The year 2168, the underground.
I awake from my light slumber to the sound of pounding on the door. I look around my grimy and odious shed, realizing I hadn't blown out the candle out before I went to bed. I dart around gathering my few belongings as the officers pound on my door, demanding that I open it.
I open the hatch for the old sewer. Just as I close it, I hear the door to the shed being knocked down.
I bolt as far and as fast as I can, I have to create distance between the Pacific Forces and me. I can't lead them to the camp.
As I run, I recall what I know.
After the year 2021, everything started going downhill. The gun laws in the USA were out of control, leading to most kids receiving poor education. Not long after Canada's laws fell, giving way to chaos and fear. One by one systems failed. In 2068, someone intervened. Schools became an equivalent to prisons. Guards posted at every door, metal detectors at every entrance. All for the hope that education would prevail because, without it, the economy failed. Jobs were lost, poverty grew, and one by one currency lost value.
We had peace for about twenty years until the tragedy of 2088. The largest celebration of peace, in the largest school in our district of Tavic, was hit by an attack. A bomb went off in the foundations of the school. Crushing almost everyone inside. Nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-two people died immediately, one hundred died soon after from fatal injuries. Only twenty-eight survived
Nothing will ever go back to how it should be.
Since we lost so many vital generations, starting with generation Ruby in 2100 school was mandatory. A last ditch effort to save education.
The schools turned into child labor camps, creating weapons of war to battle the other districts with. The Pacific Guard is the reason we didn't manage to save this last effort.
In the year 2160, things changed for many. Horizon, a group dedicated to saving humanity, rescued an entire generation from the Tavic district. Their main goal. To obtain soldiers to stop the Pacific Guard.
I was in that district. I was 089763 of the Azure generation.
Now, I am Alyse Cortez, Horizons soldier, and Pacific Guard survivor,
For now at least.
