The shower was turned off and a hand reached out to grab a towel off the rack. Christine stepped out and began to dry her long brown hair off as she walked towards the fogged mirror. The entire bathroom was still steamy after her hot shower. She wiped away some of the fog and quickly towels off her naked body before slipping into her short pink robe. She got out the hair dryer and her brush and worked some more on her hair. Good enough, she told herself. She needed to relax desperately after her stressful day. She went into her living room and plopped right down on the couch. She was too tired to pick up a book or watch a movie, she just wanted to lay there and make the world go away.
Christine felt as if she would fall asleep on the couch. It was too early now and she didn't want to be waking up in the middle of the night. She was just so tired after another long shift at work. It didn't help that she had a warm shower. That always made her sleepy. She still felt warm after laying down. In fact she felt too warm. Could she be coming down with something? She was still getting warmer and the room started to shift. It looked like everything was sideways now; could she have fallen over and not realized it? She knew that it was something else when everything started glowing a bright green. The green light was brightening and brightening, eventually the whole room was invisible thanks to the bright light. What the hell was happening, she thought.
She found herself now feeling like she was floating, as if her couch had disappeared from under here. She laid like this for several minutes, totally confused at why she felt like this. Then the bright green light started to dull. Finally, she thought, it's fading away. She planned to wait until the light was gone, or at least until she could find her way around the living room to look for her phone. Better call an ambulance and get checked out at the ER, just to be safe. But as she could now see what was in the room, it was totally different. This was way too big to be her living room, it looked as big as her whole apartment.
As the light kept fading away, her confusion was only growing even more. Clearly this wasn't her apartment anymore. There were too many screens here, showing pictures and text she couldn't read or understand. Nothing looked familiar. She swore she saw a screen that showed the Earth on it and it was getting smaller and smaller. No, it wasn't a screen, it looked more like a window. Consoles everywhere, all sorts of buttons, knobs, letters and touchpads on them. She didn't know what to think of it. Then the light was gone. This strange room, purple and orange, looked like something out of a comic book or maybe a space movie. She giggled nervously, wondering what was causing her to lose it.
"This can't be real," she said out loud to herself. "There is no way I'm somewhere this freaky. This has to be a dream. That's it! I must have passed out; I was so tired. This must all just be some weird fever dream."
A deep voice spoke from behind her. "I can assure you, this is no dream."
Christine turned to see the source of the voice. In the middle of the room, rising from behind one big console that must be the control center of whatever the hell this thing was, a giant of a man rose up. Only he wasn't any human man. His entire body was green, save his black eyes and the long, flowing black hair. From under the hair poked out a pair of pointy ears and on top of his head were two antennas. His body was loaded with massive, well-defined muscles; his hands looked as strong as they were huge. He stepped out from behind the console and she could see that he was completely naked. Her eyes went straight for the massive cock hanging between his legs, dropping down to his knees! That thing must be as big as I am, she thought to herself.
The strange being started to walk towards her and she took a step back. "No," she said to him, "you must be a dream. I mean, for fuck's sake you're speaking English."
"I can assure you, that is but an illusion to you. And I can also assure you, this is completely real Christine."
"And how the hell do you know my name? Oh wait, you know it cause you're my fucked up fever dream from this damn fever I didn't know I even had."
The giant creature was still moving towards her as she felt her back hit the wall. He motioned to the monitors on one of the walls. "These," he started, "are how I know who you are. And that is why I have chosen you above all." He stood in front of her now and towered over the frightened Christine. She was almost eye level with his cock, he must be at least twice as tall as her own 5'1. He placed his hand on her shoulder. She felt his touch and knew instantly that this was no dream at all.
She was in too much shock to say anything. She was completely frozen in a mixture of panic, confusion and fear. The giant green man sensed this and began to speak.
"My name is Khorganak and I am from a planet that is over one billion light-years from the Earth. You are aboard my ship the Starduster. I am a traveler, spending my life exploring all the sections of space and seeking out new adventures throughout existence. This wandering brought me near your Earth some time ago. While I have never been down to the surface, I have stayed in orbit and studied it greatly. Your world is definitely most interesting to me; I have encountered no other like it in all my travels that have lasted thousands of your years on Earth."
"But the people of your world are not advanced enough to realize that while there are minor positives of what happens there, overall humans are extremely poor managers of a planet. The atmosphere, in fact the entire planet is poisoned by the lifestyles of its inhabitants. And the toxicity has existed since the dawn of man. You do not realize that if your Earth had been better maintained, that human beings could be as advanced as my own race and your people could thrive in perfect health many times your own life span. But you and the people of your day are not to blame. This has gone on for tens of thousands of years, and you all now are just the caretakers for the end of it."
"Yes, it is the end of it. Little do you know, but deep within the Earth's core a chain reaction began that no doubt by now is making the planet uninhabitable for human life, at least for the next 70 million years. I had watched, planning just to witness it. But something changed, some feelings I will explain just to you. I knew I had to save you so that at least one human being could go on."
Christine stood there in stunned silence for some time. This all sounded impossible to her, but for some reason, she felt that this alien was telling the truth to her. But he must be wrong. There is no way that the Earth was really coming to an end now. She looked up at him, still frightened by his appearance.
"Pl-please," she stuttered. "Just take me back, take me, take me back home. Please."
Khorganak just shook his head at the Earth woman he was still looking down at. "I am sorry Christine, but it is impossible. We are already beyond space known by humans. By the time we return to your world, it will all be gone."
"No... no. I want to go back home. Just take me back home."
"Your home is gone now Christine. You would just be going back to nothing. I feel the sorrow would be too great for you to bear. As hard as it is to believe, if we were to go back, you would be forced to accept the horrible truth."
"Which is?"
"You are the last human being in existence. Anywhere."