Authors note: I use the VLD time system in this story.
Tick = 1.399 seconds
Dobosh = 1.4 minutes (84 seconds)
60 ticks equal 1 dobosh
Varga = 1.4 hours (84 minutes)
60 doboshes equal 1 varga
Quintant = 1.167 days (28 hours)
20 vargas equal 1 quintant
Movement = Approximately 1 week
Phoeb = Approximately 1 month
Deca-Phoeb = Approximately 1 year
"We're stranded..." Layla's words echoed through everyone's head as they shivered.
Layla immediately regretted saying those words, as she could feel everyone's fear through her ship. It shocked her a little bit, but she let it slide, waiting for somebody to respond.
"We're not stranded, we were given a mission, and for Kcuts, we will succeed." Jin confidently spoke, even though he was just as scared as everybody else.
"Jin's right, we can't go back empty handed, especially after our planet was sacrificed so we could succeed, we just have to believe everybody is still alive, and we can do anything! Right Boing?" Riley spoke as she pet her trash can shaped floating robot Boing.
"Beep Boop Boing BONK!" Boing enthusiastically sang.
Everybody seemed to gain some sort of boost in energy. Whatever Jin did, was working.
"Alright Jin! You're right- WAIT, A PLANET, OVER THERE!" Yonas yelped.
"That's what I'm talking about team, lets go look for leads." Jin chuckled as he zoomed towards the planet.
WOOOOSHH—
"How come he got the fastest ship?" Yonas asked as he followed.
From afar the planet look like a nice sulfur yellow, but as they got closer, it looked dead, a whole chunk seemed to have been carved out, and the planet was a vomit green. Nobody spoke, but they all thought it, as they all landed in an empty field, only a few buildings were visible and it was really sandy, too sandy, as if something was hiding in it. Riley was the first to remove her helmet and feel the raging winds and heat.
SWOOOOSHHHH—
sniff~ sniff~
"Eughh, this planet stinks, like, really bad, I'm gonna vomit" Riley exclaimed as she ran behind her ship.
"Riley, how about we keep our helmets on til we get into some sort of building, like the tavern, bar, hotel, thing— WHATVER it is." Jin commented.
Layla and Yonas thumbed up as they started walking towards the small establishment, leaving Jin to make sure Riley finishes`... cleaning up.
creeeekk—
As Yonas opened the door, roaches scurried across, startling Layla.
"Eeek! Oh, just a roach..."
Yonas advanced into the worn down building as Layla stuck close by, staring at all the people watching them. They grab a seat and try to avoid all the looks, until, Jin and Riley barge in. Riley complains and Jin ignores her.
"Eugh, I can't believe you had to see me like that Jin!"
"I've seen you worse."
Yonas signals to be quiet but Jin continues.
"Anybody know where we can get information? We're in a rush!"
Yonas facepalms, as a green nose-less man stands up and walks towards Jin. Layla stands up and blocks the man from getting to Jin.
"You got business with him? Green freak?" Layla says as she cracks her knuckles.
Yonas sits Riley in a seat, then stands in front of Layla.
"Sorry about my friend she-" Yonas starts before he gets interrupted by Layla "She NOTHING, I meant what I said, if he doesn't plan to answer the question, then he has no reason to be up in Jin's face!"
The green alien raised his hands, as if he was surrendering.
"I just wanted to introduce myself, I am Glorftzenpüütz of the fourth decaphoeb, from the planet Kaizuboolt, and you can get your information from the old ladies house not far from here."
Everybody laughs, as if they've just heard the funniest thing ever, with Glorftzenpüütz staring at them with a wonky smile.
"Alright Glorftzenpüütz, we'll take your word for it, crew, we're out" Jin laughed, as they left with Yonas complaining.
"Jin, we're a team, don't you think we've gotta decide things together first?" He questioned before getting waved away by Jin.
Riley gave Yonas a sorry look before turning back towards the house they were walking to.
As they walked through the sandy terrain with their helmets on, Yonas couldn't help but feel as if they were in danger, clearly the team was on Jin's side, so there was nothing he could do, nothing but hope everything turned out alright.
The house looked creepier as they got closer, but Jin still walked with confidence, too much confidence.
BANG—
The door had broken, as soon as Jin had touched it, and standing there was a small old lady, her posture was really bad, she was really hunched, it looked as if she had a camels hump, and the smell, oh the smell—She smelled like blood.
Everyone could smell it, through their helmets, and it set Jin aback but he pursued like an idiot.
"Welcome home kids-" The old lady smiled, her sclera black and pupils red, her skin grey like dust.
Jin signaled for everyone to follow, and as they all entered the house of the old lady, Yonas' foot fell in the floorboard, breaking it, and allowing roaches to scurry.
"Sorry about the floorboard miss..." Yonas apologized, but she just looked at him and smiled with her old sagging skin, and scary eyes.
She stared at the floor a little, seeming to get lost in her own head, before turning and walking to her kitchen, Riley and Layla were the first to sit on her couch, as Jin and Yonas followed, and the old ladies clock ticked. Before Yonas could open his mouth, the lady handed them all drinks and sat down.
"What knowledge do you seek?" She questioned as she laughed to herself.
And before anyone could say anything, they all passed out, cold—The drinks were poisoned. The old lady put her hands in her pants, then pulled out some sort of oval communicator, covered in body dirt, and flies, as she spoke into it.
