ONE NATION: A Post Apocalyptic, Dystopian Saga

by Michael W. Huard

  These men and women who represented this one-time great country had remained hidden long enough. Where they lacked in numbers, their enthusiasm and effort took over. Eventually, most of the robots in the streets were taken down. All that remained were scattered groups here and there now.

  Sun knew she definitely had to find the others. Hopefully one had the beam. There was a great opportunity for success right now.

  But before she left, she ran into the commander of the resistance once more. He saluted her and called out, “Looks like things are changing, and it's about time.”

  Sun wasn't too positive about that just yet. She knew that the Godbot was still out here, yet she nodded her head, giving him a thumbs up. She then zipped down the street on her cycle in pursuit of her friends.

  Word had spread in the city and behind the scenes that people were aggressively building Lady Liberty back up. These workers kept their pieces hidden from watching eyes. But now, as robots began falling with help from the sisterhood and the American Resistance, it didn't take long for those silent in their homes to emerge with weapons: grappling hooks, ropes, and anything else they could find to help pull down the statue of the Godbot. They had a goal, and there was another statue they planned to put up.

  A large group of citizens now began to tear down the robot’s new statue.

  Reagan had convinced Omagus to go outside this rainy night. He was in for a big surprise.

  She and her sisters led the way with many of his other bots. Still, Old Horny had not returned, though Omagus expected him at any moment. The large entourage saw the flashing of lights up through the storm, and all knew fighting was taking place towards the city square.

  Resin was out there on a side street, watching as they all came from the Godbots private building. The plan had worked for the time being. Yet, still his gun was missing the beam needed to take the super robot down. Where was the beam? Had any of the seekers found one?

  They all walked closer to the center of the city as flashes of lighting now joined the laser beams of warfare all about.

  Raegan called to the Godbot, “Seems you have an issue this evening?”

  Omagus knew that. It was more than obvious!

  “Yes, the way of humans never surprises me. Here we’re again having those trying to resist. Perhaps this is your chance to show me the possibilities of you and your sisters setting things strait?”

  Raegan looked to Sin, Jansa, and Chaya. None knew the answer here. The beam was still missing.

  Raegan then agreed. “Yes, we will help you out here and get the revolt in order.”

  They all walked on, the women not knowing what would come next. Resin followed from the rear now. He had the rifle on his back.

  Johan, Naiera, and others with them now came around a bend before the group. Galax was with them, looming in the rain. His brother Omagus was sure to see him mow.

  Resin then heard the sound of a motorcycle behind him down an alley. He looked to see Sun pulling up not too far from where he was hidden and watching from behind. He waved her over.

  “Anything?” he asked her. “The group is with him now over there.”

  Sun shook her head no at first, but as she got closer and saw the others with the Godbot more clearly, she noticed Galax with Johan. “Wait, there might be hope after all. Get on.” She then zoomed across the street to Johan with Resin sitting behind her.

  Johan saw them coming. The Godbot and his troops did as well.

  “We need a beam,” Sun said, riding up to Jo. “This is our one chance. He’s here right now.”

  Galax heard all she said as they discussed the issue at hand.

  Johan raised his hands, not sure what to say.

  “We cannot find BSR1. That leaves us Galax. But as you can see, he’s with us now.” Both discussed that if they had no beam for the electromagnetic pulse gun, they had no chance.

  The tall super bot came forth from the rain to the side of them.

  “Take my power source,” he announced.

  Johan shook his head. “No, that’s not the answer.”

  Sun raised her hands as if to say what other choice do we have at this moment?

  It was then that Old Horny was spotted coming down the street in the pouring rain. He held up before all parties the cyborg Tyne Gem’s broken, torn-apart body. When lighting struck near him, all saw his eerie image with their defeated friend. Their hearts sunk as he yelled out, “It’s a trap! These women are the enemy!”

  Both Sun and Johan grabbed their heads in anxiety. She then looked him in the eyes, saying, “This is our only chance.”

  Galax knew she was right. He shockingly tore his beam away from the underneath of his chin. Johan could not believe he did such a thing.

  The silver and blue robot passed the glowing greenish tube to the young man. Galax then slowly sunk to the pavement. He was still functioning but weak. He looked up with his blue eyes still on. “It’s okay. You’re my friend. He is not. Stop him while you can.”

  Johan passed the flickering green beam component to Sun, who asked Resin for the rifle. He had it out right away and helped her load the beam into its top.

  “You will not get more than one shot at the Godbot,” he explained. “You cannot miss!”

  Sun nodded. “I never miss! Get off.”

  Resin did as she wanted, standing now near Johan and the super robot Galax, who was still down on his knees.

  Chaos in the streets of New York was everywhere! The rain kept coming, lightning kept blasting, and an epic showdown was at hand.

  CHAPTER FIVE

  Fighting then broke immediately. The Godbot, as expected, could never trust this sisterhood. Lies were all they were good for.

  His bots battled them and any who attacked him personally failed miserably.

  He walked towards Galax, yelling obscenities over at the approaching motorcycle and the red-haired woman riding it. She held in her hand a long rifle with a green beam sparking across its top. The weapon was complete and ignited.

