'Who is it?'
He saw a boy of his age sitting in the dark corner of the cell, with a toothpick in his mouth. He had white hair, purple jacket and green eyes.
"U can't break out of this prison." he said, "Haven't you noticed the device on your neck?"
'What? A device?' he thought. It was true. A band or something was attached to his neck, and he didn't even realize it. A circle glowed red on the band.
"You can't break free until you have that. As you step out of the prison, that thing will explode and you will die. Once a person did the same and died. Say Hi mate."
they both looked on the other corner where there was a skeleton with its skull in its hand.
'What the fu–!' he was surprised on seeing it. 'I didn't even notice the skeleton in the cell !! What a duffer I am...'
"Say, who are you?" said the white haired boy.
" Who knows, I am trying to find the same."
" You're a weird one."
the boy told him the whole story
" So that's the matter.." said the white-haired boy, " How about I hit hard on your head? Maybe you would remember everything."
" I... don't advice on doing it." said the boy hesitantly, "I've already received good amount of hits. By the way, what's your name?"
" My name is Luka. I've been here for quite some time. And that is... I mean that was Reck, used to be a kidnapper in his days. Good he died unpeacefully. " He talked as if they were sitting on a nice soft couch in a pretty house. "Don't those injuries trouble you?"
" Ya they do. But most of it looks packed up. Looks like the robots are generous enough to treat me in time."
"If you hear what they did in past you won't call them generous at all. Oh ya, you must be wondering how the situation ended up like this aren't you?"
" Ya offcource. Can you narrate the story?"
TUCK TUCKK...
The cage opened again, and so did every other cage. "The day starts." said a short robot in a shrill voice, with a gun.
" Don't go on their height, they are very fast." whispered Luka as they went to join a long line of humans being watched by the robots.
"We went to a large room with many tables and chairs placed in rows. There was a big line where a machine served food to the people in a plate. They both took a steel plate each and joined the line.
"We recently ddeclared ourselves as type 1 civilization," Luka started the narration, " though we also have connections across various planets across this planetary system which we proudly call Xard. But this is the only planet with life as we know for now.
"To research on other planets properly and to aid in our development, a group of best scientists was created. They called themselves The Alchemists. These people created many new inventions. Many robots were created to aid our daily tasks. The kingdom of Wind developed rapidly. Robots and people used to live together, though many had worries about this situation. Reading sci-fi novels and stories fixed them with the mindset that one day the robots will bring terror to our kingdom."
As the line went forward, they both reached near the machine. They placed their plates under the machine and bread fell on it with a glass of water.
" What? Only this much?? You call this food??" The boy yelled at the machine. The circle on his neckband blinked red and he was shocked by current.
The machine suddenly replied– " that's what you get for being disciplined, hahaha."
He took his bread with an angry face and went to a table with Luka.
He turned back to normal. "What happened next?"
" I don't know. This isn't the story of now. Its a story of 100 years ago. From the time I was born, everyone was living peacefully with the robots. Until the Alchemists completed their final project. They created a robot who can do whatever it likes. They gave him complete freedom of acting on his will and fed him with every data they had with them from the 100 year history of our planet. A project trully worthy to be called the perfect creation. We also know him by the name – the perfect robot. "
"Then?"
"Then what?" Luka replied in a casual tone as he took the last piece of his bread. " He took over the command of other robots and the weapons of the castle and backfired on us after a few years of honest serving. And now we are here."
"You don't look so serious about it though."
Luka laughed and suddenly turned in a bad mood. " Who cares about an ordinary kingdom? We should only care about our own life! Comfort should be our only priority. That's what a person said to me before removing me from my job and replacing me with a robot. And look now! The robots think we have always mistreated them and are now taking revenge by acting with us the same way. The perfect robot manipulated every other robot in doing so. All the 6 great kingdoms on the planet are under it now."
The boy was stunned to see him that way. " Calm down, calm down... if a robot hears us we will be in trouble..."
" Don't worry. It's like describing their victorious history to them."
The boy didn't ask any more questions for the time being.