The blue planet's inhabitants were calm, even if the buildings were collapsing and giant monitors declared "PANIC!".
The people were restless inside, but peaceful outside. They were all reunited in the capital city's principal square.
In the middle of the square there was a last generation's rocket. Near it there were a well-dressed couple, carrying their kid.
They had an adherent white suit, with azure fluorescent band a little over the waist, and a high collar that emphasize their slender necks and big head.
The child wore a blue romper suit with a dark blue lighting bolt printed on the chest.
The other citizen had similar suits, only colours different from white, because the couple were king and queen of the planet, and they were saving their child.
They had unanimously decided to save the kid from the black hole, not only because he was the prince of the planet, but also because, at the moment, he was the only infant in that world.
They already knew from less than a year that the planet was about to be sucked into the black hole, and the rulers – knowing that they were expecting a child – had called a meeting to decide whether to save the prince's future to that adverse destiny.
They had decided to send with him a member of the other intelligent population present on the planet: the Ichthyson, very intelligent fishes that inhabited that world.
They were bonded, from generations, with the royal family, and every member of that family had an Ichthyson as subordinate.
For the chosen ones were built a robotic body with a dome, placed over the shoulders, made of a special glassy material, very resistant, filled with water to house the fish.
The creature was also equipped with a cybernetic system, linked with the brain, to control the robotic body.
Near the rocket, therefore, there was an exemplar of that species in his robotic suit.
It was a so-called "combat" gear, built in that way to defend the prince when he had reached the designated planet: Earth.
In the years the people of Aosei had sent many probes – with hypervelocity and with a technology that permitted the information's coming in a instant and direct way, even if they were at a great distance from the planet – in various part of the galaxy to study various celestial body, to see if there was the possibility of sustainable life for the Aoseian, or for the Ichtysonian.
They had discovered many worlds with characteristic similar to their planet, but they had all some problems, like very ferocious and untameable animals, or intelligent plants that would have endangered the lives of blue-skinned people.
It was true that they were very intelligent and they could build machines or weapons to defend themselves from those forms of life, but they were also a pacific race, that used the violence only when it was necessary.
It was also the motive that, in that moment, on Aosei there was only the prince as kid, because they were also careful to birth control and the entire planet, there had never been an unwanted child.
Between the various planets that they had found, the Heart was the only one where they could send the child.
Even if they knew that the humans were technologically backward compared to themselves, but it was the only planet with an intelligent form of life and with chemical/physical characteristic practically identical to Aosei.
They knew, however, that the terrestrials tended to see as a threat unfamiliar things and that was why they built a "combat" robotic suit for the ichthyoid.
They had made it also to look like a terrestrial creature called "gorilla", to be more menacing, and they had equipped it with a technology easily repairable with pieces retrieved on that planet.
The two highnesses approached the fish, and the Queen spoke, "Meen-yawn, we entrust to you Eiyuu, our son and prince. We are sure that you will protect him well and that you will teach him all that there is to learn. Inside the rocket you will find all the necessary instructions for Eiyuu's cure and instruction. Good journey and good luck," she finished giving the child in the robotic hands of the ichthyoid.
Then came forward the father, which was holding an object very similar to a dummy. "There, Eiyuu dear, this is your binkey, and it's an infinite source of power, and I'm sure that – when you will be more old – you will be able to do marvellous things with this object. You will find other information on the spaceship. I wish you good luck and we will meet again when it would come the time of the Great Journey. Farewell," he finished watching sweetly and sadly his only son, giving him the "dummy".
The children had only eight days of life, but he understood perfectly what his parents told him, due to the large brain that his people had.
He still didn't know how to speak, but he could understand, and he watched his father and mother with a frowning stare, leaning forward them his chubby arms.
The two parents smiled at him and then they took him in their arms to coddle him for the last time, before giving him again to Meen-yawn.
Then the Ichthyson went on the spacecraft and said goodbye at his parents – that they were close at the two majesties – and at all the populace of Aosei. "I will do my best to protect the Prince. And we'll see when the time will come for the Great Journey. Farewell to all. I will miss you," he said crying, and with that the spaceship's door shut.
Just a few minutes before the planet was sucked in the black hole, the fish laid down the kid in a seat especially prepared for him. He tied him very well with seatbelts and smiled at the child, that was sucking the binkey. "Very well, Sir. Soon we will leave. It'll be a long journey and I hope that there would be no problems. But it's better stay happy. Even if there isn't much reason to rejoice. Now I will go to the control panel for the departure, then I will insert the autopilot and I will come back to you. Get prepared fro the takeoff."
