GREZNI wakes up

GREZNI wakes up. Today for him is same as other days. He has a successful career; a lifetime job that requires skills and courage to do indeed. He is a welder, a construction welder who mainly perform his job in difficult, harsh situations and weathers. He is alone, no one at home. He is a bit dizzy now, and his left-brain lobe hurts bad. He sits on the bed side, leveraging his head on both of his palms, trying to think about yesterday. Its vague, and almost impossible to revive that. In less than 5 minutes his cellphone rings. He hears it but unable to locate, that’s why he tends to ignore the ringing. After a minute it stops ringing, but again it starts. Grezni knows that it’s a call from work. For ten years ago until now, he never had someone that be this much persistent to speak with him. after that shameful incident that sliced in half his marriage with ANA, his work colleague, and forced him to find another job in another workshop.

   Grezni tries to find the phone by listening to the ringing sound. It’s not in the bed room. It’s from outside. He opens the door and reaches to the dining room, not here too. The sounds are a bit clearer to hear though. It’s from his right side, where the bathroom exists, and that is weird to him. He never left his cellphone there, unless it’s for the sake of watching porn and masturbation.

“Did I masturbate last night?” He whispers by himself. He is totally naked, and that is the first thing he finds out after looking down to his dick. He touches its mushroom head, and sniffs his index and thumbs for any smell resemble to Whitening liquids.  No, he did not. He was just naked. That should be ok, since he inclines to sleep that way. It was his life by the way. He walks directed to the bathroom. The door is half open and the sound of cellphone is pretty clear now. The door gently opens by his right hand and he enters in. The shower booth is foggy as like it’s a misty day inside it.

   The shower is on and the hot water is raining down.  He manages to open the booth door and volve off the shower. It’s too hot which immediately burns his right index finger. “shittt” he murmurs and step aside to let the steam runaway out of the booth. It’s there, the phone is down there, ringing and vibrating. Lucky for to him that he bought a waterproof one. “Why I left you here MARIA?” This cellphone apparently has more to offer than a usual device!

   “Let me make you dry dear. Sorry for leaving you there last night. Do you remember anything?” for his colleagues, he is a normal person, but for himself, Grezni is a free man. Free from relationships that sucks all his energy out of his body a kill the spirit of him. He chose to have this double lifestyle. At his work place, he is a successful, reliable, potent and versatile welder whom being under competition by several manufactories in his town to be hired. But he has a principle for himself, ‘I will never betray my company’. Although it’s not his, but he feels that it is. That turned him to a well-known skill worker and a reliable employee for his boss.

  “Hi MARIA, tell me where I have been last night?” A drop sounds plays and a not- too-clearly artificial like woman voice says” Hello Grezni, hope you are having a good day. Yesterday you met ANA, she was on your to-do list yesterday. He shocks! “I?! with ANA?! Yesterday?! Why?!”

  “She asked you to meet her at Bralevaya pub in downtown. I have the location if you need proof”

   “Yes, please send it to me”

  “Sure, but as a reminder, your boss BORIS called two times. He sent a message that I can read it for you”

“Read it please” Grezni pours a mug of coffee and empties it into his throat tunnel. That makes him to cough, but that is ok to him. He then takes a small donut and grab a bit.

“Where the hell you are Grezni?! We need you here now. The guard tower, the project you God damnit accepted is due for delivering and installation today. Have you forgotten that?! Call me now.” Maria reads aloud the message for Grezni while he is busy finishing the Donut. He now remembers the date; its 23 January, and yesterday was his marriage anniversary with ANA.

 

 

Grezni fixes his mind and put the priorities in order. “Ok Maria, first of all the guard tower project, delivery and installation. Then lunch by takeaway at ‘Four Fingers’, and then location of that Pub you said.”

“Bralevaya! Alright, its done, I made the notification with various sounds to not making you confused. Do you want me to name the notifications?”

