End of the World - Sounds for Drowning Robots part 6

End of the World - Sounds for Drowning Robots part 6

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...A storm of epic proportions hurtled toward land, causing chaos as it raced across the sea. All boats had given up trying to fight the waves and hastily retreated to the safety of their harbours. Fishermen and fisherwomen messaged home with worry in their voices, for this storm could be the one that claimed their lives. Under the swirling ocean, racing towards land, the leviathan of discarded robot parts continued to grow, sucking up abandoned oil rigs and platforms and creating a strong magnetic field as it tore towards land. The head robot had connected itself to the front of the leviathan on route, and sat proudly as the face of this discarded metal beast while it bound ever on towards dry grounds.

Sonar and the animals reached the beach first, having left a trail of destruction in their wake. It did not take long for the whole beach to be filled with the different species, and thanks to the heavy weather there were no people taking up any space. The animals all worked together so they could have their space on the beach, with insects sitting safely on larger mammals, and rodents and lizards taking refuge on top of the even bigger animals like the rhinos and elephants. It was a sight to behold, but no one was there to behold it, except for the ET.

The ET had drifted into a shut down cycle, kind of like sleep, but also pretty alien and not like sleep in many ways. The animals arriving on the beach, with Sonar, had startled the ET back to awake mode. It scanned the beach and quickly catalogued all the changes. For one, where there had been a friendly ice-cream truck and several children eating frozen ice products, there was now a giraffe with thirty monkeys on it's neck, being ridden by a family of kangaroo. The ET was confused, mainly because not one of the animals seemed to be serving ice-cream, not one of them was consuming frozen ice products and not one of them was crying because they didn't get the same one as their little brother. The beach seemed to be quite a bit more crowded then it was earlier as well, and with a much larger diversity of life then just humanoid. ET began to get concerned when it couldn't locate another humanoid anywhere near, the closest were the big monkeys that were holding the screaming box. ET stood up and started walking towards the monkeys.

Sonar gave the message out to stop. The animals were not to go into the water. Sonar called for quiet from the animals and within seconds there was no sound but the storm.
...We have reached our destination...now we wait for leviathan...

ET reached Sonar and turned to the head monkey holding it. "Excuse me sir, could you tell me what's going on?" said the ET in it's best posh accent. The head monkey stared back at the ET with a somewhat confused expression, it had no understanding of the English language. The ET asked again a little slower, but still nothing. The ET tried asking in a few other languages, but monkey wasn't one of it's dialects, the closest it had was Dolphin. The head monkey seemed to be getting agitated.

...Ignore the ET, leviathan will be here soon and our mission will continue...
Sonar managed to calm the monkey to some extent, but the arrival of the underwater robot leviathan startled all the animals on the beach. From the sea stretched out two huge metal claws, cobbled together from broken robot parts. The first claw launched itself towards land and smashed down on the beach, scattering the animals that had been sat in it's path (except the crabs, they quickly buried themselves instead). The second claw crashed down on the beach quite some distance from the first, but having the same effect on the animals that had been sat patiently waiting. Once both claws were firmly secured in the beach, the leviathan began lifting itself from the sea, sending a tidal wave at the beach, washing over all the animals and heading towards the city. Leviathan revealed it's mighty size, several miles in length and easily as tall if it chose to be, towering over all the animals. Once it had lifted itself up with the claws, it slammed itself back down, with the head robot stopping inches away from Sonar.

The head monkey was beginning to panic, this was all too much for him. Sonar tried to calm him down with soothing monkey songs, but the whole situation was overwhelming. The ET stood looking at the robot leviathan trying to work out what it was. The ET had never seen anything like it before, and it had been to many planets in many galaxies, far more then your average traveller. The ET turned back to the head monkey and asked him "Could you tell me what this metal thing is?"

Sonar send a pulse of recognition to the robot leviathan.

...We are ready...do you have any instructions for us?...

...Repeat, the animals are ready...do you have any instructions for us?...

...Can you confirm, are we taking over the world from the humans?...

...Please confirm...






...to be concluded...