Revolution 9

LOL, 0lli is so funny

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Okay … I think I've seen this one before … Today …

I should just go study or something …

I don't get it. Why do people post these memes with a random cat below it? 

… Lily is probably reading that 'Clã de Ataque' Isekai right now.

Why am I thinking about her right now? What are the novels people read these days? 

I should really do something better with my life. At least look at something more useful on TuTube.

Oh. An 8-year-old going to be judged in the international criminal court? That is so weird. What can someone even do at that age.

There are activists? Maybe Lily is there? Why do I think so much about her? I should go there on principle, not for some cute girl — There is no way this is fair! This kid is way too young, and the tribunal is close-by.

I should really get new shoes, but I guess these old sneakers should be enough. The Rose shirt and Beige pants, no doubt. Facial hair … Fine, almost non-existent, but it's growing. Hair, just scruffy enough so that it doesn't look like I care.

“Mom, I'm heading out. Can you get me some leather boots later?“

“You're already 16, you can get some things yourself already. Also, where are you … “

SLAM

“God … this boy …”

TOC TOC TOC

“Who is it?”

That is Biel's voice, no need to answer that, he'll just follow me.

“Oh, it's you. Where are we going?”

What is he wearing? How is he outside with a top with a hole? Also, didn't they invent color in Braxil, beige and grey, really?

“Some 8-year-old is getting unfair treatment, probably bundled up with some war criminals. We're going to see the protests — Collective punishment is a war crime, you know?”

“Oh, you mean Daniel … Why though?”

“What do you mean, why? How can it be fair to lock up a child?”

“I meant why are we going? Also, I don't think they'll only lock him up, nor that you know what he did … besides it's not like we can do anything about it”

“What could he have done? He is only 8, he IS innocent either way! Wait … do you mean he is getting the … capital? That is even worse.”

“Look, I really don't like to talk about this stuff.”

Tsk. Such a smart guy, what is it so hard for him to understand? Whatever, what really matters is how crowded it is here …

“There seems to be people from both sides here. This might get crazy.” Biel added.

The courthouse is a beautifully white structure. Probably Greek inspired, with the marble pillars. Beautiful green garden with path of … I'll say 30 or 40 meters in the middle. It ends with large steps, at least 10. There is a fence in all sides, preventing the crowd from getting to the garden. 

There are lots of patrolling, but I can see some of them slacking more than others. There is a slope and in the back side is the personnel parking lot, and it seems to be at least a whole floor below ground level.

The crowd seems mostly calm, probly because the defendant is not here yet. Although I can see some people with dangerous materials and suspicious movements.

It'd be cool telling … XD … No. It has nothing to do with anyone.

“It'd be cool if we could get in. See the trial while it is happening.” — I provoked, maybe he thinks of something?

“We'd have to act now. Once the defendants are here, there will probably more unrest and more security to deal with it.”

“I see. Those guards seem a bit sleepy, if we can provoke someone to start rioting there early? They could breach.”

“You think you can jump over this fence?”

“What are you? Stupid? It is too high and there is electric fencing on top of it!”

“As they say in BraXil: 'Dê seus pulos'. Stay here, think about it. I'll create the opportunity.” 

What does that even mean? 

He took off … I guess I'll just know when 'opportunity knocks'? God, I have terrible friends … 

Hmm … That guy seems pretty big … Okay, think of something sad … What is the name of that weird girl in my class who always has some story to tell? Well, it doesn't matter, but I do remember something about some half iron chemist mixing a dog and a little girl …

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Alright, tears falling

“Hey” snif “Could you lift me? I can't see my mother”

 I am the best actor in the whole god's universe. Now only make a cute face and lift my arms. Échec et mat

“What the hell is your problem? You have at least 18 years old. You have a beard! Why would you think that would work?”

“Shut up dude, just lift me!”

BOOM!

Okay. Obviously, Biel did his part. The security is converging to the other side, only the lazy one is here. The rioting is getting pretty big.

ZAP ZAP

Oh, he managed the electric fence too?

“Man! Lift me up right now”

… 

Wow. He ran so fast … God, why is he so big if he is going to run like that?

Wait … The gate cannot open, they must have short-circuited something. I can jump from that car to the top of the gate.

HUMP

“What are you doing boy? You'll damage my car, get out.”

Okay. Concentration. I'll jump one 3. Ignore this guy ...

1 ... 

2 ...

3 ...

Alriiiight.

Oh no. ops. TUMP.

What is this pain in my head … Did I fall from the gate … 

“DKASDN ou okay?” 

“What?”

“Are you okay?”

“Biel?” 

My head is hurting. Pulsing. I feel bloody streams.

“Sorry. I think I got it way past the necessary. This is a warzone. We can, and probably should, try to go into the building. We can argue you need to use the medical supplies they have.”

I can see the riots, there is fire. The wall is crumbled in the far side. 

BANG

A pistol? What have we done. 

Wait … I cannot see well …

…

SLAP

“Ouch! What was that for?” 

“I am Nurse Silvia”

“She is trying to help us. Are you alright?”

BOOM BOOM

What was that? 

CRACK

“The defendants arrived, things intensified. Daniel was hit by something, he is right there.” Biel added.

I turn to look at him.

Short black hair, very scruffy. Looks like it never saw shampoo. Wearing rags … Looks like he lived in poverty. Lights dim and flickering. He is with his back against the wall, bleeding from his right arm, which doesn't seem to even have life in it.

I can see the building cracking right behind him. It is like a tree being born and rising from his head. 

Are they really bringing everything down? How would they even do that …

BOOOOM!

Yeah. That is definitely it … Didn't even hear mother's last words to me … 

Huh? Where … am I?

Night sky in every direction. A whole bunch of people. They seem as lost as I am. Also seem to be waking right now. 

There is only space everywhere I look, except for those enormous doors with nameplates on them.

CLÃ DE ATAQUE

CLÃ DOS PADEIROS

CLÃ DOS MADEIREIROS

etc …  

I don't recognize those words … Wait … I recognize the first one.

Oh. I get it …