"Everything is ready, Captian."A crew member was telling Captain Tryon of the Pegasus Two.
"Very well,"the Captain answered. "Begin countdown immediately."He ordered.
In the ship, a hundred passengers were already strapped in, in a hypno sleep. On over crowded Earth. Ten seconds later, the ship was in outer space, heading towards Ra, in the constellation Indus.
Gaia and the five planeteers watched sadly, from Hope Island. Earth was in ruins. There were almost no natural resources left, it was overpopulated, and the problems seemed to have no solution. She had foreseen all this. She and the planeteers had tried to stop it, but people would not listen.
"So this is the solution?"asked Linka.
"It certainly looks like it."Gaia told her.
"Ha, I'd like to see how long their new planet lasts."Wheeler commented. "Probably not very long. At least this one didn't."
"But how could people do this?"asked Kwami. "How could they just leave, without any guilt, or remorse? It is just absolutely wrong. And heartless."
"Yes, it is."Gaia agreed.
With them, were twelve friends, Arthur, and his cousins, who were dectuplets, and their cat, Sissy. The girls' names were Maria Xoaquina, Maria Xitlalli, Maria Xaviera, Maria Xacinta, Maria Ximena, Maria Xiomara, Maria Xochilt, Maria Xosefina, Maria Xulia, Maria Xamila.
"You shouldn't be surprised."said Ma.Xoaquina. "At least we aren't. At the rate people were going, destroying the planet, I'm surprised it even lasted as long as they did. Let's hope they all go, and they never come back. What's wrong, though, is that they should leave the planet the way it is! We shouldn't let them go, until they leave the planet exactly the way they found it. Clean, and unpolluted. I think, soon, nothing will be able to live here."
"You aren't serious, are you?"asked Mati, horrified. "There are some good people, what about us? And you?"
"We are not people. People are evil, heartless creatures. They don't care about anyone but themselves."
"That's not true. I'm sure people will understand that it's wrong, and they will make an effort to help clean up the planet!"
"No, they won't. They haven't done anything up until today. Or no, they have done something. Damage, that's what they've done. They don't even respect their own species. They like to kill just for the fun of it. If it is fun."
"Don't listen to them, Mati."Arthur told them.
"But they're right."Wheeler said.
"I guess they are."Arthur shrugged. "The problem is, what are we going to do about the problems here on Earth? From what I know, this isn't really new. They've been planning to do this for decades already. Ever since space travel was possible, you know, first the tours of the moon, and the solar system, and now this. You see, they think, well, they know that it is possible to adapt other planets to sustain human life. Some scientists have been outspoken against it, it has taken a lot of money, time, energy, you know."
"Money, time and energy that could and should've been used to solve problems here on Earth!"said Ma.Xamila angrily.
"Yes, but you know people have the tendency to choose what's worse for them."
"And you have to remind us."
Then they began to cool down. No one said a word. The dectuplets looked around them. Really, only this one little island was the only 'decent' place to live, now, not even at Piedras Grandes was it clean. They had done their best to keep people off their property and to keep the trees, and all the plants and animals that lived there. However, the polluted air still reached Piedras Grandes, and even the subterranean river was polluted.
Their cousin, Arthur, had also done his best to help the Planeteers, Gaia, and Captain Planet in their mission of saving the Earth. Since he was a genius, despite the fact of being only eleven years old, he spend most of his free time thinking of ways to conserve energy. At his house, everything was solar-powered, including his Gameboy, and thanks to his ideas, he usually got around in a small solar-powered scooter.
The problem mostly was getting other people to do the same. People were pretty much set in their ways, and the only way Arthur ever got his inventions and ideas through, was by making all the his inventions as flashy, so teenagers would be attracted by them, but even that had failed to do much.
"Well,"asked Gi. "Where will they go?"
"First, to a planet called Isis. Though, you would think, though, they could've done better? The star, or sun, is very hot. It burns ten times hotter than our sun. That will mean a lot of ultraviolet. I guess they must've taken a lot of medicine to give the chemotherapy. They're probably going to need it. A lot of skin cancers from those rays. And the oxygen content is kind of low. Not the same as here on Earth, even with the atmosphere this polluted. So, what they're guessing to do is build up the oxygen content."
"Don't tell us now they're stealing the oxygen we have here on Earth!"cried Wheeler.
"No, they will get out of plants, you get the idea." He shook his head, then smiled. "I guess you've got a point, Wheeler, the planet wont' last very long. They're only colonizing it and they've already made plans on how to ruin it."
"What do you mean 'made plans on how to ruin it'?"asked Kwami.
"What I mean is this. You see, there is already life on this planet, plants, animals, you know. And it really isn't meant to support human life, as I told you because of the star, and the oxygen, and see, if they change the atmosphere, by adding more oxygen, as they're planning to, that would be, well, very bad. I'm guessing these plants and animals have already adapted to the climate on this planet, you see. The change in the oxygen content and the ultraviolet could be very, very harmful to them."
"How do they plan to change the ultraviolet."asked Wheeler. "Are they planning to do something to the sun?"
"The oxygen. You see, just like here on Earth, it's kind of like the ozone layer. It protects us from too much ultraviolet, you see. If there is more oxygen, the ozone layer will be thicker, and the ultraviolet will be filtered out."
"Oh."Wheeler answered. He didn't really get what Arthur was saying. "So, they will make this planet another Earth?"
Arthur just sighed.
"We'll see."he answered.
"How long will it take them to get there?"asked Linka.
"Let's see, it should probably take them...about two weeks, at least that's what they're planning."
Later, the dectuplets were sitting on the beach of Hope Island with Sissy.
"This is just low, Sissy."Ma.Xoaquina said.
"Yes, it is."Sissy answered.
"We should do something. We can't let them get away with it!"Ma.Xoaquina said violently.
"I think they already have."Ma.Ximena answered sadly.
"No, no, no, no! It makes me angry. I never really liked people in the first place. I'm glad we're not like them."
The girls were in fact, different from other people. That was why they were on Hope Island, with Gaia and the Planeteers. They were in touch with nature, almost like Gaia herself, with the only exception that they were mortals, and not spirits like her. Sissy was just like the dectuplets in that same way.
"I hate them. I hate them all. I always have. Except Cuzzy, and the Planeteers."said Ma.Xochilt.
"We should've just done what they do, and killed them, just like they've killed off so many other species. I don't know why people say they reason, when really, it's actually those stupid animals that reason more than people ever have. Maybe it's because of heart. The power that animals possess in such quantities and people posses nothing of."
"Could we have killed all the humans? There's so many of them."