deviantgene

The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
He sighed, shuffled and opened the door. She stood outside. (Funny how he still thought of ‘it’ as a ‘she’).
“It is time, Doctor” – The automaton said. His second greatest creation.
He nodded. Now was the time to test the first.
Looking back into the room one last time, he closed the door and followed her.
They went into the lab.
There was the buzz of activity, expected before such a big event.
He admired her handiwork with great respect.
In the 6 months he had given her, she had divided herself into hundreds of copies and had built an admirable set of skills from the books he had provided to her.
She pointed to the circle, from which could be seen emerging a tangle of wires which led to the various display screens.
He stood in the centre of the circle.
And smiled, for the last time.
He thought back to the old times.
Before the war.
Before the atomic energy release.
Before Fat man and Little boy.
And he thought of the time after.
All the regrets.
All the guilt.
For his role in the war.
For the lives it had taken.
The nuclear conflict that turned the whole world into a deserted wasteland.
The slow and steady march of death across the continent.
The bunker where he had survived , he and others like him, until they had all died , one by one, of old age.
But they had succeeded.
Succeeded in creating artificial intelligence, to aid them, at first.
And then , the universe machine. The cold fusion reactor. The energy of a thousand suns all captured in the heart of the machine.
The voice of the automaton jolted him out of his thoughts.
“We are ready for the reset, Doctor”
“Are you sure you have the coordinates right?”
“Yes doctor, they are set for 16 billion years ago, when the big bang first happened”
He nodded.
Time to right the wrongs. Time to utilize all the energy of the suns for a greater good.
He sighed. Maybe this time, things would be different. Maybe this time, it would be peaceful. It would be calm. Maybe they would not make the same mistakes this time.
“So it will all be reset?”
“Yes, the nuclear fusion should start a chain reaction which will destroy this universe and result in enough energy to create another big bang”
He nodded.
A long time ago, during the first atomic test, he had cited a verse from the Gita- “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”
And now, after so long, Dr Robert Oppenheimer, the last man on earth saw it fitting to quote the bible.
He said – “Let there be light”
And there was light.