2020

Bevan drives the car for 20 minutes and we finally land on land. When we finally Get a sigh of relief, we hear the announcement that Dr. Westley gives us: “sorry, you didn’t finish the assignment, they already use the chemical weapons.” “We didn’t made it, twice,” I use my hands to cover my face: “ I’m failure, so embarrass.” As I cry out, the alarm rings: “ warn, warn, warn, there are two people climbing on the car.” And the screen randomly shows their face, one is wearing a Multinational camouflage clothes, and the other one is wearing the Iraqi military clothes. It seems like two enemies found our car, and they are going to take it away. 
 “ I’ve going to use my sword to stop the time, and you go up and get them, and tie them on the chair, I need to talk to them.” I take out my sword press on the floor, “ stop the time, and only me can Bevan can move!” And the time suddenly stops, the bomb stop on the sky, the minute hand stops on the clock, Bevan walks out. And after 10 minutes, he takes the 2 people into the car. And tie them hardly 
 “Restore!” I shout, and time is back. As The two man awake, and I tell him what is happening in the future, and what have they done to the earth, and what is our plan, they turn silent. 
 “I’m sorry,” says one of them: “ we are sorry.” 
 So we release them, after 5 days, the war stops, earth is back to peace, and when we time travel back to 2100, everything change, the earth in 2100 back to what it looks in 2020.

Finally, the third reason is drought, drought is kind of a natural disaster, and it’s the most important reason for desertification, drought will affect less water, and cause the plants die, also drought can affect large areas and may have serious environmental, social and economic impacts, but it also affects people’s life. Australia “Millennium” drought began in 1995 and continued country-wide until late 2009. Drought in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia grew so severe in 2008 that Barcelona began importing water by ship from France. About 70 percent of Spain’s water goes to farmlands, much of which is wasted in irrigation system and thirsty crops, that are not so good for dry lands. Also, now in China, in the northern Shanxi province, nearly 3 million people don&apos;t have enough water. About one-third of the province&apos;s wheat crop has been hit by the drought and more than 60 percent of its soil lacks water……”

“ no, we did it right, we saved her life.” “ we saved her life? Yeah, you can be the hero that rather to save a girl’s life that saving the planet. Don’t you know we saved one life than 1 billions of life, can you count? You know it’s all our’s fought.” My throat feels like something stuck in it, I want to cry out. “Yeah, but, before we mess the thing, we need to stop them using chemical and biology weapons.” “ yes, you are right, C’mon,” my spirit is burning again. We return to the battle field, and there’s still fire on the house, floor, buildings. We are looking for the GPS to lead us, while the car float into the sky, “what’s happening?!” I say, “somebody carries our car, some kinds of fighter.” Bevan responds back, he seems he’s not worrying about things that just happened, “what!” I almost jump up. 							 After ten minutes flying not the sky, we arrive on an aircraft carrier on the sea, after the car lands, some scientists jump out, using some kind of high technology, to test what materials did the car used. It turn out that the leader of the multinational force found the car, and they found out the car has material that have infinite power, so they decided to bring the car, and ask the scientist to develop and make the same car, and they will have the power to control the earth. “Don’t get out, close all the lights, and lock the door, we can not let those scientists find out how to open this car, we will get into trouble.” I speak quietly, and we stay in this position for 20 minutes, fortunately, the scientists find nothing. “ Oh, I almost forgot, we can drive it above the water, dr. Westley told me before.” Bevan slaps his head. I say quickly: “ than do it. We don’t have time.” As Bevan press the engine button, the car makes a really big noise and it scars the scientists, I can clearly hear them saying “ move backwards!”. The car begins to shake violently, so do the air craft carrier. One of scientist shouts: “release that car, it will sink the carrier!” And they untie the ropes that cling on the car. We drive out of the carrier, from the deck, into the sea.

“Grandma,” when I’m packing my stuff, I see my grandma: “ why are you here so late, you should now go to sleep.” “Come, sweetie, sit next me. We haven’t talk for long time.” She sits down: “ you feel nervous, right?” “Yes, nothing but fearful,” I say softly, “I have no idea how to stop the war. I’m just a fool, I don’t know how to save the Earth. But I will really try my best.” 
“Look, dear, I’ve been lived on this planet for almost ninety years, I watched disaster, and why does it happened, trust me, you can do it. And i’m going to give you something, where is this? Oh here you are!” As she speaks, she takes out a sword from the back: “ this is a sword your father and mother left before they died, don’t look down it, this is a magic sword, see the ruby in the middle? It’s  magic ruby, if you touch it, and say ‘stop’ in your mind, the time will stop for 5 minutes, you can only use this once, because it need to store energy for a month and then you can use it.”
“Thank you grandma,” I kiss her forehead. “Wait, I’m going to warn you, the remember to stop three things, Preventing the use of chemical and biological weapons, stop oil well fires, preventing nuclear pollution and using nuclear weapons. And the major problem is using nuclear energy. You need to back up these data on your car, to remind yourself.” Grandma stands up, and goes back to her room.


