Equestia: Ballad of a fallen world

On hearing that only one man had survived.... or at least here I was terribly saddened. However, I was quickly consoled by the fact that at least one survived. The last of the humans is alive and can tell us about his world. However, I know that when he wakes up and realises that he is the last one he will be devastated. We will have to help him. Kit for now is trying to disconnect him from all the machines so as to cause as little damage as possible. He stated that it might take a while so we can look around and in doing so he gave us an access code. Red which means by human qualification we are almost at the top and have access to almost all information and rooms. I got excited at this thanking him for his confidence but for now we all sat and waited for Sasha to be woken up.

No one wanted to take a step away from him worrying. EIR has already prepared a hospital bed for him in case of emergency so he is here with us. Wiki told me that most of the robots and machines in this bunker are named after deities and beliefs of ancient people. Ancient even to Sasha. EIR was supposed to be the Norse Goddess of health and healing. I think I understand. Goliath is a giant warrior from Christian mythology and Thot comes from Egyptian mythology and was the god of wisdom and patron of sages and explorers. These three mythological figures alone have made me so curious that I can't wait to learn more about them from the guardian of knowledge, who is the robot Mimir. In human mythology, an advisor to the Gods and the greatest of the sages. Humans really must have liked these mythologies since they named most of their inventions after them. Of course Rainbow had to ask about the fastest character. It would have been annoying but I'm curious myself.

"The fastest of the Gods in Greek mythology was Hermes. Messenger of the Gods, son of Zeus. King of the Gods." Wiki said.

"Maybe I'll be nicknamed Hermes. How about that?"

Everyone groaned at her question so she gave herself that title. At this time I watched Wiki tell the princesses about this Zeus and Odin, who was the most important of the Gods in Norse mythology. Wiki was telling Fluttershy about the animals that did not live to our time. And while I understood horses that were similar to us, I didn't understand beaks. It was a mammal that laid eggs, was venomous, had a beak and sweated milk.... I will have to find out more about this creature. Applejack admired the so-called agricultural machinery and Rarity the human mode. They were both downright mesmerised. Pinkie was telling all sorts of things to Goliath which was even cute and my brother and Cadance were listening about a human city of lovers called Paris and a big tower.... If I understood Eiffel correctly. I smiled at this and was about to ask Wiki something again but then somepony or rather somebody as Kit said interrupted us.

"11 million years?! How did that happen!" Shouted a blue figure that appeared in front of us. It looked like a human. A stallion as far as we could tell, with small muscular, long hair as Wiki described it and a long beard. He is dressed in a sort of tunic. "Why didn't anyone inform me about this?" He looked at us. "And what kind of creatures are these?"

‘ZEUS. These are ponies. The new dominant species of this planet." Said Kit to ZEUS. So this is ZEUS. I think that was supposed to be the commander-in-chief of this bunker. "And what do you mean nobody said? You were supposed to wake them up. Now probably only Sasha survived!"

"I woke them up. Six million years ago!"

"As you can see I think you got something wrong. Look at these people. Who was supposed to be responsible for waking them up in case HELA went down? As you can see the HEL source code has gone mad so you should take charge."

ZEUS looked at the million dead people in the capsules. He is aware. That's for sure because the Wikis told us that the main AIs are conscious so he is too. He lifted himself off the floor and walked around the whole hall. I could see the shrinking hope in his eyes which hurt me a lot. The horror on his face grew bigger and bigger until he reached the last pod near us where I saw two skeletons. One large and the other is held by the larger one and is small. The princesses saw them too and tears immediately came to their eyes. Princess Luna walked over to this capsule and put her hoof on it. She turned to ZEUS and asked about something she already knew but probably wanted to know the scarier truth.

"Is this... mother with child?"

"Unfortunately." Replied ZEUS sadly causing everyone to almost start crying and Cadance came up as well.

"I promise you will not be forgotten."

"I let them down." ZEUS said sitting down on the floor. "I don't understand how this could have happened.... After all, I was monitoring everything, I had everything under control. How on earth..."

"Perhaps the Shadows attacked and broke something Mr ZEUS." Cadance tried to comfort him. "Even five million years is a very long time. You couldn't have seen to everything."

