Sebastian was at the gathering hall when he heard an announcement that they were close to their destination. He saw the blue light curtain fade away. There, at the edge of the galaxy, a massive asteroid
with several cylindrical structures built on it. It's their new home.
The ship docked at the side hangar. Under Firthe and her compainion guidance, they left the ship and went to the hangar bay where they were greeted by the crowds of Watcher's member already waiting for them there.
Firthe spoke with a Voidron who lead the whole crowds. They approached them and introduced themself, "Welcome human, I am Saal Su'ud, the high elder." he smiled and extending his hands. "We've been eager to meet with all of you."
Firthe and her companion waved at human before she boarded her ship and left the hangar bay. High Elder Su'ud then asked human to follow him, the crowds also followed them.
Garbitians, Durasyll, Gypherian, and Rachnite carried the young humans on their shoulder or back, some helped the elderly people who were having trouble walking. They passed through a long corridor until reaching a gate with a symbol, maybe a tube and a needle. He explained to them it's the medical bay.
They were nervous knowing it was time for their implant. Widodo and the elderly peoples volunteered to be the first. A group of Lunlunas instructed them to change their clothes to a special suit. High elder Su'ud told the other to followed him outside where another group of Lunluna distribute their suits which had several holes on it. He told human to followed Lunluna's instruction before he and the crowds left.
After what seemed like eternity. Widodo finally exited the medical bay, followed by the elderly peoples. Sebastian was baffled seeing them now walking on their own legs, they also looked younger.
"Grandfather? wha-" Widodo's granddaughter perplexed seeing his grandfather now had fewer wrinkles and part of his hair turning black.
Finally convinced after
witnessing the effect, they all lined up to received
their implant, although a young girl did voiced her concern, what if they turned into a baby because they were young which prompted other to having another doubt, Sebastian included because he was on the 1st group.
He along with Enid, Rob, and several others entered the medical bay. The Lunluna led him to a nearby pod where he told lied down inside. He saw Enid entered the pod beside him, he smiled at Enid as the pod closed.
He was told to remain still. Feeling pinches across his body, he looked down and was shocked seeing several transparent needles sticking on his chest and limbs, as well on his back. It injected a blue liquid, causing his body to ached really bad, although only for a while.
When the needles finally retracted. Sebastian was told to remained inside the pod while they monitored his health. After they double-checked everything, they opened the pod and let Sebastian out (he didn't felt any changes to his body). Enid and the other were also stepping out from their pod.
As they exited the medical bay, the lunluna told them to change their
clothes back and headed to
the cafetaria. They were directed to a vehicle ride that look like several cylinders connected together. It bring them to the cafetaria that was located at the center of the base.
Sebastian mouth agape, the cafetaria was huge, it was 6 floors high, Although was rather empty, only few Watcher member were there. Sebastian saw Widodo conversing with the high elder, the other elderly peoples were busy sampling the food, they seemed really enjoying their new youthful bodies.
Sebastian and Enid sat beside
a fountain which had statues of all the Watcher members including to his
surprise, a human (that oddly bear similarity to his father) holding a star. Enid was staring at the statue and seemed realized with the similarity.
A
drone approached them, it gave them a list of food, but they didn't understood what it said. Fortunately a Garbitian approached them and translated the menu for them. The Garbitian looked different from Sannekth. His body was rather rounded and had orange fur. Sebastian
wondered if he's an orsus clan. He recommended a
grilled leat and a drink called oka.
The drone delivered their order a moments later. Sebastian looked at his food, it's the same blue steak they had before. Sebastian tried the oka, which, despite it crimson color, it tasted like a tea. They also ordered something that looked like a potato slices, but it's green and rather soggy.
As he ate, he noticed the place was getting more crowded, it seemed almost everyone had done receiving their implant.
Enid suddenly pointed at something behind him. "Isn't that your father?"
Sebastian turned around and saw his father on the large monitor at the side. His father was carrying a wood log on his shoulder while smiling at a lady who offered him a drink. He was building a hut along with the captain. The scene then shifted to a group of children plowing a field while riding an animal that looked like a massive rabbit. It then shifted to a man try eating a fruit which made him gagged. Sebastian recognized him, he was Eabha's father.
