Planet Kepler was the next step for humanity after a deteriorating world. People saw this as a new chance for humans to have order and structure, a system that would never fail. To do this, humans and computers created algorithms to develop the perfect system, perfect family units, and a perfect world. Town 1 was one of the first ones to be established, putting the perfect system into practice. Here, everything is blue but stories from the past said that there were other "colors" even if I am not sure what that means. Children's names are generated by computers and the number in their name represents the generation they are from. People's jobs are assigned depending on what the town needs and everyone eats the same food. Every kid is taught the same things, at the same time, in the same way; everything is controlled. There is a whole system in place in which every two years there are check-ups upon each individual, these check-ups may include something they have to accomplish or do. For example, these may include a child learning how to walk at a certain age, an adult getting married at a certain age, or couples having their first child and second child at a certain age.
Everything just worked, everyone just completed their task and passed the expected exam. But even though everything was “perfect” It is hard to assume perfection in unborn children, my daughter was on the weaker side of the” average”, she barely passed the check-up. I was asked if we wanted to not have the baby and receive a new one, or keep her. Without a blink of an eye, we instantly said we wanted to keep her, but we knew we had to make her work harder than the rest so she could fit in. MA7 as you know was her name and from a young age, we wanted her to not be on the edge of failing a check-up again. One of the most important checkups that everyone has to go through is the graduation exam. This exam covers all the information that was learned through High School and there are no second shots if one fails. I was very worried about her failing this exam and made her study every single night with me, something that no other family unit did, which was my mistake. For months I had been telling her how she needed to pass the exam, but after she took it, we knew there was something wrong. In the town, being called out is something negative, and after the exam, she was called back in to talk to one of the leaders, which scared us both to death.
That was the last time I heard of her, until today. The same day she disappeared, a leader dropped off another child, the same age as my daughter. The child simply entered the house, and as she unpacked, I was told “ This is your new child, replacing your previous one, her name will also be MA7. Your previous child was taken into custody because she exceeded the average and requires further investigation.” With no more words added he parted away and acted as if nothing happened, but I and my wife could not believe that our child, raised properly for so many years, was taken away in an instant. We were supposed to Understand this and move on, her brother was meant to ask no questions, and as a whole, we were supposed to act as if nothing happened, as everybody else would.
Restless nights went by and our family couldn't adapt to this unknown person we were supposed to treat as her own daughter. EC5, my wife, couldn't take this anymore after a few days and begged me to get our daughter back. I also wanted this more than anything and I knew that I had an advantage because I work with the leaders all the time. I couldn't let my daughter Just be a project for the leaders, I wanted her to live a perfect, normal life, and I knew it wasn't possible anymore.
My job was situated in an office next to the leaders’, as head of security I had to oversee everything that was going on which got me extra access to find out where my daughter was. My wife on the other hand worked in the same department but in the coding section and I was sure if she could get me the little advantage I was missing.
The next day I told my wife to speak to the leader, distracting him for a few moments while I was able to use his computer with the fingerprint he left on his coffee mug. When I opened the computer, I looked up the investigation section which consisted of trials and exams being done on kids that were below average, nothing worked until I clicked on a different folder which included my daughter's file. Her name had been changed to 0001, she was the first case with a perfect score and required all kinds of testing. I immediately looked at the room number and the building she was in but I had to leave quickly to loop the security footage without anyone noticing I was here.
The building she was closed off to the public but with my contacts, I was able to receive a blueprint, which I had to memorize to not involve technology. I went through the trash ducts and into the air vents, finding my way to my daughter's room, while my wife was able to shut down the power by overheating the system, we had exactly 15 minutes to execute our plan. Without explaining anything or saying anything to my daughter I quickly helped her fragile body up the vent and got out of there as soon as possible, meeting up with my son and wife near the next part of the plan. Calling every favor and knowing that our lives would forever change, we finally relied on the only alternative that wouldn't have primitive consequences. We used one of the ships used for research and took off to another planet.
Because we could easily get tracked even if all the precautions were taken; we had to quickly land somewhere to destroy the ship that was used to take us there and unload the supplies that we would use to survive. This is why we are here and I, DB5, ask you not to kill us, we have no idea where else we would go. We have no bad intentions and we really hope you can allow us to stay in this so-called “Red Planet”, where there are no rules and perfection does not exist, we really think this could be the perfect planet for us.
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