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I missed the final war which turned humanity into shadows and dust...
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I was the last one left alive from my science team.
I've been circling the dead city for days and surrendered all hope of finding another human being.
After my all-terrain Dead Zone M.A.G.S. vehicle ran out of fuel I started walking.
Walking was an extremely exhausting activity. My feet ached. My mind started to wander.
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Snow mixed with ashes fell from the sky. I didn't know who struck first, but I knew that I had missed it all. Silent, dead, several kilometer-tall tanks loomed over the desolate, ice-covered ruins of the city of Eureka. The world I once knew lost all sense of balance and slipped into a nuclear winter.
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While I contemplated the slippage of the world, I myself slipped on an icy shard and fell onto my butt.
“I GIVE UP…” I sighed, sitting on the snow. It was cold. The snow intensified. I was tired.
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The icy chill of the Dead Zone was digging into my bones, sucking out the last remnants of my energy.
This was it. I had no friends. Everyone I knew was in fact dead. I was too tired to go on, too mentally and physically exhausted to move on my own.
"I really wish... that I had a friend," I muttered tiredly to the snowstorm.
The snowstorm didn't reply. Instead it turned into sleet. Cold, nasty moisture pelleted my fireproof, Tour Guide jacket. My lenses fogged up and I started to sob. This was it. The end of line, the end of everything. How long has it been that I've seen another human? I couldn't remember. The Dead Zone had taken Eureka, devoured it wholesale, made a mockery of our works, turned the last city on Earth upside down and inside out.
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
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Sudden sound of thunder and blinding lightning interrupted my final snow-nap and then, a quirky, french song started to flow over the wasteland...
“Alouette, gentille alouette,
Alouette je te plumerai.
Je te plumerai la tete.
Je te plumerai la tete.”
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Ahead, atop the surface of a downed, decayed airplane, a purple shimmer flickered in the air, revealing a human figure. The figure marched towards me through the sleet.
“Bonjour, monseigneur!
Zee weather is rather lovely this spring, don't you find?
Why, you look rather shabby! Do you fancy a taste of bourbon? No? How about an exquisite job opportunity with partial dental benefits and potential chances of advancement in zee ranks?”
The blurry thing spoke, offering something that looked like a hand towards me. In my extremely groggy state I would have quite frankly accepted a tentacle.
I wiped the sleet off my lenses to witness a very tall, trench coat wearing individual.
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“You are an odd hallucination,” I muttered, to which the hallucination loudly responded with:
“I am Zee Captain!
Anointed sovereign, emissary of humanity, prescient governor and lady of all things in Captania, the great and powerful system wizard!"
"What?" I mumbled in response to the incoherent, noisy gibberish. "Zee Captain? You're a sovereign of... what?"
"Behold... Captania!
You have discovered yourself in a most prosperous paradise nation of dignified love! Congratulations!"
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With that, Zee Captain gestured towards the frozen wasteland in a long, dramatic pause.
"YOU... COULD HAVE ALSO OFFERED ME A FREE COFFEE, WHILE YOU'RE AT IT,"
I thought with sarcasm.