The Day The Earth Died

This is what I remember of my former life ... no , our former life , what we had before disaster would strike and enslave us to a life of immortality without being able to have emotions ...

We watched the world die , that last day before everything changed . Fire fell from the sky , eating alive anyone caught in its burning kiss . We held each other tightly and watched the skyline melt away .

We whispered our love desperately into each other's ears as the roar of death and destruction grew near . I wiped the tears from her eyes one last time before we were overcome by the world's anger and everything turned to black ...

This was the end of everything . The end of us . The end of the world . The end of time .

But that ... was a lie . We found ourselves reborn into metal and flesh , black rust pumping through our veins like hellfire .

How much time had passed ? Who had come to our salvation and dragged our broken bodies from the mud to this cold , damp place ?

Gears turned and spun under the shifting weight of my body awakening . I opened my mouth to scream , but no sound escaped the steel lips of my new face .

As my eyes adjusted to the gray sodium light I noticed others around me , monsters of decayed flesh and old metal awakening as I did . Someone , somewhere , was crying , whimpers floating through the air like digital sorrow .

Was this Hell ? No , it was far worse than Hell , it was Earth , or at least , what remained of it after the apocalypse . But how did we end up like this ? And more exactly , why ? By whom's will did we embrace this biomechanical structure ? Who was this "god" that gave us life once more ?

We did not know , not back then and not even now , when centuries have passed and rotten machineries still live on this damned world . The Earth is scorched , the oceans are now pits full of ashes and everything that was once considered normal has forever gone ...

Only us , the Remnants , as I named our kind , are left here , without even knowing why ...

When I was reborn I remember that my first thought was "where is she ?" . I looked around but couldn't find her for several days ... In the end we found each other , but being unable to speak made it a bitter-sweet reunion . We both know that the love is still alive inside of us , but the fact that we cannot express it , kills us a little , day by day , hour by hour ...

Why ? Why "god" ? Why have you damned us to a life of sorrow and immortality ? Why didn't you kill us back then and get it over with ? Have we been such sinners that you considered the fact of spending an eternity , trapped inside this rotten body of steel would be a great judgement ?

But ... this can't be ... where is this light coming from ? It's the first bright thing we've seen since the day we died . And that crying once more , but how can it be possible when nobody can speak ? Is it another ending ? Or is it finally THE end ? I do not know what to do and think anymore , my memory lapses and I fall to the ground , not being able to move my muscles nor my gears as the bright light engulfs everything ...

I see her , with the tail of my eye , how she falls to the ground only to slowly rise up and turn to ashes . In that split second all my emotions come bursting back to me and I feel both rage , sorrow and madness . My heart is pumping really fast and my whole body is burning ... I guess this is it , this is the end ... the real end ...

... when the silence takes control .