PART 4 A NEW BEGGINING
The lone object floated through space.Untouched by wars or conflict.In the farthest possible place from reality.Planet after planet went by.A ballet of comets and stars danced around the pod.Out of place,it was slowely adapting to its strange surroundings.
Further into the pod,a man lay,asleep.A confused and violent past lay behind him.But an almost certain destiny lay infront of him.
A second vessel approached.Dwarfing the pod.Red scanning lasers flooded over the once lonely pod.Feeding information on the pods size,wether it contained life and its make.The scanners pulled back.A docking arm then creaked towards the pod,clumping shut.It dragged the shrinking craft into it's bulk.Consuming it.
Inside was an array of lights and machines,some scanning the pod for more information.Others decontaminating it.With a clump the pod was secured into the dock.Jets of steam shot out as the pods door opened.
A machine slowely crept in.Scanning the pod further.When it picked up on the sleeping man.A flurecent light lit him up and a gun turret shot out.Still scanning,the turret stayed fixed on the man.With a biping noise the machine had finished.It retreated back out of the pod.Then voices were heard.Human voices.Something the pod hadn't heard in a while.
Several figures became visible in the mist that the docking process had created. One aproached the sleeping man.He removed his helmet,the air inside was released.He began to speak,
"Looks like we got ourselves a live one,lets get him to the med labs."
Kessai opened his eyes.Once again confused by his surroundings.Wiping his eyes he looked around.It resembled a hospital.But it had a Televison set.That was strange.There hadn't been television prodcast since before the war.He wondered what year it was.Was the war over?He tried to remember what he could,but struggled to retrieve any definate memories, just sleep.A long sleep.
There was a rush of air as a door slid open at the end of the room.A women walked in.She was tall,she had a lab coat on,but it was tied with a belt.Possibly an attempt to look more fashionable.She had black hair tied in a bun.She looked at Kessai,smiled and said,
"Wakey,wakey sleepy-head,how you feeling?"
She sat down next to him and joted something into a computerised notpad.Then her eyes went back to Kessai,
"There's been a lot of talk about you,the proffeser is extremely exited.The defense forces are sceptical,but they'll lighten up.Personally,I just think your cute,"
She gigled to herself,then waited for a response from Kessai.Kessai cleared his throught,and began to speak,
"Where am I?"
He hadn't spoken in so long it almost hurt his throught.The woman answered,again with a smile,
"Your on Exodus 2,right now your in the medical facility,but I hope you will see the more pleasant sights this place has to show you,"
Kessai was shocked,but didn't have the energy to show it in an expression.He became increasingly curious.But the women had some questions for him,
"What's the last thing you remember?"
She was more serious now.Kessai hesitated then answered,
"Um,It was just before Exodus took off..."
He was cut off,a shocked expression filled her face.
"What?That,that was over 200 years ago,"
A horrible feeling filled Kessai,he struggled to take in what she had just said.It couldn't be possible.That would mean,that everyone he knew,was gone.He had outlived them all.Including his own family.His blank face was broken by a single tear that rolled down his cheek.He wiped it away as quickly as it had appeared.The woman let off a half-smile and said,
"I'll leave you alone to think stuff over,"
Kessai looked up at her,
"No,dont,I've been thinking about things for to long,I dont want to be alone with my mind anymore.Show me around Exodus 2.Um,what was you name again?"
The woman stood up and gave her hand to Kessai's,as they shook hands she said,
"My names Vantass,you can call me Van for short.Im the Queen of Siberous,but I dont like the whole roalty thing.Im more interested in science and medicine.My father,Teek,is the proffeser here on Exodus."
They parted hands.Kessai removed the duna and stood up,his legs were weak.So Vantass helped him along.She began explaining more about the 200 years that Kessai had missed.As Kessai was led through the hospital,he looked out one of the windows into space.Outside space ships flew everywhere.An entire highway of different crafts zipped by the windows.Docking stations hovered in between, busy as bees.Ships were docking and leaving.Vantass looked towards Kessai,
"Amazing isn't?The human race has come a long way."