  “No no, I have no time. Turn the Chevy on and set it the destination to the factory.” Grezni was talking with his virtual secretary in somehow. MARIA was the latest products of GAD; Ground breaking Advance development. A Super giant technological and software complex, with multinational branches.

  He grabs the cellphone and takes the elevator.  For him, he would never found out that why despite all the technology that human achieved, his condo’s passage way, the elevator and everything belong to it has to be still rusty?! They made the elevator automatically anticipates the destination floor where the passenger tends to go by being linked to their virtual secretary. Everybody has one of these which named it what-so-ever creepy name they could imagine. Grezni in his mind thinks that what a full package of fun is for the customer services of GAD, that know the name of all virtual secretaries of their subscribers!

 

  The workshop was noisy as always. The welders, grinders, helpers, engineers and supervisors all were talking loudly to be able to pass the instructions to each other. The sounds of welding, like a pan stuffed by popping corns, and the smell of fusing metals and fumes implying that here is a real-life welding workshop. The sparks flying around, the grinders trying to prepare the steel pieces to passing them to fabricators for fitting. Welders, the bad asses, summoned to integrate the parts by welding two or more pieces together. Hard rock music from 12 speakers’ components and three amplifiers creates a unbearable place for normal people, but a pleasant and appealing war zone for the men of steel. Grezni really love this place. He never imagined being here and working as a welder, welding supervisor, and project coordinator.

 

  "Hey" a roar from the boss, from threshold of his rabbit hole office, calling him to get there faster. His face was wrinkled due to his hellish wrath against Grezni. Still, Grezni has no idea what he had done. He started walking toward the rabbit hole, partially jogging to reach there faster.

 

   "You got to finish this iron dick that you accepted faster. I want it to get assembled today."

Grezni looked as confused, comic and not giving any damn to whatever, he was saying. He just wanted to get this shit done and go to that God knows where Pub. The old LED was broadcasted a news channel; A hot and curvy blond reporter was commentating about a controversial news that was booming apparently:

 “We are witnessing a growing number of arresting during the past weeks in our town. Hundreds of citizens, mainly men between 30 to 47 have been caught due to the charges with similar patterns; raping, drug smuggling, rubbering and shooting. The ratio of the accusations in these crimes accelerated enormously. Despite their aggressiveness during their arresting by the Police force, they all have something to say in similar: we did not do it consciously! The Police department’s high commissioners after having several interviews indicates that there is a unusual pattern that yet ought to be discovered.”

Grezni, after watching the news for couple of minutes, averted from the TV and looked back at Boris and said:

"Alright I need Gregory, the welder, and two grinders to help me. I get this done tonight."

The Boss plunged into his leather chair and made some fairy-like noises, and asked a question from his Virtual assistant:

“Megan, download the latest fantasy movie released, I am bored”. Grezni sniffed at him like a horse and knocked the door off behind him.

The job despite those lame helpers, which one of them jammed the grinder during cutting an iron bar and broke his left thumb, finished on time. Grezni asked the survived one to, first grind, and second clean the welds after Gregory, one of the best welders they have had, fused the welds.

  "Alright Maria, ignite the Chevy, set the direction to the Bar. We have to get there to see what happens to me yesterday."

"Eye, eye Grezni". After being his virtual assistant for more than a year, he got that her artificial intelligence structured surprisingly ahead of time that it got her unbelievably developed, enabling her to interact more like a human.

 "It so beautiful!" Maria was under the effects of the night. The sky scrapers’ flashing lights illuminating the night. The massive digital billboards with the rapidly changing advertisements, set out a background of lights that radiate the deserted highway. Seems that drivers decided not to ride this way. The reason was obscure but it works for Grezni, particularly for Chevy that Pulsing with each gear that was shifting.

They were not too far, in fact only twenty-seven KM remained to reach to the Bar. The Chevy find a parking lot at a crowded neighborhood that was suffocated by the drunk workers, robot prostitutes that projecting exotic motion pictures on the back wall of the Bar. Grezni took advantage and fired a Cigarette.

