(Scene switches to not-too-distant space, about 48 hours earlier…)
A space pod rocketed though space at high speed, dodging any space rock that comes in its path. The pod had been traveling to this planet for about seven months and, finally, the travel was going to be paid off. The pod tears though the atmosphere and hurtles into the surface of the dunes, exploding into a brilliant cylinder of swirling dust. It could have been compared to an atomic bomb. When the dust storm finally settled down, the pod's mainframe then automatically uploaded the operation to unlock the main gateway that robotically unleashed the droid concealed inside. Finally released, the droid, with its spidery legs, crawled out of the space pod and onto the foreign soil of the planet Mars. The droid's head rotated around slowly ninety degrees to the left and then to the right, its one eye taking in every detail it could. Its vision was not very clear, for it was all in black-and-white and had too much static interfering, and the lens were always trying to focus, zooming in and out repeatedly at the worst of times. When the lens stopped focusing about six minutes later, the droid, number RC-546B, settled on some red rocky sand dunes ahead and took its first step on its journey, now and then taking pictures around it, whatever would make the scientists back home on Earth happy.
(Scene switches to some red rocky sand dunes on Mars…)
Up ahead in some red rocky sand dunes, in the midst of the sand-filled atmosphere, lies a spaceship. Its armor a radiant red, sleek and shining, a beaming yellow star that was made up of five triangles on the top front, it was the jewel of all the other spacecrafts in the universe. Inside of the beauty, there live the owners.
There are four of them: a father, a mother, the older brother, and the little sister. The father, also the head chief of the spacecraft, had graying hair and a grayish-black mustache, and wore a royal blue space suit that consisted of dark blue boots and gloves, a light blue belt that was actually a communicator device, and a light blue five-pointed star logo stitched on the chest. On his head was a royal blue helmet, a very stylish accessory worn back at home. He had the most optimistic influence on the family. The mother, the kindest and the most understanding of the family, had shoulder length reddish brown hair that curled at the ends, and also wore a space suit but it was orange with golden yellow accessories and wore an orange helmet. The fifteen-year-old brother, with tan hair and skin tone, just like the rest of the family, was very rough and had a pinch of arrogance in his self-esteem ever since he was made co-captain of the spaceship. He wore a green suit and helmet with dark green gloves, boots, etc. Now, the younger sister, who was merely ten-years-old, was tamer, but could get really snappy once her temper is triggered. Her suit was a violet color, with purple gloves and boots and purple communicator belt, and a purple star logo on her chest. Her helmet was a vivid violet. She had brown hair, with a touch of red in it, which rested on her shoulders and curled at the ends just like her mother's. She had bangs that covered across her forehead, except for the triangle shaped cut in the smack middle.
The family's current behavior was dim and low energized. The fifteen-year-old son was leaning backward in the driver's seat with his feet over the dashboard and his arms behind his head, taking a nap; the mother was sewing up a hole on one of the family's outfits in the center of the room, the ten-year-old daughter was on her belly with her legs crossed in the air, tinkering with a spinning top toy in the right corner, and the father was scanning over a map of the universe on a table to the left of the mother. The daughter, tired of the never-ending silence, finally put down the toy and spoke up. "Mom, I'm bored. Can't I go outside?" Not looking up, the mother responded, "No, Lexi, dear, it's too dangerous. Perhaps tomorrow, when the dust storm dies down a notch." The father, half-listening to the sudden conversation, now looks up from his map and joins in, "And speaking of which, isn't your brother Lexus supposed to keep watch today?" He looks over to Lexus, currently asleep. "Lexus. Lexus? Lexus!" At the sound of his name, Lexus suddenly jerks up and awake, his feet hitting the dashboard and almost toppling over the chair. "What, what? What's happening?" Chuckling, the father calmly answers, "Oh, nothing at all, son, just making sure that you're not asleep on the job! Ha, ha!"
"A-gain!" Lexi intervenes. Lexus suddenly turned toward his sister. "Why don't you just be quiet for once in your life?" His sister stuck out her tongue, and so did Lexus.
"Oh, kids, why don't you just get along for once in your lives? Eh?" Their father said teasingly and then chuckled. "Did you get it? Get along for once in your lives? Oh…that was good!"
"Yeah, yeah, we get it, Dad," his children dismissed the joke.
"Well now that we are all up and spirited, let's all play hide-and-seek!" the mother suggested out-of-the-blue. "Now who's going to seek first?"
"Oh, me, me, me, me, me!" the father waved his hand in the air and the mother laughed playfully, and even the two siblings couldn't resist but to smile genuinely. Suddenly, a red light started to flicker on and off on the dashboard, letting of a little beeping noise every time it blinked, and startled the family. The brother, in the driver's seat, swiftly rolled over to the dashboard, entered a code into the keyboard on the board, and watched intently as the gargantuan window shield, viewing over the sandy land, abruptly turned into a computer screen, showing different areas around the spacecraft. There were cameras around the ship to record and report whatever is happening around the area, about eight of them in all. The computer automatically zoomed into one of the cameras, camera number four, which viewed the top of the ship and zooms in about two-hundred feet at maximum. When the camera focused, it revealed a small droid crawling its way toward the spaceship, not seeming to know that they were there, but had the full desire to stay going straight toward them anyway. The mother frowned, the father just stared pointblank, and Lexi, staring into the screen, dropped her jaw. Oh, not again, she thought. We already had to endure this on Venus!
"Uh…Dad?" Lexus said without looking away from the droid on the screen. His face appeared to be filled with Anxiety.
"Not to worry, everyone!" the father declared without a trace of worry, pointing a finger toward the ceiling. "We were going to leave this place anyway, so start up the engines, Lexus, before the droid sees us!" Lexus got to work immediately, and Lexi held on to her mother, not too desperately, but firmly. After starting up the engines, Lexus took the wheel and lifted the spaceship slowly off the ground, the hot air blowing outside the ship puffing up dust and sand. Meanwhile, the droid catches the disturbance in the area, but being a droid and having only one purpose in life, which was to take pretty pictures of this planet, it ignores it completely. The spaceship, now hovering over the land and fully heated up and ready to go, Lexus switches gears to drive mode and turns the ship around, punches a few buttons on the control panel, and blasts off out of the planet's atmosphere. All the droid could see in this whole time was a big dust cloud and more static as the lens tried to refocus once more.
Chapter 4, coming your way soon. Oh, and btw, I won't upload any chapters until I get 4 more reviews (because I like getting reviews)! Muah-ha-ha-ha! So, please, R&R! 8D
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