The Last Letter

If you’re reading this, then the machine worked. I don’t know where you are, or even when you are. For all I know, you might not even be able to read English. Or at least, what you would call English. If you can read this, and it isn’t too late, then pay careful attention to the words on this paper.
On November 13, 2020, the world will end. I am writing this in a future where the only living humans reside in the ground; not as in an underground society, but literal holes in the ground. Some of the wealthiest people managed to build small makeshift bunkers, even though it doesn’t matter. That is what the world has come to. Most animals other than some insects and creatures from deep in the ocean went extinct long ago. What used to be powerful weapons became useless to us when this started. Needless to say, we have no chance of fighting back and keeping our lives.
I am part of a small group of survivors from the initial attack, and we have been working since then to send something back in time. Unfortunately, the only item we can send at this point is a piece of paper. The door to our bunker is weakening already. My accomplices and I may very well never see morning, which means our world, our time, is lost..
However, you might be able to save your world. As I told you, the End began on November 13, 2020. World War III was in full swing. Every country in the world had become obsessed with creating newer, deadlier weapons. This deadliness came in the form of biological weapons and gases. The U.S. would be the first to test these new weapons. It all began there, in a small testing facility in New Mexico. I should know; I was the man who set it off.
The gas didn’t affect animals and humans like we wanted it to. It did, however, affect the plants. It changed them. They stopped producing oxygen and began to spread through the air uncontrollably. The seeds released an acidic gas whenever they landed, liquefying and killing whatever they had landed on. The acid was extremely powerful, and the plants grew to full size in a matter of hours. The full grown plants grew in clusters of around forty feet in diameter, each emitting enough gas to surround the plants in an acidic cloud much larger than the cluster themselves. Not only did this prevent the plants from being seen, but it also destroyed any weapon and killed any human that came too close. Not even our most advanced suits and materials were of any protection from the acid.
Those who managed to flee underground didn’t find much help. As I said, the plants stopped making oxygen. Anyone who didn’t flee the overtaken areas suffocated in a matter of days, a week at the most. The National Guard tried to perform rescue operations, but soon realized they were only sending innocent men to their deaths. New Mexico was gone in a week, and it only got worse. The affected area grew exponentially, and the entire southwest was gone in another couple of days. All anyone could do was flee to the northern states as the military tried to come up with a way to combat this unbeatable enemy. They never succeeded.
About a month after it all started, the United States, Mexico, and Canada had been overwhelmed by the plants. Anyone who hadn’t fled overseas was dead. Unfortunately, the plants adapted to the large distance across the seas quite well. The seeds gained the ability to travel thousands of miles in the air, much to the misfortune of the rest of the world. Once they began to span the oceans, the human race and most other living creatures were doomed. They sprouted on every continent in a day, and overtook them in another.
Every government of the world pooled their money and resources to research a way to stop the plants from several different fronts. They attempted to create weapons and chemicals to destroy them effectively and efficiently. All trials failed. It wasn’t long before they realized that the only way to stop this was to prevent it from happening in the first place. All of the world’s efforts for survival yielded this letter. This letter, should you choose to believe it, could protect the human race. All you have to do is go to the testing site in New Mexico and convince them to stop their experiments. Even I can’t tell you how to do this. But you have to.
So, what will it be? Will you save the world, or will you condemn it to a fate worse than death?