Tales of the Parodyverse

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Sun Oct 02, 2005 at 05:48:31 pm EDT
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A Days of Future Parodyverse Tie-In
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Days of Future Parodyverse (RETCONED for Unfinished Story Week)
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Parrodipolis was at one time voted one of the most futuristic cities on the east coast. To walk the streets was like walking in the future. Well, after Garrick's Sentinoids took over the country nothing really has changed about that statement, just the future it represents.

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Down on 1st Avenue, an horse drawn express tram was heading out to where Shelton use to stand. The various factions of humans mingle, the tram is one of the few places they do. There are the baseline humans, what some my call the upper crust of a lower class society. They are allowed to reproduce. Then, comes the anomalous humans, they have the possibility to be the lowest class. The class known by the nickname of the "Specials". Both groups are banned from reproducing & with in the next 20 years, these two group will have almost completely died off.

The people marked as Specials are forced into camps. One such Special is wearing a brown, dirty, tattered & torn trench coat (it was his Father's). Under the trenchcoat he is wearing a generic green jumpsuit & on his feet are a pair of old brown leather combat boots. His head is shaved & he has a pair of gloves on his hands. He is known to a few as David Bookman or to the Sentinoids, that dot Parrodipolis much like Starbucks did once: One or maybe two on every corner, David is known as Special 2875. David finds humor in that number because happens to be the same section number the Planet Earth inhabits, according to the IOL database. David has been forced to wear the inhibitor collar, like all Specials do. He doesn't mind it, his doesn't work all that well anyways. That's mostly because he's fiddled around with it. It's now only emits a signal so the Sentinoids think it's working. David had turned off the inhibitor part years ago, but he's know better then to use his powers in public or near a Sentinoid.

While on the tram, David avoids the looks from the baseline & anomalous humans by keeping his eyes on his book. He knows that some are starring at him. A baseline elderly lady two or three seats away from him, has covered her mouth & nose with her scarf ever since he got on the bus. David guesses she doesn't want to breath the same air as him.

The Tram stops suddenly & the Tram driver yells "All you Specials, this is ya last stop. Now, get off!"

The doors open & David with a group of other Specials get off. The tram then drives off to where every it's goes, David doesn't know. He & his fellow Specials line up to be expected by the Guards Sentinoids. As they enter the camp, the giant robots scan over the Specials. They are looking for an & all defect in the collars or contraband.

"Special 2875! Halt & step out of line." The metal behemoth says roboticly. From what David had heard of Garrick, it sounds mildly like him.

David does want it tells him, because an Special who disobeys a Sentinoid gets a mild shock via their collar or would if it worked properly. The Sentinoid walks over to David, another robot takes it's place at the gate. "You are in pocession of contraband. Explain!" it said.

"It is a book on the American Pioneers." David said & showed the bot the book. Almost all books are banned unless they are about US History. But, books or sections about the American Revolution or any other war the US had fought in are banned for obvious reasons.

The Sentinoid's eyes scanned the cover & then reported "Acknowledged. Encephanalo-Scan indicates a truthful reply. You may get back in line, Special 2875."

"Thank you" David said, as the bot walked over to attend to other duties.

Once inside the camp & past the various graves that line the main path (David's father is buried in another camp), David runs his finger over the book's cover. The words start to shine & change. David actually had a book from the early 2000's on robotic matinance. It was sorely out of date, but David's robotic masters did still use some of the same basics stated in the book. It was David's plan to hi-jack a Sentiniod & get the heck out of there. He's heard rumors that in another camp were some of the last members from the team his father once was a part of, The Lair Legion. He has a pretty good idea which camp it may be. After finding the remnants of the Lair Legion & helping them in anyway they need, David wants to find the IOL & he has some questions he wants them to answer.

So, now all he needs is a means of travel. David looks up at one of the passing guards & smiles.


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