Chapter 52 - Minutes Left

Scene: Once Aiko arrives back home, she sprints down the bridge. But just as she gets half way, there’s a large quake that’s begins to break the bridge structure away from the ground holding it.

  • Scene: Trying to hang on, Aiko makes her way to the end and then leaps off, hoping to grab any part of the cliff.

  • Scene: Just then a hand reaches out to grab her.

    Rowan: Gotcha!

  • Scene: After pulling her up. Aiko instructs him to remove the energy module. Once she has it, she hits the green button and throws it off the cliff. Watching this, Rowan gasps with horror.

  • Rowan: Wait!

  • Rowan: What are you doing! Why would you throw it away?

    Aiko: Rey told me to. She said I need to push the button and then throw it. That it will then fly itself to the Sphere.

  • Rowan: I don’t see it? Are you sure that’s what she told?

    Aiko: Positive. It was last thing she told me before I left. Maybe she got that part wrong.

  • Scene: Just then the energy module came flying straight up past them and headed towards the city.

  • Scene: It then flew through the forest towards the Sphere. The Sphere came to a stop as it approached. The energy module then enlarged itself and docked itself on the sphere.

  • Scene: As the sphere began to descend back into its liquid pool, it let off a tremendous sound, heard all the way back to Rowan and Aiko.

  • Aiko: Is it over? Did it work?

  • Rowan: You did it! You saved us!

    Aiko: WhooHoo!!!

  • Rey: We did it!!!

  • Rowan: Where’s Rey?

    Scene: Aiko then looks with panic back to the collapsed bridge.

    Aiko: oh no, Rey! How will you get back?

    Scene: Aiko turns to Rowan

    Aiko: She’s stuck down there.

    Rowan: Stuck? Why didn’t she come back with you? Is she safe?

    Aiko: She’s safe, but she had to activate the portal. There wasn’t time for her to come with me. But now she’s stuck down there.

    Rowan: What do you mean activate the portal, shouldn’t it just have brought you both back when you got to it?

    Aiko: I don’t understand why it didn’t work that way. For some reason we had to go back to the Control Center.

    Rowan: Control Center? What Control Center?

    Aiko: Look, it’s a long story, and I barely understand it myself. But I’m sure Rey will find another way back up. In the meantime, I have a lot to tell the council, things you would not believe. I wish Rey was here to explain it, but I’ll just have to do the best that I can.

    Scene: Aiko then proceeded to tell him all that had happened to them. Meanwhile, after hearing the sound from the Sphere, the Queen and Aiko’s sister race to the portal in hopes to find Aiko there.