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on, “was the last generation of youngsters before the Great Disease. They were born with the latest technologies around. They were smart, effective, and powerful. Most of all, they started opposing governments all over the world using technologies similar to the iAm to communicate with each other. In fact, the Amerikaz was the last government of all. At sixteen, each teen of Generation Z had the knowledge and experience of a fifty-year-old of the time.”
    “How was that possible?” I ask.
    “Because there were no cell phones, no internet, and no networks before Generation Z. The elders never really comprehended the sudden and fast changes the youngsters had learned. When the elders were teens themselves, it was much harder to communicate and spread information, harder than all of us could imagine.”
    “What do you mean they had no internet?” I ask again, not minding if I sound like an idiot.
    “It’s hard to imagine. I know,” Roger This says. Although he seems invisible sometimes, I am astonished that he is still alive. “Before the internet, they had to go to a library full of stuffed books and keep on searching for days for whatever they wanted to know about. Can you imagine flipping through papers to find what you’re searching for without search engines like Zoogle and sites like Zikipedia?”
    ”Come on,” Bellona says to me. “It’s not like the internet grew up like trees when elephants first roamed the earth.”
    “It’s not elephants that first roamed the earth,” Pepper objects. “That’s a rumor. It was dinosaurs.”
    “I don’t care if it was Michael Zackson who first roamed the earth. Stop being so picky,” Bellona fires back at her. I don’t see a friendship ever happening between those two.
    “Easy, girls.” I wave the tip of my white t-shirt as a flag in the air — why I am not surprised it’s covered in blood? “So there was this Great Disease war between Generation Z and the elders. And?” I ask.
    “Generation Z changed everything in terms of taste in music, movies, arts, politics, free thinking, and free knowledge. Generation Z, in every country in the world, continued to be a major threat to the governments who claimed they were practicing something called democracy, which is just another disguise for a totalitarian system like ours.”
    “Wow,” I say. “How do you know all this?” I don’t understand half of what she just said.
    “That’s why we’re here,” the skater boy says. “Because we know all of this. You’re not meant to know stuff like that, not when you occupy yourself with getting ranked.”
    “I am starting to see why you don’t belong here,” Bellona tells me. “You’re just like every other teen out there, working desperately for approval, so your mommy, daddy, teachers, and friends think highly of you. In short, you’re a slave to your rank, which shows me that Prophet Xitler’s plan is working.”
    “Is that why everything usually has a letter Z in it?” I ask, ignoring Bellona’s army-girl aggressiveness. Should I reveal my heroic act of entering the show to save my best friend? I want to tell Bellona that pink hair and green army outfits don’t really match. But if I do, she might stick a knife in me. Didn’t I just save her life, or was I dreaming? “Xitler being pronounced Zitler, Dizny, Zeinstein, all those words that start with a Z?” I have no idea what’s wrong with these names, but Woo said the Summit was fond of the letter Z. My favorite oldie musician is called David Zowie. Woo said his name was Bowie.
    Pepper exchanges looks with the other skaters. “She is getting smarter. I think she isn’t that bad after all.”
    “Yes,” the skater boy says. “Xitler is afraid of the teens of this generation. The summit has been changing a letter in everything to a Z. We don’t know why yet, but it has something to do with Generation Z. Also I read on the Breakfast’s club forum that the letter Z has not always been