As they continued down the corridors hovering robots flew by.The place was busy with life.Every where you turned,lights blinked,people were moving on artificial walkways.It was wonderous.Kessai's eyes lit up.Vantass smiled and said,
"You think thats cool?I'll show you to the viewing platform."
As Vantass showed Kessai to the viewing platform,he was constantly kept busy with all the futuristic wonders that flew by.Occasionally strange creatures would step off the dock and converse with uniformed personel.Something hit Kessai's leg,he looked down to see a small robot look up to him and shake its fist.It then scurried off in another direction.
Vantass led him up a set of steps.
"This way cutie,"
She said signaling him with her arm.Kessai struggled to the top,breathing heavly he looked up.
An entire City stood infront of him.Train systems weaved there way through scyscrapers.Green parks could be seen amounst the buildings.Little car-like hover craft buzzed everywhere,honking and skidding as they went from place to place. People could be seen on sidewalks and on platforms that connected the tall buildings.Vines and greens covered some buildings.It must have been at least 2km in diameter.Kessai stood speachless,Vantass lent against the rail and said,
"Beautiful isn't it?It took 57 years to build.Were still adding more.We have a population of over 6000.We get the energy to run everything from a new kind of magic.It provides all the chemicals nessecary for us to live.There are 2 main power generators,energy is free also.We have 10 malls,my favourite part of the City.The bridge is up there on your left,we have over 300 personel piloting and keeping this thing afloat.The city is named Rido.After you,Kessai Rido."
Kessai looked at her,stunned.
"Me?Why is it named after me?"
Kessai eagerly awaited an answer.
"If It weren't for you and your men,200 years ago we would have been finished. Khaan would have destroyed both Exodus' if you hadn't held off his army.When Exodus 1 crashed,It split the Earths core,resulting in it being compleletly destroyed.Now we are all thats left of mankind.We've been floating around for ages trying to find a suitable planet to inhabit,but there not that easy to find."
Kessai looked around,with a sense of pride.But he then realised who the white eyed man was.It was khaan.He had never seen him.Only heard about his imense power. That must of been him that fired the bolt at Exodus 1.Kessai hurried with the next question,
"Is Khaan still alive?"
Vantass thought for a moment and then spoke,
"We dont know,we believe he was killed when Earth was destroyed.He hasn't attacked us,so we believe he died."
Kessai was relieved.But still had a feeling Khaan wasn't dead.Kessai continued to stare at the wonderous city.It reminded him of Siberous City.But for some reason Siberous seemed more beautiful to him.Possibly because thats were his family lived and where he trained when he was young.
"C'mon,I'll take you too see my father.He is eager to meet you.We have some questions on how you managed to live for 200 years with no hyper-sleep equipment."
After proceding through some doors and elevators Vantass led Kessai to a man who was hard at work.He was a small man with grey hair.He also wore a lab coat,but his was covered in oil spills and other substances.He looked up at Kessai.Peering through his glasses.
"Kessai Rido?Its really you!"
The man spat when he talked,his teeth weren't clean.He had hair growing out of his nose and ears.He put down a tool that he was using and walked closer to Kessai.
"I must introduce myself,im Grason Teek.Vantass' father."--
Garson wiped his hand on his lab coat and shook Kessai's.He fitted the typical cleche of a proffeser.It was very odd.He was jittery,brinking on excentric.He was cleary exited of Kessai's pressance but tried to hide the fact.He turned away from Kessai and walked over towards a control panel.He exchanged words with another person in a lab coat and then turned back to Kessai,
"I think you will be quite impressed by this Mr.Rido,its right up your alley."
