My Life On the Run

My Life On the Run

My name is Chiara, I am the only human being left on this planet, or at least from what I have seen. It is the year 2150, and robot people overrun the world. They are trying to kidnap me and turn me into one of them.  You wonder why, apple went a little to far on iPhones. They thought it would be best to make humans into walking robots. They wanted to extend them onto people, everyone who owned an iPhone and installed the 80.1 update, got zapped into a robot. You are probably thinking, not everyone has an iPhone, well whenever a robot touches you; you turn into one of them. Doesn’t that sound like nice way to live life? Well enough of the basic story, I will go on to what is happening in my world.

January 21, 2150

Its dark outside, I am sitting inside an alleyway that used to be next to my favorite restaurant. Right now it has turned into a wooden dump, only rats dare to come down this alleyway. Black, scrawny, beady eyed rats, and its surprising that they even survive back here. Even the robots tend to not wander in this part of town. Usually it is dead silent back here, except for the rats of course, but the robots are repairing this town. They are probably going to finish by the end of this month. It is not going to be safe here anymore, unless of course I want to be turned into iPhone material.

January 30, 2150

            The robots have finished repairing the town now. I had to relocate to a place named San Jose. It is a lot closer to Cupertino, robot headquarters. I am staying in a house, a creepy old house. It is pretty worn down, probably because no one has lived inside it since 2140. That was the last time I saw people. I was 10 when all the people changed. My parents were transformed that night while I was sleeping, and when I woke they were gone. I had no idea what happened to them, I was so confused and in so much pain. It is not right for a ten year old to feel so much pain at such a young age. All my friends were gone, and I wish I could have gone with them. My street was deserted, the houses were empty, the animals had gone with the commotion, and the saddest part was, my parents had gone with them. I had no shoulder to cry on, and my house was too sad to step into. So I just walked, and I walked as far as my little feet could carry me. That was the saddest day a ten year old could ever experience, well at least in my head.

February 18, 2150

I have been wandering around all day in this deserted city. I thought I saw a good place to make camp a little earlier, so I am probably going to spend the night there once I find some food. My stomach does not seem to happy with me starving myself. I notice something in the corner of my eye, it looks a little bit like a person, or maybe it’s a bear. It has dark brown hair, and it is kind of fluffy. I haven’t seen a person in ten years, so it is most likely a bear. I somehow decided to walk towards it, why you ask, I have absolutely no idea. I got 50 feet away from it when I notice glimmering eyes staring back at me. The figure was crouched behind a bush. I took a few steps closer before the bush rustled a bit. The figure crawled out of the bush, enough so that I could see it. Then I realized, it was not a bear, it was a human being!

March 3, 2150
 I have gotten to know the human more he told me his name was Kai and he told me his story. We have made up a schedule of shifts to get water and food. In the mornings I have to go out and fetch water, and thats what I decided to do this morning. I left earlier than usual, and I know Kai would most likely get mad at me. I left him a note and headed out. Once I got out into the open field I noticed two robots. I have never seen them this close, and I started to panic. I laid flat down in the field, and that is when I noticed Kai had followed me. I saw him out in the woods about 100 paces behind me. I knew right from the start I was dead iPhone scrap. I had nowhere to go, nowhere to run. Again another one of my dumb choices, but this time it would cost me my life. I would have to surrender.