Mistaken by Jonathan Cheng

The Crimson spaceship landed on Earth soon after sunset on the hectic day of August 13th, 2257. A new school year was soon approaching and once again the students would be pulled into a blackhole that their life would be centered around for the next nine or so months. Anxious high schoolers had just received their course schedules for the year, unaware of the new forces, both weak and strong, that would soon influence their lives. Frustrated parents had just wrapped up back to school shopping for their whiny fourth-graders who complained that all their other friends were getting Meteor-pencils while they were only getting normal mechanical pencils. College students were eager to leave the comfort of their own homes for the fast-paced orbits of college. Across the northern hemisphere, the people of Earth were preparing themselves for a new beginning.

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