Upon entering the Airport Academy; they quickly are guided to a Kiosk via Makana's phone...

The screen shows professor Kau'i smirking at them "So you brought friends along for the ride!" he exclaimed, "Yeah he did; I'm Sunny!" the black girl interrupted sweetly! "I love that energy!" the Professor happily replies "And I'm Kau'i, a history professor from Hilo!". He then points at Makana as he adds "And that guy behind you is my like a son to me! I gave access to my research account to find hidden mysteries that are buried around Hawaii!". "Professor!" the boy chimed in surprise, "I wouldn't of given you access to all this otherwise! You're the only one who REALLY pays attention in class too!" the professor chuckled warmly. "Ah, wh,what about me?" Lei asks in curiosity, "And you're the most student I EVER had in my class!" Kau'i replied with a laugh! She sighs in slight worry, but he assures both her and Makana: "Don't freak out; this goes into your overall score and can technically be used for scholarship to get into any college you want!". "Seriously??? " Makana asks in utter surprise, "Yeah, I got the connections; and it's called MONEY!" the professor laughed happily "So use that fund to find junk I don't get time to look for! And don't come to class without ANYTHING!". " I won't! We'll find every piece of history on this island!" Makana says with a smirk! Then he and Kau'i give each other a thumbs up, before the kiosk shuts off. 

"You and, cawee(?) Seem like REALLY good friends?" Sunny asks: "He helped me out a lot since my dad's never around, guy's kinda like a second dad to me sometimes, I guess!" Makana reveals with a shy laugh! "That's a nice way to say he creeped into his family while Makana's actual dad is working overseas!" Lei joked! "Hey!! It isn't like that!" The boy started to defend his favorite teacher "Just because he got me into his favorite hobby and is good friends with mom.. Wait a minute..." the boy slows up as he started to wonder, but is snapped out of this paranoia with Lei's voice: "C'moo-oon! Let's  hurry up and do it so we can get the extra credit; that was just a joke; who'd want yoour mama anyway?". " Hey, don't start with that! I warned you!" Makana retorts and laughed; "Okay, okay!" Lei replied with a giggle as they leave the building. Sunny follows them as she does too.

A hour or so later; the trio are riding a golf cart off-road. While Makana couldn't technically just drive where he wanted, he COULD use the kart off-road and skip a lot of obstacles... While it's albeit slow, they were faster than they'd be on foot. "Yall are stupid!" Sunny laughs "How did yall 2 meet anyways?, "She tried to make me eat snails!" Makana jokes, "No I didn't! I wahted you to pet my pet: Snart!" Lei explains with a laugh! "Yeah, Snart the Snail was the biggest thing you ever freaking saw! And she pushed it in my face!!" he says with a laugh, "Because she wanted a kiss! You were such a scaredy cat!" she retorts, then he suddenly stops the kart!

 "There it is!" Makana then gasps, the girls turn towards him after this abrupt stop and ask "What the??". " The place where the famous soldier from the Germany went down fighting; he arrived here in 2069 to help us win! " Makana recites what he learned in his school books and during lectures. Then he gets out and scans the area with his phone; it has a app Kau'i made. The thing beeps slowly, but speeds up upon Makana standing in the middle of the uninhabited area full of monkeygrass... "It's under here, g,get me a drill!" he exclaimed excitedly, "Okay, dude... You're more crazy than my brothers on lobster night!" Lei says with a scared laugh, and gets one of the tools out of the back of the cart. The drills broke dirt and could blow it away to keep the work area as smooth and clean as possible! Makana starts to drill quickly, Lei helps, but Sunny merely watches while eating chocolate from her purse as they unearth a half of a rusted spork, Makana scrapes dirt from the artifact with his hands! "It's a old utensil?" he questions, Lei smirks nervously as Sunny adds "So it's just silverware? Should we report it?". "Y,yeah; I guess.." Makana replies softly, then reach his left hand into his pockets to get his phone; but Kau'i doesn't pick up... The blond teem then looks up and revealed to his traveling companions; "He's busy.. His phone just has his answering machine.". "We can still show him later." Lei  suggests, "Yeah, by later you'd probably have something to actually show him!" Sunny suggests. "Alright, let's go!!!,"  Makana replies cheerfully  "I figured this could happen, that's why I brought these!". He runs to the back of the kart and lies the rusted thing inside one of the specially made bags for cradling old things. Sunny then asks " It's gettin' dark; is there a place where we won't be outside?", the other two look up at the setting sun... Then the boy replies "Oh yeah! We got money, we can go to a 5-star place!". "Are you sure???! Maybe you should ask him first?!" Lei suggests;  possibly stealing was a thing she wanted to avoid! "Professor Kau'i told me it would be okay before, in fact he told me just yesterday!" he revealed, "Alright, but if you're lying I'll tell him you pushed me into a room and, force fed me snails!" his best friend threatened as they got back in the kart.. "Why would I force you to eat something that almost made me vomit??! And who said I'd get you a room anyway?" Makana jokes.

