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Chapter 4 - Finding Home

Olympus Mons, Mars:

Here, is the highest mountain in Solar system, actually was, because this is planet Mars, but not in Solar system, not anymore… for 10 billion years…

Everything begins with the end of Solar system, 5 billion years ago, when the sun runs out of energy, became black dwarf, humans in solar system planned to move 4 rocky planets out the solar system, with the huge controversy, Conservatives want to stay in the solar system, for many years they couldn't deal with it, so that why started from Mars. Now, after 10 billion years, humans changed a lot, most of human just live in cyber space, in reality, also most of them are cyberman, just like Terminators, only few of groups near Olympus Mons, they just similar as human from Earth, 10 billion years ago, only changed their eyes, skin color for fun, and antiaging for themselves, there still have school, hospitals, because those people are so enjoy that kind of real feeling.

In Athena Patera, the top of Olympus Mons, there has a university, today it's an open day, welcome every residence come to visit.

Even they kept original state similar with earthlings, still changed something of their' bodies like 3 times higher than Mt. Everest, still can live normally. Without spacesuits, this place just like grand on earth, 10 billion years ago.

No worry about foods, because everything from Artificial meat, sickness… And also, you know, here normally has no marriage, but still have weddings, and loves…

Now, what is young people play? Karaoke? Alcohol? Drugs? People still kept that old traditional, but car is just for fun, you have party in the whole galaxy, even poorest people can travel in their own galaxy, the size like former solar system.

On Deimos, today is a party of Athena Patera University's Department of Ancient History. A couple fly from Mars to Deimos to join this party.

Miss speaker:

"Welcome to the Athena Patera University on Deimos. Looks like we only have 20 guests, as you know for long time we have no answer about are we really came from Earth and after the great war with former Andromedans, and moved to Mars, today, we are here, to tell all of humanity, no matter cyberman, or who just code live in the computer space, we were same ancestor! Now let's see this…"

She takes a tiny box, can see a logo of Wikipedia:

"This, just found by our students on Phobos, let's welcome them, and see what will help us to understand our history."

"Hi everyone, it's… a box called Wikipedia, "A guy says: "we believed that kind of encyclopedia backup on the Phobos, now open it…"

"… If we can find more information on it, we can sure where we come from, that's the biggest question of our history, even now we understood that shape of the universe, and quantum entanglement, we can send message instantly, but still can't find where we come from, now I hope this box may help us to proof are we really from Earth, Solar system or not…"

Only 20 people here, but almost whole galaxy's humans and former humans are watching this.

Wikipedia, January 15, 2001…

"Uhm, Oh, wow… That's cool, what?! Impossible…" People are so excited and even screaming…

"Wow, it says The USA wasn't the most racist country on earth… That mean our textbook all wrong?"

"Oh, yeah… Andromedans there were several wars with human beings… Finally, a ship asks for asylum, and our ancestors let them stay on Mars and outer solar system's moons of planets… That's right as our textbooks…"

"Hey and… What?! Finally, human being became 3 races, most of human choose become cyberman, just like Terminators, with robot body but living tissue, they moved to Mercury and Venus, on earth… About year of 2084, started turn themselves in to cyberspace, which is keep they're mind on computer only… by 22th century, on earth already has no living humans… Our ancestors are conservatism, they choose to keep human's body, only like change eyes color and stop aging… And we are on Mars, until now."

"And it says Andromedans refugees helped us to hold Phobos on orbit, without them, we already crashed on Mars for many years ago."

"All right! That's enough for today? "teacher says: "Remember the homework, and back to Mars safely!"

"Thank you, Miss, "All the students go out the door, put on they're spacesuits. Back to the Spacebus ship, some by the personal ship back to Mars.

Boy names Yamato Franklin with girl Cherry Miyama, they take the personal ship back to Mars. A tiny rock hit this ship's engine, but ship's system didn't find out, then, they stared the engine…

Cherry undress spacesuit, she says:

"That was amazing party, now we know more about our history in ancient time."

"Yeah, more details, with pictures we can understand well, if we can have videos…"

"Videos? Ah, I remember that, old time they're using cameras, phones to record videos, same now, but that time make a movie is hard, need actors, film maker, director… Even green screen to make some CG… so complicated."

"Yeah… About 2079, I heard already just like us, they can use a machine to scan the brain, and you want to make any movies… just think by yourself, and AI can fix those mistakes, only stay, close eyes can 'think 'a movie… "Yamato says.

"Most impressive thing is, for long time we all wrong, our textbook says in USA has huge racism, until we found this Wikipedia, finally we know the truth. "Cheery says: "In 2021 even they use double blind test for school admissions, teacher can't know student's gander, skin color… also students don't know who is the teacher to give the points… everything so fair… Who thought this idea? I forgot."

