Hi everyone!
Here is a flash fiction I had to submit in order to have my degree. I, obviously, used Samantha Carter and Gina (Caprica 6) in a world of my own ^^
The assignements were:
- You will compose a story (flash fiction) of no less than 1 000 words and no more than 1 100 words.
- You will give your story a title.
- Your composition will take place in a post-apocalyptic distopian world and relate how a child endeavours to escape capture by a
gang of human traffickers. The child is assisted by a humanoid robot. The robot is eventually destroyed.
- Your narrative will be in the third person and in the past tense. No phrasal verbs will be used in the narrative / descriptive
sections of your composition. However, you may use them in the dialogue. The register of the dialogue will will be conversational
/ informal. The register of the narrative passages will be fairly formal and literary.
- There will be one main character. The leading character must be appropriately rounded. Any other characters will be merely
extras and play a role of support.
- Approximately one third of your composition will be made up of dialogue. The dialogue will be conversation that helps move the
narrative towards its outcome. In other words, it will contain no superfluous additions; only those genuinely required for
character building or narrative objectives
The awakening
Samantha opened her eyes with great difficulty. She had no idea of where she was or who was talking to her. She could not remember what happened to her.
A blond girl was standing in front of her. She was tall and very handsome.
"Who are you?" Samantha asked.
The woman seemed scared.
"Where are we? How did I," but Samantha was not able to finish her sentence.
The blond put her finger on her mouth and whispered, "Shut up, they will find us!"
"Who?"
Suddenly, the girl grabbed her hand, lifted her, and ran towards the end of what seemed to be a cave. Samantha did not realize it at first, but the girl was holding a torch. Despite the darkness, the girl was guiding them as if they were in sunlight.
"Do you know the place?" Samantha asked.
The girl nodded.
Deep down the cave, the girl stopped.
"I'm Gina."
"Samantha."
"I know," and Gina winked at her.
Gods only knew from where, but Gina gave food and water to Samantha.
"Don't you eat?"
She replied with a shake of her head, her blond locks of hair moving. After a while, Gina revealed to Samantha that she had found her in a laboratory. Doctors were making experiments on children. She had heard that a group of rebels intended to fire the place. So, she had to save her because her DNA seemed to be interesting for the scientists.
Gina suddenly looked old and alone.
"Why can't I remember anything?"
"They drugged you all, so they could do anything they liked."
Gina lowered her head, as if she could nor would not tell her the truth. Finally, she said.
"I couldn't save everybody. I told myself that if only I could save one person…"
"I don't understand, you're not part of the rebels?"
Gina looked embarrassed.
"I'm half-machine, half-human. I look like an adult, but I'm only a few months old."
"Is it what they're doing in their laboratory?" asked Samantha, suspicious.
She was young without actually being dumb.
Gina nodded before explaining that the doctors grabbed kids, mostly girls, and try to breed humanoids of her kind. Samantha frowned and asked why little girls. Next, Gina told her that girls are born with all their eggs. That they don't have to be pubescent to create life, unlike boys. Doctors take all the follicles, mature it, and try to make half-machine babies in their laboratory.
It was too much information for the young Samantha. She didn't exactly know how human biology works, as schools were closed for years, due to the holocaust, caused by the robots.
"Did they take my ovaries?"
Gina had to explain to Samantha every detail of human reproduction and then added that the doctors only took the ovums inside her left ovary.
"They intended to take the eggs from the right, but I freed you before. You'd be able to have babies."
Samantha had an ironic smirk, as if to say too kind of them!
Gina explained that, at first, doctors removed the ovaries of little girls, but the eggs were not usable, then the girls were not able to carry children. Later, they decided to take the eggs, letting the ovaries in place but once again, the body couldn't handle a pregnancy.
"They left the eggs in the second ovary, to manipulate the body?"
Gina confirmed by a nod. She knew that Samantha was clever, but not that perceptive.
After that, Samantha asked questions about the rebels.
"I only heard things here and there. I have informants outside the medical complex. They told me that a war is coming. I knew that I had to act fast in order to save you."
"Why me?" Samantha asked.
She did not know why but she trusted Gina. She should not have, regarding Gina's origins, but something deep inside her told her to trust the woman.
"The doctors don't know about that place?" Samantha asked as Gina never answered why her. Gina shook her head to say no.
"The doctors are masters of the laboratory. They're not warriors. On the other hand, their toasters are."
"Why do you call them toasters?"
"It's a human joke. They look like shiny toasters to humans. But it's the old guard. The new one is more vicious. As they look like humans, they use it to their advantage."
"You didn't answer my previous question," Samantha stated.
"The guardians used to know that cave but, I removed the information from the central computer."
Gina then explained that all the toasters and humanoids were linked to a big computer. If something was erased, the robots would forget it.
Another loud noise prevented Gina from answering another question. She put a finger on her lips, asking to Samantha to remain silent.
Gina walked towards the entrance of the cave, where Samantha woke up early. She came back a few seconds later.
Gina was about to speak when a bullet hit her in the thorax, she fell at Sam's feet.
"What the Hell?!" Samantha shouted.
"What a language for a young lady!" a male's voice replied, amused.
He looked like a black op military from the movies Samantha used to watch with her parents, before the attacks.
"I'm not a lady! I'm a lost child!"
"I know. That's why I'm here, to save you from that thing!" He looked disgusted.
"She was my friend!" Samantha replied while taking Gina's head.
She was sitting on the floor to soothe Gina's pain.
"No! I don't know what she told you, but she's the enemy!"
Samantha had to explain that Gina saved her life, that she risked hers to give her a chance.
The man suddenly looked sad and Samantha ignored if it was for Gina's fate or for her foulness in believing Gina's story.
"I'm sorry, but we fight against her siblings for months now. How could I know she wasn't the enemy?"
Samantha raised her shoulders; she did not care. Her friend was dying in her arms. A tear rolled on her cheek.
"Kid, come with us, you'd be safe. We freed humans, that's the only thing that matters now."
He grabbed Samantha's arm in order to put her on her feet.
"Leave her, she will die, another one is going to replace her."
Samantha thought that no one would ever be like Gina, she knew it.
Before she left the cave, Samantha took a last look at Gina's body. She praised for her soul's seek.
Gina weakly called her. Sam went to her and took her hand.
"I'm your daughter."
Gina died.
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