The room was dark. It had been that way for so long. The only light that came was a weak blue light from a cylinder. Soon the light flickered and the room lit up. The ceiling's lights turned on for the first time in who knows how long and a screen came to life the words 'Error Error' kept repeating until cold air started to hiss from the cylinder. 'Emergency revival activated.' Soon, small pieces of frost formed on the walls as the cold air blasting out of the container kept increasing until the front started to lift up, revealing a young adult male with light skin and glossy black hair.

The young man laid there not responding. After a few minutes, the computer screen started a new phase 'Emergency! Emergency! The occ&pant's heart hΔs stop*ed and vit l are dr!*#ng! Initiating electroshock!' Soon the interior of the pod sparked to life and no response. Then it did it again and still nothing as the screen turned red. The third time though, the young man inhaled and shot up.

"WHAAAA…OWWWW…FUCK!" he calls out as he holds his chest. "Fucking hell! Is that what it feels like?!"

'Vitals stabilized and rising r&^$...' The screen read now.

The man tries to step out of the cylinder and doesn't feel anything when his foot hits the ground, causing his whole body to fall face-first to the ground. "Fuck…how long was I in there for? Ryan the freaking asshole said would only be an hour at most to test," the man says to himself just laying there, waiting for his body to get ready.

After about ten minutes of lying there and even just looking at every single grain of the grout of the tiles, he tests his limbs and sighs in relief as they had some tingling feeling, but it was enough. "Okay…RYAN! Asshole! Get your butt over here!" he calls out as he tries to get up and moving, using the walls and whatever object was in his way.

Looking around, he can see all the equipment as it were, but heavily coated in a layer of dust and almost barely any lights working. He then looks to the screen for the equipment in here and then sees the last message displayed. "Fuck. Ryan is so going to pay all the bills," he spits as he finally gets to his feet and starts to walk. Heading to the door where a phone is nearby it. Picking it up, he was about to call Ryan's office, expecting him to be laughing and drinking some beer with some guys. But what he was met with was no dial tone. He stops halfway from pressing a button and tries to hang up manually and keeps trying with the same results. "Fucking seriously," he sighs and lets go of the phone as he goes to the computer and tries to bring up the calling system but it ended up being so glitchy that it started to flicker and then display such a poorly frame of random colors, it turned off. Then the computer itself. "FUCK!"

After a bit of looking around, the man tried the door, but it wouldn't open when he pushed the button. Now he was starting to get scared as he took his tools out and started to take off the case for the control and started to hotwire it. After a bit, he heard a click and knew the sliding door was now unlocked, but the motion system for it must be shot as it didn't move. After a bit of prying the door open, the man saw a pitch-black hallway. There were no lights coming on. The man then took out a tool and shown a light down the hall before starting to trek down it. Along the way, he found no signs of life or anything. He then came to what he was looking for the brains of this whole facility, the main terminal of the AI H.A.I. 24. "Hai activate," the man says giving the voice command.

The systems flicker for a moment before dying out again. The man sighs. "Too good to be true," he mutters before kicking the side in a vain hope it would work. "Damn. Okay…there must be something else…I guess I could try and get Hai to work again. I have worked on it before," the man says starting to walk over to the door that contained the hardware and did the trek like with the last door before making his way inside and starts looking around.

After what felt like hours of work in the dark, the systems started to hum to life. "Yes, finally some good news," the man says happily, having tried so many bypasses to get this going. The projector starts to come to life and he expected the round little thing to start saying good morning but it came up as a messy glitchy mess that was hard to make out the original ball shape. "Uhh…Hai?"

The projection kept displaying nonsensical message no voice as the man had expected. "One step forward. Hai, can you activate any lights that are still functional in this room?" he asks, going back to work seeing what he could get working.

One light flickered at the door before it stays on with a flicker every five seconds. "Thank you. That is so helpful," the man says sarcastically as he kept using his flashlight. "Okay…where is everyone?" he asks, trying to reach a part. The man got no response and just keeps having a one-sided conversation until he heard two other pieces of hardware near the one he was working on start to hum to life. "Reinitializing," a familiar voice says.

"Hai?" the man asks looking up.

"Limited functions restored. Scanning…scan complete. Facility personnel, Engineer Edric Lauren, recognized," Hai says as the projection seemed more stable with less nonsensical information being displayed.

"Finally, something substantial. Hai, can you bring up a visual on your first system's room? I want to see where problems are and not discover as I go," Edric says smiling as he wiped his brow.

Hai gives off a short metal screech before his image disappeared and then nothing else came up. "Un…unable."

"Well, you are talking at least. That is a step up," Edric says as he went back to work for a bit longer. With each system he worked on, Hai seemed to get more functions back until Edric stopped, thinking he did all he could without new parts. "Hai, tell me the 3D printer is still here and can function," Edric says taking a break.

"Affirmative. The device is ready to build any required object," Hai confirms.

