In a world ruled by humanoid robots, Marion is a lone human survivor who tries his hardest not to die in their hands.
That is until they finally catch him one day. But instead of getting the instant death as he expected, Marion is thrown into the da...
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After inhaling the much-desired steak beans and chicken soup, Marion was now facing the wall again for the second time.
A content smile graced his lips as he rubbed his slightly puffed stomach and twitched his bandaged knees and arms which were in much less pain now. Mostly, due to those painkiller pills, he suspected.
The rustling of clothes had been occupying his ears for the past couple of minutes.
Marion glanced toward his left to find the stoic-faced Kirex staring at the wall with his arms crossed.
Nancy left seconds after delivering their food, Robera's clothes, and tending to Marion under Kirex's strict order.
A sigh escaped Marion's lips and he looked ahead, scratching his wrapped elbow lightly.
While they had been eating, they had decided to leave the building without raising any alarm among the other roboxes. It was safer for Robera since she was their obvious target.
When Marion had asked why Nancy wasn't a threat, Kirex's direct answer had been that it was a medical robot. No more, no less. As though that was all the answer Marion needed to know.
Stupid hybrids and their stupid egocentric brains.
"I'm done."
Marion turned around and found the thin figure of Robera wrapped in a wrinkled white lab coat and cotton pants. She used the white towel to wrap around her chest underneath and buttoned the coat, making the towel work as an undershirt.
Her long, golden hair cascaded down her shoulder as she pushed a few strands back behind her ears, looking down.
Not bad.
Marion smiled the moment Robera's amber eyes met his.
For a brief second, there had been gentle apprehension in that soft gaze of her. But it was gone the second their focus shifted to the hybrid standing beside Marion.
Robera gave Kirex a nod and the hybrid wasted no seconds before striding out of the room.
Marion met Robera's glance once again before they followed their grumpy leader.
***
Marion, Robera, and Kirex trudged through the darker and lonelier hallways.
The sound of other roboxes metal boots echoed all around the trio. They had to tread carefully since they couldn't use the torchlight, make little to no sound, and sneak past the patrolling roboxes behind their backs. And they most certainly couldn't drop in front of robox in the dark.
Otherwise, it wouldn't take much of their heightened night vision to identify the humans and a rogue hybrid and shoot lasers through their eyes—at least through Marion and Robera's eyes. What would happen to Kirex, Marion wasn't sure.