Curious,Kessai observed the little man as he hurried from contol panel to control panel,mashing keys excitingly.After he pushed a large red switch he looked towards kessai,
"Have a look at this,"
The lone object floated through space.Untouched by wars or conflict.In the farthest possible place from reality.Planet after planet went by.A ballet of comets and stars danced around the pod.Out of place,it was slowely adapting to its strange surroundings.
Further into the pod,a man lay,asleep.A confused and violent past lay behind him.But an almost certain destiny lay infront of him.
A second vessel approached.Dwarfing the pod.Red scanning lasers flooded over the once lonely pod.Feeding information on the pods size,wether it contained life and its make.The scanners pulled back.A docking arm then creaked towards the pod,clumping shut.It dragged the shrinking craft into it's bulk.Consuming it.
Inside was an array of lights and machines,some scanning the pod for more information.Others decontaminating it.With a clump the pod was secured into the dock.Jets of steam shot out as the pods door opened.
A machine slowely crept in.Scanning the pod further.When it picked up on the sleeping man.A flurecent light lit him up and a gun turret shot out.Still scanning,the turret stayed fixed on the man.With a biping noise the machine had finished.It retreated back out of the pod.Then voices were heard.Human voices.Something the pod hadn't heard in a while.
Several figures became visible in the mist that the docking process had created. One aproached the sleeping man.He removed his helmet,the air inside was released.He began to speak,
"Looks like we got ourselves a live one,lets get him to the med labs."
Kessai opened his eyes.Once again confused by his surroundings.Wiping his eyes he looked around.It resembled a hospital.But it had a Televison set.That was strange.There hadn't been television prodcast since before the war.He wondered what year it was.Was the war over?He tried to remember what he could,but struggled to retrieve any definate memories, just sleep.A long sleep.
There was a rush of air as a door slid open at the end of the room.A women walked in.She was tall,she had a lab coat on,but it was tied with a belt.Possibly an attempt to look more fashionable.She had black hair tied in a bun.She looked at Kessai,smiled and said,
"Wakey,wakey sleepy-head,how you feeling?"
She sat down next to him and joted something into a computerised notpad.Then her eyes went back to Kessai,
"There's been a lot of talk about you,the proffeser is extremely exited.The defense forces are sceptical,but they'll lighten up.Personally,I just think your cute,"
She gigled to herself,then waited for a response from Kessai.Kessai cleared his throught,and began to speak,
"Where am I?"
He hadn't spoken in so long it almost hurt his throught.The woman answered,again with a smile,
"Your on Exodus 2,right now your in the medical facility,but I hope you will see the more pleasant sights this place has to show you,"
Kessai was shocked,but didn't have the energy to show it in an expression.He became increasingly curious.But the women had some questions for him,
"What's the last thing you remember?"
She was more serious now.Kessai hesitated then answered,
"Um,It was just before Exodus took off..."
He was cut off,a shocked expression filled her face.
"What?That,that was over 200 years ago,"
A horrible feeling filled Kessai,he struggled to take in what she had just said.It couldn't be possible.That would mean,that everyone he knew,was gone.He had outlived them all.Including his own family.His blank face was broken by a single tear that rolled down his cheek.He wiped it away as quickly as it had appeared.The woman let off a half-smile and said,
"I'll leave you alone to think stuff over,"
Kessai looked up at her,
"No,dont,I've been thinking about things for to long,I dont want to be alone with my mind anymore.Show me around Exodus 2.Um,what was you name again?"
The woman stood up and gave her hand to Kessai's,as they shook hands she said,
"My names Vantass,you can call me Van for short.Im the Queen of Siberous,but I dont like the whole roalty thing.Im more interested in science and medicine.My father,Teek,is the proffeser here on Exodus."
They parted hands.Kessai removed the duna and stood up,his legs were weak.So Vantass helped him along.She began explaining more about the 200 years that Kessai had missed.As Kessai was led through the hospital,he looked out one of the windows into space.Outside space ships flew everywhere.An entire highway of different crafts zipped by the windows.Docking stations hovered in between, busy as bees.Ships were docking and leaving.Vantass looked towards Kessai,
"Amazing isn't?The human race has come a long way."
