"I am repeating myself again, it was not my decision, the higher ups decided it. I'm just executing it. Well don't be mad, although they were possibly disappointed that you ended up in jail, they gave you the Paper of Institute as soon as you returned"
The white haired guy known as Sam suddenly changed his tone and said those last words happily.
The black haired man was dumbstruck after hearing. He had possibly achieved the top of confusion. He's one of the most intelligent strategist of Mars, but the amount of weird information was too much even for him to handle. He was literally out of words.
After a long pause, Black haired guy said in a hopeless tone, "Your words raised more questions than the amount of mystery on Mars...but leave them aside and tell me just one thing...HOW THE FUCK WILL THAT PAPER SOLVE THE INCOMING CRISIS HA? ..."
"You think a paper will stop the little civil war from turning into a literal world war?", never did he ever think that something like this could have happened. He was on the verge of crying...
While this scene was unfolding, a beautiful woman with long black hair entered the room with a laptop bag. Her face had a Japanese aura mixed with Indian beauty. Her hair was open, it looked like she just combed it. She wore a sleeveless top and new Jeans pants "Ah Sam, long time no see! You didn't change at all! Still giving surprise every time we meet!"
Dumb Sam was too dumb to understand the sarcasm so he just smiled like an idiot.
She then faced the pathetic looking guy overloaded with bursting informations and said, "Well Sat, no point crying over it, we'll think of something for sure, after all if we can use this to our advantage it will be great. And we even we got that license. Come on, get moving. We gotta see him next."
Sat whose real name is Satyabrata (we will call him Satya in short, or maybe Sat), sighed a deep breath and got up, "Oh yes, I almost forgot about him, let's get going."
They both went out of the main building, and Sam kept thinking about what they said without realising what is yet to come...
After exiting Satya called a number. "It's EYE, command code 010, reclaiming authority, report to code 010."
"Claim successful, welcome back." answered a robotic voice.
"Order. Delay last rocket from earth for a few days urgently."
"Understood"
Sat hung up the call and caught up to Cécile, the girl mentioned before. "How are things going?" she asked.
"Still confused, the prison sentence was not supposed to increase, it was supposed to be just a facade. But Commander saved us, he gave me my authority back too, means we weren't caught yet too."
"That's weird, it can only mean one thing, the old man died...right?"
"The only thing i hate about death is it always surprises...well you're right I guess. Well we can't bring back dead people. Let's pick him up from hospital and return to base now *ouch*"
"You sure you can walk with that?"
"What are you talking about? Oh these trolly? Of course why do you ask?"
"*sigh* Give it"
Apparently he was carrying a big trolley full of books, it was a little too heavy for skinny him.
"It really hurts me that I had to get help from a girl for heavy work..."
"Says the man who drove me to several battle competition."
"Okay okay you win, by the way, we may have to go to the battles again."
"Well whatever, it's your labour anyways"
They reached a huge white building after 5 minutes of walk. It was the hospital.
He whispered "I feel like I should work here" then shouted "Oi son of a b*tch, we are here"
Well our teens have completed eating now i think, so let's go back. Don't worry these characters will meet them soon enough.
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"Ah, that was enjoyable" said Lucy.
"So you liked this space food? seriously?" Ravi talked.
"My God where am i trapped...you guys don't know sarcasm? Leave it, we gotta meet up with captain, remember he told us to come to infirmary." Lucy said hopelessly.
Emma actually wanted to respond to the sarcasm, apparently he was the only one who got the joke, but shyness! (You better understand sarcasm reader, otherwise good luck getting girlfriend or boyfriend).
They quietly followed Lucy to infirmary.
"Welcome big people!" the captain greeted (mocked) them "We got a good and a bad news."
They could smell something wasn't right with the injured two. Lucy asked "Tell us, if we can help, we are here"
"First bad news, those boys are so much injured that it's risky to put them to sleep pod with full power. It'll be a risk to their lives."
They were all silent.
Captain continued, "Good news is we are just contacted from Mars, our journey might get a bit more long. A asteroid mining company messed up and the space near Mars is bit messed up. So we won't be using full potential of sleeping pod, it'll just be simple coma, so in case of any abnormalities in their bodies, we can wake them for a little to give medicines."
"So it's a relief..." Lucy sighed a sigh of relief.
"Well those two will be in special sleep pods here, so you don't need to worry about it. You should return to your respective beds, or you can chit chat without starting a fight for 15 minutes, then we'll set up the pods."
"Kay, bye captain"
They waved and left infirmary.
"I think we should change dresses. The changing rooms will be crowded soon enough."
"Good idea Ravi" Lucy didn't ask for other's approval, those two tends to be silent anyway. "Hey Emma, let's go."
And they parted ways.
Alex looked at Ravi, "So, what do you want to talk about?"
Ravi was a little bit shocked. But his poker face covered it. "Nothing really" he smiled. "Okay I lied, I'm not comfortable with girls so I decided to take a break from them."
"It didn't seem like that though, you seemed to be cool guy"
"See who's talking, you seemed to know both of them from before."
"What ? no. Oh I met Emma in school, we're not in same section. Just schoolmates, we ran into each other each other a few times during annual function, that's all. And I met Lucy during fight."
"So you and Emma aren't friends?" Ravi sounded a little worried.
"I cannot say yes, we just know each other's names"
"...fuck..." Ravi tried to swear in his mind, but it slipped his tongue.
"What?" Alex didn't get why he said something like that. "(Am I hearing things?)"
"Back, your back. Is your back alright?"
"Ah, a-yes, though it was a little tense when I left the bed for some reason, how'd you know?"
"You seemed a little uncomfortable, you should check below your bedsheet, may be there is something"
"Hmm you're right, good point." "(What's the deal with this guy... doesn't seem harmful though)"
They reached dressing room.
"Onesies?" They both said in a sad voice at the same times.
"It is what it is... let's change" Ravi said.
They started changing.
When they returned to main hall, there was quite a crowd, some almost finished eating.
Ravi and Alex looked like kids between them thanks to onesies. They already understood the girls are either still in dressing hall, or in the bedroom, not in the dining hall for sure. So they walked towards 'bed' room.