During 2070 tensions between countries had risen to a boiling point, economies were collapsing, world leaders blaming one another, riots blaming others for their own financial downfall. Perhaps the biggest influence on the coming war was a the shot fired by a Russian nationalist that killed the son of the then Chinese president. This led to war between China and Russia with Russia refusing to apologize or look for the nationalist that killed the Chinese president’s son.

This attack inspired other countries to take action against each other, by the year 2085 the world was tied up in the biggest war it had ever seen, World War 3 or as many had named later “The Last Great War”, the World’s Superpowers were all against each other, multiple weaker countries all backing who they thought would win the war or that they agreed with the most.

All of the Superpowers were tempted and had come very close to turning this war into a nuclear one but realizing that a Nuclear War would result in the death of everyone they had decided not to. It was during 2087 that the United States was the first to launch the B.I.D missile over China. China responded to the attacks by striking the United States and Russia, only a few weeks later all of the World’s Superpowers were launching this biological disaster and by the year 2088 only a year later this disease had spread throughout the the world, effectively killing large varieties of life on the planet. Some species had been killed off completely, some had been severely damaged and some had been mutated beyond belief. The war raged on for 10 more years until society was nothing, countries had collapsed, governments destroyed, people had lost hope and only a fraction of humanity remained.

By the year 2095 there were no longer any official countries or governments known, most people stayed within small groups in order to survive, this war had truly brought an end to human society and culture as we knew it to be. On October 15th, 3010 15 years after the collapse of human society, what seemed to be an unknown group of well dressed men (no one had nice clothes of any sort at the time, some people didn’t have any real clothes at all), complete with Rolex watches, dress shoes, full tuxedos, and strangely, dark mask, that showed no features that only had small holes for the eyes, but even those had dark lenses over them, they called themselves the “New Humane World Government” or “N.H.W.G” for short. They came bringing a message of “Rebuilding Society to its former glory.”, saying that through their leadership, humanity could go back to the way it was, but it would be better. A virtual utopia. Most people didn’t believe in the message that the N.H.W.G were bringing so they forcibly took over some of the more prominent survival groups in local areas, they had a routine of either killing the leaders and causing dissent so that they would be able to send in small coo’s to be able to take over the group and instill their view on these groups or convincing the leaders of their ideals and forcing the entire group to believe in these ideas as well.

For groups without leaders the N.H.W.G would generally send people inside the groups to try and convince people of their ideals, they also had a reputation of secretly killing off people with different political views from them to try and keep conflict to the bare minimum.

They used massive amounts of propaganda in order to persuade people and at the same time built up a secret military and task force.The N.H.W.G officials were known to always walk around with multiple guards at a time and always had some protection, and with the mask that they wore no one knew which N.H.W.G official was which so assassinations never took place as no one would know their target. During 3020 the N.H.W.G had noticeable influence on people and had built up defined territories all around the world all united under one cause devotion to their leaders and the betterment of human society. Or so they said.

It was 3023 when the N.H.W.G scientist had created a race of hyper intelligent, human sized Beetles to keep control of the masses, they would spy on people and had an odd ability to literally pop from place to place. These Beetles were said to be completely insane and sadistic. They presided over the workers, the scientist and every other person alive except for the N.H.W.G officials whom they believed themselves to be inferior to and would leave alone. Many people lived in assigned housing units and worked in the factories creating weapons, armor, food and the same generic all grey suits that everyone who wasn’t a N.H.W.G official or a Beetle would have to wear. Human experiments were conducted often and other projects unknown to the people were going on constantly. Secret torture was abundant and the Beetles took what seemed to be pleasure in dishing out torturous punishments to those who believed deserved it. A Beetle had once asked a sick little girl aged 8 was asked by a Beetle if mucus in her nose made breathing a chore, when she nodded her head, the Beetle said that mucus was a living thing and that she did not deserve to breath if the mucus was bothering her that much. The next day she was drowned.

The Beetles also constantly had public displays of violence towards civilians but nothing had ever been done by the N.H.W.G in correcting this, due to a combination of being unaware and not caring anyways. For many people this was not their idea of a utopia, it was a governmental abuse and torture but the N.H.W.G was too powerful to fight against so many people kept quiet, there sadness and pain had been adapted into the culture of this new society and everyone was used to there new twisted world.

