The Future Project

1: The project

• You get 3 days in the future (unless you die in the future)

• Will be in your future body

• after 3 days or dead you return to present

If you:

• Make it worse: might happen

• Make it better: might happen

• Die: will happen

• Must be age 12-18

As she read the list of procedures and requirements for the future project, Jenna Stephens started to get nervous. She was one of the 14 children chosen for the project first. Being twelve years old she was the youngest of the girls. There was a girl and a boy of each age. She was excited, but absolutely terrified. She wanted to know what she might look like, but was afraid she would not like it. She didn't know what day or year she would travel to; she didn't even know if all the kids would even turn up in the same time, it was impossible to tell. Since she was picked for the project, she could not get out of it. The government handled the project; the children they picked had no way of getting out of it.

The future project started as a scientific experiment, once they perfected the technology, they discovered that it would not work on adults or children under twelve. This project would allow the government to know what to prepare for in the future to keep the world (or just Canada) safe.

The workers in charge of getting all of the children into the future were doing a headcount for what felt like the hundredth time to Jenna, and then started calling the boys in, oldest to youngest. They brought them into a room and shut the door behind them.

A few minutes later different workers came out and called in the girls, letting them one by one enter the project room. Finally they called Jenna's name. This is it, she thought. I can't believe it. She walked into the room and gasped. The other children were all lined up in age order against the wall, unconscious. She walked closer to them and noticed a small insect-like thing on each of their heads with a bright green light shining through cracks travelling through them. The object also had long, needle thin legs that had stuck into the children's heads. Jenna already didn't want to be there very much.

She heard the door shut behind her. She spun around and saw a woman in a lab coat and safety goggles standing there holding a little robotic insect, Jenna had not guessed that the objects moved, but it was certainly squirming in the woman's grip. Jenna looked at the woman, pleading with her eyes.

"I'm sorry dear," the woman said in a sweet, motherly voice. "But it is your turn." And with that she walked over and placed the insect on Jenna. She winced as a sharp pain spread through her skull, she tried to stay strong, and bit her lip to keep herself from yelping. Suddenly she felt very tired and just as suddenly, fell asleep.