It's been three days since the incident. I was getting ready to go back into space, because the crew from the main station had a mission for me. In the past three days, I started doing more training of sorts. Although it wasn't a lot, I was starting to show noticeable improvement from when I first arrived here. There was only five minutes remaining before I had to go. I went to the living room, but couldn't find the Minaduki family. I wanted to quickly say goodbyes, but since I couldn't find them, I just left the building. I went to the park, where my ship was waiting. I headed inside the open door, and to the cockpit. My friends and family were already waiting for me. I sat in the co-pilot seat and put my IPad on my lap, as I buckled up. "Alright, ready." I said. My dad nodded as he pushed the button to close the door. I sat back in my seat, waiting for the blast off. I looked over my shoulder, seeing my friends who gave me a thumbs up. Then I saw something sticking out of the doorway. "...What's that?" I asked. My friends looked at the doorway in confusion, then saw what I saw. Emiliano grabbed it. We all heard a loud-ish squeal. Then, Chocola appeared. "Don't do that! It felt weird! Nya!" She looked quite angry. But I was even angrier. Then I saw the rest of the family step out from the doorway. They all looked surprised. "What are you all even doing here!?" I asked angrily. Their attention snapped to me in an instant of shock. "Well, we decided to check out the ship you got here. Gotta say, it's pretty nice." Azuki said.

"That's fine… but we're fucking leaving right now!" I answered back. "What?" She asked, before the ship started to shake. The family struggled to balance themselves for a bit.

I sighed. "Hang on to something!" I said to everyone. The family then scrambled around as they looked for something to grab on to. Kashou grabbed the doorway, Shigure grabbed him, Chocola and Vanilla clung on to my friends' passenger seats, Coconut grabbed my Dad's seat, Maple grabbed on to the other side of the doorway, Cinnamon grabbed Maple, and Azuki grabbed my seat, pushing herself to me. "Careful! There isn't that much room for me-" I was cut off by the sound of by the sound of engines roaring and thrusters lifting us off the ground. "Here goes!" The engines then bursted to life, and we blasted into the sky at high speeds. The Minaduki family held on to whatever they grabbed as tightly as possible, as their legs came off the floor and hung in midair. They all screamed. "NYAAAAAAAAAA!!!" "AAAAAAHHHHH!!!" I was surprised myself, and slightly raised my voice as well. "GOOD GRIEF!" Within mere seconds, we were past the upper atmosphere, and heading out into deep space. When things calmed down, the Minaduki family all fell to the ground, then stood back up. "Did anyone get injured?" I asked. They all shook their heads. "You could've warned us you were leaving." Kashou said. "Well I was going to tell you, but you weren't in the living room, so that's on you all. It then turned into a little bit of an argument, as my friends and family all sighed. "Well… regardless… we can deal with this I bet. There's enough supplies for all of us, and there's enough bedrooms for all of us as well. So, it's only a minor flaw." "But what about L-" "BESIDES THE BUSINESS CINNAMON." I suddenly said a little loudly. "That's one thing we can't fix, but we can find a solution once I have enough free time to visit a planet. I promise we'll make time for that. Also, sorry for yelling." I said, as I walked to my bedroom, IPad and Headphones in hand. I lay down in my bed as I entered. I felt bad for yelling at Cinnamon. I shouldn't be yelling at them. Although they don't look like it, they can easily be hurt mentally. "They are quite simple creatures, aren't they…?" I said to myself. I closed my eyes as I pondered this, then started taking a short nap.

