Year 2085, Age 18

The twins kept wailing trying to wake their parents up from an endless sleep.

I hold their hands and run to the base. We somehow arrive and it's packed with people. There was barely any space left. We claim our spots and I tell them to not move.
Suddenly I hear loud screams.

"That's my spot!!" a faded voice yells.
"Get out of here.... I'll kill you..." I hear a loud gunshot and a scream, then suddenly pin drop silence.

"What's your name?" I ask both of them softly, trying to divert their mind.
"I'm Alessia and this is my brother Zack" the girl replies sniffling.
"You have beautiful names.. But I'm going to ask you two to stay quiet and slowly follow me, okay? I'm going to take you somewhere you will be safe"

They nod.
I try to take them to the middle of the base so we all could be safe. I keep my backpack with me and slowly move to the middle and give Alessia and Zack some water to drink. They gulp it down and return the bottle to me.

"Thank you," Alessia says.
"Thank you" Zach repeats.
"Of course, now, listen...." I say "I know a place where we might find spaceships that we can use to get out of here. I don't have enough money to buy one but we can go to Nedroj on an abandoned spaceship."

"But where will we find an abandoned spaceship? And will it be safe?" Zach asks, his curious eyes gleaming with curiosity and sadness. I'm shocked by his intelligence looking at him, he must be really young.
"Don't worry about that" I reply, trying to console them...and myself.

"Let's just wait here for a while, I think things might clear down a bit and we'll be able to sneak away." I look at my phone to check the time. "It's 2:47 p.m. now. We will leave for that place at at around 4:30."

They nod.

We wait for a long time during which they fall asleep. These two are young. Too young. They shouldn't have had to face so much. I wonder if they'll ever get their innocence back...

When finally, the time comes, I wake them up and tell them to follow me. I look around the room at all the dead people. I check their pockets and look for their cards. To run a spaceship we would need a card. A special 'space ship card'. I check their dates and gather all the cards. I'd somehow managed to get 6.
I knew for a fact that they were enough to transport half the people in the room to Nedroj but for now I keep them to myself. I look at each one of them and see their validity and location and choose one with the closest location.

It had "Space Exit No. 53" written on it.
I quickly search for the location on my phone and we leave for the place. It wasn't far away but in fact, closer than we expected.
Before leaving we give the rest of the cards to all the people who were still alive.

"Where are we going?'' Alessia asks.
''Just follow me, we'll soon be safe," I say to them, trying to smile.

We all go to the place and search for the spaceship, luckily it was just at front. I swipe the card and go in.

''We are taking off.." I say
''You know how to make this thing work?'' Alessia asks.

" My sister was into technology, she taught me before leaving. She'd sprout facts all the time'' I say, remembering all those bittersweet memories.

''That's so cool.." She says smiling. I smile back.
''Okay then..hold on...'' I say. I press a couple of the buttons and hear the computerized voice speak.
'3...2...1....take off'
The machine starts rumbling and I can feel the pressure of the engines under the steering wheel. The kids behind me start whimpering and I find myself thinking of ways I could console them.

The space ship was version 8. 14 which wasn't the best but hopefully had everything we needed. Thankfully, it also had fresh food by which I mean fruits and vegetables. There was canned food as well, specially made for space.
When we're finally out of the gravitational pull of the earth I set the directions and put it on neutral.

I go back to the kids with some fruits hoping to raise their spirits.
We hold on to what we can, both emotionally and physically, afterall, we had a ten day journey on our hands...