CAMOs

Jade was eighteen and was merely an infant when The War began. Chemical weapons and bombs were dropped all over the world, seemingly at once. Toxic waste and radiation soon covered and destroyed much of the landscape and major cities, decimating massive amounts of populations in seconds. Governments disbanded in hopes to be reformed, but that never happened. Clans rose up to fight for what was left. Farmland, scraps, shelter... territories were made and if one crossed with ill intent, feuds were initiated. Three years ago, after fourteen years of rebuilding and reorganization, more chemical weapons were dropped on the thriving cities. She had not grown up with such technology. 

“What... are those?” She choked out, clearing her throat after. Lily shook her head slowly, “I’ve never seen anything like that. Why is the room untouched? Is this what they used to look like?” They walked the perimeter of the room before spiraling into the middle, where the computers were. “What is that?” Jade pointed to the keyboard, “It has letters on it... should we press one?” Before she ended her sentence, Lily clicked on the L key. Nothing. The I key. Nothing again. She spelled her name and Jade’s before letting out an annoyed grumble. “What now?” Jade looked at the keyboard in whole. “Let’s just press all of them at once.” Lily’s eyebrows conveyed nothing short of a “Are you shitting me?” look, but she soon placed her hands on as many keys as she could, and Jade the same. And then, they pushed.

One light. One blue light came on in the upper right corner. They stepped back, got into their fighting stances and were prepared for the worst. 

The screen flickered as the screen slowly began to show faded blue life. Their eyes opened wide with the screen as they stepped closer. Eventually, the home desktop loaded and there was one accessible application in the center. Internet Explorer. It took them a while before they realized there was a computer mouse next to the keyboard that they needed to navigate the computer, but when they opened the browser there was a file already open. It was automatically set for a page called “Wikipedia.” 

A notification popped up for a downloadable file that was already plugged into the tower. All they had to do was hit “OK.”

“No going back now.” Lily smirked as she dramatically clicked the “ok.”

The screen took a few minutes to load the page, but suddenly the wikipedia page showed a vibrant “Celebrating a Proud 66 Years!” banner in the center. Under the Wikipedia label in the upper righthand corner, was a 2067. “This is... ancient! Over 500 years old....!?”