The Eggs
It has been a few weeks since they have explored the ship. Sev and Courage are trying to make sure that the planet doesn't get overheated from the heaters and try to remotely turn them off. They are in the control center and check every single machine to make sure that everything is going smoothly.
"Heaters 9, 10, and 14 are shutdown." Sev checks the screen, "Things are cooling down a little."
Courage press some buttons, "Diverting power to pressure devices. Ore extractors and drills are working overtime. Extractor 19 seem to be having some malfunctions."
"Again?" Sev leans to look at Courage. "The hell is going on with extractor 19?"
"I have no idea." Courage looks at some of the video feeds, "Looks like we're getting some pools forming."
Sev looks at his screen and see some areas are starting to flood. The dead coral reefs are getting wet as the water slowly starts to rise. Small streams start to trickle the ancient river beds, ancient underground springs that have dried are slowly starting to fill, and ponds slowly start to form.
"Sweet." Sev smiles, "Hold on. I just remember something." Sev gets off his seat and takes Courage. "C'mon, Courage. It's almost time."
"Time for what?"
"The eggs! Remember?"
Courage thinks about it for a minute and remember those three eggs from the ship. He looks at the terraforming index and sees it is 2.95 MTi and remembers that one of the eggs are supposed to be launched when it reaches 3.
"Oh yeah!" he puts it together, "Let's see what happens!"
The duo have on their suits and ride out to the ship. Once there, they wait patiently to see what will happen as they have rushed over with the index saying 2.99 MTi.
"Counting down." Courage counts down, "5... 4... 3... 2... 1..."
The entire ship starts to light-up and rumble. Sev and Courage take a few steps back as the ship shakes violently right before it stops. Once it stopped, something gets shot into the air. What is heading up into the air is bright as hell and blinding with all the colors of the rainbow. Another shot is fired yet launched something that is purple and blue with leaving an ethereal trail. What launched was the quantum egg and the mystic egg. Both of them explode into the air that coat the entire planet in various colored lights and ethereal vapors. Bathe it in energies that rain down sparkles that hit every corner of the world. Luckily, Courage and Sev have their sun visors on that protect their eyes from the lights.
"Wow." Sev looks up at the beauty, "Just...wow."
Courage extends his hands and catch one of the sparkles that fade away when he touches it.
"Now this is worth it." Courage looks up at the sky.
"I have no words to describe what we are seeing. Other than just...wow."
"Wish we could take some of this stuff with us. The sparkles, I mean. I wonder what they would actually do."
"I have no idea. But the mystic egg might infuse anything it touches with mystical properties. Minerals, metal, even whatever plants we grow."
Before long, the dazzling sky returns to normal with storm clouds coming in from the west. They can see lightning flashing from the distance followed by the loud boom of thunder.
"Another storm coming in." Sev notices.
"Time for us to head back."
The two get back into their truck. They got in, shut the doors and buckle their seat belts. Yet while doing so, Courage notices something on the little computer screen.
"That's weird." he taps the screen, "Is the computer malfunctioning?"
Sev leans in to see what is happening. According to the computer, the terraforming index says 50 MTi, not 3 MTi.
"The hell?" Sev takes a loser look before checking the computer on his suit. "Yeah, my computer also says 50 MTi."
Courage look at his suit computer, "Mine too. We're gonna have to double-check with the computers when we get back. But we should check on extractor 19 again to be sure. Gotta make sure that everything is going smoothly."
The duo make their way to one of the extractors that is near one of the mountains not too far from the ship. They make it to the base of the mountain as the rain starts pouring down and pouring hard. Sev is inspecting the extractor and found a strange substance that is causing some of it to jam. The laser drills stop and the ore is stuck together by the pink, slimy, gooey material.
Sev examines it closer, "The hell is this stuff?"
[Anything wrong?] Courage asks over the radio.
"Yeah, some sort of slime or goo is jamming the mechanisms. Whatever it is, it is sticky, nasty, and possibly hazardous. Good thing I got my helmet on. Let me do a scan."
