Ranma and Kasumi were sleeping the sleep of the exhausted, apparently Kasumi had discovered that she really liked sex and until she got it out of her system, Nabiki didn't think she could count on either of them.
Okay, the message was concerning enough. The steel and concrete room was pretty spartan, and she was just watching the third go-round of the message and trying to figure out what it all meant.
"Welcome to Habitat 4. Your government, in cooperation with allied governments, have provided these shelters for the continuance of the human species in the case of an emergency. In such an event, various individuals screened for genetic difficulties and chosen for a wide variety of accomplishments or abilities would be placed within these shelters to allow for their survival, as well as the survival of the species."
Nabiki nodded at this. Made sense really. They'd known since the 50s or so that global thermonuclear war could wipe out a whole lot of Earth's life. So it made sense to have government constructed survival pods so that someone could survive, and they'd have to be kept secret or too many people would raise a fuss about not being on the list of survivors. Since the 70s (more or less) - they'd known about the massive die-offs that occurred on Earth on a regular basis. Including at least one that had been an asteroid and had wiped out the dinosaurs.
You are currently in Block C, level 24, corridor D. Please wait until a signal has been given before leaving your Block of the Habitat. Personnel and authorities are likely still dealing with the primary and secondary effects of the disaster."
Nabiki tapped her fingers against the edge of her cot. They referred to a 'disaster' - which reinforced her guess that these were prebuilt and just updated slowly as time went on. Hopefully they'd changed out the food supplies - canned stuff only lasted for so long. The message itself had parts where the voice was different - such as when it gave the location. Obvious splice job, updated as things went on.
"As a security precaution, travel between levels is restricted. At the ends of each residential corridor is a set of sinks where you can fill water bottles. Bathing areas are located across from each fill station. Please refrain from smoking, fighting, utilizing psychic powers or magical attacks, or engaging in destructive martial arts battles until authorized. Message will repeat in ten minutes."
Nabiki nodded at that. The 'please refrain' section had obviously been spliced in not that long ago.
Nabiki sighed and flopped back into the cot. The ceiling didn't have any answers, but for her to be grabbed and thrown in here indicated she'd somehow been seen as worthy of preserving. Not something she would have honestly thought likely. It also meant, unless this was some experiment by demented psych majors, that the meteors HAD hit and human civilization was going to crumble.
Which left her alone with whoever else was in this 'Habitat 4' though all she could be sure of was that her roomies were Ranma, Kasumi, and
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