CLASSIFIED INFORMATION PART 1

Zev closed his eyes in an attempt to think clearly and find the possible way out of that infinite loop that didn't stop torturing every second of his existence, taking a big breath of air, he demanded from his brain to find a solution. The end of the ice cream parlor came with every step he took and he no longer wanted to feel the flames burning his body.

"Maybe one of the colorful streets is the way out," he told himself.

He walked slowly towards the last yellow street, he felt the weight of his steps but he wasn't going to stop, when he stepped on the ground he strongly remembered everything he had experienced, each memory made him want to find the exit.

In front of him walked the Ocean of his dimension and, hesitating a bit, he kicked it strongly with the intention of making it crash against the wall that was at the end of the journey.

"Oh no!" He exclaimed, "I killed Ocean".

He approached her body, her face was full of blood that dripped from her nose to her chest, repentant, he asked for forgiveness from a corpse that would soon become ashes.

"It's not real…" he muttered.

As she evaporated, a black door appeared before him on the wall. He was perplexed, at the top there was a clock that marked the seconds, if he didn't hurry, it would be gone as well as his chance to get out.

"It can't be, Ocean isn't stupid, it would never have occurred to me that the exit would be a simple door," he snapped with great annoyance.

With the slowness of his feet he forced himself to drag himself, the heaviness became more intense and there were only a few seconds left to escape, hoping it wasn't a trap he entered before the clock stopped.

Everything was dark around him but when he felt the cold sand of the desert he was happy, he dropped his head to soothe the burns on his skin, despite not having physical injuries he felt his body burn in an endless fire.

"Shit!" He expressed, "I did it."

His eyes closed but he held his eyelids, he was afraid that when he slept he would enter the loop again, he couldn't trust him one hundred percent. Soon the moonlight reflected on his face, in the distance he saw the mountains, he was right where he had the encounter with Ocean, he was safe from the infinite fire.

He cried, he cried inconsolably, like he had never done before but he felt liberation doing so, he was also dying to meet Milo again and be able to leave there. During his stay in the loop he had thought of a plan to return home.

"I already protected you, now I want you to do something for me," he spoke to his conscience as he looked at his hands as he stood up.

"Zev, on this trip you will have to make many decisions, your actions and those of others cannot be changed," the voice answered.

"What are you talking about?"

"You and Milo won't be able to go home just by asking," it paused, "it's time for me to show you how our connection works."

He looked at his hands again, they looked different, thinner and whiter, golden locks with blue fell on his shoulders, and soon a blinding light made the place blank. Zev felt strange, different and distant from everything.

"Imagine that you are watching a movie of what happened…"

Now he was the spectator of an event from the past. He saw himself buying a train ticket but the paper didn't work so the attendant would let him know when his ticket was ready. While he was waiting, he bought a sandwich to eat during the trip. The reception lady called him to give him his ticket, then the platform opened its doors for all the passengers.

He was surprised to see how few people got on the same train as him, there were at most about seven. The driver went to pick up their tickets but there was something strange in the environment, he looked at his paper and brought another name with another address.

He stood up to get out but the driver stopped him, then pushed him into the seat and closed the doors.

"Welcome Ronny, have a seat," he said with a somber voice.

He swallowed and sat down without saying anything, the other passengers did nothing about it, they didn't even take it into account, each one was in a different seat and far from the rest.

"We'll be there very soon," said the driver.

Everyone except him seemed to know where they were going, they had a serious and disinterested expression, something was definitely not right and Zev didn't have the courage to do anything about it. At that moment he noticed how the others fell asleep at the same time, a strange smell reached his nostrils and he held the little air he had to avoid having to breathe, while the driver stopped.

He pretended to fall asleep, he had to act like the rest so as not to arouse suspicion. From one second to the next, people dressed in black got in the car, put bags over their faces and tied their hands, then took them to another place.

It was heard how they closed the door, now he could stop pretending, what he didn't expect was that another passenger was also awake.

"Is anyone awake?" A voice murmured.

"Yeah, I'm awake," Zev replied faster than lightning.

"Then you also noticed that they dropped a sleeping pill in the wagon," the voice said.

