They docked at the ship hangar, Sebastian was astonished by he sight of thousands of Exploreration ships and smaller crafts, as well as countless ground vehicles parked inside the garages on the side. Elder Su'ud mentioned that all of it were created with the latest technology, it was much faster and more durable than the older model.
Sebastian felt his wristband buzzing. Elder Su'ud told them to checked their wristband. Sebastian found the schematic of this ship. The ship was divided into 5 sections; middle section was for the manufacturing area, labs and storage room; the front section was for the bridge and cabin for the crews; the back section was for the engine and generator area; the living area was located at the top section; and the hangar was located at the bottom.
Leaving the hangar, Elder Su'ud guided them to the living area. They walked passed the middle section and arrived at the gate that led to the top section. When the gate opened, Sebastian was blinded by a bright light, he followed the silhouettes and climbed the stairs. He felt a breeze and the scent of flowers, when his eyes finally adjusted, he realized he now stood at the edge of a town.
Sebastian looked up and saw the blue sky above. Enid suddenly screamed because a small creature jumped from a nearby tree to her shoulder, it then jumped and dangling on Sebastian's sleeves. He never seen this kind of creature before, it's looked like a blue mouse with long bushy tail.
"Woah.. so cute!" Shanna squealed, she tried to pet it, but it jumped back to the tree which made her dissapointed.
"What is that?" asked the small boy besides Sebastian
More of these creature appeared from the trees, causing a big commotion as they dangling around their clothes.
"Thosess are calledss squirellss." said the familiar voice. "It'ss beenss a whiless, kidss."
Sebastian turned around, it's Sannekth along with his companions. They all smiled at them. Enid and Shanna hugged Ammaurith. Gersoth and Mafith gave Rob a fist bump.
Sebastian noticed there were other watcher member there, talking with their former pupil. Travis getting lifted by a Rachnite; An old Gypherian talked to Santi; Alexander meanwhile was stammered talking with Ferdel, he awkwardly kept fixing his glasses.
"Why are you here?" Rob asked
"To sendss youss offss," said Gersoth "andss helpedss releasess thosess." pointing at the squirells that now hanging on his robe.
"There are more of these cute animals?" Shanna's eyes brighten.
"Thousandsss ofss themss." chimed the Garbitian Sebastian never met before. "Ohss, I'mss Sarhethss."
"He'sss ourss newss memberss." said Mafith.
Sannekth and his companions gave them a tour around the living area. At the town, they met with lots of other animal wandering there. Sannekth explained that most of these animals were recreated based on the data they gathered from earth, but because they didn't had any DNA of those animals, they had to modified animals from other planet, splicing their feature to matched those from the data.
"There'sss slightss discolorationss and minor
differencess... but wess madess themss as closess as possibless withss the
realss oness." said Mafith
They spotted dogs and cats along their way, they looked exactly liked the one back at their old ship. Because they were still alive when they left, Watcher were able to bred them without splicing them with other animals DNA.
"Althoughss wess didss prolongedss theirss lifess spanss." Lenoeth mentioned.
"Uh.. why?" asked Rob
"Don'tss youss wantss themss to livess longerss?" asked Gersoth, he held the small dog on his palm. "Awss, Whoss thess littless cutiesss." Gersoth stroked it head.
"Eldersss weress intriguedss by themss." said Lenoeth "Thosess Lileapuss atss the basess, thosess are actuallyss dogss splicedss withss anss animalss fromss a planetss calledss Vol'kinss. The earlierss batchesss onlyss livess forss 52ss cyclesss whichss madess the teamss whoss receivedss them grievesss for rings whenss they diedss."
"Nowss they livesss 5x longerss." said Gersoth
They petted the dogs and cats before continuing their tour to the farm area. On the way, Sebastian saw a large stream, it is connected to a river which flowed through the grove at the sides. At the farm, they saw cows (Which were obviously a modified Leat because it sported tusks instead of horns and had patches of green moss on their back). There's also a flock of giant chicken like bird pecking the ground. Beside the farm, there were a garden filled with vegetables and trees full of fruits.
