Space Ranger

Seeing the Mira HQ

Hafu was watching a movie with her twin when her phone rang. It lit up with a picture of her and Toast. She answered.

"Hey Toast. What's up?" She asked. 5up paused the movie to let her talk. Their younger brother was out of the house so it was just them.

"Hey. Meet me and Peter at the top floor of my apartment building," he spoke. Hafu hummed a little.

"But why? And just me or you want 5 there too?" She asked. Toast spoke to someone for a moment and she assumed it was Peter

"Both. I'll explain here," he said and hung up. She sighed and glanced at her brother.

"You up for an adventure? Toast wants us," she said. 5up shrugged.

"Sure. Why not? Let's go," he said. They went to her car, as 5up refused to drive still, and Hafu drove off.

They arrived at the apartment building and walked in. The woman at the front smiled at the twins.

"Head on up," she said, telling Toast they were here. Hafu and 5up went up the elevator and clicked on the top floor.

They arrived and looked around. It was a small room yet hallways led out. Toast and Oeter stood there talking.

"Rooms are all empty. But it's large here," Toast said as he walked over. Hafu hugged him and Peter. 5up hugged Peter tightly and his face flushed slightly.

Hafu and Toast could both tell that the boys liked each other.

"Hey Toast. What is this anyway?" Hafu asked him. Toast explained the story.

"Is it possible I can look around and see the files? I might be able to spruce this place up a bit," 5up said. Toast nodded and signaled to the laptop there.

5up started to scroll through the files and looked at the doc that Toast made. Peter wrapped his arms around 5up.

"So what do you think?" Toast asked. 5up shrugged.

"What do we have?" He asked, curious to see if any bases already had been made.

"Whatever we want. We have this base, but we need four more. Dropships are already made, well a type at least,"

"Ok. 5up, Peter, you two try and design the ships. Hafu, let's go see what else is here," Toast said and led the yellow girl away.

They were in a very open room currently. A balcony attached. They started to wonder around.

"Let's gather more people. This is a big project," Hafu said. Toast nodded. They walked up a metal hallway and into a room on the left.

"Ok. Help me make a list of who we need," Toast said. They sat down and Hafu stared over his shoulder.

"So it's us four and what about Rae? She's good with this stuff?" Hafu asked. Toast sighed and nodded.

"True. But I don't want a big team right now," he said. Hafu nodded and leaned into her friend.

"That's fair. Why don't we just stick with us five? Invite Rae and we can start on what needs to be here," Hafu said. Toast nodded and stood up. He pulled Hafu to her feet.

They started to head towards the large area again. 5up and Peter were on the ground. 5up sitting in Peters lap with a sketch pad.

He had drawn a rough map of the base and was adding shapes. He looked up as his twin and Toast came in.

"Look here," 5up said. He handed the pad to Toast and they looked over it. It was impressive.

"Ok. Guess from now we need to start adding things in," Hafu said. They all smiled at each other.

"I'll call Rae. Peter, you have furniture duty. Hafu, can you meet her in the lobby?" He asked. Hafu nodded and headed to the elevator. "And 5up, work on the other ships," he ordered a little

Peter and 5up left and Toast called Rae. She arrived and came up with Hafu. Toast explained everything to her.

"Wow. That's so cool. So what now?" She asked. 5up glanced up from his sketch pad.

"Let's get the tech running up here. Go see what there is. Hafu, can you get Comms back up?" He asked. Both girls nodded.

"Hey Toast. Is it ok if I get Sleepy here? He's better with the design stuff than I am," 5up said and stared at a half empty page.

"Sure. Call him and bring him up here. But make sure it's just him. I'm not ready to go public with it yet," he said. 5up smiled and nodded.

He called his cat hybrid friend and got him to come up to the, or what would soon be, HQ.

Hafu and Rae were silent while they put wires together. Neither of them spoke to each other, not knowing each other super well. Only really through Toast.

5up was curled into Sleepys side as the cat sketched out the blueprints for a smaller ship. One that would float in space.

"Here, navigation," 5up said and pointed.

"What do you want to call it?" Sleepy asked, wanting to label the ship. 5up hummed a little and smiled.

"The Skeld?" 5up asked. Not knowing why, he just liked the name.

"The Skeld. I like it," Sleepy said and gave an amused smile to 5up. "I need to introduce you to my friend," Sleepy said with a soft laugh.