As the Ghost flew over Mars' surface, hovering close to the red brick ground for some reason Kanan wasn't explaining, Emmet, Wyldstyle, Laval, Perri and Zeon were waiting in the cargo hold of the ship for the signal that they were at the point Kanan and his crew were dropping them off at.
"Wonder where they're dropping us off at?" thought Perri aloud, not speaking to anyone in particular; though the others looked at her, wondering the same question in silence.
Well, all apart from Emmet.
The construction worker was looking at his hands as he rested them in his lap; he couldn't understand what was going on.
Chase hadn't said anything about blocking Master Builders from using their building ability; he just said that it was something to keep track of them. Was this something that Chase had kept them in the dark about…or was there something else to this?
He shook his head slightly as he tried to focus on the task at hand; they just needed to get to Mars. He'd worry about the other thing later.
"Babe, you OK?" asked Wyldstyle softly, taking a seat on a container next to Emmet, gently settling one of her hands on Emmet's hand; lightly squeezing his hand to get his attention when he didn't respond to her at first.
Emmet lifted his head up and looked over at Wyldstyle, before he sighed softly, saying, "I…It's nothing Lucy; honestly. Don't worry about it…"
But Wyldstyle didn't drop the subject just yet; she replied with, "Babe…Emmet, I know something's wrong. Is about what happened earlier?"
Emmet looked away when Wyldstyle asked this question, but Wyldstyle gently lifted her other hand to his chin and turned his head back around so that it was facing her again.
"You can tell me anything…" she said softly, trying to keep Emmet's focus on her. Trying to get him to forget about everyone else in the cargo hold at the moment.
"I know I can, Lucy…and they're nothing to talk about," said Emmet softly, looking up at Wyldstyle gently; a caring look in his eyes, trying to say to Wyldstyle that he was fine without usual words.
Wyldstyle opened her mouth to respond to Emmet, but she was interrupted when Kanan came into the cargo hold of the Ghost.
"We're here," he said, before he approached the side of the hold as the others all got to their feet. Kanan approached a control panel for the cargo holds door and pressed a few buttons, before slowly pulling down a lever.
As the lever went down, hatches on the top of one of the walls separated from the roof and one of the walls slowly lowered. The Master Builders, and Laval, approached the edge of the wall as it lowered itself to the ground, revealing the outside world of Mars.
The red bricks surrounded them, with a dark red dust blowing around the Ghost, the dust whipping out and around the now open hatch, causing all of the figures in the cargo hold to lift their forearms up to cover their eyes from the dust.
In the distance, standing out against the dust red colour of the planet's surface, there was a large mass of white and light orange; it looked like an advanced city, but no-one could tell what it was from this far away.
Though there was something that was visible.
"Guys, look…something's coming," said Perri, pointing forward as she said this. The others looked at the direction that Perri was point at.
Sure enough, there was a small column of dust getting thrown up into the air as something approached them; it was coloured white, whatever it was, but they couldn't make out any details as of yet.
"That must be Blockington," said Tanan, lifting his hand to his eyes and narrowing his eyes slightly.
Sure enough, after coming over the last hill on the rocky surface of the Red Brick Planet, appeared a vehicle that looked designed to appear to work on Mars.
The orange wheels were extremely large and rugged, and they seemed to be able to move independently to the other five wheels of the currently vehicle. The white plates that made up the vehicle looked fairly weathered, and the orange accents on the vehicle, which must have been rather nice the first time it was painted, were now faded and completely off in some areas.
The orange tinted cockpit sat at the front of the vehicle, with what appeared to be a folded up robotic arm to the side of the cockpit, and what appeared to be another orange tinted glass covering the back of the vehicle; going down the spine, between the white plates.
With a grinding of gears and a pillar of black smoke coming out of one of the exhaust vents behind the cockpit, the large vehicle came to a stop; the suspension working overtime underneath the vehicle at the sudden stop.
The cockpit opened up, a little hiss of air coming out as the glass opened up, and a figure stepped out. A long ladder set appeared from the bottom of the cockpit that attached to the side of the cockpit, going down to the rocky ground.
