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Religion has made us to believe that when we die, we have to answer to a greater power that judges you on the good deeds you did on your stay on earth. We all now that man's way of trying to control other human with an idea of something greater waiting for them. All through time it has been called many names the Vikings call it "Valhalla", christens call it "Heaven", and the Muslims believe they would be awarded with seven virgins. we all know the truth, there is nothing out there apart from the cold sound nothings.

Man has evolved so much in technology to leave a role as important as eternity to a being that his existence is debatable. The brave men of Apex Lab has made after life a never ending pleasure, on the point of dead, the patient has the option to have his/her consciousness transferred to their mainframe. inside the mainframe the customer has the right to manipulate his afterlife to how he wants to spend his eternity, am talking of different cultural, time and age settings. You could choose to be a solider that falls in love during the Korean war, you can know how it was to be born in New York in the 90's the land of money, sex, and love. This was the Professor Daniel Brown's Dream and he called it Utopia. It started to make buzz when the former Prime minister was uploaded and it was broadcasted on national television, prisoners could choose to die and be uploaded to live as a free man. Death was no more seen as the end but as a gate way. Utopia started to have free volunteers who claimed were in search if a better life. Cancer patients were uploaded, Daniel Brown became the god of the new world.

It is normal for human to have disputes, some people believed that Utopia was a plan of 666, and the coming of the anti-Christ. The church was not ready to give all there power to Daniel Brown he was only a man. to that cause they had terrorist organization trying to shut Utopia down. In every story what differentiates the antagonist and the protagonist is motive, no matter how you make it out to be it is not as black and white as it seems. Nobody was born a bad person, we are all free. I belong to the soldiers of Christ that want to stop the lunacy and this pipe dream of immortality. This life that was given to us has an end, he above us does everything for a purpose. He cannot make mistakes, he gave us a gift and after a while we return to him that is how it is written in the scriptures. My name is Peter and i am the corner stone of God to lead his army into battle for salvation. Chants filled the room as men voices rose and gun fire filed the air. He raised up his glass of pure ethanol, "Drink up men, this is our last supper".

All emotions left his face as he stared at the clock at the rear view of the room, it's almost time he though to himself. He bathed himself in his drink as he exchanged hugs with men around the great hall. The plan was simple he thought to himself there was going to be two simultaneous attacks, one on the physical plane and another in Utopia. The Hackers had found a fault in Utopia's Firewall that could allow there consciousness to be uploaded. There mission was to destroy the universal bus in Utopia, it is the bridge between Utopia and the Physical world. It was heavily guarded like the gates of heaven, security guards and volunteers served as solders around the universal bus fortress. On the Physical Plane different teams were supposed to blow out there servers simultaneously for this plan to work. This was a kind of mission you expect not to make it back from, and Peter had made his peace with that, he said in his heart, "Tomorrow I go to meet my God".

THE NEXT DAY

The air smelled of urine and gasoline, I laid down on a table as wires are connected to the back of my skull, I could still remember numbness of my body as I fell into a deep sleep. I opened my eyes as I felt myself falling, I looked around to see my teammates falling with me. In this world anything is possible, the power is in your imagination and the forces of nature are at your finger tips. I closed my eyes and started to imagine a parachute, I could see it but not touch then I opened my eyes and behold a parachute was at back. I pulled on the nozzle and burst into laughter my teammates followed suite. We were given a malware which we formed into gun weapons, we landed and used the communication unit to try and communicate with the team outside. The Team on the Physical plane was headed by Peter's brother Marcus, he picked his walkie talkie as he heard a voice over it," Am in". He was in van with armed men as they headed for the first server location, all of them screamed for joy. This is what they had been training for their whole lives, this was why God brought the Brothers in Arms into this world, they were the ones to redeem mankind.

They opened the van gun blazing as the were encountered with armed men at the location as if they were expected, body started to drop as Marcus pushed forward. He had a skill with his rifle and he believed that he was unkillable, this motivation made him a force to be reckoned with. They planted C-4 explosives at the foot of the server and managed to suppress the forces at the first set. Marcus made a call to his brother that they had been moving to the next location. Peter had met more resistance than expected, the people in Utopia had turned into some sort of Zombies with there only thought was kill him before he gets to the Universal Bus. He droved through a major road in a pick-up van firing at people running towards him as savages and animals some of them ran on all fours, the sight was horrific. What has Daniel Brown done, he has destroyed the world by playing God. On getting to the facility, the guards opening fire as he and his men tried to return fire. They crashed through a hole in the building, magazines of bullets filled the floor as bodies dropped left and right. He managed to make it to the roof, he planted his C-4 explosives and turned back to see zombies trying to get into the closed door at the roof top. He called the only person, he wanted to hear his voice, his brother. "Marcus tell me your ready", he heard a laugh over the phone, the voice replied," who ever knew the end would be so glorious". A smiled crossed his lips, as he opened the remote to press the trigger button, "on my count then", he said. ONE<TWO<THREE. THE END.

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