"Not really, I just thought the driver's attitude was very strange, besides I shouldn't be here, they gave me the wrong ticket," he said, very worried, "I saw that everyone fell asleep at the same time so I just pretended."

"I see, let me see what I can do."

From her voice it was a woman, in that Zev heard how some handcuffs broke followed by that person's gasp. Then he felt how the bag was taken from his head, in front of him a girl a few years older than him was looking at him with a doubtful expression.

"Hey, how did you let go?" He asked surprised.

"What?" She questioned, still doubtful.

"How did you break the handcuffs?" He looked at her wrists, "I don't think they left keys."

"I see," she gave a light laugh, "they definitely gave you the wrong ticket."

The original Zev who saw everything like a movie was able to notice the similarity of that girl with the two Oceans he had met, only that this one had brown hair and much longer, it reached the middle of her buttocks.

"Listen whoever you are, just act like you know what's going on," she advised.

"But tell me, what is this place?"

"Lower your voice," she murmured to silence him, "look, I don't know much either, I just know that we are the candidates to govern different towns in the country, they will give us 'classified information' but... "

"But what?"

"Do you have any gift or power?"

"What are you talking about? I'm an average citizen who just broke up with his girlfriend, I wanted to return to my family in River East, that's where I grew up, I didn't want to stay in the capital, I just needed to forget everything and everyone, but now I'm here with you and this group of random people I don't know, pretending I'm a certain Ronny and I have no idea what's going on or how you could break some handcuffs," he blurted out desperately.

"I'll just tell you that the woman who sells the tickets is not confused," she pointed out, "now, when they come for us, don't say that I freed myself, I'm going to cover my hands with my hair, no one will notice that I broke the handcuffs, we have to pretend that we are being manipulated by them."

He didn't say anything but she smiled at him as she returned the bag to his face.

"I like you, average citizen," she said with a warm tone of voice. "Good luck."

A formal man entered through the door, the others soon reacted, when they got up they asked them to move in a straight line in a single file. As they advanced, the man was saying personal information about each of the participants. The thing was serious so there was no going back. Zev was nervous and his heart was beating a thousand an hour.

They came to a room with a giant projector mounted on the wall, there were chairs strategically placed on the chess floor. When they sat down, they removed the bags from their faces, they looked at each other with expressionless and disinterested faces, however, the girl looked at Zev from time to time to make sure that everything was fine with him.

A very peculiar and contemplative image began to be projected on the wall, Zev recognized it immediately, it was identical to the painting of the fleecy sky that he saw in one of his dreams with Ocean, but this time the colors were sharper and the clouds had movement.

Little by little the image was deformed giving way to a meaningless video but with a lot of meaning, he saw the four elements merge to create an orb of black and white light. Then it got worse, the screen was filled with blood and the audio that played in the background was heartbreaking wailing.

"This is what war sounds like," a voice uttered on the video as explosions were heard. "This is what destruction looks like."

Immediately afterwards, bodies lay on a field staining the flowers with red ink.

"Beyond light and time, the advanced races decided to give humans a chance to have a world of peace but they have not known how to value it, as a species they deserve extinction, many time lines have failed, being forgotten, nobody manages to be happy and very few ascend their level of spirit, like you…"

Zev couldn't believe it, he didn't want to believe it, he had the idea that they were some religious sect that was looking to recruit them but the images shown in the video looked quite realistic.

"The power of your mind is higher than that of an average human, that is why you all have been developing gifts and abilities that you didn't even consider credible."

The documented images were of humans doing technically impossible things like levitating, controlling objects with the mind, communicating with astral entities or having super strength, among many others, to which the real Zev began to look at everything from another perspective.

"You know why you are here."

On the wall was displayed a picture of a chess floor with chairs, seated people being slaughtered by an outside force, and suddenly darkness. After a few minutes the screen cleared up, showing a single survivor with blood on his hands.

"She will choose one of you as a vessel based on your survival qualities, there is a timeline in the third dimension that requires salvation, it is the last one…"

The image shown below caused Zev's heart rate to spike, it showed a large aurora borealis in the sky but split in half. That dimension had exceeded the limits, they were looking for the truth without doing the right thing and clearly the superior races were not favored by the rebellion of those humans.