Valorie had a bandage around his arm and chest. He stood at the door in his boxers. Evelyn looked adamant and picked up his skateboard, "I'm going out," He pushed Valorie aside and walked out.

"Evelyn, stop! It's dark now, come back!" Slaine followed him but Evelyn plugged in his earphones and went down the street. Disheartened, Slaine walked back in and looked at Valorie.

"...Hello Valorie," He hadn't talked much with Valorie before so it was a bit awkward for him to start the conversation, "...How do you feel now?"

Valorie tore away the bandages and threw them in the dustbin. Blood flowed down his open wounds.

"What are you doing? You're bleeding-" Slaine moved towards him and Valorie grabbed his hand. Slaine stopped abruptly and looked into Valorie's electric blue eyes.

"I'm a robot," He said, "Not a human. So stop treating me like one,"
"But the blood-"
"My body runs on fuel, even if I lose all my blood, I won't die." Valorie said and looked around, "Would you have some tape?"

"In the storeroom, I guess," Slaine pointed at a room right behind Valorie and he walked into it. Slaine helped him unscrew the bolts on his back and pulled out a battery. Valorie wrapped the tape around his chest and his arm. Then, he wore his jumpsuit and over that he wore his steel armour.

He picked up the battery and put it into the circuit to charge. Then, he turned towards Slaine, "Do you have some petrol?"
"Yeah...It's in the car, I'll get it,"
After a while, Slaine got a litre of petrol in a small bottle. Valorie sat at the dining table, eating screws and scrap.

He turned towards Slaine and took the bottle from him. He drank down the entire bottle of petroleum and finally his eyes glowed blue, "I'm full,"

Slaine watched him get up, "I want to tell you something, Slaine,"
"I'm listening,"
"I have eloped from prison. The entire world's police is chasing me, the future wants me dead so I've come to the past for shelter,"

"What wrong have you done exactly?"
"Exist."

Evelyn reached a skatepark and practised some of his skateboard vert moves for his next tournament.
"Stupid dad, always prioritizing the wrong people. Idiot!" He did an eggplant followed by a 720 and finally stopped.

"I'm tired," He threw his board aside and lay on the top of the ramp. He looked at the sky above. The stars seemed to be falling towards him, gently moving closer. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

'Stars are born when a gaseous nebula collapses. So collapse.

Crumble.

This is not your destruction,'

This is your birth,'

He opened his eyes and saw a huge blue planet, right above him. He smiled subconsciously, thinking how much it reminded him of home. Purple ocean lit blue at day time and reflecting all the stars in the sky at night.

And he woke up. The planet disappeared. He looked around. He was thirsty. He drank some water from the park tap and looked down at the tiny puddles formed beneath it.

He pressed his index finger on the surface of a puddle and slowly pulled it up. Water rolled up it as if glued to his finger, a silver shining thread of water. And slowly rose more strands from that little puddle, that started revolving around that one thread.

Evelyn's eyes had a faint shade of green as he looked at the water. The water formed a small ball, resembling a planet that revolved around that one long string. And the other strings became smaller rings that rotated around that planet.

"What is this?" He looked at the formation of a small solar system. But it wasn't like what he had learnt in school. Suddenly, a hazy memory flashed in his head, he kissed a girl, a boy patting his shoulder, him getting into a spacesuit.

And green eyes suddenly covered his mind, as if looking into the mirror. He gasped and the water fell back into the puddle. He held his head and looked at it for a while,

"I feel like...
I don't belong here ...And that makes me so sad," He looked at the stars again, "Who am I? What am I?" He looked at his hands.

"Am I safe here?"

. . .

Jimmy and Lupin sat around the dining table with Slaine and Valorie.
"Ben is sentenced for death, we sent Lucifer to save him however I know he might have gotten caught too. MiK and Norman are dead."

Jimmy's eyes widened, "Dead-You mean-"
"I abandoned them so by now, they might have become scrap,"
"Why did you do that?!"
"Because I had no choice, it was either Norman, Mik or Asselyum. And I decided to save Asselyum,"

"No..." Jimmy sat down slowly. Lupin looked at him, "But why are they targeting you?"
"Because the future is now a kingdom of peace and ANDROIDS are a sign of war and destruction."

"Hmm, the human brain has gotten smaller as we've paced forward in technology. I wonder if people in the future can even wipe themselves," Lupin crossed his arms. Jimmy just looked down at his thighs.

"I'm losing my vision even as we talk so we have to be fast," Valorie rubbed his eyes as he struggled to focus and everything still looked blurry.
"Why?"
"My eyes are linked to the time machine. But it takes a lot of strain to control a huge machine like that with my eyes and every time I do so, I lose some of my sight,"

"So, don't do it again. We want you to have your eyes,"
"My eyes are not a priority right now. My nation is. I've watched Switzerland rot ever since I gained a conscience. And it is happening again, I'm slowly losing my birth land and I can't just stand and stare at it happen.

I'd rather be blind than being in a world without the Switzerland I adored. My first love would always be my country,"

He had a glow in his eyes, and that glow was probably the only humanity left in him. And that pushed everyone to their edge. Certainly, Valorie seemed to be a better leader than Lucifer. He knew what he was doing.

Slaine closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "So," He smiled, "How do we help you, Swissboy?"
Valorie chuckled, "I have a plan. It's s the first time I've made a plan, I don't know if it will work but... I will not regret it,"

Evelyn came back home around midnight and tiptoed his way to his room while Slaine was sleeping with his head pressed on the dining table.

Evelyn closed his room's door and sat before his computer. He typed something but suddenly heard someone on the roof. He decided to go upstairs but realised midway,

'How could I hear footsteps on the roof? Did my ears suddenly grow sharp?'

"Evelyn?" He looked up. It was Valorie.

"I'm going back," Evelyn turned away.
"Why do you hate me?" Valorie asked and Evelyn paused.
"I don't hate you,"
"Then why this cold shoulder? You are the one who created me,"

"I didn't." Evelyn answered immediately, "The one who created you is a criminal. I am not a criminal,"
"But that is still you. Maybe a darker side of you, a parallel you of the future,"

"We are who we are at any given time, and who we are at any given time is who will assist us in finding situations and other people that will further assist us in soul growth and development as human beings on the planet. Any regret that we have, should dissipate at this realization, as to have regrets is to regret the chance of growth and development.

Who you are right now in this moment is who is going to lead you towards your future. In short, that criminal is not me. I will never betray anyone, let alone the entire humanity,"

"...You seriously are Ben. Sometimes I had my doubts about you, but this proved it, you are smart for your age,"

"Look at my face, it tells you that I do not care about your opinion towards me. I don't need your approval to be recognized as an intellectual,"
"I don't know, I can't see it," Valorie shrugged his shoulders.

"What do you mean?"
"Your face is all blurry because I'm losing my vision,"
"What? Why?"

Valorie told him about his circumstances.

"Dang man. You're fucked,"

Valorie smiled and looked away,
"I have a request,"
"I'm not taking any requests,"
"This would be my last,"

Evelyn took a sigh, "What?"
"Once I'm completely blind, I want you to crush my head and put me down slowly. I don't want to become a pawn in some corrupt chess play. I am glad that I served my nation till my last breath, a nation that hated me."

"So, I'm allowed to kill?"
"Yes,"

Evelyn smirked, "Alright,"

-To be continued

Slaine Benjamin 
5500 Rebellion