City in the Sky

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"I can't believe it's already the day! It's only been so long since we got this dumb idea." complained Tienna, yawning.

"Well, would you rather live under almost no rights or money? Them rich peeps' got everything while we have to suffer like this. This is the chance to change everything!" Zik, unlike Tienna, was far more into it.

"Fine." Tienna quickly shrugged on her grey sweater (that used to be white), and shot Zik a look, "You do know the consiquences, right? Are you sure you're not crazy?"

"Of course I know. But really, I don't think Earth is as creepy as the governments say, but just in case I've got my hunting knive if we really fail." Zik pointed to his mini weapon secured onto his belt, the tips just sharpened this morning.

"It's worth a try, I guess. I hate the way it's now."

With a push Tienna bounced off her bed and together they walked out their room to find a crowd of people, waiting. They wore shaggy clothes, their faces brown from the dirt and ribs showing. These were the poor of Kasu (The place they live).

"You ready?" Zik shouted into the crowd.

"Yeahhh!!!" was the reply. The mob raised their weapon ----- from scrap pieces of plastic to whips made of vines. There wasn't much of a choice, really, in what they could have used. Anything was better than using bare hands.

"For everyone here, who wants to rebel, I just want you to know, this is a really dangerous choice. We might all be sent into exile." Tienna raised her voice, "but we should all be willing to sacrifice our 'comfortable' life for the bright future we'll have.

"We won't have much time before the weakest time of the force field comes. When we get there, we surround the inner layer as much as we can to a full circle. Here, it's quite safe, but near the rich zone there'll be cameras mounted everywhere. Alright, let's go."

Tienna and Zik led the group of people across the scavenged land and into the semi-rich zone. Here, countless shops littered the sides of the dirt path, their wooden signs rotten. Pedestrains here were living better off than the rebels: at least they had a storage of possessions.

As the crowd stalked past them, many rebels couldn't resist the delicious but forien smells, and lingered at various shops. Upon seeing their behavior the rest the of shops closed off one by one, afraid to lose their stuff, and shot them hostile looks.

Tienna sighed.

As they approach the center of Kasu, taller and taller buildings surround them, from 2 floors to even 10, until the shadow of the inner cone was shed on them.

The protective layer of force field shines silver from reflecting the sunlight, but they couldn't see the inside.

"Now start spreading out and everyone, destroy the bottom of the layer, where it reaches the ground."

They all realize it was dangerous work, but none complained. The cameras focused on them. They all knew if the work was not done fast, police agents would come out and throw them one by one into earth.

But Zik's heart dropped as he realized the force field went deep into the earth to form a full sphere with the top, plus it was made of harder material than he thought when he came to investigate a few months ago.

"Open, open!" he heard one of his allies say. All hope was lost.

At this moment a section slid open and more people than they have ever seen, all dressed with heavy armor and armed with new-tech weapons, came bursting out of the entryway.

"Hey!" Zik protested as he was carried away. "Help!" He yelled. He knew this was his end.

Then he remembered his hunting knife still strapped to the belt on his thigh and pulled it out using his free hand. The blade glittered in the sunshine.

"Give me that." spat a solidred and Zik klung helplessly as his only last hope was being stripped away by a rough hand.

He knew the government would never slaughter, because the uppers didn't like the sight of blood, and think killing would make for a really quick ending. Earth was the way to go, with it's dangerous creatures roaming in the radio active forests, and fish 783297934 times worst than sharks in killing people......

Zik was aware of himself being thrown into a tiny capsule. It fired. The speed make his head dizzy. And although he always considered himself a tough boy, he blacked out with the worst feeling in his tummy...

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