Nothing could have prepared me for sight that greeted me as I shuffled forward with the last of the transport occupants. Twin suns sat low in a cloudless blue sky, casting diamond-like sparkles on an expanse of water. I had to shield my eyes against it so I could see where I stepped.

"Trixie! You made it!" yelled a familiar voice from the bottom of the ramp. I couldn't see their features because the sun was behind them, casting their face in shadows. It couldn't be who I thought, I was certain he died when the complex flooded.

Strong arms lifted me from the ground and swung me around in a circle. He laughed with unsuppressed joy.  

"Doc!" I gasped, finally able to see his features. I stared at him stupefied. "What the hell is going on?"

He removed his white lab coat and wrapped it around my shoulders, blushing as he did. Taking my bundle, he ushered me into a smaller vehicle that sat to one side.

"I have so much to show you!" he cried excitedly. "You have to see the lab. We have everything we need to start over..."

"Alex," I interrupted his prattling. "Will you please tell me what the hell is going on? How did you get here? In fact, why are we here? What happened back on Earth? I heard these robots were working for aliens that wanted us for breeding and food."

He looked shocked. "Food? Where do you get your mad ideas from?" He laughed. "We've talked about what would happen when the world ended. Most of this is your idea."

I looked around properly for the first time since I stepped off the transport. Humans walked around freely, happy. I frowned.

"We hypothesized... I don't understand," I confessed. "The cells on the ship... We sat in our own shit for ten days... The robots treated us like prisoners."

"Ah yeah, we had to use the military's robots and prison ships when the quake hit sooner than we thought. Geology guys underestimated the timing and affect it would have on the icecaps. Bloody fools. We knew it would flood Earth, but they figured we'd have a month or so to evacuate."

The End

No, not the end, but a new beginning...