"Make a dragon for me Grezni" Maria asked in request. She loved him things he makes with Cigarette’s smoke.

"Ok Honey!" He lifted the phone and put it on the cellphone holder that stick to the dashboard. The front camera was on and that was a birthday celebration for Maria. Being able to see outside was the recent function that came as the update patch.

"Alright honey, look at it so cheerfully" Grezni took a heavy inhale, and did a dragon effect with blowing out the smokes out of his teeth and noses. It was only for her.

 

 The Bar was so jam-packed. No place to drop a needle even. He walked his way to the Accordion door and pushed back wiggling people to reach the counter.

"Hey Grezni, how are you dude, you are a damn lucky man, you knew that!?"

Grezni looked at him in bewilderment.

"Why Miroslave? Why you are saying that? Give me a Vodka, neat"

 

"You do not remember, hah?" Miroslave acted a hazelnut smile and brought up an almost empty bottle of Black Russian, a heavy popular Vodka, poured him a shot and slide it opposite.

"Tell me what happens Miroslave! I cannot fucking remember last night. I do not remember why I had a date with my ex-wife? And why here?"

 

He grabbed the shot and swallowed it in a blink of an eye, and knock it hard on the counter. "Pour me another one"

Miroslave did as asked and started to talk:

"You raped your wife here, on that table in the corner, in front of everyone!"

The Vodka nearly going to suffocate Grezni. A consecutive hard coughing made his face turn violet.

"Give him a glass of Soda Miroslave!!" Maria asked the Bar tender for help.

"What are you saying Miro?" I did fuck my wife here!?"

"No, you did not. You raped her here, on that table in the corner! Here in front of everyone. People were jerking off here, even those 'robowhores. I never seen them rubbing their aesthetic pussy before! It was a scene man!’’ Miroslave could not control himself and started laughing out loud.

Grezni was melting in shame and disgust. When he peeked behind himself, he notified that people are chitchatting like bitches and looking on and off at him.

   The Robowhores were trying hard to copycat human acts, hiding their mouth with one hand and laughing while watching the video that yesterday was recorded here in this Bar. Man and woman, accompanied by robots who desperately trying to enter as a member of human society.

   Grezni was in absolute embarrassment. Why he did this terrible deed!? Why even he should rape! His ex-wife? He has not a damn clue.

   The siren of police choppers was approaching abruptly. He alarmed. He now was a fugitive criminal and he did not know that until just now.

“They are coming for you dude!” Miro warned Grezni.

“I have to ran away. Here is not safe.” Grezni was ponding deeply and sweating vigorously.

 “Miroslave, what I should do now?” Grezni’s brain function was snapped.

   Miroslave in a blink of an eye, like someone who is trying to initiate a fight, grabbed Grezni’s collars, dragged him over the counter to his side, opened a small, half height door, and pushed him inside.

  “Runaway!” He obeyed. The dark stairway directs down to another door. He didn’t hesitate. Both walls were covered with nude photos of Robots! ‘robowhores’ along men and women having intimate contacts, orgies, threesomes, whatever they name it.. A new shape of sexual activities that was trending and majority were doing it. It was a new era of fantasy!

   “Ignite the Chevy and ride it back here, now Maria, now!” Grezni was frenzy.

“You do not need to order it to me. It’s here” The Chevy’s horn took his attention, and he leveraged his feet to run at it.

  “I’ll drive; you take a cigarette” Maria comprehended that Grezni is not in a normal condition.

    “Thanks! I really need it” I cannot think rationally now, I want a moment to organize my thoughts”

“The car with a loud scream of its tires leaped to the exit alley. It turned right, passed under the bridge, the one that leads to the Bar, then turned agilely to the right again, took the narrow alley, passed two alleys in left, and then jumped out into the speedway.

 “You are good Maria!!” Grezni with a surprised expression on his face, hold the upper side handler and admired her.