"Right, start having it make replacement parts for itself. I want no chances here," Edric says making his way down to where the device was. When he arrived, he found it already up at work doing what he wanted. After each piece was made, Edric turned off the device and replaced the part it had just made. After finishing, Edric started to make new parts for Hai's system. "Hai, how long was I in the pod?" Edric asks.

Another set of metal screeching came from Hai before it does down. "Twelve…twelve…twelve…twelve…twelve thousand years, eight months, six days, and…"

"Ow! Whoa! Hold up!" Edric calls as he rubs his head while standing and looking at the floating lightbulb. "What do you mean twelve thousand? Scan for errors in time system. That can not be right," Edric orders, taking the new parts and heads for Hai's system room to start replacing parts.

Another metal screech. "No errors found."

Edric slowly came to a stop before the AI before frowning and going to replace the parts. "Maybe your error sensor is on the fritz. Let's keep replacing and see what really comes up."

"Functionality now at eight percent," Hai says as a map of his system is now shown, showing many errors in his system now.

"See," Edric says happily that he had dismissed what Hai had said successfully. After many more hours of working, he finished the errors in the room and headed to a sub-sector of Hai's system and started the same. When he finished, the kitchen started to hum to life. "Hai, scan the food preserving and tell me that something other than the protein bars is good," Edric says hopefully.

"No," Hai says flatly like the AI he is. Then another metal screech that sounded like a joke horn.

Edric sighs and goes over and has it dispense a few of those nasty rations. "Is the water system and purifier working?" Edric asks starting to eat.

"Yes, all sensors display no errors and report all is operating," Hai informs.

"Finally a break. Have the printer start to make cleaning droids. I could use the help," Edric says sitting on the ground as the tables and chairs had long since collapsed on themselves. As he waited, he held back throwing up from the disgusting food.

"Cleaning devices are queued in the printer and ready to print," Hai informs.

"Begin. Also, how are you now?" Edric asks, resting against the wall.

"System operating at forty-seven percent," Hai replied.

"Any errors to your database?" Edric asks.

"Database partially restored. Scanning the code engraved onto the supports now. Your query about time has also been checked again. The pod records the time previously stated was not an error," Hai informs.

Edric just sat there for a long time, not responding, only really registering something when one of the new cleaning drones got him to move as it kept cleaning. "Hai…scan. Are there any signals? Any facilities, any cities, anything human left out there?"

Another metal screech. "No."

"So I am alone, huh?" Edric asks sitting back against the wall again.

"Incorrect. There are no human signals, but we are detecting some sort of signal. Many signals," Hai informs, getting Edric's full attention.

"Show me! Now!" Edric yells as he gets up and rushes toward the image.

Hai disappeared and showed a map of Japan with many different signals marked. "Sensors can not scan further than Japan without replacing the outer antenna. Records show it was lost when the first wave hit," Hai says.

"So plan sixty-seven didn't work in the end then. I guess a climate-controlling machine was too far away for us or was finished too late to matter," Edric says shaking his head. "Hai, let us focus on getting you up and running fully then see about these signals while the cleaning droids keep working," Edric says, trying not to think about the quite real possibility of being the last human alive. "You said no human signals…what kind of…species is this?"

"Unknown."

"Of course it is."

"How goes the system's Hai?" Edric asks, taking a seat in the newly made computer chair.

"Systems at 97%. Most of the database scanned and added to files. Maintenance bots and cleaning bots have finished replacing the generator parts so power is no longer a major concern. Switching off emergency power now," Hai says as the whole room started to light up as the spider-like maintenance droids were finishing replacing lights.

"Starting to feel up to specs again. Now then, as the only known surviving member of this facility and possibly the entire organization, you are required to promote me to highest level access. Also, start trying to tune into the signals," Edric instructs.

"Clearance has already been changed at six hours ago. Tuning now," Hai says, with static noises starting to come through the speaker.

"Any signs of facility breached?" Edric asks, having thought of it.

"No signs of a breach detected. Signal connection success," Hai says as what sounded gibberish started to come over the speakers and an image was displayed of a humanoid-like creature playing some sort of game or sport.

"Eh…" Edric could only say as he watches the creature move around and shoot…something at other creatures like it. Seemingly looking like…paint as it splashes against the ground and walls. "Uh…Hai?"

"Unable to determine what they are saying to provide context. Do you wish to start a translation project?" Hai asks.

"Confirm. What else can you find? This is a TV channel broadcast or some equivalent to it at least?" Edric says to himself as he kept watching.

"Scanning…scans detect something akin to the internet," Hai informs.

"The internet?" Edric asks raising from his seat. "Hai, we may have something better to base the translation on," Edric says surprised at this news.

"Scanning dialect and running basic translation. Estimated time…undetermined," Hai determines.

"I am not hoping for miracles, but get it done please," Edric request just sitting back and watching the whatever it played out before standing up. "Is that a cat I am seeing?!" Edric calls.

"Yes."

"How…I have so many questions about this," Edric says sitting back down. "At least something besides us survived," Edric says watching as the cat declared a winner from the looks of it.