Grabbing onto the ladder, the figure that stepped onto the ladder, but instead of climbing down, the figure slid down the ladder until they landed on the surface of Mars.
The figure, who was wearing a white spacesuit with a few orange and grey accents and important additions to the suit, such as dials that read out important information for the astronaut, and a silver zip. A white helmet covered his head, complete with a golden visor, covered the head of the figure. The sunlight reflected off said visor as the figure turned to face the Ghost, and began approaching the ship.
Tapping the side of their visor, the golden eye cover slowly moved up from covering the eyes from the constant exposure to sunlight, revealed the face of the figure in question.
She had thin red lips, and soft blue eyes.
"So, you're the ones I'm picking up from my friends on the Ghost, eh?" asked the girl, a bit of a chuckle in her voice as she looked at the Master Builders. While the golden part of the visor was up, there seemed to be another, clear visor over the helmet.
"Yep, this is them, Aleena," said Kanan, gesturing to the Master Builders and Laval.
"Alright, we better get going. And you're going to need to be quick; here, have these," said Aleena, before she whistled up to the vehicle that she had arrived in.
Out from the cockpit, another figure, wearing an identical space suit to what Aleena was wearing, came out from the cockpit and jumped out, completely ignoring the ladder provided to help her down.
Landing on the ground on the opposite side of the cockpit to the ladder, and kicking up a small cloud of dust-made of bricks-, the other astronaut approached the group; there seemed to be several light grey canisters in her arms.
"This is Cindel," introduced Aleena to the Master Builders.
Cindel tapped the side of her helmet, the golden visor lifting up to reveal her face. She had thin red lips, light grey eyes, three freckles on each of her cheeks. Though what seemed odd about her was that there were several scars covering her face; as though she had seen battles? The others weren't sure, seeing as they haven't seen her before.
All except Emmet thought that.
The construction worker looked in disbelief at the newest astronaut, blinking slowly in surprise.
"S…Shan, right?" asked Emmet, taking a step forward.
Aleena and Cindel both blinked in surprise, as well as the other Master Builders, Rebels and Laval to look at Emmet strangely.
"…How do you know who I am?" asked Cindel, looking at Emmet suspiciously.
"I…uh…" said Emmet, unable to think of a reason; how could he explain what he saw back at the construction site, where he had that weird vision?
"Let's…Let's just get going," said Wyldstyle, walking past Emmet, giving him a strange look when she passed him, before she carefully took one of the canisters and put the mask on, supplying her with oxygen.
The others, one by one, walked out of the cargo hold and took one of the canisters, putting them on, before Emmet took the last one and he turned back to look at Kanan, who was just joined by Sabine and Chopper.
"Well, I guess this is it," said Emmet, looking at the crew of the Ghost.
"Looks like it…maybe we'll see each other again," said Kanan, a small smile on his face as he faced the group.
"Alright, we gotta fly," said Sabine, before they all headed out of the cargo hold and into the main body of the ship.
A few seconds later, the cargo hold door closed up again and the ship slowly began flying again, and as it slowly turned around and, without any word or warning, the Ghost shot off into the distance, thanks to the hyperdrive.
Emmet turned to the astronauts, and said, "Well, we should get going…"
With a nod, Aleena and Cindel both climbed into the vehicle and gestured for the others to follow them in.
Once they were all seated, the vehicle started up again after the engine turned over a few times, and they headed off to the base.
After a few minutes of driving and of awkward silence, they arrived at the Mars base, where they got out the vehicle again, heading into the main part of the base.
"Where do you think we should start searching?" asked Wyldstyle to Emmet as they entered the decontamination area of the base, air hissing over all of them in an attempt for any contaminations they gained from the outside world.
Wyldstyle was about to answer when the door in front of them slowly opened up, revealing someone that they didn't expect to find here.
"Hello everyone," said Chase calmly, as he pointed his pistol at them.
O.O Well, that was unexpected...
Blaze Darkrunner - Well, you'll find out later :)
Just-A-Passer-Named-Fourth - Thanks for the OC! :D That is exactly what I needed!
Nf991, signing out.