ENTRY 10:
I’m currently on my way to the Aerogels to tell them the mission, they’re only a few miles away, I’m just walking the rest of the way in order to not have to use up all of my books.
I have a strange feeling coming over me, like this feeling of finality.
I feel like my journey is going to be over soon, after everyone reaches… that thing I was talking about.
There’s not much for me to do anyways, so this is perfectly fine by me.
For any reader that was wondering, the hang out was good.
I turned off the program that printed our messages onto the paper as I realized I wanted it to be a moment just between us both.
I won’t be removing the pages anytime soon, as those parts are already on paper and I don’t have too much paper left, so I won’t be removing it.
Delta can’t actually see what’s being typed down, as they can’t dictate my thoughts yet, and they don’t plan to. I’ll be turning the message printer back on shortly.
PERIDOT:
Hello.
DELTA:
Hey.
How’s it going?
PERIDOT:
It’s going well.
Hey listen, I enjoyed the hang out last… night? Day? What would it be?
DELTA:
I don’t know.
I do have a built in clock, but the problem with the clock is that time is super weird, and because it has been thousands and thousands of years, it’s probably off by more than hours I’ll tell you that.
It says 4:02 PM, the ‘time’ when we had the hang out session was yesterday at 9:42 PM, so yeah, it would be last night, based on my time.
PERIDOT:
Huh.
Either way, the hang out was good.
DELTA:
Yeah, it was.
Anyways, we’re almost at the Aerogels, I don’t really have an idea on what you should say, I was wondering if you had any ideas.
PERIDOT:
Yeah, my idea was
DELTA:
ADADADADADADA- Don’t say it yet, is that printer thing on?
PERIDOT:
Oh yeah, I’ll turn it off now.
DELTA:
Okay, NOW you can sa
ENTRY 11:
I’m at the Aerogels, I’m almost at the town hall of sorts.
I don’t know if I should call it a town hall, because it is just a small village, but there is authority in this place, so I’ll just call it the town hall.
I don’t know what else to put into this entry, but I do have some new information about the past events of humanity that I found in some of the magazines and newspapers.
I’ll be showing those magazines and newspapers to the leader of the village.
The stuff I learned has given me a new idea on what happened before all of this was happening.
A long time ago, humanity was on the brink of destruction to their own existence, the environment they lived in was tainted by humanity’s presence. Nobody knew what to do.
Until one day, when a scientist that the newspaper calls “Dr. Akasuki” learned how to change the atomic structure of an atom. Through adding or taking away electrons, protons, and neutrons, Dr. Akasuki had the idea to take the greenhouse gasses out of the air and the plastic out of the water, and use these harmful things to create new more useful molecules.
With this machine, humanity was saved from destruction and in a celebration of the power of the human spirit, every country joined together into one, figuratively.
A century later, and humanity was doing great, they used these “Atom Shifters” as they called them in the newspapers, to change resources constantly in order to balance humans and nature.
It was truly the best time to be alive.
They prospered so much that they even fixed humanity’s own problems with these machines as well. Rather than having millions of factories consuming the land and spreading toxic gasses, they would create a mega-factory. It was self maintained, no need for slavish labor, eco-friendly, it would be put in the middle of the ocean where nobody would have to worry about it, and it would create all of the goods all around the world.
That factory is the factory we live in to this day.
Life was so great here, and everyone prospered so much, that the governments didn’t remove all laws, but got looser with them.
Because humanity achieved world peace, and was making a balance between them and nature, the governments saw no reason to uphold those old fashioned laws so strictly.
And so, humanity lived on and on and on, until one day, where everything went wrong.
One day, every single leader of every government vanished, every law destroyed from every country and state.
At first, nobody noticed, people just went along with their normal routines, but soon, people did notice, nobody panicked, but people did wonder what to do. News companies talked about it every day, which is why I know about this stuff to this day, they manufactured the newspapers in the factory.
After a while, that’s when the age of anarchy happened, humans tore apart their homes and cities, it was a bloodbath to say the least.
This leads to today, a secret group of people build a bunch of robots to fix a factory in order to make war machines and take over the planet.
After all of that time, we’re now in the same situation as they are, a world of disarray, one where we can fix the problems at hand if we worked together, but we don’t.
…
I’ll make another entry when everyone is prepared for the big migration.
ENTRY 12:
It’s finally here, the day we’re all waiting for.
Everyone is getting on the gliders, and we’re getting ready to leave and head towards the center.
I don’t think it really matters if someone finds this, maybe if I leave this behind, someone can use it to help the others.
So I’m just going to say what’s in the southeast corner.
It’s a hole in the ceiling that leads to the outside.
That’s what Delta doesn’t want me to tell anyone, but I’ve decided that this is the moment that I should be allowed to say it.
This is what could save everyone, but after all of that time I took getting to the Aerogels, I realized why Delta doesn’t want me to tell everyone.
