December 5, 2024
A new rule in our new world. If Vlock Meekson saw this journal I would be executed. I remember when I was about 10 years old, I dreamed about jetpacks and flying cars. I know, I tell myself this everyday, but, I just hate Vlock Meekson! The new world he’s created just makes me....disgusted. It may have seemed like a small change, but it wasn’t. He took away our 2nd amendment, our right to bear arms. The reason we had that amendment was because if our government got out of hand the citizens could revolt. Since we could not revolt, the government took away more of our amendments. They did not let us talk bad about them behind their backs. They searched us for notes we would pass talking bad about them, so we started using our notebooks, journals, and diaries to talk about them, and once they found out about that, they banned the access to notebooks. People had no more rights to be questioned in front of a jury, they turned our representative government into a dictatorship in a span of 12 years. Vlock Meekson has been around for 122 years, in 1921 the government thought he was important to the “government” so they tried to preserve him. Every night he would put on something that connected to the back of his head that somehow kept him alive for 103 years. One day I’m going to knock that thing loose and cause the end of this horrible world we are stuck in.
~ Benjamin Raptor
Chapter 1
I’m Benjamin Raptor, and this story is about how I started a revolution in the new world. These are memories I must share from my experience. This all started when I was walking back from the workhouse when I saw one of the citizens get beaten to death by one of the officers on the street for stealing an extra piece of bread for his family. I ran to my shelter and I tried to salvage some of the historical facts from my brother’s works.
Jack, my brother, worked for the government a year ago, that’s probably why I’m still alive. His part in the government was to record what has been happening that they have been hiding from the citizens. Jack would always tell me about what they were hiding and show me the papers he would record the secrets on. Once Vlock found out Jack was telling me the secrets, he sent soldiers to our house, and they set fire to it. They tried to kill me and Jack so they shut down the factories just to make sure I was at home. Jack and I were about to have our dinner, when he was going to fetch some water from the well, he saw out the window the soldiers marching with flares and torches. He ran and told me to take the papers and escape out of the back window. I opened the window and put my torso through, I was almost out and I dropped the papers. I was about to go back and grab them but Jack ran to me and screamed:
“They’ve got barrels of gunpowder! They’re going to throw ‘em in! Get out!”
Jack pushed me out so I landed on my butt. I saw him trying to get out so I went to help him.
“Go! Run! Get out of here! I’ll be okay!” Jack screamed.
I ran away and our shelter exploded. Wood chips flew everywhere, so I covered my eyes, and my ears were ringing. I ran to the closest shelter and I asked if I could stay with them. I told them my circumstances and they let me stay for the night. The day after I looked for anything I could salvage from my old shelter. I found Jack laying on the burnt wood flooring all bloody. I then noticed a note the soldiers nailed to a lone beam that read:
