#starworlds

As Gala’Von X leads everyone to the docking bay, he makes a quick stop at the royals throne room, where The Wells belongings are stored.

Delphi & Ginny split from the main group to retrieve the belongings. They agree to meet everybody else on the opposite end of the hall where the docking bay is.

Ginny and Delphi, walk up to the throne room doors and pushes them in. Inside is Princess Starla, sitting on her thrown.

Princess Starla startled by their entrance: “Ohh!! Hello, I wasn’t expecting you guys to break free. Please don’t kill me.” She begs for mercy.

Ginny: “What? We’re not gonna kill you, we’re just coming to get our stuff so we can leave.”

Delphi: “Though it would be really nice to just blast you in the face… Princess.” She says with animosity.

Princess Starla: “I see.” She reaches inside of her cloud head and pulls out the two backpacks that Ginny & Michael brought with them, their now cracked phones and Dr. Wells wallet and glasses. She then pulls out the tele-orb.

Ginny: “Hey! You had our stuff the whole time?”

Princess Starla: “My mom, was going to destroy all of it, but I saw how of value they were, so I stored them in my cloud pocket. I keep all of my stuff inside my head.”

Ginny: “Wow, that’s really cool!!”

Delphi: “Great, we found your stuff. Let’s steal a ship and get outta here.”

Princess Starla: “Where are you guys going?”

Ginny: “Actually, we don’t know. I know Delphi wants to go back to her homeworld. But, it’s space, and I’ve always wanted to see other worlds!! Your world is beautiful. a bit too strict, but beautiful. Maybe on our journey we can find more planets, and maybe even my mom.”

Princess Starla: “Your mom? Is she—“

Ginny: “An extraterrestrial lifeform, well yeah.. I think.”

Princess Starla: “That all sounds so amazing. I’d love to come with you, but sadly I’m stuck here, helping my mom conquer other worlds, and observing our colonized planets.”

Ginny: “Why do you guys have to conquer so many planets?”

Princess Starla: “Mainly for resources, to help disadvantaged civilizations, and to spread our species. I think it’s harmful, but my mother has been doing this for two eons. And once she’s turned into a White Dwarf Cloud, I’ll be leading the empire. Not something I really want to do, but it’s something I have to do.”

Ginny grew curious: “What do you want to do?”

Princess Starla: “I really want to heal other worlds, see space for myself outside of teleporting to our colonies. Help other lifeforms, and rewrite my families conquerous acts, and give back to the worlds we’ve destroyed.”

Ginny smiled at the young starling: “Why don’t you come with us? There’s so much for all of us to see. And we can help you!! Plus with our resident space traveler Delphi, we’ll explore and help the planets that need you.”

Delphi: “Uhhhh nooo!! She’s not coming with us, her and her mother are evil Starlizens, just like all of the others that have destroyed worlds just for the heck of it. You waged war on our planet, and caused thousands of casualties, most of my floranoid petal pals are gone because of what your kind have done.”

Princess Starla: “And that’s why I want to rewrite our wrongs, and help planets that need it.”

Delphi crossed her arms, stubborn to the help of Starla’s help.

Ginny: “Um, Princess—“

Starla: “Please, call me Starla. I think regal names are sooo 5 centuries ago.”

Ginny chuckled: “Haha, okay, Starla. It may take sometime for everyone to get used to you, but I can feel your being authentic. I’ll help you on your mission.”

Starla: “Thank you!!!”

Ginny: “Okay, now that our stuff is here, we need to find a ship to get out of here.”

Suddenly, the throne room doors open, and in walks Captain Quiddonimus, panting after running trying to find the escapees.

Quiddonimus: “*pants* My apologies Princess, we couldn’t find those darn escapees, allow me to—“

He glances and sees Ginny holding Starla’s hand, and Delphi levitating beside them. Ginny responds.

Ginny smiles nervously and responds: “Uhh, hi?”

Quiddonimus unsheathes his sword, and walks towards the girls. Delphi floats down infront of them, and begins to ready blast a light beam. Starla interrupts.

Starla: “Wait, don’t do anything.” She hovers over and uses her telekinetic powers to throw Quiddonimus’ sword across the room.

Quiddonimus: “Hey, that’s my sword!! Why are you protecting these escapees, they are dangerous?”

Starla: “No, they’re not. They’re my new friends. And I’m going with them to escape.”

Quiddonimus: “Why?”

Starla: “Starlus is no good for us, you’ve seen it yourself. We’re harming planets, killing innocent lifeforms, and conquering their worlds, all for what? Our own empires needs?”

Quiddonimus: “But General Alraa always said it was important to expand our empire! She and The Queen knows what’s right.”

Starla: “What we’re doing isn’t right. You can try and stop us, but I know you’re too kind to harm us. You never do.”

Ginny: “Except when he kidnapped my Dad, and hurt him. Let us go, you overgrown tiger.”

Quiddonimus: “Tiger? What is a tiger?”

Ginny: “You are, you don’t know what your own species is?”

Quiddonimus: “No, I’m a Starlizen, I was born here on Starlus. Don’t try and trick me, human.”

Starla: “Please Quiddy, let my new friends go. Why don’t you come with us to help mend the relationship of our empire and our colonies?”

Quiddonimus: “No, I must stay here. And you two are coming with me” He points to Ginny and Delphi, reaches for his hand cuffs.

Delphi quickly strikes him with a light beam, the beam sending him all the way back to the opposite end of the throne room.

Starla startled by the sudden altercation, Quiddonimus slowly starts to get up after being lightly knocked unconscious by Delphi. Ginny pulls out her tele-orb, and sets her intention to teleport to the ship docking bay. A portal opens, Delphi, Ginny, and Starla walk through.

Quiddonimus thinks to himself: “Aughh, I can’t let her go on her own…” He quickly gets up runs out of the throne room, following them in pursuit to the docking bay.

___

In the docking bay were several unattended ships. Some that were as big as Earths moon, and others that could only fit one guard. Gala’Von walks them over to make their selection of what space ship they want to chose.

Gala’Von: “Quickly, chose a ship that will fit all of you, don’t touch one that you don’t plan to steal.”

They looked at every ship of every size, but none of them seemed right. Michael walked over to one that was in the middle of the bay, a metallic mauve color that was about the size of a private jet, but small enough to easily leave out of the docking bay without being detected.

Michael: “Dad, let’s get this one!!”

They all looked at the ship and approved of the choice.

Dr. Wells: “Good idea son, looks big enough, and spacious.”

Astromancer: “And it’s colors are reflective of mine.”

Dr. Wells: “Alright, come on, let’s get in!”

Michael replies: “Wait, what about Ginny & Delphi?”

Before Michael, Astromancer, and Damien went in, they noticed a small sparkle that began to grow larger, they realized it was actually a portal, and out came Ginny, Delphi, & Starla with all of their belongings.

Ginny pants and shouts: “GUYS HURRY WE NEED TO GET IN A SHIP NOW!!!”

Dr. Wells exclaims: “Wait, why do you have the Princess with you.”

Ginny: “She’s coming with us to fix her empires wrongs from all of the colonies they’ve conquered.”

Dr. Wells looked at the young cloud, and asked her: “Do ya know how to pilot a ship?”

Starla reassured him: “I’ve had my experiences.”

Dr. Wells: “Great your one of us. Now let’s go!!”

Delphi replies: “Finally, we can get off of this floating space cloud!!!”

Gala’Von opened the door to the ship, and everyone quickly rushed inside. When they walked in, they saw how beautiful it was. The ship was big enough to fit 15 passengers. It had a staircase that led to 5 rooms & a captain’s deck for lounging & viewing space through its windows. It had a holograph projection table, wide and lengthy enough for all of them to sit, and view things on the projector. And near the front of the ship was the control bridge, with piloting controls, projector devices, and a hole that fit perfectly for the tele-orb to warp them to their next destination.

