• In the year 2998

    I was running, gasping for breath as my feet pounded against the tiled floor. I desperately tried to make it to the door. Rapidly my pace was dropping, the bag on my back seemed to grow heavier by the second. This continued until I was incapable of moving and the robot inched forward. As I struggled to move-to run- the weighted bag on my back broke. Out of it spilt many coloured cords and metals, at the loss of weight I dashed towards the door. My scream lingered and echoed as a chilled metal arm of a robot grasped my shoulder and roughly pulled me backwards. When I flailed my arm out I caught the handle of the door, it was locked. Panic rose in me as the robot tugged harder, I slammed my hand against the window and screamed for someone, anyone to help me but they did nothing but stare. I was trapped, stuck here until I died. Giving up all hope I slipped my fingers off of the door handle and allowed the robot to drag me back into the main part of The Mechanism.

    That had been my first failed attempt at escape, from The Mechanism. The Mechanism is a building that was created long ago back in 2012 by our ancestors. It was created to isolate our society from the environment due to a decision that humans were no longer suited to live in the natural world but in a technological one. Paradise was the perfect word for The Mechanism because it contained all a human could ever need or want. It's simulated skies were bright blue with occasional puffy white clouds, the grass was always a deep healthy green, the ground was always soft and clean enough to lay on. There were beaches with crystalline waves crashing against reddish-white sand.

    The singular problem was a huge one though, we are trapped here, never allowed to leave. Within a building no matter how big there is only how far you can travel till you have seen it all and have become tired of it. Robots were placed here by our ancestors to keep us in, human kinds own technology is holding us captive. Technology had advanced so far that we could live in the outside safely without harming anyone, but we were trapped anyways people still insisting it was for the better. Being the only one who wants to see what lays beyond this paradise, the only one who wants to smell real flowers, to feel the rain on my skin and to be completely free able to go anywhere I had to find a way to escape on my own.

    Today was the day I would escape paradise. This I was sure of, everything seemed to be going perfectly. While I hid on the rafters in the older part of The Mechanism I lowered the dark blue electrical cord I had brought with me. It dropped neatly and soundlessly behind one of the robots on guard at this door. After shuffling forward a little so I was behind the robot too I dropped myself to the ground as well. "Umm....Guard robot, I'm lost could you escort me to the main area?" I asked sweetly and innocently. As expected the robot turned to scan who I was then silently turned to show me to the main area. As soon as it turned, I grabbed the cord and plunged it carefully into the charger socket. Which is the only blind spot on the robot. A few seconds later the robot walked over the switch pad I had set up and started the magnets on the two cords I had hung, one connected to the robot and the other to a electric socket. The cords snapped together in a millisecond completing the circuit, the robot's system was temporarily overloaded. In three minutes its distress radio would send out a call, in another five minutes a team of robots would come and hunt me down. I had eight minutes, quickly I ripped off the robot's arm and reached inside, scrunching up my face at the thought of having my hand in a human-like arm. Finally I felt a slightly peculiar bump in the wiring that the book on robots had described. When I pulled it out I immediately dashed to the door, two robots had turned the corner and were racing towards me. One got a grip on my leg as I jammed the strange rectangular square into the barely noticeable chip in the door knob and the door swung open.
    I stared in awe for a second at the falling drops of water outside the door. Then pulled roughly back into reality as my chin smashed against the floor from the robot pulling my leg with in-human strength. You cant take my freedom! I thought brutally slamming my foot as hard as I could into the human-like ceramic and metal face, cracking it slightly and stunning the robot's system. The outside was right in front of me and I crawled towards it urgently as the second robot was coming towards me. Right before the second robot reached me, I pulled my left foot out the door where its radio commands couldn't reach. I was free, truly free. Acid rain fell as I raised my head to the sky, even it was beautiful because I was free.