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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2 - Tom and Eric

Planet Zen is a planet with a high level of technology. Although most of the population engages in farming, the remaining people are intelligent. Some of these people invented revolutionary ideas like hover cars, and with hover cars come positives but they can also bring in negatives. One example of a negative is hover traffic. (Normal traffic but in the air) Since the introduction of hover cars, people have been buying them and as time went on the price got lower and lower. In the current day, lots of people own hover cars.

" They're still doing push-ups," A soldier said in surprise.

" Elite soldier Luke wasn't playing when he said for them to do 1 million pushups," Another soldier responded. " Don't you guys think that's overkill, especially-" A third soldier uttered before being interrupted by the second soldier. He covered her mouth with his right hand and looked around as if he were searching for someone. After he looked around for a total of 5 seconds, he lifted his hand. " What the hell!" the third soldier said.

"Vanessa, you egg if the elite soldier were to hear us, we woulda been done for," the soldier hissed. Vanessa (the second soldier) then scanned the area and saw an outline of Luke. "Anyways, how long until we arrive?" Vanessa asked, switching the subject.

"I dunno."

"You're actually so useless." 

" You should probably ask support," The first soldier advised.

" But that's soooooooooooo long", Vanessa took a deep breath.

"It's like a 5-minute walk to support"

" But I need to conserve my energy," Vanessa moaned

"Sucks to be you." The first soldier said, walking off with the second soldier, walking off with him. " Hey, wait up!" She yelled.

" Tazui, walk faster," the first soldier said, the two soldiers started to speedwalk. The 3 soldiers were all in the corridors. The corridors had a navy-blue carpet and a pitch-black roof, and in the middle of the roof was the symbol that the rest of the soldiers had. The first soldier ( whose name is Ray) had short, messy black hair and had mostly human features despite not being a human. His skin is also a creamy white colour, and he also wears the clothes that all soldiers have to wear, which is a black long-sleeve shirt and trousers that are black but on the back is the symbol( the three lines with the circle in the middle and at the end of the three lines, there is a curved line). The second soldier (Tazui) was the same as Ray, as they were brothers, their features were extremely similar. The only difference between them was that Tazui had a buzz cut, and his nose was a little bigger than his brother's. Vanessa was not related to them by blood so her looks were different compared to the first two soldiers. Her skin was peach-coloured and her hair was shoulder-length, which was put into a ponytail most of the time because she didn't want to cut it off. She also had the usual soldier outfit, and her eyes were brown.

It's afternoon on Planet Zen, and at this time, it's one of two things: lunch or work. Tom and Eric are two Zenians who work at farms, like most Zenians who don't live in urban areas. " Eric, you see that star in the sky?" Tom asked.

" What star?" Eric replied

" The one, there." Tom pointed to the "star" 

" Oh, that one", Eric looked at it for a few seconds, "yeah, what about it?"

"It's still bright outside. Look at the sky again." They both looked at the sky, which was a bright blue and there was a big shining light.

"That's true. Why would there be a star at this time?"

" It could be a plane." 

" What plane shines that bright?"

" I dunno, a big one."

" Nice one, big brain."

"There's a low chance it might be this but..."

" Spill the beans"

" A spaceship."

" It could be," Eric said. A silence then emerged, and the one to suddenly break it would be Tom.

" Let's test something out," Tom said

" What do you mean?"

" I mean that, like if the "star" moves closer to us then it would be a spaceship."

" Oh, I get it. What you mean is that if the "star" moves closer, it's a spaceship because spaceships move towards their destination." When Eric finished his sentence, Tom tapped on his cranium multiple times and while doing this he said," You understand. It's a foolproof plan." So the two Zenians continued their work for another two hours. Zenians love their work; farmwork is the one work Zenians like to do. So, when agricultural machines were introduced people shut them down and wanted to do it the good old way. After two hours, the "star" got brighter. The sun was in the sky, so that was one piece of light, but there was also another source of light, which looked like a big star, and that source of light was the spaceship. Between the two zenians Tom was the one to notice that the spaceship moved closer. "Eric, look in the sky." 

" Why?" Eric asked

"Remember the plan."

" Oh yeah." Eric tilted his head upwards and looked towards the sky and he saw that the spaceship moved closer. " The "star" moved closer. That means it's a spaceship."

" Now that we know it's a spaceship. What do we do?" Tom questioned.

" I mean, it could be a spaceship for protection."

"Protection from what?"

" You know that I heard from somewhere that the government pays money for protection, so our planet doesn't get invaded or we get wiped out."

" Where did you hear this from?" Tom asked

" Don't worry."

" There's a small chance that it could be an enemy spaceship."

" Let's just stay in the capital for the time being," Eric said. Tom agreed to this idea and they told their boss that they were taking the day off today. The two hopped into one hover car, and the bigger zenian started driving (Eric)

" 6 more tiks to Planet Zen."

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