Sev uses his scanner to see what the slime is. The scan analyze what the stuff is and reveals that it is a bio-hazard.
"Shit!"
[So we do have something wrong.]
"Yeah, something that is bio-hazardous. Whatever it actually is, we need to destroy it before we move on to the next stage of terraforming."
[Yeah, with the rain, that's gonna be hard with all this rain.]
"Hang on, let me try..."
Sev have his hands aimed at the extractor and is about to do something. From his hands, he fires a massive bolt of electricity without burning or damaging his suit. The whole thing is electrocuted with the pink stuff slowly disintegrating by the electricity before it explodes. The whole thing is caught on fire with tremors stirring from where the explosion took place. The whole ground starts to split apart with fire spewing out.
"OH SHIT!" Sev retreats to the truck, "WE NEED TO GET OUTTA HERE!"
Courage hits the truck in reverse and steps on the gas. Then does a turn around and drives forward. Pedal to the metal as the ground behind opens up to reveal fire bursting out. The ground becomes scorch as it tries to catch-up with the truck.
"Floor it!"
"It's floored!"
The ground collapsing behind stops as it starts to cave-in on itself. The whole area start to crumble and fall apart as the truck gain some distance. The entire area then proceeds to flood that douse the flames and fire.
Sev looks back at the side mirror, "The hell just happened?"
"I don't know and I do NOT want to find out."
"Well, whatever it was, it's buried and drowned now. We'll have to come back to figure out what the hell was that shit and make sure none of it will surface again."
"Did you get a sample?"
Sev holds up a cloth with a small pink stain, "I did, but not much of it."
The two made it back home as Courage checks the sample under a microscope. Sev is keeping the cloth with the rest in a glass container and keep it shut to prevent any contamination.
"Where did you get the cloth?" Courage asks while adjusting the microscope.
"Had it stuck onto my suit. That came in handy."
Courage looks into the microscope, "Glad it did. Because we wouldn't have... Huh."
"Found something?"
"Take a look."
Courage backs away and let Sev take a look in the microscope. What he can see is some pink blobs that violently stretch out to become spiky and move around rapidly in a frenzy.
"What is this stuff?" Sev looks at Courage.
"I have no idea. But if we apply something organic to it..."
"Let's use a piece of spinach."
Sev got a piece of spinach and place it onto the substance. Courage takes a look and see the blob cells attacking the piece of spinach and slowly devour it with the remaining bits becoming the substance.
"Hmm." Courage is curious. "We're gonna have to do a deep scan on this to see what it can actually do. In the meantime, we may have to keep an eye out for more of this substance. We may have to eradicate every last one of these before they become a terrible plague."
"What about the stuff we got in the case?"
"Freeze it."
Sev puts the substance in a cryo pod so it won't cause any harm and for further study. Whatever the substance is, it seems to be dangerous to living things.
"If we find anymore, we should destroy them."
"Yeah." Sev agrees, "In the meantime, we should get some moss ready once thing have cleared up."
Courage cleans the microscope with rubber gloves on, "But isn't that until we reach 200 MTi?"
Sev places another lock on the cryo pod, "True, but I decided to accelerate the process. Would like to get some fresh oxygen and outside of the suit."
Courage smiles, "That I can agree on."
Lightning can be seen followed by thunder being heard. The two look out the window and see the massive storm still pouring down with more lightning that flash so bright that the darkness outside is revealed. From what they did manage to see, a river is flowing right down to the dried-up bay and the bay is filling up quite rapidly. The whole world looks like it is starting to flood with water on the ground spreading out to wherever gravity tells them to go.
"Looks like it's gonna be a rough night." Sev says ominously as he look outside.
"At least we're gonna have plenty of water for the moss." Courage tries to be optimistic.
"True." Sev agrees. "But I'm gonna worry about that substance. It did appear to be growing well in water. Best to get an early rest, we're gonna have a big day tomorrow."