"Father.." He never seen his father this happy before. Sebastian noticed the other were also smiling seeing their relatives and friend; Eabha wiped her tears. Before the video ended, it showed Sebastian's father and others waving at the departing Watcher.
After everyone finished their meal, The high elder asked them followed him. They take turns rode the cylindrical vehicles and arrived near a huge gate with an icon of
human silhouette. It was their new living chamber.
As he entered, he found himself inside a massive structure. There was a garden at the center of the ground floor. He looked up and saw there're maybe more than a hundred stories high. Up at ceiling, there's an artifical star illuminating the whole chamber. The high elder mentioned that the star would be dimmed at some given time and replaced with the view from outside.
Before he left, the high elder told them to pick any room they want. The larger room on lower floors were for a family. Sebastian chose a room on the 70th
floor, while Enid stayed at 45th floor along
with the other women.
Sebastian entered his room and to his surprise, it's an exact replica of his personal quarter back on their old ship, albeit twice larger. The room was complete with bathroom and small kitchen.
Sebastian was in the middle of checking his bed when he heard a beeping sound on his door. A large package slided from the compartment beside
it. He opened the package, inside there're his translator device, stack of new clothes, and a wristband that
serves as comm device, a mini computer, and for displaying cycle.
He examined his new clothes which almost similar to their old clothes, there're also a pair of Watcher uniform. He donned the uniform and it fits perfectly.
There were an announcement from the high elder. They were given a free time and allowed to do whatever they want until the next directives, as long not leaving the base. Sebastian decided to strolled around the base. He wore his translator device and the wristband.
He wondered if Enid would like to joined him. He went to asked her but she
wasn't in her room. He heard her voice when he head downstairs and saw her at the garden, giggling with bunch of female umistric. She looked like
enjoying her new companion, thus he decided to strolled by himself.
He looked at his wristband, there's a map of the entire base. The one nearest was the umistric living chamber. Sebastian boarded the vehicle and head there.
He arrived in front of 2 gates, one was smaller. There's a sign instructing the other species to use the smaller gate. He enter and found himself inside a sealed room with several diving gear.
As soon as he donned
the diving gear, water quickly filled the chamber. When it's full, he saw the door opened and swam inside. He was amazed at a spectacular scenery, as if he was
inside a massive
underwater cave.
He was checking a house covered with glittering flowers when a group of juvenile umistric approaching him, followed by their caretaker. She greeted Sebastian and took him on a tour of the entire chamber. Sebastian met with Firthe's sister when the caretaker brought him to a school, she's taller.
After swimming around the chamber, Sebastian said goodbye to the caretaker and the kids before leaving. He boarded the vehicle again and went to the Garbitian living chamber.
When he went inside the chamber, he found himself on the edge of a cliff. From up there, he could see the chamber was divided into three sections: a swamp, a desert, and a mountainous area, At the center, he saw a huge hut.
He climbed down the cliff, which made a group of Sasus and Hesus garbitians laughed at him when he finally reach the bottom. One of the Orsus garbitian approached and told him that there's stairs at the end of the cliff which made Sebastian embarrassed.
Sebastian thanked her and went to the settlement on the mountainous area which belonged to the Hesus clan. Sasus live on the desert area and the swamp belonged to Orsus. Along the way,
Sebastian saw animals resembling a cow but walked on 6 legs and covered with fluffy fur, they
were called leat. Each clan leat were different; Hesus leat were enormous and had a pair of tusks, Sasus leat had two humps on their backs, and the one
belong to Orsus were covered with yellow moss.
Sebastian then visited the large hut at the center. He found himself in the middle of a huge commotion where a group of elderly, led by 2 very old garbitians dressed in an ornamental robe, arguing in front of the large round table, meanwhile a group of elderly Segosu's clan were chilling at the opposite end of the table, the one with the ornamental robe was smiling.
Sebastian saw a miniature field, complete with
trees and hills, as well as a swamp and desert area, there's also buildings and
numerous mini garbitian figurines at the table.