There was an abrupt impending sound of metal boots running towards them. When the doors opened, it was General Alraa, and a swarm of guards following behind her. She stood there, snarling at the escapees for stealing one of her ships.

Alraa: “A couple of escaped prisoners stealing our ships & androids, todays my lucky day.”

Ginny stared at Alraa, she ran out of the ship preparing to confront her. Dr. Wells concerned for his daughters safety shouted.

Dr. Wells: “GINNESSA!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

Then, Delphi & Astromancer walk out of the ship to follow Ginny. Alraa glared at them, concerned for the Princesses safety. She ordered her guards to attack.

Alraa: “GUARDS! ATTACKKK!!!”

The guards ran toward them all, Ginny was extremely furious, the anger and rage she felt from Alraa, mixed with her own only grew stronger. And with a sudden blow, she pushed her hands out emitting a strong energy, an energy she hadn’t felt since her and her Dad talked the night they discovered Delphi.

Ginny screamed: “STAYYY AWAYYY!!!”

A red aura surged from out of her, and it pushed back all of the guards as if it was a tidal wave. Stunned by her new power, she turned to Delphi to fight head on. Delphi emitted a small, sharp light fragments out of her hands, lined them up to strike for a powerful attack. Astromancer, now packed with his own set of energy, turned his hand into a ray blaster, and emitted purple energy balls at all of the guards.

Alraa dodged Astromancer’s attacks, and they went toe to toe, he swiftly danced around her sabersword slashings and quickly got behind her to blast her in her back. This knocked Alraa seven feet away from them, only for her to get back up, and run towards them. She pulled out her nova blaster, and shot at Delphi, Delphi absorbed the attack and redirected it back at Alraa. Ginny now feeling slightly weak, she rushed back to the ship, where her brother and father consoled her. Gala’Von X walks out of the ship trying to make a peace treaty between the two, he stood in the middle of each side fighting and shouted.

Gala’Von X: “No more fighting!! This is unbecoming of a General, do you all not care about poor old me…”

Gala’Von X dramatically acted as if he had been kidnapped, only to give Delphi & Astromancer spare time to enter the ship and escape with the others. He turned his head by 180° to give them a wink that things were all good. Starla started up the ship, Ginny looked at the placeholder infront of the control bridge, and saw a hole that was the perfect size for an orb shaped object. She took the tele-orb out of her bag, and sat it in the hole, the tele-orb began to illuminate, and activate into the ship, gaining a connection to the light thrusters, so that it could create a portal in front of the ship when needed to. Ginny makes her intent known of where she would like to go.

Ginny: “Tele-orb, take us to a destination that is far from Starlus, a place where we can find someone who has the knowledge of space—“

Michael Francis interrupted: “And a place with good food, I’m starvinggg.”

The tele-orb activated upon the intended request, and it opened a portal to a new destination, for the team to explore.

Following behind was the large menacing beast Quiddonimus, who grabbed ahold on a side of the ship. Stabbed his sword into the ship and held tight as the ship transported into the galaxy.

___

Later that day, General Alraa was ordered into the Queens throne room. The Queen wanted to know what all had happened while she was in her resting chamber.

Alraa replied: “Dr. Wells & his band of escapees stole one of our ships, the android, and left.”

Queen Beamstar: “Go on…”

Alraa: “And the human girl, she attacked us with a wave of strong red aura. I think she may have Cosmatrix abilities.”

Queen Beamstar: “Mhmm, I see, so the human girl has powers now. And Dr. Wells and his bandits stole another thing that belongs to me again… Humans are so

Alraa: “That’s not all… Princess Starla, was taken by them too.”

Queen Beamstar: “THEY DID WHAT???”

Alraa: “I tried to fight back and so did my guardsmen, but that girl was too strong, I had never felt a presence like that.”

Queen Beamstar was furious, she used her telekinetic powers to bring General Alraa closer to her, she’s then demanded.

Queen Beamstar: “Do whatever you must to bring those lowlife bandits back here as soon as you can. Let’s see what all they’ve really got, we may need special forces for this one.”

General Alraa was perplexed, but she soon realized what special forces she meant.

Alraa: “You can’t possibly mean…”

Queen Beamstar replied: “Ohh yesss my dear General. We’re going to need a darker entities assistance…” She manically laughed as a crooked smile began to firm on her face.

Things were only going to get dangerous from here…

(To be continued—)

Delphi groggling, Ginny runs over to her aid.

Ginny consoles Delphi, as she is concerned for her new friends well-being.

Ginny: “Hey… what’s wrong?”

Delphi: “Everything… I get sucked into a black hole, teleports me to a different galaxy, I crash land on Earth, I’m stuck with you guys with no way of getting back home, and now we’re imprisoned in my enemies jail cell, all because of a stupid android. And now, i’m starting to wilt.

Ginny: “I’m so sorry that all of this is happening to you, it’s all my fault…”

Delphi looks over at Ginny who begins to feel sorry for herself. She sits up to hold Ginny’s hand, and comforts her.

Delphi: “It’s not, entirely your fault. Yeah you guys basically got us arrested, but I should’ve done more to stop them from getting us captured.”

Michael Francis: “I guess we all have a part in this mess.” He walks over to sit beside Delphi & Ginny.

Ginny: “Even if this didn’t happen, I’m glad that at least were here together.”

They all form in for a big hug. After the big hug and reconciliation was over, all three of them try to find a way out of their jail cell.

Ginny: “If anybody can find a hole in a wall, or a small ventilation space, let me know.”

Michael Francis: “I can’t find one.”

Ginny: “How updated is this prison cell that they don’t have ventilation spaces, or even a small hole in the wall.”

Michael Francis: “Well these are highly advanced metal prisons.”

Ginny: “True…”

Ginny glances over at Delphi, who’s struggling to walk.

Ginny: “Hey, Delphi are you okay?

Delphi: “Yeah, *coughs* I’m alright.”

Delphi turns around, and Ginny spots a device attached to her back.

Ginny: “What’s that on your back?”

Delphi: “It’s a light trapper, these twigs invented them during the battle of my homeworld when trying to conquer it some centuries ago. They would put it on our backs and chests to keep us from absorbing any light, which leaves us weak, and if we go long periods of time without light, we’ll start to wither away.”

“There’s gotta be away we can get that off of you.”

Ginny scans the room trying to find a tool she can use to break the light trapper device on Delphi’s back. She glanced over at a large metal screw, designed with lots of high-tech, she picked it up, and ran over to Delphi to try and break the trapper off of her. After a few stabs, the trapper breaks, Delphi is free, but she still feels wounded.

Ginny: “You’re free!!”

Delphi chuckled: “Thank you, Ginny!!”

Delphi slowly starts to feel better, but with little photonic energy left she’s still struggling to walk.

Delphi mildly out of breath: “I’m still a little low on energy, but I think it should slowly comeback.”

Ginny concerned: “I wish there was a way I could heal you back to shape…”

Ginny puts her hand on her back, feeling such deep compassion for her, she closes her eyes, just imagining herself healing Delphi. After a few seconds, a bright warm feeling generates from Ginny’s hand. It was as if she was creating a warm light for Delphi. She was creating a warm light for her.

Delphi feels the warm sensation, and she starts to recharge. She levitates, and transforms back to her light-based hue, now absorbing the light from Ginny & the neon lights in their prison cell. Much to Ginny’s surprise, she was shocked at what she had just discovered. Michael staring in amazement.

Delphi screams in excitement: “Aaahhhhhh!!!! I’m back, I’m reformed, I’m rejuvenated!! How did you do that Gin?”

Ginny: “I- I don’t even know, but that was sooo cool!!”

Michael: “You- you have powers!!!”

Ginny: “Yeah… yeah, I think I do!!”

