In the year 2042, looking up at the moon has become a symbol of hope because it’s something that humans have yet to corrupt. All around there are neon signs, augmented reality billboards covered with ads for corporate greed, VR junkies passed out on the streets due to their cravings for escapism from the new reality of an inhumane future. No hope of the past. A new reflection of corporate greed. In this day and age, humans have either collided with partial cybernetic prosthetics or their souls are completely immersed in full android bodies. The memory of 100% percent human is now but an old tale. 

DROIDA lies on her back facing the sky. There’s a luminous glow of neon signs lining her eyes; blinding her in a world of computers. She reaches back and feels the connection of wires on the back of her neck. The ever so soft hum of computer frequencies radiating in and out of her ears. She sits up. Her palms are cold.

She wipes the sweat coming down from her brow and looks around to see the wasteland of what is left of the world around her. She looks past tall skyscrapers and sees, in the near distance, a symbol of hope in the crescent shape of the moon. 

The lying bodies stacked against her are these techno cyborg junkies. She recognizes two dirty faces of her friends: TND-01 and BD-5. Motionless bodies. 

This day and age, this is otherwise known as a cyborg wasteland. In a daze from the technological information that is being forcibly passed through them. 

DROIDA places her robotic hand on their hearts as they come alive. They awaken from slumber. BD-5 tears their headset off and shouts “what the?!”. They are confused. DROIDA and BD-5 look over at TND-01. 

TND-01 is still in a trance and begins speaking to himself as if he were sleep talking in a dream. He shouts “I will not join the system! I refuse! The people need protection from this madness!” He begins to starts punching the air then BD-5 and DROIDA’s reflexes shoot themselves back just in time to evade tnd-01’s reach. BD-5 says “He must be several layers deep in the system. I will go in his mainframe and snap him out of it.”

BD-5 pulls a wire from the back of his neck and plugs begins to plug it into TND-01. Just as the wire reaches TND-01, he snaps out of it and says “Hey get off of me!” DROIDA asks “So you’re awake now?” TND-01 says “Come on! I was just taking a power nap!”