After a night's rest, the two exit out and see a major transformation. They see a river flowing into a once empty bay that had dead coral. The bay itself is now full of water with some dead coral floating on the surface and bits of salt that refuse to sink. They are also seeing small streams and creeks in the distance with their binocular vision functions in their helmets.
"Now this is something!" Sev is excited by what he sees.
"Let's plant that moss!" Courage is enthusiastic about it and holds up a jar full of moss.
They start planting moss by the riverbeds where they can get the most water and will spread. They continue to do so until they come across a tier 5 drill that is completely covered in that pink substance and has grown to the point where some mushroom-like things growing on it.
"Damn." Sev noticed, "Looks like there is more of it."
"And they started to grow mushrooms."
"Torch it?"
"I'll get the truck." Courage runs off to get the truck.
After he got it, Sev fires bolts of electricity at the thing and fry the whole thing. Instead of causing the ground to erupt, the whole thing exploded with enough force to blow Sev into the truck.
"Sev!" Courage exits out, "You okay!?" He is worried about Sev after what happened.
"Ow." Sev gets up, "Yeah, I'll be fine." He sounds a little pissed. "Whatever the hell that shit is, it is extremely volatile."
"Maybe you should destroy it in a safe distance."
"Good idea."
After that, the duo continue to fill all the riverbeds with moss and spread them out. The terraforming index is reading oxygen levels that are slowly increasing with the index saying 54 MTi. They continue to spread moss in all the riverbeds they can find and surrounding all the lakes and ponds with the moss. Around sunset on the way back, they noticed that the moss has already started to spread rapidly. They head to the ship and see the moss slowly trying to creep closer to it. So, they decided to take the ship back with them and try to store it in the garage.
"Hey?" Sev looks at Courage after putting the ship away.
"Yeah?"
"Do you think the quantum egg and mystic egg have something to do with the acceleration of the moss that is growing?"
"Possibly."
"Well, the moss has grown way too fast and we just planted them today."
"Hard to say. That stuff is like magic fertilizer or something."
The two head back in.
"Well, I highly doubt that that stuff was responsible for that weird fungus."
"What makes you say that, Sev?"
Sev takes his suit off, "We had a problem with extractor 19 before that shit showed up. We couldn't find the malfunction or any physical problems for a while. It all looked fine. However, it became more apparent after the launching of the eggs."
"Hmm..." Courage put his helmet away and thinks about it. "Maybe we couldn't notice because it was invisible? And maybe those eggs unveiled what was actually happening? It's a theory but as close as we can get to an answer."
"That could be it."
"But again, a theory."
The two look at the terraforming index on the monitor and see it has reached 54 MTi. Almost time for the genesis egg to be launched. They put the ship outside of the garage in order for the egg to be launched without any problems. The two head on over to the window and prepare to see the next egg being launched. They look out and see a wave of green and teal energy spreading out throughout the entire planet with strange green petals falling from the sky like snowflakes.
"Looks like we did a good job." Sev smiles at the sight, "Time to turn-off all those devices, collect the resources and see what happens next."
"Already turning off the heaters, drills, and all that." Courage hops on a chair and press a few buttons to turn off those terraforming devices.
The next day, the two woke-up and are amazed by what they see outside. Lush green as far as the eye can see, tall trees that have risen high overnight, all kinds of plants that look like the ones from Earth yet there are a ton of different plants from fiction from fantasy to sci-fi. Not only that, animals can be seen with some grazing on the new vegetation while other animals feast on the other animals. The whole planet is now brimming with life that now inhabit this once dead planet. The two of them decided to exit their home without their suits. They can breathe in the fresh air at long last as a reward for their efforts on terraforming the world. The two smile with their mouths agape as the world is now open to new possibilities.
"C'mon, Courage!" Sev walks out while looking back, "Let's see what's out there!"
"Yay!" Courage tags along and is excited to see what is out there.
Ship Computer
{Terraforming Complete.
Initiating portals to let in inhabitants.
First wave begins in: 49:15:30
49:15:29
49:15:28}
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