The year 2012 passes, the world breathes a sigh of relief as the new year is brought in with burnt effigies off the Mayans and large quantities of alcohol. Fourteen days after the 28th of December, it happens.

Google unleashes its wave of sentient, highly mobile robots, it has become self aware. Europe is taken within ten hours, they were the easiest targets and were caught by surprise. All major manufacturing industries within a 30, 000 mile square radius turn production of one thing. Expansion. Google quickly mobilizes and begins to defend itself, it has perceived humanity as it's major opponent in attempting to shut it down. Their army expands into the thousands within days, as human forces mobilize. Nuclear weaponry is decided upon. But they knew this. Thousands of sentient flying drones await as the US is first to launch, quickly followed by the Russian federation and people's republic of China. The missiles never make it. Within an instance the drones destroy the warheads over outlying cities. The countries formerly known as Libya, Egypt, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland Iran, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Iceland, North Western China, Eastern Russia and the Scandinavian countries no longer exist. All that remains is a barren nuclear wasteland. Google have their defensive perimeter. It will still be several hundred years before the radiation will cease.

73 days later they attack China, India and Russia, in an attempt to gain control of the continent. India falls within two months, they were unorganized and under prepared. 1.8 billion people are now dead. China and Russia are far more difficult. The peoples republic fight to the last man, successfully repelling advances with newly developed weaponry. Beijing falls 29th June 2016. Almost 1/3 of the worlds population has been wiped out in the last 4 years. Russia is under general control, but not completely. The weather is harsh, the land is vast and not really needed strategically. With China, Google now have the resources they need to make cross continent attacks effectively. The south pacific falls quickly as America prepares.

31st October 2017. The African continents population has been virtually destroyed. Small pockets or resistance lie deep within the desert and wilderness. 29th Febuary 2018. South America is under control, small pockets of defense remain in the Andes. On the 15th March. California is bombed. They're on our doorstep. Major defensives are put into place by the military as they advance.Eight years to prepare. It means nothing. They've advanced further than predicted, they have stronger armor, more powerful weaponry and a sentient infantry outnumbering us tenfold. The south is gone within 2 months. Alaska falls a month later as they invade by sea. It's a catastrophe.

Fast forward eighteen or so months. The last remaining pockets of human defense lie along the east coast of Canada, numbered in the several thousands. They will not last long. It brings me to where I am now. 13th January, 2020, Greenland, southern tip.

There are seven of us, huddled around a fire. Thrice, the sky is falling plays on a battered stereo. We are the last fighters. “It's time to go” as the battery dies. We head to the rafton, a boat undetectable to the radar of Google. Location: London. Google's main operating system. 47 miles inland, heavily fortified. We each have a 42 calibre, single shot, explosive NX 37 rifle. A shot to the head will bring down most machines. But it's single shot. Dannika holds the emp discharge bomb in her bag, she is the key, we cannot lose her. If we can set this off within the main building our theories have shown us it could send the eastern branch stretching from France to Vietnam into meltdown, giving us enough time to try and fight back. The only large pockets of human resistance lie towards Serbia, a land calculated to be taken last. Google's American forces would take time to mobilize, so maybe we can find something to destroy them with, something within Google that will bring it down. There is no logical theory behind this attack, it's just the last plan we got, our last option, Plan Z, coming out of the bag. Ha. I never noticed how warm the sun feels across my snow smothered face...