There was an earth trembling rumble that awoke SID from his night charge.
SID unplugged himself from the wall charger, and looked around the room. All the furniture lay scattered and in pieces throughout the room. He ran out into the living room, scanning frantically for Amy. He looked around the destroyed living room, the front door smashed in and the wall to the left blown out. The cold overcast sky looked into the room, SID walked to the giant whole in the wall.
He looked down one hundred stories at the waters below, bodies and building debris floating in the rocky waters. A calming wind blew through the humongous whole and fluttered the objects in the house.
SID turned back to the smashed in door and walked out into the hallway. As he entered he saw anarchy; people, robots and animals running like wild. Some robots were killing the citizens of Mapasay, this must have been 1223's army that Amy told SID about the night before.
A man ran past SID, covered in blood, then there was an ear shattering pop, and the man fell to the ground. He skidded and slid across the dust covered wreckage of the hallway floor, he stopped and didn't get up. SID looked in the direction of the popping sound and saw two huge Battle Droids standing with massive machine guns. They scanned the area for something SID didn't know.
They detected SID and locked him in their aim. SID could feel their tracking systems locking onto him, still standing - petrified. In a split second [SID could feel them pull the trigger] SID jumped back into the apartment, the bullets missing him and he dove. He slid on the debris filled floor of his apartment, bumping into the black tracking ball given to him by the Compactor Droid.
He grabbed it quickly and activated it. Then he looked at the door and saw one of the giant Battle Droids turning the corner into his apartment. SID stood up quickly and ran into the bedroom, the sound of machine gun rounds firing followed him, and the sound of th bullets penetrating through the wall he ran past chased him. He dove again behind Amy's bed. He lie behind it, hoping to use it as cover. He heard heavy footsteps enter the room.
SID pushed the button on the tracking ball again, in a panic. He listened as the heavy footsteps got louder. He could also he the tracking system of the Battle Droid scanning his room. Further away SID could hear another set of heavy footsteps in his living room, it must have been the second Battle Droid. The first set of footsteps stopped and SID could feel it raising it's machine gun in his area. It knew SID was lying behind the bed. The second before it pulled the trigger SID jumped up and sprang off the bed, the bullets flying past him. He hit the floor and slid across the wooden floors to the doorway. The first Battle Droid followed SID with his weapon and hit his partner instead of his target. SID looked up and saw a towering machine above him being pumped full of lead.
The second Battle Droid swayed and began to fall forward, on top of SID. SID jumped on all fours and ran between it's legs, then began to run upright. The first Battle Droid never stopping his firing. SID tried running towards the front door but could sense he wouldn't make it through the door. So he turned to the missing wall and jumped out of it, one hundred stories to the rocky waters below.
SID fell fast, the wind blowing past him. He held onto the tracking ball still even though he felt it was useless. He watched as the water got closer and closer, and the figures and debris that floated in it slowly started to form into images of dead people and machines. SID knew the chances of him surviving this fall were slim to none but there was still a chance.
He looked back, up at the giant whole leading to his once-apartment, and he saw the first Battle Droid looking off, back at him. It didn't raise it's weapon, it knew SID was already dead.
As SID got closer and closer he began to feel afraid. He could die right now, with no knowledge of what happened to Amy, and that made me terribly sad. It was when he was about twenty stories to go that SID saw a huge black blur leap from a window a few stories below him. He and the blur collided and that force knocked him off of his death course, into a cycling - spinning chaos. He and the blur spun off into another direction, the blur had taken hold of him. They splashed into the water.
Colliding with the object saved SID's life and when he looked to see what it was that saved him he saw that it was none other than the Compactor Droid.
-Sir Jestro
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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