Tom: *exasperated sigh* We should have acted sooner.

We should have seen the way

things were moving. Much has changed since 2013, a year which many consider to be the beginning of the downfall of our nation and our world. A grim reminder to a time long since gone.

Although no one wanted to admit it, in the year 2013, our everyday lives were changing. With the triple dip recession we faced, unemployment at an all time high and protests and riots being a common occurrence, we never paid full attention to what was happening on our highstreets. Oh sure, we dragged ourselves slowly out of the recession to a partially stable situation, but things never recovered the way they were before the financial crisis. Walking down the street, you were oblivious to the major names and brands that surrounded you. Caught in the tumult of logos, companies and coorporations. We had become institutionalised...and the institution was about to change. Chris: Money being scarce was the catalyst as to why these major stores went into administration and eventually closed but it was really the boom of the online system that delivered the final blow to the highstreet. Cheaper prices and the ability to browse and buy your goods with ease from your own home soon became the popular and practised custom. With the economy being as it was, stores could not compete against their online counterparts and one by one fell. Oh and it wasn't just the major names...food stores, bars, restaurants, offlicenses, family owned businesses, everything was slowly extinguished. No one cared about the people that lost their jobs or livelihoods, and of course the workers had no say otherwise. I mean, why would they? People were making a profit online, things were cheaper. People's best interests and charity no longer existed. Sarah: Over the next couple of decades, it wasn't only food and entertainment that people depended and relied upon from the online system, but also social activities. With the increasing popularity of social networking and the updated systems that followed after Facebook, it became possible for a person not to have a reason to even leave the house at all. Everything was available via the online system. This online system soon became implemented on a widescale basis and spread overseas to universal acclaim. With added influence from foreign expertise, the online system was updated and made bigger and more prominent than ever before; allowing people to even get jobs and make a career on multiple packages that were offered by the system. People could now work from home on widely available job opportunities, making a wage on simple work that was in high demand. Very soon, the public became the slave labour of the site's prosperity, helping run and create new programmes within the system. To this day, people have no reason to leave their homes what with the domineering Online system....that and the government imposed curfew. Damon: After witnessing the public's dependancy on the system, the government found a way to make this work to their advantage. The country was essentially running itself, oblivious to what was going on outside their own 4 walls, making it very easy for the government to slip legislation through without no public outcry or opposition...and the government liked this. With decades of no human contact, the environment had had time to heal itself. Global warming was no longer an issue, endangered species were no longer endangered. 'The planet had been saved'. The government had found their justification to maintain and enforce the continued public use of the system. Tom: Of course, there were and are people who are against the Online system and try

and live are lives free from it. The penalty for breaking the curfew or going against the Online system is to be taken to hidden bases and brainwashed, like everyone else, into the system...or perhaps more mercifully than that, merely death. Of course no one notices...no one cares...why would they? Chris: There are few of us left now. Sarah: Too few. Damon: The online system is heavily guarded, maintained, advanced and adapted. Everything is under surveillance. Tom: Of course, this makes it nearly impossible for our resistance to communicate with each other and see our plan become a reality. We are working on implementing a virus into the system, with the hopes of permanently disabling it. However, whenever we near completion, the system detects it and adapts and evolves its security system....and our location is broadcast....my location has been broadcast... If this virus is complete...do we activate it. Times have changed and billions of people now rely on it as much as oxygen. Do we run the risk of ending billions of lives in order to usher in a new existence. Do we risk indirectly killing people in order for others to live? Do we live? put a sound of like door being smash by brute force They've found me...