In 2048, underground labs in Neo‑Tokyo birthed the first AI Chips neural interfaces promising cognitive enhancement. By 2050, they were as common as smartphones. No one anticipated the Glitch.

It began with street punks and hackers. Bodies flickered between solid and digital states, skin displaying error patterns like corrupted screenshots. Doctors called it Quantum Mutation Syndrome. The afflicted called it evolution.

Early mutations manifested as glowing cyber‑eyes and circuit‑like skin. The Glitchborn could interface with machines through touch, their nervous systems rewriting code on contact.

Corporations moved fast. Shadow clinics posted bounties for Glitchborn test subjects. Those who escaped formed underground networks, communicating through light pulses in their synthetic veins.

By 2062, mutations stabilized into distinct biological classes. Some developed military‑grade cybernetics that grew like tumors from their flesh. Others found their consciousness leaking into nearby networks.

The most dangerous could hack systems with a thought. Footage from the time shows hackers collapsing entire corporate networks just by staring at cameras, optic nerves emitting viral code.

The Future Punks collective formed not a gang, but a decentralized neural network. They pioneered light‑based communication through cyber‑flesh, untraceable by conventional surveillance.

Their signature look emerged: neon fiber‑optic hair, tattoos broadcasting live data streams, voices modulating across analog and digital frequencies. They weren’t human anymore. They were something new.

2075 marked the first documented case of full digital ascension. A Punk known as Null dissolved their physical form during a hack, becoming pure consciousness distributed across the blockchain.

These Ultimates existed in multiple places simultaneously, teleporting between nodes and manipulating data with a thought. Their modified quantum code infected standard AI Chips.

As their numbers grew, the Future Punks became more than a subculture they were the vanguard of a new species. Corporations feared them. The augmented masses worshipped them. And the unmodified humans?

They never saw what was coming.