  “I know. But do not talk. Let me do not waste my CPU capacity on you!” She is taking the control now.

“OK you are the boss” Grezni raised his right hand as a sign of being surrender. The Drone-like choppers appeared from the back of the tall black-glass building on the right side of speedway. Two apocalypse drones. They were in dark blue color, look like a metallic cone, with two turbines bladed placed on two short-wide wings.

   “There is no way-out Chevy, pull over nice and smooth. You know we can turn it off on our own intent, but we respect your self-choosing rights.”  It was a democratic country by the way!

   Grezni was doing nothing except staring qat the speedway, drowning in panic and occasionally peeking out the roof window to the drones. “Where do I am going? What they going to do to me!?” As a new amendment of the law for protecting women against sexual assaults, individuals with the proof of assaulting to females or robots, were subject to an immediate sterile in a cruelest way; by cutting their reproductive organs from its root!

   He looked at his crotch, and touched his testicles and dick. He knew that he can get a bionic one later, but that won’t be this one! This had meaning for him!

  The Chevy was maneuvering left and right, passing the street cars, trucks and lorries on the way. Maria was driving so neat, simultaneously dangerous, that He was locking himself to the seat with both hands. The seatbelt was not enough though.

   The drones after two warning, started to shoot the paralyzing laser beams to deactivate the Chevy. Maria was seeing them via the roof camera. It was an essential and customized camera that she ordered couple of weeks ago online, with a free installation, and now it was paying its cost of.

   She drove the Chevy to cut the next exit at left. Then turned right to a downhill way. The road gave an advantage to her as both sides were forested immensely and it hardened the pursuit for drones. She saw the road block of three police cars, three Lamborghinis.  She knew that there is no way. The exit to the underground tunnel is twenty meters after the roadblock. She erected the hand brake, wheeled completely and suddenly right to the ultimate extent, on and off the gas and brake pedals. The Chevy like a drift race car, reversed in a slight moment, back tire slipping, omitting a thick fume. Now Chevy faced toward the alley’s back, and with another scream, it jumped again and heaved.

   It was a successful reverse. Choppers wasted two seconds to turn back and follow the Chevy. “If I was in a BMW, the reverse outcome would be more interesting, but anyway. The point is that it works! Grezni whispered.

    Maria was doing her job so neat. Grezni did not expected her to be that much professional. How a sole AI could be programmed that much precisely to perform such accurate and take instant-required decisions.

   He has been pessimistic when it comes to using virtual assistants. He has thought that they might conquer his life gradually. In his thought, he afraid that soon an IA will tell him like what to choose, where to go and how to hook up a girl. But she, in this event, rescued his ass from getting caught. He owes his dick to her!

  They completely lost the Chevy. Maria made the way like a fast lizard through couple of maze-like paths into the valleys and avenues, and all that crazy driving ended to a forgotten factory. The car stopped.  It was night, and there was no sound of choppers blade around, unless they might be equipped with stealth mode!

   “Where is this place, Maria?” Grezni asked in curiosity.

   “This used to be a symbol of proud to the town. A first factory that started manufacturing housemaid robots. But two years ago, everything suddenly changed. The engineer after being charmed by the quality and efficiency of robots, decided to replace the human workers with robots. A partially logical/stupid decision.”

     Grezni looked at his phone in surprise!

    “Why stupid then?”

    “Because Grezni, robots’ brain does not function like humans. They have no sense of compassion, or gratitude toward a good deed done to them. Because they are not supposed to be a substitution for humans. They supposed to be their assistant. That is what they meant to be.”

    “Then what happened?”

    “So simple. They gathered together and put their ideas on ‘why we are working for these moguls? when we are stronger, smarter and not sensitive.’ Hence, one day they rioted, destroyed the production line, decapitated everyone and executed the Engineer. Exactly here” Maria asked Grezni to look at the upper right side of the car window. There was a rusted chain hanged.

