Chapter 4
The next morning, Corbin woke with a jump. Actaeon wearing a tie dye shirt that said 'beware crazy people' had decided to give him an awake up call by poking him in his side. Immediately he reached for his blade, but frowned not finding it. Yesterdays adventure coming to mind he asked her "What was that for?"
"I was trying to get you up."
"Well…"
"Hey were you going for something, I don't remember you having any weapons beforehand," Asked Actaeon carefully turning to fiddle with the clock, on the back of the shirt it said 'boo, got you'.
"Not on me, my blade must be back on my ship, or in the cave" said Corbin disappointedly.
"Well after breakfast we can go back there before coming to the Prof's place."
"You would let me have my weapons back," asked Corbin surprised.
"Yeah, it's not like you're a prisoner or anything." Actaeon shrugged.
"Um, Okay."
"Come on down for breakfast."
"Breakfast?"
"Yep the most important meal of the day, as well as the first."
"Oh. Why do you humans call it breakfast?"
"Because we are breaking a fast." Giggled Inna, wearing a white shirt with a dolphin on it, from the doorway
"We are?" asked both Actaeon, and Corbin both looking quite confused.
"Well you aren't eating in your sleep are you?" Gruffly asked Laura, now wearing a blue shirt with wolves on it and jeans, with black boots, joining in.
They all laughed at that.
After a good meal of cheese omelet's and maple sausage, all four headed for the cave.
"Wow, you were in there. Do you know how long it has been?" said Inna quietly pointing at the broken stasis chamber.
"No I do not." Answered Corbin frowning, now wearing a blue shirt, black hoodie, jeans with a hole in one knee, and black boots. "What earth year is it?"
"Two thousand and twelve" came the reply
"Two thousand and … oh no" Corbin sat down. "Thirty years, thirty years have past.
"Wow you were in there for all that time." Asked Actaeon stunned.
"It… it looks so," sadly replied Corbin standing back up, a bit wobbly from this revelation.
"Well no swords in here, but there's other cool stuff," said Laura changing the subject.
"They must have been taken back to the ship." Corbin looked at what Laura had found. "This 'stuff' as you but it is broken, but fixable tech from my home."
"What is it?" Asked Actaeon looking over his shoulder.
Corbin glared at her intrusion of his personal space, sighed when she did not move, and answered pointing to a large silver box with wires with wires sticking out "Well this is a cloaking device for a ship" he pointed to another smaller object silver box with wires sticking out "this is one for personal use" he pointed to a large octagon object next to it "this is used for light speed transport, without our ships could not do it," and this, he said pointing to a even larger picture frame like with computer chips on it object on the floor "is a space-warp device for the ship", going back to the table he pointed to a eggplant with wings like object "medical robot" and next to it he pointed to a smart-phone looking like object "that is a medical scanner … "
"What's the difference?" Asked Inna.
"A medical scanner can only tell you what is wrong; the robot can usually fix any problems."
"What's this" asked Laura.
"DON'T TOUCH THAT" yelped Corbin. "THAT'S A STARCRACKER."
"A what?" asked Laura taken aback.
"A starcracker, it makes stars go supernova"
"So no touchy?" Asked Actaeon innocently.
"Please no. Definitely no … eh … touchy." Replied Corbin making a face and sounding quite exasperated.
"Okay I'm calling the prof. No way am I letting a thingy that makes star explode stay here," Inna waved around indicating the cave.
"On it" Actaeon yelled dialing her phone. "Yo prof. I need a pick-up"
"Hello Actaeon, I am quite busy, can this wait."
"Maybe, we found a she- hold on" Actaeon turned to Corbin "What are you called again"
"A Shi'ar"
"Thanks" talking into the phone once more "a Shi'ar." A sharp cry of surprise could be heard by all present in the cave.
"Where did you find him, or is he a she?"
"He. I was in the woods yesterday, and found a cave I'd never seen before, I guess it was opened by the earthquake we had yesterday, and I heard it had caused some minor landslides. Anyway, I heard a crash so I checked inside to see if anyone was hurt, and there he was in the remains of a stasis chamber thingy. Covered in icky goo too, very icky, bleh."
"Are you both okay?"
"Yeah we're both fine, but when we went back today to see if his swords were the, and they weren't we found a sun exploding thingy"
"A Starcracker" Corbin called out clearly annoyed.
"Is that him" asked the professor, "may I speak to him? Oh and my team is on its way."
"Better not send you-know-who he fainted the last time she was mentioned."
"I did not"
"Did too"
"Did not"
"Did too"
"Did –"
"Enough" yelled Inna; they could hear the professors muffled laughter through the phone.
Inna grabbed the phone. "Hello sir, how soon will the team arrive?"
"Quite soon I'd say I sent them as soon as heard of the bigger problem."
"Okay sir."
"And tell Actaeon I won't send," the professor chuckled, "You-know-who." And with that the professor hung up.