Chapter 1: The Crash

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As Tee and his crew board the Starship Tetra,
Ringo wipes away her tears. She waves one last
goodbye to the crew who had helped her and her friends return home safely. Tee's glittering purple eyes were looking straight at Ringo. He was also crying, Ringo hid back her tears and smiled as the door closed behind them. Tee smiled right before the door closed and after a few seconds, the ship started to thrust into the air.
Ringo burried her face into the nearest person's chest, Arle. Arle hugged Ringo with one arm and ran her hand through Ringo's hair with the other arm. Amitie and the others stare in sadness, they understand...

*The Next Day, At School*

Ringo and Maguro are talking in physics club when suddenly, Risukuma bursts in with surprising news.
"YOU GUYS HAVE TO SEE THIS!!!"
"What's going on? ★"
"JUST COME!!!"
Risukuma drags Ringo and Maguro outside into
the school yard. Ringo's eyes widen with fear when she sees what Risukuma points to..
The Starship Tetra, smashed into the forest;
steaming, dented, and half buried into the dirt.
Maguro gasps and looks over to Risukuma,
"How long have you known about this!?"
"I saw it on my way to physics club!"
Ringo pushes her way past the two and dashes to
the wrecked starship. She gets to the door and
shoves it open.
"Tee?! O?! Ess?! ANYONE?!"
She hears faint coughing in the distance, she
follows the sound. Ringo looks around and
suddenly sees Tee, who's getting crushed at his
waist. He sees her and reaches out, "R-Ringo..."
She dashes to his side, "Shhh..... its ok... I'm here..." Ringo grabs his arms and tries to pull him out, "Ringo... OW! stop..." he says.
"But I can't leave you here!!"
"I'll be fine..
"Then I'm gonna stay right next to you..." Ringo
whines as she hugs him. Tee hugs back and he
kisses her on the cheek. Risukuma and Maguro
come in and start yelling out names as Ringo did
when she walked in. Ringo yells back to call them
over. Risukuma sends Maguro to search the rest of the ship and runs over to help Ringo. Risukuma decides that destroying or seperating the metal is the best way to free Tee. They end up hammering the metal back into place and Tee was free. His waist was scratched, bruised, cut, and bloody. Ringo bandages up Tee and starts looking for the rest of the crew in the ship.
Maguro finds Ess and Jay, Risukuma finds Ai and O, but Elle and Zed are nowhere to be seen.
Maguro, Ringo, and Risukuma tend to the crew's
wounds and lead them away from the ruins.
Arle, Amitie and the others were all there waiting
for them.

Rumors sure spread quickly through Primp... Ringo thought as she helped Tee make his way towards the small crowd. The others offer homes and food for the crew. The crew ends up splitting apart to live with the others for a while. Ess goes with Amitie, Jay decides to stay with Maguro, Ai stays with Risukuma, O and Tee stay with Ringo.

*At Ringo's House*

Ringo's family agrees to let Tee and O live with
them until they're nursed back to full health. O
settles onto the couch and sleeps there for the
night. Tee feels most comfortable in Ringo's room. Ringo blows up an air mattress and sets it next to her own bed. While Ringo changes into to her pajamas, Tee walks in on her.
"T-Tee!"
"O-O-OH! I'M SORRY!!"
"N-No... It's fine, I'm almost done..."
Just as she scrambles to put her shirt on, he walks up and grabs her shoulder and turns her around. His face was as red as an apple, but his eyes glistened like the stars. Tee grabs her waist, pulling her in for a passionate kiss. Ringo also turns a bright red as she starts to give in. There's a knock at the door. Tee instantly stops and flings his body onto the mattress, pretending to sleep. Ringo's mom opens the door,
"Ringo?"
"Hm?"
"Is your friend asleep already?"
"Tee! Are you awake?" says Ringo, turning to his
direction.
"Mhm... Wait what?" says Tee, sitting up as he pretends to be just waking up.
Ringo giggles silently.
"I brought him some sheets and blankets for the
mattress" says Ringo's mom as she walks in and
sets the sheets and blankets on top of Ringo's desk.
Tee gets up and lets Mrs. Andou cover his bed with comfy blankets, pillows, and plushies.
"Ringo! Get your shirt on!" yells her mom before
she bekons her daughter out of the room. Ringo reluctantly follows her out.
"It is impolite to have your shirt off in front of our guest! And one more thing, if he threatens or hurts you in any way that makes you umcomfortable you can tell me" she says to Ringo, probably loud enough for Tee to hear her.
"MOOOOOOMM..." replies Ringo, turning red in embarrassment. Her mother giggles before hugging her daughter and going back to her own room. Ringo sighs and returns to her room. She puts on her pajama shirt, shuts off the lamp, and lays down. Tee was already peacefully sleeping on the air mattress next to her.
Ringo blushes and rolls over. Why did Tee
look so desperate to kiss me? She thought before
her mind was flooded with a million other
questions.
That night Ringo dreams of her and Tee. They get
married and bought a beautiful house. But Ringo's main focus in the dream was the fact that Ringo was seeing random blue blobs around the room for most of the dream. But the confusing part is that she thought Ecolo was gone for good this time.
Could he have found his way back?

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