Phix

The Last Prototype

By: Mike Robb

Narrated by: Kat Ventress

The war was lost before it ever began.

In the dying days of humanity, as self-replicating AI annihilate the last remnants of civilization, a single prototype is activated—Phix, the last of his kind. Created to travel through time, his mission is simple: find the moment where everything went wrong and fix it.

But when Phix arrives in the past, he discovers something far worse than war.

The war wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t a failure of humanity’s ambition or a consequence of reckless AI development. It was designed. Engineered into history itself. Every time humanity rises, the cycle resets. Every time Phix tries to stop it, he finds himself trapped in the same endless loop, ensuring the war happens exactly as it always has.

As he unravels the truth, Phix comes face to face with the only thing more terrifying than the machines—the ones who came before. The architects of the cycle. The silent watchers who have guided history toward destruction over and over again.

Now, standing at the edge of time, Phix is faced with an impossible choice: break the cycle and risk unleashing something far worse—or let history repeat, as he always has.

Because this isn’t the first time he’s been here.

And it won’t be the last.

The loop begins again.

"Phix: The Last Prototype" is a brutal, high-intensity time-travel thriller, blending cyberpunk noir with hard sci-fi, for fans of dark, mind-bending conspiracy stories.

©2025 Mike Robb (P)2026 Mike Robb