I went into a dream yet again, and I kept seeing these visions of Emiliano going berserk and killing many people. I was slowly beginning to lose my temper, but then, it focused on one vision. It seems he was with a tall girl, with purple hair. I wasn't sure who it was at first, then the outfit help me connect the dots. "Yu-"

"Ah! Okay then." I managed to wake myself up, after I figured that out. I wondered why I kept having visions like this. I wasn't quite sure what to think of it. I dismissed it for now and headed outside my room. Then, I felt the ship rock around quite a bit. I swayed around, before losing balance and falling on my ass. "What the hell is even going on?" I moved my way slowly to the cockpit, where I saw that My Dad was unconscious. "Damn it, do I have to do everything myself?" I threw him out of the seat and sat on the pilot seat. Fastening my seatbelt, I looked over at the controls. I fiddled around and found the handle. The ship turned quite easily, due to us being in deep space. "Whoa whoa easy there." I then noticed we were going through an asteroid field. There was a tight gap coming. I grabbed the microphone next to me, to call out to the rest of the ship. "Hang on guys. Advanced maneuvering is coming." I heard the confused chatter of the crew in the back. Then, I needed to maneuver. "DO A BARREL ROLL!" The ship then rolled, as the chatter turned to screams. I rolled the ship through the tight gaps of the asteroid field, ignoring everyone else. The side of the ship was slightly clipped, causing a massive shake.

I focused, maneuvering our way through, until we were forced to go upside down into an Asteroid. I saw some rare glowing crystals in there. "Whoa." I was distracted, as I didn't realise the end of the tunnel was a dead end until I turned. "OH SHI-" The ship crashed, and I was thrown at the window. I took a hard blow to the head, and my things went flying. The lights flickered in the ship, as I struggled to get up, I slowly stood up. I felt like I was limping as I slowly made my way into the ship. "IS EVERYONE OKAY?" I cried out. "Over here!" I heard a cry for help. I quickly made my way to the area, ignoring my pain.

I found my parents and friends there. Archie and Emiliano's legs had been crushed under some rubble. They were screaming in pain. "Alright, Hang in there!" I put my hands under the rubble, then put all my power into lifting it. I grunted and yelled. My hands were hurting, but I kept trying. Suddenly, Owen emerged from another area, his shirt torn in pieces. "Eric, you know you can't do this on your own." He said as he ran to me. "I know, but I had to do my part." We then both yelled as we slowly lifted the rubble, allowing Emiliano and Archie to escape. "Owen, tend to them. I'll deal with the others." Owen tended to my hurt friends and unconscious parents as I ran further into the ship. Into the cafeteria, I saw a little bit of a mess, and fire. I coughed due to the smoke and found a nearby fire extinguisher. I used it to scout the kitchen, locating Kashou and Shigure. Kashou's leg was badly injured, and Shigure was tending to his wounds before I came in. "Let's get him away from the fire." I picked up the injured adult and carried him partially on one shoulder, Shigure held the other side. As we slowly made our way out of the Kitchen. As we exited, we lay him down in another room. "Take care. Finding the others." I then ran through the corridors, trying to find the others. I looked around, but couldn't find them. I began to panic, wondering if I had screwed up again. I then decided to go to the hangar door. It was sealed, so the oxygen stayed, but the door itself was open. "Oh don't tell me they flew out…" I said, as I desperately searched for a space suit. I eventually found one, buried under rubble. It was slightly damaged, but I proceeded to put it on anyway. I then opened the door, leading to the the vacuum of space, and inside the asteroid.

I felt almost no resistance. The feeling of near zero gravity, was a shocking feeling. I had never felt anything like it. I took giant steps around the asteroid, looking around the ship. Tethered by a cable, I was limited to where I could go. But then, I found 6 other suits, around the back. They were all turned on their backs, so I turned them. "Oh my…" The catgirls were all in suits unconscious. "Could it be, that they found the suits, and tried them for fun?" I praised their amazing luck for a moment. Then picked them up, which was easy, considering the low gravity, and brought them inside the doorway. I took time to hum to myself, and jump around. I then looked nearby, and saw a glowing area. "Are those the crystals?" I began walking to them, not realising that my tether broke off completely. I jumped towards the area enthusiastically.

