[ WP ] The year is 2175 , as humans prepare to evacuate their dyeing planet , a massive fleet of spaceships appears to rescue them , they are from the original Human home world ...

`` GREETINGS FELLOW HUMANS.'' 
 
 `` Fellow humans?'' the President remarked. He stared at the screen as even more ships appeared from hyperspace. 
 
 `` Sir? We can launch in five minutes. You only have to enter the codes.'' 
 
 `` Wait.'' 
 
 `` WE ARE SENDING A SHIP DOWN TO NEGOTIATE.'' 
 
 `` Negotiate? What are they talking about?'' the President looked closely at his screen as a pod ejected from the biggest vessel. 
 
 `` Sir, I strongly advise not to negotiate. These ships came right as we are about to launch. They are surrounding the planet and blocking our path. They are a threat.'' 
 
 `` On the contrary, sir. These beings obviously have superior space technology. They might be our only chance at survival.'' 
 
 The President thought for a few minutes. His aids were only stating the obvious, but with resources dwindling he had no choice. He had to try to save his people. `` Be ready to launch on my command. If our little rendezvous goes south, fire everything we've got.'' 
 
 `` Yes, sir.'' 
 
 The President put on his suit and mask as he exited the command module and prepared to go outside. 
 
 The earth was dry and barren, and had been so for a hundred years now. The Great War destroyed almost everything and the survivors were forced deep underground in order to escape the poisonous air and radiation. Food reserves had hit critical levels, and now it was time to leave. 
 
 The ship touched down as the President and his protective unit neared the bottom of the launch tower. A familiar figure emerged from the craft. It was n't anything like the aliens depicted in science fiction. It was... it human. 
 
 `` I can not let you leave this planet.'' 
 
 `` What? Wait, backtrack a bit. Who are you?'' the President inquired. 
 
 `` We are you. We are humans from the original world.'' 
 
 `` The original world? What are you talking about, humans evolved on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. So I'll ask you again, who are you? Or we will open fire.'' 
 
 `` Please, calm yourself fellow human. We do not want a struggle. Otherwise you would already be dead. We have just come for some samples.'' 
 
 `` Samples? What are we, lab rats?'' 
 
 `` That is a crude way of saying it but, essentially, yes. We built Earth thousands of years ago as a sort of prison and science experiment. We were warned of its declining condition and your intention to leave so we came as soon as we could. We were over 100 light years away, hence the delay. Even if you had left in that time, you could n't have gone far. Anyways, we are here to tell you that you can not leave. We will not allow it. If you try to escape, you will all die and hundreds of thousands of years worth of data on experimental evolution will go to waste, and the taxpayers would not like that.'' 
 
 `` Taxpayers? What the heck is going on here? We are leaving this planet and you can either let us go or die along with us.'' He pulled out his radio. 
 
 `` Please, we want to prevent any...'' 
 
 `` Command, prepare for takeoff and arm the nukes. We are getting out of here ASAP.'' 
 
 `` You have made a horrible mistake.'' 
 
 `` No, you have. Men, let's go.'' 
 
 As he turned the alien pulled out a weapon and fired. The President's guards exploded around him in rapid succession, before he could even react. Suddenly a rope whipped around his waist and he was pulled back to the alien spacecraft. A pulse of energy ran through his whole body. As he lost consciousness, he could see his rocket crumbling to the ground as humanity's last hope of surviving beyond Earth was destroyed. 
 
... 
 
 He awoke to a blinding light. A doctor appeared overhead, using an ophthalmoscope to look into the President's eyes. 
 
 *They are humans, * he thought. `` Where am I?'' 
 
 `` You are on board our hospital ship'' the doctor said as he went over to a cabinet. `` Turns out you people on Earth are not as accustomed to energy pulses as the rest of the universe. But all is well now. Oh, and congratulations, you are now the only living survivor of Earth. But do n't worry, the planet is n't going to waste. After killing off the rest of the Earth humans for trying to escape we discovered an even more interesting and resilient creature worthy of study. I believe you call it a'cockroach.''' 
 
 `` What? What is this pla...'' the President, still slightly out of it, looked to his left. 
 
 On the table rested a large creature, twenty feet in length, with a purple slime foaming from its mouth. Frightened, the President tried to move, only to realize that he was tied down. 
 
 `` What the hell? What are these for? I am human too, why am I restrained?'' 
 
 The doctor turned to him with a strange, sharp object in hand, `` Like the negotiator told you, we need samples.'' 
 

