Technology Breaks
Faster Than Bones

At the start of the twenty-first century, scientists noticed a change in proteins and minerals inside of animals. We studied these creatures, and strangely these proteins, and minerals were found in all animals, except for humans. However, those who injected these proteins would find that it could cure every kind of disease and ailment. From these injections, some would even gain supernatural powers. When the minerals were used, we were able to enhance our technology, accelerating us by thousands of years. After the Great Explosion, nearly no wild animals now remain, as humanity delegated ourselves as the protectors of the animals. Society flourished and our world grew, leaving behind our archaic laws and beliefs as life entirely changed. This would come to be known as the Great Explosion.

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Technology Breaks
Faster Than Bones

We follow our protagonist Maryam, who is a free-working Arbiter of Justice, a collective of people who use their unnatural powers to bring justice. Maryam stands in a futuristic train when a little girl speaks to her, “You saved my brother, Miss Arbtah! Tank you! May I get your autogaph?”. Maryam kneels down and speaks to the young girl, “I was glad to have been able to save him! Of course, you can!”, and snaps her fingers. Then, a small display of fire showed Maryam’s signature. The little girl looked down at her diary, and saw Maryam’s signature, she then looks up and smiles, “Tank you!!”
Soon after, the train stopped at the Great Capital City. Maryam overhears chatter about a new facility that opened up a few weeks ago. The name of the company has always annoyed her. The Great Explosion Conglomerate, government designated protectors of Animalia. A conglomerate? To protect...? But more than that, the company had no need for a facility of the type that had just opened. Maryam goes to investigate.
Inside the facility is dark, Maryam activates her invisibility and effortlessly sneaks past the front desk.
Notably, there were only two employees in the building. After the Great Explosion, came enhancements to people and technology. Now, every company abandoned almost all of the employees they had, only needing skeleton crews, since one person could do as much labour as a thousand, if not more.
As Maryam entered, she saw that the front desk had a below average security system. Unsurprising for corporations who focus on the human element to maximise profits. After all, technology breaks faster than bones.
The employees spoke to each other. One sawed into a corpse of an animal, harvesting something from the body.
Maryam watched and listened, but couldn’t help her curiosity, and started speaking aloud. The surgeon responded, "You can come on, in a few minutes. My shift is nearly over." The surgeon realised that there were only two people in the building, and that the other employee did not speak.
Maryam disabled all weapons and cameras in the area with a flick of her hand, and revealed herself. She asked them questions about the morality of how these animals are sourced, they revealed that these animals are farmed from the ocean. These fish were discovered to have a new miracle inside of them... The fish they were harvesting from had thick, twisted, vine-like bones. It was mutated beyond recognition.
Something is wrong with the ocean...
Maybe even with all wild life.
Many years back it was outlawed for animals to be left in the wild. People believed this was because their lives were valued... But, something else is happening.
Maryam’s train of thought is interrupted by the doors being swung open with great force, and the CEO of the company entering the building. Maryam quickly hyper-dashes away to a room nearby, but before she re-enables her invisibility, Maryam recognises it as a machine she built with her friend many, many years ago, but now, gigantic.
The catwalk hung over a dark abyss. Maryam stared down at the depths below and she knew, based on the original model of the machine, that this laceration on the Earth would go down more than a thousand kilometers.
The core of this building; a gross perversion of her work.
"L-Lucy?", Maryam could not believe it. Her childhood friend died, long ago. She was… but, here was the evidence.
"Yes? What are you doing here? Are you with them?", The CEO responded.
"I remember building this with you all those years ago. It's like yesterday to me… I can't- I can't go against you. There are other arbiters here, I can get them to leave... I can remove them.", our protagonist says.
"Why do you think I am here? We have our own defence system, I don't need you. I never did." said Lucy, but Maryam pleaded, "I- Your system is nothing, I can help you... I'm powerful-”
Cutting her off, the CEO summoned her weapons. Maryam was upset, watching as the weapons were defeated by the arbiters, pathetic...
Maryam then summons her own weapons, a massive incomprehensibly powerful army at her fingertips, she struck down all of Lucy’s other defences within an instant. The air was silent.
Turning to her old friend, Maryam said “See? I’m strong-”
She started a war.
The CEO activated her emergency defence systems in response to this. Modified human warriors designed to weaponize a mystical power. And yet, Maryam still struck every single one of them down in the blink of an eye.
Maryam decided she must tear this place down herself. Clapping her hands, she removed every arbiter from the building, sending them into the same train she was previously on. As her rage built, she next removed the employees, putting them on the same train. The train was now a few miles away, but the GEC building was still in sight. The Arbiters quickly detained them, but as they did, an overpowering noise came from the GEC’s building.
As they all watch in abject horror, the facility is shattered into pieces as it explodes in a violent fireball, the very ground beneath the building is scorched, the luscious green grass and trees turned to an ashy black, and then as quickly as it exploded, the entire thing collapsed down on itself, and the ground returned to a lush green again, the facility vanished, and in its place a lone oak tree.
We cut back to inside the GEC’s building, Maryam takes the building and compresses its size using her power, as she is doing this, the CEO makes one final frenzied dash at her, injecting her with some kind of substance. Maryam quickly teleports Lucy away, sending the dishevelled and dishonoured CEO directly to the front door of the New World Orders Arbituary, the political centre of the world, where the world leaders all now operate out of.
When Maryam wakes up, she finds herself in a street of the city, the kid and the family from the train noticed her passed out and are looking down at her as she wakes up, one of the adults explains that they just found her like this, and used a healing power on her and asks if she's okay. She remembers the events that just transpired and tries to put on her best smile, saying "Yes. T-thank you."
Maryam tries to stand up, but is dizzy and stumbles back down again, standing on the side of her heels, she lands on the ground but catches herself, she tried casting her float power, but fails, then she tries to cast it again and again, desperately, the people who helped her look at her in confusion. She then tries to summon some of her technology, and it doesn't work.
She stands up normally, slightly wobbling as she does. She opens her mouth to say...
"I think.. I've lost my powers."
EPISODE END.