It's the End of the World as We Know It

(Part 1) 

"Why yes you could say there "conscious" but there's nothing to worry about they's an override for us to take control of it"

 It's perfectly safe nothing could go wrong"   

Nothing could go wrong my fucking left eyestalk I just hope they got the bastard before he could get on his private jet to the rich people Islands. 

I don't know how long it's been since I've seen someone else, I think it's been what? 2 weeks since I left the highway when we were evacuating the factories, they told us not to leave the bus under any circumstances, but I wasn't about to be sitting in traffic well those monsters were turning people into red puddles even if I had to break a window to do it the screaming and explosions coming from the road after I left told me going into the forest was the right call. 

A pair of those freaky little floating ones that buzz around the big Oblisks like bees got close and I thought they were coming after me, but I guess I was out of their designated flight range before the Oblisk would call them back and they flew back to their hive.   

After they were gone, I went under into a hole and well cried mostly all the carnage I had seen the last radio report I heard from an abandoned cabin 7 days ago said an estimated 10 billion people were dead which would mean I was one of about 500,000 thousand people alive and that was a week ago so who knows how many are left now. 

Although the machines aren't doing so well either so as alien as they looked, they were still made of regular earth metal and were susceptible to our weapons I heard various militaries did a good number on them before going down. Those things also burn threw an unspeakable amount of fuel and there's only so much they can find from the ground. 

I've gone as far as I could go from any civilization, I don't know where I am if I had to guess I would say I'm somewhere near the northern tip of the continent but I'm not sure. 

When I was a little girl, I was in a foster home that's backyard had a forest behind it remember hearing the leaves rustling and Blish chirping they never let me go in there, but I always imagined what it would be like skipping threw the forest hearing the insects and Blish chirping maybe see a Vicemouth and feed it and become its friend and I would be the alpha of the Vicemouth pack like in one of those young girl novels I use to read. 

This forest is nothing like that I assume most of the animals have retreated into the deepest parts of the forest in fear since reports said that the machines purposefully ignore animals with some even being seen letting pets out of cars or freeing farm animals. I haven't seen any animals aside from insects and the occasional flock of Blish startled by the gunfire in the distance. 

Each night it's been getting colder than the last radio broadcast said that the machines had removed so much carbon from the atmosphere that the earth was beginning to cool all the smoke in the air doesn't help I think it was snowing last night although it's hard to tell the tree line is so thick that I can barely see the sky above me.   

It's really starting to snow I could barely see in front of me for most of the day everything is covered in snow, and it keeps getting harder to walk through the snow. 

The only positive is that the hazmat suit I was wearing from my job at the factory is super warm and I can just turn it inside out to sleep in it plus I'm safe from any potentially harmful substances in the air  

When I was resting in a field of tall grass, I found a single flower its purple petals swaying in the howling wind I don't know what incentivized me to pick it up I guess I just needed some beauty in all of the destruction. 

My decision would payoff off in the end when I was marching through a snowstorm a distinctive humming noise caught my ears, I panicked thinking it was one of those robot scouts but coming to take back to be used as fuel for their engines. But my heart leapt as I saw the little fluttering Shadow following me it fluttered down to the flower; I was caring in the back of my hazmat suit it was a little Hummingbird that landed on it and began to drink from it the little guy clearly liked me since other the next few days I kept seeing him dancing around me in the snowy sky drinking from the flower. 

I know he probably couldn't understand me Hummingbird Blish were quite smart among Blish they had the biggest brain to body size of any Blish and were capable of remembering face's but he still not able to comprehend the sudden changes of his world he probably just knew me as the one with a free source of food that was getting harder for him to find. 

But I still wanted to believe he saw me as a friend with all the pain and sadness I had been through in the last few weeks and the fact I hadn't seen anybody else in so long I felt like a had to have a friend. 

For all I know I could be the last Squibbion on earth the last sentient creature on earth all the machines I had come across were dead black metal body's left frozen in the snow. 

And the hummingbird for all I know could be the last of his kind in the area most others would have died or flown south for the equator.

I didn't want to let my only friend die so I boiled some water and sugar and put it in a water bottle with a hole in it letting him feed from it. 

He kept showing up more often once every hour to 30 minutes to every 15 minutes 

A decided that he should have a name seeing as he was my only friend, I decided to name him Friend I thought that it was an appropriate name. 

The nights are getting cold now the nights must be near -20 and even at midday, you can see your breath in the air, not even my warm hazmat suit or Friend's coat of hair can keep taking the bite of the cold of our backs. 

I've still yet to see another machine or person so I've concluded that I'm the last one left at least in the Northern Forest yesterday I saw the northern coastal mountains in the distance so I can't be 300 kilometers from the coast.

 The forest is finding out I'm getting to where the flood's reach and most of the forest was either burned in forest fires or washed away in floods. 

Also, some things off Freind haven't been left the tree line he keeps fluttering around there it might be because of that river in front of me I'm gonna camp here for the night and look to cross it in the morning. 

Also, what's that thing? down there in the river it's big dark and shiny. huh? almost looks like one of those scout machines. 

Oh, shit never mind fuuuuuuck