Pawel and the Avocado: A Fast-Paced Journey to Freedom.

The year is 2055.

I'm 21 years old. The world as we knew it was destroyed by a virus called "The Green Death". It was a virus that targeted computers, cars and planes. In a matter of hours everything was gone - planes fell from the sky, cars stopped working and... well, you get the idea.

It all started on a Monday morning when everyone was going to work and school like any other day. Then... boom. Everything went black. No lights, no heat, nothing worked. It took us months to find out what was causing all this but we never did figure it out. After all, there were no more scientists or engineers left alive in the world. But then again, how could we have known? By now nobody even remembers what electricity is anymore. If you're lucky enough to own an old laptop, you can charge your phone for about thirty minutes before it dies completely.

It's been ten years since then and I'm still trying to survive here in New Zealand with my brother Pawel and our dog Kielbasa. We found him on the street one day; starving and with wounds all over his body. He had been shot at multiple times but luckily he managed to survive until we found him and nursed him back to health with an old first aid kit we had lying around in our basement. To this day we don't know how he survived those ten years without food but I guess it doesn't really matter anymore because he's not going anywhere anytime soon. He's dead set on sticking with us until the end (or until we die) and who am I to argue with that? He's been our best friend ever since so why would I say no now?

But let's get back to the point of this story: me versus the evil forces that are controlling society (or whatever's left of it). I'm just one man against the whole system but if somebody has to do it I might as well be me! My name is Pawel and I've had enough of living in fear on this rock floating through space. If there's something in this world that scares me more than dying it's definitely being enslaved by some unknown force only known as "The Entity". Why would anybody want to enslave me? Good question! Maybe they're afraid of me? That's gotta be it... right? Either way, I'm sick of being scared.

"Pawel! Did you hear the news?" my brother asks while tapping my shoulder lightly while shaking me awake from my afternoon nap in front of the TV which we named "Laser-Box". Every house has one in New Zealand but nobody seems to know where they came from anymore because most people don't even remember how they got here in the first place. They just showed up out of nowhere one day, just like everything else did after "The Green Death". So what do you think? Did aliens drop them off when they were done wiping out mankind or did our government already have these things dropping at their feet for decades before the virus hit? Nobody knows for sure but I have a feeling that the latter might be true because if these devices were dropped from space wouldn't they have arrived a lot earlier than ten years after "The Green Death"? Whatever their origin may be, Laser-Boxes are pretty awesome if you ask me (I mean... who doesn't love watching movies?). So when Pawel told me about some important news that he heard on his Laser-Box while he was getting ready for work today, I couldn't wait to hear what it was all about!

"What is it?" I ask while rubbing my eyes frantically before they start bleeding due to excessive rubbing.

"You'll never believe what happened!" he says excitedly while bouncing around like a puppy full of energy before work (and without coffee).

"What happened?" I ask again while still rubbing my eyes furiously hoping that some blood will drip down onto my shirt so I can wear it proudly like a badge of courage later tonight when I go on patrol outside our house.

"Well... apparently somebody is trying to conquer The Entity!" he finally exclaims with joyous exuberance while jumping up and down like crazy on our couch before banging his head into the ceiling hard enough for our entire house to shake violently back and forth like it had gone crazy from too much caffiene late last night (which is ironic because caffiene hasn't been available for at least twenty years).

"Are you serious?! Who?!" I ask confusedly while moaning loudly because of my headache which somehow just got worse than before thanks to my brother's stupid behaviour (who does that after getting excited about something?! Awful person!)