6 hours after the announcement, Ace was having spotting lessons in the a fleeting moment, Ace thought he saw a person on the planet they were heading to. Then he tried to spot them again through the telescope in the cockpitand
it didn't work. Now, he's trying to get the telescope working.

"Blast," Ace curses. "Of course it wouldn't work."

"What wouldn't work?" Captain Cunningham asks.

"The telescope. I thought I saw people on that planet. Now trying to use it, I can't see them."

"Well, New Zealand did send their country into the stars first. Perhaps they found this planet first. They won't mind us. New Zealanders are quite friendly."

Ace nods, but knows he needs to get a look through the telescope again.

"I could get a mechanic up here if it's a big issue."

"Could they get it to zoom in deeper?"

"Probably. Mechanics are incredibly gifted."

"That'd be great."

"I'll get one up for you."

Sakura jumps when she hears the loudspeaker in her compartment crackle.

"I need a mechanic in the Main Cockpit!"

She sighs. Good grief. What could it possibly be?

"I'll be there stat," Sakura responds.

"Thank you Compartment MEC33." The loudspeaker goes off.

Sakura grabs her tools and goes as fast as she can to the cockpit. When she gets there, she sees a greying man and a young man by a telescope.

"Is this what needs fixing?" Sakura asks.

"Enhancing," Ace corrects.

"Yeah okay. What do you need it to do?"

"Zoom in further with clear definition."

Sakura starts working. The captain goes away to check on other pilots, but Ace stays to watch.

"Who are you?" Ace asks politely.

"I'm a mechanic."

"No, your name."

"Sakura. Yours?"

"Bartholomew De La Cruz, but you can call me Ace."

"That's a mouthful."

"That's what they all say."

Sakura works in silence for a few minutes, then decides to ask Ace some questions.

"Why Ace?"

"I was going to be a pilot, then thought 'what the heck' and signed up as Ace. Everyone calls me that now."

"Not because you're asexual?"

Ace is taken aback for a moment, then laughs.

"No. I must admit, nobody's asked me that before."

Sakura grins, and then puts the new lens in the telescope. "Do you want to test it?"

"Of course!" Ace leans over, and then adds, "By the way, I hope we can be friends."

"Sure thing Pilot-Boy."

Ace smirks at that, and looks into it. His smirk falters.

"Those are not New Zealanders."

"Eh?" Sakura frowns.

"They have red skin, and three eyes. That's not human."

"Let me see." Ace leans back and Sakura goes in. "Oh my gosh."

Deep red skin, three pitch black eyes, amouthstretching halfway around their face, and 8 legs around its waist like a spider.

"Let's hope they're friendly," Ace worriedly says, reaching for his supervisor.

In the green house, Mia is looking after the plants. She looks concerned though, and it's for good reason. Someone came in last night and accidentally spilled radish fertilizer over the courgettes. They're withering away, and this could mean no more courgettes
unless Mia can fix it. She salvages whatever seeds she can, and sets them up in a far away part of the green house, away from any fertilizers. The door opens, and Hope the new gardener walks in. Hope is Julian's little sister, and she has quite a
green thumb. In school, she mastered gardening so the school let her skip the science year and go straight to apprenticeship.

"Hi there Mia," Hope softly says.

"Hey there little green thumb! How's it going?"

"Good," Hope whispers.

Mia learns while going through the different plants with Hope that she's very shy. Her outgoing older brother took all the talkative away from her and she was left with very few words. Mia is quite chatty, so Hope is okay with Mia doing all the talking
for her.

"Any questions?" Mia asks at the end.

"What now?"

"Fertilize rows A-T, I'll do U-AR."

The girls are both content with their jobs, and excited about the new planet.

Nishan is tending to Koh's grandma when Koh storms in.

"Did you hear, grandma? There's an earth like planet!"

"Koh, I'm very tired. I have heard thanks to Nishan here, and it's very exciting isn't it?"

"I want to be the first person on it!" Koh shouts.

"Shh Koh," Nishan says.