I pause for a second: they seems to be the government people, but what if they are just cosplaying? Or maybe they are thieves? Rightful I want to give them some excuse and send them away, I hear my grandma’s deep voice: “send them in, Aiora.” “What! They might me bad guys!” I suddenly shout to my grandma. “You will be fine,”my grandma comes out, she’s a undertone augur, also a traditional person, she doesn’t believe modern high-Technology or science, she only believes the ancient augury. “Please, Doctor. Westley, officer. Robinson, come on in. ”
 We get into our living room, “wow, how a big living room, hehehe.” The officer laugh loudly, but then, he stops, because doctor. Westley pinches him: “Stop it, Robinson. Ok, back to the right track, do you know little girl, what is desertification?” 
 “of course,” I respond him quickly: “Desertification is when land becomes deserts and gets larger and larger, and the main three reasons are because of urbanization, overgrazing, and drought.” 
 “That’s right, and desertification is the killer that makes the ground a mess, and base on our research, just like you what you are talking about: ‘first reason that causes desertification is Urbanization land development, because people go through and kill the plant’s life, and change the areas to cities, there become less place for plants, through scientific research that carbon dioxide can remove the toxins (air pollution) from the air we breathe, and plants could refresh toxins too, but as plants are become less and less, the soil turns really hard, and it will become desert soon as there’s no more plants left. Base on the research, Asia and United states have the most city population, they have about 10 million or more cities. More than half of the world&apos;s population (53.5 per cent) now lives in urban areas, up from 49 per cent in 2005 and 43 percent in 1990. And The world&apos;s urban population in 1950 of just 746 million has increased to 3.9 billion in the decades since.

“Go. Go to find the oil well!” I suddenly shout out, Bevan switches on the car, and we are driving 300 miles per hour, and sitting in the back, makes me feel like I’m sitting on an airplane, and I feel like I’m going to vomit my breakfast out, I unbuckle my seatbelt, because I’m going to the bathroom, but suddenly, Bevan stops the car, I fall down on the floor, “what are you doing, yo almost killed me!”  I roar, “ look, there is a girl lie on the road, and she seems to have been seriously injured.” Bevan says while he stands up and open the door. “ What are you doing, don’t you know what s our major problem, stop the oil well fired,” I say angrily, but nobody responds back, after 3 minutes, Bevan carries the little girl on the car, she truly got injured, her left knee was cut by shrapnel, and her right elbow was shot, “can you help her?” Asks Bevan, I don’t know if I can nod: “I don’t know, but the only think I can do, is just help her Disinfect and clean up the wound, but one thing is clear, we need to take her to the hospital.” 
“Hospital! You kidding me? We are now in the battlefield, where can we find a hospital? Unless now we are going to Sweden,”(Sweden is neutral state/ country)
“You are right, go, let’s go to Sweden, it’s the safest place for the girl.” 
We change our plan, and turn back to Sweden, after 30 minutes of car driving, we arrive, we carefully give the girl to the nurse, “I feel like we forgot something,” Bevan asks me: “I can’t remember what I forgot. Do you feel that?” “No way, there will be some kind of thing you forgot everyday, you can’t not remember everything in your life. Don’t you?” I say with smile on my face.
And we get in our car, the system suddenly rings: “ sorry, you didn’t finish the assignment. The oil well is on fire.”
Me and Bevan quickly look at each other: “ we forgot the oil well!” “ if I know that, I won’t save that girl!” I roar angrily. 


