It is the year 2050. Global warming has past a breaking point, and the sea has sent in converging tsunamis from every shoreline. Most of the world is destroyed, and more tsunamis are continuing to wash away the land.

Axel is sitting in a waiting room with his friends and the other cyborgs. None of them have ever left the building they are in, and now isn't a time for that. They await the signal from the head engineer and scientists to board the Axis of Origin, a massive spaceship built to carry the human race to the Andromeda Galaxy, as no suitable planets are in the milky way. Suddenly, the expected alarm calls, and the cyborgs walk double file to the pods they will ride in. The reason they won't be in the Commons was unclear, but had something to do with processer damage from artificial gravity.

Waiting in his pod, Axel looked at the city below being destroyed, and took a short video with his eyescreen, to save for no particular reason. Then he shut down his systems to wait for the ship to land. Even with the hyperdrive engine, it was still a 2 day journey.

Axel was awoken by his panic mode 3 hours later. An astroid had knocked his pod loose from the ship. Knowing he was doomed most likely, he sighed, and gave up hope.

...

...but something wouldn't let him. Human bravado maybe, or knowing he wouldn't shut down, but he sat up, and prepared to hit the water. Once underwater, he set up his pod to activate his panic mode when he wasn't submerged anymore. Then, knowing he had given himself a chance, he went back into sleep mode, prepared to wait millions of years...