Emma Moore lives in a world overtaken by robots. The robots have decreed that humans will work in the factories, and robots will live easy lives on their own continent. Each citizen has an earpiece that monitors them constantly, punishing them each time they mess up. Once someone messes up 2,000 times, the government will take them to be killed. The Vanguards of Life will kill anyone who's close to being taken, sparing them a torturous death at the hands of the robots. Emma plans to join the Vanguards, in an attempt to give her life meaning. Content/trigger warning: Blood, violence, mild language, murder, suicide Word count: 4,700