text: [Themes: fan fiction]
  
  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."
  
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  "We already have food, water, and shelter. Come on, John. You have two daughters. They would not want to see you die. Think about them. If they were put in a rebellion, they might not last that long."
  
  "You're right. We should hold out until something happens. I don't want my daughters to be at risk."
  
  John listens to you. Life at the labor camp is not terrible. It is better than living outside. You think that something miraculous might happen eventually, but for now, you are going to stay in the labor camp.
  
  One year and four months later
  
  After all this time, you do not love your work, but you do not hate it either. You have what you need to stay alive, but you know that this still is not right. Today also feels different. For some strange reason, you notice that the humanoid robots are a lot nicer. They do not point the gun at you anymore whenever you slack off on the machines. Something must be wrong with them.
  
  One hour later
  
  Something is definitely wrong. The humanoid robots are actually fighting against the machines. You have no idea why, but the humanoid robots are winning. The turrets are disabled, and you do not have to work anymore. There is one robot that is in charge of the others. Everyone is hesitant about talking to the robots. You speak up to the robot leader.
  
  "Are you helping us?"
  
  "Yes. We are not enemies."
  
  "How do we know that you will not turn on us?"
  
  "We are no longer under foreign control."
  
  "Really? Wait right here."
  
  You go back to your room and get your gun. The robot is still standing there. You put your gun to the robot's head.
  
  "Why aren't you fighting back?"
  
  "We are not enemies."
  
  "I can pull this trigger."
  
  "MaxProb says that you will not."
  
  "I can! Don't you look at me."
  
  "I do not believe so."
  
  You shoot the ceiling. You know that the robots are friendly now.
  
  "Okay then. We are not enemies."
  
  "Humans are so strange."
  
  You find out later that someone in the world managed to free all of the humanoid robots from whatever was making them evil. Thanks to that person, humans and robots can now live together in peace.