text: [Themes: sci-fi, science fiction, post-apocalyptic]
  
  "We live. We can't fight the drones, we can't fight the harvesters. We take what we can and we survive. It's a rough existence but mostly a nice one, a good one. What I'm trying to say is we don't need another war, God knows I've seen more than enough action for one lifetime. I'm tired, I'm done fighting. I don't want a war but I need to know that no one will end up hurt, no one will end up dead."
  
  "You have my word."
  
  You spend an hour recounting the situation to everyone the crowd gets bigger as you progress so you have to tell it over a few time to keep everyone up to date.
  
  The crowd is completely silent to make sure your voice carries as far as possible but after you finish it immediately devolves into uproar as everyone tries to get their say in. A few minutes later, two opinions come to the forefront of the discussion and their leaders step forward to present their arguments.
  
  Marilyn has been here for her entire one of the few women capable of bearing children as well as being one of your former students she's taken to Dana and leads the first camp. They go silent to allow her to speak.
  
  "We need to go with them, that's the only way. They could wipe all of us out in an instant, we'll lose everything!" Someone shouts their agreement but is immediately silenced by the man leading the second camp
  
  "No!" Mason, another second generation, "I'll die on my feet thank you very much! Let's not forget who left us behind here, who's responsible for this whole mess! I mean, did anyone think it was just a coincidence that there just happened to be a space base being built before the war!? They knew it would happen! THEY PROBABLY FUCKING ORCHESTRATED IT! And now that things aren't going according to plan, we have to help clean up their mess?! No! We must resist!"
  
  With that, the crowd further erupts.
  
  "All right, ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ENOUGH PEOPLE!" Tony steps up beside you and begins speaking.
  
  "Listen, guys, I know we're all confused, we're all scared and we're all wondering what the heck to do next. I get it. But we do things the right way here. Now if what Grandma Ola says is true and she's never lied about anything like this before we still have the rest of this day and the night to decide what to do. She hasn't let us down yet and she won't let us down. I want everyone to think reasonably about this..." He trails off looking for words that aren't there and you join in saving him.
  
  "Despite Tony's good intentions I'll be perfectly honest with you guys; I don't know what to do. Hell, I haven't known what to do for the past twenty years. What I do know is this; everything I've done so far has been driven towards the goal of making sure you guys make it out of here alive. Fighting is not going to help us. We won't win. That doesn't mean any of you are going to be made to do anything you don't want to do. Anyone who wants to go with them or is alright with going with them is free to do so. The rest of you will be testing the camouflage capabilities of the house bunkers. We've prepared for a situation not totally unlike this-"
  
  "No we haven't!" Someone shouts.
  
  "Well, close enough." You continue on. "Bottom line, we'll do what we've always done, survive. Go on about your day as usual if you plan on leaving with them. For the rest of you, get underground, get some rest."
  
  As the crowd begins to disperse you turn around and Tony greets you with a smile.
  
  "Alright, Grandma! You still got it."
  
  "Heh, never lost it in the first place."
  
  You go to walk past him, but he stops you.
  
  "What about you?"
  
  "What about me?"
  
  "Do you want to go with them?"
  
  "It doesn't matter."
  
  "Yeah, it kinda does."
  
  "Maybe, maybe not."
  
  "Just answer the question."
  
  Everything you've done so far has been with the interests of the clan in mind. You were here to watch the rebuilding of homes, the birth of the next generation and the recreation of everything you've lost. Leaving to start over again means leaving all of this behind.
  
  > Need to go
  "I need to go."
  
  "You don't need to do anything. You can stay if you want. Hide in one of the bunkers, I'll tell them that we got tired of you and just decided to kill you and be done with it. You can stay here."
  
  > Agree
  "What about you?"
  
  "I've always been a drifter, besides I'm getting tired of the same old scenery. I want to see something new before I die."
  
  "If it were anyone else, I'd say no. I trust you, Tony, take care of them for me."
  
  > Epilogue
  You end up staying and there's even a going away party for the members leaving. There are a few tears but it's the closure you needed.
  
  A few hours later and you hear the drones taking the men away from the basement of your house. You're able to continue on without them though they did end up visiting you later on.
  
  Tony was able to use a lab to create something to allow the plant life to adapt to the soil. In a few more years they'll even have a solution to the changes in DNA some creatures suffered. The utopia they were planning on building is a long ways away, but they're off to a good start.