Lara Must die

1 - Lara (versão em inglês Lara precisa morrer)

My concerns make me go without attention to meet this office where the receptionist job.

- Good afternoon, I would like to talk to Mr. Orlando.

- Do you have an appointment?

- Yes I have.

Retreat from my pocket watch of my grandfather, and I think again I need to leave early. I look at the schedule and find the name of that lady, she looked very formal, with a dress made all of an expensive fabric that does not remember the name. I live in London and do not know tissues names!

She went and entered the office, seemed long conversation. When I saw that there was not enough to wait, knock lightly the door, and enter the lady seemed to be examined in the neck. Strange thing, let my neurotic and asked what he needed.

- Mr Orlando, sorry for the intrusion, must visit Harry.

Was quite cast down, my husband met with a mysterious illness, and healing seemed increasingly far from realization.

That week I spent in the hospital, my husband so young and beautiful was going through spasms of pain, his blue eyes were a reflection of suffering.

Mr. Orlando, always around helping me in these moments.

But the worst happened. It was inevitable, even with all the medicinal herbs and medicine involved, something seemed out of control. The doctor, always cold, tried to calm the situation.

I do not know if it's my time, but I see people look so centered, must be these times I'm living ...

Dresses have always been my weakness, I will have to run in a hurry to buy a black dress in order to receive the family, something as real and imaginary at the same time. The farewell of my husband, I'm in pieces, as is this?

The doctor wrote in the medical record the time of death, and closed the door, leaving me with him.

I do not like to imagine the decomposed so that I will have to hand over the body of my beloved Harry, what to do? I do not know where to start.

Opening the door to go do the practical things of life.

I am surprised with the Lord Orlando.

He hugged me, looked cold, his skin whatever, but I accepted moved by their attitude, because he was always respectful to me. Not sure what line of business, I know it is an experimental technology, the office which I work.

- Lara need to tell you something.

I do not want to know anything, I just wanted to cry and say goodbye to my husband was inevitable what was going on, it was a nightmare and I was inserted into it.

- I can help your husband ...

I disengaged that timely hug and now was totally upset with the situation.

- You can? You do not understand? My husband just died ...

And one more crying leads, was over.

- You need trust me. Do not tell anyone of the death of her husband.

- What? How not to tell anyone?

As soon as he finished, there were two people in black behind him and said so:

- Ready?

- Not yet...

Orlando My boss took me to a room next door. It seemed helpless, but he started telling me left me totally ungrounded and upset.

My world fell at that time, as well as robot?

- Not quite a Lara robot, will be your husband ...

- My husband is dead and I need to do the things necessary to say goodbye to him.

Orlando looked at me with that air of superiority that only the leaders know show.

- Harry, Harry, Harry poor, so young I can bring him back. But you have to decide this and fast, the brain activity it should be preserved for us to make the pass.

He seemed in a horror tale. The truth is that the air we breathe and my husband was beating her lungs was no longer observable.

At this time, a young woman entered the room.

- We need to be quick Lord Orlando.

- Bring him here ... I said Mr. Orlando for that elegant woman.

I snapped the statement.

- Leave my husband where you are! Respect my pain, it's sounds like a joke in bad taste!

- Calm, you already understand ...

He entered a stretcher, covered with a sheet. It was not my husband, but looked a lot like him.

He was explaining to me every step of this strange creature.

It opened a kind of magazine that showed one cylinder tangle of pipes seemed everything perfectly embedded in something I did not understand.

- Her husband will steam veins permits.

He continued showing and explaining that it was a continuous cycle.

- At this point, he said.

Is heating (it was a kind of coil) where the magic happens. Your husband's food will be only water.

I sat down, it was too much information.

- You do not understand! He said angry, I do not want a robot with the face of my husband I want my husband back.

And he removed the face of the sheet that technological doll.

- I took the liberty to leave it identical to her husband. Lara, you've always been an exemplary employee, deserve this gift.

I got up and wanted to get out of that room.

- I want my husband back.

- I want my husband back-aa!

I was beside myself. Orlando came and told me that the brain transmissions needed to be done as soon as possible for that to take effect and the replica would be the same as it would be if my Harry rise again.

- You need to make the decision and now.

Came the elegant lady again.