Ginny slowly starts to get more and more excited at this revelation. She jumps for joy and everyone else does too!

Delphi: “That was such a warm light!! I’ve never felt anything that warm before. It was as if… you healed me with it.”

Ginny: “I don’t know how I did it, I guess with me understanding and feeling your pain, I wanted to make you feel better. I guess my intent and the compassion I felt created a bright light for you. People have said that my aura does shine a lot brighter than most peoples.”

Delphi: “Hmm, maybe being a human isn’t so bad after all.”

Michael Francis: “This is soooo AWESOME!!! My sister has superpowers!!”

With all of Delphi’s energy, she creates a medium sized ball of light, and shoots it at the cell door, it was strong enough that it left a big enough hole for all of them to squeeze through.

After they all came through, the sound of an alarm began to ring across the halls. They all begin to run, and as soon as they were, a trail of seven guards followed right behind them.

___

Shortly after everyone breaks out, Dr. Wells is busy at work helping the head advisor of all android creation, and customization, Gala’Von X. A very regal, flamboyant, and dramatic android. He’s very vain and just as pompous as the queen herself.

Gala’Von X: “So, Dr. Wells, how are the diagnostics coming along, are these androids doing well to the sentient updates being programmed into them?”

Dr. Wells: “Well yes, I’m trying to run these diagnostics, but it’s gonna take me a few minutes to remember the coding I programmed in for Astromancer.”

Gala’Von X: “What is this, Astromancer you speak of? Is it as glamorous as I?”

Dr. Wells: “No, but he’s very special to me. I may have stolen him from here, but he’s something I’m just as passionate about as my own kids. If anything happens to them…”

Gala’Von X: “Ohh, you mean that outdated rusted piece of tech you brought in, and stole from me. We’ve upgraded him with our finest of technology, he’s got a sleeker build, and his own set of powers.”

Dr. Wells: “You did WHAT?”

Gala’Von X: “We did you a favor, that thing would never last outside of battle.”

Dr. Wells was cross, he manhandled Gala’Von and pinned him against a wall.

Dr. Wells: “That wasn’t his purpose, you’re messing up all of the hard work I put into programming him. You people are a bunch of bastardess monsters.”

Gala’Von X smirked at Dr. Wells, leaned forward only mere centimeters away from his lips, Dr. Wells grew nervous at what the android would do. Gala’Von spinned Damien around and pinned him against the wall now. Intimidating him, using his own smooth charm.

Gala’Von X: “Oh wow, you’re one of the prettiest creatures that I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. Would hate to see them go to waste and be turned into something like that of a cyborg…”

Gala’Von came in closer, Damien slightly quivering in fear.

Gala’Von X: “Now look pretty boy, let’s make ourselves a deal. I bring in your precious bot toy, to help in the diagnostics, and you code the EXACT programming so that these battle androids are ready to be shipped off. If you don’t do as I say, I will have my way with your eyes, then your torso and your spine, everything that was once yours will become mine. And you will be my own experiment. Got it.”

Dr. Wells scared for his own life replies: “Ye-yes… I got it.”

Gala’Von X: “Good”.

Gala’Von left to go find the new and improved Astromancer. Dr. Wells quickly goes back into programming the correct code, to make the battle androids as sentient as he made Astromancer. It took nothing but 1 minute for Gala’Von to retrieve him.

Gala’Von X: “Well, well, well, look who has arrived. Your bot toy is here, Dr. Wells.”

Damien turned around, stunned at the new and improved look of Astromancer. He has a much more sleeker design, the same as before, but with a better face plate, and more humanoid curvaceous body build. It reminisced of Gala’Von’s own structure. The purple trimmings along Astro’s body was now including small specks of green spots, and chromatic metal covering his entire body.

Dr. Wells: “Astromancer… you look… wowww”

Astromancer: “Thank you Creator, I feel amazing!!”

Dr. Wells gets teary eyed: “You still remember the nickname you gave me.”

Gala’Von X: “Of course he does, we aren’t that evil.”

Astromancer & Dr. Wells get to work on programming the battle androids. Gala’Von supervising over them.

___

In the throne room of the Starlus Palace, Princess Starla & Queen Beamstar were conversing with two of their guard members. Both of high statuses. The first being the oldest guard, General Alraa. She had a serpent-esque, features and an abrasive, yet cunning personality to match. Her armor was well fitted to her own body type, and her fluffy cloud hair beginning to fade from a periwinkle blue to a grayed state, a sign of her age. The other guard being Captain Quiddonimus, who ranked one rank below Alraa. He was a large, rugged tiger, with more alien markings to differentiate himself. He stood at 9’ft tall, and had the muscles and body build to destroy anything in his way. Below his intimidating persona lied a much more regal, and softer side that he rarely showed to anyone else, but Alraa, as she was the one who trained and raised him as a cub.

The two stood in front of the floating thrones in the cloud filled throne room. Queen Beamstar sipping on her Neptune Blast Freezicoda, heavily intoxicated by it, was trying to keep her composure in front of her guards.

Queen Beamstar sluggishly speaks: “I-I’m sorry, umm, what was the reason you two are here?”

Alraa: “We’re here to consult with you on what the charges will be for Doctor Damien Jerome Wells, and his acts of robbery and tampering with our technology.”

Quiddonimus: “I gave him a good pieces of payback for what he did.” He cracks his knuckles and smirks.

Princess Starla: “He’ll be helping Gala’Von with programming the battle androids to be shipped and deployed to our colony on Arius 25 B.”

Quiddonimus: “And what about his android, and those kids that came with him?”

Princess Starla: “The android & Dr. Wells will both be assisting Gala’Von. As for the other humans, they’re safely stored inside of our low risk containment cells.”

Alraa: “Low risk, but wasn’t there a florigan that was stored in their? I’m sorry for speaking so out of turn your heinous, but if they escape with the likes of, and find the android & Dr. Wells, they’ll surely be a security threat. Isn’t that a cause for concern.”

Queen Beamstar: “Ohh my dearest General, I know that you’re always on high alerts, I mean with everything you’ve witnessed on the grounds of battle, but you have no reason to worry. My young cloud puff has everything under control.”

Then, in the the Hall of Justice, the warning bells begin to alarm the guards. They all begin to run after a group of escapees, being Ginny, Delphi, and Michael Francis.

Queen Beamstar shouts: “What is that?”

Alraa: “The prisoners, they’ve escaped!!” She drawls out her sabersword from her scabbard, runs and kicks the throne room doors open.

Quiddonimus: “I-I’ll protect you two!!”

Princess Starla: “No, go and find them, I’m coming with you!!”

Queen Beamstar: “No you are not, you are staying right here.”

Princess Starla whines: “But Mom!!!”

Queen Beamstar shouts: “No buts, you will stay right here young starling!!”

Princess Starla crosses her arms, and pouts. Quiddonimus stands guard in front of both thrones.

Queen Beamstar continues to drink her freezicoda.

___

The team runs down the halls, evading the ray blasts coming from the guards nova blaster guns.

Ginny: “Crap, how are we gonna get them off our tracks?”

Delphi flying right beside Ginny, she thinks of a good plan that could help stop the guards.

Delphi: “Can you fight?”

Ginny: “Yeah, why?”

Delphi: “Hang on!!”

Delphi grabs Ginny and flings her at the guards. Ginny lands right on top of two of them, and begins going hand to hand against them. Knocking them both out with punches and kicks to the face. Delphi grabs both of their nova blaster guns, and shoots the other three in the feet. Right as she does that, the guards drop their guns screaming in agony, and they set off small blasts aiming towards her. Using her powers, Delphi absorbs the blasts, and redirects them through her hand, shielding Michael from a beam that was coming his way.

Michael: “Woah, thanks Delphi.”

