The Darkness of the Dawn
-Chapter 1-
Pairings: Mint/Kisshu, Ryou/Ichigo, Pudding/Taruto, Pai/Lettuce and a little Pai/Zakuro.
There will be character death and it might not be Masaya :P
"BEIGE ALERT! BEIGE ALERT! BEIGE ALERT! BEIGE ALERT!" The alarm was going off in the base, beige colored lights flickering everywhere and pointing to the direction of the emergency. A purple haired alien was following the signs in a hurry, trying to get wherever it is he needed to get to before it was too late, followed by two younger aliens, floating behind him.
"What do you think this is about?" Kisshu asked, a worried look on his face. They didn't have a Beige Alert here since the time Taruto accidentally teleported into one of the closed areas instead to the kitchen. The poor little alien had been taken in for questioning for almost two hours until Pai finally arrived and calmly explained what happened. Kisshu still hasn't stopped bugging Taruto about it. "Can't be another kid lost in his way to Candyland, right?" He teased, causing Taruto's cheeks to become a bright shade of red.
"I thought we agreed to let it go!" Taruto replied defensively.
"Depends who you mean by we, cause I know I didn't-"
"This conversation is irrelevant. Now would you two please be quiet, I think we're getting closer." Kisshu was cut off by Pai, who was very aware of the annoyed looks both Taruto and Kisshu shot him behind his back, but he couldn't care less. He was already used to all their childish ways.
The signs stopped near a big metal door, with only two words carved above it. SPACESHIP REPAIR.
Under his breath, barely heard, Pai mumbled something to himself. "This can't be good."
They only had three ships. Three spaceships on the entire planet, one of them being the one Pai, Taruto and Kisshu used the time they went to Earth, about 2 years ago. The others were built after they came back with the Mew Aqua and revived the planet. Well, most of it. The Mew Aqua revived around 87% of the planet, but for the Cyniclons it was a lot more than enough. Not more than a month later, this base was built with a specific goal to give order to things such as where would anyone go to after finally getting out of the underground basements or what should be where and basically improve the life on the planet. That's also why they built, repaired and improved spaceships there, in case a danger occurred somewhere far away and they needed to get there fast. Pai has been helping there ever since it started, with the occasional assistance of Kisshu and Taruto. Taruto was also helping taking care of the plants and Kisshu spent a lot of his time just slacking off, teleporting from the beautiful fields outside to the base, from Taruto to Pai, pretty much every day, giving them a hand when needed.
Now, they were walking inside the Spaceship Repair room, trying to figure out what could've happened that activated the Beige Alert, but before they could even take a second look at the room a tall red haired alien walked up to them hurriedly.
"Pai, I'm so glad you came!" The red haired said in relief, completely ignoring Kisshu and Taruto. They could see he was very nervous. "It happened right in front of my eyes! Impossible thing! There was nothing we could do to stop it!"
"Calm down, what are you talking about? What couldn't you stop?" Pai answered. He didn't like one bit how nervous whatever happened made his coworker look. Usually he was almost as calm as him.
"It disappeared," the alien replied, still in shock. "The spaceship, your spaceship, the one you used 2 years ago. It disappeared. Someone must've worked out a way to overwrite the defenses and took it. The strange thing is I've been here all day. The place is always packed with guards, no one unauthorized could've gotten in or out unnoticed. And they took a whole spaceship! The best one! Almost as if they knew exactly what was going on here. I already checked all the staff, none of them had gone mysteriously missing. And-"
"How could it just disappear?!" Kisshu cut him off. "Whoever took it would have to fly it out."
"The lights went out for a second, maybe two, and then it was gone. And there's no way they could've opened the roof to fly it out. It would've taken them a lot more than two seconds," The alien replied, too nervous to even notice Kisshu cut him off in the middle of the sentence.
"Can you locate the ship and check where it's heading?" Pai asked and tried to figure out how could such thing happen. He started to understand why the alien in front of him was so nervous, but kept holding on to his calm image, refusing to get caught up with pointless feelings such as concern or anxiety.
Taruto, who felt a little left out, took a candy out of his pocket and started to eat, causing Kisshu to smirk. His cheeks reddened with anger and he turned his back to him, eating peacefully, waiting for them to stop talking about all the boring details and get to the more interesting parts.
"I think so," the red haired replied, walking towards a big screen on the other side of the room, followed by Pai, Kisshu and Taruto. He pressed a few signs on the screen, trying to find the missing spaceship. "Here," he said after a few minutes and pointed at the screen. "It's the red dot right there. It didn't get too far, but there's nothing we can do to take it back. I'm sorry."
"What about the destination? Try to check that too," Pai ordered.
The red haired alien was pressing random signs on the screen. "Already doing it, the result should come up any second now unless they already figured out a way to block the signal," he replied, waiting anxiously for the words to appear on the screen. And when they did, he was no longer the most nervous person in the room. Kisshu and Taruto's eyes grew big and they exchanged worried looks while Pai managed to maintain his calm position, but was worried almost as much as they were.
The words were big and clear, black over a blue background.
EARTH, JAPAN, TOKYO.
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