"Terra what did you do!?" Terra jumped and turned to find Milly standing at the edge of the crater that she had recently slipped into. Apparently Milly had decided to secretly follow Terra after her decision to take a nice long walk to get away from it all and knowing Milly she would want to go back. Terra never even got the chance to start looking at the strange box yet.

"Nothing?"

"Liar…"

"Well not yet at least,"

"Yeah well try not to do anything while l go get the teacher, then we can try to find a way to get you out of there,"

"Nah I'm good down here, come get me when the lecture is over,"

"It wouldn't kill you to learn a little you know,"

"Are you sure?"

"Quite positive,"

"How about we settle with just learning what's in this box then?" Terra knew that would interest her friend enough to stray her away from the fetching the teacher idea.

Just as Terra had planned, Milly seemed to finally take a good look at her surroundings, "Hey what is that?" As soon as she had finished her sentence she quickly began to descend into the crater, a Notitacustos' curiosity is unrivaled amongst any other known specie. Within seconds Milly was kneeling next to the box and attempting to learn all of it's secrets.

"And how exactly do you plan on us returning now?"

"Don't play innocent I know you never left your board on the train like you were told. So you can go and get the teacher," Milly moved her hand towards Terra in a shooing motion as her left hand continued to break the locking code.

"Then why fetch the teacher in the first place? I'm not going to leave you here, besides I found it first,"

Milly for once stopped in the middle of what she was doing, which was rare for her kind, "I figured it would be safer for you if you did not have to use it and don't treat me like a fragile thing, I can handle myself. Besides do you think you can really figure this out before I could? By the time you get back I should have this thing open, how confident do you feel about your ability?"

Terra sighed, she knew she was beat, besides that Milly had a fear of hover boards. She had one ever sense the incident when Terra had tried to show her how to use one. Apparently if technology required personal strength like balance Milly's kind was just about hopeless.

"Alright try not to do anything foolish," Terra knew how crazy Milly could get when it came to technology.

At that Milly smiled which caught Terra a bit off guard, "I'm not you silly, now get going."

" Hey," Terra was about to say something more but her friend had already returned her full attention to the mysterious box which stood to be more than twice Terra's standing height. Something that size would only make it more impossible for someone to pull her friend away from it.

"Alright," She said mostly to herself as she pulled out her hover board and opened it to full size. She then jumped on and went to do as Milly had asked. She figured that after all the trouble she had already caused her friend that day she had owed her at least this one favor.

Milly continued to decipher the code of the box completely absorbed in what she was doing. For some reason, like all boxes, it was designed to hold something, but unlike all boxes this box seemed like it was designed to never be opened. It was so extremely well designed that if it wasn't for her natural excitement of discovering new technology she would have probably had second thoughts on opening it.

As Terra maintained an altitude of only a few feet off the ground, every bit of her mind was trying to fight the decision of purposely confronting the teacher. She had to remind herself that it was for Milly. If she hadn't caused Milly as much distress as she had then maybe she could have avoided it. Rather than an escape route Terra decided to think about how she would tell the teacher what had happened without causing her to have a meltdown. The more she thought about it though the more impossible it seemed.

"Terra!! Where in the galaxy is Milly!?"

"Ah!" Terra jumped at the sudden appearance of her teacher and hit the acceleration on the back of her board a bit too hard which caused her board to sit straight up and for her to fall flat on her back on the ground. It seemed to Terra that this day would be full of nothing but unwanted surprises. Terra groaned partly because of her back but mostly at the thought of how many more times something like this could happen and responded to the thought by glaring at her teacher.

"Don't look at me like that Terra! It's my responsibility if something happens to my students and walking off without permission was one of the don'ts that I specifically stated! Not only that but," She stopped to point at the now grounded board, "I said not to bring that! What do I have to do to make you listen to me!?"

The teacher continued to rant and Terra had no choice but to just sigh and tone her out till the moment that her mouth would finally stop moving, maybe this was what Milly had really meant by 'the time she made it back.'

"Are you even paying attention?"

"What?"

"Terr-" The teacher stopped herself and put a hand on her forehead with a deep sigh, normally the sign that she was finally giving up and was trying to control her growing anger.

"Just tell me where Milly is," The teacher seemed to have complete control over herself but Terra could hear the hint of disappointment in her voice.

Whenever anyone had that voice Terra always felt a pang of guilt. Despite what some may think her goal was never to make people feel like that, she just could not stand being lectured or told what to do all the time, especially when it always ended up being something she had already heard multiple times.

Terra finally stood up and brushed away the sand that had stuck to her clothes, "Milly is currently looking at something that we found," With that the teacher seemed to light up, almost the same way Milly would with the mention of technology.

"Oh! Does it have any significant meaning? A lost clue perhaps?" The more the teacher went on the more it felt like Terra was really talking to Milly.

"Um…" Terra was a bit caught off guard by her teacher's sudden transformation, "Not sure," Terra had to resist saying what she really wanted to say, there was no point in giving her teacher another reason to have a melt-down again.

"Oh never mind! Look who I'm talking to! Just tell me where to go and stay with the rest of the class,"

Terra was only able to point in the general direction before her teacher had taken off without even waiting for the rest of the directions, "Yup just like Milly," Terra said to herself under her breath, it was kind of odd seeing the teacher like that.

Terra could not help but smile to herself, what in the world was the teacher thinking telling her to stay back? Terra had already picked up her board and was heading back towards where Milly was. This time Terra made sure to be well above in altitude, where the teacher would hopefully never be able to see her, let alone appear out of nowhere like she was known to do.

As Terra approached the spot, she noticed for the first time a strange creature that seemed to be encircling the crater from the sky. Had it been there before? Unless one had been around Terra's altitude they would have never been able to notice it, so it was possible. What did it mean though? Terra slowed down to a stop as she began to think things through. Normally nothing would circle like that unless it was interested or waiting for something. Did the box hold something important to the strange bird? If that's the case… Terra stopped at the thought that her friend could be in danger,

By the time you get back I should have this thing open…

For once Terra hoped that her friend was wrong about her skill, Terra slid her foot towards the back of her board causing it to drastically accelerate. She absolutely had to get there in time.

Please let me get there in time or at least let me be wrong, Terra knew such silent prayers would probably not do much, but she felt like she had to try.

Milly sighed with satisfaction as she finally pressed the final square of the sequence. It was a bit intriguing and slightly difficult but she had been able to decipher it. A crease suddenly appeared and began to draw a rectangular line on the front of the box, similar to the appearance of a door. Once the crease connected where it had first began the inside of the rectangle slid open. Milly gasped and fell to the ground she had never seen a creature quite like it.