*ehm* Rowan clears his throat and wipes his tears.
"I'm sorry for your loss." said Rowan while rubbing the man's back "Know that your not alone in this brother, were all in this together."
I take a deep breath and look around; I wonder if anymore of our military members are here. Wait, how many humans are still alive now? This is something I still need to figure it out. Then I look at the arched window and I notice a small group of people have, standing across and floating across the window, and staring in to darkness. I am only about half a football field away from that window.
"Right... I was trying to get to the window," I whisper to myself.
I kneel in front of the man in sorrow, while Rowan was kneeling next to him.
"I am on my way to that big window over there." I point to the arched window "Would you like to join me and see what's out there."
The man weakly looks up at me, with swollen, tearful, empty, dead eyes. He then slowly turns his head towards the window.
"What for? It's just dark empty space." He responds in a weak voice.
I guess there is no point staring into a pitch-black space. Forty-Two, however, said that there is something out there.
"That's actually a good idea!" Rowan said, glancing at me with a smile "C'mon man. Get up and let's go. We can't sit still forever."
I get up and pat the man's shoulder; He looks up at me, then I slowly walk towards the window.
"That's it. Cmon bro, lets go." I hear Rowan say behind me. Then I hear the footsteps following me.
We all silently head towards the window and soon join the group staring in to the darkness. As I get closer to the window, however, I notice a giant half-globe covered by shadows, covering the entire left half of the window. It takes about 10 minutes to reach there finally. At the window, I noticed the floor is also made of the window. The floor's edge ends right before it connects to the window, allowing us to see the bellow.
"Huh.. Your right on time!" 42 announces through my headphone. "Now look ahead! And behold!"
As soon as he said that, I notice a yellow fiery light gleaming through the window and slowly creeping out from behind the globe. As the light comes out, I notice the globe reflecting the light and casting away the shadow that is covering it. Then I soon realized what the globe is. It's a Planet! A gas giant at that! It is covered in sky-blue clouds with white streams and circles covering its surface... On its outer orbit, I see a rainbow color cloud of rings coming from behind the globe. As the ring stretches toward us, it becomes wider and wider, and it passes right above us... above the dome, and it covers the entire view above. Within that cloud, I noticed blocks of Ice and rocks calmly floating in one direction within the ring. The same direction in which the planet is spinning, towards the fiery yellow star which is now fully in the picture. I had to hold my hand up for a moment to cover my eyes from the light, but the window shaded itself darker. Then I look further out and see a second ring. The second ring emerges from the top corner of the planet, passes the first ring's outer part, and then it continues down and passes by the bottom right corner of the window. That ring is also a rainbow color, but it appears thinner than the first.
"42.." I call out.
"Yes?"
"Are we going to depart on this planet?"
"Nope! Be patient, human, and look down below."
I do what 42 told me. Then I see the shadows run away from the light on yet another globe! This globe has white clouds with mostly smooth dark blue surfaces, but I also see big rough terrains of green and brown on it. Looking at it carefully, an image of a planet passed into my mind. The Planet I remember... is Earth. It's a beautiful, colorful display which made any man look in aw of seeing it for the first time. Although This planet looks nothing like Earth, it has a beauty of its own, equally dazzling to Earth's. However, Earth does not have such a beautiful neighbor. This particular planet seems closer to us than its blue giant neighbor, but nevertheless, the blue giant looks like it can devour us and the planet below us at any moment by its sheer size. The Earth-like planet seems to be similar in size as Earth.
"So that's where we'll depart?" I ask.
"Correct!" 42 responds. "We name this moon Vega."
"Moon?"
"Yes, this is one of the moons that belongs to that Blue giant, Alteeya. This moon is the only one that can accommodate close to that of Earth." 42 Explains.
"How is that possible? Won't it freeze and stay in the dark because of the giant?" I ask.
"Ah, an excellent question! Two phenomena make this possible. One is that this blue giant can reflect not only the light but also the main solar system's stars energy to reach that planet. You will have nights, but they will rarely be dark anymore."
"Stars?"
"Yes! Which is the second phenomenon. Look up ahead again!"
I look as 42 instructs and see a second star rise from behind the giant blue. A bright blue star follows its yellow partner on its left. And then, after a few moments when the blue star comes into full view; on the further right side of the yellow star, I see a white star begin to rise from behind the blue giant! These stars, combined with the rings and the planets, see nary, It Is just overwhelmingly beautiful! I look at my two companions with their drones. They, too are speechless by this magnificent sight! I look around and find everyone is all but in awe. Soon, the crowd has shifted towards the window to catch a glimpse of what they are seeing. Even the vehicles and the other beings have to stop and watch out the window from above us!
"Ah, this never gets old," 42 whispers "Welcome to the famous triple star system! We call this solar system Heaven's Corner."
"Is this your home planet?" I ask.
"No, it is one of our newfound habitats that we found roughly 50 years ago, The Terraforming process is 95% complete, but don't worry, it is in a condition where we can settle on it." 42 explains, "This Solar System comprises 12 planets, and each has its own moons, which are not even explored yet. What's more fascinating is that there is another planet with in this system that is habitable, and we are preparing to terraform that one. There are also four more planets with seven more moons that can be habitable if fully terraformed. This can be one of the liveliest systems yet!"
This made me realize how small we really are in this universe. Though what I'm wondering now just how advanced are these guys. Terraforming a planet that's only been discovered for 50 years? Aslo...What about the gravity of the big blue planet?
"How is it that the gravity of that planet isn't drawing this one in?" I ask
"Ah... as observeant as ever! I'm glad to be in your service!"
"Answer the question forty-two!" I snap back
"Gee didn't fall for that huh? That's a wonder on its own that we haven't fully analyzed yet, Judging by the mass of that planet, this moon should have crashed or broken apart by that planet long ago, but unlike other gas giants, its core is smaller and has a weaker gravity!"
