A Re-Beginning...

I can hardly believe it's been a year already... The dust has finally started to completely settle and we've been able to take more trips to the outside. For this I am extremely thankful! I don't believe I could've taken one more straight week inside that miserable void of an encampment in the cave. Even though it's massive, the depth in which it resides, makes it feel like a coffin. At times it's so quiet, you can literally hear your heart beating and echoing off of the walls. This, is very weird considering there's over 500 of us in there.

We've made numerous trips the past month, venturing further and further each time. This trip is different however! The trips before were to look for survivors and we had yet to make contact with any survivors- well any human ones at least! The only things alive other than us were the one's responsible for this chaos! It's so disheartening driving through places which were once full of life, beautiful buildings, and vegetation... but now... now is just desolate and colorless. A wretched wasteland, still wreaking of death and decay. My heart sinks into my stomach every time we breached the tunnel knowing what is waiting for us. It's like going into a literal hell. So often I wished I had died like the others. If I did, I wouldn't have to bear the burden of this so called life. Feeling the immense pain due to having lost so many is beyond unbearable. The loss of my family, my friends... hell even miss the people I didn't like. I'd give anything to just feel the emotion of love again, or to just be irritated from other humans presence. Anything instead of... this!

But it seems there is hope... a chance to undo this whole mess! The Them- that's what we call the beings who caused all of this. They've presented us with a way to set all of it right. To undo the big mistake as they say. There's a way to stop the incident which caused them to obliterate our planet. The hostile actions of the military based on orders from the President. We threatened them and they defended themselves; ending almost all life on the whole planet in a matter of minutes. We only survived because we were held up on a mission in the doomsday cave when it all went down. Sheer luck I suppose, or a straight curse depending on how this mission turns out.

I was chosen by the "Them", to take the journey back to the reset point. They say I'm the direct descendant of a being from ancient times who was a crossbreed of human and, well them. They said only a being who carries their genes can power and use the key, which unlocks a time portal. We asked why they couldn't just do it themselves. But, they said it has to be someone who looks absolutely human... so that leaves only me! I've been literally sick to my stomach every sense I found out; and today is the day I make the trip. The trip which could fix everything.

As I sit here looking at the key, which is a beautiful heart shaped locket attached to a beaded chain, I wonder how something so small could wield so much power that it can control an energy which warps time??? It feels like it's alive as it pulses in my hand, gleaming with colors I've never seen before. I feel an enormous amount of anxiety, because I don't want to fail. I have to pull this off! If I don't, everything will be left like this. I refuse to let that happen! Once we reach the energy portal, I have to put this locket on and it will transport me back in time, 1 week before it all happens. I have to find the president and somehow transport him back here in this time so he can see what his orders caused. Then I have to take him back so he doesn't destroy the world again. All without dying or losing the key... I don't know how in the hell I will be able to get to this man, especially close enough to grab and transport him here!!! I've spent the last week being drilled and going over ideas. We finally came up with a plan, which I hope I remember. I haven't even slept in the last 3 days, but mysteriously... I'm not remotely tired.

It seems we've arrived at the portal. I swear I just felt my heart stop... I can't even feel my body right now!

It's go time and here's no turning back now. I can't allow myself to fail. Too many people's lives lay in the balance, and ready or not... I'm going!