- We need to urgently pass but lose brain conditions ....

2 - Harry

The city where I live, is a place a different bit, first, to London herein is high, and according to London is a survivor, like other capitals.

Des that came a mutation of these tardigrades were virtually forbidden to live on the planet, this monster is huge, and supplies rays, seems to want to end the human race to survive and live on top.

Our transportation are capsules that are dispersed throughout and entangled engineered, vacuum boosters.

Our mobility is where I am just now with my new husband.

- Harry are you okay? Feel good?

- Yes I am. Why the question?

He stared straight ahead and his upright posture denounced that it was not the same person.

I took it out of the way, because I love him more than anything could not lose it just lose it.

- Why are you crying? said that being who had the body of my husband, the voice of my husband, but I knew it was something.

- Can you cry?

- Yes, look, and outlined a tear. Calm will be all right I'm Harry have all the memories of him, and now you have to get used to this new reality.

And he drew nigh to close to her grimly, trying to sketch an intimacy, and said: -I'm an improved version of Harry you will see ...

Saved by our capsule gong he would come to visit my mother in her house. Within minutes we made a journey of thousands of kilometers!

*

- Daughter, that longing, she said. Our Harry is with a great guy, you always exaggerated saying that he was on his deathbed.

When my mother said she was in his cheeks and shook it seemed at that moment would collapse this disguise, but his skin was well engineered, it seemed real.

- And also it is with great skin when you go ordering me my grandson?

She was in the kitchen and brought a cup of tea, and opened the curtains of the house. The house was a round glass dome that left her suspended, like the other houses too. Below a strange dust, and below, it appeared the such a monster who was in that wasteland. Lara's mother gives a gush in tea, and repeats.

- With our current situation, having children is quite disturbing is not it? News reports say those damn monsters feed on organic matter, and downstairs increasingly scarce is organic animal matter, probably they began to realize that above their heads there is the food: -We.

Harry sat with and talked a little anxieties of my mother, she lived alone and my company filled her with joy. However, I was a bit paranoid, because even my mother was an upright posture. I was seeing things, certainly.

I went to the computer, next to the door, and made the coordinates to return to my home, it had to do with an advance to the schedule to the direction in the pipe the propellant tubes that entered that tangle. This done, came the estimate.

Two minutes. I would wait two more minutes to get back to the house.

I looked away and saw Harry talking to my mother. I found it very strange intimacy of the two. In the capsule returned to him asking. He always monosyllabic evaded. He said he needed to recharge. I was unaccustomed to the new reality.

We got home and the routine returned to my life. Work, service and home.

My husband worked for a computer company, was expressed always in an office. I when with him always tried to ask, how was that new reality, he always desconversava. It did not seem my Harry.

In service, now paid more attention to people, and fall to record what it was

In service, now paid more attention to people, and fall to record what it was. Robots. That place in the neck I saw in one day woman, was the entrance of a water tank, so important for that mechanism.

In the house, really, the nights were different with Harry, he seemed another person in all aspects, but on the other hand was very mechanical, and I was getting illegally taken with it.

The mysterious conversations was something else that intrigued me. I was getting paranoid?

3 - Scenario

Via the news, that monster was proliferating alarmingly, leaving the population of the planet quite apprehensive. Storms were disaster signal as rays were absorbed by the monster and had decimated entire capital. Our security seemed threatened, as do cities suspended was no longer a means of hiding it.

- Good morning Lara, watching news at the time of service?

- Oh sorry Mr. Orlando. It is pretty scary news is not it?

- Yes, this monster this every day increasing the population, and the organic form is almost extinct all left only us, or you human, he said chuckling. Like everything else, mechanized.

- As well?

- Ah nevermind. How's your new Harry?

I looked at the Lord Orlando still absorbing his earlier words ...

- Well, it looks different, always be correct, sometimes even upset. But I learn to get used to.

- Ah, bring it here we can make some improvements, but it is exactly the perfect copy of your Harry and that's good.

And he went into the office, that polished so ever.

Lying, sleep was hard to come, looked at him. Asking if she could at least pretend to sleep. The same closed his eyes.

When I woke up, I saw frighteningly holding my neck. He disguised himself and said I was having a violent nightmare. The other day I was with him in the Lord's room Orlando, needed to pass that information urgently, it was absurd what seemed to me that night.