Said that the fish in the robotic suit went on the command deck and sat on the chair in front of the control panel, fasting the seatbelts. He clicked some button and the particles annihilator's powered engines started to warming up.
After a few seconds they were all at maximum power and the ichthyoid pressed another button marked "ignition".
The spaceship rattled, and the fish powered a monitor that was showing the populace reunited in the square.
All of them waved goodbye and they made the gesture of good luck, right hand on heart, left hand resting on the right side.
The fish smiled sadly, blocked the cloche, and made the same gesture, knowing that they could see him on the giant monitor placed in the square.
Then the spacecraft lifted quietly in the sky, and reached very quickly the stratosphere, and finally the space. The transmission on the monitor ended and Meen-yawn saw the planet being sucked slowly by the black hole.
The ship was build with materials and such a shape to avoid being sucked into the black hole as well.
The Ichthyson waited to be very far away from the gravitational pull of the vortex and then he switched on the autopilot. They had inserted the coordinates for the Earth, and they would have arrived after a journey of ten years.
It was true that they were technologically advanced and that they could build a ship with hyperspeed, but they had considered that was better for the Prince to learn the terrestrials traditions, thanks to the probes sent on that planet, and that he was big enough to even to be able to defend himself.
On the spaceship there were some rooms with dehydrated food, sufficient for all those years and some more (they was prudent and they thought about the possibility of some technical problem or such), weapons to use when they would arrive on Earth – only for defend themselves – and a laboratory with computer linked to the probes that transmitted images and data in real time, as well as an encyclopaedia with Aosei's traditions and some Earth's data retrieved already from the probes.
Since the rulers were also famous scientists, they had placed different tools and machines that created materials for Eiyuu in the laboratory, to give him the possibility to invent various objects in those ten years of "forced confinement".
Meen-yawn went in the room where his ward was. "Well, Sir, we left. It will be a long journey and I hope that there will be not problems. I think that I'm going to redact a journal to write down the important events, to check them again to have some ideas or simply to remember. If you are ok with that, obviously."
The child, understanding all, nodded and smiled, stretching out his arms to be picked up by the ichthyoid.
The Ichthyson smiled toothily and unlaced the seatbelts, taking the infant in his arms. "Now we have only ourselves to support and defend each other. I will try to do my job well. I hope that the terrestrial they would accept us, either way it would be a trouble."
Then he frowned because he heard an alarm coming from the control panel, and went there with the Prince still in his arms.
All two looked a radar that blinked in red, making them saw a big object that followed them from a short distance.
Looking for the object trajectory, they noticed that came from Kinsei, the golden planet near them, and Meen-yawn clicked a button that powered a camera placed on the ship.
They saw that was a spaceship very similar to their, only golden in colour, which followed them. "Mmmh…this isn't good. We had not received the news that the majesty of Kinsei would save their pampered Prince. And now I know who stole the project for the construction of the spaceship. Why those brawny with no brain aren't able to ask politely. I mean…we are twined – or better we were twined – with their planet for a decade. They could have asked a hand to save their Prince. Bah…maybe it's in their nature. It's true that for years they were on good terms with us, but for centuries they were only pillagers that used at their advantage the powers gave to them by the nature. It's true that old habit die hard…let's hope that they will not disturb us too much."
The golden ship overtook them, risking to hit them with a wing, and the ichthyoid magnified with the camera a porthole of the ship, because he noticed that somebody was watching from there. He went on the porthole of his own ship, and he saw that there was a robot with the golden planet's Prince in his arms.
Eiyuu put his little hands on the porthole and then widened his eyes, seeing that the pampered Prince stuck his tongue out and from the robot came out a helmet with two feeding bottles, from where he was starting to suck the milk.
Fish and alien frowned and re-entered in the ship. "Oh, that spoiled child! It's incredible! He stuck his tongue at you, Sir. Probably, with that little brain, he is not aware of the gesture!" said the ichthyoid at his protégé.
The infant placed a little hand on the glass dome, smiling at the fish, and shook his head, like saying, "Don' worry, it's not a problem."
The Ichthyson smiled back and placed again the child in his "cot", where he fell asleep sucking the binkey.
The fish altered some parameter on the spaceship's commands, telling her to be careful and avoid the other ship as much as possible. He would not be destroyed because of that people without brains.
Then he noted down on the journal that event, to remember it.