I Heart Robots

Okay, how do I start?

Probably at the beginning.

Here sweetheart.

At that point, everybody was looking for food.

And these guys...

Well, they were looking for trouble.

You thought you could hold out on us?

That we wouldn't find out you were hiding rations?

Your time is up.

Your debt is due.

Give it up now.

We will take it.

We will take everything.

Do you hear me?

Time has no bearing in this place.

Move!

Consider my debt paid!

Okay, and he just killed everybody.

Not much add to that.

Yeah, robot fatigue was a real thing.

Well, in this case, it

kind of seems like Bob just

let off some steam.

At least I called him Bob.

Or,

no, he calls himself Bob.

You know what, let's just call him the guy with

the robot face in his head.

Yeah, he taught me everything I know.

He's kind of like the father I never had.

I mean, if the father I never had was like a killer.

But hey, that's the end of the world for you.

And this is the moment

right before everything changed.

Probably, just not functioning well. Robots don't just break.

I called for repairs and there's a long line.

Did you try upgrading it?

I don't want an upgrade. I want it to work.

I'm not the only one, Terra.

I know, I know.

Did you try turning it on and off?

Very funny. Oh, now it's staring at the sky.

Don't trust him.

I know it's serious mom,

that's why we're at the protest.

I wouldn't worry about that.

Jessica's here, she's already on scene.

Said something about them

looking up at the sky?

Something is kind of happening here right now.

Yeah, what?

Terra, what's going on?

Okay, I'll talk to you later.

Okay, so I still don't know

where to begin, really.

But, essentially mankind placed

a bunch of satellites in orbit.

Which was great.

I mean, Wi-Fi increased,

AI was doing...

I mean, AI at that point,

was basically doing everything.

Phones got bigger,

and then they got smaller.

Life was good.

So, mankind decided

to put away all of their weapons,

and

we kind of learned to get along for a while.

Until one day all those satellites

just fell from the sky.

Now at first, it just kind of seemed like,

"Oh no, what an inconvenience,

we can't update our social media."

And then we kind of realized,

it is good not to be able to update everybody

on everything all the time,

or at least post about it.

Then, something else happened.

You know, these nice robots?

They heard a frequency and became not so nice.

All right, I'll tell you about that guy later.

Now, I know it is a disservice to any sci-fi movie

ever made to say,

"Oh no, we didn't see that coming," but

here's the thing, we

actually, truly didn't see that coming.

And, you know those guns that we put away?

Were now needed again.

And we lost the war.

Went into hiding.

Two years later, that frequency

that the robots heard,

it just stopped.

Most of them powered down.

Well, most, not all.

And let's just say the ones who remain,

seek and destroy all human life.

Oh, and they made parts of the world

uninhabitable for humans.

So...

there's that.

Everyone turned to the water.

That was the safest place.

That is until everybody started raiding each other

for food, which leads us to me.

Warning, eating malfunction detected.

I forgot to mention that

whole signal frequency thing,

the one that stopped all the robots from working?

Yeah.

So we kind of didn't get that memo to turn it off.

What in the Life of Pi?

Great.

Look around you.

This is what they want!

Well, normally, I'm not a big fan of flashbacks.

I mean, what is this? Like the second, third, fourth?

But, you know what?

Let's just go with it.

Commanders . Fight!

And that's the last time I saw my sister.

You are in violation of gathering ordinances.

Are you okay?

They're here.

Are you from a protest?

Yeah.

There are violators here.

Requesting further assistance for extermination.

mobilized.

All humans will be exterminated.

I was on a refugee ship that capsized

and ended up here.

Wherever the hell here is.