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Prologue

Death. Thats what everyone was expecting when they announced the terrible news. Its 2469, The Earth's core is sucking up our radiation waste. This started happening way before the Machine was created, way before any of our existences. People talk, there's history. That's how we know. It's too late to do anything about it, we're all gonna die. However, the Machine exists, it can give us a few more years, it was forged by the creator a very long time ago and was designed to reduce the amount of radiation our earth's core absorbed, yet we always wondered how much time we had left; years, days, months...hours...We would never know...

And by we, I mean the scavengers.

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We are a group of fifteen kids, that were chosen to devote our lives to finding a cure for this planet. There have been many before us that have tried, and failed. I am Em, one of the scavengers, for sixteen years of my life I thought my generation was going to find a cure, but I was very wrong. A couple of weeks ago, all our power went out and no one had electricity or hot water, this was when we found out just how little time we had left. The Council issued an emergency meeting to which all scavengers had to attend, they told us that we were going on a mission, the earth's last hope, or at least that's what they claimed it to be, where we would be sent into the past to try and fix our problems. But it wasn't very hard to notice, that they didn't expect for us to come back.