“Stop! It might be dangerous…….” Bevan wants to stop me, but I already open the door, as I open my door I smell grass, it’s amazingly perfect, and the sun, it feels hot, but warm, “this is amazing!!” I lie on the ground, listening to birds singing, feeling the harsh soil, smelling the aroma of the grass, feeling the warm sun. “Stop, Aiora, come back in, the doctor gave us a massage!” Bevan shouts in the car, “fine, I’m coming back!” I shout back. I see doctor’s face right in the middle of the screen as I come back. “Bevan, Aiora, here’s an emergency, the Persian Gulf War is going to start in 30 minutes, so now, drive the car, go wait in Gulf.” The doctor says, and then disappears. “Did you hear that? Now I’ll drive the car to gulf, you will find the GPS to lead me.” Bevan says. “Got it, let’s now save the world!” I respond back. After 20 minutes of rapid driving, we arrive at a basement in Gulf. “Let’s have a rest.” Bevan says quickly, “no, the war is going to start in 5 minutes, we are going to stop it, be ready, go and get a gun to protect yourself.” I say with excitement, “no, I’m not touching the gun.” Bevan refuses guns: “guns are evil, and I’m not………” “shush, only 1 minute left when the war starts.” I stop him and watch the count down: “ 50, 49, 48…..” the sky is still pretty quiet, nobody will know there’s going to be a war down this serene sky, people are still asleep in their sweet home, wondering about good things if there will be good things happen. “10 more seconds!” There’s 10 more seconds serene for Gulf! When the Arabic number stop at 0, the fighters scramble fly on the sky, the bombs finish there dreams, they rapidly jump down the fighters, fly to the houses, grounds, the city quickly becomes a city of fire, people are crying, shouting, the sweet dreams are broken.

“Wait, wait, wait, I know, those are the things that happened 100 years ago, why are you talking about it?” I cut him in the middle: “You should post your thoughts on the news paper instead of reflect it to me.” I take a deep breath: “Sorry for being so rude, but I think you guys should go now, m grandma needs to take a rest.” “Easy, easy, little girl, look, me and my brother have a brilliant plan to save the world, and we finished almost 99%, and the 1% is you.” The officer is trying to calm me down. But I’m shocked: “You mean I’m a part of your plan? That, that is impossible. I’m just a little girl, and I, I…” “listen, hon,” my grandma whispers to me: “do you remember you’ve seen these two a month ago, can you remember that?” I search in my memory system: “oh, I remember that, they said they are going to  give a free to my class physical examination.” “There’s no such physical examination, it’ just a excuse to let me and my brother to find the right person, and then as we start the testing, we found out, a girl has this power to finish our final plan, and that’s you Aiora, to finish—-time travel.” Officer. Robinson replies.
“Wait, you mean time, time travel? You are letting me time travel back to 2018, and save the earth?” I ask with anxious: “that’s impossible.” 
“Yes, honey, it’s possible but the right time is not really 2018, it’s 2020,” doctor. Westley rejoins the talk, “2020? No I’m definitely not going, it’s when the Persian Gulf War happened.  you know I’m good at history, but it’s too dangerous, guns, ballets, and all those dangerous thing, I’m not going,” I almost shout out: “go choose other children, I’m definitely not going. I might die.”
Doctor. Westley stand up: “ Aiora, you are not going to die, because me and officer Robinson will give you a car, but it’s not a normal car, it can enlarge or narrow, if you want, it can turn to a little clay horse, the same size as your thumb, and it can change to a normal car size. It is equipped with touring car plus tank functions. You will be safe. Plus, there’s a assistant we bring for you, you’ll meet him tomorrow, when we start the plan in the science lab. Clear?” “Clear.” I nod with hopeless. 
With cheerful, the scientists left.


I’am watching the inexistent sky from my textbook, the sky in the history textbook is so lovely, clear enough, that I can feel it, see it, and also I can even smell it, but, the indescribable sky only lives inside my heart, I have never seen it before. Because I live underground, yes, I live underground, not in the basement, it’s 100 feet under the ordinary ground. Why? Because now 2100, the ground is full of toxic gas, and sand storming everyday, since 2074, all species move underground, including plants, human beans, and animals…. One powerful scientist has invented a oxygen machine, that can make the clear oxygen for breath, and another machine to stimulate the sunshine, but those are not true though. From my opinion, those are just illusions that people made It’s just self-hypnosis to escape the reality. Meanwhile, I hear a “knock knock”, it’s the doorbell whose making the noises. We haven’t had any guests for almost 5 years, who will it be? With curious, I open the door, they are two strangers standing outside, one with glasses, and white scientist’s overall, and another one dress like a police officer. “Hi, miss,” one of them says politely. “Good afternoon,” I also respond politely, the “police officer” sees my textbook: “Woof, I didn’t see this kind of book for 20 years, hahaha….” “sorry to cut you, but…. Do you guys have any problem? If not, I think I need to keep studying my geology, so yeh I’m a student…..”I interrupt him with embarrassment. “Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, ” he turns around and takes a file of something seems to be really important. But he looks like he don’t want to give it to me, he looks around and then says quietly: “Can we talk in the house, because this is kind of a top secret.”

