Stray Beyond the Cosmos

Chapter 2

The short 23 seconds of interstellar jump begins, streaks of different colors of light run past the ship, the crew of the ships pays no mind as they were used to this kind of travel, but for the first-timer to experience this kind of travel, they will experience vertigo and dizziness. The jump is successful and now they find themselves near the planet of Pluto. "to all ships deploy the cloaks now, we don't know what's out there, and we don't know how they treat their visitors, deploy all our Maya for reconnaissance in everything even the asteroids in this solar system, look for any manmade structures in every corner of this solar system and make sure they are cloaked, I don't want anyone on that planet to notice us, we're only here for observation, for now," the admiral Juaquin said in the fleet's communication. The ships of the 10th fleet started to deploy their cloaks to hide from the prying eyes on Earth. The 10th fleet waited for the Mayas to finish their recon in every planet and asteroid. It's been 2 weeks since they arrive. The fleet's cloaking is still active until they conclude that it is safe against the prying eyes on Solar System. An hour later the Mayas returned to their respective ships as they completed their 2 long weeks of a recon mission, multiple images were displayed on the screen of the bridge taken on every planet and moons on the Solar system, they are puzzled as to why the moon and mars are not yet colonized, it's been 163 years, humans on the Solar System should have already colonized the Mars and Moon in this era, different theories and assumptions are now flowing on the ship's bridge until the Earth's image was shown. Information about the Satellites that are orbiting the Earth baffles the already confused crew in every ship of the 10th fleet, LAGEOS 1 – a NASA satellite from 1976 is still active. On the Earth Surface tall buildings that are almost covered in glass and towering skyscrapers can be seen in every city, vehicles are still using tires, not much different since the transfer, but the next image of a landmass on Earth that shocked everyone on the fleet is the landmass of the Philippines intact, but the difference is the majority of the landmass is covered in lush thick green forest, Small cities in the northern region of Luzon that were claimed by the Chinese, The area where Manila City, Cebu City, and Davao City became a Memorial Area for the missing Filipinos 4 years ago, Some Filipinos who are in a different country during the transfer, has chosen to go back to the Philippines stayed there, they created settlements around the memorial cities hoping their love ones back in the Philippines will be back someday, they created settlements around the memorial cities. "Tapped every communication satellite that is orbiting, we need information about this Planet. We need answers." Juaquin ordered the communication personnel. What in the name of God is happening on this planet he thought. The mini-drones "wasps" that are smaller than the thumb that was left by one of the Mayas who came on Earth's orbit to collect information started to climb their way to one of the satellites to tap on its system.

Juaquin starts to feel his stomach begging for something to digest while he was waiting for the result of the order he gave. He overheard one of his crew talking to his buddies about the dessert that is being served at the cafeteria, his stomach begins to growl the longer he thinks about the dessert at the cafeteria, he immediately rushes to the cafeteria. Second in command Colonel Darwin Gonzaga was drinking his black coffee at the cafeteria, a man with white hair and a scar on his neck, no one dares to approach him because they were scared of him. Rumors about him are about his work during the Far South Raid, but instead of praising him, they despised him because they believed he killed his teammates during the mission to take all the praises. The atmosphere in the cafeteria was only filled with hostility and disgust instead of the joys of eating food. Juaquin enters the cafeteria as he heard that they were serving his favorite mango graham for dessert. Juaquin is one of the officials in the military who knows the truth about what happened that night. As Juaquin enters the cafeteria, he feels the hostility towards the one person sitting alone in the corner of the cafeteria. "if only they know the reason why he killed his teammates during