Episode 2

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As the young children, Tsubasa and Yuki, drift through the quietness of space a feeling of hopelessness can be felt hovering in the air. Here Tsubasa was, lost in space with an unconscious Yuki next to him. The vast darkness of space stretched out forever and as far as he could see there was no where to go. He quietly sits there with his eyes closed and his arms and legs crossed. His mind is filled with thoughts of his home planet and his now deceased father. Before his fathers death he was told that once he saw a planet of green and blue to land there immediately. The only problem was that he had no idea how to do this. Or even when they would reach the mystery planet.

Yuki lies there moving in her sleep. She looks as though she is having a bad dream. That’s what her facial expression said to Tsubasa at least. Hours and hours go by yet she does not wake up. Tsubasa begins to wonder if she will ever open her eyes. Just what had that creature done to her? Tsubasa grows tired and begins to fall asleep. His eyes slowly begin to close as his head bobs up and down. The whole ordeal left him tired and he couldn’t help but to fall into a small sleep. Another hour goes bye and a light begins to penetrate his eyes. The source of the light came from the crystal that they were incased in. It was flashing a bright blue glow. As Tsubasa rubs his eyes he looks to his left and notices that he had been sleeping very close to Yuki. His face grows red from blushing as he quickly looks the other way to space out for a moment. However something catches his eye as he turns around. There, in front of them, was a large green and blue planet. This was it, this was where he was suppose to go. He then understood why his father had chosen this particular planet. By looking carefully he could tell that the blue was water on the planet and the green was vegetation. This meant that it was inhabitable. Tsubasa thinks back further to his fathers words and he remembered him reading a book.

In Tsubasa’s memory we see him and his father sitting in the observatory room. Many candles light the room about two years ago. Six your old Tsubasa leans over to his fathers lap to get a closer look at what he is reading.

“ Hey dad,” he says. “What book are you reading. It looks really big.”

His dad smiles and replies. “ Just a book I borrowed from an old friend. Its information on a newly discovered planet far out in space.”

“A new planet?”

“That’s right son. A few years back our scientist received scans of a planet with life signals similar to our own. The inhabitants apparently call this planet Earth. We gathered many information and pictures from the planet thanks to our probes that we sent out. Unfortunately the inhabitants got suspicious of our probes hovering in their atmosphere so we had to abandon further research. We didn’t want to cause any panic among the people seeing as they aren’t as technologically advanced as us. Would you like to see some pictures?”

Tsubasa looks confused but nods as his father begins to sort through a box he pulled from under the couch.

“Ah yes here we are the old lab photo’s.”

He tosses a stack of pictures at Tsubasa. As he sifts through the pictures he doesn’t see anything too different. He sees a little girl eating an ice cream cone, a couple sitting on a bench in the park, kids going to school. Everything at which they had here. Sure there were a lot of different things also. For one there was a vast ocean that stretched out forever. And the buildings in some of the places were extremely tall. The planet also looked like it was slightly polluted compared to Panji.

“Dad,” he says. “They look exactly like us. How come?”

“You know I’m not sure son but they aren’t exactly like us you see. They lack the factor that all of us on Panji have.”

“What! They don’t have what we have then how do they survive the 17th year?”

“Another mystery we have not figured out yet. Again I said we had to stop research unfortunately.”

Tsubasa continues to sift through the pictures of earth until he reaches a peculiar picture of a desert and a huge construct. The sign on the out skirts of the construct read Area 51 limits. At that moment his fathers eyes lit up and he quickly snatched the pictures from him as if he had seen something he shouldn’t have.

“Well that’s enough for today,” he says. “Its getting late and I think you should head on up to bed now.

“Awww but why,” he pouts. “I want to see more.”

His father merely smiles at him and pats him on the head.

“Don’t worry there will be plenty time for more stories another night.”

Tsubasa stares at his father with curiosity. He loved that his father was a scientist. He learned new things from him every single day. As his father begins to stand up Tsubasa mimics him and begins to walk down stairs.

“Oh son, come back here I have something for you,” his father calls out to him.

Tsubasa walks back over to his father with a bewildered look on his face. His father then reaches in his pocket and pulls out what looks to be a shiny blue orb about the size of a marble. He takes the orb and places it in Tsubasa’s hands.

“Here son,” he says. “I want you to have this and cherish it. It’s a present my father gave me and it is said to always keep you safe. Also son remember this. Be strong. Tsubasa looks up to his father and gives him a hug.

“Thank you dad ill take good care of it.”

“Good. Alright now on that note its time for bed off you go.”

We know go back to the present to see Tsubasa looking down upon the giant planet. He reaches in his pocket then and pulls out a tiny blue orb. He stares at it for a while then places it back into his pocket.

He stands there in silence with his eyes starting to water.

“Right,” he says to himself. “Be strong.”

Tsubasa begins to look around the crystal left and right.

“How do I land this thing,” he says. “Lets see dad said it had something to do with the mind. AH! Damnit dad why are you never clear with me! I’m only eight.”

Tsubasa holds his head thinking about how to land the crystal. At the very moment he did this, as if it knew what he was thinking, the crystal began to shake rapidly, causing him to get knocked off of his feet. As the crystal that they were incased in shook, he began to feel that descending feeling deep down in his gut. The crystal was landing itself on Earth, and it was moving fast. Way to unsteady than predicted.

“No,” he said. “This is bad. This is really bad. The planets layer of atmosphere is unstable. I knew there were environmental problems but I didn’t realize how much ……..I hate bumpy landings.”

As the crystal is pulled closer and closer to Earth, the outer interior shuddered as it passed the layer of atmosphere. The pressure was so intense on the outside that Tsubasa couldn’t help but get the air knocked out of him. He glances towards Yuki to make sure she was alright. She lies there still in her heavy sleep. The crystal begins to pick up speed every second until the walls began to burst in flames. Of course this was expected and the crystal was designed to withstand such heat but it was one of those feelings like there was something that was bound to go terribly wrong. And of course ……it did.

As they barrel down a loud cracking noise is heard from above. Tsubasa looks up to the top of the crystal in fear. It was beginning to crack in half.

“Why isn’t it recovering itself?” he says. “This thing is sapose to fix itself so why isn’t it working? What am I going to do?”

The crystal then instantly cracked in half but resealed itself like it was suppose to. The resealing was so instant and so fast that it appeared to have never happened at all. The only problem , which made Tsubasa’s heart drop, was that the crystal was now not one, but two separate crystals. Tsubasa bangs on the wall of crystal shouting to Yuki as she lay alone in the second one. They were now separated. They slowly started to drift away from each other.

“NO!” he yells out to her but to no avail seeing as he is incased in something sound proof. And the fact that Yuki is still sound asleep.

It all happened so fast and in one instant the two crystal pods were spiraling away from each other in opposite directions around the planet. Tsubasa takes one last glance at the sleeping Yuki as she disappears from sight. That night on Earth two trembles of impact could be felt on opposite sides of the planet. A fire is being put out in a forest.

“Come quick we got a body over here,” yelled the voice of a fireman. “She’s still breathing. Quickly, call for an ambulance!

On that cold and dark night it began to snow outside.

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