The trio continue running down the hall, before more guards begin to come out of a corridor and run after them. Delphi zooms further ahead and gets a sight of Astromancer ahead of them.

Delphi: “Guys, I see Astromancer.”

Michael & Ginny run to the end of the hall to a big open space that divides into different rooms. One room being an open facility for parts and service, there that’s where they meet Astromancer.

The Trio: “ASTROMANCER!!!”

Astromancer turns around and waves

The Trio scream: “HELP US!!!”

Astromancer sees up to 10 guards chasing after them with nova blasters. He quickly runs to them.

Astromancer: “Woah, there guardsmen, what seems to be the issue?”

Guard One: “These three escapees, broke free from their containment cell for trial & or execution.”

Gala’Von X & Dr. Wells walked out of the facility to see what was the commotion.

Gala’Von X flirtatiously replies: “Well, well, for what do we have the pleasure of having such an exciting fleet of guardsmen pay us a visit.”

Guard Two: “Uh-sorry your royal droidness, we were coming to place these two escapees back to their containment cell.”

Dr. Wells: “Those aren’t escapees, those are my kids and our flower friend.”

Delphi begrudgingly replies: “Florigan”

Guard Five: “Ohh, we’re sorry, but our orders were to put them back in their cell.”

Gala’Von whispers to Dr. Wells: “These are your children?”

Dr. Wells whispers to Gala’Von: “Yes, please don’t met these guards take them.”

Gala’Von ponders: “Hmm. He then turns to talk to the guards.”

Gala’Von X: “Leave them with me, I’ll ensure that they’re placed right back where they escaped from.”

Guard One: “Yes, your royal droidness.”

The guards march away, back to their posts.

Gala’Von X: “Now that is what position of power can do.”

Dr. Wells: “Thank you for that!”

Ginny and Michael rush in to hug their dad.

Dr. Wells: “I missed you both so much. Are you guys okay?”

Ginny: “We’re fine Dad, and thank you, your royal droidness.”

Gala’Von X: “Oh please, call me Gala’Von!!”

Dr. Wells: “How did you guys escape?”

Michael Francis: “It was Delphi & Ginny!!”

Ginny: “We’ve come to rescue you guys so we can leave. I healed Delphi with my powers, and she was able to blast us out of our cell.”

Dr. Wells looking replies stunned: “Oh no…”

Gala’Von X interrupts: “The Queen is really gonna let you guys off the hook? She’s either going soft or this was Princess Starla’s idea. Either way, I suppose I can help you all get a ship to escape.”

Dr. Wells confused: “Really?”

Astromancer: “You would really help us leave, what about us being of service?”

Gala’Von X: “Of course I’ll help, you two have helped me enough. Besides if the Queen catches you all out of your cells, you will DEFINITELY be executed or harvested into something of use.”

They all shiver at the the thought of what could happen. Gala’Von continues.

Gala’Von X: “Needless to say, I appreciate you. Never met such a close group of prisoners like you all.”

Ginny: “Never thought I’d be a prisoner at 18.”

Dr. Wells: “Neither did I.”

Gala’Von X interjects: “Follow me everyone.”

Everyone follows Gala’Von to find their belongings and the docking bay for the ships.

(To be continued—)

With a rush of events happening, Astromancer stands stunned, as he processes what had just happened right before him. Two guards kidnapping his creator, Damien, taking him through a magical gateway to another world. The sounds of the disruption awoke the kids and they rushed down to the laboratory to see what was the commotion, only to be met with a disturbing discovery.

Rushing through the door came Ginny, Delphi, and Michael Francis urgently coming to see what had happened.

Ginny running to Astromancer: “Astromancer, what’s going on?”

Michael following behind her: “Yeah, what was all the ruckus. I was having my sleepy time and *BOOM* I’m disturbed by her and the floating plant girl.”

Delphi: “It’s florigan to you, little sapling.”

Delphi thumps Michael in his back, and slight burn of light came through her fingers and shocked him.

Michael Francis: “Oww!!! Hey!”

Ginny: “You two, knock it off!!”

Both of them looked down with their hands behind their backs.

Ginny: “Astro, where’s Dad?”

Astromancer: “I’m afraid that he’s… been kidnapped.”

Both Ginny and Michael simultaneously shout in despair: “KIDNAPPED??!!”

Astromancer, hesitantly huddles himself near the wall.

Ginny: “What do you mean he was kidnapped? Who could he have been kidnapped by?”

Astromancer: “It was a rather large being, something my data bases can’t quite compute. It looked like a man-tiger, but with armor and very beastlike.”

Michael Francis: “Uhh, Astro I think your circuits might be fried. There’s no such thing as man-tiger beasts with armor, though that does sound cool!!”

Delphi: “I’m afraid he’s right.”

Delphi floats over to pick up a small tuft of fur left behind by the beast. Ginny, Michael and Astromancer look as she analyzes the fur.

Delphi: “Hmm…”

Ginny: “What, what is it?”

Delphi: “This tuft of fur definitely belongs to the commander of the Starlus Army. Commander Quiddonimus.”

Everyone in unison: “Commander Quiddonimus?”

Delphi: “Yeah, just a big ole felile wuss that can’t take a couple of florigans blasting him with light beams. My homeworld has run into the Starlus Empire many times. They’re nothing but a huge tyrannical galactic kingdom, run by a pompous queen and her ‘precious’ starchild.”

Ginny: “Huh, you must not be a fan of them are you?”

Delphi, fans off Ginny’s response: “Pfft, heck no. They’re terrible. They’ve destroyed so many planets. They even had one of their own wipe out an entire galaxy just by absorbing everything with his omnipotency. Very terrible creatures.”

Ginny: “Dang, so where are they?”

Delphi: “They live within the outer reaches of your galaxy, on a piece of a flat planet covered in a cloud city, controlled by other neighboring moons, and small planets that are now governed by them. They’ve tried expanding their empire by going out on missions to conquer other worlds. They tried to conquer ours, but we fought back in style.”

Michael Francis: “Wowww, that sounds so cool!!!”

Astromancer: “Very intriguing history. I feel like I know this Starlus place, somehow…”

Delphi: “You probably do, because you’re made of the same metals they mine in their asteroid mines.”

Everyone in unison: “WHAT??”

Delphi: “Okay, you guys have got to stop doing that.”

Ginny: “Hey, I mean everything is so new to us. We’ve never encountered actual aliens before or even knew what’s beyond our own galaxy. Sure we’ve had astronauts make a colony on Mars and the Moon, but we’ve never heard of or met extraterrestials before.”

Michael Francis: “Well, we haven’t, but our leaders have.”

Ginny, Delphi and Astromancer look at Michael with confusion.

Michael Francis: “I’ve read lots of theories online. The internet never lies.”

Ginny: “Yeah, sure thing little dude.”

Delphi: “If you guys know how to create a portal we can rescue your dad, and maybe I can find my way back home.”

Ginny: “Is that how you guys travel? Through portals?”

Delphi: “It’s the fastest way besides needing an expensive spaceship. I could really fly fast by just being made of light, but I like to save my energy in case of enemies lurking by.”

Ginny: “You are so cool!!”

Delphi expresses her coolness to Ginny: “Thanks, been told that a lot.”

Astromancer: “Okay now everyone, we have to find The Creator. How do we create a portal?”

Delphi: “Don’t look at me, I have nothing to create a portal with. I know most creatures just need a orb shaped device, say where you want to go and WHOOSH a portal opens.”

Ginny: “I don’t think we have one of those… “

Delphi: “Come on, you gotta have one. Otherwise there’s no way this hunk of metal would even be here.”

Michael Francis: “Dad usually keeps all of his stuff in moms old closet. He showed me once before.”

Ginny: “Then let’s go see what’s in there.”