3 old garbitians wearing ornamental gowns approached Sebastian. They introduced themselves as the wives of the 3 chieftains which were the one wearing the ornamental robe. They explained that they were playing an advanture game to pass the time because they were bunch of retiree.
Sebastian watched them continue playing. They were arguing again because Sasus chieftain stole a loot from Hesus group while they were busy fighting off monsters. Later on, the Hesus chieftain tricked Sasus chieftain into opening a trapped door which led to another heated argument, even their wives joined the fight. Sebastian was agaped, they look like bunch of childrens.
Meanwhile, Orsus chieftain still smiling and said "Justss likess the oldss daysss.."
The wife of Orsus chieftain, who leasurly sat beside Sebastian, explained that the 3 chieftains were once companion, and even during their youth, those two were always been a rivals.
Seeing it become a throwing matches, Sebastian decided it was time to leave. He bid the Orsus chieftain and his wife farewell before leaving the chamber.
He went to the Durasyll chamber. They live in a beautiful forest filled with bunch of small bird like critter that love to rest on
the their
shoulder and head. They offered Sebastian a drink made of leaves and
roots which tasted
awful but refreshing. They gave him a bundle dried leaf before leaving to the Lunluna chamber.
Lunluna live
on a small town, Sebastian had to crouch to enter their house. They made him some kind of biscuits which taste really sweet and a bit dry. He got stucked when he's about get out from the
house. A group of Lunluna had to pulled him out.
Next, he visited Gypherian living chamber. Their chamber was almost similar to human but their garden were filled with bushes bearing colourful fruit. The place were rather empty, aside from Gypherian childrens running around the garden, there were only a couple of elderly Gypherian sitting on the bench. Sebastian conversed with the old Gypherians and they made him ate a fruit called fari.
Haron living chamber. At first he thought he was mistakenly entering a medical bay, because he saw thousands of juvenile haron inside their medical pod being cared by their mechanized kin. The juvenile harons waved at him with their tiny limbs, they're really cute.
Then he went to Zetron chamber. The main chamber were probihited to enter because they live inside an artificial nebula and it was rather hazardous to other species. Sebastian saw zetron true form when they traveled from their chamber to their robotic vessel, they were look like blue or red spark.
After leaving Zetron chamber, He visited Rachnite. Rachnite live in a futuristic town, full of weird contraptions and gadgets scattered around the block. The Rachnite there explained (they spoke by clicking their mandibles) that they made those purely for fun, although some of it became the basis for the watcher latest tech.
He left Rachnite chamber and went to look for the voidron chamber, but it wasn't shown in the map, which he wondered why, so he decided to check the main hangar bay.
When he arrived there, he's astonished the humongous size of it, however there were only few spaceships parked there, being maintained by few Rachnite and Haron alongside their drones.
He exited the hangar and
proceeded to the power plant block. There were two massive power generators there, the other one looked really ancient, it might be the Jeturgh generator. Because it was really cold there, he quickly left.
Sebastian then head to the agricultural block. He went inside and found himself on grass field surrounded by river. There were variety of otherworldly animals and trees being tended by the drones and the river were filled with fishes. He recognized some of it because he ate it before.
Sebastian then visited the smaller blocks which were the gym, meditation room, starcharts
observation room, archive hall, warehouse, and bio research section.
The last place was the manufacturing section. The place was empty with only few drones manning the machine. There's lots of impressive machine there, and it's currently tempering huge parts maybe for ship or something.
Sebastian walked closer towards the machine but someone grabbed his shoulder, startling him. It was the high elder Su'ud, he told Sebastian to leave the area because this place was off limit, for now. Sebastian apologized, he then remembered and asked him where's Voidron living chamber.
He smiled. "We don't have any, aside from some meditation, we.. didn't need any rest, advantage of an immortal. Now.. it's time to go back to your chamber."
Sebastian nodded. He was about leave when he called him.
"Oh! and please tell the other human to formed a group of 3 to 5 peoples, and... what's your name?"
Sebastian told his name.
"Well then Sebastian, good bye now.. and good luck."
As he left, He noticed The high elder was looking at him until he exited the room.
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