexico. He reverses the policy of the English implants and demands Spanish is the new official language. The Congress, dominated by Spanish heritage nations agrees and English is tossed from schools and replaced. At the end of President Hidalgo's first term he initializes a deal with the EU and the now world dominating Asian Federation. These three unions combine to form a super nation and by the end of Hidalgo's second and final term all borders are dissolved and a new system of control is put into place.

The Regional/States policy defines regions which will be governed by a large city-state. What was once Texas is divided into three parts; Dallas, Monterrey and El Paso. Dallas is the largest of the three. The rest of the union is divided along the same lines, for example all of Japan is now known as 'Tokyo' and Korea as 'Pyongyang'. The nation votes and it is decided Mandarin Chinese will become the new language.

The Year is now 2020 and the Earth Union's army has finally taken all of Africa. Only the rebellious Middle nations resist, including Israel who unwittingly had aided the massive Union in its early years. The middle nations have become barren since the world adopted more alternative fuel methods and no longer needed their oil and natural gas. The new president, a China man known as 'Xin Wu Niul' declares war on the nations who unite for the first time in thousands of years to resist the formation of the one world order.

The oddest part of all is that Christianity which had fought against this one world order was now adopting it, finding that the Union was a majority Christian at this point the religion experience a massive explosion of growth and forgot about it's fight against the one world order.

The final states fall as Israel is captured in a mix of emotions from the world. Xin announces that the world is now at peace and declares the new Earth Union to be completed. But the joy is held by the world's rich and powerful.

As Xin and the new congress setup the worlds new standards common people are forgotten, the Union had once held to the founding nations Minimum Wage and standard of living, but with no more opposition and direct voting thrown out the men and women in power gave the corporations what they wanted. The union also passed the Food Reserve Act of 2023 which gave the right to manufacture and produce food and beverages to one private entity, the Planetary Food Reserve. The Reserve makes the food with the cheapest labor possible and then sells it to the government in three classes 'poor meal', 'satisfactory' and 'prime'. The Reserve also confiscates the world's farms and takes control of all of the growing and harvesting of food stuffs. In 2025 under Xin's second term as president the PFR gains the right to execute anyone found growing their own food without trial.

By now Presidents are elected by one of the few remaining fragments of United States politics, the Electoral College. However the poor and under privileged are banned from voting as they are seen as stupid and only the higher class individuals can vote. The college is made up of the governors of each Region-State, who are paid by the President of Earth so the likelihood of losing an election is very slim.

The world now has only two parties, the Converse and the Alliance, both hold similar policies and are controlled by the wealthy. Neither allows the poor or destitute to enter and vote and only count the votes of the richer class, the middle classes are allowed to vote but it is strictly symbolic.

The world erodes away quickly and small towns are deserted as the people die off or are forced by the governors to move to the city-state so that the land can be used for something else. Men and Women now work for buttons, trinkets and bread. Money is rarely exchanged amongst the lower classes and soon the planet's middle class begins to dive with them.

The World Monetary Reserve begins to sell person debt to wealthy peoples. The wealthy set a term of indentured servitude which that person must endure to pay off their debts. The most common is 5 years for every $1,000 owed. If a person does not pay off their debt by their death it is transferred to their children or if no children to their next of kin. When debt is transferred a standard fee of $500 is attached as well as a tax which equals half of the original debt on the person it is transferred to.

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The car comes to an abrupt stop, the drive whips his head around and the doors make a popping sound. The car begins to lift and slides into the ground at an angle. "Crazy Scientist".

The car goes down a steep slope attached to a chain, much like a roller coaster. Finally it stops and a man in a dingy black coat greets them as the men jump from the vehicle and grab Kyle. The car shoots back up the chain and slams into ground outside.

"Where the **** am I" Kyle shyly asks.

The scientist introduces himself as Chalo Gonzales. You are deep underground... in the future. Kyle burst out laughing and says "ok ok you got me. Where are the cameras?"

Chalo looks confused and ask the leader of the men if he had explained the situation. Getting a nod he slaps Kyle and demands that he enter a chamber. The men prod him and Kyle walks through a small door. Inside the room is alive with gadgets and others dressed dingy black coats. The scientist takes Kyle and shows him a device. He says, this is the warp-dream seeder. It sends information encoded into a person dreams through time. We have been sending you information for years. Remember that dream where you were in a red sports car, but looked older? Remember that dream where you rescued the girl with the help of 3 other men?

Kyle stutters, he had never told those dreams to anyone. They had been recurring since he was 10 and he never understood. The scientist continue, well I'd like you to meet Mac and William two of the men who starred in that dream and what is sure to be a glimpse of your future. Two large men step forward from behind Kyle and slap him on the back.

In shock Kyle runs to hit the scientist "Do you know those dreams drove me crazy? I thought I was stupid because I couldn’t stop them... you ****ing asshole!" The Mac and William stop Kyle and toss him back into a wall. "Hey kid calm down!"

The scientist chuckles and says "Well apparently the dreams didn't work. You were supposed to be working out, staying in shape and taking fighting classes. But look at you, and you never took karate or joined the army. It's like you did the opposite of what we tried to get you to do." The scientist continues to chuckle then his smile drops and he gets very serious.

"Kyle, do you know your ancestry? Well I do. You see when you were a young child we took a sample of your DNA and ran it against a database of all DNA records both current and historical. One interesting match showed you were the last descendent of a European skeleton dug up in England. The tomb was buried deep in the ground below an empty filed in Wales. The tomb was decorated but had this on the wall "The greatest leader, the greatest man, the ruler" While little is known about who he really was we can tell you that by recreating his body that he was highly agile, swift and smart. A book found near him told tales of his battles. He was a Hero's Hero.

I decided that meant that you would be the chosen; you will lead the Free Republic of Men out of this dark chaos and into the light. But you won't do it here. You will do it in your time."

The scientist turns to the men and tells them to take Kyle home and then begins to work. The men walk over to a wall dragging Kyle. Suddenly a small section of the wall lights up and the men toss Kyle into it. Just before they release him to this spinning vortex of rainbow light the leader hands him a small capsule. "Take this, you will sleep well and be a new man when you awake."

He then lets Kyle go and the light diminishes and the wall becomes still. Kyle is spinning and flying through the vortex suddenly he sees his bed and lands next to it hitting his head on the dresser.

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