Everyone races up the stairs from the laboratory, all the way to Dr. Wells room. Inside they find a pristine room, with two book shelves on each opposite side of the room, a bathroom, three walk in closets and a huge monitor connected to two computers. And a nice comfy bed right in the middle.

Ginny and Michael sigh in dreadful annoyance.

Michael Francis: “This is gonna take foreverrr to find.”

Astromancer: “Maybe not, as I can quickly scan the room for any technological devices.”

While Astromancer scans the object, Delphi floats over to the large king-sized bed that belongs to Dr. Wells. She plops down and is mesmerized by the texture.

Delphi: “Geez, you guys have comfy rest chambers. Wish we had something like this for our pods.”

Michael Francis, walks over to sit on the bed: “You guys don’t sleep in beds?”

Delphi: “Nope, we just have pods where we recharge with solar rays and take in all the nutrients from inside for a short while until we’re called for our next field mission.”

Michael Francis: “Ohhh, like photosynthesis!!”

Delphi, chuckles at the bright-eyed boy: “Yeah I guess you can call it that. Has a nice ring to it.”

Ginny walks over to Astromancer who is scanning the room.

Ginny: “Can you see anything?”

Astromancer: “No, I’m afraid my scanning software hasn’t detected anything orb shaped beyond your dads old basketball trophy, and the monitors inner bolts. I’m sorry Ginessa.”

Ginny: “It’s okay… maybe we’ll just have to find another way. Maybe contact some of dad’s old buddies at the Space Research Unit, get a rocket and a pilot, and fly there. Who knows how long it’ll take…”

Michael Francis: “Or we could have Delphi fly us out into space!!”

Delphi: “No way, plus I doubt you organics could even survive traveling and light speed, let alone breath in space.”

Astromancer: “She’s right, space has zero oxygen levels for humans to breathe. There are small

oxygen strips that you can place inside your nose to be able to breathe for a long period of time.”

Ginny: “Dad has to have those somewhere. I’ll check the bathroom.”

Ginny sprints into her dad’s bathroom, shuffles through the medicine cabinet. She finds a pack of oxygen strips that were regulated to her dad 3 years to the date of Astromancer being created.

~ Ginny’s Thoughts ~

“Huh, old man must’ve been sneaking off to another world to build Astromancer this whole time. So, those weren’t business trips, he was just lying the whole time. Wonder what else he’s been lying about…”

Ginny then looks up to the top shelf, she spots a small gold orb that looked faintly familiar to her. Curiously pondering it, she reaches to grab it, it almost fall out of her hand, but she catches it in the knick of time. Then, she suddenly feels a surge of memories engulf her as she remembers what the orb was. It was her mother’s orb. She snaps back into reality and realizes what it is.

Ginny: “Mom… Hey- Hey guys!!!”

Ginny, sprints back to the group with strips and the orb in her hands: “I found it!!”

Everyone exclamates: “Yesss!!! Woohoo!!”

Delphi: “Yess!!! Thank the stars I don’t have to fly you humans half way across the galaxy!!”

Michael Francis: “Where’d you find it?”

Ginny: “It was in dad’s medicine cabinet on the top shelf. I actually remembered I had seen it before. It use to belong to mom, she left it here before she— before she left. But now we can use it to teleport to Starlus.”

Delphi: “Wait a second, that’s a Tele-Orb!!”

Ginny: “What’s a Tele-Orb?”

Delphi: “Tele-Orbs are portal creators, they’re only ever given to creatures with high statuses. If your mom owned it… She must’ve been a very important alien?”

Ginny and Michael stared at each other confused, but also startled at the revelation that there mom could’ve been an alien.

Michael Francis: “Wait… so, you’re saying that our mom…”

Ginny: “Was an alien??”

Delphi: “Yeah, humans aren’t that important to own one of these.”

Ginny screams with excitement: “AAAAGHSHDHHH!!!!!!!”

Delphi: “What was that? Was that a battle cry?

Ginny: “No, it’s just— wow, our mom could be a real

life alien. And we didn’t even know it. Dad— Dad never told us… He never told— me…”

Delphi: “Well, now you know, right?

Ginny affirming Delphi, but with slight confusion and disappointment: “Yeah… yeah, I do now…”

Michael Francis shouting in excitement: “We’ll what are we waiting for!!! LETS GO TO STARLUS!!!”

Astromancer: “Yes!! Let us go on a space voyage.”

Ginny: “Okay okay, but first, Michael stick this in the roof of your mouth. Don’t swallow it. It’ll help us be able to breath while we’re on Starlus.”

Michael Francis takes the strip, peels it open, and sticks it in the roof of his mouth. Ginny does the same for herself. The strips phase into their bodies and gives them a tingling sensation.

Ginny: “Feels like it’s working”

Michael Francis: “It’s got a weird tingly feeling”

Ginny: “Okay, let’s change clothes, take some supplies and then we’re out of here.”

Both Ginny and Michael dash to their rooms to quickly change into their comfort clothes. Ginny puts on an off-white stripped long-sleeve shirt, jean shorts and her Vans shoes. Michael Francis puts on his favorite blue astronaut shirt, his sweater vest from school, cargo pants, and his navy blue shoes. They both pack a bag of extra clothes, their favorite snacks, their favorite items. Michael’s laptop and his action toy, Ginny’s phone, earphones and her galaxy journal. They both rush back into their dad’s room.

Delphi holds the orb, and gives it to Ginny. The team prepares for their next journey ahead.

Ginny: “So, what do I do?”

Delphi: “Just shake the orb twice to activate it, set your intentions of where you want to go, and say ‘Tele-Orb, open a portal to Starlus’”

Ginny takes a deep breath, and focuses on the orb, she shakes it twice, sets her intention.

Ginny: “Tele-Orb, open a portal to Starlus.”

The orb activates, it lights up and whooshes out of Ginny’s hands. It hovers over in front of everyone and glows a bright light, and a passageway opens to their next destination.

Ginny: “Don’t worry Dad, we’re coming to save you!”

(To be continued—)

Ginny: “AAAHHHH!! YOU’RE A REAL ALIEN!!! I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET ONE!!! You don’t understand i’ve had dreams of this moment!! Can I-“

Ginny tries to touch Delphi with one finger, but gets burned in the process.

Ginny: “OUCHH!!”

Delphi: “Don’t touch me, I have no idea who you fleshy creatures are... and never touch a floranoid without their permission, we are very light sensitive”

Ginny: “Yeah... duely noted.”

Michael Francis: “Wowww can you believe it Astromancer, a real alien!!”

Astromancer: “She is quite a magnificent being, I sense she’s from the Faunarian Galaxy about 50 light years away from our own... she’s a sentient being made of light that can adapt to any terrain and is accustomed to several languages, is that right Delphi?”

Delphi: “Yeah... how did you know that?”

Astromancer: “Well my processing units are from the-“

Dr. Wells quickly interrupts Astromancer before he finished his sentence... hiding something about his real origins.

Dr. Wells: “*nervously chuckles* Well then, I guess you’ll be here for awhile won’t you. Maybe we can interview you, take care of you until a ship arrives.”

Delphi: “Well I was transported here by a wormhole that you guys obviously created for me, so just open up another portal and I’ll be on my way.”

Dr. Wells: “I’m afraid we didn’t do that, and can’t do that.”

Delphi: “Listen human, I’m not a feeble martian or whatever exists in your galaxy, a wormhole doesn’t just open unless its to be used to bring someone from one part of the universe to another.”

Delphi: “And there’s a ton of inter dimensional space energy exuding from each of you, except you, and that fuzzy little thing.”

Michael, Ginny and Astromancer each look at each other and curiously back at Delphi.

Ginny: “What do you mean, we have inter dimensional space energy?”

Dr. Wells: “It could possibly be from the crater, right?”

