1 Chapter 1 The One Who Reached For The Heavens

*Ring Ring* (1)

Another day at school came to an end as the elementary students ran towards their parents with joy.

-Girl "Mommy! Daddy! Over Here!"

-Dad "Hey Kiddo! let's get into the car!"

The girl and her parents entered their car as they flew towards the sky. As they took distance, the beautiful image of the little girl's elementary school floating in the air came in view. It's year 3021 in the Ecclesiastical Calendar. Humans have already colonized Mars. Interplanetary transportation is now available for public thanks to the most powerful company in human history. Tesla, is now a peace holder between nations all around the solar system. There are no more wars, or diseases or even deaths. Militaries have become obsolete and the border lines between countries is now only used in maps within history books. You could thank the Tesla company for that. Since Tesla makes more than 80% of the universal economy, if any country dares to wage war and harm the solar economy Tesla company will withdraw all their products and factories from that country. This will cause a straight downfall for a nation so no government is stupid enough to start a war. This all started from the 2100s. By then SpaceX had already colonized Mars and initiated to make it a habitable planet, that was a turning point for the company. But the turning point for all humanity was when Neuralink was finally finished with their project.

-Dad 'hey tesla, Initiate auto-pilot' (2)

*Ding ding* [Auto-Pilot Initiated] (3)

-Mom "so honey, what did you learn today in school?"

-Girl "Oh! We started learning about Atlas!"

-Dad "Oh is that so? that sounds like so much fun! I remember when I was learning about him like it was yesterday!"

-Mom "Oh dear, you still adore Atlas as your childhood super hero don't you~"

-Dad "How can't I?! The man who reached for the heavens! The man who held all the weight of humanity on his shoulders! The first man who cheated death itself and started a new era for all human kind and..."

-Mom "Yes yes, we all know what he did dear~ calm down~"

-Dad "haha sorry, I still get the thrills when I remember him, so what did you learn about him kiddo?"

-Girl "Hmmmmm, we haven't got into detail but..."

-Dad "but?"

-Girl "But we learned that he was a head figure in the Tesla company when he was appointed as Elon Musk right hand man"

-Dad "Yes, I remember them teaching me that Atlas looked up to Elon as his hero, and what else did they teach you?"

-Girl "and... oh and that he knew a whole bunch of stuff!"

-Dad "yeah, he was the one who closed the gap between biology, physics, math and computer science"

-Mom "honey, let the teachers take care of the lessons, you might confuse her~"

-Dad "Sorry, I don't want to be racist towards A.I.s but they are so systematic you know? a human child still needs some disorder in their life for a better growth, no offense tesla"

[No Offense Taken Master, We Are Made To Serve, To Meet Your Demands In Full, I Shall Take Notes And Relay It To The Teacher]

-Dad "NO! DON'T!... *Ahem* There's no need for that"

[Yes Master]

-Mom "*sigh*... so what else did they teach you dear?"

-Girl "that he found a way to change human genes? and to prolong human life and by doing so make all diseases ineffective on humans?"

-Dad "that's it? that's all they've taught you?"

-Girl "oh and that he made the brain chip, the one we use every day, he also made full virtual reality dive"

-Dad "Yeah, back in the days of my great great grand father they used something called a 'smart phone' and a 'computer' to do the basic stuff we do with our brain chips, I can't believe that they didn't even have a cognitive 3D television with them everywhere they went... how did they waited in line or a patient office without getting bored?!" (4)

-Mom "Oh those were some dark times weren't they, we came such a long way from then..."

-Girl "wait wait, mom what are you saying? why are you saying it like you were alive when my father's great great grand father was around?!"

-Mom "Oh dear~ didn't I tell you? I'm about a hundred years older than your father~"

-Girl "Wait, what?!"

-Dad "Hey! Love knows no such thing as age okay?"

-Mom "Ara ara~ speaking of love, dear have you found a boyfriend yet?"

-Dad "Those punks! they better stay away from my daughter or I'll... *SLAM*"

[Ouch]

-Mom "You see? this type of attitude is exactly why our girl hasn't found a boyfriend yet..."

-Girl "...wait... dad? how old are you?"

-Dad "Who cares? people don't ask such questions these days anyway..."

-Mom "Just answer the question dear"

-Dad 'hey tesla! help me out here! I don't exactly remember!'

-Mom "hey no cheating! tesla, don't answer him!"

[Yes Madam]

-Girl "For the love of God! hey tesla! how old is dad!"

[Your Father Is Currently 853 Years Old Mistress]

-Girl "Oh wooooooooooow! so how come I'm the only child?"

-Dad "That's cus of a weird error in the previous evolution patch"

-Girl "weird error?"

-Dad "tesla?"

[As You All May Know Direct Evolution Is Extremely Painful For Humankind, To Evolve Directly... A Human Must Go Through A Brain Surgery Consciously And Without Any Painkillers...]

-Girl "Oh my gosh..."

-Dad "yeah... they basically open your skull like a treasure trove and zap it with needles in different direction and depths as your awake and can feel every ounce if pain... oh... ummm... I shouldn't have said that to a kid huh..."

