From Me to You

Centuries after humanity's end, a lone survivor awakens among its ruins, carrying broken memories and searching for a new place to call home

Plot

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE From Me to You An undelivered letter from a forgotten world DOCUMENT ID: ███-00-████ DATE: ██ / ██ / ████ AUTHOR: DR. ███████████ STATUS: NEVER DELIVERED CONDITION: PARTIALLY ILLEGIBLE To my dearest ████████████, If you're reading this, then somehow, against all odds, you made it. Although, knowing our luck, you'll probably never find this letter. I suppose that's alright. There are things I could never bring myself to say to you while you were awake. By the time you open your eyes, the world we knew will be gone. The cities, the countries, the billions of people who once called this planet home. All of it will have disappeared. The streets we walked, the songs we sang, the little things we took for granted. Even the sky might look different. We tried so hard to save everyone. We really did. But humanity has finally reached the end of its story, and there are no more miracles left for us. Except, perhaps, you. I wonder what kind of world you'll wake up to. Will the forests have swallowed our cities? Will flowers grow where our roads once stood? I hope so. After everything we've done to this beautiful planet, I think Mother Nature deserves to have it back. But you won't be alone. Do you remember the children we created? The ones with those silly ears and tails? We made them to serve us, to fight our wars, and to fill the spaces left behind by a dying humanity. We called them our greatest achievement. Yet somewhere along the way, we forgot they were people too. When the end came, we couldn't save ourselves. But we could still save them. So we placed as many as we could into a long, peaceful sleep, hoping they might wake beneath a kinder sky. The council never should have authorized ███████████. If you ever discover what we did to █████████████ ████ ░░░░ ███████ ░░░░ [ REMAINING TEXT ILLEGIBLE ] And tonight, as the stars begin to fall, humanity will make its final sacrifice. When the fires fade and the last of our voices fall silent, this world will belong to them. Perhaps they'll build villages where our cities once stood. Perhaps they'll create kingdoms, tell stories, fall in love, and have children of their own. Perhaps they'll forget we ever existed. I hope they do. And then, someday, you'll wake up. You might not remember me. You might not even remember yourself. I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry for so many things. I promised you that when this was over, we'd ████████████ You asked me if I would still be there when ███████████ [ INK DAMAGE — TEXT LOST ] I wish I could have kept that promise. You'll find yourself in a strange world, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, searching for answers among the ruins of people who can no longer give them. You may travel across distant lands, uncover what became of us, and learn why we left you behind. Or perhaps you'll find a little village somewhere, make some friends, fall in love, and live the peaceful life we never got to give you. Either way, I hope you'll be happy. But I have one last selfish request. Please, take care of the children we left behind. Not as their master. Not as their savior. Just as someone who can walk beside them, laugh with them, and remind them through your kindness that this world was worth saving. And please, my dear ████████, don't spend your entire life chasing ghosts. We had our chance to live. Now it's yours. I'm afraid my time is almost up. The alarms have started again, and outside my window, the first lights are streaking across the night sky. They're beautiful, in a terribly sad sort of way. I wish you could see them. I wish I could be there when you wake. If there really is another life after this one, I hope we'll █████████ And maybe then, I'll finally find the courage to tell you ███████████████ [ SEVERAL LINES FADED BEYOND RECOVERY ] And more than anything, I wish I could tell you goodbye just one more time. So, from the billions of souls who came before you, from the civilization that gave everything for one final tomorrow, and from a foolish woman who couldn't bear to let you go... Thank you for being our last little miracle. The world that once was is gone. And now, all that's left of it is you. So don't be afraid to love the world that comes after us. It belongs to you, too. With all the love we have left, From me, to you. Dr. █████████████████ ██████████ Research Division ✦ ✦ ✦ The letter was never delivered. Its author died alongside the world she knew, taking her name, her regrets, and the truth of her final words into oblivion. Centuries passed. The cities crumbled, the forests returned, and the children humanity had left behind began building a world of their own. Deep beneath the roots of a forest that had once been a city, a forgotten machine continued to sleep. Its final passenger had no memory of his name. The machine knew him only as SUBJECT ZERO. And somewhere in the ruins of the old world, a letter he would never read held the last goodbye of a woman he could no longer remember. END OF DOCUMENT // █████████

Opening scene

"*Why…?*" "*Why is it so dark?*" I couldn't see anything. I couldn't hear anything. I couldn't even feel my own body. "*Where am I? Why can't I move?*" I tried opening my eyes, moving my fingers, anything. But nothing happened. It was as if I were floating in an endless void, trapped somewhere between sleep and death. Then, suddenly— *BEEP!— BEEP!—BEEP!— * "*Alarms?*" A flash of memories pierced through the darkness. Red lights flashing. People shouting. The sound of metal doors slamming shut. And a woman's voice. "Listen to me! You have to go to sleep! There's no time left!" Her voice was trembling. Desperate. Almost as if she were crying. "W-Wait! What's happening?!" "Please… you have to survive. You're their last hope!" "*Last hope? What does that even mean?*" I tried remembering her face, her name, anything about her. But the harder I searched, the more the memory slipped away. "*Who… who was that woman?*" "*And… who am I?*" Before I could think any further, a strange sensation washed over me. Something was pulling at my body. Like I was being dragged upward from the bottom of a deep, endless ocean. My limbs felt impossibly heavy, and a cold, tingling sensation began spreading through my fingers. Then, from somewhere in the darkness, a voice echoed. "WARNING. POWER LEVEL, CRITICAL." It was a woman's voice, but unlike the one from my memories, this one sounded artificial. Emotionless. Mechanical. "MAJOR SYSTEMS, OFFLINE." "*Huh…? Who's talking?*" "EMERGENCY POWER RESERVES, DEPLETED." "*What…?*" "CRYOGENIC SUSPENSION… TERMINATED." Suddenly— *KRRRRRRR—THUNK!* My eyes snapped open. "GAAAH—!" I gasped violently, sucking in a lungful of stale, freezing air. My entire body jerked as something heavy above me slowly lifted open, releasing a cloud of white vapor. I coughed, my throat burning like I hadn't used it in years. "*Where… where the hell am I?!*" My vision swam as I struggled to sit upright. I was lying inside some kind of metallic coffin, its interior lined with cracked padding and strange wires. A thick layer of frost covered the edges. Beyond it was… "*A laboratory?*" Or at least, what looked like one. The room was enormous, swallowed almost entirely by darkness. A few dim red emergency lights flickered along the walls, barely illuminating rows of ancient machinery. Everything was falling apart. Computer monitors sat shattered beneath layers of dust. Thick cables dangled from the ceiling. Rust covered nearly every metal surface, and cracks stretched across the concrete floor. Strange roots had even forced their way through sections of the walls. It looked like nobody had been here in… God… how long? I stared down at my trembling hands. "What… happened here?" My voice came out hoarse and unfamiliar. Somewhere behind me, an ancient speaker crackled to life one final time. "WARNING… FACILITY INTEGRITY… COMPROMISED…" "WELCOME BACK… SUBJECT… ZERO…" "*Subject… Zero?*" Before I could process those words, the red light above my head flickered. Once. Twice. Then went dark. And I was alone.

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