At the cool of the day, a young man could be seen standing on the shore of a pristine blue ocean, under a clear sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. The sun is shining down, and the warm water laps gently at your feet. He could smell the salty air, and the sound of the waves is soothing and rhythmic.
He could feel the sun's warmth on his skin, and he could taste the sea breeze on his lips. His gaze focused on the horizon, a glittering city stood majestically at other end of the water, full of sleek buildings and flying cars.
The huge buildings towering to the sky and display of numerous projection going off at different spot is truly a sight to be behold
The young man took in another full swoop of breath, trying to ravish this amazing feeling of serene
"Continued breathing this pollute air like that and you would be the one buried way soon than your sick mother"
A voice interrupted the peaceful moment, and like a shattered glass, the wonderful scene of majestic grandeur broke away
Revealing the true state of things before the young man, a dark, smoky sky, where the sun is barely visible through the haze. The ocean is brown and polluted, and the water is dead. One can hear the distant rumble of machinery, and can smell the stench of pollution.
The shore is lined with garbage, and the air is hot and humid. You can feel the heat pressing down on you, and you can taste the bitter, metallic taste of pollution on your tongue.
This is the true state of the world the young mans daydream had overlap and turned into Paradise
*sigh*
"You don't have to be that hard when hit strike Leon" the young man sigh in regret and sorrow as he took his sit beside the young man Leon who had spoke earlier
"I'm not hard on you Victor, I just find it hard how you still have the drive to day dream in such an hellish world we live in"
Leon hand Victor a bottle of coke, "let's enjoy a bit of the spoils before returning back, ones we get back
We would be swapped with people pushing to get their hands on our supply"
Victor refused the bottle of coke, his gaze still on the majestic city opposite them, a city on clear contrast to what they are living in
You can see the fine clear air and sun ray shining down on that city, but this part feels like its not in the same planet or something
"You can keepy share for the others, those old hag's need it more than I do" shifting his gaze back to Leon
"Have you ever wonder how this world would be if that war hadn't taken place ages ago?"
Leon face took a different expression at Victor word, this topic seem to strike a bad spot on him
"How else would it be, we will all be living in a peaceful environment instead of this dump site and underground tunnels
We have good food to ear other than coming here to fish for scraps from what was watched down from the city
And most important I might be able to leave up there" pointing toward the cities flooting up in the sky
One whose grandeur far outclassed the city on the ground standing before them, "have a nice warm bed to sleep and definitely the ladies to warm me up
If only that stupid android didn't declared war on humanity and brought this world to the brink of collapse"
"Calm down Leon, let not tread that part again, you and I know that is just what was said
What we were ment to believe, but the obvious stated otherwise, we have androids staying down here with us
Fighting for their own survival just as we are, do they seem like what they made us believe?
Do they seem like people who wants to take dominance over mankind and rule all humanity Into slavery?"
"You are even calling them people, they are f*cking machines, Ai who became self aware
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Why refer to them as people" Leon anger for androids were fully in display as his disgust for them can't be hidden
"Is that why you hid away the used energy core we found the last time we came out scavenging from Anne
Leaving her to shut down permanently, I'm not even going to go about the fact you tip the soldiers about our settlement housing Android"
Leon face turn ugly, he couldn't refute Victor's words, it obvious if victor wasn't his friend, he would have rat him out to the authority
None enhance humans, popular know to the enhance humans as the rebellion, doesn't take things lightly when the found a mole amongst their group
"Leon, you are my Friend and I'll have to tell you the truth, if what they said about androids been the first to start the war is true
Then why did they treat us the poor like trash when the war is over and the androids defeated
Why are they so bent on killing every last android outside their control and still create, use and promote Ai and androids under their control
Doesn't it bug you, they say machines want to take over the world but right now man had become machine himself
And the machine they so fear wants to take over the world is ready to do anything to be more human"
"It doesn't bug me, man had to grow strong, be on top of the food chain even for Ai and androids
As for machine want to be more human like, its just a facade they tend to use to misled humans to their side so they can strike again"
Leon brush victor word away with an excuse of his own, not ready to give in to victors own point of view or philosophy
"And the humans constantly slain by the enhanced, the innocent mother, father and children continually killed and broadcast as fugitives assisting androids"
Leon turned to look at Victor as if he was looking at an idiot, "what did you call them again, fugitives
And their crimes, assisting androids, the ones who are the reason we are in this mess in the first place
Victor can't you see, those supporting the androids and going against the enhanced are just ignorant and mislead
Come with me and we would have a chance to be real humans, strong and powerful, live in the resources the world had to offer instead of living out of the remains and scraps of the true humans"
Victor looked at Leon for a good while, speechless on how beat to respond to his request, thinking for a while
He stood up and walked up to the bank of the dead river, gazing at the magnificent city ahead of him
"Leon, its true there might be good prospect over there, I never stop dreaming of living amongst them as equal and not slave or fugitive who had to run and hide everyday of my life just to survive"
Leon nodded in agreement as he knew best how tough it is to survive in this harsh environment and constantly be on the run not to be killed by the enhanced humans
"But" this world garden a frown on Leon face as he was hoping this won't go the way its about to play out
"But I rather follow the path of truth even though its just a glimpse than walk on the broad path of decept and lies from those who seek to cover the truth"
Leon clenched his fist in annoyance, black veins popping on his forehead as he listens to victors
Seconds later he let out an helpless breath, "I really wish you haven't taken this decision
You are my best friend and my childhood buddy, we've been through live and death together
Too bad you just didn't want to stand by my side anymore"
"What are you sa....." Victor didn't get the time to finish his words when the sight of a warships abruptly cut of his speech
Huge mecha robots were already dropping down from the ship, surrounding both of them
Their arrival was so abrupt and silence victor didn't notice them coming till they arrived
Thinking it through, a certain epiphany hit him as surge or rage steer up with him, "you bastard, you sold us out again"
Victor charged toward Leon in a sprint but Leon was quick to dodge, before Victor could make a come back
He had been surrounded by soldiers, all dressed in the new world military uniform, funny enough their isn't a single firearm on their hands
But victor isn't stupid enough to forget this are enhanced humans, one of the soldier step in front of victor
Raising his hand as it immediately began to shift and turn, metal sparing out from his bare hands and in the next second a fun nuzzle is already pointed at Victor head from his outstretched hands
"One of yours" the soldier ask Leon, who looked at victor for a good whole before shaking his head in denial
"Bastard, you'll die a dog dea...."
*gun fire*
"You talk to much" the soldier spat at Victor lifeless body lying on the shore of the dead sea worn blood gushing out of his chest an hole had been blown through
Ignoring victor dead body as if he had just squash an insect and not human life, he order the rest soldiers to move in
Follow Leon direction and annihilate everyone inside the his out, human and androids alike
Just like tje first soldier, their bodies began to morph and different weapon, armour and suits cs in view as they charge on with speed inhumanly possible to man
Cries of pain and stench of death is the only thing that follows as they raid the hideout, killing everyone and everything in sight
Those that could fight back put out a good descent fight but against the symbiotic cybernetic enhanced bodies of the enhanced humans
There is nothing their little fight could do, in few seconds a clean sweep had been done both by the enhanced humans and the mecha