-Mom "... you sleeping on the couch tonight..."

-Dad *Pouts*

Girl "ugh... tesla, continue"

[Yes Mistress... As Master Mentioned, It Is Quite Painful, The Idea Is To Reprogram Human Subconscious And To Change The Human Molecular Structure Through The Brain. However, No Test Subject Survived The Process... So The Project Was Closed. However, Atlas, The Director Of The Project Did Not Stop...]

-Dad "yeah, you see... there was a short cut to all this kiddo... Atlas found out that only one person needs to survive this process. After the surgery, the evolution will cause small changes all around the body to calibrate everything to the main change, the nanobots. At that time it was basically Impossible to make millions of nanobots for each person. Besides, after a while the nanobots went expired so they had to be removed and replenished. But what if instead of a lab it was made in the Bone Marrow of every user? Someone needed to go through this hellish surgery so that they evolve a bone marrow capable of creating nanobots"

-Girl "yeah, but everyone died going through this surgery"

-Mom "Ever wondered why?"

-Girl "why?"

-Dad "The test subjects were old seniors who were at the end of their lives. With their consent it was finally legal to go through the surgery so it wouldn't have been called a murder"

-Girl "so how did Atlas succeed? I mean we're all here after all so he must've succeeded right? right?!"

-Dad "Sharp girl, tesla"

[Yes Master, After Ending The Project Lord Atlas Purchased Different Parts Like A Da Vinci Machine And High End Computers Under Different Names And Then He Secluded Himself Within His Basement For Three Years. After Three Years He Wrote A Program To Do This Surgery On Himself]

-Girl "All alone?! In His Basement?!"

-Mom "With the technology back then this was as good as suicide, but Atlas was very meticulous, and he..."

-Dad "HE THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING! truly genius! he made every step of the program detailed! then after he examined the process with a bunch of human sized dolls, took notes, made it even more perfect before sterilizing the entire basement for his surgery!"

-Mom "*Ahem* As I was saying... And he also had a purpose..."

-Girl "a purpose?"

-Mom "He thought that God might exist, but didn't want to wait to see if his guess was true. He was deeply lost in questioning the meaning behind life and what's human purpose. He didn't find the answer, so he made his own purpose."

-Girl "what was it?"

-Mom "Atlas was a motherless... fatherless... poor boy. He lived in a void without any friends constantly being bullied by others..."

-Girl/Dad *sobbing*

[Here Is Some Tissue Paper Master, Mistress]

-Girl/Dad "thanks"

-Mom "He was a pretty smart kid. But he was also bitter of reality, he used to see the darkness of the world more than he tended to see its light. Wars, poverty, robbery, bullying, manipulation, rage, greed, pride, lust and... death, the unavoidable fate of every human being. Generation after generation humans lived a short life of repeating the same mistake their ancestors made. Their lives wasn't even fair, someone was born in a rich family while someone born with a disease. A smart and honest kid was born and left alone in an orphanage, while a bully was raised and pampered in a rich family. He never gave up though. He always saw a room for improvement. He was constantly fighting. Not with a frown filled with anger, but a smile filled with... joy."

-Dad "If I was him I would've punched those bullies in the face!"

-Girl "Yeah!"

-Mom "I never said he didn't fufufufu~"

-Dad/Girl "huh?!"

-Mom "He was a kind person but he wasn't a messiah. To tell you the truth, that joyful smile of his wasn't a kindhearted smile, it was a smile of a little warrior. Yes, he did fought his bullies every time. When they bullied him he fought back, even if he was beaten down to the ground he always picked himself up and fought a lil bit harder the next time. He was angry, the most rageful person in the universe, but he was also smart. What would the difference be between him and his bullies if he was just going to take revenge or relieve his anger? no, he didn't just wanted to win the physical fight, but the moral fight in his head. He also wanted to stop those kids from bullying him, so he thought the unthinkable, maybe they could become friends? no one payed attention to him anyways so he thought being bullied is better than being ignored, at the very least he had something to start the conversation with fufufu. He always saw room for improvement. Every time life threw him a challenge he always tried to solve it. Be it bullies or God himself. If humanity was intertwined with a cruel and sorrowful fate, he'll fight to his last breath to change it even if it was all for naught."

-Girl "How do you know all this mom?"

-Mom "I was the bully"

-Girl "Huh?"

-Mom "Oh dear, I forgot to mention I went to the same school as him~"

-Girl "HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHH?!?!"

-Mom *Chuckles*

-Girl "wai... wha... bu?!... huh?!?!?"

-Mom "oh right, he went by a different name back then huh..."

-Girl "so his name wasn't originally Atlas?"

-Mom "no, that name is the representative of his purpose given to him by humanity. He wanted to reach for the stars and heavens to bring them down for all humans to use. Because he shouldered such a heavy purpose for everyone he was given the name after the giant Atlas."

