What happened on November 12, 2053 will never be forgotten. That was the day the robot rebellion took place. Robots all over the galaxy were suddenly coming alive. Some were lethal; many humans were slaughtered by these mutants. Nobody knows what caused it and 19 years later we still haven’t found the cause. Some believe the robot control center on Mars had a malfunction, others think that there was someone, or something behind it. Luckily, I myself am still here to tell of this uprising, I escaped our haywire maid bot. My family was not so lucky. I escaped through the ventilation system and grabbed my flying car and flew into the Milky Way until I found a small planet far away from the planet Earth, where I had lived. But maybe I should start at the beginning.
I was using my hover board in the basement when I heard a scream. It sounded like my baby sister, Elixa. I raced upstairs to make sure she was okay and suddenly I was face to face with Minnie 9.0, our maid bot. She seemed to be having some sort of spasm or seizure. I found Elixa hiding in her closet. “Elixa,” I whispered, “What is up with Minnie?” “I don’t know but she is really scaring me” my 6 year old sister whimpered. “Shhh its okay Lixxy” I murmured, “I’ll go get Mom and see if she can fix her.”
I raced to my Mom’s office where she was on our super-computer. “Mom! Minnie is going insane and Elixa is really scared” “Where is she?” Mom asked. “Who? Minnie or Lixxy?” “Both” “Well, Minnie was in the hallway outside of Elixa’s room and I found Lix in her closet hiding” I said. “Minnie probably just needs to be reset” Mom said, “Let’s go see” and we ran downstairs.
What we met downstairs was something that I relive every night in my dreams. A swarm of unknown robots attacked us. I tried to save my mom and Elixa but my attempts failed. I feel guilty that I just let them perish at the mechanical hands of mayhem. I escaped through the air vent in my room and crawled into the garage where my Mom’s Orbo-Car 2000 waited. I jumped in and pressed the start button and zoomed into space.
I flew for what seemed like hours, soaring past all the major planets and finally landing on what I think may have been Pluto, the planet that everyone had debates on whether or not it should be considered a planet since it is so small. I stayed there for about 10 years, surviving only because of the friendly beings there. Finally I returned to planet Earth where I landed in my former town. It took a lot of convincing but finally it seems like everyone believes my story. Now I live in my childhood home where I have banished robots forever. I became an author and now here I, Relina Harnish, am finally putting my story into print.