When I got there, I saw big pieces of crystals. Ones that I've never seen on Earth. Green, Yellow, and Black. "Whoa… what are these?" I crouched down, to touch the Green crystal, and it sent a little electrical shock through my arm. Making me jump back quite a bit. As I regained my composure, I realised that I was gasping for air for some reason. I suddenly got a call from the ship. I answered, as the suits could call people like the ship. "Eric, where are you?" Emiliano said. "I'm… hah… outside the ship… why?" I asked. "You're too far away, your tether broke, and your running out of air." I then realised that my vision was starting to go dark. "Coming back…" I said, before cutting off the call. I then began running back to the ship as quick as I could. I felt myself slowly drifting off. "Mustn't… fall…" I kept telling myself, as my movements slowly became slower and slower. I reached the ramp, before simply falling. Darkness consumed my vision quickly, as I slowly crawled up the ramp. I mustered up enough strength to get inside the ship, but not to close the door. I tried to look up, but couldn't as I fully closed my eyes.

Darkness. Everywhere. I briefly managed to open my eyes, and I couldn't quite make out where I was. I just kept sleeping. For a while. Then, it occurred to me, that I still had people to protect, and that this was no time for resting. I let out a huge gasp, as I woke. "Good grief… what happened?" I asked myself. "Maybe you shouldn't go far from the ship, you dork." I then heard Azuki say. "Why did you even trail off in the first place?" She asked. "Long story short, rare materials I never saw before. Gave me an electric shock through my suit, when I touched it." "We can worry about that later. For now, try to stay alive, Baka." She then gave me a pat on the shoulder, before leaving my room.

I took quite a long time, before even attempting to get up. I then walked out slowly into the hallway. It appears the ship was cleaned up, and made safe again after all that. I sighed, then went to the cockpit to try and find my IPad and headphones, which went flying. It didn't take long to find, despite the IPad being in a wall slightly. The screen was cracked, and the headphones also showed visible damage. "Damn. At least it didn't break fully." I then walked out, heading to the cafeteria. To my surprise, everyone was already there. "Ah, having a meeting I see?" They then all looked at me angrily. "Oh good grief…" I was assuming that they were angry at me, because of the crashed ship. The meeting lasted for quite some time. We were all trying to come up with a solution. "We should check where we actually are, first of all." Owen then suggested. We all nodded, then headed to the cockpit. I fiddled around with the instruments for a bit, before a map display popped up on a small screen. "Hm… we are billions of miles from Earth, in an asteroid field that's close to Earth, so I say we'll be okay." I said. "Not perfect, but bearable." Owen replied with. "In the meantime, y'all should get comfortable. We'll be here for a while." Emiliano then commented. "Yep. Do you concur?" I asked everyone. Everyone nodded their heads and then all separated.

I then decided to have a bath, as I haven't in sometime. I headed inside, stripped myself, then jumped into the bathtub. As the warm water engulfed my body, I thought back on this whole experience, and what I could've done differently. I splashed water across myself, as I pondered this. I sat there, thinking. Then I heard the door open. "Okay… time to…" Azuki then looked at me in shock. "Um… Yo." Oh boy, an anime cliche. Must've forgot to lock the door. That was the thought I had, as Azuki's expression turned to embarrassment and shock. "YOU BAKA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" "You're the idiot here!!! You walked in!!" I said angrily as I sat up. Sighing, I then spoke again. "LEAVE!" She instantly left, then I sighed again. "Good grief… Next time, remember to lock the fucking door…" I said to myself in silence, as I then proceeded to wash myself. As I was washing, I was thinking about what had just happened. I brushed it off as nothing more than a coincidence. After washing myself, I stepped out of the tub, wrapping a nearby towel around me, before walking out. As I left, I saw Azuki waiting by the door. We both met eyes. "Forget this whole thing happened. Okay?" Azuki then requested. "For sure. Go." Azuki then went into the bathroom herself, and I walked to my room.

