A face appeared on the screen behind Doggy. It was Shun Okumura, whom Doggy had mentioned before.
"Shun! How did the case go?"
"It went very well, Commander Krugger." Shun replied, "It was really quite easy!"
"Enough with the small talk!" Ban wanted to get down to business, "Why did we have to let these meteorites crash here?"
Shun appeared to be more patient than anyone else with him: "Do you know where they come from?"
"No we don't." Doggy replied, before Ban could shout it out.
"They come from a planet that has been destroyed thousands of years ago."
Again everybody had put up their surprised faces, to which Wells said: "A destroyed planet is bad, but is that face really necessary?"
"What happened?" Umeko asked.
"Their sun became a supernova." Shun replied, "It was a natural disaster, nothing anyone could have done."
"That still doesn't explain why we had to catch the meteorites." Doggy insisted.
"Their are some old legends which talk about this planet and the people who lived on it." Shun continued, "Each story contradicts the other, but they all implied, one way or another, that the people from that planet were thousands of years ahead of us! Even ahead of our modern technology. With these meteors, we hope to find any remaining of their technologies."
"That could be useful for our cause." Sen realized.
"As long as nobody else would find any of the technologies before us!" Hoji hoped.
"That's why I'm heading to Earth, to pick them up." Shun explained.
"I do hope you're taking the Gyro-Carrier with you this time!" Wells moaned.
"Don't worry about that." Shun acknowledged.
Jasmine didn't know what this was about: "Gyro... Carrier?"
"You'll see!" Wells sounded less cynical as he said this.
Shun suddenly noticed the baby Wells held: "And why is there a baby here?"
Wells didn't hesitate to reply: "We found him shortly after the shower."
"You do realize that taking care of babies is not our problem." Shun reminded him.
Anyone else was about to explain to Shun what's so special about the baby, but Wells stopped them: "Of course! But we had to be sure that this kid wasn't underfed, or had any disease or anything. A kid's health takes priority, doesn't it?"
Shun didn't see any problem now: "Naturally. Anyway, I'll see you all soon! Shun out!"
His face disapeared from the screen.