Midweek Moleskine: Dream Mechs 02 (Patreon)

 A few nights ago I had a dream about being in the middle of a city under attack by giant, evil robots. All I knew about the robots was that they were impervious to conventional weapons and they were created by a sort of "machine disease" that infected pieces of technology, causing them to meld together and change into a sentient, killing machine, emblazoned with the same creepy smiley-face logo.

In the second half of my dream, I was riding in the back of a stranger's van as they dodged debris and wrecked cars. The sky was overcast with thunder clouds, and explosions and fire filled the horizon. As we drove over a bridge that would take us out of the city, I spotted the "Road Crusher", a quadrupedal robot that fired missiles in the air from its back while taking its time to crush every single car in its path with its massive stomping feet.

Just before it seemed like we were going to escape the city, we discovered too late that the bridge was not only destroyed halfway, but there was a massive chasm that surrounded the entire city, making it impossible to escape the city on foot or by car. As the van flew across the gap, I leaped out of the trunk of the van, just barely managing to grab hold of the ledge. As I clung to the side, covered in mud and rain, a massive swarm of tiny robots the size of cell phones scuttled up from the chasm and crawled over me. They didn't attack me at all- in fact, they ignored me completely, though I watched one plunge its "stinger" into a nearby flip phone on the ground, causing it to become infected and turn into another scuttling robot. That's when I woke up.