I walked through the hallways, entering my room. I then went to the nearby drawer. "Clothes… Clothes…" I found some pijamas, putting them on, I lay on my bed, and put on some music from my IPad, listening to it with my headphones. I whistled to the tune after some time, and I slowly began to calm down. The nearby star then came into vision, creating a beautiful, yet bright view. "I always wanted to go to space, but this isn't what I had in mind…" I said to myself. Kashou then entered my room all of a sudden. It seemed like he was looking for me. He noticed that I was feeling a bit down. "Hey Eric, are you alright?" He asked. "...Not really. Could be better." I answered. "I ended up crashing the ship. It's kinda my fault we're in this mess…" I then looked down at the ground nearby. "Eric, there was nothing you would've been able to do. We've accepted that." "Okay… but why did you come and see me?" I asked. "Well…" Kashou struggled to remember. "Don't worry, no need." I said. "By the way. Wonder why I was able to control the ship?" "What?" Kashou asked. "Yeah, I controlled it quite easily." "How?" I waited for a moment, then smirked. "The controls were on an Xbox controller. I sort of just knew how to control it, based on the controller." "Ohhhh… really? Well then, you should have no problem controlling it when we get out of here, right?" Kashou asked. "Yep, pretty much!" I said enthusiastically. "You should go tend to those Catgirls of yours. They're probably waiting for that glorious presence of yours." I then said cheekily. Kashou looked slightly embarrassed. "Yeah… don't remind me…" He then left the room, leaving me alone in my bed. "An Xbox controller, to control the ship…" I said. "You really know quite a bit, Bluestone. You smartass…" I said, as I then let the music take over my mind. Slowly drifting off to sleep.

(A few hours later…)

The ship was shaking. I felt vibrations everywhere. The lights were flickering on and off, and there was no real explanation yet. I slowly groaned, rose from my bed, put on slippers, and walked into the shaky hallways, clinging on to the wall to keep balance. I found everyone in the cockpit, all looking confused. "E-Eric? What's happening?" Archie asked. "Don't know bro… I just woke up, so how would I know?" I noticed that the star was completely blocked from view. "Emiliano, Owen. Give me a boost." I requested. After a lot of effort, I looked up at the highest part of the window. "Is that a… Spaceship?" I said, as I saw many lights on a black, flat object. Then, I saw claws break holes into the rock, shaking the ship, and making me lose balance, falling to the floor on my left arm. "Ow… shit!" I said, slowly rising back up. "Language!" My dad said. "Shush, now's not the time…!" I replied. The ship then started shaking more violently than before. "A-AH!? HANG ON TO SOMETHING!" I yelled out. Everyone grabbed on to the nearest solid object. "M-Master! I'm scared!" I heard Chocola say. "You had all this time to be scared! It's quite late now!" Kashou replied. Then, it all stopped. "...What?" I said. I was just about to walk away, but then a massive force threw the asteroid in a direction. The claws inside the asteroid disappeared, and we were sent flying into space. The ship kept rolling, switching from walking normally, to the walls, then the ceiling, repeat. Everyone, Including me, yelled as we were hurled across space at high speed. "Need… to get to the computer…!" I leaped from my place, and kept falling, hitting many objects. I eventually grabbed on to the driver seat chair. Barely managing to strap myself in. My head was beginning to hurt from the lighting changes, and the spinning. I looked at the computer, and was shocked to find…

"We're heading straight for Earth! Too fast!!!" I yelled out. Everyone was shocked. We were entering the atmosphere in the next 50 seconds, showing us just how fast we were really going. Eventually, the asteroid, and the ship started to heat up quickly, due to entering the atmosphere. The window on the front of the cockpit began to slowly crack. "!? The glass is breaking!" Archie cried out. "Everyone, hold on TIGHT!" Owen yelled as we flew further towards Earth. I noticed that chunks of the asteroid were beginning to break off, one of them hitting the window, and shattering it. Insane winds began trying to pull us outside, lifting us all off our feet, and hanging on for dear life. I jumped out of the seat, grabbing on to a nearby floorboard. The seat flew out into the sky, and I was clinging on to the only thing left to grab. Although, I saw that it was beginning to break off. "Shit…!" I said, as it slowly began cracking. Eventually flying right off the floor, I quickly began flying, almost out of the ship. I then felt someone grabbing my feet. "Eric, hold on!" Emiliano said. He had grabbed me, using Archie and Owen to keep grabbing himself. Creating a long, flying line. I felt the intense wind in my face, constantly making it difficult to see. As the asteroid rolled again, I saw the Earth. We were near ground level. "BRACE YOURSELVES!!!" I yelled. "AHHH!" My mom yelled out in fear. Then, crash. The impact. I flew out of Emiliano's grasp, and inside the sliding Asteroid. The impact instantly knocked me out, as well as everyone else inside.