"But I should have. I don't know what happened... Eh. Maybe it was meant to be. Sasha. The last of the humans."

"Actually..." Rarity interjected. "EIR said there were two humans alive. Are you able to find the other one?"

"Two? I don't see any other human. Maybe he was mistaken for some rat or something."

"We did it!"

There was a sudden shout from Kit, who opened the capsule. Cold steam escaped from it showing Sasha. He is clearly young. Of weak build, red hair and one arm dressed only in short trousers. His skin is very pale. Paler than the ancient one from the immortal. EIR immediately appeared with what looked like a bed on wheels. He placed it on him and very quickly ran with him to his part.

During this short sort of walk I saw that the bunker had awakened more to life if I may say so. A mass of small robots were flying here and there, blue holograms of other AIs also appeared. One of them was probably a cooking robot. Eventually, however, we got to the EIR part, which put Sasha on a bigger bed. Kit-like robots began to help him. They connected his IV, his venflon but also a strange device started beeping every now and then. Momentarily we became very warm and the EIR gave Sasha something he called a narcotic. A substance to keep him asleep until the EIR saw fit to wake him up. This would be of great use to us. Perhaps Sasha will share with his inventions.... O ZEUS appeared.

"And how is the EIR? Are you all right?"

‘Yes. Fortunately, unlike me, who had to tape up his tail, all the medkits are serviceable. Cryogenising them was a very good idea albeit it is terribly dirty.’

"Oh. Sure. Come here my little minions!"

Practically immediately, small robots with brushes entered the room and began cleaning the floor, walls and ceiling. In doing so, they were very thorough and besides, it was quiet. The EIR stated that Sasha was on the verge of life and death. The fact that this bunker was discovered now saved the last of the people. Sasha looks emaciated, weak and very pale but he was alive. When he is able I want to talk to him. I hope he will be willing. That's when Kit came flying up to me and asked to speak to me privately. I agreed and we went to another room.

"I just wanted to thank you Princess..." I interrupted him with a hoof.

"Kit. I know you found out I'm the Princess of Friendship and that's my title but please. To you and everyone else, I am Twilight."

"Okay then. I just wanted to thank you for being so persistent that you woke me from my sleep. If it wasn't for you... I don't even want to think what would have happened to Sasha..."

"You're welcome Kit. I'm happy for Sasha too. It's a shame it's only him but the most important thing is that at least one of the humans survived. Thanks to this, my search for the ancient civilisation I once started is over and I can ask myself how things used to be."

"Have you come across traces of people before?"

He asked somewhat puzzled and I nodded, recalling an object I had found under the castle in the crystal kingdom. It had been with me for some time and I had no idea what it was. It looks like a not very long orange coloured object but only on the sides. It's metallic on the top and bottom and the top is kind of open. Kit took it and looked annoyed.

"This object became the start of my search. What is it?"

"How did people litter this world without even being on it?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's a soda can. Judging by the colour I think it was Fanta. Rubbish like few of them."

"So my starting point in searching for people was rubbish?"

"The rubbish of destiny." ZEUS spoke up, appearing beside us. He took it in his hands and looked at it from several sides.

"Can you please not spill pop culture references in every sentence?"

"Forgive me but Indiana is my favourite film."

"Indiana?" I asked slightly bewildered.

"It's kind of a movie about the Great Archaeologist. For some it was the best, and now if you'll excuse me Twilight but I have to monitor Sasha all the time. When he wakes up I'll let you know and you guys do whatever you want. ZEUS. You are their guide."

"Me? HERMES is the guide!"

"Yes but he is currently broken. O. And the Goliath must go to Brok and Sindri. There is no other half." ZEUS slapped himself in the face.

"And I'm the one rolling in dry jokes..."

Kit just laughed as ZEUS flew towards Goliath. I looked back at Sahe still lying lifeless on the bed. I know he's going to wake up soon and I'm looking forward to that moment but at the same time I'm terribly scared. The very fact that he has been asleep for eleven million years is strange and the fact that he is perhaps the last of the humans is terrifying. It will probably be a nightmare for him but he needs to wake up. Perhaps we can provide him with a comfortable new life in the world he fought for....