Mish Mash

I felt isolated, on my own; space is a rough place to be alone. I saw the gleaming silver dot getting bigger.That's were where mum was, in a spaceship. It sounds weird, but humans built robots then they took over the planet and they have moved most humans to space. Apart from my mother, I had no family, but she had been taken captive by the robots. ‘Mish Mash’, that's what my Grandad used to call them, horrible Mish Mash with all their fancy electronics. He used to look after me before mum was taken captive. Dad went to fight for England against them, the robots, then we got the message. It was a mournful day, nothing seemed right. Death had come and silenced everyone.

I sped in my rusting junker toward the enemy destroyer. It seemed I had been looking at for hours it but it must have been only a few minutes. The doors and glass of my so called ship were shaking like tremors. It’s amazing how it had stayed together, though I was pessimistic it was going to last this final journey.

“I'm coming for you Mum,” I muttered to myself with a look of pure resilience. This was the only thought that stopped me going psychotic.

Gradually, the machine became bigger as I got closer. Clearly, it was a war hardened battle machine ready to kill anything and anyone in its path. Locking onto the destroyer, I whispered “Let's do this” I trudged through the airlock to the enemy battleship.The glazed and glossy aluminium walls looked down at me, staring at my visage. My reflection looked almost alien, as if it wasn't me. The airlock closed behind me with a creak. And I knew that if those doors opened me and everything in this ship would all get sucked out into the darkest depths of space.No way back now, I thought.

Tentatively, I looked around the corridor, before I even looked I knew what would be behind the corner. I always knew this mission would be the end of me. Bodies of aluminium and steel were rolling on the ground. There wheels were the size of a human head and were like tanks with three in row and huge rubery tyres that wrap around them. They have syringes in the tyres that squirt out invisible poison on the ground so that any infected vermins that cross their path will be eradicated instantly.

In seconds they had found me; their burning red eyes stared at me but it seemed like they couldn't see me, like I was a ghost it was though they looked through me. They had already brought out there gleaming sapphire blasters ‘ching’ I heard it pull the trigger,They had got me. Then the world slowed down For the last time I felt my heartbeat thudding in my chest ‘thud dump thud dump’ then pain, then extreme pain, “Mum!” I called out, Then nothing.