“ the indescribable sky only lives inside my heart, I have never seen it before. Because I live underground, yes, I live underground, not in the basement, it’s 100 feet under the ordinary ground. Why? Because now 2100, the ground is full of toxic gas, and sand storming everyday, since 2074, all species move underground, including plants, human beans, and animals…. One powerful scientist has invented a oxygen machine, that can make the clear oxygen for breath, and another machine to stimulate the sunshine, but those are not true though. From my opinion, those are just illusions that people made It’s just self-hypnosis to escape the reality.” 

as I open my door I smell grass, it’s amazingly perfect, and the sun, it feels hot, but warm, “this is amazing!!” I lie on the ground, listening to birds singing, feeling the harsh soil, smelling the aroma of the grass, feeling the warm sun. 

first reason that causes desertification is Urbanization land development, because people go through and kill the plant’s life, and change the areas to cities, there become less place for plants, through scientific research that carbon dioxide can remove the toxins (air pollution) from the air we breathe, and plants could refresh toxins too, but as plants are become less and less, the soil turns really hard, and it will become desert soon as there’s no more plants left. Base on the research, Asia and United states have the most city population, they have about 10 million or more cities. More than half of the world&apos;s population (53.5 per cent) now lives in urban areas, up from 49 per cent in 2005 and 43 percent in 1990. And The world&apos;s urban population in 1950 of just 746 million has increased to 3.9 billion in the decades since. 	The second reason is overgrazing, there are too many animals are overgrazing in certain spots. Animals will eat plants, it’s difficult to let plants grow back, without plants, the soil will just turn to be hard and it will just cause desertification just like urbanization land development. Through the researches, in 2013, Australia, there’s 1455 kangaroos’ due to overgrazing.

The second reason is overgrazing, there are too many animals are overgrazing in certain spots. Animals will eat plants, it’s difficult to let plants grow back, without plants, the soil will just turn to be hard and it will just cause desertification just like urbanization land development. Through the researches, in 2013, Australia, there’s 1455 kangaroos’ due to overgrazing. 
 
 	Finally, the third reason is drought, drought is kind of a natural disaster, and it’s the most important reason for desertification, drought will affect less water, and cause the plants die, also drought can affect large areas and may have serious environmental, social and economic impacts, but it also affects people’s life. Australia “Millennium” drought began in 1995 and continued country-wide until late 2009. Drought in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia grew so severe in 2008 that Barcelona began importing water by ship from France. About 70 percent of Spain’s water goes to farmlands, much of which is wasted in irrigation system and thirsty crops, that are not so good for dry lands. Also, now in China, in the northern Shanxi province, nearly 3 million people don&apos;t have enough water. About one-third of the province&apos;s wheat crop has been hit by the drought and more than 60 percent of its soil lacks water……”

The second day morning, I arrive at the laboratory with my weary body in a dull and heavy manner. And I see an amazing scenes, the whole lab is full of high technology, something I know something I don’t. And there’s a boy I’ve never met before.
“Hi Aiora, I’m glad you came.” Doctor. Westley emerges. “Wow! This place is amazing, a miracle,” I marvel. “Thank you, I spend half of my life in this lab, here, this is Bevan, and this is Aiora.” He brings me in front of that boy: “ and from today, you to will be partners.” 
“Hi.” I say with embarrassment 
“Hi.” He is dropping his head down.
 ‘maybe he’s afraid of looking at me’ I think.
“Ok guys,” doctor. Westley watches his watch: “ there’s no more time for us to waste, now get in to the car.” He takes us in to a big, fancy car: “look children, after you two get in, I will open the time travel machine, and don’t touch anything, wait for 3 seconds, you will be transfer into 2020, one thing, this car is automatic driving and bulletproof, no weapon can hurt it, you two just stay in the car, and you will be 100% safe, don’t open the door, unless there’s a emergency.” Then he pushes us into the car, closes the door. Me and Bevan suddenly look a each other with astonishment.
After a minute, I feel like something is blowing this car, I shout at Bevan: “put on your seat belt, otherwise, you well be brake apart.” And I run on the seat, put on my seat belt. And trying to tell myself this is just a roller coaster, just close my eyes……

After ten minutes, i open my eyes, and I see Bevan sitting right next to me, I look out of the window, there’s no science lab anymore, it’s totally wild out side, only Forrest: “ Wow, there’s tree outside, Bevan you saw it?” “Yeah, now is 2020, there Is still forest.” Answers Bevan. 
“That’s amazing, so we are on the ground?”
“Yes.”
“Sunshine, hey Bevan, look, sunshine, there’s sun outside, I’ve never seen it before! I’m going out, to feel the sun.” I’m kind of crazy, because there’s sunshine outside, and I truly want to feel it.


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