Silva stayed in her bed for a moment, time was going so fast for her. There was so much she wanted to do, and yet, so much she couldn't. Silv's plan would soon start, and Silva still had no idea about what would happen. It took an hour for her to finally get out of her warm bed and prepare for the day to come.

"Two days left..."

Silva arrived in her leader's office to take her mission where Sepide and Neige were waiting for her. The leader was also here, probably since the screen still didn't work. Her hand reached for a paper on the table, she stared at it for a moment before turning toward the group.

"It's finally the last thing Emely needs for her time thingy. It will still take some time after but at least she'll have everything. You need to get data from a computer in another world. It fell in ruins, but before its demise, they used to be very technologically advanced."

"It should be easy enough." Silva said with confidence "We should hurry, I have things to prepare for tomorrow!"

"Are you already thinking about tomorrow's trip?" The leader let out a sigh before giving a soft smile to everyone "You worked a lot, I guess you deserve these vacations. For now, focus on the mission. Emely will give you her flash drive, just plug it in the computer and it should be fine."

The three friends nodded and prepared themselves for this mission, hoping this would be their last ordeal before accessing time travel.

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The trio found themselves in a ruined city, with buildings completely destroyed. It would be an ordinary sight for them if there wasn't paint everywhere. The liquid colors were still fresh, indicating that it happened not too long ago, but the presence of dry stains showed it wasn't the first time. The group walked in the empty streets until Silva silently pointed to one of the buildings. Her friends quickly understood that something was happening there, probably survivors of this strange world. They tried entering in the building stealthily, just in case their presence was seen as a threat. The room looked like a restaurant of some kind, with tables and chairs everywhere. The desolate place was filled with silence, but to everyone's surprise, a bunch of people ambushed them with firearms. They came out from behind the tables, hiding patiently behind them before attacking. One of them looked at the three friends, almost not believing his eyes. The man approached the group, his firearm pointing to the ground.

"A-Are you adults?"

"I can't legally drink alcohol everywhere, but yeah I'm an adult."

Everyone came out of their hiding place at Silva's answer, analyzing the group with curiosity. After a few minutes of disbelief, the man continued his interrogation.

"Where were you? I thought everyone else was dead, how did you not get attacked by those kids?"

"Those kids?" Asked Neige "Are kids the reason this place is like that?"

"Are you saying it's not like that everywhere? Those brats destroyed everything because they were tired of homework and school, they don't spare anyone..."

The man looked away, a mix of anger and sadness on his face.

"Those kids kill adults? Is that why you're afraid of them."

"No, it's far worse." The man said, answering Sepide "They make us crazy, pushing us closer and closer to the edge... We're barely ten now, so many gave up... And I can't blame them."

"That's a shame. Welp, not much we can do, we're searching for a computer that belonged to a scientist working on time travel, do you know where we could find it?"

"You're searching my father's computer?" The man stared at the group, trying to understand their goal "Dad's... Dr. Casimov's computer is not in our hands, those kids stole it a while ago."

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"Stole it?" Silva asked with surprise "Why would they do that?"

"Beats me, apparently they have a leader that asked them to."

"Looks like it won't be simple, where can we find those kids?"

The adults looked at each other in shock, unsure whether Silva was ignorant or stupid.

"They hang out at their old school, but don't go there, it's basically asking for a fate worse than death."

"We'll be fine." Silva nodded and smiled with confidence "I'm not letting a few kids impress me."

"I can't believe you survived for so long, now leave, you'll attract them."

The three friends left, feeling that they clearly weren't welcome anymore. They quickly located the school and decided to head there, hoping to quickly get the information they needed.

The three friends walked toward the school, hoping they'd find the computer they were searching for. It didn't take long before they saw people on the way, a bunch of kids around 12 with water guns in their hands were walking around. Neige and Sepide were hesitant, trying to assert whether they would be aggressive at their sight. Silva on the other hand walked nonchalantly toward them and called the group once she got close enough.

"Hey, can we talk?"

The group of children turned toward the blind girl and aimed at her with their 'weapons'. One of them stepped forward, a little girl who looked barely older than the others and seemed to be confident while facing Silva.

"An adult? Talking? That's new."

"I'm not an adult, I can't drink in most places."

"You do look younger than adults..." The girl raised her hand, prompting those behind her to lower their weapons "My name is Agniya, what do you want? I hope you three are not here to command us."

"We're searching for a computer from the doctor..."

"Casimov." Neige said after seeing her friend's struggle. The little girl looked at them, a bit confused.

"Dr.Casimov? That's my grandfather. We took it before, but the adults have it back now."

"They do?" Silva asked with surprise "They told us you had it."

"Liars, all of them. They always make us look like the bad guys."

"But why did you take the computer before?" Asked Sepide "Do you know how to use it?"

"We're not toddlers... But I don't know how to use it, our leader told us to do it."

"Can we see her?"

"I wish I could see her too, she just disappeared after getting what she needed. But it's okay, she helped us more than we deserved, she's the one who made us realize that we didn't deserve what our parents did to us."

"Were they... Horrible to you?" Silva asked with empathy.

"Yeah, they made us do homework, they never listened to us, it's basically slabery... Savoury..."

"Slavery?"

"Yes, slavery. Our leader taught it to us." The girl went closer to Silva, analyzing her face "You look like our leader, her name was Silv, you know her?"

Silva paused for a moment, thinking about whether she should tell the truth or not. After giving it some thought, she decided it probably wasn't a good idea. The kids could consider her an enemy if she told how she felt about Silv.

"Never heard of her, she was the one that made you rebel against the adults?"

"Yeah, we owe her a lot. Thanks to her, we killed most of them, the world will be ours!"

The three friends felt shock and concern upon hearing the girl's words. She didn't seem evil and more like her innocence prevented her from understanding everything that was happening. Silva in particular felt uncomfortable by the little girl's words.

"You said Dr. Casimov was your grandpa? I saw an adult who said the doctor was his father, maybe it's your dad I talked to."

"Probably, he's like the 'leader' for the adults, but they only run away and complain, he's a bad leader."

"If you continue like that... You'll kill him someday..."

"That's the plan, I have enough of him telling me what to do."

Silva stayed silent, remembering her own past. She still couldn't forget the screams of her parents when they doomed them, the guilt she felt still was there and she didn't want anyone to follow the same path as her.

"You're being immature, why don't you go talk to them now? I'm sure they would listen."

"They never listened to us, why would I listen to them?"

"I know, it's frustrating but... If they don't like adults, then you'll need to be the adult. For them like for yourself."

"I can't understand what you mean, it doesn't matter anyway, we'll finish it tonight. After this battle, we'll win and everything will be fine."

"Win? There are no winners in this situation. I understand that you need to kill to survive sometimes but you have to think about it seriously."

"You're boring, I thought you would understand us."

"I do. We had to act like adults without anyone teaching us how to do it and had to do it before anyone else. It's unfair but you can't just act like a brat anymore."

"I'm no brat, you're like those adults, always lecturing us."

The group of kids ran away, leaving the three friends together. Silva turned toward the others, a bit concerned.

"I have no idea where this computer is... I know it's not our mission but could we go see those adults? I want to see if we can fix the situation, or at least make it a bit better."

"It's not your job." Said Neige "We can try, but if it doesn't go well, don't blame yourself. But still, I'm a bit surprised, you told them they were brats."

"It's not because I'm one that I can't tell them they are, and besides, I know how to be an adult when I need to."

Silva walked away toward the place where they saw the group of adults. Neige and Sepide followed her, ready to help their friend all they could in her task.