Richest Man of the Future by Garrett B.

I was on my last run. Another day of delivering pizza’s for the pizzeria. Here was the address. I walked up to the building and knocked on the door. Then right after I knocked on the door it mysteriously opened. I said to no one “man that was sketchy.” I walked upstairs and I saw these four giant tubes, these weird things that were glowing blue. I was baffled until I hit my head on an aluminum sign. After shaking my head from the hit, I read the sign: Cryogenic Chambers. “Wow” I spoke aloud as a rat scurried a foot away from me. “I wonder…?” I stepped in front of a chamber, I thought to myself “why not? Nothing is going for you might as well; I got no friends and no money. Heck, I would even take a robot for a friend.” There was a timer on the front and above it read: Timer. I spun the timer with all my might to a year and walked in, I suddenly felt a liquid rush against my skin, then it went down my throat and into my stomach, I felt trapped, and there was no way out. I couldn’t move my arms and legs. Then in felt like I got punched in the face and everything went black.

I felt warm, I felt sunlight on my face, and it seemed like that hadn’t happened in hundreds of years. Then the door to the chamber opened and a robot was just outside the door in a gorilla mask, he spoke “Welcome to Earth, ruled by monkeys, you must follow our primate rules or you will be eaten alive!” “Oh, ha ha ha, ya right, you are just a robot with a mask,” I said. “Come on its gotten everyone since I got this job,” He said as he took off the mask.

“So this is earth, its changed a lot since I was here in 2008,” I said as we roamed around Central Park. “Well since 2008 there has been many wars, inventions and changes in environment, as you can probably already tell,” Said the robot as we walked by a dead half bird, half cat on the ground. “Hey, you know what is funny, I’ve been living with you for last few days and I don’t know your name.” I said embarrassed. “Oh, well my name is Mark, and what’s yours?” said the robot. “I’m Matt,” I said. We walked for a little while until we came to my old bank. “Hey Mark do you mind if I go to the bank to get some money for lunch?” I asked.” Let’s go chump,” Said Mark. We walked up to the bank teller and I said “Yeah I have an account.” “Your name please,” the Cyclops teller asked. “Sure my name is Matt Crotty,” I said occasionally. She looked at me for a second in awe. “Well, sir, you have 8 billion dollars in your account, sir, you are the richest man in the universe by seven billion dollars.”

Mark and I just stared at her in awe. “Well, umm, so can you take out twenty dollars for me please?” I asked as my voice stammered. We walked out of the bank after the transaction and went to a nearby restaurant. As we waited for my food I asked Mark,” Would you want to live with me, and be my best friend?” He replied “Sure, I mean you’re rich, and you’re the only human friend I have, I would be honored to be a burden to your money.” I smiled and we ate lunch in silence.

We strolled back over to the bank and stepped in front of the same window, with the same Cyclops. “Hello, I was hoping I could take out about 4 billion dollars and put the rest to the best bank in Beverly Hills?” I asked very politely. “Of course, sir, we will send your account to our bank in Beverly Hills, thank you for choosing the Vandiesel Bank, serving people nationwide since 2000.”She replied. “Just one more thing, leave one million dollars in your account, you did such a great job.” I told her almost bragging. She just looked at me with her giant one eye. I looked at Mark and we walked out of the Bank like we didn’t have a care in the world.

Later that week we bought the biggest house in Beverly Hills. I married a Swedish model and Mark spent the rest of his life being a bachelor and flashing his money to all the Robot Girls, and we all lived happily ever after, until the Possums attacked!