I went with Harry, and Mr. Orlando told me to close the door, was all alone with those two.

*

The monster began to develop in Africa, was small and harmless was slowly taking shape.

And the genetic mutation, was making carnivore, about to go feeding of all organic form that existed in their vicinity

And the genetic mutation, was making carnivore, about to go feeding of all organic form that existed in their neighborhood. And he was slowly decimating African tribes.

The peculiarity of this terrible predator is it absorb rays, and expel a thick, blinding toxic gas.

Knowing this the great centers of the world were preparing to survive this new reality.

forces boilers were created, average steam pipes and high pressure disponibilizava the necessary power, and the cities were preparing to flee an extinction.

forces boilers were created, average steam pipes and high pressure disponibilizava the necessary power, and the cities were preparing to flee an extinction

expeditions were made to get rid of that monster, which reproduced alarmingly. Unsuccessfully. He was highly resistant and absorbed energy.

Discoveries were made on electricity. But rather severe laws prohibiting their use, because such a creature, I felt the presence of such energy and approached to absorb it.

The technology began to invest heavily in steam, cities were created in the midst of pipes, boilers and valves and flexible.

Vacuum boosters technology, secured moving between locations in order that gas expelled by tardigrades made polluted air, it was necessary such transport.

glass ducts, capsules were prepared in a well ingeniously calculated tangle.

The feed was fractionated in this reality, vines in defined doses, by capsules that provided the optimal quantity of food. All of vegetable origin.

But the news always said that cluster of people was forbidden, and the organic form was slowly being extinguished on the planet. Lara always read about such apprehensive information.

The population became cold, available to specific tasks, Lara grew up watching these anxieties, but in a way, things looked much worse lately.

*

He was holding Harry Lara's arm, she tried to pull away, but the strength was superhuman, fought him

He was holding Harry Lara's arm, she tried to pull away, but the strength was superhuman, fought him. Punches and kicks: useless.

- Let me go! You're hurting me, and the Lord came Orlando now without the mask once the disguise, and it seemed to him a scary look with an injection applied in Lara's neck.

4 - Lara must die

I open my eyes, I try to move my body, done anything, it seemed paralyzed, and now I see that a light reflector focuses on my face, look to the side and watch some robots around me. A tear comes to my face. I think about crying, close my eyes trying to wait out everything. Surely there must be a terrible nightmare.

Now I open my eyes again a drive takes place in front of a panel.

I'm listening. They seem to be waiting for something.

I open my eyes again, and notice that I'm stuck for leather bracelets, I move my head to the side, the body is still paralyzed.

- Woke up? Orlando says the robot, again with the mask that brought humanity.

Back to attend a panel seemed wooden pins.

He puts his hands folded, looked like a human being in the midst of those robots, I looked at the side Harry was now totally cold and static.

I had not even trying, fear came over me. Right now I esmiucei few words.

- What am I doing here. And why can not you move around?

Orlando still looking at that panel made with several wooden pins. Seeming to ignore my question.

- You see this panel? They are the last humans on the planet. Each dome city, where there is still organic Lara people like you are right now being captured to do to pass orchestrated way. When all of this panel is lowered with its pins, is a sign that all human beings are left on this planet will be ready to make the pass.

- The passing? I stretched my neck the feeling was terrible.

- Yes, some by as you were somehow immune to the virus that would make things easier, the mysterious disease.

He came the girl with the hair line and applied injection that made me delete.

...

I opened my eyes again and Orlando watched me sitting in a lounge chair. Ironically seemed a different machine from the others. What scared me was, and he had a very strange animal in your hands that seemed one of those pets that I had read in old books. The most appalling is that was a miniature monster that plagued this planet.

- Ready to make the switch? He said natural and frightening way ...

The monster noting that moved the head was fierce eyes glowed a fluorescent light, and his body was wrapped the small rays, seemed to feel my presence.

- Calm Hollow food is on the way.

The monster seemed out of control, like a cat sees a mouse in front. I was the mouse, as in the stories we read in the books, and opened that mouth that seemed to drop a green liquid.

- Lara, we need to be quick, this little monster here is the thermometer of what's happening down there, we need to extinguish the human race, and organic as soon as possible.

