The Titanium Prophet

After living robots fell from the sky and began the destruction of the human race, man attempted to rally and destroy them. Man’s destructive weapons were no match against such advanced alien technology. Mankind quickly fell before the greater power. These aliens did not try to ask to speak to our leaders, order that we change our dystopian society, or demand all our magnets. Resolute silence for their presence mystified everyone.

Owen Carr, a lucky survivor of the war, placed in an endless line since he had been caught, thought that the survivors would be fitted with a god type collar that would make everyone follow orders and be slaves to the machine. However, something else occurred to focus robot eyes solely upon him. The long line led him towards a room where humans entered but never left.

Once inside, the realization of the robots' presence became clear. It appeared that they were removing the consciousness of individuals in the line to insert their own machine code inside the newly vacant body. Upon seeing this, Owen didn't cry out for his life like all the others. He screamed out the question of "Why?" Nothing made any sense. He didn’t plan on surviving to receive an answer to his question. But surprisingly he did.

Gwendon the Robot recognized that Owen didn't beg for his life like all the others. Instead he asked to learn the reason for the madness and pulled him out. Their startling conversation afterwards is so fantastic that it could not have been believed if it came before the war. What Owen unwittingly started by asking "Why" could only be thought of as a revelation of what our future held if the living robots had not arrived when they did.