It’s the year 2020 and a plane has arrived in an unusually green countryside in Iran. Two men and a woman walk out of it and head towards a small cement house in a hurry to avoid being seen and shot by the Iranian army. Inside they walk up to a room in a house. It had a table and a map of the area. In the room they meet a man in cargo pants and a green shirt. His face was covered in battle scars and an eye patch covered his left eye. When the men and woman got to the table his one good eye looked at them as if giving them a look saying, “You better be careful.”

“Listen you three. You only have one chance at this.” began the man with the eye patch.  “The troops around these areas and I have decided that the woman you’re trying to rescue is here.” He points to a spot on the map near the ocean not far off from a town nearby. “Your job is to rescue her before she’s killed like the rest of our population is about to be.”
“Never thought the middle east would become so corrupt.” said the woman.
“Alyssa the whole world hates disabled people like us.” said one of the men. “They don’t care if we’re highly functional or not.”
“Well when our home countries disowned us I thought it couldn’t get any worse.”
“Well it did.”
“Ronny, Alyssa, focus!” said the other man.
“Yes, Yakov.” they both said simultaneously and reluctantly.
“Thank you Yakov.” said the man with the eye patch. “Now your job is to sneak into the house where the woman is captive using a hole we found in the west wall a few days ago. After you free her sneak out through a hole on the opposite side of the house and get as far away from it as possible. I’m assuming General Carson explained the rest to you?”
“Yes General Tenar.” said Yakov.
“Good. Do it right and we can kill two birds with one stone.”
The three started out on the unusually green countryside. Stealthily they walked until they reached the ocean and saw the house they had to raid. Then, they heard a noise.
“Freeze!” They turn around and see soldiers from the Iranian Army holding guns pointed at them. Yakov, Alyssa, and Ronny try to escape only to be met by guns on all sides. “You’re all under arrest!” The three of them looked stunned. “Trying to steal the prisoner eh?” the soldier sneered in Iranian and was translated by another to english.
“How did you know?” asked Yakov.
“You disabled people are just as idiotic as we thought. Spies! We heard your little plan and decided to get you.”
Afterwards all three were marched into the exact building that they were trying to break into. Their weapons were confiscated and given to the Iranians. Moments later they were herded into a dark cell. Except for one toilet it was empty. The floor was just dirt and there were iron bars to keep them in. All of a sudden they all heard shuffling and then,
“Hello?” in Iranian.
All three jumped. “Who are you?” Asked Yakov.
“I’m Hasti.”
“Are you from this country?”
“Yes.”
“You’re the person we were trying to save.”
Then, a soldier came in. “Resistance soldiers get out now!”
Alyssa, Ronny, and Yakov were marched to a room in the building. Nothing was there. Then, a man in a general’s uniform walked in and paced in front of them.
“I know you’re the resistance.” He sneered in english. “Your kind should not be alive. You’re worthless and weak to society. Some of you don’t even work as hard as a normal person.”
Then, a soldier pressed a hot plate of iron on Alyssa’s side and she clenched her teeth. “Where is the resistance in my home?” asked the tormentor.
“In a field of red flowers with light red outlines.” Then, another plate was pressed against her leg. “The field near the ocean five miles from here.” she answered. It stopped and she sighed with relief.
“Alyssa!” Ronny screamed. “Ow!”a soldier dropped a large rock on his left leg and needles were stuck in the foot by another.
“How do I get in?” asked the tormentor.
“You get in through a hatch or a door in the flowers. The key to open it looks like a thimble. When you pull it a door or hatch will appear.”
“Any catches?” said the tormentor as the needles were pushed further into Ronny’s foot.
“Yes, there are two thimbles. The one nearest to the ocean is the right one.”
“What does the other do?”
“It shoots arrows.” The rock was taken off and the needles were taken out. Ronny sighed with relief.
The tormentor narrowed his eyes at Yakov. Then he stuck his knife in Yakov’s right arm. “Is there anything else?”
“Yes. Our general is in a house in the village if you want to kill him.” Then a hot plate of iron was put on his other arm. “It’s a house in the outskirts of the village near the edge before it turns into the wilderness again.” Then, it was over. All three lied panting and exhausted.
“Take them back to the cell!” said the tormentor.