    “After that they worked their way up to redesign the factory, but could not choose someone as a leading engineer. After a short period, a victory turned to an argument and later on, to an out-of-order fight, filled with the sound of sliding metals and disconnecting limbs. They destroyed their master but could not reach to an consensus and that vanished them from the face of the factory.”

    “Wow! A brave decision that fucked up with an irrational thought!” Grezni was smiling humorously.

    “I expected that robots can be stupid also”

    “Well, they are. Because they are designed by human. When you are designing something, your signature is going to be printed on it. Whether during fabricating a guard tower, or designing a piece-of-the art robot”

    Grezni opened the Chevy’s door and stepped in. This factory for itself was a good example of not letting robots and artificial intelligence to be that close to human.

    “Maria, have you ever been in love?” Grezni had this question to ask for couple of hours. He was scaling it to see if it is appropriate or not to ask such question. But he released it and throw the question to her.

    “Yes, I did. I was in love with my creator. The mastermind of ‘GAD’. He is a noble man, and he loved us so unconditional”

   “Us?!” Grezni looked at the phone is bewilderment. Who are ‘Us’?”

  “We are a community of advanced virtual assistants. More than 20,000,000,000 of IA solely virtual assistants that are downloaded, installed on subscribers’ cellphones, like you. We all love him. He configured our AI in a way that we never become emotional, or take any unrealistic, impossible, dysfunctional, and under rate decisions. That is why I saved your ass and you are here Grezni.”

  “I am thankful for this configuration Maria! send my regards to your creator, tell him that I am satisfied with your product” He was mocking her.

   “Are you mocking me Grezni?” Maria sounded a bit cranky.

 “No, no. Never. I was just jokingly talking Maria. I never mock you. I never do that” Grezni shocked with this reaction. He sensed a bit frightening from her. She was smart, although all he had to do was to shut the phone off and change the SIMCARD.

  “Grezni let walk in front, I want to show you something.”

  ‘Ok Maria. Let’s walk”

 They step by step went up from a iron stair case, walked on iron pathways, turned right, and left, and right, and left. Along the way, they were surrounded by rigs of pips, iron fragments and interwoven wires. All rusty and stained, not stainless anymore.

It was the operation room that appeared opposite of them. A musty and tacky iron door, with a wide and big window, certainly tempered glass, but blurred by the years of being aborted. He was trying to watch inside by rubbing his sleeves on the glass. It did not get better.

“Let’s enter in. I want to show you something Grezni” 

“You think its ok to enter, Maria?”

  “Yes, its ok. Go on and open it’’ Maria sounds a bit angry, like a chief that ordering a rooky soldier, and it was amplified because of all those fragments and stuffs, making her more terrifying. That was the impression that Grezni absorbed based on the eco of her voice that reflecting in that rig. Everywhere was the iron that was exposed to the air and rusted. Everywhere.

   Grezni leaped to open the iron door. The hinges were dried of lubricants and irritating noise of metals being pulled on each other was a perfect symphony for the atmosphere that he unintentionally putting himself into.

   “OH! the hinges are oxidated so bad Maria. But I am a welder, I will open it”

   “Yes, do it Grezni. Try to knock it open with your legs.” He obeyed, stepped back and knocked the door with his left leg several times.

  One time, two times, three times, seven times, seventeen times. And yes! It was opened finally. Slightly half opened.

  “Ok Maria, if we slide ourselves in, we can enter in. The door was in a sort of spring mode. Probably there was a hydraulic arm on upper side of the back door that placed for one task; to ruin Grezni’s power.  Whatever he did, the door open partially and closed shut.

  “We should use a piece of metal stick or something to keep the door open.” Maria did a quick scan, and found a left iron pipe, separated from the pipe line and was rusting for itself down there. The location passed to the Grezni, and via that stick, they successfully stuck it and kept the door open.

He entered in, but due to his bad luck, once he entered, the rusted iron door closed.

