The Protectors; Book 1

Grounded

Foxete's POV:

"So that's 'The Office'?" Illoha says with a confused expression.
"Humans confuse me." Keori laughs.
Keeva and Toby went to their rooms after the 1st episode.
"So? Did you like the first 2 episodes?" Bonnie laughs.
"Space Office is better." Acron laughs standing up.
"I didn't really focus on what was happening." I say laughing as well.
Bonnie goes outside to the window, "Holy cow! We landed!"
"Well not every ship gets crashed into the ground as it lands, Bon." I say patting his shoulder, "It's ok that our A.I is a way better pilot than you."
"Not true!" Bonnie scoffs.
Illoha, Acron, and Keori laugh at this.
"Bonnie, buddy, you practically crashed onto Keekos!" Acron laughs.
"I did no such thing!" Bonnie says trying to sound serious, but I can hear him trying not to laugh as well.
"It is true, Bonnie is a horrible pilot. That is one of the reasons Kreko put me here." The A.I says. We all start cracking up.
What is so funny? I said the truth?" Arthur continues.
"Oh that makes it funnier!" I say through coughs from laughing so hard.
"It really does. Bonnie I am so sorry!" Acron says laughing. Bonnie is laughing and smiling too so I don't think he minds.
I look out the window to see what the world looks like. Pretty standard. Lots of water.
We go downstairs.
"Should we leave now?" Acron asks.
"I mean why not?" Bonnie replies.
"What about GlubGlub?" I say going to grab the slime from his room.
"Hey buddy we're leaving now want to come?" I ask him through the door.
"Sure!" He says.
After a few minutes I ask, "Are you ok?"
"The door is locked." Arthur replies.
"What? Why?" Acron asks.
"I locked it." The A.I says bluntly.
"But why Arty?" Toby whines.
The A.I stays quiet.
"It's ok buddy we'll bring you something back!" Bonnie sighs.
After saying that Toby happily replied with, "Oh! Ok!" And we left.
We walk out of the ship and onto the ground. It was surprisingly soft.
Bonnie hands me a gun and whispers, "I know it says low intelligence but you never know."
"Ooh water! Is it fresh?" Acron says as he goes and tastes the water. He spits it all out, "Bleh!! That was disgusting! Salt water, of course."
I look to our right, "It's almost like there's a ocean right there." I giggle.
Illoha and Keori laugh.
"Oh." Acron says disgusted.
We all start laughing and stand up. We begin wandering. Eventually we get to a field.
"Did you know that the water on my planet is yellow?" He laughs.
"Oh god!" Illoha gags, "That is wrong!"
"And just in case you were wondering, so is my pee." Acron smiles.
"No. I was not wondering that." Illoha laughs.
"The pranks that were pulled..." I chuckle.
"I was a really stupid kid." Acron smiles fondly.
We all laugh.
Acron gasps, "What is that!?" He says pointing to the horses.
"What?" I laugh.
"That white thing with 4 legs and looks muscular?!" He says running to it.
"No Acron! No!" Illoha shrieks.
"It won't hurt him." I sigh.
"I've never seen anything like that before." Keori says in awe as a donkey approaches her.
I walk ahead of the group while Bonnie explains what a horse is. I see a giant crack in the Planet and I approach it.
I walk to the edge of a ravine.
"That's deep." Illoha says appearing behind me.
"Not interested in the horses?" I ask her.
"No, I am, but I saw you over here so I wanted to see what was so interesting." She says looking down.
"There's metals down there I've never seen. There's also metals I have seen, but they're dangerous to keep in the open." I sigh.
I look up and see a village not too far.
"Hey gang? I see something!" I call back to them.
Within five minutes they're walking with me to the village. Acron begins stealing food from the gardens and Bonnie runs to stop him.
"This place looks empty, Princess." I say walking backwards when suddenly I bump into someone.
"Ah!" They say.
I turn around, "I'm so-"
"HE'S SO UGLY!" Bonnie screams looking at the villager.
I stood in shock of his ugliness.
"Thank you!" The ugly man says.
He was bald with a few disgusting hairs on the top of his head. He has no eyelashes and crusty skin. He also had a nose hung down from the middle of his face to an inch past his chin. Like Squidward.
"My name is Ted!" He says happily.
"Hi... Ted...." I say trying to look at him. We all just stare at each other. Ted is smiling like a crazy person.
"Ok... so.... Uh..." Acron says awkwardly.
"I'm Bonnie." Bonnie says.
"Illoha." They Princess sighs.
"Keori!" Keori says laughing.
"I'm Fox." I sigh taking a step away from Ted.
"And I'm Acron." Acron says crossing his arms, "I definitely didn't steal your food."
"Ok! I believe you!" Ted says.
When I turn around there is a circle of 15-20 villagers around Illoha.
"Ah yes! They seem to like you!" Ted says happily.
"This is not intimidating at all!" Illoha says sarcastically. She pushes through the crowd and stands next to me.
"Oh course they like her! She's a woman!" Ted says.
"Are there not woman here?" I ask.
"Oh no there are!" He says pointing to a villager, "That's a woman!"
She looks no different than him.
"Oh..." I say trying not to sound as rude.
"Why are they so ugly?" Illoha whispers to me.
"No idea." I whisper back, giggling.
"I wish to show you our newest invention!" Ted says leading us to a building.
"Steairs!" He yells.
It wasn't pronounced properly, or how you think. It was just stairs pronounced (stee-ar-z)
"Stairs?" Bonnie asks holding back laughter, "Do you mean stairs?"
We look at the stairs leading up to the building.
"No? What are 'stairs'?" Ted asks.
"Those." I say pointing at the 'steairs'.
"No, no silly! Those are Steairs!" Ted laughs.
"This place is incredibly stupid." Acron says with pure confusion.
"Fox, Bonnie, with me. We're going to that ravine to get supplies.
"Oh, uh wait, do you have a snow globe or something?" Bonnie asks Ted.
"A gift?" Ted asks.
"Yes!" Bonnie says.
"I will go get you one!" Ted says happily.
"Ok give it to Illoha, the girl with the purple eyes." I say, "We'll be back."
We are no more than 10 feet away when I hear Illoha yell, "OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT."
We all run back.
"What?! What?!" Bonnie yells.
Illoha is holding a chainsaw sword.
"Oh my gods." I say staring at it.
"We can't give this to Toby." Acron laughs.
"Who is Tony?" Ted asks.
"Toby. A child on our ship." I facepalm.
"Oh! Cool!" Ted says as he walks away.
"Fox or Bonnie, stay with them." Acron sighs.
"Nope I'm coming with you." I say quickly.
"Well so am I!" Bonnie says hurrying behind Acron.
"Fine you both come with me. Princess, defend yourself. This guy is nuts." Acron sighs.
The three of us walk to the ravine.
"Ok sit tight. I'm making us a staircase down." Acron says.
Now we wait.

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