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Chapter 17: Cloud
The strange world faded, and we were again standing beside the hovercraft.
My head was rested on Alex's chest and I could hear his heart beating in time with my own
He broke the silence and spoke in a low voice, his tone indicating that what he was about to tell me was important to him.
What he told me shocked me.
Alex was a Plant.
About 67 years ago, he and his brother had been born to a small plant in one of Mars' larger cities. A plant engineer there secretly took the newborns in and raised them as his own. The engineer taught the boys the basics of Plant technology and they managed to teach themselves the rest.
At the age of two, Alex and his brother began working at the plant where their Plant mother resided. It was she who had taught the boys about life and how fragile the human race was. How it was the their responsibility to guide them along the right path.
The two understood this, and worked as hard as they could to make Mars a peaceful place to live for all. The engineer died when they were seven of natural causes, and left a huge fortune to the both of them, that went into hospitals, environmental growth projects and other things to help people.
Alex and his bother were naturally able to grow things, and like Alex had said he had indeed grown that patch of trees that he had shown me. He and his brother had grown other areas that surrounded almost 200 square miles around Mars' second biggest city, Halaf,.
Then the war started and after failing to stop the war, Alex and his brother joined up as medics.
Alex's brother had died in an attack on one of the Martian bases. And Alex only doubled his efforts, going so far as to go out of his way to save the lives of Lunan soldiers.
I breathed in and looked up at him.
Alex still had his arms around me, but was looking down at me apprehensively, "You aren't bothered by it are you?"
"Bothered by what?"
He tipped his chin down so his nose was just barely touching mine, and smiled "Bothered by the fact the I am a Plant."
I burried my face in the crook of his neck, and bit my lower lip. "No," came my muffled reply.
He hugged me tighter to his chest and whispered a thank you.
"Aww, you two look so cute together!" We heard Abby exclaim.
Alex and I separated a little, and looked over toward Abby. Alex glanced at her then at me,"Thanks, I think."
I smiled, and kissed the tip of Alex's chin.
He looked like he was about to say something, when suddenly he turned his head out towards the red desert. He gasped and I looked to see what had caught his eye.
I heard my own intake of breath, when I saw a towering mushroom cloud, rising into the sky from the horizon.
"Oh, no." I heard him whisper.
My thoughts exactly. "Shit." I said, and broke away from Alex. When he dove into the hover craft and turned on the Comm-radio, the chatter on the radio was overwhelming, Alex's face was pale.
"Abby! Rem! Go get your stuff! We gotta get out of here!"
Minutes later we were speeding across the desert, away from the growing mushroom cloud. Abby was sitting in back watching the cloud with wide horrified eyes.
"What do we do now?!" I asked over the roar of the engine, from the front passenger seat.
"We're heading to the nearest city. They should have the bio-domes in place by now!"
"Why bio-domes?"
"A bomb of that size and magnatude will wreck hell itself on our atmosphere, its just to weak to stand up against something like that!"
I nodded. So this was what they had planned. If the Lunans couldn't have Mars.... then no one would.
Magnet-Rose: *Breathing heavily* I'm being chased by rabid lawyers so I'll keep this short. Thanks foo. Review plez. *Runs* *We see lawyers, foaming at the mouth, chasing after poor Magnet-Rose* Magnet-Rose: Ahhh! Rabid Lawyers: Rowf! Rowf!
Chapter 17: Cloud
The strange world faded, and we were again standing beside the hovercraft.
My head was rested on Alex's chest and I could hear his heart beating in time with my own
He broke the silence and spoke in a low voice, his tone indicating that what he was about to tell me was important to him.
What he told me shocked me.
Alex was a Plant.
About 67 years ago, he and his brother had been born to a small plant in one of Mars' larger cities. A plant engineer there secretly took the newborns in and raised them as his own. The engineer taught the boys the basics of Plant technology and they managed to teach themselves the rest.
At the age of two, Alex and his brother began working at the plant where their Plant mother resided. It was she who had taught the boys about life and how fragile the human race was. How it was the their responsibility to guide them along the right path.
The two understood this, and worked as hard as they could to make Mars a peaceful place to live for all. The engineer died when they were seven of natural causes, and left a huge fortune to the both of them, that went into hospitals, environmental growth projects and other things to help people.
Alex and his bother were naturally able to grow things, and like Alex had said he had indeed grown that patch of trees that he had shown me. He and his brother had grown other areas that surrounded almost 200 square miles around Mars' second biggest city, Halaf,.
Then the war started and after failing to stop the war, Alex and his brother joined up as medics.
Alex's brother had died in an attack on one of the Martian bases. And Alex only doubled his efforts, going so far as to go out of his way to save the lives of Lunan soldiers.
I breathed in and looked up at him.
Alex still had his arms around me, but was looking down at me apprehensively, "You aren't bothered by it are you?"
"Bothered by what?"
He tipped his chin down so his nose was just barely touching mine, and smiled "Bothered by the fact the I am a Plant."
I burried my face in the crook of his neck, and bit my lower lip. "No," came my muffled reply.
He hugged me tighter to his chest and whispered a thank you.
"Aww, you two look so cute together!" We heard Abby exclaim.
Alex and I separated a little, and looked over toward Abby. Alex glanced at her then at me,"Thanks, I think."
I smiled, and kissed the tip of Alex's chin.
He looked like he was about to say something, when suddenly he turned his head out towards the red desert. He gasped and I looked to see what had caught his eye.
I heard my own intake of breath, when I saw a towering mushroom cloud, rising into the sky from the horizon.
"Oh, no." I heard him whisper.
My thoughts exactly. "Shit." I said, and broke away from Alex. When he dove into the hover craft and turned on the Comm-radio, the chatter on the radio was overwhelming, Alex's face was pale.
"Abby! Rem! Go get your stuff! We gotta get out of here!"
Minutes later we were speeding across the desert, away from the growing mushroom cloud. Abby was sitting in back watching the cloud with wide horrified eyes.
"What do we do now?!" I asked over the roar of the engine, from the front passenger seat.
"We're heading to the nearest city. They should have the bio-domes in place by now!"
"Why bio-domes?"
"A bomb of that size and magnatude will wreck hell itself on our atmosphere, its just to weak to stand up against something like that!"
I nodded. So this was what they had planned. If the Lunans couldn't have Mars.... then no one would.
Magnet-Rose: *Breathing heavily* I'm being chased by rabid lawyers so I'll keep this short. Thanks foo. Review plez. *Runs* *We see lawyers, foaming at the mouth, chasing after poor Magnet-Rose* Magnet-Rose: Ahhh! Rabid Lawyers: Rowf! Rowf!