The Seventh Bowl: Chapter One

BLEEP!!
BLEEP!!
BLEEP!!
"Rise and shine everyone from Ensville, the time is now 6:30am, the weather outside is cloudy, so don't forget that raincoat on your way to school kids! Hahaha, now stay tuned, we've got a block of Autechre coming up, followed by some Daft Punk and...ummm....hell why not, we'll finish it off with some Dead Lemonz. Stay tuned to your favorite underground electronic station: 104.8 The DROID!" It was the same thing every morning for Rob; his alarm for school would go off at exactly the same time, 6:30am, he'd listen to some great tunes for about twenty minutes, then he'd head off to school, Ensville High. Rob wasn't the most outgoing seventeen year old in the world, heck, he hardly ever even talked. he always had his nose pressed between the pages of a book. The subject matter didn't really matter to him, just like a sponge doesn't care what kind of liquid its sucking in.
Most of the books he read had to do with robots, and the people of Ensville always had something to say to that:
"Why would you read that garbage?"
"Those monsters are killing our comrades, and you're supporting them!?"
"Metal lover!"
"You're just as heartless as they are!"
But all these harsh words missed their target, Rob didn't care about the war spreading all over the world, he didn't care that in some parts of the world the robots were killing humans, he didn't care that The Three Law of Robotics were all just make believe, he saw everyone, and everything as equals. The trees, humans, animals, robots, insects, everything came from the same place, and would too, return to the same place in the end, To Rob, what the robots were doing to the humans over in Sadam was exactly the same as what the humans were doing to the robots in Levy, and what the humans were also doing to the plants and animals all over the world was the same, It all made him sick.
What confused Rob was why there was still racism and anger between the nations of man, shouldn't the robo-threat be more of an issue than what color another human's skin is? But as it was, he and his aunt were the only black family in their neighborhood, and everyone on his street reminded him of that. But oh well, the robots were coming soon and they saw all the humans as the same, so in a way Rob preferred them to humans; the robots all saw humans as equals, but they were the monsters, remember? And Rob went around that circle in his mind the entire walk to school time and time again, but he never felt at ease about any of it.
Times were hard and everyone knew that, Rob wished he could do something about it, or help the ones who could 'fix' it and bring the world back into order.
His head started to ache as the rain started to pour down on him, he covered his head with his book and quickened his pace to school.
Robert's wish would soon be answered.


-Sir Jestro