Now, after 20 years the planet is complete and ready to leave the old earth. Any newcomer must be checked and vaccinated to allow for entry. The new rulers of the new earth with their president William Wade will leave anyone who intentionally or unintentionally disturbs the peace.
Long Ridder city is the last area on earth uncovered by the metallic new earth. Twenty years ago, trucks loaded with rods of metal, sand, and black and silver colored powders from the new planet's metal made their way filling the city. Alina saw them from her family’s apartment, overlooking a lively urban street with high street stores and cafes. Alina played around the area with her one year older sister, Lilliana. Alina saw new people come as the people who lived around her left for the new earth. Her parents were skeptical. But as more and more people left they started to change their mind.
Alina would go play around the tractor and the blocks. She saw the airport rise from the ground, built as these futuristic planes flew vertically to the new earth. She saw the garbage rise as well. Her city turned into a futuristic airport on one side, and a garbage pile on the other, and buildings after buildings, called BLOCKS, shelving items and memories, the belongings of the people that left. And the remainder is a spec of Long Ridder city, the borderless cage housing its people.
At six years old, Alina, along with her sister, saw her favorite park torn down. They no longer have parks to play in and wherever they went they just got yelled at to leave. And eventually, Alina, despite Lilliana’s effort, wouldn’t leave the house anymore. There is nothing left out that would compare to the fun she has on her tablet. Her father gave her and her sister each a tablet. A portal to the old world. Alina and Lilliana would spend hours painting, playing, looking at pictures, and reading for hours. Her favorite activity was piecing together pictures she would download and make a comic story using a presentation program.
As Alina paused her life, the world didn’t, her mother gave birth to her baby brother and due to complications in birth her mother has diabetes.
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Years later, Alina still remembers sneaking outside her room to the living room and peeking through the door keyhole, her father comforting her crying mother as she injects herself. Her mother is terrified of needles and her father always gave her the injection. But this time her father is making her mother do it herself. Sixteen year old Alina thought her father was being cruel. Why didn’t he do it?
It wasn’t long before she knew why. Her father was getting more and more sick. And with the migration more and more doctors have left. And more factories have shut down. Including pharmaceutical factories. Medications were getting scarce. Alina has just noticed that her father has stopped taking his medication for a whole year and is getting weak. And one cold night he didn’t wake up.
Mona, Alina’s mother, took her seventeen and sixteen year old two daughters and her 10 year old son to the state building to sign to get to the new earth finally. But alas it was too late.
A group of anti new earth have taken over the last land, Long Ridder city, lead by Joseph. And Joseph made sure to keep the citizens of Long Ridder city intact in number. Forbidding them from entering the new earth. And he unleashed his Old earth guards to cage the people.
Alina and her family returned home devastated but still believed that one day they would let them go. If not, William Wade, the human savior will help them. Alina held tight to the newspaper with the announcement of the migration that her father kept. Hanged to the wall in her room with the date of its release burned in her mind. October fifth.
And William Wade did help them, but not as Alina hoped to. As medications ran low he sent a charity's group to help the remaining humans with the necessities including medications. But William conflicted with Joseph. And Joseph's grip never let loose.
Mona never ran out of her medication but some months she would get them and some she’ll get half the dose.
And as the twenty years mark ends, over 99% of the population have migrated to the new earth leaving behind less than a million people back on the old earth. The people remaining are to repopulate the earth under the reign of Joseph once William’s earth leaves. Every youth is needed.
Twenty four year old Alina believes it's still on the table and is still waiting for either Joseph to let them go, or for William to come and save them.