THIS STORY IS A HEAVILY EDITED VERSION OF EXISTS IN THEORY'S STORY.
I want to make sure everyone who reads this understands that I used their fan fiction as a sort of basis. Now go check it out. It's bomb ass.
Not all the chapters are this short. I swear.
To clear up confusion, italics will be used for thoughts (Eg: "What a prune head!"),lyrics, signs/messages, and occasionally for emphasis.
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Stars.
"Out there, there's a world outside of Yonkers..."
More stars.
Distant galaxies, constellations, nebulas...
A single planet, drab and brown.
Push through its polluted atmosphere.
"...Close your eyes and see it glisten..."
Earth. A world long forgotten. A once terrestrial beacon of life, scarred by its former inhabitants and their artificial leavings. Now it's nothing more than a mere impurity floating in space; a ball of garbage, so to speak. Such a laughable thought that even now it is still the only "habitable" planet, despite man's 700 years worth efforts of searching space for an alternative planet to continue life on.
The slightest thought of the Earth somehow reviving would be immediately buried on the spot by mounds and mounds of trash. Earth was, by definition, devoid of life. It was a planet with absolute zero population, and no biological evidence suggesting that otherwise.
The former twelve billion inhabitants left their mark. A mark that can be seen from space: a landscapes made entirely out of garbage and dead soil, if you managed to even see it. The air is subsequently thick from pollution, and the landmasses are almost unrecognizable. Entire continents are covered, reshaped, and transformed into a combination of tundra and desert-like wastelands, inhabited solely by plastic, paper, and metal waste.
Here is where the Buy N' Large, or BnL for short, Cleanup Sector NA-001 (formerly known as New York City) resides. The once mighty iconic buildings of downtown Manhattan are now dwarfed, buried even, by the copious amount of trash cubes. The bays of the Hudson River are now dried up polluted valleys left behind by the receding Atlantic. Any old buildings or bridges are mostly rusted and eroded away by the etchings of time, nature, and man's impact. Garbage and the howling volatile winds are the only predominant feature present in the once recognizable metropolis …but not the only thing in this hell hole.
A faint but clear chirping of music can be heard, like a whisper in the winds of the dead city. In the distance, something moves amongst the heaps of trash, traversing the streets. A single human.
Maybe Earth isn't so devoid.
