Raj Chaklashiya

Beth Tsubaki

English

The robots marched on the city. I wondered if perhaps they’d learned to march like that from absorbing old war footage or if it was a line of code from some old video game. We’d all be found and executed now, I thought. Only a matter of time.

"Shame on you for giving up" my sister told me. I was hiding behind a table in our house as robots took over the city. They would soon come here to take us, too. "What can we do?" I asked nervously. My sister dragged me out and put a knife in my hand. She had one too. "We fight."

It wasn't until my sister actually tried to slice a robot with a knife that she realized the danger we were in; they're made out of metal and we're just average people. I think this was the moment that I finally knew what I needed to do.

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