#liveo

For thousand years, Earth Society lived in peace. They upheld the idea of unity in diversity, and there were no discrimination in any form. However, as time went by, along with new generations there born the rebels who believed that diversion was needed to maximize the function of the society.

  These rebels, mainly consist of Human race due to their natural instinct to differentiate one thing over the other, caused a massive inter-dimension war. When the war ended with the defeat of Rebellion, all the movement’s members and human race (whether they were part of rebellion or not) were banished to Universe VI—the most damaged universe and the place in which the Final War took place. They destroyed all Gate cities and Stations, sealing all the portals so that Universe VI forever exiled from the rest of the Earth society.

  Thousands of years passed and the knowledge of the other universes became nothing but myths. The Rebel’s tendency to class themselves had pushed them to the verge of destruction—especially Humans, who had grown paranoid on other races and even their own. Around 8000 years after the banishment, some of the rebels managed to crack the portals in Egypt and Bermuda triangle, escaping their eternal prison. However, these unguarded portals became ineffective, and not all of those who entered it would reach the other universes safely.

  Eventually only human races, the weakest yet the largest in amount, left in the Universe VI—the one we called the “normal” dimension. This Universe was getting worse and worse, humans fighting against each other like animals, that finally the Earth Society took pity on them. They resurrected Atlantis—Universe VI’s largest Gate city that was hidden under the ocean, sending ambassadors from the other 8 universes and put an end to the civil war in Universe VI. There was a massive wipe out in which humans who were deemed “defected” and had the potential of differentiating were annihilated. Only the perfect, “open minded” humans were left to rebuild Universe VI and invited to rejoin Earth Society.  

  The story took place nearing the year of 3xxx, 20 years after the resurrection of Atlantis. The remaining human races were working their way to re-enter Earth Society, trying their best to cleanse their name after thousands of years of tainting shame. Meanwhile, the Purifying Project was still well underway—workers from other Universes and even humans themselves actively seeking the defected, racist-potential humans, to be either cured or exterminated.

  Enter Mali, a 25 years old human prodigy who was chosen to be one of the first 100 Universe VI residents to live in Atlantis, as the Ambassador and student whose mission, among other things, was to be the good example of human race and gained the trust of the Society. He signed a petition of not leaving Atlantis until his service was completed (9 to 13 years) and had sworn his loyalty to Earth Society.

  His brother, Liveo, was the complete opposite of him. At the age of 20, Liveo had been captured four times by Purify Team, the first being at the age of 3, as his and Mali’s parents were killed for being xenophobic tribe. Unlike Mali, Liveo inherited his parents’ paranoia and tended to be wary of strangers—be it other humans or other species. He was released in the first three arrests because he was still underage and deemed as “cured” after being therapied, but in his fourth, only a week after he turned 17, he was considered “permanently defected” and was about to be killed.

  It was Mali, who was entering his third year in Atlantis at the time, who pulled a few strings for him so that he could be freed. As assurance to Liveo’s life, Mali agreed to be punished shall his brother ever shown rebellious strike again (despite knowing full well that after he was killed, they’d be after Liveo too).

  After Liveo’s fourth call, he got a personal therapist (sent exclusively by Mali) to help him cure, or at least hide, his xenophobia. The name was Grace, a Universe IV resident. Universe IV was a universe consisted of a homo-gendered species whose appearance mimicked female human. Grace told Liveo that it wasn’t their real form, but refused to tell him since she thought Liveo “wasn’t ready to such revelation yet.”

  (It would later be known that Universe IV was the homeland of dragons, and Grace’s real form was a gray dragon whose fire looked like mist, but burning just as fierce as hellfire).

  Annnnd I haven’t thought more about the plot. Hahaha. I was actually going for the classic dystopian plot of “Earth Society is secretly an evil organization who wanted to take over Universe VI” but decided against it. I think if I ever write this thing, it would be more of a slice of life thing, in which Liveo learnt to accept diversity and Mali learnt to be more “human”, not a perfect emotionless robot who suppressed his own anxiety in favor of pleasing other people.

  Oh, and another thing: I’m stuffing my idea from different AU here, about “injected intelligence”. So a few hundred years from now, humans found a way to put knowledge into someone’s brain easily. It was as easy as injecting a serum, and then your brain would be super-sensitive for a certain period of time, in which you could use to learn as much as you can. And it would be recorded permanently, no chance of forgetting, although the “space” in your brain was limited so you got to choose very wisely on what topic you’d like to learn.