The Day They Got In

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BOOTING UP//
EXPOSITION //

"We are Worker Drones." Uzi narrates. "Autonomous robots helping humans mine exoplanets for our interstellar parent company, JCJensen, IN SPAAAAACCCEEEE!!! Yeah, we were mistreated in the name of Windex. But it's not like we revolted and killed all humans or anything. Mostly because they handled that just fine all by themselves."

In a flashback several human workers look at a computer that warns them of the Plant Core collapsing, and that the vibe is harshed. The two workers look at each other and shrug.

Then the core collapses, blowing up about half of Copper 9. Setting the world into an ice age. Outside a worker Drone touches a flash frozen human skeleton, causing it to fall over and shatter.

"With biological life wiped from the planet, we found it pretty easy to pick up where they left off. We finally had a future... all to ourselves."

A Landing Pod then crashes to the city and many Worker Drones surround the crash site. Staring at the sparking and smoking pod.

"Unfortunately... our parent company didn't exactly love the concept of a runaway AI."

Inside the pod four pairs of yellow X's appear. Then Disassembly Drones emerge from the Pod. A rather tall Murder Drone laughs as he stands on the pod and points at the Worker Drones in front of him. The three flying Murder Drones above him all fly towards the Drones in front of the pod, destroying them and the city.

Then after they kill all the drones they build a large spire made from their bodies. The tall drones clings to the top of it and laughs as he looks up to the sky, his laugh turning slightly robotic.

All this is revealed to actually be a presentation by Uzi in her class. Izy watches her older sister as she holds a book in her hands called, "Human Hobbies and their Meanings."

Uzi continues speaking. "But what have our parents done for the past forever while those things build a spire of corpses?!" She then shows a diagram of the bunker entrance. "Hide under the ice behind three stupid doors?! It's like we're waiting for an inciting incident."

Uzi then gets to her final slide which has "How Do We Fix This?" at the top and a Click to add title and click to add subtitle.

"Anyway, that's why my project this sick-as-hell railgun!" Uzi pulls out her railgun, causing her classmates to panic.

Izy eyes go hollow in worry as she drops her book on her desk. "Oh, boy."

"That's so not the vibe!" A classmate named Riley says.

Uzi frowns. "Easy, morons. It doesn't work. Yet." She points it at everyone. "It doesn't work yet." She grows angry. "Who said it doesn't work, maybe it does!" She flicks the switch on the side of her weapon and laughs evilly as her weapon powers on.

Izy whimpers as she slides down in her desk, only showing her eyes.

The Teacher rolls his eyes and sighs in disinterest. "Uzi, the homework was a word problem about buying watermelons."

"Oh, and this magnetically amplified photon converter doesn't count?" Uzi asks as she motions to her weapon.

"...No. Plus, repressed emotional baggage was only worth two points on the rubric. And is it supposed to be that color?"

Uzi's railgun turns red and Izy brings up her book to protect her face. The railgun explodes nearly blowing the steel door off.

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After that calamtious demonstration, Uzi winds up in the sick bay. Izy pokes at Uzi's bandaged head with her lucky screwdriver. Uzi's railgun leans next to them, still smoking.

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