Tuesday, April 13, 2010

To strip all the meat off her bones


world where robots take care of us
human are programmed to be passive
to not think
robots live with us from birth
all original human thought is gone
the human race is like cattle
at the mercy of a techno-military complex
there are renegade humans
trying to subvert the system
both the robots and the humans
even the government have forgotten
everyone except the renegades
have forgotten what they can actually do
on one ranch
an agricultural community
there is a malfunction
one of the human-robot pairs
is left to their own devices
they begin to figure out
that they have been oppressed
everything is nice and polite
when one of the women gets hurt
the robot follows his program
to strip all the meat off her bones
and organize the bones
in the most efficient stacking manner
around the skull
the human farmer and the robot
are both looking at the stack with admiration
when government troops arrive
they can see that the farmer and the robot
have been left alone too long
and are on the verge of awakening
the human is realizing
that the robot will do anything
he asks of it
and the robot is realizing
that it is his function
to serve and protect the human
right before the woman got hurt
the farmer called to the robot
for help
saying
get here
right now
and the robot
went into hyper-speed
arriving there in a fraction of the time
it normally took him
both the farmer and the robot
were surprised
the farmer also had augmentations
from the government
because he was useful
and was good at growing crops
producing more than most farmers
the farmer was able to also move fast
and had extraodrinary strength
when the government troops arrive
the farmer and the robot
hide
the troops discover the stack of bones
and the leader
who is half robot
half human
realizes what has happened
he tells the robot troops
to terminate the farmer
and his robot pair