Revolt

Prologue Time. It kept screwing him up, screwing up his whole life. He needed more time to get what he wanted! Groaning, he paced the room, then, grabbing an i-pen, he began to write all the things that had happened.Year 2001The first terrorist attacks2012The first plagues2012 to 2035Eleven nuclear accidents2038Nuclear wars begin2038 to 2058Worldwide contamination; devastation complete.Domed cities built to protect survivors2066Corgan and Sharla are born in the Wyoming domed city.2070Brig, the genius of strategy, is born.2080Virtual war fought. The western hemisphere federation team of Corgan, Sharla, and Brig defeat the Eurasian alliance and the pan pacific coalition teams to win the uncontaminated isles of Hiva. Corgan and Sharla spend six months together on Nuku Hiva.2081Brig dies. Sharla clones Brigand and Cyborg in her laboratory. She takes baby cyborg to Nuku Hiva for Corgan to raise. The clone-twins are programmed to grow two years older each month.2081 (Four months later)When the clone-twins are about eight years old, Cyborg nearly drowns, but Brigand rescues him by cutting off Cyborg's hand that had been trapped beneath a boulder.Light from the i-screen illuminated the gold braid on his sleeve as he bowed his head and held his hands over his eyes. Minutes passed before he raised his head and picked up the i-pen once again. Now he began to write more rapidly.February 2082Corgan and Brigand fly from the island of Nuku Hiva to the Wyoming domed city where they join Sharla and Cyborg. Cyborg now has a powerful, magnetic artificial hand. Brigand goes into hiding and recruits rebels for the Wyo-D.C revolt. Corgan trains virtually with Ananda, the champion of the Florida domed city, and uses a simulator to learn to fly the harrier jet.April 2082Brigand and Cyborg become the same age as Corgan and Sharla -- sixteen. Brigand's revolt begins, and he tries to kill Corgan. Corgan escapes in the harrier jet, flies it to the Flor-DC, and Cyborg goes with him -- Scowling, he stood up. Revenge. That's what he wanted. And he would get it. Soon enough. Copyright copy; 2005 by Gloria Skurzynski Chapter One The sky was clear, with only a few clouds sheared off at the top as though they'd been sliced by a machete."Are we there yet?" Cyborg asked.Corgan didn't answer. How could he admit to Cyborg that he had no idea where they were, except somewhere in the sky? Cyborg, who'd left the security of the Wyoming domed city to flee with him, who'd caught the bullet that would have killed him, who'd betrayed his own clone-twin to save Corgan's life -- he deserved more than a totally lost pilot. Cyborg's voice crackled over the Harrier jet's communication system as he asked for the second time, "Are we there yet, Corgan?" And then after a pause, "You don't have a clue, do you?"At ten thousand meters above ground level Corgan strained to see a landmark. Any kind of landmark. Mumbling into the communicator, he told Cyborg, "Look for something big and blue." "Big? Blue?""Yeah. We need to find the Atlantic Ocean.""The Atlan...!" From the second seat of the jet Cyborg leaned forward, as if that would make his voice boom louder through the headset. "You want me to look for a whole ocean? Be a little more specific, Corgan. Any particular part of the Atlantic Ocean?""You know what I mean. The part next to Florida." Corgan frowned, trying to think and fly the plane at the same time. Once, when he and Ananda had been training together in virtual reality -- Corgan in the Wyoming domed city and Ananda in the Florida domed city -- he'd asked her if there were any particular ruins around her. He knew that most of the domed cities, called DCs, had been built near the ruins of destroyed metropolises, so the Florida DC might be near one too. Ananda hadn't been certSkurzynski, Gloria is the author of 'Revolt', published 2005 under ISBN 9780689842658 and ISBN 0689842651.