Richelle Horsford, “Infinity”

I N F I N I T Y

Richelle Horsford

It was dark, one of those days where the sun didn’t hit Jupiter. The bright blue shiny waterfall complemented the dark planet so well, you could see it from the other side of the planet. “Why are we here, Red? I was hella comfortable in my charging station and you called me down here for some BS,” said Robo King 1. Actually, he goes by King. “Shut up, King,” Arson aggressively said. “We have business to take care of and you’re talking about doing nothing in a charging station that’s about to break because your big self sits in there all day.” Red sucks her teeth as she angrily walks toward them. “Can ya stop this already? I’m so sick of being in between ya mess.” “You wouldn’t be in between nothing if you’d stop letting these robots disrespect you, then you turn around and baby them.” “Arson, they’re my babies, my creations. I have every right to baby them.” Arson takes a deep breath, “OH MY GOD RED, THEY’RE OUR CREATIONS! We stayed up night and day in a dark lab cre—” Red calmly walks away, disrespectfully cutting Arson off. Arson rolls his eyes as he follows behind her down the stairs, to the center of headquarters. They walk towards the presentation levitation stand and step on it. Let the presentation begin! The lights slowly start to dim, as the presentation screen shines brighter. All the robots and aliens fill the inside of headquarters as they all face themselves towards Red and Arson. Red clears her throat. “We brought all of you here today because we came to the discovery that the humans from Earth have been lurking around the planet for god knows what. We think they are trying to steal our beautifully made robots and take over OUR PLAN-

ET.” The robots and aliens start to whisper among themselves. “CAN YA SHUT UP,” Arson screams. “This isn’t something to play about. These humans try to take away anything good and they need to be stopped. Any ideas?” Well, meet Josh Jacobs. An average human who lives on Earth and loves robots. He’s been spying on the aliens on Jupiter for months, specifically Red and Arson. Red and Arson have a suspicion but they don’t know how bad his lurking has gotten. His plan was to steal the robots on Jupiter and program them to help Earth as they help Jupiter, but more in a good way. The very day that the aliens decided to have this meeting was one of the days Josh went to his flying bunker. He went out to Jupiter to drop one of his high-tech listening devices through the headquarters’ sunroof. It slowly fell and stuck to the sunroof. Josh sat in his flying bunker, listening a little before going back to Earth. He thought that day he could attempt to steal one of the robot’s children and work his way up to the most powerful robot on the planet, Robo King 1. He’s just about to pull off but hears something that catches his attention. Something that’s going to change humanity for the rest of the universe, forever. Josh puts the bunker in drive and zooms off. Back in headquarters, Arson thinks of an idea. “Fire.” “Bro, Arson, why is your answer to everything always setting something on fire?” Red said while shaking her head. “Actually he has an idea, Red. What if we gather asteroids and throw them towards Earth. It would cause a large explosion and take out all of humanity,” King calmly said. “Exactly, metal brains actually has a brain, and did you forget I AM FIRE,” Arson said quietly but loudly at the same time “Red, get your man.” Red slowly turned her head towards King and sided eyed him with disgust. King slowly started to grin, then he eventually laughed. Well, he didn’t just laugh. He stomped, kicked, spit,

cried, and clapped. Red’s cheeks started to turn a bright red. “Are you blushing, Red? Damn, I didn’t know Arson made you feel like that,” King jokingly said while still dying of laughter. “NO! I’m not blushing bozo, I’m embarrassed … actually no, I’m offended that you think I date Arson. Like for real, Arson out of all people.” “You’re offended? I’m offended that you’re sitting right in front of me talking about me like I’m not standing right here next to you,” Arson defensively said. “Well, it proves we don’t talk about you behind your back. Well I mean we do but it’s not like we are scared to say it to you.” Days passed with no communication from each other, nor did they observe any activity from the humans. “These humans have been kind of quiet lately,” Red complained to a completely zoned-out Arson. “ARSON, are you even listening to me?” Arson nodded slowly as King rushed into headquarters, interrupting Red and Arson’s conversation at the big roundtable. They were sitting discussing when they were going to go through with their plan. Well, Arson and King’s plan, that Red is going to claim it as her own, as she always does. “REDDDDDD, it’s back?” King explained, panicky. “What’s back, your STD?” Arson asked while laughing. King glanced quickly at Arson with no response. “No answer? This must be serious.” “What’s back King?” Red said not phased. “The human.” The silence broke out throughout the entire planet. “Testing, testing.” Red rushed outside. “What the hell is that, actually no, WHO the hell is that?” “Hello aliens and robots, I don’t want any problems but ya do,

so we gonna solve this the hard way,” Josh said into his loudspeaker. “Robots, make papa proud.” The robots disappeared into the night then came soaring above the planet. “Here we go.” To be continued . . .

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