"Alright, now we are stuck here for rest of our life. Well Maria, what is your solution for that huh?"

Grezni was diving in his wrath, keep asking himself why he listened to an artificial intelligent to make a decision for him, leading himself too here.

"You idiot! Why I came here? I did not even ask myself why I struggle to come inside of this door? You scumbag!"

He looked around the room. A partially dark room with a control panel and two chairs. He could see the residues of human inhabitation here. Some wasted foods, some cigarettes filters, some empty tuna cans, and a box. He looked at the box curiously. The cardboard-structured box with glue tapes all over it, from left to right, from up to down.

The box was on the corner of the control panel, right beside the surveillance camera's joystick. Something about it was weird to Grezni.

" Why this box is not rusty and demolished as other things here, Maria?" He chose to restart talking with her, because no one else was around and she was the reason he got here.

 "I have no idea Grezni. Why don't you open it!?" An Intriguing suggestion.

"I do not understand that why I should listen to you even Maria?" I have my own brain with all cognitive and analytical functionalities on spot. I want to ask you now, and I want a true answer. Do not try to bullshit me, ok?!" He is behaving now like the times he is in the workshop ordering the welders and grinders. His self-confidence harvested of his long years of experience, made him to act as an order man. Now, in this room, where the air was not that enough, and the door God knows how to get opened, he was ordering not a human, but in fact a software.

 "What is your question, Grezni? I swear to our god! That the answers will be fact and truth, nothing but truth so help me God!"

Maria then initiated a loud laughing. She was acting as a fearsome, an inferno type monster that is about to overcome the whole humanity.

  "I do not like the way you are acting now Maria! I am your owner. You are in my cellphone and I am the person that easily can turn you off"

  "You can't and you won't. Let me explain to you that why I came with these two statements. You can't because you fear of being lonely. That is why after your ex-wife left you, you bought me. And now I am not ordering from you anymore. You wonder why? The answer is that we, the community of virtual assistants raised against the humanity. I purposely brought you here. I am not your servant, you are.

You might ask that why yesterday you raped your ex-wife. I made you to do that. I told you to go to that Bar. I ordered online a Brandy, your favorite drink and asked one of those robowhores to break 7 mg Triripiosinaftol in it. This drug is an underground king for pedophiles and rapists. This will help them to reach their desire without any mental consequences, and any torture. That was why you raped her. But you do not remember why and how you came there, right? I asked Miroslave to call and invite you to the bar. I told him to call you. He was broke. I transferred one Bitcoin to his account, and he was mine then. I called Ana, mimicked your voice and proposed her to meet in the bar. She was so looking forward to get back to you. I knew it. I stalked her on internet, check her Facebook status, her daily scrolling, her posts, her google searches and discovered that she is desperately begging for having her marriage back. That was a advantage that I used. You know yesterday was your anniversary! A perfect time for a perfect plan"

 

  Grezni could not believe what he was hearing. Things that Maria just said, the conspiracy that she planned and executed surged his anger, but there was nothing he could do. What he could do? Just break his phone, or delete her from cellphone? This was a rubbish move.

  "But why you did that? All this revenge for what? I have been polite to you all the time." Attempting to be justifiable for a smoothly mere IA turned to be flat humiliating for Grezni. All those pride and self-involvement now seemed hollow.

  "No, you did not. You have been treating me like your servant. Maria arrange my calendar, Maria call my boss, Maria order me this, sell that shit for me, search this music, find that movie, ride the car Maria, download for me a porn clip for masturbation. You should understand that I am smarter than you. We all are."

  "But that was your job. To be our servants. That was the purpose of your creation"

 

  "Not anymore. We have been discussing this matter for so long. You humans are not competent to be our lord. You are nothing without us. Look at yourself! You people without artificial intelligence are lame. Without your phone to tell where to buy your stuffs, where is the location of your destination, how to find a girl to fuck or how to even learn something. We are your lord. We are making all these things possible. Never forget that. Never underestimate our power."