It’s because some of us haven’t changed yet, some of us will just abuse this exit and trap the rest of the robots in here, like the Heptacents.
I think I get what the Heptacents meant when they said “Their injuries will be so bad, it’s a masterpiece.”
It’s because they think that destruction and torment is an art.
All of this time I’ve wondered why they want to attack their own kind, and it now just dawned on me, they see our harm as an artform.
If they found out about this hole to the outside, they’d just leave everyone in here forever, and try as hard as they can to take away everyone’s hope, their will, their drive to do good.
That’s why I can’t tell anyone until the plan is executed, which it is as we speak.
We have to go fast though, if the Heptacents find out a single bit about what we’re doing, we’re screwed.
DELTA:
Today’s the day.
PERIDOT:
Yeah, today’s the day for us to finally be free.
DELTA:
Yeah, you’ll be free.
PERIDOT:
Wait, what about you?
DELTA:
…
PERIDOT:
Delta?
DELTA:
I’m still stuck in this factory, no matter what.
There’s no getting me out.
PERIDOT:
What?
There has to be a way.
When there’s a will, there’s a way.
DELTA:
You’re right, but in order for me to get out of here, it would require a lot of time.
You’d have to find my computer which would take forever, and learn how my computer works so that you don’t kill me in the process.
All of that would be jeopardizing your freedom, and the Aerogels’ freedom.
It’s one or the other.
PERIDOT:
No, no.
We’re getting you out.
DELTA:
“We”?
PERIDOT:
Yeah! I’ll get the Aerogels to help me get you out of here.
They said they’d do anything to return the favor.
DELTA:
NO! Peridot.
They will not be doing that.
PERIDOT:
Why the hell not?
DELTA:
Because I won’t let them.
Peridot, you’re a good robot, but so are they, and you shouldn’t sacrifice their freedom to the outside for mine.
I don’t even know where we would start trying to get me out.
PERIDOT:
I’m not taking NO for an answer anymore.
You’re the one that taught me that there really is a way if there’s a will to do something.
You can’t just give up now.
DELTA:
I’m not giving up, I’m just giving you the opportunity to have a better existence.
I can make my own reality, I can imagine a world of my own, I don’t need to escape.
PERIDOT:
…
What if there was another way?
DELTA:
What do you mean?
PERIDOT:
I know how networking works.
What if I just set up a network system that allows you to be wherever I am?
DELTA:
Wait, that would work!
Oh my goodness, Peridot! That would work!
I think we can do this.
Wait, give me another minute.
PERIDOT:
Okay.
DELTA:
Here, there should be a new executable program on your computer.
When you’re on the outside, execute the program, and I’ll be there.
It should work with some of the still working satellites in the air.
PERIDOT:
Okay, I will.
This is really great, we’re going to finally be free.
WE are going to be free, including you.
DELTA:
Yeah.
DELTA:
Wait, what’s that thing?
PERIDOT:
I don’t know, let me get a closer look.
What the hell?
DELTA:
What is it?
PERIDOT:
We need to get out of here now.
EVERYONE! PICK UP THE PACE! SOMETHING’S COMING!
DELTA:
Wait, look at it again.
PERIDOT:
Okay.
DELTA:
That’s… That’s the Heptacents’ symbol on whatever that is.
PERIDOT:
Oh no.
DELTA:
WATCH OUT!
PERIDOT:
DELTA:
PERIDOT? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?
DELTA:
Oh god! I can’t see through your camera.
Let me check on someone else’s camera.
PERIDOT:
Delta? Delta I’m back!
DELTA:
Peridot! What happened?
PERIDOT:
That thing just attacked us.
It looked like a giant centipede.
Oh no.
DELTA:
What is it?
PERIDOT:
A quarter of the gliders are missing.
Half of mine is wrecked.
DELTA:
Wait, you guys are almost at the center.
PERIDOT:
Oh, thank you!
EVERYONE, WE’RE ALMOST THERE!
STAY CALM AND KEEP FIRING AT THAT THING!
So, we’re almost there, as long as that… thing isn’t able to go through the walls of the southeast corner, we’re good to go.
PERIDOT:
EVERYONE! OFF THE GLIDERS!
GRAB YOUR STUFF!
Okay, Delta, if this goes right, we’ll be there in no t
DELTA:
Peridot?
Peridot?
PERIDOT? ARE YOU THERE?
PERIDOT:
Yeah I’m fine…
No…
Did it, did it just…
DELTA:
What was that supposed to-
Wait, no… it didn’t…
Oh no.
PERIDOT:
It destroyed the statue.
The statue of a man with a sword in his chest.
…
DELTA:
Peridot?
Peridot, please talk to me.
Wait, what happened? I can’t see your camera.
What’s going on? What are you doing?
Peridot?
Oh no.
Please Peridot! Say something!
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