Sndbox Summer Camp Writing - Task 2
It is said that many years ago the world was created by a divine force, by someone they call God, who made a paradise so that all his children could live there and nothing lacked, but the human being since its creation has not He has been able to limit himself and has always wanted more, to go beyond where he should, to satisfy his curiosity and who was going to think that waking up that curiosity would end with his planet.
There are those who talk about the beginning of the planet, the age of the dinosaurs, the end of those times and the beginning of a new era, they say that this is not the first time that the world ends and starts again, those stories make them have faith in a God that no one knows, and in which they have the hope that one day they will come to start a new world.
It all started when it came to creating a new nuclear weapon so powerful that it could kill the planet earth and with the planets close to it and part of the galaxies, the war between the countries and the greed for power were the cause of this chaos, I am Dr. Helen Strociak, specialist in nuclear weapons, I never agreed with the creation of this powerful weapon because I felt that something bad was going to happen, that in the future it would be the destruction of the world and I am not mistaken.
I still remember our world, which was perfect, was only inhabited by humans, where the sun came out every day as usual, surrounded by fresh air and many plants, I can still feel the smell of the sea and the beat of the waves , the singing of the birds and if I close my eyes I can relive that memory of the sunsets I witnessed with Albert on the shore of the beach in the small town where we grew up, I still curse that day, in which we decided to leave that town to come to the city to study physics, Albert was my boyfriend since I can remember, we grew up together and we were always curious to know what was happening beyond the stars, to know how the world was created, why perfection of the human being, we had the same tastes for science and we were passionate about the unknown but now I think that trying to evolve was a big mistake for the human being.
It all started when the president of the United States authorized the director of our university to test the most outstanding students to be part of a new project that they had in mind, it was necessary to form a group of ten students, who were in the process of They had to have a desire to excel, that they did not mind living in a laboratory and that they were passionate about research, they had to be very prominent in everything they did, those were some of the requirements that they had, which were like if they were describing us both, we decided to participate and we were in the first places.
We were part of a long training in which we were always the best, we liked to work together, we were entrusted with several activities which we fulfilled satisfactorily, without knowing that this was a selection process to place each one in a different department.
Albert and I were the only ones left in the nuclear weapons department, I did not like the idea very much but he was happy, the power to invent new things had him very excited, little by little he was changing, now he was only talking about that project It seemed that only I lived for that, we stopped having intimacy, and he did not sleep and if he did, I remember waking up at night startled and ran to the laboratory because he had a new idea for the project, we practically only talked about it.
There were many events before all this catastrophe happened, it seemed as if something was warning us that we were going the wrong way, which we ignored, Albert had become obsessed with the project and already this worried me, every time it was worse, because we had been entrusted with making a nuclear weapon that could end the world in thousandths of a second, the country that had this weapon would have control of it and Albert every time made it more lethal, had changed many things of the project to which our superiors agreed because that would be more powerful, he had brought the margin of error to zero, the bomb was totally effective, which I thought was crazy because that was putting the life of all humanity in one hand, I did not agree with what was being done but apparently it was only I who thought that, many times I tried to talk to him, but he got upset with me, he told me that my dreams of being the best scientist were gone, that with that attitude I was losing a great opportunity, and that if I kept going like this I would have to report with my superior, since I was hindering the process, I could not believe what I was hearing and I decided to keep quiet because at least that way I could be close to him and at some point make him change his mind and if not, I would have to finish with that project myself.
Everything was getting worse and worse, the tests that were being done were causing great damage to the world and it was irreversible, apparently this did not worry anyone. I started to feel out of place, I could not believe that something like this was happening and that nobody would do anything, could not understand that they did not realize the great damage they caused to the planet and that those affected would be ourselves, soon the weather was presenting problems, atmospheric pollution changed the climate, for a long time the hunger for power made man create his own destruction with nuclear bombs, the greenhouse effect and other inventions the human being had gradually finished with the ozone layer and this was destroying what little remained was the year 2019 and the climate It was changing radically and there was no turning back, different weather events began to appear, the cold areas were hot, the sun's rays were n strong that had melted the iceberg and had completely killed human life in that area, the sea was completely frozen and the sun did not come out mutating, the struggle to survive was declared and there were still 3 tests to finish with this disastrous draft.
