The show must go on so here is the 4th chapter, hope enjoy and review.

LD: Titan AE is not mine

The old man stood there terrified before showing any kind of reaction. He was scared out of his mind. He had spent most of his life looking a space but he had never been so terrified before and I mean never not even when the Drej had destroyed Earth. An asteroid the same size of Manhattan island was in a straigh collision course towards Earth, and he was the only one who had seen it, well him and other people with telescopes but he was sure the government didn't, after all there weren't any official observatories in New Earth, well there were three but still under construction.

There weren't any early warning devices deployed in outer space, New Earth was completely defenseless. He knew he had to contact the authorities and tell them what he had seen, but he was afraid he would be dismissed as a crazy old man. Oh god what a predicament he was in. Finally he decided to do what was right and took off in his almost broken down vehicle, an old Jeep from the Earth's Self Defense Forces. If people died it wouldn't be because he hadn't tried to save them.

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Cale, Akima, Bob and Nanami were in Neo Bangkok's volunteer corps HQ. The day after the reunion, some of the chiefs left behind chose to meet with them to stablish some steps for the constitution of a police force. Chief Lin, the "Sheriff" and Neo Bangkok's chief Lee, an old policeman from Beijing, were explaining that in some cities the Volunteer corps were as corrupt as the mafia families that had been appearing lately. Two out of three recommended the establishment of an intern affairs organization to control such things nbut chief Lin rejected the idea and was in favor of establishing an intern affairs department on each Police Department just like in the old world.

"This is not the old world" Chief Lee said with a serious face. "Besides we need people who haven't worked as a volunteer before, who hasn't developed bonds within the departments, they must be impartial"

"I agree" the "Sheriff" said. "As much as I hate to say it we need people like that and besides they would respond to the chief of police and Bob and Nanami here"

"But wouldn't that give the corps the impression that we don't trust them?" Cale intervined.

"Those who do nothing wrong or abuse their power will understand, and the other ones will fear" Lee replied.

"Besides it would increase the chance of creating a good police force. Which would mean the army could concentrate on the outside rather than the inside" Akima concluded.

All the persons present nodded but Lin seemed to have some objections left. Everybody looked at her but she finally nodded.

"As long as they respond to me as well I have no problems" she finally said.

"No" The "Sheriff" replied. "They will only respond to the chief of all the police departments of New Earth, we will also establish here the main HQ"

Lin sighed but finally nodded as she knew she was fighting a lost battle. Her father would not like this.

Outside the chief's office shouting could be heard, a man's shouting. As Cale looked outside he saw several volunteers with their black uniforms trying to reduce an old black man.

"Let me in!" The man shouted as more volunteers went to stop him. "I need to see your boss! We are all in great danger! The asteroid is coming!"

Cale was shocked. "The poor man has lost it" he thought to himself. Chied Lee steped out of his office to see what was the conmotion about, so did shortly afterwards the rest of the people. The "Sheriff"'s eyes widened as he recognised the man before them.

"Carl?" He said with a voice of a clearly surprised person.

"Nick?" The other man said clearly surprised as well, while the volunteers released him. The two men clearly were surprised. The old black man calmed himself and walked over to the "Sheriff" and they stared at each other. The black man suddenly remembered he was nervous about something.

"Nick!" He shouted "You have to help me! You must evacuate the city! We are all in grave danger!"

The "Sheriff" looked at his friend increduly. Everyone could tell, this man was terrified, but of what.

"Calm down Carl" the "Sheriff" told his friend with a soft voice. His friend did so and sat in a desk not caring if he bothered the volunteer that was working on it.

"This morning I was looking at the stars through my telescope and I've seen it" Carl said.

"An asteroid?" Cale asked increduly, earning himself a warning look from the "Sheriff". The black man just nodded.

"Are you sure?" The "Sheriff" asked with fatherly patience.

"Sadly yes" the man said completely calm now, having people listening finally to his warning calmed him down.

"And how big is this asteroid?" Asked chief Lee with worry filled eyes.

"Twice the size of Manhattan almost" he replied. Everyone gasped in horror, if what that man said was true, they were screwed.

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It took them an hour to confirm what Carl said thanks to a telescope one volunteer brought from her home. When they confirmed the situation they called an astrophysicist to calculate the time of impact. In just five hours New Earth would face destruction or severe damage and they didn't have anything to destroy the object. Most of their spaceships were merchant or transport and none of them were heavily armed.

The "Valkyrie" could have done something but Stith and Gune had been hired for a mission and were out of the planet. Everyone had almost resigned themselves while Cale still tried to think of a way out but with no time to organize and carry an evacuation and nothing to destroy the asteroid with hopelessness began to take over. "How the hell could we overlook the fact that we needed an early warning system? How could we be so stupid?" He thought to himself, an early warning system was not expensive and the aliens made the best warning systems there were, but the government had decided to give priority to other projects, and Akima and him had agreed. Now they were going to pay.

He looked at the hour, just an hour left…

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Here it is a little cliffhanger. Until next time