The year is 3003. The world has seen great strides in technological advancements, specifically space travel. Every planet in our Milky Way is now inhabited by Humans, but not all planets are thriving. The planet Togo for example is used for human experimentation by the government in order to see how people would react to an extremely hot climate.
They wanted to see the psychological and physical effects of extreme heat and how heat strokes affect the body in a different planet. It was advertised as the dream planet, beautiful landscapes, high paying mining jobs and a better life for my family and I.
We were deceived. Tricked into believing that this place could be our home. When our ship arrived near the ground, what we saw was horrifying. There was nothing but a scorching lava bed greeting us, with magma overflowing everywhere we looked. The agents took us to a large, abandoned, wooden shack that was atop of a cliff. This cliff was away from all of the magma and lava below. Surely this must of been some sort of mistake, this place is not what was advertised, at all. I knew that we had to escape, soon. When we took our first steps off of our shuttles and on to this foreign place, the heat was extreme. I felt my sweat evaporate. They took us to our tiny rooms, with no insulation or windows. I told my family that we have to get out of here.
The room next to us, someone was screaming. "Jake, wake up!". I was unsure of what just happened, but I assumed that the mother had just lost his son to a heat stroke. I started getting delirious, the heat was getting to me. I needed to escape, we needed to escape. I needed to find the perfect opportunity to leave, but the problem is I don't know when nightfall is on this planet. It's always day time. We waited hours on end until we decided now was the time to leave. We left our things here and my wife and I busted down the door. The exit was to our left, but two platinum clad guards were to our right. I told my wife to leave without me while I distract the guards. As my family left on the shuttles without me, I was taken to the Administrator and he said to me that I was banished from this place. The guards threw me off of the cliff-side into the lava bed below.
Little did they know, I survived the fall, just barely though. I had scratches and bruises everywhere from the fall, and I could not see from my left eye. It was over. Never again will I see my beautiful family, or at least I thought. I saw it. My escape shuttle, but it was beneath a crumbling surface. I crawled towards the shuttle, but I was unsure if I could make it. I was getting delirious, dizzy. Tired and sweaty from all of the heat. I nearly fainted until a small blob of lava hit my backside, immediately putting me back to reality. I kept crawling towards the shuttle and got into the small, closed off container. I didn't know how to operate this machine, and the ground was shaking quite rapidly. I needed to leave this planet immediately. There was a huge button labelled "LAUNCH", I pressed it. The thrusters were not elevating my ship off this planet. I must have pressed it over a million times before my finger started bleeding, but the ship finally started moving away from this terrible place. My ship landed in a mysterious place.
And that is the story of how I ended up on this peaceful planet.
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