Now you guys probably have a lot of questions for me. How did Aploshion explode? Why would Aploshion explode? How come the people of Aploshion didn't die from the impact of the explosion? Don't worry, I guarantee that by the end of this journal, all those questions will be answered. But for now, let's start from the beginning..

I was in the flume on my way to Aploshion. I had no idea what to expect or what would happen. I tried to take my mind off the suspense of my arrival by focusing on the pictures on the flume walls. These pictures had always confused me and this time was no different.

I saw mountains with snow-capped peaks which I figured were from Denduron. I saw one of the habitat cities from Cloral. I also looked at a picture of the beautiful city of Black Water on Eelong.

Eventually I saw that I was coming to the end of the flume. I braced myself for whatever I would find. The flume music eventually died out and I stepped off the flume.

I took a good look around. I could tell right away that technology here was advanced. I was standing in a small room. The rooms were all white and here and there some panels stuck out from the wall with shiny gray and black buttons on them. There were also a few shiny black metal crates. I had no idea what was in them but I figured I must be in some storage room. Finally at the wall of the opposite end of the room from where I was standing was a shiny, metal, grayish-white door. There was a giant, black button in the middle of it.

As I was taking all this in the door opened. I immediately drew my attention to the door, preparing for whoever could be coming in. What I saw next amazed me.

Stepping in through the door was a little robot. I would guess it stood about 4'. It had a gray, rectangular shaped body. From the bottom of the body, two small black tubes extended with small gray rectangles at the end to form legs. Two small black tubes also came from the sides of the body with a small little gray circle attached at the end. Coming from the circles were five small, rectangles. These must have been the arms and hands.

Then finally, a black tube came up from the top of the body to form a neck. From the neck, a gray square with two black eyes and a rectangular mouth formed the head. I was stunned. Yes guys, this was just like out of one of those sci-fi movies. It was truly amazing.

The robot looked up at me with its beady little black eyes. Then it spoke in a strange language. I'm not sure what it said but if I could guess I would say it went something like this: "Ghaka-tookin-camble. Dhleea-hsgasggaaa. Jjlngsgafneser."

Like I said, complete babble. It spoke really fast too. I also noticed something really neat. Whenever it said something, the letters of which it was speaking would roll past its rectangular mouth. Too bad I caught this at the end or else I might have been able to remember what it said.

When it was done speaking it kept on looking at me, as if expecting me to respond. Since I had no response I tried to move around it to the door. But the dumb little robot wouldn't let me get past! It clutched my arm with one of its robotic hands. Trust me for a little guy, he had a strong grip. Actually come to think of it, I shouldn't really call it a he. I guess I should call him an it.

Anyways, I tried to get loose but it wouldn't let me. Instead it repeated its previous statement of robot babble. I was totally trapped. What could I say to it?

Luckily, I was saved the trouble of thinking of a response because the next moment the robot completely let go of my arm. In fact, it fell to the floor! I looked at it, bewildered until I noticed someone standing at the doorway. I almost fell over like the robot. It was Saint Dane!

But then I took a closer look and was relived to see, it wasn't Saint Dane. Heck, it wasn't even a guy! Who I saw standing there was a girl around my age and probably a foot taller than me. She had eerily pale skin, I mean pure white. No wonder I thought it was Saint Dane! Plus she had long, silver hair, just like Saint Dane except a little shinier. Her eyes were also blue, but not with near the intensity of Saint Dane's. She wore a gray jumpsuit that had a black button on one of the sides.

She looked at me and said "You are Bobby Pendragon, aren't you?"

I nodded. I was still massaging my arm from the robot's hard grip.

She smiled. "I see you had a run in with one of the robots. No, they don't have robots like these on Second Earth do they?"

Now that I had regained my stamina I realized that why would she know my name, or the territories for that matter?

"Who are you? Where am I? And what was that robot-thing doing?" I asked her.

"Relax Bobby. My name is Kiah and I'm the Traveler here on Aploshion. Now come, I'll take you back to my home so you can rest up a bit." she responded.

I didn't know what else to do and considering she was the Traveler here I started to follow her out the door. I guess it just freaked me out that she looked so much like Saint Dane.

We stepped out of the small storage room into a vast hallway. Like the storage room, the walls were pure-white out here too. Gray doors were lined up neatly along the hall. We started walking down the left side of the hall. Then we emerged from the hallway into a giant room. People were walking about and talking with others. Giant plants and fountains stood in the center of the room. I looked up at the ceiling. Guys, I could see about thirty stories up in the building! It made me wonder exactly how big the building was that I was in.

Before I could think about it anymore though, I noticed the plants. There were four giant plants that stood in giant vases which stood at the four corners of the giant fountain. I mean, these plants were huge! But the oddest thing about them was their color. These plants were purple!

Kiah pulled me away from them and told me "Quick, we must walk faster before anyone can get a good look at you."

That's when I actually took a good look at some of the people. And guys, it freaked me out. Big time.

All of the people here had deathly pale faces and gray hair. It was like staring at a room full of Saint Danes. They all wore those grayish jumpsuits with the single black button on them like Kiah. This is when I figured out that if these people saw me I would look totally strange to them, like a mutant.

Luckily I followed Kiah into a different hallway, one which was emptied from people. It looked just like the first hallway we had come from but I trusted Kiah knew where she was going.

We stopped in front of one of the doors and Kiah pushed the button.

Then another strange thing happened. The door talked! It said "Identity confirmed. Kiah Motenia. Please enter."

Kiah looked at me and saw how freaked out I was. "Relax, Bobby. It is just a computer installed in the door to only let me in. Now come in, this is my home."

I followed Kiah into her home but then stopped. Because a terrible realization hit me. I guess I was just too amazed by everything to realize it sooner. This was no ordinary territory. This territory must be…Saint Dane's.