Joshua Sparks has spent years pretending he’s ordinary. He keeps his head down at school, stays quiet when people get too close, and never, ever lets anyone see what he can really do.
Because Joshua isn’t just a kid who lost his parents, he’s the last living result of their work. Before they died, they created a chemical formula that rewrote his limits. Stronger muscles, faster reflexes, and endurance that doesn’t make sense. Whatever they were building, they hid it in him, and then they were gone.
Then one night, time cracks open and drags him forward.
The future isn’t a wasteland. It’s clean. Organized. Efficient. The streets are controlled, the buildings are maintained, and nobody is sleeping hungry in an alley. The Secondaries, the billions who live under Gaea’s rule, are given everything they need for free, food, shelter, clothes, basic care.
It sounds like a better world, until you realize what the price is.
The Secondaries don’t starve, but they also don’t choose. Their days are monitored, their lives are assigned, their opinions are managed into silence. Comfort is the leash. Obedience is the law. Gaea doesn’t need chains when it can offer security and call it kindness.
The rebel group that brings Joshua to this future, the Secondary Resistance, doesn’t treat him like a hero. They treat him like the match that lit the fire. They show him the old footage, the early days, the speeches that calmed the public and made Gaea look safe.
One of those speeches is his.
Joshua didn’t build Gaea. He doesn’t run it. But in this timeline, he endorsed it at the exact moment it needed a trusted face. To the Secondaries, that was the turning point, the moment the cage door swung shut.
Joshua can’t change what he’s already seen, but he can change what comes before it. He hears his father’s last words like a dare, “When the time is right, make a difference.”
So he chooses to go back.
To fight Gaea before it becomes untouchable, to find out who twisted his name into a weapon, and to make sure the future never gets to use him again.
Even if he already knows how hopeless it looks.
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