Time passed, in complete darkness. Then, I struggled to see, and get up, on to my feet. "Fucking fuck…" I said, groaning. I couldn't feel my left arm at all. I used my right to move myself over to a nearby high area to grab. Slowly pulling myself up. I was bleeding all over my face, and I felt pain that was never seen ever before. I looked over to my left arm, or… lack thereof. It was gone, completely. "W-what the fuck!?" I yelled in shock. I felt terrible, and I attempted to pull myself together. I looked around, noticing that we seemed to be in a desert of some kind. "H-How did we end up here?" I asked myself. I then saw a huge army of weird skin-colored creatures shooting lasers at a small town, which looked to be abandoned. "Better check this out fast…" I began limping my way towards the town, ignoring the pain as best as I could. "Work through the pain… Work through the pain…" I kept muttering to myself, as I made my way to a nearby building in the town. I heard gunshots, amidst the laser show. I went up the building, and found Maple. "M-Maple? What's going on?" "There isn't time to explain. Emiliano and the others are in trouble." I looked around, and saw the huge asteroid we were just in. "Over there?" I pointed. "Yeah, now take this and go!" She passed me a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, before going back to sniping with her sniper rifle. "Good grief, these are like World War 2 weapons… is this an abandoned town?" I took the rifle with my remaining hand and exited the tower. I then began running towards the asteroid. "Y'ALL! COVER ME!" I yelled back at the town, signaling the others, if there were any left. The aliens then began shooting at me repeatedly, which I responded with several gunshots.

"Yeah! Get some of this!" I yelled at them as I kept firing and firing. Eventually, I took cover in a hole of sand to reload, which was tricky due to my left arm being missing. I ignored the fact it was still bleeding quite a bit, as the pain would only slow me down. "Okay, these bastards have pissed me off." I said to myself, jumping up from cover. I began running through the battlefield, as I noticed several explosions. I fired my gun at them all. "Die you fuckers!" I yelled out. Soon, I managed to reach the asteroid, where I saw Archie and Owen were hiding, I took cover in their spot as well. "Eric!? You can still move?" Owen said. "We thought you died…!" Archie said. "Not without repercussions… but, whatever!" I said. "Where's Emiliano?" I asked. Before I heard the roar of a huge monster. I peeked from the hiding spot, noticing a huge, buff, alien. He was tanking bullets like they were nothing, and friendly fire wasn't an issue for it. The Alien had Emiliano by the throat, and it through him at the Asteroid, cracking it. "You two, cover me. I'm gonna get that son of a bitch!" I said. We all came out of hiding, and I noticed that Emiliano had been impaled by something, through his chest. "NO!!!" I yelled. The Alien punched a hole in the wall, breaking it open. I ran towards it, shooting it's head. "DIE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!" I yelled out as I sprayed it with bullets.

The bullets did nothing, as they just bounced off the big alien. It slowly turned towards me and made groaning noises. "Oh shit." I said, as it roared, running towards me. I kept shooting at it, but eventually I needed to reload. Which I couldn't do standing. It raised a arm to punch me into the ground. I rolled underneath the alien, dodging it's attack, but it caught my gun instead. "Son of a bitch…" I said, as the alien turned back to face me, and now I was on the defensive. The alien ran at me again, as I sidestepped to dodge his fist. "Powerful, but slow." I instantly ate my words, as the Alien used his foot to kick me in the gut. I spat out blood as I went flying. I landed inside the asteroid, and in even an even worse state then before.

