Ken leveled the Cessna as he prepared to throw the package out the window, as he flew low over the small island that was only a few hours outside of Utoland.
It was the second last delivery he had for the day, and it brought a satisfied smile to his face that he could bring news of the outside world to these remote islands.
Ken hauled the package out the window to the waiting crowd of people below, he watched as it landed near by, and the crowd ran over to get their mail.
He pulled up the control stick and made a sweep around to the left as he prepared to go to his last stop before he headed for home.
The island that he had his last delivery to was only about half an hour away, and he could see that there where a few islands that had never been lived on as he flew over them.
He wondered if he should land on one and go exploring sometime in the near future. Jun had mentioned it at one point in time, when they were on the way home from the last mission; he could take her and Jinpei with him.
He looked out at the horizon. It had been a clear day, and the weather reports had not predicted any sudden changes, so when he saw the dark purple green coloured clouds up ahead it made him curious, so he kept flying towards them.
Ken realized too late, that he should have turned back to Utoland instead of flying into the dark forbidding clouds.
The clouds were an electrical storm, and the rain that was yet to fall to the Earth was causing him to have zero vision and the plane shook from the turbulence as he tried to fly out of the storm.
The rain beat hard on his windows and he could see lightening streaks that only made his vision worse, he had to get out of there fast he thought as he turned the plane downwards to lose altitude.
Then as he finally managed to almost break free of the purple black clouds, he heard a loud crack of thunder and lightning so close to the plane it almost blinded him as he tried to keep control of the Cessna, but the propeller had stopped, and his instruments were not responding.
"Ohhh shit!" He muttered angrily as he hit buttons trying to get a response out of his equipment. As his plane began to plummet towards the Earth in a spiral as it was just leaving the clouds, with the wind and rain from the sudden storm, he held his hand in front of his face and shouted" BIRD GO!
The Cessna began to take on the shape of the G-1, and his instruments began to work again. He felt himself black out for a moment, but regained consciousness just in time to pull up.
"YES, you little beauty…I knew you wouldn't let me down girl!" He said to his beloved plane as he managed to pull up only meters from the tree tops.
He began to fly back home, with much relief that he got out of that one still intact from the intensity of the strange phenomena that the storm was. He would check it out with the ISO weather board when he got back to his shack.
Ken waited until he was away from the storm to transmute back to civilian form.
The flight home after that was uneventful, and when his airfield came into view he felt a sense of relief wash over him as he circle to land, and he was glad to home.
He wondered if he had any food in the shack, or if he would go into the Snack J for some dinner tonight he began to think of his options because the day's flight had left him hungry. But as he began to land he noticed something was very different about the airfield.
The runway was overgrown and looking very shabby, not the way he kept it.
It looked as though a plane had not landed there in years!
Ken jumped out of his plane feeling very confused as he looked towards his shack.
The windows were boarded up and so was the door. He stood looking at it for a moment Did the boys do this as some kind of Joke he wondered, before he began to tear away the boards that were blocking his entrance into his home.
He finally gave up using his hands, and went and got a metal rod from the hanger to take the rest off so he wouldn't get splinters in his hands.
Things didn't improve when he walked inside. He was greeted with cold darkness and the musky smell of a place that hadn't been lived in for sometime.
His natural sense of caution went up as he moved with a swift fluid motion into a fighters stance, he looked around him to spot any intruder who maybe waiting in the wings for him.
It began to dawn on him after a few moments that his shack had the look of being abandoned for years, no one was waiting for him and he began to feel his heart quicken as he wondered what was happening to him.
"This can't be right? I only left here this morning." He muttered feeling confused as he ran his fingers through his unruly hair and looked around at the covered up furniture in the half light that door let in.
He walked into his bedroom and looked around. The boards on the windows let in thin streams of the fading sunlight. It was enough light to see the thick dust that covered everything.
The bed was turned on its side, and in one corner of the room sat an envelope with his name on it. It too was covered in dust and looked to have been in that spot for a long time.
He walked over and crouched down and opened it. This was feeling weirder by the minute, and when he read the letter he felt his blood run cold.
The letter was from Jun;
Dear Ken,
It has been many months since you disappeared from out lives now. Everyone keeps telling me that I have to move on.
So I figured to sit here and write you a letter will help me do that. I don't know what to say really. I keep coming out here just in case you show up, it's not like you to just vanish on us like that, and Jinpei said it is not good for me to be here…
But I still feel that you are alive.
In the morning we will be boarding up the shack. But I decided to spend the night here, as I often have when I couldn't sleep. When I'm here I feel you are close, I can't explain the feeling that I have, but It's like your still flying back from your last job in my dreams, and I only have them here.
I never got to tell you how I really felt about you, and now I will never get the chance so I guess it should remain unspoken between us like a closed book.
I love you Ken, and I miss you please come back to us…
Jun.
Ken read the letter again and put it back into the envelope.
He had gone missing???
How was that possible, he had only been gone a few hours… He got caught in the storm but that was all, and it didn't do any real damage to the Cessna.
This all had to be a mistake, or a bad dream and he was wide awake!
So he walked out to the hanger where he kept his vehicles. He first got into his car and found it wouldn't start, Joe was going to have a look at tomorrow, and he laughed at that thought.
With all this weird stuff happening…Ken shook his head and looked over at the motor bike he had done up, a project that he had worked on with Jun for a while.
He walked over and hoped on and turned the ignition key, it started after the second try and he rode into Utoland and pulled up at the Snack J.
This was the next surprise.
"Impossible!" He shouted at the boarded up door and abandoned café, Ken had to know what was going on here. So he broke a window and climbed in being careful not cut himself on the glass.
He crouched in a fighter's stance as he looked around at the dusty interior of the Snack J. It looked as though no one had been there for quite sometime.
Ken began to move towards the stairs, they creaked as he walked up them into the loft. Jun and Jinpei had moved out, but where to?
He wondered as he looked around at the empty rooms. There was no sign as to where they were living now.
He sat down in Jun's empty bedroom a place he often wanted to be invited into but now had no traces of it's former occupant, and he began to wonder what was happening to everyone, how things could change suddenly in a day.
Was he stuck in some kind of parallel universe, and now he had to find his way back?
It was a possible theory, and not altogether something that was impossible considering everything that they had seen so far in the war against Galactor and Berg Katse.
Well he needed answers and he wanted them now, so he needed to find Joe, he would fill him on what was happening here, and were Jun and Jinpei had moved to.
Maybe it had to do with their covers, he thought as he left the Snack J and got on his bike and started the engine, and he stopped the motor again suddenly as he spotted a poster on a wall near by.
He almost passed out in shock as the blood drained from his face as he looked at the girl in the picture, she looked exactly like Jun with less clothing on than her birdstyle, she was wrapped around a pole in provocative move smiling and winking at him.
"What the…hell." He swore mainly to himself as he read the bottom of the poster.
"Madame Honeydew, Come and see her at the "Go Girls" pole dancing strip club. The girl had to be someone who just looked like Jun; his Jun was too smart to do something like that.
He had to find Joe, he would be able to help him and give him some answers.
So Ken got on his bike and began to ride out to the race tracks outside of Utoland.