After that night; they walked to a nearby site of another famous battle: the ground was completely dark and crusted over; it looks unnatural near the flowery meadows. The trio were some of the few people around this area, most they quickly get bored and leave; Makana though is excited "...so we can go anywhere you want too, like if this gets boring!" he finished saying to Sunny, who responds "Okay, but I'm fine right now. This is STILL better than what I did back home!".  "Yeah, being in the presence of a huge war volcano must be epic!" Makana excitedly says, his BFF then elaborates: "It was mount Honolulu that erupted. People mistook it for being extinct and unintentionally caused the tragedy." "Mount Honolulu???" Sunny asks in surprise, Lei then adds "It was turned into a volcano to use magma as a energy source, but..."  The black girl replies: "They never mention that back in my school!". "Yeah well, that's the education system: they teach what they want." Lei replies in a annoyed tone "Now if you'll excuse me...". She grabs Makana's hand and snatches him away "I hafta ask him a school question...", he sighed as he's tugged behind a huge wall of obsidian "What is it this time!?!" Makana asks in some annoyance. "You didn't even notice, did you?" She replies in equal annoyance. Makana asks "What? We all had great hotel rooms! ...You're actually mad at me?". " No... yeah! Yeah I am, you left me! You don't even remember because you were talking to SuNNEEE so much!" she tells him with a especially irritated tone. "That's because she was already awake, and I'm trying to get her to stay on a history trip!" Makana revealed "And why did you say her name like THAT?"... right now, Lei was a little satisfied with his excuse, so she says: "Sorry, forget it... I just didn't want to be left behind...", her BFF laughs "Of course we wouldn't of completely left you, I was gonna go back after showing her this! Now let's go!". He starts to turn away from her "We hafta go to the basalt mines! Pr..." Makana suddenly stops movement and talking as he almost runs into Sunny! ...Was she standing there listening again!?? "Um, is everything alright?" she asks.... "Yeah, I was just coming for ya!" Makana happily says as he gets hot all over! Lei though is even more suspicious of her than before..

That night; they stayed in another hotel far from the other... This one was less fancy, but still very safe and had decent amenities... Yet when Lei tries to sleep; her mind races: "Who IS she? That girl feels so weird to talk to.. I don't get why Makana likes her, or why she won't leave...". She suddenly covers her own ears as she thought " It's not fair, what does he see in her? Or any of the others?!". Then she notices one can hear others through the thin walls..nothing weird was going on, except with Sunny's voice; she's whispering to someone.. Lei tries not to eavesdrop..but was far to curious; while it was not clear what she was talking about, the tone of her voice was serious sounding, which is unusual for Sunny..Lei tried to cover her ears again and go to sleep, but her mind already had focused on the conversation and she started becoming unnerved....

 That morning Makana was happily talking to Sunny again; she's now  next to him instead of Lei...who's dragging behind and has dark circles around her eyes due to lack of sleep.... but she seems to wake up when Sunny says; "Oh finally!". " What's up?" Makana asks as they neared a restaurant in a ashen city. "Gotta use the bathroom!" she explains, he smiles wryly replying "Oh yeah, be careful though!". "Yeah, yeah; stranger danger!." she jokes and goes inside... Makana smiles in happiness watching her go in, but Lei abruptly turned him towards her!! "She's a freak!" his BFF tells him, "How are you still doing that?!" he asks with a irritated tone, then notices her eyes: "Wait, did you sleep???". "No!!!! That girl kept me up all night!" Lei revealed, "What the? You were listening to her through the wall???" Makana asked in worry for his now seemingly insane friend, "Wh,what was she saying?"  spilled from his mouth with morbid curiosity.. "I didn't hear it all, but it was basically: she's been using us and is almost done!". "She could just mean touring; I think she just wants to see Hawaii off the beaten path and she's using us to see everything without paying! She isn't hurting anything!". "But what did it mean when she said she needed us only a little longer?? Nobody NEEDS a specific person for touring! She's..."  his BFF suddenly stops talking. Makana noticed, then looks over his shoulder to see Sunny! "Hey guys, look!!!" she exclaims, they turn towards where she suggested and see a parade starting a little ways away.  The group uses the rest of this day watching the festivities!

