BAIT FOR A KOI

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due to global warming, the sea levels were rising. they continued to rise and in 2306, the oceans finally destroyed all the countries of the world. flooding towns and splitting continents. many died, many were left to mourn their lost ones.

only a few years later did a new government rise and colonize every newly formed continent and island they could find. at first, people were grateful. the world would finally be the same again. what they didn't expect, was for the new government to be dystopian and totalitarian. the new government was known as UTOPIA, and their "country" made of all the nations was also called UTOPIA.

every nation is labeled by the time it was colonized (ex. nation 0723, colonized on july twenty third), but the locals give their nations nicknames based on what they're like. one nation, nation 1104, nicknamed Tech, was relatively small but big enough to be well known throughout the nations. here everything and everyone was dark. dark clothing in contrast to the bright neon signs in shades of blue. the nation was split into 4 quadrants, each more advanced than the last.

on the edges of quadrant 4, squashed between a factory and a mobile devices store that gets its products from the factory, is an obscure burger restaurant, named "Melbourne's Homemade Burgers". nowadays in this future, most food is made of holograms- i know- its incredibly confusing, but i promise it makes sense- and has no taste. so the founder, olive melbourne, thought they could be unique if they made homemade burgers with taste from before UTOPIA took over. the restaurant is on the bottom of the building, and the top is a small apartment where the melbournes live.

what most normal citizens don't know is that Melbourne's Homemade Burgers became a messenger pigeon for rebels when olive realized how corrupt their government was. the building had a tunnel dug out in the basement, supposedly to bunker out in. so olive turned it into an underground highway for the rebellion. some people were unaware that rebels existed, but they did. in every nation, in every quadrant, they existed. their numbers slowly growing until they can overthrow the government. but at the time, olive would simply deliver messages to other rebels. eventually she renovated the tunnel and added other pathways that led to houses, other rebellion outlets, etc. people began making larger rooms in the tunnels, setting up shop or just giving information to baby rebs (the given nickname for new members of the rebellion). 

after 2 generations upholding the restaurant, robin melbourne must now take over the restaurant. he went off and married and had a daughter, eclipse melbourne. robin's wife died to an incurable illness. now robin and eclipse have been grieving. inorder to help herself process the tragedy, eclipse picked up a stray gray cat off the streets and started feeding it. anywhere she goes, she can be seen carrying the cat by it's armpits with her.

koi mulberry is a government official who has been sent to investigate Melbourne's Homemade Burgers since there have been rumors circulating Tech about them being a rebellion establishment. koi is the best in the business for confrontation and spying. but this case has got her in a pickle, because eclipse barely speaks and when she does, it's never quite exactly the answer to the question you asked, and anytime she's finally getting somewhere with robin he finds a way to tie something koi says back to his dead wife and then the widower sobs for 20 minutes. however, she is also having trouble solving this case because shes beginning to grow fond for this family, scraping by on what little money they can earn. she's not sure if she wants to find them out and expose them. if she does, robin will be executed and eclipse will be sent to an orphan home. eden's orphanage, specifically, the biggest orphanage of quadrant 4. and there have always been rumors and gossip that the food they feed the children there is drugged and makes them go insane, and koi doesn't want that for poor, sweet, innocent eclipse.

now robin and eclipse have to keep themselves strong and never give in to koi's ploys, while still managing the rebel's tunnels, while koi has to make a decision between her brain and her heart.

inspired by bob's burgers episodes season 12 episode 21, some like it bot part 1: eigth grade runner and season 12 episode 22 some like it bot part 2: judge-bot day

CHAPTER 1 COMING SOON. STAY TUNED ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )

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