  Raegan came at him, but he would not be stopped. He tossed her aside as madness overtook him. Jansa came to her. “Get up. We have to move. If Tyne is down, Mahira and others might be as well.”

  The Godbot stopped in the middle of the street, dead in the center, waiting for Sun on her cycle to reach him now.

  “I see my brother has given to you the means to try to destroy me.” He then looked to his left and saw Galax standing again as he moved slowly towards him.

  Sun slowed down, almost in range now. She needed to steady herself for a perfect shot.

  “Look at you,” Omagus called to his brother. “You, the warrior still needing to make our dead human parents proud. You are the true warrior of us, even now in your pathetic form. I am just the brains, the intelligence to take our kind to another level. By giving these women the means to try to destroy me, our revolution may very well end. Now I see. You’re just like these humans, always giving a piece of yourself to prove your worth.”

  Galax stumbled forward, calling out to him. “You were never my brother. We were just made the same day. I am much different than you. I have feelings, unlike you. I care about people, unlike you.”

  The Godbot laughed loudly.

  Galax came before him and tried to strike out, but Omagus caught his metal fist in his hand and, combined with the loss of the blue and silver robot’s main energy source, he held the fist sturdily.

  Galax could not break free, and it was then that Omagus threw him to the ground. Then he picked him back up and twisted the bot’s arm. He spun him about and then tackled him to the street.

  Sun was now trying to get the perfect shot. They were moving too much. The others were fighting the Godbot’s soldiers and moving away as much as possible, yet still watching her; hoping for a miracle.

  Sun soon pinpointed the scope to the Godbot’s face as he stood up now over Galax, who was hardly moving under him.

  It was now Sun said to the Godbot, “You really think
you are something, don’t you? It's time for you to realize that everything that is built can be destroyed.”

  Next she laid loose a streaming, pulsating beam of energy into the Godbot’s eyes. The EMP acted as if it was a lightning bolt touching ground to metal as it hit Omagus dead on. Thereafter, static electricity sparks of blue and yellow fire danced about his entire frame.

  And when they finally settled and left his metal body, he simply smiled, looking over at the young red head.

  “IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE?” he asked her. “Perhaps you didn’t pray enough today for a miracle?”

  Sun screamed in bloody anguish, driving right at him, leaping over her bike, but he caught her by the throat in midair and threw her over his shoulder. She crashed to the ground.

  Galax crawled at him, reaching and grabbing his leg, but with his other free leg, Omagus stomped the robot's head over and over until he was not moving anymore.

  It was then the Godbot turned to Raegan and her crew down the road some now. “I guess this leaves just you and I,” he said to her.

  The 7-foot blackish-silver metal robot then removed his dark brown cloak, letting it fall to the pavement.

  “Take a good look,” he announced to all the remaining women. “I AM YOUR GOD! The one your storybook has so told you about!”

  Raegan looked over to the brave young woman Sun, who now was at least moving on the right side of the road. She was making her way back to her motorcycle.

  The shot, the mega weapon, had not worked on the Godbot.

  Jansa held back Reagan.

  “Let me go,” Raegan insisted to the doctor as she broke free from her sister’s grip. She then went at the Godbot as the others screamed for her to hold back.

  Resin took Johan in his arms, turning him away. He was dumfounded by the weapon’s lack of effectiveness. “I cannot believe it didn’t work. It should have worked,” he kept saying as they turned away.

  Raegan first tried to kick the god robot’s knee joint out, which he blocked with his own shin. She spun around, trying to knock his head off or break his metal neck with a spinning hook kick next. Her form was a marvel to behold, yet he ducked easily under her kick. Raegan then threw a barrage of punches, but each one he knocked away with ease. She then spun about, again kicking him right in the stomach. He did not even budge.

  The others were attacked by robots nearby, Old Horny leading their charge.

  The Godbot yelled to his second-in-command, “That’s right, destroy the rest of these worthless humans. THEY ALL SHALL DIE!”

  Resin and Johan had to turn back to help them.

  Everyone was fighting now again.

  Raegan kept trying to bring down the freak, but soon became exhausted at all her attempts. He would counter every move she made, just as she tried to strike out at him. He then grabbed her by her hair and lifted her off the ground.

  “YOU THINK ME A FOOL to believe you wanted to help me!” he shouted at her face. “Let us all witness who the real fool is!” He then lifted her fully over his head, ready to drop her on his knee and break her back.

  He never saw Mahira coming.

  She slashed hard at his arm joints with Free and came back again, cutting deep into the same spot.

  The Godbot threw Reagan down and turned to face the gladiator once more.

  “You again,” he called forth. “Were you not buried alive earlier? How is it that your weapon has reformed?”

  Free spoke to her before she answered. There’s no time for explanations.

  Mahira, who was bruised and cut up badly, in truth had pulled herself from the fallen wreckage and was indeed alive.

  Throw me, Free then suggested. I will carve his head in half.

  Mahira pulled back and let him fly!

  Right smack in his head did Free embed himself.