All three were dragged back by soldiers and were thrown into their original cell. Hasti looked at them in horror. The three slowly sat up panting and scraps of food were thrown in minuets later. A few hours later, night fell and then Alyssa spoke.
“I’ll be surprised if we’re alive after this.”
“What do you mean?” Hasti asked and Yakov translated.
“This is the worse we’ve suffered since our parents gave us up.” began Alyssa while tenderly touching her burns. “ Mine gave me up by signing a form which is how people in America disown their disabled children. After I found it I assumed they didn’t want me so I called the number on the form and said, ‘I saw that my parents signed me away. Can you come and pick me up?’ The very next day at the same time they did.”
“You don’t know half of it Alyssa.” said Yakov. “In Russia I was nearly killed by my people and my family. It’s thanks to the government that I’m even alive because for who knows why they still want the disabled population alive. After a while the government decided it was too dangerous for me to stay so in pure desperation they sent me to America.” He went back to holding his arm and making a splint.
“You three should know that my family told me I should’ve never been born before I left.” Began Ronny with clenched teeth holding his leg. “By then everyone had turned on me and I was given to the government. Then, they sent me away to the base in America. I haven’t been back to England since and I do not plan to go back either.”
“What’s your story Hasti?” asked Yakov weakly.
“In the city where I am from People there started to humiliate us by making us work hard labor for no pay and tying us to posts and whipping us. Then, we were loaded onto a truck and we came here. Everyone that I came with is now dead all because we had a disability.”
“That’s why we’re here.” said Ronny in pain. “All three of us were diagnosed with autism when we were nine years old. Two years short of the cutoff year to be claimed not disabled.”
“They will pay Ronny. They will all pay for what they did to us.” said Alyssa weakly but bitterly.
“How?”
“I know how.” said Yakov. “I can’t tell you two but I can tell Hasti.” Hasti walked shakily to Yakov. He whispered in Iranian so Ronny and Alyssa wouldn’t understand. Then, they both saw Yakov and Hasti evilly smile.

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Days passed and the torture went on. The screams of all four prisoners echoed through the hallways. They no longer looked human. They looked like skeletons and looked defeated. Then, one day the Iranian soldiers came in, tied all four of them up, and were about to throw them in a ditch for the dead.
“No not the ditch!” said Yakov. “Anything but the ditch!”
One of the soldiers sneered. “You’re dead to the world anyway.” The four were thrown in and started squirming at the sight and stench of dead decaying bodies.
“Now we can rid this land of parasites like you once and for all! Troop one to their base! Troop two to their general’s house!” said the tormentor and they were off leaving Yakov, Ronny, Alyssa, and Hasti to roat.
Hours later after the Iranian soldiers left to raid the rebel base General Tenar showed up with soldiers. The soldiers got them out, freed them, and took them back to the rebel base. While in the recovery room General Tenar came in to visit the four.
“Congratulations you completed your mission.” He said.
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Not far off from the place where Yakov, Ronny, Alyssa and Hasti were tortured in the field of flowers near the ocean the first troop of the Iranian Army find both thimbles. “Wait.” said the tormentor. “Pull the one farthest first.” They take cover and do just that and just like Ronny said it shot arrows in the exact place where they were standing. They pick up the second one but they don’t see a door. Not even a hatch. Then, the man notices that the flowers looked really shiny all of a sudden. In a few seconds he felt a burning sensation and felt his skin becoming slimy and saw that the prints on his fingers were starting to disappear. He felt like fire was engulfing him moments later and much to his horror he sees his men going from their skin color to red.
In the house near the outskirts where the second troop was, they go in. When they go in they don’t see anything, only an empty house. Suddenly, the doors and windows slam shut and in vain they try to open them with no success. A moment later they hear a hissing sound and then a shower is turned on. Moments later their skin feels slimy and after that they feel a sensation that felt like fire and they scream helplessly as they slowly turned red.
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In a place far away but close enough to where Hasti, Ronny, Alyssa, and Yakov were tortured, they hear high pitched screams from a distance coming from the ocean where the red flowers with light red outlines grew. Seconds later they hear more screaming from the outskirts. Alyssa sat up in her bed and turned to her group.
“Now we can really say we killed two birds with one stone.” she said. Yakov nodded and all four made a sinister smile.