Leaving the farm they continued their tour until they reached the edge of the living area, there's a gate that lead to the bridge section. Sannekth pointed at the station beside the gate. there's a capsule like vehicle although it's bit different.
"Thisss isss calledss Tramss." said Sannekth as they boarded it.
While not as fast as the capsule back at the base, it was actually much more relaxing and fun, because they could enjoy the scenery. It stopped near a lake where more people boarded, the childrens were ecstatic.
Arriving back at the town, they walked to the gate. Sannekth and his companion bid their farewell to Sebastian, Enid, Shanna and Rob.
"Bess wellss youss fourss." Ammaurith hugged them tightly. "We'llss goingss to missss youss.."
"Thess basess willss bess emptyss withoutss thosess runtss runningss aroundss makingss ruckusss." laughed Gersoth "Thenss againss.. wess gotss themss nowss."
"Wellss.. theyss are nowss stillss meekss, butss givenss few cyclesss theirss offspringss willss be wildss as wellss." said Sarheth
"They?" asked Shanna intrigued "Whose they?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Enid
"You'llss seess, Wellss.. Goodss luckss kidss." Sannekth and his companion waved at them as they entered the gate.
Back at the town, they found Travis, Alexander and Santi sat on a bench waiting for them, their mentor had left a while ago. They heard someone calling for them, they saw Muara and Viv approaching them.
Sebastian took off his badge and handed it to Viv. "Viv, the team is yours now."
Viv was surprised but he cheerfuly took the badge."Good, luck, Boss and, friends." he flew around Sebastian and the other.
"I hope you arrives there safely." Muara
gracefully bowed to them, but Santi, Shanna and Enid hugged her. Muara smiled as she hugged them back.
They accompanied Viv and Muara to the gate, as they both entered the gate, Viv made a peace sign towards them. Sebastian was sad seeing them both left because they've been facing sorrow and joy together for a long time, and now they wouldn't be able to met again, forever.
A while later, Saal Su'ud called every human to gather at the town center. He asked them to elected their own elder, which caused a bit of commotion because almost everyone volunteered themselves.
After some heated discussion, it was decided that Widodo would be their new high elder and 4 other including Wanxue will be part of the council. Widodo were reluctant but was convinced and humbly accept his duty. Saal Su'ud then gave his final instruction before leaving the ship along with the rest of the Watcher member still there.
Widodo asked for volunteers to be the bridge crews and the mechanics to manned the engine section. There's another commotion because everyone were volunteering themselves again. After getting his crews, Widodo rode the tram to the bridge along with the elder council while the chosen mechanics went to the engine section.
After a while, Sebastian heard a transmission from the bridge, Widodo announced that they were ready to departed, he also decided to adopted earth time cycle like back on their old ship and thus resetting the year back to 0. The blue sky suddenly shifted to the view outside.
Sebastian was astonished, there were thousand of Watcher ships surrounding the base, he saw Sannekth's and Ferdel's Ship, and among them, he recognized the blue and white pattern of his ship. Then a large monitor appeared, they saw Elder Su'ud and the other elders and behind them, Sebastian noticed there were a small crowds of people waving at them.
"Hey! aren't they?" Rob eyes widen, looking at the crowds.
"They saved them!" Enid bubbled, She waved back.
"Who are they?"
"Aluba'rk did mention about new member." said a girl to a guy beside her.
"They looks like that big sister over there!" A child pointed at Shanna.
Shanna tucked Sebastian's sleeves, a tear running on her cheek as she smiled looking at the crowd. Suddenly a bright light shooting from the base which surprised them, it then exploded into a dazzling colourful stars, more of these stars coming from the Watcher ships. Sebastian was amazed by the beautiful spectacles.
"Woah!"
"One last farewell gifts from us." said Elder Su'ud "Your predecessor called it fireworks."
The transmission ended as the blue curtain enveloped their ship and they began leaving the base. Sebastian could see the Watcher ships still shooting these fireworks as they gone further and further. The last view before the skies turn back to blue was the sight of their galaxy.
Sebastian looked at Enid and his companion. They didn't know when they reached their new home, but whatever lies ahead, a new adventure awaits.
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