Chapter 4

Michael glanced around the small clearing. He saw nothing particularly interesting, although he did spot one tiny bud, trying to peek its way out of the dry dirt. He decided to help it by pushing the dirt away, with his mind, of course. It was helpful to have telekinesis.

"Michael! Over here!" Called Animalia, his cheerful friend. He ran over to her, well, it was more like a pitiful sprint.

"You call that running?" Cat teased him playfully.

"I guess so." The words came out of his mouth before he thought about them. Everyone was staring at him. He didn't normally give in to an insult like that. He himself, was shocked as well.

Prokaryet shrugged it off, as he normally did. "Ok guys. We need to plan for the future!" He made a mysterious gesture with his hand. Cat chuckled.

"Anyway," He said, "I don't feel safe up here, and I doubt you do too. We need to find a safer place than out in the open like this."

"Where?" Michael suddenly burst, "Where would we go? We literally just got up here. Now you think we could just, oh, I don't know, leave? We can't! Biosphere 67 is down there and, and-"

"Easy there, partner. You look like you're going to have a heart attack! We just have to think things through." Animalia said gently.

Michael took a deep breath. Animalia was right. He didn't know what had gotten into him. He just… Had a lot on his mind.

Cat stared off into the distance, deep in thought. Two days, they had been up here. On Biosphere 1. She couldn't get that through to her head.

"Hey."

Cat turned to see Prokaryet walking up next to her. She felt her heart skip a beat.

"Hey. What are you doing?" She asked.

"Nothing really. Just… thinking." He replied.

"Heh… me too." She said.

They sat in an awkward silence for a while. Cat looked around the area.

"What are you looking for?" Prokaryet wondered aloud, confused.

"I thought I heard a noise. Noises, actually." Cat replied, suspiciously. She turned, and heard the noise again.

"We should head back to the others and warn them. We don't know what's out there. It could be people, or wild animals or-" She was cut off.

"Or both." Finished a strange voice.