Delphi: “Possibly, there’s not enough on these two, but the machine is practically made of Solarian tech and has Starbulus energy mechanizing it.”

Dr. Wells looks at Delphi suspiciously

Dr. Wells: “Right, maybe we should get back to the house and talk about this in... enclosed perimeters.”

~ The Wells Residence ~

Back at The Wells home, everyone gathers to discuss Delphi’s presence on Earth. Michael Francis is in his room with Floppsy, meanwhile Ginny, Delphi, Damien and Astromancer are in the laboratory conversing.

Dr. Wells: “So let me get this straight, you are a floranoid, a sentient floral being that lives in a galaxy far beyond ours...”

Delphi: “Correct.”

Dr. Wells: “And you were on a mission to power a solar panel on another planet with your crewmates, a wormhole portal opened and you were teleported here right?”

Delphi: “That’s basically what I spent the last 3 minutes explaining. Man, you humans need a lot of time to process information huh?” she giggled.

Dr. Wells frowned of embarrassment at the floranoid mocking his intelligence.

Dr. Wells: “Hey! I’ll have you know, I am well educated, andy mind can process tons of information.”

Delphi sarcastically taunts Damien: “Wow, that sounds super amazing! Maybe I should introduce you to Mother Delpha and let you guys have a fun conversation on the knowledge of space phenomena”

Dr. Wells: “That actually sounds like a great— wait are you mocking me again?”

Delphi: “Sure thing fleshy.” she winks at Dr. Wells and is enamored by his inability to sense her sarcasm.

Dr. Wells: “I don’t like how sarcastic your being in this serious of a situation.”

Delphi: “Ya know, sarcasm isn’t just an Earth trait, it’s universal”

Ginny: “I’m actually starting to like you, even though you did almost kill us hehe.”

Delphi: “What can I say, I’m a floral being, we’re pretty likable once you pick the right petal.”

Astromancer: “I do wonder though, does picking a petal from you hurt?”

Astromancer approaches Delphi, trying to pick a petal from her ponytail shaped hairstyle

Delphi: “Hey!” she shoots a ball of light at Astromancer, Astromancer quickly steps away from her.

Astromancer: “Eyehhhh!!!” he screams hiding behind Ginny shaking nervously.

Ginny: “Woah, calm down, Astromancer is new to our family, he was brought to life no less than a few hours ago.”

Delphi: “Hmm, he certainly looks chromatic, his metallic body his shimmering in translucent star dust. Something like this definitely doesn’t naturally come from an organic planet.”

Delphi: “Wait a second... you guys aren’t Space Pirates are you?”

Ginny: “No? What are Space Pirates?”

Astromancer: “My programming does not calculate the definition of a Space Pirate, only regular pirates.”

Delphi: “Space Pirates are bands of rebellious thieves that steal minerals, metals, loot spaceships and kill anything that gets in their way. Nefarious for their crimes, many of them exist in the outer reaches of space in Astroid Markets selling the products they loot from planets and empires just for their own bounty. I’ve heard of many stories about them, and I’ve never met one that came across as nice as you guys… maybe you aren’t space pirates after all.”

Delphi floated over to Astromancer to inspect him.

Delphi: “But this android definitely isn’t made of something that comes from this planet.”

Dr. Wells: “How exactly do you know that? You seem really suspicious inspecting one of my own creations and yet you’re the only one out of all of us that crash landed and tried to harm us. How do we know that you’re not a space pirate? Hmm??”

Delphi: “Because a floranoids can’t be one, only reptarians, lyrans and other space creatures that have immortality can. I’m a flower being, I’ll die within another 100 years.”

Ginny: “I remember old stories of mom telling me about rebellious people that would travel the stars causing mischief, but she never said what they were, maybe mom ran into one here on Earth and that’s how she knew about them.”

Dr. Wells: “Yeah… maybe, look let’s just cut to the chase. Delphi, are you able to find a way to get back to your homeworld? Is there a way you can teleport, travel at lightspeed?”

Delphi: “I could if I had energy for it. But no, unless another black hole opens up and it’s somewhere close to my galaxy, then that’ll be the only way I can get home.”

Dr. Wells: “Ugh, man!! There’s gotta be someway we can transport you back. I do not want for your species to invade our planet. It’s already happened way to many times to count.”

Delphi: “Eh, my pods won’t be able to find me. Delphiniums are very capable of handling themselves. We don’t do fleets of soldiers, we’re a self-sustaining defensive race of floranoids.”

Ginny: “So if Delphi can’t go anywhere for now, does that mean she can stay here with us!!!!”

Dr. Wells: “Until we’re able to get her to her home planet- *sighs* she will have to stay with us.”

Ginny: “YAYYYY!!! I’ve always wanted a cool alien friend.”

Delphi: “I’ve never wanted a human friend, but something about you does seem pretty cool.”

Astromancer interrupts the celebration

Astromancer: “Excuse me Creator, I don’t mean to question your authority… But would that really be a safe thing? After all she did crash land here and cause quite the commotion in the park. Who knows what’ll happen if the authorities know we’re harboring an extraterrestrial species…”

Dr. Wells: “Until I can get a hold of some of my co-workers, you’ll be looking after Delphi. I’ll also call my brother to see if he can come by while I’m out to make sure everything is good. Don’t know how I’ll tell him all of this stuff, but we’ve been through worse.”

Dr. Wells, walks off to his computer to do research on black hole anomalies

Dr. Wells: “Everyone get some rest, we’ll finish this conversation in the morning.”

Everyone leaves the lab and heads to their own locations. Astromancer finishes cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms. Michael and Floppsy are fast asleep in his room. Meanwhile Ginny and Delphi learn to get better acquainted with each other.

Ginny sits on her bed, admiring Delphi as Delphi floats across her room staring in wonder at the many fantastical space themed things in her room.

Ginny: “Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot to pin up that , it’s just been laying there for the past three days haha.”

Delphi: “Wow, you sure love space don’t you.”

Ginny blushed: “It’s one of the only things that helps me stay happy on this messed up planet.”

Delphi: “Yeah, this planet does seem pretty dull. The Earthlings here are so… pitiful.”

Ginny began to ask: “So, tell me, what is space really like?”

Delphi: “It’s practically a void of nothingness, there’s no gravity, nothing to hold you down, you’re free to explore, at your own risks of not ever returning home… much like me. There’s some beauty’s to it like the many different worlds and beings that you’ll meet.”

Delphi plopped onto Ginny’s hammock near her closet and held a gem, a Zirconia placed right next to Ginny’s bookshelf.

Ginny: “Hey, don’t touch those, these cost a lot of money! I saved up a months work of tips just to be able to afford this Zirconia.”

Delphi chuckled: “You know it’s fake right?”

Ginny: “Well duh, I know it’s a false diamond.”

Delphi: “No, the entire thing is fake.”

Delphi held the crystal in her hand, and applied pressure to it, and it shattered into small pieces.

Ginny was left with a surprised look on her face.

Delphi: “See, Trust me kid, I know what a real gem is. And if you bought this… you were definitely pirate-boozled.”

Ginny: “What’s pirate-boozled?”

Delphi: “It’s when you’re tricked by a clever trickster into buying something that has no worth at all. Space Pirates are a lot more clever, but whoever sold you that ‘Zirconia’ definitely is on that level of piracy.”

Ginny: “Huh, you are pretty clever aren’t you?”

Delphi: “It’s a specialty.”

Both of them laughed and began to talk more about space and their love of gemstones.

Meanwhile, downstairs in the laboratory, Damien is knee deep in his research studies. Finding everything he can about galaxies and planets far beyond our Milky Way. He writes down notes about quantum physics, space travel and the existence of black holes.