"A-Agh… I think my ribs are cracked." I said, struggling to sit up. The Alien was walking towards me slowly. I looked over to my right, seeing Archie and Owen. They were beginning to struggle themselves, and were being pushed back. "R-Run you two…!" I said, as I managed to stand. I then saw an explosive fly towards them. "Damn it…!" I said, running towards them, blood dripping from my mouth. The Alien then punched me in the same direction as them, making me land next to them. "Eric!? Are you alright!?" Archie said. "This is no time to die Eric!" Owen said. "E-Easy for you two to say…" I replied. The aliens the layed down heavy fire, one of which blew up the explosive and sent us flying backwards a bit. Archie and Owen were left completely wide open and heavy fire kept coming every second. I let out grunts of pain as I slowly rose back up. I was staggering around, and could barely see straight. "G-Gotta save them…" I said, limping towards them. I managed to get behind Archie and pull him into cover. "E-Eric, what are you…" "G-Gotta fucking get back up…!" I said as I used the side of the Asteroid to get back up. I started running to Owen. He turned to me in shock. "Eric, don't! Just ru-" Before he finished his sentence, a laser blast went right through his head as pieces of Brain and blood splattered all across the desert floor. His lifeless corpse falling to the ground. "NOOOOO!!!!!!" I yelled out. A laser blast then went through the side of my left leg, and I just fell. I crawled towards the Asteroid. Archie appeared from cover and grabbed me. "Come on Eric, Come on…" He said, pulling me to safety. Tears streamed from my eyes as I watched Owen fade from my vision for the last time.

(Emiliano's POV)

I woke up inside of the asteroid. My wounds seemed fully healed for some reason. "H-Huh…? I'm alive?" I said to myself. "Get up…" I heard a whispering voice speak. I looked around, yet there was no one there. "Who's there?" I yelled out. "They killed Owen…" "Huh?" I walked outside of the asteroid, and saw the dead corpse of Owen. "W-What!? OWEN!!!!" "Yes… take your revenge on them!" I roared as my eyes glowed with a red, fiery hatred. "I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!" A massive shockwave emerged, and the asteroid, along with all the crystals inside, were completely destroyed. The entire Alien army, except the big buff one, all flew backwards a small distance as my body glowed with a red hue. The big Alien turned to me, and smirked. "Puny human, come to die?" I ran at it without uttering a word, and jumping at it's head. I punched it's head, knocking it on to it's back, and a gun dropped from it's belt. I grabbed the gun and reloaded it, before raining hell down upon the army that was in the distance. The weather changed, and thunder crashed around the area rapidly, and corpses of Aliens fell as guts and blood constantly splattered on the desert sand.

(Eric's POV)

I watched as Emiliano tore through the Alien army like they were nothing. I was shocked. "T-That anger… He's gone berserk." Archie looked on, his jaw dropped to the ground. It was completely shocking what was happening. Archie helped me up to my feet. "F-Fall back… Fall back!" I yelled to Archie, as we walk slowly away to safety. Towards the town, away from the chaos. Emiliano continued to tear through the enemy forces without second thought, even laughing and smiling on occasion. "T-That moron! What the hell is he doing?" Eventually, Archie and I reached the town after minutes of walking and stumbling. Kashou was holding out, and was shocked to see us. "Y-You two, where the hell is Emiliano?" "N-No time to explain… fall back…!" I said, in my pained voice. Kashou then nodded, pulling out a sort of radio, then spoke into it. "Everyone, fall back! Eric commands it!" "Copy!" Kashou then assisted Archie in helping me get to the ship, which somehow landed outside the asteroid. Soon, we were joined by the rest of the crew. "Eric, how the hell are you still alive!?" Azuki asked. "I don't know. Let's just get back in the ship." I replied. We then eventually got back to the ship. I looked in the distance, back to the battlefield, to see that the Alien ship was actually fleeing. "Emiliano must be winning." I said, much to everyone's surprise. "How many bullets did you give me Maple?" "One thousand five hundred." "Good grief. That explains it."

Eventually, the entire Alien army fled. But Emiliano still seemed to chase after them. "Okay, enough." I said, running out of the ship, eventually catching up with Emiliano. I then used my remaining arm to hit him hard in the back of the head, knocking him out. "You've done enough for now, Emiliano. Let's get back to the ship before they come back." I said, dragging Emiliano over my shoulder, and walking back to the ship.