It was late when I decided to act, I could not allow the completion of this weapon because if their tests had finished with half a planet its completion would end with what little was left, I thought that if I sabotaged the system a part of the advance would be lost but this only it would be to gain time since all the information had a backup in the mother computer to which it did not have access, but Albert if it had already been given to see that his ideas had improved the project, the problem was in how to make Would he help me get in there? The time would end in two days. It would be the next test and I could not do anything.
At nightfall it occurred to me that I could trigger one of the bombs and then the whole place would explode, but this would cause many deaths. How can I avoid this? I do not want anyone to die, much less that Albert happens to him nothing bad, I spent all night without being able to sleep, I woke up very early to go around the place, trying to see how I could carry out my plan if it caused the death of so many people, that idea tormented me, I only had this day to do this and I did not know where to start, I went to the pump room where the action devices were stored, since I just wanted to detonate the place but not to trigger a bomb that caused more damage to the planet, I thought perhaps I should protect the place where all the nuclear weapons were because it would be a disaster if trying to detonate one of the devices activates one of these lethal bombs, but this could not be done alone, I had little time and To a lot of work, I was in charge of a group of apprentice students who reminded me a lot when Albert and I entered here and one of the routes I had to give them included that store. This was perfect for my plans, I entrusted them as a task to disarm all the devices so that they were inactive and moved to another area, this had to be very fast so that the security personnel did not suspect anything, while they did that I went to program a trigger for it to be activated in 3 hours, this way time to activate manual alarms and people could evacuate, I just had to find Albert and stay close to him to get it out at the right time, because I was worried that he would not leave.
Everything was going according to plan, I could not stop seeing the clock, I tried not to notice how nervous I was but Albert knew me enough to know that something was happening to me, he approached me and asked me if everything was well to which I answered yes, but the doubtful asked me again Are you sure? And I went back to say yes, nothing happened, but I did not know how to control the panic I felt, I approached him and told him that I had to talk urgently with him, that if we could go out a moment and he answered me that if it had to be now because there was not much left for the test and he was doing the final details, to which I answered that yes, I looked him in the eyes and took him by the hand, taking him out of the laboratory, I wonder what is happening? , Where we go? I am too busy to be with these things, I stopped in the middle of a long corridor covered in white ceramic and with a cold that froze and I asked him looking into his eyes Do you still love me? And the stranger was silent for a few minutes and told me clearly that if I love you and you know I always will but tell me what is going on? , and I told him if this is the case, trust me and follow me, I started to run and I did not let go of his hand, I took it hard and without knowing what was happening, he left the place with me, took him to the parking lot and we got into my car in that the evacuation alarms were activated, he tried to get off the car but I stopped him and started with great speed, he did not understand anything, after a few minutes a big detonation was heard and through the glass of the vehicle's rear one could see the great flames that reached the sky, he looked at me with a face of astonishment and I started to cry, the road was very long and everything was silent we reached a beach and parked the car and asked him to get off, he was very angry with me I tried to explain to him what was happening and why he had done it, he only thought about the success he would have had if he had finished his project and reproached me for truncating his dreams, but when I walked to the beach I saw the great damage that he had used to the ecosystem, all the marine animals had mutated, I reminded him of the millions of sunsets that we spent on the shore of the beach and they would not be the same, in that moment he realized that there was not a single tree in the place, that was not heard no bird or animal, the weather had changed and it was all his fault, he began to mourn and apologized for everything and so far he dedicated his life to try to improve the planet, we are in the year 2022 and the world had become a land abandoned by God, where its inhabitants live in darkness, in an underworld where the war for power between wolves and vampires was accentuated, the few humans that remain remained hidden trying to improve this world but everything has been in vain, this is a letter asking for help and if it is too late for us and that has already happened what others say, the new beginning of the world I beg you not to make the same mistakes that we do again.
Atte: Dr. Helen Strociak
Note: my English level is intermediate, I hope you apologize if there is a grammatical error.