"Yo! Can you believe this?" Rowan comes next to me on my right disrupting our conversation.
"No," I respond.
".. that was the object that destroyed the big black object above our city!... or one of them.." The sorrowed man with a unique accent spoke.
Both Rowan and I look at him, and see him pointing at something. Our eyes follow the direction of where he is pointing. There it is! The so-called object that has to destroy the big black object. It has a silver color with golden stripes on its side that are horizontal on its side, just as the man has described. This object is stationed close to some post on the right corner of our view with its side towards us in a long distance. From the front of the object, I see a barrel. On the side of the barrel, I see an oval shape of metallic armor. A little below the Barrel, I see a hint of windows. Above the barrel I see another armor plate, slowly thickens as it stretches back, until it reaches a circular shape hump towards its top middle, then further back, there is seems to be some tower that looks like a bird's face with a short hooked beak with its front facing forward towards the barrel. On its center sides, I noticed four separate V shape wings, and bellow the wing on the object's belly, I see several hangers. There are all kinds of weaponry, guns, cannons and other things I don't recognize almost anywhere on the objects buddy. On its back I see four enormous engines that look like a hexagon in a square formation. There are eight smaller engines, four at inner corners of the enormous engine's, and four at the outer corners of the enormous engine's formation. Each engine has a white blast fuming out of it. Soon I realize what that object is. It's a space craft, a ship. and there are five of them. I see smaller craft swarming around them in military formations, going in and out of their hangers. I can't tell what those small crafts are, however, for they look like a fly compared to the ship's size that we are witnessing. Then one of the squadron of four craft came towards us and quickly pass below us. As they came close and pass, I got a better idea of the craft's size and shape. They all had silver plates, with V shape wings, and a small hexagon shape window at its front, and the size seems to be eight times bigger than the capsule I was in earlier... which means, those five ships out there...are massive!
"Holly.... Oh My God..." Rowan whispers.
To my left in a short distance. I notice a little girl holding a lady's hand and both were looking out the window this aw.
"Do you think mommy and Daddy are out there in those thingies?" The little child asks cheerfully.
"I don't know." the woman replies in a cold tone.
The child has blond hair, with Lilly white skin, her cheek has a hint of red. Her hair's length went down until exactly the middle of her back. Her hair covers her upper face from my angle of sight. She is short, her height just a little above the woman's knees. She was clinging to the woman's hand, who was a neck shorter than me. The woman has Jet black hair, with hints of white hair streams among them. Like the child, her hair covered her upper face, She also had light skin features though her's darker than the child's. Holding the child's hand with one hand, she rests her other hand on the window. Her hair reaches just below her neck. To my far right, I notice a lone old man standing and staring off into the dark parts of the space. He is crock forward, with both of his hands resting on his back. His face is full of wrinkles. He is bald from the center of his head but has grey hair on the sides of his head. He has a grey goat-like beard that goes down just below his chin.
*Tsk* "Why did they save an old geezer like me? Most of my life is numbered already.." The Old man mumbles to himself. A tear drops from the corner of his eye and flows down his cheek, then is lost in his beard. He seems to squint his eyes.
I guess some people cannot escape and distract themselves from the traumas of their past, even for a brief moment by sight like this. There is a group of five people above me, floating close to the window. They are about four meters above me, also staring out in aw.
"Ok.. any moment now, your leader will leave an announcement, and after that, we will depart to the planet Vega," Said 200.
"Our leader?" Rowan asks.
"Well, he isn't exactly your leader, but he is the one who is representing humankind and is the one who advised this procedure. He is one of the high-ranking console members. your kind." 26 explains, "He was also involved in saving your kind from the invasion."
Suddenly, Rowan's, The man in sorrow, and my stomach growls loudly. So loud that it catches the attention of people nearby. The little girl and the woman, the old man, and the group above us, all unanimously look at us.
"Sounds like your hungry after all!" 42 speaks cheerfully.
The man in sorrow nods his head in agreement, and Rowan scratching the back of his head and nervously laughing.
"Lets have something to eat! Whatcha think?" Said Rowan, turning towards me.
I felt a bit hungry and thirsty. "Yah I'm down to eat" I respond.
As we turn around to find the nearest bar, I notice the old man is also following us.
"Hey, that reminds me, I'm hungwy too!" The little girls said pulling the woman's sleeve!
"Haha! Ok! Let's eat!" The woman then picks up the child and follows us as well.
So even sorrow and trauma can't escape hunger, huh?
I notice the group of five was laughing at us, but remained in their spot.
"Hey have anyone eaten anything yet?" Rowan asks, escorting the man with a unique accent.
The man that is being escorted shakes his head.
"Well, I had something called BLT," I respond.
"What's that?" Rowan Asks,
"It's a human food." 42 chides in "It is a sandwich containing lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and bacon in it. Apparently, it tastes delicious, right? My cold human companion?"
"Yes, it tastes good!" I respond.
"Alright then! I like the sound of that! Let us have some at the stand!" Rowan responds, "Brother, you up for it?" He asks the man that he's helping.
The man seems to be in deep thinking again.
"Yo.. Snap out of it, well ya? It won't do any good to keep thinking...." Rowan's comment gets cut off by the man he's escorting.
"I remember my name!" He suddenly said.
"Oh? What is it?" Rowan asks.
"it's Conteh" The man with a unique accent responds.
"Conteh, huh? Alrighty! This calls for some celebration!" Rowan said excitingly.
"Yes, indeed!" 42 agrees.
I'm not sure of which one I should be wary of. 42's excitement or Rowan's enthusiastic energy. Either one, it helps the mood a bit, and with that, we walk towards the nearest food stand.
*To be Continued*