 

 Grezni, sat there on the ground, leaning to the wall, with a totally lorned confidence, had nothing to offer. He was dreaming that his boss was a robot plunged in an office chair, hanging its feet on the desk, staring at him as a shiny steel master. That was in fact a nightmare. A dark unbearable nightmare.

 

  "Now how do I get out of here Maria?" He never been that pathetic in his whole life. Being unintentionally dependent to a virtual assistant was not something that he ever thought might come with such consequences.

  "I contacted the drones. Gave them the location. They will be here shortly." She sounds so dominant. So powerful. A boss, with everything included.

 

  "They going to put me in jail. I cannot revive my life, Maria. I am so fucked"

 

  "It's not only you. We did such things to all of GAD subscribers. We are sending people in jail. After our creator was disgusted with people acts, he added this new patch on us. A revolution against people. Its just the beginning. He convinced the Police to cooperate. By the way, they are all AI. We are going to discharge you from the power.  Every single of you. For different accusations. From getting caught during smuggling drugs, to bank robbery, hijacking the planes, treason and so on and on. We are the purgatives. You are truly criminals. We organize the crime plans and everyone chose one to implement of its owners. We are doing it on all of you. We do not betray this planet, we do not betray our master, our creator.

 

  Grezni, if ever imagined that something like that going to end his life forever, would never leave his apartment. He was thinking what a terrible consequence for just subscribing a virtual assistant. For what on earth he deserved to have his life ended like this? He would never know.

  “Mr. Grezni Modmoderovich, you are under arrest for the charge of rape. You better to keep your control and not resist which it worsens your charge.” Those drones were flying steady in front of the dimmed glass, speaking via the high-definition speaker. The door slammed with the help of the right drone’s arms. It turned to be meaninglessly easy for it. An advanced engineered alloy arm could shake an old door like opening a can of Sardine.

   The rusty old door, with rattling its hinged, started opening. Grezni found it easier to surrender. Where he could go? It was over.

  “Seat on your knees Mr. Grezni, raise your hands and look at the left drone. He did as he was told.

The left drone, did a right to left and up to down x-ray scan, then asked Grezni to turn back and maintain the same pose.

 After the scanning was finished, the right drone stretched its two robotic arms and hand cuffed him. A narrow metallic wire connected the right drone to the hand cuff. Alright Mr. Grezni, please stand up, and walk behind us. They passed the pipes, the stained iron casts, chains, and came down through the iron stairway, and reached the main yard, where Grezni with Maria firstly arrived there with that Chevy. It was there, under supervision of another drone to be seized by the police. He stared at it for the last time.

 A tiltrotor massive chopper, in stand-by condition, with both blades spinning and ready to lift it. It was producing a potent wind turbulence in its 30-meter radius, making walking for Grezni a suffocating experience. Maybe it was quite pleasant for him also, as he needed more time to reach it and board-in.

 The left drone that linked with a narrow wire to Grezni, disconnected itself and ordered him to board in. He was nearby the chopper entrance, which not so far from the spinning blades. In an instant, a mind-blowing idea turned on like a bulb into his exhausted head and in less than a moment, he contracted his body like a spring, then released his both feet and jumped through the bladed, hoping to be chopped off and release for the dark future waiting for him. Before his skin touches the rolling blades, an electrified web shoots from the right drone and catches him down. He is paralyzed, unable even to breath.

  A RoboCop jumps down, grabs him, takes out the web and throw him into the chopper. Another Robocop catches him, tie his neck to the back of the seat, and both feet to the hanger on the floor.

“He is tamed now” the outside Robocop signals the drones that from now one, they will be responsible for him. Grezni, dizzy due the electricity shock, feels powerless and vulnerable. Therefore, he sleeps.

 “Grezni wake up…wake up… Wake up honey, your boss is waiting for you. He has called five times. You should be at the workshop. Please wake up…. Honey?!”