"I don't want Max Schwarren, Mr Uppity and Hunk-o-Rama-NOT to be the first one on!" Koh looks livid.

"Koh, please quieten down," Nishan tries to say.

"Koh, if you put in lots of work I don't see why they shouldn't let you be on it first." Koh's grandma smiles at her granddaughter.

"Okay grandma. I'll go and work out."

"Even if you aren't the first on it, I'm very proud of you."

"Thanks." Koh zips out, and Nishan wishes he could have the strong headache relief his patients are on. Koh's a headache, a real headache, but a good headache at heart. She's also his complete opposite. When she was 4, she backflipped off the school balcony
on the 3rd floor and broke both her legs. Nishan ran outside to help her, only to find she had climbed up the wall onto the balcony again to try again even though there was a bone poking out of her leg. Nishan promptly vomited, and they both were
in the hospital for a few days.

"I think you need a lie down again," Nishan says to Koh's grandma.

"Fair enough." She laughs. "My granddaughter is a little firecracker!"

Talia and Tariq had a little project they had been working on for a while. With some mechanics and welders, they fused together sixpods to form a very big pod that could fit quite a few people inside. By quite a few, they meant 12. Their best welder
friend, Beckett, is helping them fit in generators he stole from the kitchens and "underbelly" of the ship. They have one water, one food, a miniature greenhouse, a sewing machine, a medication generator (which took up so much room that they had to
remove beds 13 and 14), and a shower which ishooked into a smaller water generator.

"Phew! Party central!" Tariq cheers.

"We need to fix the steering so we can have one big console, but other than that let's celebrate!" Talia shouts.

"I think we'd need a mechanic for that. I know a girl," Beckett offers.

"Then bring her in!" Tariq tackles Talia as she says this, and they both laugh.

"So that'd be 4 people who have priority. You, you, me, and the girl." Tariq points out.

"Then we can get 8 super cool people on!"

"Ssh guys." Beckett points to the doorof the mega pod. "This isn't very sound proof. If anyone notices that the 6 pods are actually one big one, they'll flip!"

"True, true," Tariq nods.

"Can you get the mechanic down here pronto?" Talia asks.

"Yup!" And with that, Beckett leaves.

The reason why the twins built it was so that when they got to a planet they could inhabit, they and their friends could fly into space for a while. The pods are solar powered, so rerouting 6 pods' solar panels gave it a lot more power.

"Nice nice Tariq," Talia grins. "Ithink soon we'll be done!"

"Very exciting," Tariq comments.

"Now, which hot girls should we invite onto our lux pod?" Talia laughs and flops onto one of the beds.

"Hmm..." Tariq thinks. "We need more cushions and comforters on our beds."

"And which girls?"

"Payton and Mia for sure. But first we need to make the beds comfy!"

"Okay fine. You make the beds nice, I'll make a list of people."

"Sure thing little sis."

"Hey!"

Chase is making a lot of hospital gowns. In the textiles room, there's been a lot of panic about hospital gowns, and because it's hard to make a good one the job was given to Chase. As he sews, his friend Logan comes in.

"Chase, my man. What's happening?"

"I'm making hospital gowns."

"Sounds... Boring."

"Wow. You're so kind."

"I know. Anyway, apparently new planet has little red people. Kara the pilot told me. The Ace boy found them, and everyone is going cray."

"What?!" Chase looks up at Logan. "Are you joking?"

"Nah bro. Wouldn't do that to you."

"Red?"

"Yeah."

"What?"

"I know. Cray ay eff."

"Okay Mr Rifleman. What do we do then?"

"Hope they're nice, that they won't eat us et sec."

"Okay... What else did you come for?"

Logan smirks at Chase. "Make me some tight pants please. I'm going to go and make some moves on Ellie."

"You don't want tight pants. You want a tight shirt," Chase corrects.

"Whatever. Make. Me. Hot."

"You got it."

"Thanks Chase." Logan blows him a kiss as he walks out.

"Oh my goodness he's such an idiot. Oh well." Chase finishes his gown and then gets ready to make the tight shirt.