"What am I? Do I really need to go there? Are they waiting for me? Why shouldn't I go?"
These are the questions I always asked myself, whenever I thought about going up there... Loneliness, sadness, they dominated me.
"What am I? Do I deserve to go through this? Why did you leave me here, Father? And why didn't you come get me? Will these robots I make really help me?"
While I wasn't okay with my choices. I started to cry, I'm alone, in a lost world... In a world they left me for dead.
And while sadness dominated me, something crossed my mind: death. She solves all your problems. Hope in this world doesn't exist... I take a knife and I put it on my neck.
As this decision took place I hear a voice:
- Hello, who are you? Why are you always alone in this place?
As I drop the knife quickly, I look back and see someone, a person talking to me and seeing my robots. In this situation I tried to hide them, but the person quickly asks:
— Robots? Is that what you're building?
My mind was emptying and I saw that moment would be the end of me. My grandfather forbade me to do scientific experiments and that would be the last straw for him. But it ends quickly:
— This is amazing! Robots are amazing! My friend Perseus will love it!
Would loneliness really kill me?... Because if it had, I would never have met these amazing people.
— Pleasure, my name is Flora. We can be friends, can't we?
WORLD ABOVE
— Hello residents of dome 1, we have some information for you: a new mutation was discovered in one of our expeditions. It is a cow that has grown horns and she is very angry. We are also short of food, if you can help us we will be grateful.
This is the request of summit 2, the summit that the military is in. They have one goal: to explore the Planet and see the areas that can still be good. They don't care about the spaceship up there because it's a waste of time for them to call the damn humans who left us here – at least that's what they say. But they are the only ones who manage to fix the "To go up", as there is a man there who had an interesting title in the ancient world: Astronaut.
While the information is passed on by the military, someone arrives taking control of the transmission saying: you can leave it, we will help!
This is my grandfather, they call him Mister Armstren, leader of the group of scientists left here. He wanted to create a new society, but for him the military will only get in the way, because the brain comes first, then strength. And so is the conflict we live in today's humanity, Scientists vs. Military, fighting for the same goals, but with different ways of dealing with it. As the scientists listened attentively to the broadcast, a soldier arrives at the scene to speak with Mister Armstren:
— Mr. Armstren, your grandson has been caught on the edge again, looks like some adults caught them watching the spaceship again.
— What the hell! Doesn't that boy learn that worrying about that spaceship doesn't make sense? I have to go to the dome to talk to him...
— But sir, what should we do about the situation of the military?
— Well, unfortunately this time, we'll have to help them.
— Yes sir!As Mr. Armstren takes his car and drives to the town where his grandson is, he remembers when he handed the video to him:
"That was the biggest mistake I ever made, wasn't it? Son..."
— Let us go!!! Why do we have to be forbidden to just see? your damn soldiers. Michael yelled angrily.
— Calm down, boy! We already warned his grandfather and he will come here to talk to you...
The arrival bell rings, and your grandfather Volger Armstren. A scientist who was against the last group going to the spaceship, arrived at the scene:
— Flora and Perseus, go back to your parents, now! — Volger says.
— But sir...
— Now! — shouted Volger.
As Perseus and Flora leave, my grandfather lets go of me, takes a chair, and starts talking to me:
— Boy, when the war happened we were forced to stay here, we poor people, while the rich went up to that place... I didn't want him to go there but..."
— Let me go, go!" My father is there, he needs my help, the new humanity she...
— There is no new humanity, boy!!! They are possibly all dead, including... Your father...
— How can you say that, grandpa?
— That's the reality, kid, he went with our transmitter and he hasn't called since the last time...
— Since when he was there... Flora's mother... She who came down with her father's message, and she was dead!!! We don't know what's in that place, but there's not a place we should go!!! You understand?
— I can't stay here...
Will you stay here! Flora suffered so much with her mother's death and her father's going to the ship, so much so that her uncles, who take care of her now, wouldn't want to know that she wants to go up there too, and that you're involved in it. Perseus too, his grandfather was just an ancient soldier of war... This is the new future, our new place, we should stop thinking about going there, and think about our future here!
— But you...
— That's why you won't stay here, I see you have talents in the area of science... You must go with me to the main laboratory.
— This can not happen!!!
— But go, and no matter what you say, you'll stay there and master science for the good of this place, our Planet!
That day my dream ended... Everything I dreamed about came to an end. Flora's "parents" say I'm a bad influence, and so are Perseus' parents. I had to leave apologizing to their parents. Even knowing that Flora and Perseus didn't agree with that, they had to keep quiet... And I left the city. At the age of 15, I, Michael Armstren, gave up going up on the ship... Until that happened.
3 years later...
- Heads up!!! Heads up!!! Central dome 1, we went on an expedition and ended up finding something in Upper...
— Mr. Armstren, come over here!!!
— Listen to this... — Says the scientist.
— Mr. Armstren, is that you?! I'm a military man and I need to say something urgent to you.
— Yes, what happened?
— Listen carefully to what we are going to say, Mr. Armstren (...)
— There is a person(...)
- Which?! What person? asks Volger after the soldier's dramatic pause.
— There's a person on the Upper...
When this news is given, Volger runs out of the place where he was and says:
— I'm going to dome 2 to see the military!"
When everything was in a zone in dome 1 the scientists present were curious about what is happening.
— What happened? one of the scientists asked.
— Lucio showed up... He came back.
— Who? Lucio?
— Lucius Armstren, the son of Volger Armstren, he was found alive on Upper by the military.

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