~ Dr. Wells Thoughts ~

*sighs* “This is getting me nowhere, there’s no way I can try shifting into another reality… I can’t quantum jump without the exact measurements and tools, and that’ll take a whole year for me to set up. Maybe I’ll have to call the authorities, see what they can do with her”

Suddenly a loud sound came from behind him, sounded almost like a car speeding past you, but with a faint electromagnetic static to it. A bright light sparked and the shape of an oval began to form, a vacuum of energy and light glowed before him.

Dr. Wells in shock: “What the f—“

Before he could finish, out of this portal came two large armored beings, towering over him at least 9ft tall in height. One of the beings wore a helmet in the shape of a three pointed star covering his face, and the other looked feline esque. Like the perfect blend of both a lion and a tiger, but with exotic stripes and spots covering its entire face. The large beast walked over to Damien and spoke in a scruff authoritarian voice.

Armored Beast: “Are you, Damien Wells?”

Dr. Wells: “Yes… who the hell are you?”

Armored Beast: “You’re coming with us.”

The Beast took out a small metal lock that then turned into a glowing electric handcuff, and clasped it around Damien’s hands.

Dr. Wells: “Hey man what the hell!!! STOP!!! LET GO OF ME— ASTROMANCER”

As quick as he could say Astromancer, Astromancer arrived just in time.

Astromancer: “CREATOR!?”

Damien looked up in distress, his glasses fell off and hit the floor. Struggling with the beast he nipped a peace of his fur and it fell to the ground.

Dr. Wells: “I’m going away for a little bit, this is all a misunderstanding. Wake up the kids, and tell them to ask Delphi about Starlus. AACK!!”

The Beast pushed Damien in. The helmet one jumps into the portal. The Beast mugs Astromancer with a last look and jumps back into the portal.

The portal closes… And all that’s left is Damien’s glasses, and the fur of the beast.

(To be continued—)

Scientists have researched the unknowns of space for centuries, they’ve researched gems and rocks that have existed on Earth to radiometrically calculate the approximate age of how old Earth is. But one question that remains within our galaxy, is what is out there in the great beyond? Are there other galaxies outside of our own Milky Way? How would humans react to other extraterrestrial life existing beyond our universe?

In a galaxy, the Faunarian Galaxy, not too far from ours, there’s a planet by the name of Plantasia. This planet was a small planet, birth when a meteor with symbiotic wildlife growing within it collided into the planet, creating thousands of organic species of large extraterrestrial plants, and large animal-like alien creatures. Most of the extraterrestrial plants were sentient beings made of photokinetic light that they would absorb and use to power their small villages and defend themselves from the beastly creatures that would try to attack and eat them. The sentient humanoid creatures of this planet are were known as ‘Floranoids’ that came in many different shapes, sizes, and iridescent luminous colors. The ruler of the planet was a Hibiscuarosa Floranoid, known as The Primadonna, she would be reincarnated over and over and over again until her last seedling sprout.

This story is about a young determined Floranoid, that we will call Delphi. She’s part of a scouting and observing class of organic life called Delphiniums, their matriarch Mother Delpha, sends her petallings on missions to far reaches of the galaxy to observe the life on these planets. But, there’s one Delphinium that’s a bit too curious for her own good and wonders beyond their galaxy to ours... let’s see how this story unfolds.

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~ Plantasia 05 Beta 3, A few days ago ~

Mother Delpha requested a budding of 4 of her Delphiniums to meet her within her throne room.

Mother Delpha: “Floraltations, my beautiful Delphiniums!!”

3 of The Delphiniums: “Floraltations, Mother Delpha”

Delphi: “Hey.”

Mother Delpha: “I’m so glad to have you all here, I’m sending you 4 out on a mission to the outer reaches of our galaxy to perform a special task, to recharge three Solar Panels on Typhoro’s Moon. Without those Solar Panels being powered we’ll lose all connections to our Star Systems and go dark... once we go dark, any Space Pirate or Space Bandit could surely pay us a visit... or even The Dark Coven”

2D05: “*gasps* WAIT ARE YOU BEING SERIAL!!! AHHH I’VE NEVER TRAVELED BEYOND PLANTASIA BEFORE!!!”

2D27: “Oh great, we have a newbie in our budding.” she said sarcastically while rolling her eyes

2D53: “Oh 2D27 be nice, she’ll need the experience and we are experienced.” she said while smiling

2D27 blushed and groaned

Delphi: “Well, it won’t take us long since I know

Mother Delpha: “Now now my sprouts, you all must work together. Powering those Solar Plants will take a lot of energy. I would do it myself, but there are more important matters I must face with The Primadonna and our other Floranoid Matriarchs and Patriarchs.”

Mother Delpha floats down from her thrown, towering only a few feet above them in the same aspect of a mother and her children.

Mother Delpha: “I’m counting on each one of you to come back without any damages. Can I count on you four?”

3 of The Delphiniums: “Yes, Mother Delpha!!”

Mother Delpha: “Good, now soar my sprouts!!”

The three began to fly out of the palace, like fairies flying from their flower homes. As Mother Delpha waved goodbye, she turned to see her last Delphinium laying on a giant leaf in the matriarchs throne room.

Mother Delpha: “2D13? What are you still doing here?”

Delphi hated being called by her petal-type number, she groaned and floated down to Mother Delpha.

Delphi: “I’m just being fashionably late is all... They can’t leave without me, so why not catch some shut eye before taking off.”

Mother Delpha: “Oh my dear petalling, I’ve told you about slacking off on your duties. You’ve risen the ranks to be one of my most decorated Delphiniums, but you slack off on your responsibilities to do your own thing... That will be your downfall in life 2D13.”

Delphi: “*sighs* Yeah I know, I guess I’ll try to not be as irresponsible, but no promises.”

Mother Delpha: “As long as you’re trying, is all that matters. Now go on, go join the others on your mission. Be safe and soar my sprout.”

And with that, Delphi aka 2D13 jetted out of the palace, soaring as fast as the speed of light. All 4 Delphiniums flew to the docking bay to begin light warping. Light warping is how all extraterrestrial creatures would travel from planet to planet within their galaxies. Floranoids can travel to distant planets at the speed of light, but sometimes they need a little boost.

On Typhoro’s Moon, The Delphiniums made their way to the Solar Panels, the moon had a very breezy atmosphere engulfed with blue sand and an orange skyline. Since the moon is behind the planet Typhoro, a planet about the size of three Jupiters, it doesn’t get much solar energy from the orange dwarf star within the Faunarian Galaxy. Every so often Floranoids, that manipulate photon energy have to go out to Typhoro’s Moon to recharge the solar panels. It’s one heck of a journey to travel through the windy, sandy desert that exists on the moon.

2D53: “Okay buds, we’re not too far from the solar panels, they should be up ahead in a 100 ft distance from when we landed.”

2D27: “Ugh, you said that like 45 minutes ago... And we've been trekking through this blue sand for nearly 1 hour now. Be honest, we’re nowhere near this panel are we?”

2D53: “No, we are getting close, by my calculations on the sproutpad tracker, we are 100 ft from it.”

2D05: “Ya know, sometimes those trackers aren't always correct, I remember 2D231 went on a mission to check out TB-78’s organic life and she was stranded on the planet because her tracker went dead.”

Delphi: “Well we aren’t like 2D231, we’re younger and more experienced than her, so we obviously can get to the panels and get back in time to light warp. Race ya there!!”

And before the others could speak, Delphi had already flashed right past them and was half way to the panels.

2D05: “OOHH A RACE!!! Last one there is a decaying daffodil!!” 2D05 jetted after Delphi.

2D27: “*scoffs* Oh please, we’ll see about that!” 2D27 zooms behind the others.

2D53: “Wait, you guys... ughhh” 2D53 begrudgingly flew along tailing behind the others.

Within minutes, The Delphiniums got to the panels, but were so tired after flying at light speeds to get to them, they had to take a quick restoration break.

