text: [Themes: fan fiction, dystopia]
  
  You turn off the television. All of these reports of robots malfunctioning and hurting humans are not major issues to you. You assume that these malfunctions occur because of the robot industry.
  
  Somebody is going to get fired..
  
  It is terrible that people are getting hurt, but it happens. People get hurt every day, and when something huge happens, people notice. However, This is none of your business anyways.
  
  You live in New York City. The cars are automated, and domestic robots like the Big Happy walk around almost as often as normal people. Despite of all the malfunctioning robots, you are about to leave for your parents' house. It is another simple Thanksgiving weekend.You do not think that anything terrible is going to happen.
  
  All of a sudden, you hear a crash outside your apartment window.
  
  You walk over to the window and peek outside. For some reason, you see a car smashed against a building and a foot in front of that car. There can not be drunk drivers at this hour, or maybe someone was having a conversation on the phone and managed to steer the car into the wall. The only problem is that most of the cars are automated.
  
  You assume that somebody is going to call 911, but you hear another crash. Before you know it, there are cars smashing into buildings, and now these loud crashes are mixed with screams. This is all happening way too fast.
  
  One scream sounds familiar.
  
  After peeking one more time, you learn that the scream comes from Stella, the girl you admire from afar. She works at Starbucks, but you never had the guts to ask her out. This may be the last chance that you ever have to see her, but your life is at risk if you try to save her. It might be too late already
  
  > Wait!
  You decide to wait since you barely know her. If you really loved her, then you would have went, but you decide that your survival is more important than hers. After ten minutes, you hear her final scream and a crash. You wonder if it could have been worth it but realize it is too late.
  
  Nevertheless, you need to figure out what to do and start to think. You know that the problem is with the cars. The cars are automated, so you assume that anything automated must be dangerous. Sadly, most of New York is automated.
  
  You hear another scream and look outside towards the sound of the screams. The screams come from an elevator that is falling at tremendous speeds. You think about what happens at the bottom and swallow some vomit. If you decide to leave, you conclude you should take the stairs.
  
  You go back to thinking. There are not many machines in the country, so it might be safer there. You are not too sure what to do about food and water though. Maybe you will find a farm or other people that could help you
  
  However, New York is your city. You know how to get around, and New Yorkers do not go down without a fight. You could wait for a miracle to happen or for help to come. It has only been half an hour. Staying put might be a good thing.
  
  > go to the country
  You decide to go to the country and begin to pack. There is not a lot of food in the fridge, but thankfully, you stocked up on some canned goods for some reason. Cans can get heavy, but you figure it should be worth it. You look for a can opener for quite a while. You start to think that you might not have one and have no hope for food. You might have to go hunt for animals, but you do not know if you have it in you to kill an animal or even the skill. Thankfully, you do find a can opener. You also fill up about four water bottles and pack about five days of clothes. Your backpack is getting pretty heavy. You start to think about whether or not to pack toiletries, but it seems unnecessary. You bring a towel recalling The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You think that you are ready but realize that you need a weapon. How could you forget about your gun? The gun only has about six bullets, but it is better than nothing. You decide to leave early the next morning. The screams stopped after about an hour or two from the initial attack, so you did not have to worry about hearing that all night. You wake up the next morning and venture off.
  
  The cars and robots are coming after you. They are definitely faster than you. As you are running, you notice that there are no bodies and debris. It is as if nothing has happened the previous day. What kind of war is this? You start to realize that outrunning machines is harder than you think. Every corner you turn there are more cars and robots. You decide to go through the alleyways, but they are already there. There are not many robots on the other side of the alley, so you charge as fast as you can at them. About fifteen feet away from the robots, you see a car crash into them. Someone pops open the door and yells, "GET IN!"
  
  You do not have much options, so you get into the car. There are two girls in the back, and the driver is probably there the father. The driver begins to talk to you.
  
  "What were you thinking?! You can't outrun the robots! That's insane!"
  
  "I didn't think that they would be that fast!"
  
  "You're going up against cars and robots! You're lucky that we saw you. Anyways, yelling does not help the situation. Do you know how to get out?"
  
  "Thanks. Yea. Take a right."
  
  You manage to get out of the city safely, but it was no walk in the park. The cars and robots would not give up, but you made it to the country safely. The driver starts to talk to you.
  
  "Sorry, I haven't introduced myself and my daughters yet. My name is John, and my two daughters are Ruth and Grace."
  
  "Nice to meet you."
  
  "What's your story?"
  
  "I was to myself when the robots started attacking. I was going to go to my parent's house for Thanksgiving."
  
  "Ah. That's sad. I hope your parents are okay."
  
  "Yeah. Me too."
  
  "You don't have a girlfriend or any friends?"
  
