Techno-Escape Prologue and Chapter 1

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Prologue A world with advanced technology, friendly and organised or complete chaos? It was friendly and organised. Was. A young group of technologists, approximately 100, decided to make a new search engine which regulated everything. At first, their idea was a success; everyone would use Bluelast for everyday things, such as finding the way home, searching for recipes and studying. All of the technologists were incredibly happy with the money they were earning. Unfortunately, some of them began getting greedy. These technologists were a group of eleven that wanted the money for themselves. They deceived the others into giving them access to all the money collected by the company and took control of Bluelast. At first, there was protest. Every day outside of the headquarters there were banners hung up and people were screaming and yelling for them to give the money back. No one knew what the technologists decided to do about but if in the next few days, someone stood outside Bluelast headquarters they would notice that no one was protesting. Because of this people were more suspicious of what was happening in the headquarters. They tried to stop using Bluelast but, alas, it was impossible. Bluelast had full authority over their everyday lives. People started making secret Anti- Bluelast gangs. They would meet up and discuss on how to exterminate Bluelast. None of their plans worked, and still today Bluelast rules the Earth with no doubt. Chapter 1 I woke up. The sun was gradually rising up the horizon. I grabbed my techno glasses at checked if any school periods were cancelled. None, I thought with disappointment. School was relatively uninteresting those days. The only thing we were lectured about was Bluelast. We were learning how Bluelast governed our world. Today the teacher said we were making posters about Bluelast. I groaned. My parents were a mile’s walk away. They were imprisoned in jail. My mother had worked for the Anti-Bluelast party and so had my father. As a consequence of this, they were sent to jail for the remainder of their lives. I visited them virtually every day, describing to them my day at school and how my grades were. I forced myself out of bed and walked down the stairs to eat breakfast. As always, my breakfast-bot was standing next to the table, waiting for me to order. I clicked the first buttons I could find, hoping that the breakfast-bot had charged overnight. ‘Your pancakes are being made,’ While the breakfast-bot was making my breakfast, I glimpsed outside and sighed. All my world was being annihilated. Soon the park that was next to my house would be gone. I observed as the engineers plucked out the last strip of grass. As soon as I saw them do that, I knew that I had to talk to the old woman by the harbour. The old woman by the harbour had lived for more than three hundred years. She was one of Bluelast’s successful experiments. The old woman always uttered of a time before Bluelast, when there was peace on Earth. She told me many stories about when she was a child. When she was a child kids weren’t that addicted to their screens, although, from her point of view they were. Kids would go on with their everyday lives without requiring to teleport everywhere. The idea of not having teleportation made me shudder. I was against screen addiction and too much technology, but living without teleportation? How would you get to school? How would you meet up with your friends who lived a country away? It sounded all so dreadfully alarming. ‘Your pancakes are ready,’ I grabbed the plate and consumed my pancakes as quickly as I could; my school was beginning in fifteen minutes. Today was the first day of my 14th year! On the way to school, I stopped by at the prison. There were my parents, their eyes twinkling with happiness and waving to me from their cabin. They weren’t permitted to communicate as the guards considered that they might share classified information with me, so I told them about how my day at school was yesterday. Before I left my mother handed me a slip of paper. I looked at her questioningly, but I accepted it. After I was thoroughly sure that the prison was out of sight and that no one was watching me, I unfolded it. Go to harbour tonight 22nd hour. Old woman there, she will give you a boat. Boat escape to Panremi Island. There is like 300 years ago on Earth (Sorry for the bad grammar and spelling, I had to write quick) Yours faithfully, Mum and Dad I was too dumbfounded to move. Escape? Tonight? I resolved to think about it at school. All throughout the day, I was thinking whether I should escape or not. If I escaped, I would live a life with much less technology, much less screens, I would be free! But what if there was nothing out there. What if Panremi Island was a myth? I would get stuck out in the middle of the ocean with little supplies, and I would slowly starve to d3ath.