Now they near Kauai the next day; it's overgrown with wild flowers. And unlike the rest of Hawaii is nearly devoid of any civilization at all. The only sign of humanity are the tourists and guides randomly sprawled about, along with feral livestock.. Also; Makana is talking with Sunny again "... That's how I almost broke my head, I'm not doing furniture jenga anymore!", "Hahaha! You and Lei crazy! I'm surprised you survived each other!" she giggled happily. Then notices a sign: "It says welcome to princeville; we're already here? We couldn't of moved THAT fast from Hilo, right?" she asks. Lei steps between the two and casually tells her " The volcano rendered the other islands uninhabitable and shifted the tectonic plates; In fact: we rode on volcano-made land to get here!", Sunny almost asks more, but Lei quickly pulls her BFF away without a word "Wh,What is it this time?!" he asks, "We should go back; we're wasting time!" she tries to convince him. "We found stuff!" he retorts in some annoyance "We can't give up!". Lei pulls him to the  kart and reaches into the only bag up with the rusty old spork inside: "Only this! And I'd understand if we were searching hard and had badluck, but you're basically just dating Sunny at this point!" Lei says. Makana gasps slightly and replies " I was just trying to show her around a little. But I'll be serious today! Why do you wanna go back so fast anyway??". "Because my mom keeps calling and I had my own personal business to take care of! I don't think either of us should keep wasting time!" she replies in a snappy tone, "We're looking..alright! Let me.." he started to say, but is interrupted by Sunny. "Guys, guys..." They turn towards her, as she points to a lone building far away; "I think I found my mom!" Sunny reveals, making them wonder at what this exactly meant.. 

They get to the building quicker than expected, and find it's the only structure here for miles. A academy ironically shaped like a mountain, but surrounded by mechanisms and few scientists that would come out and check the environment. The trio near the building, and catch the attention of one "Children? Go back along the designated paths: this is no place for idiots." he warns, but a voices echoed from inside "No Charlie, let them in. I know one of them.".. The elderly man wonders at this, but lets them in... This academy is a huge laboratory full of wild looking, unreleased technology, even in this time period. The communication and viewing devices are strangely shaped and are activated solely through voice. The trio are surprised at the sheer insanity they're seeing, until a tall & curvy black woman walks to them: "Sunny!" she exclaims, "He-ey!" The girl cheers, they run to and embrace each other, which surprises the other two: her mother was a scientist in their homeland the entire time? "Ah, it's been so long!" the woman sighs happily as they look into each other's hazel brown eyes. "Yeah it was, I thought I'd finish college before we saw each other again!" Sunny joked. "Oh no way, I'd quit work first!" the woman replies assuredly..which scares their eavedroppers/workers. "And who are they?" she asks as she turns towards them, Sunny does too "These are my friends, they joined me!" she explains. "Ah, and what're your names?" her mother asks;  then introduces herself "You can call me Miss Eclair.". " I'm Makana." the boy also introduces himself, "And I'm Lei.." his BFF says. "Yall look so cute together!" she coos. He steps back from Lei, "NO!! We're just buddies!" he angrily explains. "Okay, if you say so!" Eclair replied in a goofy tone, then says in a more serious one "On another note: I wanna show you three something. I can trust yall, right? I know I can trust baby gurl!"  she ends up making a babyish voice, "MOM!" Sunny whines, "Oh sorry, it's just it feels good knowing there's someone around I can 100% simply trust." the woman explains. "You can trust us too! My teacher does!" Makana assures her, earning him a agitated glance from Lei: "Good, then come with me." the woman orders, and they follow her under a giant telescope.. "Look up, through the special lenses we made, it cuts through the atoms that make up everythin'!." she explains in a ominous tone... The trio stare through the giant lenses....

To be continued.