The Human Farm RT24

Part One

After winning the lottery, Mike and his fiance Kate decided to put their new wealth to good use by investing it and, after a few weeks of search, decided in favor of a human farm -- one that was equipped with the latest cutting-edge technology and which was considered most efficient in meat packing as well. The owner, another android from a well-established background, was retiring after over 150 years and offered a good price for the farm and its cattle of humans that were separated according to gender, age, and skin color, all but a few rare breed lobotamized. Mike had once, sixty years ago in 2165, worked at such a place that belonged to an elite member of android that bragged about being from the first lineage of flesh-eating robots at the turn of the century. He remembered vividly a conversation overheard one day about how it had all started, that a South Korean company keen on presenting the robots as human as possible had created an intestine for them and, before long, an eating habit that, sure enough, had soon veered in the uncharted territory of acquiring a taste for human flesh, spreading quickly to other robots and thus causing the great rising that had led to the mushrooming of canibalist colonies and, eventually, the demise of human civilization. Since then, with a dwindling human population, new human farms were incubating humans in their sophisticated labs all over the place, particularly in North America, although the supply continued to lag behind the demand. Mike often wondered what life was like a century or two ago, when robots like him were barely anything more than rudimentary toys and lacked real flesh, veins, and above all emotions. His model had been created by a descendant of an M.I.T. genius, who had dreamt of a human paradise where the drones did all the work and let their creators enjoy their leisure in peace, only to be rudely turned into new slaves of the machines of their own making.

But, compared to Mike, Kate was supersensitive and could not bear the scene of babies screaming as they were slaughtered like chicken in the fully automated factory that was the centerpiece of the Farm RT24, much as Mike assured her that she would get used to it after a week of hanging around. Not only that, there was a storm one night causing an electric malfunction that led a few humans skipping the line for the lobotomy insertions and some of them fled and had to be hunted down by the flying drones. Mike was upset since he could not use their meat that had been riddled with bullet. "Idiots, I told you bring them back alive." What he didn't expect, however, was to get attracted to a young human, whom he named Pinky because of her pale face. Pinky had blonde hair and white skin and was definitely worth a good sum in the upper town meat market but Mike secretly decided to postpone her slaughter and, before long, stop the injections that made the humans incapable of talking and showing emotions. Soon Pinky was alert and, naturally, totally horrified by the gruesome sight of human slaughters that went on a daily basis in that farm. Mike, on the other hand, tried his best to assure her that she was safe as long as she pleased him -- which she did until she realized that Mike was beginning to lose interest in her and eyeing another woman. She had to make her move and do it fast, but how?

The answer came from a handsome male human who had just arrived as part of a big shipment from Australia, who required extra dosage of the shots to be put out of commission. Pinky secretly befriended him and used her relative freedom to move around the farm to get the guy, Steve, some anti-body that Mike had given her to neutralize the numbing effects that destroyed humans will to resist, but only in small dosages. WIthin a week or so, Steve was fully conscious and, like Pinky, was immensely aghast by the unseemly scene of human butchery at the farm. Pinky tried to persuade him to escape but Steve had done that before and knew there was little chance of making it. Better to stay and cause a rebellion by the fellow humans, he told Pinky. So they started to work on a select few other humans, mostly male, until one day, suddenly, they came for Steve and put him in the 'assembly line' that led to the big grinder. By then, their group had swelled to more than twenty and it was now or never. Just as Steve was being pushed onto the escalator to the grinder, the humans began their sudden revolt and after a pitched battle took over the farm, holding Mike and Kate hostage for a few hours before they decided to smash their heads and throw their bodies down into the grinder. Suddenly, the human farm was a human garrison and they gathered all the weapons they could find and prepared to confront the coming army of androids, who came in by the thousands from all directions, mostly from the air, and obliterated the humans' defense. A few months later, after the exensive damage to the human farm had been repaired, a new owner, from a noble background, took over and immediately decided to install new machines that assured a more 'humane' method of butchering the human cattle.

Part Two

The human supply was dwindling, largely attributable to the over-demand and a mysterious disease that killed off most of the human cattle. The new owners of the farm were now thinking of filing for bankruptcy and calling it quits, but changed their mind when they learned that a similar farm far away had made a bundle by converting a section to an entertainment outfit, mixing bloody roman-type gladiator bouts with all the perversities of modern brothels. "Great idea. We should do the same, turn all the females into whores and arrange private rooms for the elite customers with sex shows." It took a while, and a sizeable loan from a reluctant bank, but in the end it all paid off and the farm, now nicknamed, Pleasure Palace RT240, was brimming with success, luring customers from thousands of miles away. Not only that, a young attractive couple from Ukraine, had hit it off with their live sex shows and were practically celebrities, which is why gradually there were given special treatment and were taken off the infusions that cleared their memories. The couple were in their early twenties and soon started to resent their forced sex slavery to entertain the humanoids who were on the surface indistinguishable from humans, even in their voracious appetite for food and sex, and they plotted to escape at the first opportunity. They zeroed in on a wealthy customer and gradually persuaded it to rent them for a weekend and then, when they were at the safety of its plush aparment overlooking the ocean, the couple got to work, dismantled their host and its two servants, by first tieing them down and then disconnecting their circuits, and then fled in a flying car, only to be chased by their police pursuers for hours until they finally evaded them and went into hiding in a forest, where they came across a small community of humans who had organized a resistance group and occasionally raided the nearby towns for food and amunition. The couple were greeted warmly and soon were enjoying their new underground life, when they came under attack unexpectedly one day and, to their horror, were apprehended again and sent back to the farm in chain. The owners were too greedy to get rid of them however. They put them back to work under very strict supervision, and then the couple decided to simply commit suicide in the middle of one of their sex acts on the stage.

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