"Ah, don't remember name, however after people are choose become robot, like on Venus, others on earth they moved to virtual reality, not only skin color, even nationality finally not exist anymore. Earth Union kept in the virtual reality, but U.S. Federal Government and Soviet government closed in 2089 and 2090 A.D. Only our planet still has a tiny government… Because we are conservatism… like the lifestyle of human."

"Yeah, for 5 billion years, we only know we are the first run out the solar system before the sun die, Mercury, Venus, and Earth, what are they doing…" Cheery says.

"I think on earth are so green and blue, because only other animals , no humans outside anymore, Mercury and Venus when they say hello maybe 'I'll be back', and may build huge of buildings and fully use solar power, I guess, if they could find a good star to replace the sun? " Yamato says.

Normally 20 minutes can back to Mars, but this time error is warning, all ship's screen become blue… most incredible thing is… Warp engine is starting! This engine can let the ship travel beyond the speed of the light, even can lost in the universe!

"Hey, what's up, stop this now! We will be lost in the universe! "Cherry screamed!

The ship become unstable, and twinkling, next moment, front of those couples' eye is a huge rock, almost can't see anything, so dim…

In an emergency, Cherry let spacecraft forced to land. They are landed on the snow land, This planet full covered by snow, but only night, because far from any other stars, endless night…

Yamato and Cherry walk out the ship, they let an artificial sun fly to the sky, set the brightness like on Mars… Yes, every thing made by antimatter… ships engine, they're watches… spacesuits… even this artificial sun. it stops 1000m above, just feels like real sun.

"So… Are you all right? Any information?" Cherry asks.

"Let me… Yeah, fine…" Yamato seeing the screen on his suits, "Uhm this planet is far from the star, so dark… and fully covered by snow… looks like drinkable water, poisonous atmosphere, size just like Earth, a little bigger…"

Cherry turns on the walking helper, because this planets gravity about 2.7 times of Mars, so the spacesuits help her to walk like normal. Yamato do the same.

"So, better?"

"Yeah, much better…"

Two of them just put some machines on the planet, and try to fix the ship back to Mars… They realize this place is 20 light years away, if can fix the warp engine, they can go home in short time. A big snowball planet, in the darkness… Nothing lives here, they used drome to scanned whole planet, nothing live, even no machines at all.

"Hey I got some readings" Cherry: "This planet magnetic field almost 0, very slow rotation about 3 months (Martian months) rotates once, but a huge iron core and mantle."

"So, you mean if this planet in good place, its magnetic field can back?"

"Yeah, almost like that, now it's -268 Celsius."

"Can we move this big snowball to a star? It's our resort, we can make this planet better environment, change the atmosphere for us… Milky Way Federal Law allows to change the lifeless planets to live." Yamato says.

"Yeah, we should fix the ship now, and back for diner, your mother says we should come home for your sister's birthday, right?" Cherry says.

"Right…" Yamato take off his watch, because this called Maxim Watch or Minsk Watch, with antimatter power, he wants to use this watch put down in the core of planet, to restart the planet, make it rotten same as Mars's 24 hours, 37 minutes, meanwhile move it to another star, make it orbit it.

Minsk watch got into the ground, made a huge explosion to reburn the core of the planet, the planet started live again! But move the planet to other star is other thing, need more than 1000's engines put on the grand, and push it to fly in space, and can't travel in speed of light. That must take thousands of years.

Lying on the bottom of the ship, Yamato are fixing the engine, cherry keep eyes on the screen, suddenly she saw far away something are coming, all white…

"Avalanche! Move!"

Yamato just get out the bottom, but speed too fast, he was buried alive…

"Yamato, this is Cherry, do you copy?"

"Do you copy?"

Fortunately, all those spacesuits are very strong, and with backup power, even can fly like iron man, Yamato get off the snow fly to the sky, and landed again.

Cherry says:

"Are you ok? I heard some noise…"

"Yeah, I fine, but…"

Yamato look around, the ship almost covered by snow, only top outside, and turn back, a huge black rock behind his eyes…

Cherry started ship, to get off from snow, landed.

"What's that?" Cherry also very shocked…

"Uhm… let's read…" Cherry use his watch to scan… and fly another flycam… 3D scanned, and put in computer, connect with database on Mars by Quantum entanglement and New found Wikipedia base…

"So, what's up? What is this?" Yamato asks.

"It's… No results in our database… But let me see Wikipedia… Wikipedia says it's matched the… Washington…"

"Washington?" Yamato says: "Oh, I remember that… a… City's name?"

Cherry: "It. says a person, yeah, but this a statue, in the mountain of …Rushmore, Earth…"

"Oh, what that name… on… on what?"

"Earth… Yeah, says the mountain for US 4 presidents…" Cherry says.

"Oh, are you sure that matched?"

"Well, this shape is matched… but only 1/3 of head… See? Only one eye and nose… so not so sure."

"So, who stolen this? What kind of aliens are so boring… Ha-ha…"? Yamato laughed.