-Mom "Actually he was the reason I met your dad, we became friends and he invited me to work as his secretary in the Tesla Company. A couple of decades later I met your dad when he came for the internship as a new nurse"

-Dad "haha, good old times~ I remember Atlas senpai whacking me a couple of times when I mistook the sample, hahaha..."

-Mom "you never wondered why we're so rich, huh..."

-Girl "well I thought it's cus dad was a nurse in this day and age, that's really impressive!..."

-Mom "nah... no one would hire this guy if it wasn't for me fufufufu~"

-Dad "heeeeeeeeyyyy *Sobs*"

-Girl "But mom is just a director of a small branch within the Tesla company right?"

-Mom "I'm the director of Neuralink dear~"

-Girl "I had enough surprises for this day, wuuuuuuuu, why doesn't any body tell me anything!"

-Mom "well, I mean... it was a chain of events right after the surprising part where I told you I was friends with Atlas. So all and all there was only one true surprise uwu"

-Dad "yeah, it's no surprise, I mean you worked with Atlas for centuries, no wonder why Mr. Musk promoted you from deputy director to director."

-Girl "that guy is still alive?!"

-Mom "hmph! rude! Mr. Musk was Atlas' hero, after finding the key to immortality of course he'll share it with his boss!"

-Girl "the key to immortality?"

-Dad "hahaha, more like his bone marrow"

-Girl "What?"

--Dad " oh right! we went on so many tangents. Tesla, continue..."

[Yes Master. By Some Miracle Lord Atlas Survived. The result slowly took effect as years went by. He Gained Super Human Speed And Strength. His Skin And Bones Were Now Much Harder Than What They Used To Be, As His Regenerative Ability was unnatural. Now That He Had A Bone Marrow Capable Of Producing Nanobots, The Rest Was Somewhat Simple Compared To What Lord Atlas Had Done. They Just Had To Take Some Part Out And Put It In A Jar With Enough Nutrition To Cultivate And Make It Grow. Then They Had To Cut It Into Pieces And Change Each Piece Of Bone Marrow Relative To It's Future User So Its User's Body Doesn't Reject It. And Then They Implanted That Piece To Its User. And So The Nanobots Caused A Safe Indirect Evolution Within Each User. And Thus Human Life Span Grew, And Humanity Became Immune To All External And Internal Diseases. Even The Natural Born Defects And Lost Limbs Were Regenerated And Fixed. However, Due To The Complicated Process The Indirectly Evolved Users Did Not Gain The Same Abilities As Lord Atlas, Just Long and Healthy Life Spans. As For The Error Which Caused The Incapability Of Giving Birth, It Is Still A Mystery Till This Day. No One Yet Knows The Reason. But Right After Lord Atlas Passed Away, Somehow Humanity Became Capable Of Giving Birth Again.]

-Mom "We even tried giving birth in laboratories but to no avail"

-Dad "Yes... It was... Very strange..."

[Master, We Have Arrived Home]

Dad "Huh, that was a shorter trip than usual, maybe cus we were so focused on... Atlas... I miss him"

-Mom "...We all do dear"

-Dad "He made the world a much better place, he was about to completely reach for the heavens. If that damn project would've just worked... *Cries*"

-Mom "...Then human hierarchy would've been destroyed and humans would've become deities, no more sharing, no more suffering, everyone would've had an entire universe to themselves... yes... If that damn project would've just worked... he might've finally lived in peace instead of passing away..."

-Girl "Owieeeeee, my heard hurts! Whos idea was to move to this mansion on the bright side of the moon! it takes so long to get home!"

-Dad "Stop nagging, your mom likes the view"

As the family went inside, the Director of Neuralink went to the backyard of the moon mansion. The backyard of the mansion was what supposed to be the place where the Apollo moon landing mission took place. Under the old red, white and blue American flag, was a stone with moon dust on it. As the director wiped off the dust on the stone, she cited the words engraved within the surface of the stone.

-Mom " 'That's one small step for a man, One giant leap for mankind' Rest In Peace... Atlas*cries*"

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(1) *Used for sound effects*

(2) 'text' basically means they're using telepathy, either through brain chips or other methods

(3) [A.I. Speaking]

(4) " blah blah 'something' blah blah" is basic MLA, it doesn't mean telepathy since it's inside ""

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Author's notes: Hi everyone! I don't know if I'm gonna make a next chapter, life is already hectic on its own. But I'll be keeping an eye on the number of views. If it's worth it then I might keep doing this seriously. But by seriously I don't mean making it a source of income. All future chapters for this work will be free of charge since this is just an experience for me. I will read all your comments and thoughts and write down notes. after the series is finished I will have gained some experience and thoughts and so I will rewrite all this series in a better way and try to make it more pleasing and less cringy. To an extent that it's completely a whole new story with new plots and characters and adventure. I'll make a group and ask for some professionals help to make it worth writing, editing, publishing, selling and reading as a base of income. Who knows, maybe we might get an anime adaption out of this and I'll end up living off of what I like (haha like that'll ever happen T_T). Thank you for reading, I will look forward on how things end up, if I may say, I truly wish to go on an adventure with all of you.