Robotic
The story starts with the happiness and joys of the new year. The whole world has just finished celebrating new year. There is this teenage girl named Lucy who is trying to find something to eat for her old and sick grandma. As she didn’t find anything, she goes back to her hidden spot where she and her grandma lives.
“Grandma, are you feeling okay? I’m sorry I didn’t find anything for us to eat.”
Lucy said to her grandm.
“Oh dear, you don’t have to work so hard. Time has changed now. The year 2150 has just started. This is the time of robots. You must have faced difficulties, right?”
Grandma said while turning her hand on her head.
Grandma is indeed right, everything has changed with time. Now, there are only robots and not even a trace of human existence on Earth. At the beginning of 22nd century, a terrible war broke out between humans and robots in which many people sacrificed their loved ones and Lucy lost both her parents in it. Due to the extremely dangerous nuclear weapons used in war, a really thick layer of gases has covered half of the earth and the sun has not shone there for many years. One side of the earth is cold and the other is too hot to be suitable for human habitation and only because of advanced technology of robots they are able to withstand this extreme weather.
One day Lucy brings home her best friend Samantha. Obviously, she’s a robot too. She is the only robot who knows about Lucy’s truth. Lucy trusts her so much that she will never tell anyone about Lucy’s true self. As Samantha sits in Lucy’s room, Grandma begins to feel worse. Lucy immediately goes to her grandmother. She starts crying and panics about what to do next. While taking her last breaths, Grandma gives Lucy a letter and then says goodbye and leaves her forever. This is the first time Samantha has seen someone show emotion because as a robots, they have no emotions or feelings.
Lucy is lonely again and misses her grandmother so much than she remembers the letter her grandmother gave her. She finds the letter and starts reading it. The letter instructs Lucy to find a man named David. She thinks that it must be a help from her grandmother and decides to approach the person. She packed her bag and left for her journey.
After a long and tiring journey, she finally finds the address that was written on the letter but it is on a mountain and she has to climb it. She climbs the mountain and finds an old building. The structure of this building looks very old and surprisingly the temperature of this area is so suitable, neither too cold nor too hot. However, she finds no one there. She then goes into the backyard and finds a man standing there with his back to Lucy. Before she can say anything, a sharp object falls from somewhere above and injures him. His hand immediately begins to bleed.
"What? Are you human?"
she asks in surprise.
"Who are you and how did you come here?"
David tells Lucy.
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Lucy explains to him that she came all the way because of her grandmother’s letter. Then, she learns that David is the son of her father’s friend who somehow managed to get on a spacecraft that was going to another habitable planet with humans during the war. During the war, when humanity was depleted and they knew they would die if they didn’t leave Earth, all the remaining humans left for the most suitable and habitable planet they could find at that time.
"The spaceship he was on had two such spaceships, one was gone and the other must have been destroyed by the robot."
David says.
Well, it hasn’t been confirmed yet that the spacecraft was destroyed. David tells Lucy that he has been trying to find the spacecraft for years but has repeatedly failed. Lucy stays at David’s house for two days and helps him find the spaceship. During this period, Samantha contacts Lucy. Lucy tells her about their plan and asks if she can help her find the spaceship. Samantha agrees to help her and after some time they successfully find it. Lucy and David then set off to find the spacecraft with Samantha’s help.
As they arrive at the museum where Samantha tells them they can find the spacecraft, they discover that they must first break the security code. Now, it’s David’s turn to do an important thing his father once taught him to do. While he is trying to hack the security lock, suddenly there is a startling loud gunshot and fifteen army robots and their commander suddenly enter the room and the most shocking thing happens next. Samantha appears behind one of the robots.
"Samantha? What’s going on? Samantha, don’t tell me you’re the one who told them about us."
asked Lucy in fearful surprise
"yes i did"
"But why? I thought you’d know what a true friendship is but I was wrong because you’ll never know what it’s like to have a friend so close to us. I pity you, Samantha."
While Lucy and Samantha were talking, David successfully gets the code and manages to open the door to the spacecraft. Before they can do anything, David pulls Lucy by the hand into the spaceship. Commander and the other robots are constantly trying to stop them, but they enter the spaceship, start it up and fly off, tearing through the air with a terrifying explosion.
Now, they will find human beings and David will find his loving father.
The end