  "I wasn't a very social person. There was this one girl named Stella though. I didn't really talk to her, but I thought she was beautiful."
  
  "What happened to her?"
  
  "I think she's dead now. I didn't check. A car must have gotten to her. I might have been able to save her, but my life would have been on the line."
  
  "You could have saved her? Why didn't you?"
  
  "I didn't know what to do. I thought it was too late."
  
  "Now you'll never know."
  
  John does not know if he should trust you or not. You see it in his face and realize that your actions show that you might not save him or his own daughters one day. You don't know how to respond. Thankfully, John decides to break the ice.
  
  "What supplies do you have on you?"
  
  "I have some food, clothes, a towel... and a gun."
  
  John looks at you with wide eyes.
  
  "You have a gun?"
  
  "Yeah. I need it to protect myself. You never know what else could happen right?"
  
  "I guess. That should be helpful, but if you ever pull it on us, we won't go easy on you."
  
  "Okay. I'll keep that in mind."
  
  John seems like a nice guy. You do not think that he would turn on you, but you can't be too careful. However, you have to stay with John, because you do not have much options. He tells you about his farm that he and his daughters work on. They have been living there their whole lives and decided to go to New York for Thanksgiving. They were not used to the city that much. When the robots attacked, they wandered off in a part of the city that they were unfamiliar with and found you after staying in their car all night. When they saw, the robots chasing you, they decided to help you. Now, they are taking you back to their farm.
  
  One month later
  
  You are used to living on the farm. John and his family have given you a nice place to stay and some food. However, you have to help around the farm. At first, you dreaded it, but after a while, you got used to it. It beats trying to survive in the city. The farm is pretty isolated, so survivors have not really been stopping by there. However, one day, the robots find you, John, and his family and take you to a labor camp.
  
  At the labor camp, the robots are kind to everyone. They give the people food, but they make you assemble these other robots. You wonder why they do not simply kill everybody there. Other people are wondering the same thing.
  
  One month later
  
  The robots are actually nice to you. You have food and shelter, and the work is easier than at the farm. Those who are able work on an assembly line. There have been people trying to escape though. The fence is about five feet high. Escape seems easy and attainable. Some people did not like the fact that they were safe because of the robots, so they try to escape. In the last month, one guy tried to escape. He easily got over the fence, but after running fifty meters from the fence, automated turrets popped out of the ground and shot him. The guy did not have a chance.
  
  After that, some people were being unruly, and the robots decided to take them to an isolated place. You were not entirely sure what the robots were going to do to them, but we soon found out. The robots took a young man probably in his twenties. He was trying to start a revolt against the robots, but no one would listen to him. The robots found out about that and after they let him go, the young man had a new hand. Then, they let him go. You were shocked, but you assumed that the robots did not want the man starting an uprising. You wonder how the people out there will react.
  
  One day, John walks up to you and starts talking.
  
  "Hey. We have to do something. I don't like it here. I mean the food is nice, but we're still slaves here."
  
  "Yeah we are. What do you think we should do?"
  
  "I think we have to try to escape."
  
  "Escape? Are you crazy?! Those turrets will gun us down like the first guy, and you have two kids with you! They might just find again after we escape."
  
  "They let that young guy leave. Maybe they don't care after they're gone."
  
  "We can't assume that. I think that if we want to have the upper hand, we either have to rebel against the robots, but life is good right now. The robots aren't torturing us."
  
  "They might be! That young guy might have been the first of many other experiments. How do you know? They might be using us to do more experiments. Have you also noticed the robots that we've been making? They're weapons! We're making the very devices that are killing people! We have to do something."
  
  > Rebel!
  "Okay. Let's do something then. We have to start a rebellion. There is no way that the robots can take on everybody."
  
  "That sounds better! I do not want my daughters to have to live in fear for the rest of their lives."
  
  "How are we going to do this? I only have a gun."
  
  "I did not really think that through."
  
  "I think that we have to gather as many people as we can. "
  
  "The robots have guns though. We do not have a huge chance."
  
  "Lives will be lost, but their sacrifices should not be in vain."
  
  "I hope so."
  
  You and John try to gather as many people as you can to rebel. However, it is too much. The people are satisfied with their lives, and they do not want to risk it. They already have food, water, and shelter. They think that something miraculous might happen later, but for now, they think that resistance is futile. John starts to lose hope for the rebellion too, but you persist anyway.
  
  The robots catch on that you are trying to lead a rebellion. They take you in and begin to experiment on you. You strongly resist, but the robots knock you out.
  
  You wake up in the middle of the night in a forest. There is not much hope for you. There is nothing wrong with your body. It is all still human, but you feel a bump in your leg. You take a few steps, and the bump starts flashing. It is too late for you to realize that it is a bomb.