THE TREAT ON A SPACESHIP

Reporter from Vox (episode 1)

Introduction- Vox is a very popular news channel from the future whose time travelling journalists go to different corners of time and space, collect news and broadcast it at relevant places at relevant times (or at least that's what they like to think). If you are reading this, it means you are at that relevant place and relevant time.

Disclaimer ---things always go in past tense because the news studio is situated at the end of time and space. So grammar nazis, bugger off. :P

A long time ahead in a galaxy not so far away, you could see a spaceship up above in the sky. But of course, you wouldn't be able to because your eyes are too small and you would have become  fossil fuel by then. That spaceship was hosting a small party for its crew which consisted of women and children. Men weren't allowed because they were well known, by then, of turning things into a mess. The exception to this was a small bunch of engineers for maintenance purposes. Why was there a party? To know this, our journalist interviewed a ten-year-old girl because he trusts children more than anything else as a source.

"It's going to be amazing. After a very long time, we are going to have a decent meal. I was born on this spaceship and have been eating boxed food since then. Our mothers don't even allow us to have a little fun. All I do is sleep, eat and study." When politely asked by the journalist to stop whining and answer the given question, she added, "Oh,because an ugly wrinkled woman has gone into that room. It’s a farewell for her. Mothers tell us that the room is actually an exit portal of the ship which leads to our home planet. Some of our mothers were crying. They are not even attending the party. They miss the gone lady a lot. I don't know why someone would miss her. She was very cranky and always insisted that we pray." The reporter didn't feel everything clear. There was something hazy lurking in the regions unseen by his eyes. But he didn't want something to nag his mind because he knew he could only get things clear by interviewing an adult, moreover a girl. Because of how his life had played the cards, he had learnt well never to believe a lady. Yet, every article he writes is more important than the life he lives.So, with much reluctance, he finally interviewed the deputy chief of energy department of the crew. To his utter surprise, he managed to make her cry by the very start of the conversation. "How could she go away? She was the only one who gave us hope to go on, hope to continue. She was the only one left who had ever lived on the Earth before it happened. She used to tell the stories of how cars moved and people walked under streetlights and how beautiful the sunrise actually looked. She used to ask us to believe in God and pray to him. All we are left with now, is a dark space with unreachable stars that give us false hope of home, life and what it all boils down to, survival. Obviously, we cannot tell this to children. We have to give them hope even if it stands meaningless because they are the only reason why we don't throw ourselves into that room and boil ourselves to death. They don’t even know their parents. They were born from a test tube we plant with the help of gamete repositories we have. Look at them (sobbed for a minute), they look so happy for the treat, they have no idea that we are going to feed them her flesh." She could no more look him in the eye. Taking a sigh, she continued while trying to recall what people had said," The dire edge of existence on which we stand makes us unable to afford throwing away the valuable protein. The food we generally eat comes from the recycled feces and the few plants we have. This is a sin but I know for sure, there is no God to look upon it. If there was one, he wouldn't let these children suffer like this. He would give humanity an asylum. But he doesn't, even after all her prayers. If not God, perhaps, the Devil may care about us in this hell." She might have pointed her fingers to some people she didn’t know for lives of the dying humanity but somewhere in her heart, there were regrets; regrets of why her ancestors  stupidly chose to fight among themselves letting the Earth they lived upon be in danger, regrets of choosing leaders that called those dangers a myth and chose to do irrelevant things like building walls, regrets of not appreciating people who thought about  nature and instead of childishly focussing on collecting some green bits of paper, regrets of having a life and letting it slip away in the excuse of existence, regrets of failing the responsibility of other life forms that God himself had given them in Bible and regret of selfishly caring about themselves and not giving a damn about the future to come. That was the aftermath of the destruction of the Earth due to global warming. Due to the rise of  the normal temperature, sulphur-based viruses evolved and became the reason of extinction of every carbon based life form known. That ship and that crew were the carcasses of humanity waiting for an end where some were weeping, others, happily or unhappily, enjoying a treat on a spaceship.