1 Floor Flee: Red Floor
Year 1121
Harrison´s space Polyhedron, is the name given to the biggest space installation in the history of humanity, constructed 1000 years after the nuclear war that almost destroyed the planet and reseted the calendar back to 0 in the year 2033 A.C.
The polyhedron has everything this world has to offer divided in floors and rooms, some bigger than others all the way from hotels to hospitals, being the home to more than 1 million people who decided to have a new life in the polyhedron, working at the engines, bars or cleaning bathrooms, people from all the social ranks come together in this space "utopia".
unfortunately where there are rich there are also poor, and that means there is necessity, necessity, the key for unforgivable acts in this world, murder, stealing, kidnapping, threatening, just as in the planet desertic planet they once called earth where the headquarters of most populations are located.
due to the problems in the polyhedron they need a judicial system and in charge of that are the peaveys, space cops in charge of maintaining the normal operation of the polyhedron.
In outer space floating around earth's gravity center there is someone floating in a space suit, an older model, approximately 2030 B.W (before the war) with only but a strip attached to his waist,he is not doing any job, just floating in his infinite peace, infinite black, infinite stillness.
Somewhere in the 30 floors of the polyhedron there is a long corridor with lowlights. A path of blood in the walls is followed by a group of 6 men. Under one of the dying lights they find him, a peavey with his unique dark red suit belonging to the members in the investigation branch of this space police, they start beating him up in the most violent ways a human could make harm and using a knife to slowly cut his left hand in half with a poor precision, the peavey remains silent but visibly in pain as the 6 men in suits walk away as if nothing happened and the peavey with his last breaths walked to the unknown until he finally collapsed next to a trash channel used for recycling.
Golden Slumbers
Blinking lights or was it a deep dark? the peavey feels as if time stopped, knowing well that is not possible but then a putrid smell and the sound of engines working wakes him up as he falls down a pile of trash finally landing in an unknown floor to him, the peavey in red clothes wakes up alive, inside dark room with close to no lights full of recycled metal sheets used as houses and giant piles of trash that are either incinerated in a processes using sustainable energy from the natural processes of the polyhedron such as people walking or a gym full of people .
The other trash is recycled in a processes where the trash is dissolved in a chemical substance discovered after the war and then they turn into plastics that end up in factories were they make them their corresponding shapes like bags or toys, he looks around and sees a campfire where there is a group of people with torn and dirty clothes, he stands up and talks to someone around the fire.
-¡Hey! What floor is this?
-Floor? You're in the golden slumbers man
-Golden slumbers? what is that
Among the 30 floors known to all the citizens of the polyhedron there is a hidden population living in the trash machinery of the enormous spaceship known as the golden slumbers, this was never found by the peaveys since they have no need for going outside. Food, water, even games can be found if you search enough in the trash. People rejected by society end up in this place living their worst lifes the opposite to the free men outside the slumbers, classified as missing or criminals in the exterior world. The peavey in red clothes kept walking trying to find where he was but started feeling bad again.
-You shouldn't stand up dude when we found you we thought you were dead you were lucky enough to survive, we have an ex doctor with us he saved your life
-…
Don't get it wrong kid, we didn't save you for the sake of it, we are no heroes, we didn't want to be found by more of you goddamn peaveys, a corpse next to our main entrance would attract more peaveys and eventually find this place. You've slept for 3 days. I wouldn't recommend you to do your normal activities for some time, and once you heal and go out there don't you dare say a word about this place.
He had a headache and all his body hurt, then he looked at his hand and saw how the missing fingers were there, the people in the slumbers gave him a prosthesis really easy to remove but very useful and worked alright, then he putted his black gloves back on, and tried finding the person who placed his prosthesis, all the homeless people said probably it was Alexei an ex engineer and went talk to him.
He said he had that prosthesis for someone else who died and casually had a similar hand to the peavey,he thanked him and looked at all the scars in his face.
He asked who was the person the prosthesis was made for, Alexei remained silent for some seconds but eventually answered it belonged to his brother, whom died protecting the slumbers the place he grew up in and inherited the role of the leader by his father, truly a honorable man, his recent dead caused trouble in the slumbers, but then, said Alexei.
-then they came…
-Who came?
-Don't you worry classy gentleman, continue with your work
-…
There was something happening in the slumbers but none of the homeless had any courage to speak about what was happening, maybe their pride, honor or their resentment against the society that abandoned then didn't let them speak, the peavey in the red suit planned on leaving that day however he decided to stay longer due to his wounds still hurting, and investigating what was happening as it is his job as a peavey, his job… as a peavey, he underestimate the damage they did to him and blacked out once again and dreamt or rather remembered.
The red floor?
The majestic plains of a wheat field where a boy stood, looking to the sky as a red glare is seen kilometers away outside the atmosphere, the boy keeps looking up and starts to run, as if running would take him to outer space, not even caring where he is running, he then trips and falls into a pile of wheat inside a technological metal cart.
He looks back up and watches how the red glare intensifies.
looking at that space station called the polyhedron, so big it can be seen in the earth, the cart starts to move as the boy is covered in wheat, he looks back up and watches pieces, pieces of metal parts of a spaceship.
just like meteorites or stars falling down to the ground, the metal parts seem closer and closer to the boy as he in his infinite helplessness just stares, away from any of the hyper advances cities, where every danger is impossible to imagine, the boy all alone stands up and watches his own destiny right in front of his eyes.
an entire floor falling from the skies, the boy looked as if he had the power to stop time and scape his fatidic destiny, the red floor falling from the sky looking so slow yet so fast as a piece of it lands right before the boys eyes, only some meters away from him, lucky enough it didn't start burning and the boy kept looking as his tears started falling the same way the floor was landing on the land.
piece after piece the 30 first floor of the polyhedron was destroying everything the boy had, everything he knew.
The pieces started burning and the boy up in the metal cart watched as the whole wheat field burned to dust, the metal cart had a security option and transported the boy to a safe place, so safe the biggest part of the floor was falling right there, the kid jumped of the cart and started running, as if running would take him to outer space, not even caring where he is running, the entire floor lands on the earth as the kid now with a mad face stare right up seconds after it crushes him flat, and closes his eyes.
Blinking lights or was it a deep dark? the boy opened his eyes as he felt alive, is your destiny bad? What changed your path? a door, the boy was saved by a door the floor landed and in the exact place where he was an open door avoiding his death.
The boy survived, now trapped in a metal cage, only with his thoughts and a pile of wheat, completely useless without any other process. The boy waited, sleeping in wheat just a few meters of that metal cage with now way of getting out.
A drill and a laser was heard inside of the room the boy was in, as a group of peaveys in black clothes entered, only to find him, find a dead body of a once farmer boy, who died of starvation after surviving miraculously to his fateful destiny.
The red room an event that happened in the year 1110 where the floor #31 of the polyhedron came off due to a terrorist attack, falling down to the earth where it landed in a farm close to a city, almost no deads nor injuries, just a field filled with fire for days, the peaveys didn't even bother to remove the pieces of the floor that are still there.
The peavey in red clothes woke up with an angry face was it his dream or someone elses?
Were those blinking lights or a deep dark?
