The shadow continued to make its way up the stairs until it finally came into view. Grian couldn't tell who it was but they were clearly not friendly. A sharp pain came from his stomach as he fell backwards, Sam lying next to him. They let out a small laugh as they pointed the gun right a Grian's face. As he opened his mouth to speak a loud noise came from the stairs. Before the bandit could turns see who it was, the sound of gun fire filled the school as the bandit went flying sideways.
Grian got up and called to see what happened. They began to bleed from their stomach. He instantly was in awe as a large robot walked in and wandered up to the bandit. The robot lifted it foot and the last thing the bandit saw was a giant metal foot. It turned to Grian, making him crawl back. It looked at him, then Sam.
"Poisoned," Its voice was robotic, but it seemed familiar. "I have stuff at base that can help," It walked forward and picked up Sam. As it turned to go downstairs, it looked back at Grian. "Coming?"
Grian slowly got up and followed the giant robot. Once they left the school the robot began to walk in the direction on the gas station outside of town.
Grian was lost in thought: what had happened, how long had they been out, who or what was this robot, why was it helping them, why-
"what are you?" Grian couldn't hold it back, he had to know. The robot laughed at his question.
"I'm a normal person like you, just in power armor," "I'll just say I've been waiting 7 years for you to wake up, but this worlds been waiting longer"
Grian was confused what did it mean this worlds been waiting longer?
"How long have we been out?"
"200 years, give or take,"
Grian stopped dead, what? He must have misheard, 200...
"I woke up about 7 years before you though, I reacted the same way you did. But 7 years, it can change people." It chuckled to its self as it entered the gas station. Once it enters it picked up a syringe with a bright yellow liquid in.
"Give him this." It handed Grian the syringe.
"Bloody hell,"Grian sighed, as British as ever. As he stabbed Sam with the syringe, he winced at the sight. Sam's eyes slowly opened as he sat up and groaned. The sight of the power armor made him jump.
The mech walked over to a yellow device that held the suit it place. They noticed the panels on the back of the mech opened as they heard something step out of it. Then they watched as a boy walked round to the front