It seemed that everyone was crazy and I just was in the right mind.

- No! As well? I do not want to become a robot!

Orlando explained that it was not just become a robot. I different from others would be a leader in some city. While I am trying to tame that enraged animal. He told that some was being offered the use of hybrid form the brain to orchestrate the robot, while the vast majority was only used brain neura conditions for specific jobs in the colonies cities.

- The proposal is good Lara, I'm a leader robot, and you will be too.

The monster looked hungry and began to wage a fight with the owner who spoke, stop! Stop Hollow take way, stop! Stop! Robots around were static and began to shine strangely eye. The panel, the last pin down, a sign that probably Lara was the last human. The monster bit her finger Orlando, which took the hand disguise demonstrating the metal part. Orlando did not like what happened. He pressed a button that opened a small glass window to the ground.

He pressed a button that opened a small glass window to the ground

Playing it down.

- Do not need you anymore!

Lara heard the cries of the monster and she began to panic at what would happen to him next.

Glass closed. Orlando said: - You must agree can not do upset the passage, its passage is different from your husband, I need your consent.

Lara tried to move, but whatever it is that ran in her body was strong enough to take you all the movement.

- I do not want! I can not!

- How well can not you?

- I can not because I am expecting a child ...

5 - Eva

- Father is this way the movement?

When Eva skirt a location was always a behavioral problem that needed correcting Orlando to demonstrate the disguise.

- Look forward! And do not sketch reaction.

The robots looked from one moment to the girl and the robot Orlando. Ascertaining that her movements were orchestrated, they returned to their mechanical walking.

Orlando turned and looked at that little girl and remembered the day he had to make an important decision:

- I'm Pregnant.

Orlando to hear those words, immediately hung up the other robots present.

- It can not be! All women are sterile!

And he began to do tests that frail woman.

- It's ... really beats a heart in this belly.

He made sudden movements.

- But today is the last day of humanity. And you need to make the pass. It is not a choice. It's the only choice. Lara, you must die!

Lara outlines a tear and says:

- Save the life of this being that is inside me.

The robot, which was a machine has some odd remnants, emotions that should have been deleted to make the passage were touched on in the present moment.

- Lara, these tardigrades have to die for that human life must die too.

I can try to encapsulate this child in the womb, vaporizable. I worked on an experimental basis. Lara but you, or are you going to be become one robot. Or experimental way, this child. Both can not save.

Lara cried. And said:

- I do not care about my life. Save the child, do what needs to be done.

Came another shot. That robot, in violation of their own race, made the life of that withdrawal surgery. The last of the human race, with the fetus that was the size of a bean, made the transfer to an embryonic capsule, Lara watched it all numbed. And there was a time to say goodbye.

After the intervention.

Launched to feed the tardigrades.

Time passed, the animals fiercely, devastated the planet and raided the towns in search of food. That child was kept under lock and key for Orlando, wrapped in an embryonic capsule, sprinkling one vaporize you solution with ions that made her living in that sap. During years of attachment, such as a small plant that need to be cared.

Years passed. The tardigrades, without food, are encapsulated in droves, and were captured a kind of network, by robots.

But the damage was done, humanity did not exist anymore, only Eva, transiting anonymously among the robots.

-Filha, let the summit of that mountain. Now the air is already breathable.

The father takes the girl and fits it to him, a kind of precursor vapor, causes it to fly. Girl sits on the mountain and see the immensity of the glass case: The city of capsules.

- Open the clock.

She obediently pocket takes only recall her watch, and opens:

A meticulous hologram appears, was Lara. That say:

- My son, or daughter ... I had to make an important decision. The human race was being destroyed by a voracious monster. ... I had to make a choice between my and your life.

- If you are seeing this, it is a sign that the Orlando, took care of you. You're only human, so you have the responsibility of being the representative of life on this planet.

And he turned off the hologram, with Lara crying. Bye...

Understanding Eva was shaken, ever heard of her mother, but now itself talking to her.

- She's very pretty, Dad.

- Has his eyes, he said.

- Daughter is seeing this horizon ...

- Yes father...

- It must again be inhabited, and it is you daughter, who will become life to Him.

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Note: I prefer to use robot automaton that understanding that is more readable to the general public.