The cyborgs from Xander 424 Island are at it again. Their continuous shootings always disrupt my peaceful mind and never fail to give me a throbbing headache. Sounds of laser beams can be heard from far. I covered my fluffy ears with my hands. Why can’t they just get along with each other? Take us for example. The people of Rainbowtopia. We are the most peaceful creatures to ever exist. We spread nothing but love through hugs and rainbows. Hah, pathetic machines. Wait, what’s that hidden in the bushes? The object is glowing from afar and it’s blinding me. Maybe I should get a closer look. Oh, it’s pretty shiny? It looks like some sort of weapon or machine. Maybe if I can just touch it a little bit…
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Speechless.
I saw myself in the same spot but my surroundings changed. Terrified, I removed my hands from the shining object and I was back. Why did the glowing tone down? What is going on? How did this foreign object end up here? Aroused with curiosity, I braved my hands on the object again to have a greater picture. The bushes around me are still present but had turned from lush green to dull yellow. The wet soil on my feet became like wheat sand and the loving presence of Rainbowtopia drained to dryness. The elderly are mourning with no sight of young people as if our island has turned upside down.
Is this our future?
I covered this forearm-long machine with my outerwear and popped it into my favourite turquoise backpack.
As I head towards home, I could hear shootings from afar getting louder.
Worried, I sprint in the direction of home only to find the charred remains of what used to be my house. My eyes welled up with tears as I looked around for any survivors.
“Mama! Papa!” I cried out. Nothing but silence.
As I started to dig into the rubble, I heard the faint sounds of metal clanking. And a cybertronic voice roared, “Quickly! Find the Command Key! It must be here somewhere!”
I quickly hid behind a boulder, quietly observing the cyborgs search the area for the ‘Command Key’. Was this the reason for the continuous attack on our peaceful world? What is this command key?
The scanned the perimeters with their lazers, mama and papa are definitely hiding somewhere else! Was the command key, the shiny object?
After awhile, they left and I went to rummage through our house. Everything was destroyed, seems like we might have to move again. Why can’t the cyborgs leave us be?!
Then at the corner of my eye, there was something sparkling, I went closer and closer and and I see a floating, glowing, rainbow metal ball. Was this the command key? I reached out and poked it with my finger, it then rises and warped me to a new dimension, it was cold and full of scrap metal, was this xander 242?!
I recalled a story that late-grandmother told me when I was little, that Xander 242 was a chilly place and also a sister-island of Zander 424 and they weren’t in good terms. Since then, the two islands had been in a state of cold war for over a few decades. So this might be true! But Rainbowtopia and Zander 424 did not have any relationship and contact with each other, why did it come to our land?
All I hear now was my heavy breathing from the absurd fact that I came to a new dimension, an unknown silent place. There’s no sign of life and fear struck me.
“Helloooo!”
“Heeellloooooooo!” My voice echoed back.
In a couple of torturing-long minutes, the same metal ball flew towards me and I desperately stretched my hands to poke it again, hoping that I am able to go back home.
I warped back to Rainbowtopia and it was chaotic everywhere. Laser beams and bullets were coming from different directions.
When I landed back in Rainbowtopia, everything was pitch dark. I hit my head hard and was left unconscious for a few seconds. As I opened my eyes, a pair of metal feet was seen in front of me. I looked up to see one of the cyborgs from Xander 242 staring directly at me.
Despite me being dead-scared, I gave a nervous smile, hoping to save myself with my cuteness.
The cyborg gave me a dead stare and whipped out his handcuffs and handcuffed me.