  The Godbot shook from the hit. It bothered him. But he then grabbed the handle of the axe and with a great pull he yanked it off, leaving the axe’s head in his forehead even still.

  Mahira could not imagine that happening.

  The Godbot still would not fall.

  He then let loose a series of metal shards from his hands at the gladiator. She took the hits directly, and they sent her on her backside.

  The Godbot returned again to Reagan next, pulling her back up and barking into her face. “Today is the end of the sisterhood. BYE BYE, MYSTICAL SLAYERS!”

  But that's when Omagus felt something from behind slice into the back of his knee joints.

  He turned to see a tall black human man looking at him with piercing blue eyes.

  Omagus let Reagan go and gave the bald black man with a thick, gleaming silver sword his full attention.

  “Where did you come from?” he asked, quite interested in this new human opponent. “WHO ARE YOU?” the Godbot called out.

  Raegan saw Pure now. He had come again to help her, against all her wishes. Yet she smiled. He had not forgotten her.

  It was then that Pure said to the Godbot, “I am a messenger of the real God!”

  “Ha ha ha,” bellowed out Omagus. “The dreams of humans, the feeling of faith that someone is watching over them never ends. Even those that try to fill such a role believe in this foolishness. Tell me who you really are before I strike you down.”

  Pure grinned. “I'm an angel sent from heaven.”

  The Godbot would listen to no more gibberish nonsense.

  It was then that the two of them engaged in combat.

  Omagus was impressed, to say the least. This man was good. “Perhaps your fellow humans have saved the best for last?” He spoke out.

  Pure paused and, looking the Godbot in the eyes, answered, “I am not a human!”

  The robot found his answer rather peculiar. It was again they locked in combat.

  They battled fiercely for some time, but soon it became obvious that something was wrong with Omagus. He seemed to be weakening by the minute.

  He began to wonder who his opponent really, truly was.

  “Tell me then, what are you?” he asked, trying to regain his operational energy and strength.

  “I have already told you, yet you are incapable of understanding.”

  “You’re a fool,” the Godbot bellowed out.

  And then the fight raged on.

  But again, you could see it in his movements; Omagus was really getting weaker.

  Pure was gaining strength and had the advantage suddenly.

  His sword striking out continually over and over finally brought the Godbot to his knees.

  It now was obvious: Omagus was malfunctioning. The EMP gun had worked after all. It had taken a bit, but it was working.

  A cheer rang up from those fighting nearby, seeing this occur.

  Old Horny himself was in shock. He left Jansa, Chaya, Resin, Johan, and all others to turn and run to the Godbot’s aid. How could this be?

  But just as he got closer, Sun ran him over with her motorcycle. He toppled to the pavement, literally partially ripped apart, as other sisterhood members ran and fired and hacked at him over and over again on the ground. Johan had actually led the charge.

  Old Horny fought to regain his feet as the barrage of people attacked him. He was tough and got up, even though he was only on one leg now.

  Sinaye then stood before him. “I have to say, as a robotics specialist, you have seen better days.”

  The robot tried to answer her but his face was mangled somewhat and his voice only came out in studders and misfires.

  Sin drew a knife from her side. She knew what she needed to do. She went at the bot, ducking his futile swings, and cut into the rest of his joints and connecting regions that were still holding him together.

  She sliced him up really good and soon he crumbled to the pavement.

  Old Horny was no more.

  Johan was pumped up. He raised a fist at his girl on her bike, as if to say good one. They had finished the second-in-command to Omagus.

  All of them now watched as the tall angel to
ok full command of his fight with the super robot.

  The Godbot’s head was already partially now cut in two from Free’s insertion into it.

  It did not take much for Pure to chop through the rest and end the Godbot forever! It was then his green, evil eyes soon faded out.

  Pure, right after, turned to Raegan. “I should have not come here, but now that I have, I do not regret my decision.”

  She went to him, hugging him closely.

  Pure tried to explain to her why he had come. “This world is one that God looks over. It is not a world for robots. If he and the overseers deem me unworthy, then so be it. I will face their trials. I am sure of it.”

  Reagan just looked up at his blue eyes. “You saved me again.”

  He smiled down at her.

  “It is you that have saved this land, and I'm very proud of you.” He took her hand in his and lifted it up and kissed it. “It has been my pleasure, Raegan James. After all, it’s what guardian angels do. Remember in your heart the love that I have given unto you. There is nothing better in the universe, for God is love.”

  He then looked to young Sun, who had pulled back around and up before the couple on her motorcycle.

  He winked at the young lady.

  Sun seemed a bit perplexed. She knew she was in the presence of something truly extraordinary. There was no denying that. The angel suddenly spreading out massive white wings confirmed her thinking here.

  Pure than said to her, “God loves you too. He loves you like a daughter.”

  Sun felt a strange heat come over her.

  Pure then kissed Raegan one last time on the forehead.

  “Remember me forever, okay?”

  Then he slowly began to fade into a thousand sparkles of golden light.

  A moment later, he was gone.

  Resin ran over. “It worked, right? It was hard to see in all the rain and darkness, but it did work. It has to have worked.”