2D53: “Whew okay, we’re here, now let’s get to charging it up!”

2D27: “Get into positions sprouts.”

The Delphiniums formed themselves into the shape of a diamond, they began to power up, cosmic energy revolving around them like ray beams from the sun. They put their hands out and wooshhhh bright energy of light blasted out of their hands, it was photon energy. The cheered in glee as they saw the panel battery rising in color. After 3 mins, they charged the panel battery up to the green bar, and the solar panels were restored.

2D05: “We did it!!!”

Delphi: “Heck yeah we did!!”

The Delphiniums cheered and hugged each other, happy of their accomplishment.

2D53: “Okay everyone, let’s get back so we can light warp out of here!!”

2D27: “Finally!!! I’m all blasted out. I can’t wait to get back and absorb some light rays

2D53 blushed and chuckled: “I’m sure you are”

2D27 winked at 2D53 showing sign of admiration

2D05 cuts in: “You and me both!!”

The three giggle, but Delphi is distracted by something she sees in the far right distance. It was an energy hole in the fabric of the planets atmosphere, big enough to notice, like a wall, but with no corners. It just sat there radiating a gradient of colors; blue, red, and indigo. Delphi approached it and the others followed right after.

2D05: “What is that?”

2D27: “Is it a gloryhole?”

Delphi: “No, but it looks like a... wormhole.”

Delphi approached it, sticking her arm out with one finger curiously reaching for it.

2D53: “2D13, what are you—“

Delphi reached out to the wormhole, she was entranced by it, it was calling her, but she had no clue what was going to happen next...

2D05 and 2D27: “2D13 BE CAREFUL!!”

Delphi: “AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”

Within seconds, Delphi was sucked into the wormhole, and warped through time and space, past every planet in the outer parts of the Faunarian Galaxy. The wormhole opened up again in a different galaxy, one that was so foreign to her she didn’t even know where she was. And without control, she rocketed to a blue and green planet, our planet Earth, and like a comet, she soared.

~ Earth to Delphi, Present Day ~

Delphi soared through Earth’s atmosphere, breaking through the skyline, and crash landing in the middle of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She landed in the local park surrounded by trees and shrubs, the bright light and sound caused a huge ruckus in the city. Delphi was left conscious, but hazy trying to bear a gripping of what just happened in what felt like 30 seconds.

Not too far away came Astromancer, Michael Francis and Floppsy running to investigate the phenomenon, along with dozens upon dozens of civilians trailing after.

Astromancer: “Uh... Lord Michael, I don’t know if Creator wants us to be out here”

Michael Francis: “Aw come on, we might be discovering a huge science phenomena, and if so, Dad can take the credit and become rich for or something.”

Astromancer: “I don’t know if that’s a great idea...”

Michael Francis: “What could possible go wrong?”

Then, as soon as the trio came to the park, they saw a crowd of people surrounding the area where the big crash happened. There was a huge crater in the middle of the park, with a lot of radiation and smoke coming from the ground.

Michael Francis: “Hey, maybe you should go hide in the bushes so nobody sees you. Take Floppsy too!”

Astromancer: “Affirmative Lord Michael Francis.”

Astromancer carries Floppsy and hides in near by bushes. Michael approaches the crowd.

Random Guy 1: “What on Earth was that?”

Random Guy 2: “I was just getting out of the shower when I heard and saw that crash, it could’ve hit any one of our homes.”

Random Lady 1: “That’s it I’ve gotta get the news stations in on this.” She pulls out her phone and starts recording.

Old Lady Phyllis: “I tell ya it’s aliens... ALIENS... They’ve been spying on our planet for centuries, they’re trying to take us out.”

Random Teen: “You sound crazy old lady, there’s no such thing as aliens.”

Random Guy 3: “Yeah, lil dudes right, that’s just some conspiracy crap”

Random Lady 2: “Hey don’t talk to Phyllis like that, if she says it’s aliens it’s gotta be aliens... or some kind of space thing.”

Random Guy 3: “Lady, get out of my face with that.”

As everyone was arguing, Michael walked close to the crater to investigate, but there was nothing there.

Michael Francis: “Well, it must’ve been a small piece of space debris that crashed, those are common, and can cause damage based on its velocity and impact.”

Random Guy 3: “Aye, you Dr. Wells’ kid ain’t you?”

Michael Francis: “That would be affirmative.”

Random Teen: “Woah, bro your dad’s a celebrity, I’ve always wanted to meet him.. I don’t believe he’s met aliens, but he’s so crazy it sounds so cool.”

Michael Francis: “Hey! My dad’s it not crazy. He’s a genius, a sweaty, old genius!”

Damien and Ginny enter into the park and try to mediate the situation.

Dr. Wells: “Michael!! What did I tell you about leaving the house unannounced?”

Michael Francis: “Nothing, you’ve literally never told me to not NOT leave” He smiled.

Dr. Wells slaps his hand into his face and sighs.

Dr. Wells: “Listen everyone, I’m sure it was just some space debris that crash landed, there’s been tones of trash and metal floating around based on my observations, I’ll get in touch with news crew, the police, and the city to seek further investigation. You all can go back home safely.”

Everyone in the park walks away dispersing into groups chatting about what had just happened.

Random Teen approached Damien: “Hey Dr. Wells, I’m a huge fan of your work, I think your crazy as catnip, but I love hearing your stories.”

Dr. Wells: “Uhh, Thank you, I guess??”

The teen takes a quick selfie of Dr. Wells without warning and runs off. Astromancer and Floppsy appear out of the bushes.

Ginny: “Well that was something.. are you guys okay?”

Astromancer: “We’re perfectly alright, right Floppsy”

Floppsy twitches her nose and gives off a blank stare

Ginny: “That’s good... I’m sorry for coming off the way I did earlier, I’m just trying to get used to whatever... you are.”

Astromancer: “Apology is accepted, Ginny!!”

Dr. Wells: “Well, I guess it’ll be a busy few days trying to sort all of this mess out, seriously what could’ve crash landed this badly? Just space debris couldn’t have been this impactful?”

Michael Francis: “Maybe it was an asteroid?”

Dr. Wells: “Nah, couldn’t have been, the asteroid would still be here. Whatever it was, it had to have been something the size of us, but had a huge amount of radiation or light coming off of it mixed with the velocity and atmospheric pressure to crash land like this.”

Suddenly, a blast of light shoots directly at Dr. Wells’ foot causing him to stumble into the crater.

Michael Francis, Astromancer and Ginny rush over.

Michael and Ginny: “DAD!!!”

Dr. Wells: “*groans* Don’t worry kids, I’m fine, Astro can you give me a hand.”

Astromancer extends his arm down to Dr. Wells to grasp on to, he lifts him up and carefully brings him to the surface.

“Hey!”

The Wells’ turn around to see several blasts of light shooting right at them. Astromancer huddles everyone in tightly and shields them.

The Wells: “AAAAHHHHHH!!!”

The blasts of light stop, and everyone looks around hesitantly.

Ginny: “Who was that shooting at us?”

Michael Francis: “Yeah, we don’t live in a war zone!!!”

Dr. Wells: “Stay behind me kids. HEY WHOEVER’S OUT THERE, SHOW YOURSELF RIGHT NOW!!!”

Then, Delphi appears out of thin air, and floats above everyone aiming her right hand at The Wells preparing to blast off another beam of light.

Delphi: “WHO ARE YOU AND WHY DID YOU BRING ME HERE?”

Dr. Wells: “Hey, hey, put your weapon down, I’m a human, okay. We come in peace. Please come down and I can answer your questions.”

Delphi floats down and confronts Damien

Dr. Wells: “Who are you?”

Delphi: “I’m Delphinium 2D13 of the planet Plantasia 05 Beta 3, but you can call me Delphi.”

(To be continued—)