"Is this the Zarkor army? I have the NX ships."
A few vargas later, a Zarkor cruiser picked up the NX ships and on it, a smug general.
"Empress Isabela will definitely promote me for this! I've got the NX ships she put out a warning for, I can't believe even though the whole mega galaxy, I got them, Bear, Bat, Tiger, and Eagle, the BIGGEST technological advancements in all the universe!" He rejoiced, as he set the coordinates for hyperdrive. (Hyperdrive is when a ship goes so fast it basically teleports, only one per Quintant, because of how much power it takes.
But little did he know, Boing was still in the Bat, Riley's NX ship, and he was recording it all, Boing had to find a way to get the NX ships back to their bastions (bastions are the names for pilots of NX ships). Boing calculated, then made a plan.
Meanwhile...
The bastions were in a basement, full of pherats and roaches and what seemed to be rotting bodies. Riley was the first to wake up.
"Mmm... mm... m—AAAAH! EW! EW! EWEWEWEW!!!!!! A PHERAT!!"
The rest of the bastions awoke immediatly, Layla started screeching, and Jin kicked the pherat out, and as he turned his head, he saw Yonas, and tried to apologize.
"I- I didn't want any of this to happen, I'm—"
"YOU'RE A HORRIBLE LEADER, I TOLD YOU TIME, AFTER TIME, WE'RE A TEAM, NOT YOUR PERSONAL BODYGAURDS, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WE WORK TOGETHER, BUT YOU CAN'T SEEM TO GET IT THROUGH THAT THICK SKULL OF YOU, and because of that, we're HERE, in a freaking BASEMENT, what is wrong with you, why are you such, SUCH, SUCH AND IDIOT!?" Yonas screamed, before he turned around to look at the wall, and Jin just sat down, and lowered his head.
"You're right, I'm a horrible leader, I just wanted to protect you all, but I ended up getting us in this rotten mess, I truly am sorry guys, I hope you'll forgive me." Jin commented softly, with his voice cracking and shaking, and tears falling from his eyes. Until—
Bzzt—
Riley's communicator buzzed.
"Well, pick it up, what are you waiting for?" Layla insisted as Riley stared at the communicator.
"Ok, I guess we have no other choice anyway..." Riley replied as she pressed the Yellow button to accept.
BEEP— BEEP— BEEP— BOOP— BOING~!
Riley gasped, and everyone turned to her.
"Boing is still on the Bat!" Riley shouted.
Everyone looked happy, then back to sad.
"Guys what—no, you don't seriously think Boing is going to fail, do you? YOU DO! You guys are so mean, Boing has the capabilities to do it, and we have to trust in those capabilities!" Riley said, even though she knew nobody would respond, as it was up to Boing.
Boing sneaks around the ship, hiding whenever a guard walks past, and turning into a trash can in front of cameras. He's a sneaky robot, eventually, he makes his way to the hanger, but the general is there, taking selfies on his communicator and recording until a guard walks in.
Kfchkk~! Kfchkk~!
"Get ready with me, opening and unboxing the new NX ships before I gift them to Isabela as a gift for promoting me. So- OHH, I mean, what do you want, guard, actually, lets get out of here before we talk..."
Once the general and the guard leave, Boing springs into action...
While all this is happening, the bastions are sneaking through the old ladies house, they successfully escaped the basement, but now her house was the new level in this game. The floorboards were like landmines, one slip and the sleeping old lady would awake.
Until... Yonas step through a floorboard and the lady awoke, and charged at him but then—
CRACK—
Jin had stepped infront of Yonas, Yonas tried to say something, but Jin stopped him.
"GO! GET EVERYBODY OUT, NOW!"
Yonas ran out of the house to find the ships gone! But a Zarkor cruiser in the sky...
Meanwhile, Boing was in the cruiser and opened the hanger, allowing the NX ships to fall down, but as he jumped, he was snatched! It was the general, he had gotten a hold of Boing, and pulled him up before the hanger closed. Riley screamed.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO——— BOING!!!"
She got in her ship as she tried to reach the Zarkor cruiser, but it entered hyperdrive mode, and flew away at lightspeed.
A few doboshes later Jin ran out of the house with a broken arm, the old lady was tied up, and he went to apologize again, until he saw Riley, on the ground. And Layla telling her to let it out.
"Riley, let it out..."
"Are you sure Layla?"
"Yes"
"a-A-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Riley sobbed and sent a chill down everyone's spines, as they stayed with her. And in only 3 doboshes, they were back in space.
Flying quietly, without any speaking, and then.
ZSHOOOOM~!
A huge ship appeared in front of them...
Hey, Earth humans, It's Kcuts human, Riley here! Welcome to Fantastic Awesome Riley Time, I'm working on the name, because it kinda spells FART, but oh well, today we're going to be discussing, Pherats, and the color Yellow!
Pherats are purple and green, spiked rat looking creatures, with drill tails, and wings that don't work, they live in the ground, and carry many diseases, they can bite, and glide, and drill in the ground, but other than that, they're not that powerful.
Just as Earth humans have red and green, red being bad and green being good, Kcuts humans have Yellow and Blue, Yellow being good, and Blue being bad, I honestly never understood the red and green system, probably because I was born using Yellow and Blue like everyone else on Kcuts... Oh well!
THANKS FOR TUNING IN ON RILEY'S F.A.R.T.... I really gotta fix that name...