As they continued down the corridors hovering robots flew by.The place was busy with life.Every where you turned,lights blinked,people were moving on artificial walkways.It was wonderous.Kessai's eyes lit up.Vantass smiled and said,
"You think thats cool?I'll show you to the viewing platform."
As Vantass showed Kessai to the viewing platform,he was constantly kept busy with all the futuristic wonders that flew by.Occasionally strange creatures would step off the dock and converse with uniformed personel.Something hit Kessai's leg,he looked down to see a small robot look up to him and shake its fist.It then scurried off in another direction.
Vantass led him up a set of steps.
"This way cutie,"
She said signaling him with her arm.Kessai struggled to the top,breathing heavly he looked up.
An entire City stood infront of him.Train systems weaved there way through scyscrapers.Green parks could be seen amounst the buildings.Little car-like hover craft buzzed everywhere,honking and skidding as they went from place to place. People could be seen on sidewalks and on platforms that connected the tall buildings.Vines and greens covered some buildings.It must have been at least 2km in diameter.Kessai stood speachless,Vantass lent against the rail and said,
"Beautiful isn't it?It took 57 years to build.Were still adding more.We have a population of over 6000.We get the energy to run everything from a new kind of magic.It provides all the chemicals nessecary for us to live.There are 2 main power generators,energy is free also.We have 10 malls,my favourite part of the City.The bridge is up there on your left,we have over 300 personel piloting and keeping this thing afloat.The city is named Rido.After you,Kessai Rido."
Kessai looked at her,stunned.
"Me?Why is it named after me?"
Kessai eagerly awaited an answer.
"If It weren't for you and your men,200 years ago we would have been finished. Khaan would have destroyed both Exodus' if you hadn't held off his army.When Exodus 1 crashed,It split the Earths core,resulting in it being compleletly destroyed.Now we are all thats left of mankind.We've been floating around for ages trying to find a suitable planet to inhabit,but there not that easy to find."
Kessai looked around,with a sense of pride.But he then realised who the white eyed man was.It was khaan.He had never seen him.Only heard about his imense power. That must of been him that fired the bolt at Exodus 1.Kessai hurried with the next question,
"Is Khaan still alive?"
Vantass thought for a moment and then spoke,
"We dont know,we believe he was killed when Earth was destroyed.He hasn't attacked us,so we believe he died."
Kessai was relieved.But still had a feeling Khaan wasn't dead.Kessai continued to stare at the wonderous city.It reminded him of Siberous City.But for some reason Siberous seemed more beautiful to him.Possibly because thats were his family lived and where he trained when he was young.
"C'mon,I'll take you too see my father.He is eager to meet you.We have some questions on how you managed to live for 200 years with no hyper-sleep equipment."
After proceding through some doors and elevators Vantass led Kessai to a man who was hard at work.He was a small man with grey hair.He also wore a lab coat,but his was covered in oil spills and other substances.He looked up at Kessai.Peering through his glasses.
"Kessai Rido?Its really you!"
The man spat when he talked,his teeth weren't clean.He had hair growing out of his nose and ears.He put down a tool that he was using and walked closer to Kessai.
"I must introduce myself,im Grason Teek.Vantass' father."--
Garson wiped his hand on his lab coat and shook Kessai's.He fitted the typical cleche of a proffeser.It was very odd.He was jittery,brinking on excentric.He was cleary exited of Kessai's pressance but tried to hide the fact.He turned away from Kessai and walked over towards a control panel.He exchanged words with another person in a lab coat and then turned back to Kessai,
"I think you will be quite impressed by this Mr.Rido,its right up your alley."
Curious,Kessai observed the little man as he hurried from contol panel to control panel,mashing keys excitingly.After he pushed a large red switch he looked towards kessai,
"Have a look at this,"