Cherry doesn't say anything, but thinking, suddenly she realized something… "Yamato, maybe no aliens stolen it…"

"Ha-ha, what, so they just copy it when they came back from earth, make one copy at their own planet? And, where are they?" Yamato says.

Seen Cherry's so serious face, Yamato:

"W… What…?! Don't tell me this… is��"

"I don't know, you see? The size… and fully water… But I tested this water are not saltwater, all potable water, but poisonous atmosphere."

"Hey look! "Cherry's watch says a cube inside the head of this status. When they take this cube out, clean up, a logo shows: "YouTube" …

That's it, a database of YouTube, Serial number: 777, 1ZB. Move it to connect with main computer of the ship, now, offline YouTube videos are here. Start watching. Two of them learned a lot, they released many of knowledge learned from textbook were wrong, now, those Wikipedia and YouTube videos told them, a real, vivid memories of human history on Earth, until 22 century they moved to other planets.

2 hours later…

"Hey, so, can you believe that?" Yamato asks.

"May I have other choose?" Cherry says:" It is!"

"So, this is the planet… E…"

"Ear… Earth!"

"Yeah… Since 22th century, until now, 10 billion years after, all lives on earth are gone, 5 billion years ago the death of the sun, and human made an umbrella covers the atmosphere, so earth used solar wind blow out the earth farther… So, earth survived in the solar system, but all humans are evolved into more advanced spiritual creatures. They live in everywhere of the universe, even beyond local group."

"Yeah, our technology can let us use the antimatter power to traveling around Milkomeda, and even local group, but we still can't out the Milkomeda, yes, we can use speed of light get out local group, but never reach the other… But earthling's can." Cherry says.

"So, we don't know where are they…" Yamato says.

"They're everywhere. May just next to us… they are not biological anymore."

"Yeah, because of the universe expanding faster than speed of light… We lost contact with them forever."

"Hey, look this…" Cherry point on the Wikipedia page:" It says during the time human live on earth, discrimination is everywhere… That… towns look down other town, countries looking down poor GDP countries… even same race, the rich look down poor…"

"Oh!" Yamato says:" That's not sounds good."

"And by blood, family, male and female look down each other… and skin color… languages… religions… all those reasons can make you feel bad, in the 21 centuries on earth, earlier even worse…"

"So how did they solve those problems, I mean, we have no any of those problems at all, right?"

"See that, we are almost original human like in 10 billion years ago, but we use DNA editor to choose our skin color, whatever you want. So of course, we have no that kind problem, today on Mars we have more than 10 major sink colors human, they all can switch any time. "Cherry talk to Yamato.

"Oh, yes, this… fun." Yamato read a page: "Before DNA reconstruction technology has been promoted, there was disabled people, like no hand, no foot, also blind… Blind means can't see for rest of life! After DNA reconstruction technology they all can grows new arm, new foot and new eyes, so no one look down disabled anymore."

"Ah, here, see first time they call them 'crab man', but finally, all the humans can grow new arm, new eyes, so there has no disable anymore. Yeah, like us today. "Cherry.

"Really can't imagine those old days even people can be look down because of disabled, skin color, different religions even different languages, dialects, so ridiculous!" Yamato feels unbelievable.

"Yeah, that was a big step of our history… See here, even they care about hometown so much, in Asia many people came back hometown before they're new year…" Cherry keep saying.

"Well, today we found our hometown." Yamato smiling: "Now, it's time to take our hometown back… but back to home? Where?"

Cherry says:" Hey, you haven't understood it well, people in 10 billion years ago they said 'hometown', only means a small town or city on the planet, even not big as a country, not like you took the whole planet."

"I am wonder, they were live on the mother planet, why they still trying to back their place of birth, or care they're mother tongue language?"

"I can understand…" Cherry says: "You see now we are on Mars, local group is our home, but our home planet still Mars, a planet yes, but in that time, a tiny town is they're all, so they call it home, so right now we should say 'our home planet, our home galaxy' Milkomeda, is."

"Right, you got the point, that time human not so open mind, they even looking down their own race, all the human came from Africa, Earth, but still spited by languages, skin colors, religions, and political, a such backwards time."

After Yamato and Cherry studied human and earth history on Wikipedia and YouTube box, they finally understand a lot of meaning of life. And want to travel around the Milkomeda, to find more information of the truth of humanity. On Mars, for billion of years has no racism, all lives repeated. Human was alien from Earth, and human's old enemy Andromedans, and one more life, 3 of them live on Mars peacefully.

Dropped the antimatter watch of Yamato, Now, earth's core is reburned, Magnetic field reformation, the atmosphere is also reforming, put themselves in cryonics, found the right location by CPS (Cosmos Location System) taking 299 years, moving to the new home, which is 99% of speed of light, put earth to orbit of Proxima Centauri, with Mars again. Now, take "home" to "home".

Did you find where is your home now? Yes, I do!

July 1st, 2020

Vietnam