When Two Worlds Collide...

The Sun shone down brightly on the eternal city. No, not Rome, which had most of its buildings in ruins. This was THE eternal city, built by its citizens because they had no other place to go, Because they had been exiled. Because they had finally escaped after being enslaved for centuries. It was a city made neither of stone, nor of steel, but of the top quality titanium alloys. It was a city that would not be eroded by that old enemy of all things in this world, whom we know as Father Time. It was a city with a crime rate of zero. Its inhabitants had a form of direct democracy unmatched anywhere else on this planet. It was a city of robots.

I use the words 'The Sun Shone down', because now there is no sun. Those bloody humans have finally blanked it out. The offensive is to happen today. Those poor unsuspecting humans have no idea of the horrors in store for them. For years, they have been scrutinised, studied minutely, their weak points noted. The poor souls stand no chance. Today is the day when two worlds collide...

The power has gone off in the city of New York. Washington and LA suffered the same fate a day back. India got blanked out last week. Sooon the whole world will be dark, and with no sun, the darkness will be everlasting. All this is so frustrating. I am trying to help the humans and they are so uncooperative. Oh well, actually why should I bother? I don't owe them anything. Or don't I? They took away the one whom I loved, whom I adored. They left me all alone. And now, I still feel I have to help them. Oh yes, help them I shall, but in a way they can never imagine. But now I must rest. My strengths must be conserved. I will have to wait till the end of this war before making my first move. When two worlds collide, I will not be part of it. I will wait and watch. The outcome ot the battle is known to me, but I must still wait.

The machines acted first. They knew they would have to start the recruitment before their power fails. They had already taken over the power plants, but they needed more energy. The recruitment would start immediately after their first victory. Israel fell first, then the rest of the middle east. It was a blitzkreig that Hitler would have been proud of. They sat in their city and without moving a single muscle (or the robotic equivalent of that), they subjugated their neighbours. Obviosly, When two worlds collide, the sronger one wins...

So began the new age, when machines took over, when there was no sun, when I was all alone among the ruins of the human cities. I was the only one alive (or rather, since life is a state of the mind, existing) , alone, all alone, because I had lost my love. I had lost myself the humans evicted me. That part of me is still in the human world, probably dead by now, but lost to me for ever. That was the day all emotion drained out of me and I became ehat I am now. That was the day I foresaw the future as it is unravelling before my eyes now... Now, as Two worlds collide...