Aiko: Rey, can you hear me? Are you ok? Please be ok. Rey!

Scene: Slowly Rey comes to.

Aiko: Are you ok? Your nose is bleeding.

Rey: Ya, I think so, but my head hurts. Did I hit my head?

Aiko: No, I caught you before you fell. You placed your hand on the glass top thing and then started yelling in pain. Didn’t I say not to touch anything?

Rey: The console that I placed my hand on was for mission updates.

Aiko: Mission updates. Console. Wait, what? What are you talking about? How do you know any of this?

Scene: Rey slowly gets up.

Rey: I don’t know, I just do. When I placed my hand on the console, it sensed that I had the correct genome to activate it, so it started to upload all of the information that I was missing about this place and my mission. The upload was so intense because there was so much I was missing.

Aiko: None of that makes any sense. What did it do to you? Look, that thing could have killed you. Let’s just get out of here before something we touch does.

Rey: Aiko, you don’t understand, we’re exactly where we need to be. This is the briefing room. This is where, what we call the ancients, came to receive their briefing before starting their missions. Everything was monitored from this room.

Aiko: What warriors? What mission? Are you saying that the ancients spied on the defenders as they tried to complete their tasks? Are they the ones that have been killing them? Has this all been a game for them?

Rey: Aiko, slow down. I’m not saying any of that. Look, this is a lot to take in what I have to tell you, and I’m still trying to make sense of it all myself.

Rey: It says here that the ancients, or the Atruvians, as they refer to themselves, came here from their home planet to train their warriors. They would come in here to have their mission uploaded into them. Wait, oh no. Their missions are the same as our tasks, only for them it was a training exercise. They stopped coming, but before they did, they did something. Hold on.

Scene: Rey goes back to the console to access more information.

Aiko: You’re not going to touch that thing again?

Rey: It’s ok, I know how to control it now, how to access the information that I’m missing. Here it is.

Rey: Oh Aiko, we didn’t come from here. We came from a different planet, one that was dying. Thousands of years ago, the Atruvians brought us here, and not just us, others with us.

Aiko: We’re not from here? Then where do we come from? And who are the others they brought?

Scene: Rey leads over to one of the monitors.

Rey: It’ll make more sense if I can show you. Over here.

Rey: The Goblins, Pixies and ourselves, we all lived in different parts of that world, see.

Scene: Rey shows the world they came from on one of the monitors.

Aiko: That’s our home world. It’s beautiful

Rey: It was until the sun died and destroyed it.

Aiko: That was intense. That’s our world?

Rey: What’s left of it.

Rey: Prior to our world dying, they brought us here to this world. They tried to mix us all together here because there wasn’t enough land mass to separate us, since this world is mostly ocean. But the Goblins were too violent and attempted to kill all of us. So, they created a land in the skies as a place to keep them. There they were ruled over by the Pixies, who were the warriors.

Aiko: What!? Wait! The Pixies?! They’re a peaceful people, certainly not warriors. And they all lived up in our homes?

Rey: Thousands of years ago, it wasn’t our homes. We lived down here. We ruled the empire, like today, but we did it from down here.

Aiko: So how did we end up there and Goblins down here?

Rey: It’s a long history and we don’t have time to go through it all right now. Something about a rebellion. It would be easier if you would just put your hand on the console and let it update you.

Aiko: I’m not touching that thing, I like my brain just the way it is.

Rey: Fine, but we still have a job to do, and this monitor can show us how to do it faster. One of the Atruvian training exercises were to locate six of the energy cells for the gravity deceleration machine.

Scene: Aiko stares blankly at Rey

Aiko: The what?

Rey: Sorry, the machine thing that Rowan showed us, where you place the energy module.

Aiko: Oh. Why didn’t you just say that?

Rey: I, never mind. The warriors had to locate all six by completing a series of challenges. Once they had all six, they would be beamed, use the portal up to the gravity machine where they would insert them and complete their mission. Before they left, they gave that task to us for our own training. These cells would maintain energy, not just for the gravity machine but for power throughout all of the citadel. Here’s the good news for us, this monitor over here shows us exactly where all of energy cells are hidden. And by making a few adjustments I can disable the challenge that was put in place so we can just go in and grab it. This one here is the closest to our location. There are two routes to it. For the sake of time we’ll take this one.

Aiko: Maybe you didn’t notice, but that one drops off a cliff. Maybe this thing is broken. I prefer the longer route.

Rey: Fine. We’ll need these suite modules. They will activate our suits and allow us to control some of their features.

Aiko: What is that?

Rey: It’s like this big monitor, only smaller. I can use this to guide us to the place where the cell is located. We’ll take the back entrance out of the control station. Any questions?

Aiko: I wouldn’t know where to begin.

Rey: Good, then let’s go..