“Help!...I need help! Guys meet me at the bazaar” said Jeremy to a radio communicator to the rest of the group.

Rudy, Charles, and Dreke all headed to meet up with Jeremy. But Zack was somewhere far away and couldn’t make it back on time but he did join through the radio communicator.

Jeremy conveys what happened to Zack and the other present boys about this girl he knew briefly. Naturally the three boys were hesitant to pause their plan of escaping to help a random stranger. But Jeremy pleaded and begged. He likes her and she has saved his life earlier from the old earth gang. He is in debt to her. He left out that he did already repay his debt when he swept her on his bike from the clutches of the old earth gang but he wanted to do more. For what if no one helps her.

The boys asked around and found out where she lived, Jeremy and Rudy went to her house to tell them of what happened to their girl. Her mother is sick after all. And that he will get her back and we’ll all leave for the new earth tomorrow.

As nervous as he was, knocking the door felt like pulling a trigger. He hated to be the conveyer of bad news.

The door opens, and the shock turns into something else, shock, no, but confusion.

“Alina!” said Jeremy quietly, shocking Rudy.

“Hello, are you here for Drake?” said Alina

“We’re here for you” said Rudy

“Oh gosh, Drake’s friends are as silly as he is,” said Alina, walking away. Calling drake

The boys walk inside, still shocked. But Drake is shocked too, and asks them who they might be. Jeremy drags Drake to the side, to Drake's confusion and starts purging out everything that happened to him and Alina.

Alina is in the kitchen watching the weird interaction between those boys who , in her mind, never saw before and her brother's anxious face as Jeremy was telling him that the new earth can erase memories and store them in cylinders in the storage block.

Drake couldn’t add further to what Jeremy said and told him that Alina was brought back to the house with the old earth gangs and that she was unconscious and they were told nothing of what happened to her or her whereabouts.

“Chatty guy!!” said Alina, making Jeremy happy this time. “I remember you now! It’s weird I couldn’t remember you a minute ago”

Because of the shock Jeremy and Rudy forgot to tell the other boys that they found Alina. Charles is in the streets asking around,

“Alina? Oh yes. Mona’s girl. She and her sister Lilliana were with the youngsters that started the ruckus” said a woman in the bazaar

“What trouble makers!” said Charles

“Didn’t see it coming. Lots of gunshots were fired, who knows what happened to them”

“Two young women trying to leave. Ridiculous” said Charles in disdain chuckling

“Exactly. As if Joseph would let any young women leave easily”

Charles laughed and left.

Over at Zack who opted out of searching, he was roaming the storage blocks but this time the more strict ones the ones closer to the airport, almost touching the wired fence of the airport runway.

There are no guards or gang members, it’s perfect. He sees a good location block with windows overlooking the airport and the airport gate and is in close proximity to the gate if they were to ride to it. Block A170

Zack couldn’t go check it out right away, he sees a girl roaming around block A170 and enters it. But there is no time for waiting. He enters it too.

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“This is my hiding location” said Lillian seeing Zack enter after her, she still thinks that the old earth gang are following them.

“You picked the best one suited for my plan,” said Zack.

Lilliana ignored him, after all, the block building is huge. Zack got curious when she said she was hiding, could she be Alina? He didn’t ask right away; he was busy inspecting the block building. The view of the windows and, more importantly, if there was anyone here.

“Are you Alina?” said Zack after a while

Lilliana paused as she was scared as to why this guy is asking about her sister and if something happened to her.

“No, why?” said Lilliana

“Nothing” said Zack and he resumed his inspection.

“Wait, Alina is my sister..why are you looking for her?”

“I’m not. But she might be in danger. So go look for her” said Zack

What a jerk! As mad as Lilliana was she didn’t want to waste time picking a fight with him and she ran outside to search for her sister. She had a little hunch that he might be lying but after what happened in the bazaar earlier he might be telling the truth.

Lilliana walks away and as she turns around the first block, bikes’ sounds grow nearer. It is the new earth guards. Scattering around the blocks. The old earth guards will wipe anyone who comes near the storage blocks.

Lilliana hears the bikes, she looks back at block A170, Zack is in there, should she go warn him,

“He can die for all I care” said Lilliana

Inside block A170, Zack was further in but the sound of the door slams open startled him. Who might it be the guards or the gangs? Zack hears fast paced footsteps and he pulls his gun and lays low.

“Hey you! Jerk, where did you go?” a yell is heard

Zack gets up and runs to the door. Lilliana, attached to the door, nervously alternates looking around inside and looking out outside.

“Did you call me a jerk!” said Zack walking down to Lilliana

“I don’t know what your called” said lilliana

He walks directly to Lilliana, pointing at his chest.

“It’s Zack!”

“Or you could be called you-own-your-ass-to-Lilliana”

They run and hide behind a fallen tree, lying on the ground. Unable to move. New earth guards fill the area. Behind them they see multiple airplanes landing.

“For the final migration.” said Zack

“When?”

“Tomorrow.”

Behind the fence, they see buses carrying people to planes. And people ascending the planes.

After almost an hour and checking the blocks, the guards leave. Annoyed to be called on the last day to check the storages again. They wanted to avoid the crowdedness of the last day's airplanes and leave early. But it was Gregory’s orders.

“Found a location. The hideout for entering the airport tomorrow. Block A170 near the airport. Meet me all here ASAP” said Zack to the radio communicator, conveying the message to Charles' earpiece and to Derek’s device. And to Jeremy and Rudy’s radio devices at Alina’s apartment.

“Guys, sorry I forgot to tell you, I found Alina” Jeremy said a little embarrassed.

Lilliana hears him and tries grabbing the communicator from Zack’s hand but he won’t let go.

“Alina what happened?!” Lilliana is yelling

Alina and her family are shocked to hear their sister’s voice on the communicator. But after the bazaar riot, Mona is happy that all her kids are safe.

Rudy excuses himself to leave, but Jeremy grabs his arm. He is not done. He has a promise to keep. He promised to take Alina on a boat ride on the new earth. He must keep it. Even if she doesn’t remember it.

“More people must come with us” said Jeremy in the communicator “Alina…and her family”

Said Jeremy shocking everyone.

“This is ridiculous” yelled Zack

“Please, she must come”

“No it’s too much risk”

“If she won’t come…then I’ll stay here”

“Have you gone mad…this isn’t the time for this”

“I have nothing more to say”

“..I don’t know…” said Rudy scared of taking more people and of leaving Jeremy behind

“I don’t really care” said Derek

“It’s your call Zack” said Charles

“If not we’ll rat you out,” said Lilliana “block A170 you said, how long do you think the old earth gang will take them to reach here. Definitely before tomorrow” Lilliana added

“Happy now Jeremy!!” Zack yelled “fine get your butts over here. I can’t stand being here with her anymore” said Zack, making everyone happy but him.