Part 1: It was a dark and depressing night, the cries of children from being overworked and mentally tortured were silenced behind the thick sealed walls of concrete in the factories. Smoke from the annual “Burn The Alive and Useless” or “B.A.A.U” festival had engulfed the moon. Human sized Beetles were laughing and spat at those being burned, they kicked at the men and women who tried to squirm away, and for the ones that had drifted too far a large group of these heinous creatures would grab the people and violently throw them back into the flames. One of them yelled “TEN POINTS” when he had grabbed an elderly woman, broke her neck and threw her into the flames. Another said, “Good show sir, we must make sure to record this and show this to the children sir, make sure that they aren’t thinking good thoughts sir.” Another smaller one chipped in “We wouldn’t want that now would we sir, we mustn't wait to show them all the fun we are having burning these people sir.” A camera suddenly materialized in one of the Beetles hands and he started to record the burnings. “Good show ole’ boy, good show!” he started to yell.

One of the smaller Beetles then spoke out “What about the children working in the factories what shall we do about them? While we are all here having a jolly good time no one is watching them.” One of the bigger Beetles then replied “Then you go check on the children. I am far too busy and far too uncaring at the moment to do it myself.” The smaller one replied “All right I will, but I will require two shillings as recompense for this cumbersome task.” The bigger Beetle then sharply said back, “You shall receive 13 Pesos and nothing more good sir.” He laughed and turned away. And  The smaller Beetle then shook his head and left.

He appeared in a room full of small children all looking fairly depressed all with their eyes down focusing on their work. He grabbed a child randomly brought him to the corner and said “Ah young Toast-Boy! How have you been? How is your grandmother?” The young child’s name was Diamon, he was tall for his age, a hard worker and a conformist much like everyone else, doing what he was supposed to do without giving it a second thought. He was a skinny child and seemed to be quite bothered and scared all the time. “She’s fine.” he replied “Has she found a mate yet? Beautiful old woman like that must get all the gentlemen, correct? I wouldn’t put it above you to try and get at that when you’re a bit older aha-ha.” Young Daimon shook his head and tried to sit back down to his regular spot and get back to work. The Beetle not thinking much of it decided to leave. A speaker phone materialized from the wall and a stern voice came from it saying “Children a movie will be playing tomorrow, all workers are to go home now and sleep for tomorrow!” With that Daimon got up, left his workplace and headed home. When he got home he saw his grandmother rocking by the fire.

His grandmother said in a raspy voice, “Do you mind getting your grandmother some huckleberry leaves?” Daimon shook his head and was headed for the door, and just as he got to the door, he could hear satanic voices in his head saying “Kill her.. push her into the fire.” Daimon was frozen where he stood not understanding what was happening. He tried to shake it off but the satanic suggestions grew louder in his head, “Burn her face and carve out her skull...” Daimon’s eyes became bloodshot, his pupils dilated, and he started foaming at the mouth, his body fell to the ground and started shaking violently as the satanic suggestions kept ringing in his ears.. “Take out her intestines and devour them... split her burnt skull open and sip the blood from within... make a armband out of her ribcage...”

After flailing around on the ground for what seemed like hours, it was his grandmother’s nurturing and worried voice that forced Daimon to return to his senses. Reluctant to let Daimon leave the compound to get the leaves and after a long time of convincing Daimon was allowed to go outside and grab a handful of leaves and as he was walking in he could smell smoke, the definite smell of skin burning. He rushed in through the door, and as the smell got stronger Daimon threw up on the floor. When he walked into the room with his grandmother he was shocked. She was lying on the floor, head in the fireplace, face burning, dead.

A bottle was on the floor and suddenly a giant demonic looking Beetle popped out of it and said “I did it... I pushed her...” and started laughing demonically, Daimon couldn’t believe what he was seeing, his eyes were bloodshot, his heart was racing, he ran to the kitchen grabbed a nice went over to the still laughing Beetle and shoved it in his throat. The Beetle stayed on the ground bleeding profusely, and soon he fell to the floor, still laughing. The blood was still pouring from his neck, after a few minutes his body started to melt into the floor until eventually the Beetle was just a small, slimy, black puddle. But within seconds the Beetle sprung up from the puddle and violently said “Daddy, why have you hurt me daddy?”

The Beetle then slapped Daimon and knocked him to the floor violently and then stood over his body. “Do you want me to hurt you again daddy? Do you want me to make the red liquid come out again? Last time it was too much to bear daddy... too much came out and you got cold daddy... I told the nice officers that it was mum that did it daddy, you wanted the bitch to gone just as much as I did daddy!” the Beetle said violently.

He then raised his bony fist, then stopped. He gave out a demonic laugh, and a large tongue came out and wrapped around Daimon’s neck, strangling him. “Get back to work” He said, the released him to the floor and disappeared. Daimon had always been tortured by the Beetles, everyone had, but he was the first to realize that this was not normal, he shouldn’t be living this way. Daimon had realized that he was in what the people of old had referred to many times, Daimon realized that he was in hell.