Once they have arrived, they looked at the already awake Sakura. The first thing Natsuki could think of doing was running to her to give her a hug. As soon as Sakura gave a loud cry of agony, she let go.
"O... Natsuki's sorry." she said.
"Well, I suppose I now have a reason to reject hugs." Sakura said, with a tiny smile on her face.
"So... what exactly happened out there?" Masumi asked.
"Did you run into any trouble?" Eiji asked her.
Sakura sighed: "So many things happened, I don't know where to start."
"Try us." Masumi said.
"We..." Sakura started, "We arrived at a planet on Proxima Centauri."
"You mean the closest star to our own solar-system?" Souta asked.
"I know, under normal circumstances, that would not be possible." Sakura replied, "But as Chief... I mean..."
"Yeah, we know who you mean." Masumi interrupted, before she started to feel embarrassed.
"Anyway..." Sakura continued, "... as he would say, when humans become Precious, anything is possible."
"And what did you find?" Eiji asked.
Sakura was about to doze off, but she kept herself strong: "We found the last people of Atlantis."
"Really? You did?" Makino sounded somewhat angry.
"So what were the Atlantis people like?" Natsuki asked.
"Other than not so happy to see us?" Sakura questioned.
This surprised everyone, but only Makino spoke: "Why not?"
"I don't know." Sakura answered, "When we arrived, they immediately started to act hostile to us. They captured us, tried to find out as much from us as they could,... We were lucky to at all leave the planet. In doing so, DaiVoyager sustained lots of damage. Too much for us for any more far away travels. So we had to return."
"But how could they be hositle?" Natsuki questioned.
"Is it really that hard to believe?" somebody else asked them.
Upon hearing the voice, everyone turned to look at the new guy, who was still standing in the doorway: Verne.
"What do you mean?" Masumi asked.
"Whoever said that Atlantian people were peaceful?" Verne added.
"Lots of people do!" Natsuki replied, "There are these movies, books,..."
"Those are modern tell-tales." Verne interrupted, "I'm asking for ancient ones."
"Well there's..." Natsuki tried to answer, but couldn't, "I mean, there's..."
"There aren't any, are there?" Verne sounded satisfied, "The first ever record there is of Atlantis was a story written by Plato, and in it, he wrote about a war-raging people who came from beyond Gibraltar. What he wrote was a satirical story about how modern Greece, or what was modern Greece to him, came to be. It surprises me that these days, people think of them to be peaceful."
"But you said it was satirical." Souta said.
"But it looks to me, he wasn't too far off." Masumi remarked.
"Precisely." Verne agreed.
"I'm sorry, but who are you?" Sakura was the only one who didn't know him.
Verne shook his head, after which he got closer to Sakura: "You must be that Sakura I heard so much about."
He then stuck out his hand, still thinking of the Western ways of greeting people: "I'm Daniel Verne, also known as Boukemerald."
Sakura looked at his hand, then at his face: "Verne, huh?"
Verne then formed a fist with his hand, after which he swore something in his own language, though it looked more like he was saying something to himself rather than to anyone else.
"What did you just say?" Sakura asked him.
"He does that some times." Masumi answered her.
"Never mind what I just said." Verne said.
Shortly after that, somebody else said something. Whatever he said, everyone recognized the voice. It was Satoru's voice, which means he just woke up too. Upon hearing him, they all turned to him.
"I take it you guys didn't want him to replace me, so you gave him his own color, right?" he then aked them.
"If only it were that simple." Souta replied.
"Or rather, if only Verne was so simple." Eiji remarked.
"Er... why did you just speak Latin?" Verne asked him.
"Why? Wasn't that the language you just spoke?" Satoru sounded surprised.
"No!" Verne sounded a little angry.
"Okay, so it's not Latin." Satoru replied, "So why did you become Emerald?"
Verne shrugged: "Let's just say that "red" means "stop" and "green" means "go"."
"See what we mean?" Masumi asked Satoru.
"So what treasure are you looking for?" Satoru asked Verne.
"Treasure?" Verne questioned.
"Everyone who becomes a Boukenger is seeking a treasure." Satoru explained, "What's yours?"
Verne needed to think for a second, then answered: "If I'm seeking anything, it'd be the ultimate story."
"That sounds easy." Satoru replied.
"It would be..." Verne sighed, "... if some people would cooperate a little."
"Why? Something wrong with the team here?" Satoru asked him.
"I was talking about the team." Verne answered.
"Emerald!" Mr. Voice suddenly called him, "A word!"
Though obviously reluctant, Verne left them, so he'd speak to Mr. Voice a little more privately.
"What's wrong?" Satoru wondered.
"We don't know what exactly either." Masumi replied, "The two of them are always fighting."
"So?" Sakura asked, "We never fought with Mr. Voice then?"
"It's different here." Souta answered, "But like Masumi said, we don't know why."
"Well, then I guess it's safe to say his story won't be an easy one." Satoru laughed.