Where to start...It's been about a month since we came to this strange universe, and none of us know how we got here. One day we were on the new and improved Shera with our friends, and then everything just went black. I woke up at some strange facility in...space, of all places. There were so many strange, unfamiliar faces. People that looked like apes, plants that kind of look like people, things like that.
At least they were nice. They had no idea what Gaia is, or Lifestream, or Jenova. It simply doesn't exist, or hasn't been discovered yet, and I'm both relieved and unnerved. After some searching and asking, I found my family again, and they'd been searching for me, too. Some guy named Penguin Pete offered to give us a spaceship of all things for a couple of odd jobs, and Tifa and I agreed to it. We're pretty strong, right? Didn't make it any easier. Hell, trying to get that Erchius crystal was almost a death trap. But, he kept up his side of the bargain, and even threw in a couple of matter manipulators that were being manufactured again, according to him.
Granted neither of us knew what the hell that was until an Ape-man, an Apex, explained to us how to use them. He was pretty patient with us, and gave me a huge grin when I finally realized that basically, with these gizmos and that little spaceship, we can make our own home on whatever planet we chose. A fresh start away from...everything. I just hope that our friends are out there, safe. Maybe on another facility, Cid cursing and making a ship from scrap. Or maybe we're the only ones that disappeared from the ship.
When we finally found out how to get onto our ship(a teleporter at the 2-stop-teleshop), the kids were freaking out at how 'cool' it was. And here I was, trying to figure out the ship's AI and where to start. We had enough fuel for a single jump, so we had to make it count. After some star map gazing, I found a star system we could try our luck at. The AI said the 'Garden' planet would be safest, so Tifa and I went down to check it out.
It's pretty nice here, if a little rainy sometimes. We spent hours clearing a space for a house, whacking trees, crafting things, killing aggressive animals, manipulating rocks. Tifa came back with a bunch of wild food and seeds for a garden as I worked on the house, but we had to leave when night fell. We ate some canned food left in the locker of the ship, Marlene and Denzel making faces and calling it dog food. Maybe it was, but I was hungry enough to eat it.
It took almost a week to build a proper house, felling and replanting trees, making clay bricks, growing the garden and building a fire for cooking. It's simple, with a cobblestone floor and wood walls, but it's cozy and has a fireplace, and the kids have their own rooms even if they're a bit empty yet. I might make a basement later for storage, after fixing up the area around the house. We had to make beds and tables and chairs, everything, and I'm still working on improving the house after all this time on this planet. I don't think I've ever been more content, though. It's a little lonely, but I'm too busy to think about it.
We've been selling surplus crops to the facility we woke up on for currency called 'pixels', and I've been planning on purchasing a teleporter so we can sail off to other planets, then come home after the day is over. Who knows what else is out there? I want to find out.