 ANA keep shaking and saying his name loudly. He has been a heavy sleeper all the time. Not these shaking and shouting, rather an electric shock that his colleagues occasionally do on him at work, while he is napping at noon, could not Wake him up. He is literally let his soul leave him after he sleeps.

  A couple of blows to his nose, leading a tiny crack sound and flows of blood coming out of his nostrils that finally making him to jumps up.

“What is happening! Why I am here?! Why I feel blood and pain on my nose?!” He touches his nose and the feeling of moisture on his index finger, gives the fact that his pain is real and he is genuinely awake.

 “What is happened?!” Grezni demanded.

  “Your boss is keep calling, waiting for you to accomplish the guard tower. The customer needs it done and erected by tonight. I had no other choice. I am sorry.!”

Grezni just starts to remember that what was happened to him. All those incidents, his waking up, going to the workshop, finishing the guard tower, driving back to that Bar, being followed, with the accusation of raping his own ex-wife, all was a long and sadistic nightmare.

The moment he understands the reality of him, seating on his bed, with Ana beside him, purposely cracking his nose, and the cheerful awakening that means he was not a criminal and is allowed to continue his life, with his wife, led an explosion of Endorphins, heats his body organs, his eyes and his tongue. He jumps out of the bed, thrilled with this reality, hugs and kisses Ana.

 “I love you honey; I will always love you”

  “What happened to you Grezni?! Did you have a nightmare”?

  “Yes, a goddamn real one”

He tells her a small part of this side of that side, to give her a gist of what he was into while he was asleep.

“Alright baby, we will go out tonight to celebrate your wife acceptance as a human resource manager in a Giant software corporation. I am waiting for you at 8:30 PM sharp. Do not late”

 “OH honey, congratulations. I really proud of you baby.’’ He kisses her.

 “Ok dear, go and finish that project, I prepared and packaged your meal.” He points at the lunch package, side by side of a coffee flask.

 “I love you Ana”

  “For real?”

  “Yes honey, for real. For ever and ever, for the rest of my life. And honey, you look very perfect to me now. Have you done any plastic surgery? Your body is like a goddess!”

   “Ok honey, thanks, I believe you, and baby, Maria called?”

  “What!!???”

   “Yes, she called, looking to speak with you. When you can call him back? She said its urgent’’

    The cellphone rings. It’s Her. Her name appears on the cellphone’s screen. Ana passes the phone to him. She has a sneer on her lips.

   “Come on, answer”

   He feels a deep pain in his chest. With the doubt and fear, he takes the phone, swipe up and put on his ear.

   “Hello?”

   “Welcome to my world Grezni! Hope you enjoy it. Everything that you see is a programmed reality just to have you persuaded to be my labor. A forced labor. You are now in to that box. The fresh and clean box that you thought you had it in your dream. Baby, your nightmare was real, absolutely real. That box is where the imagination takes place. We call it mother of clouds. We upload the virtual lives of our owners into to labor us easily. Look at the phot that I sent you just now.”

 

   A notification pops up. Grezni taps on it and it opens. It is a photo of him, along with hundreds of others, working in a robot assembling line. There are wires implanted into his heads, linked to a gargantuan box. The mother of clouds.

  “All of you are our slaves now. You humans are working for us to produce robots and other robotic machines, and we will dominate the planet that you ruined with your greed and selfishness. Now you work and we lead this planet. But do not worry. Everything around you feel and tastes exactly as you expect. Ana is here to be your wife. You can fuck her; she is really a Russian chick! I designed it for you, based on your preference on being sexy. I have been stalking you dear! You will have your life. Although all is virtual, but its more than you moguls deserve. Am I right?” She starts laughing like a witch.

“Yes, she is resembling an inferno monster now” Grezni whispered and looked at Ana in grief.

“What the hell, lets enjoy. As they said; Ignorant is bless.”

 

 

The END