Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls

Chapter 7: I Can See Uranus

Another fragment of Black Hole's planetoid flew by as Milky left the planet's atmosphere. As always, Milky flew after the fragment, which flew towards a planet that looked...odd, to say the least. Milky thought that this planet looked a bit ridiculous. It wasn't the colour, no, it was a very nice shade of pale turquoise. The planet seemed to be rotating on its side like a wheel, even its faint rings were on their sides. "I might have to get used to walking sideways, it can't be that hard." Milky said to herself. That pale turquoise layer Milky saw was the planet's atmosphere, and thankfully, it was calmer than when she went to find the fragment on Jupiter's planet. Below the atmosphere, much to Milky's surprise, was no sideways-walking aliens, not at all, but no fragment in sight. Milky landed on the surface and started searching for the fragment. While searching, she accidentally bumped into something. "Ow!" A voice exclaimed. Milky jolted backwards and looked to see a girl on the ground. She had short, nautical blue hair and wore rectangular-lens glasses. She wore a dark blue sweater vest over a white button-up shirt with a black tie, a blue and white plaid skirt, white knee socks, brown penny loafer skates, green apple earrings, and in the girl's lap was a dusty red book. 

"Sorry!" Milky apologised. "Can you please watch where you're going?" The girl asked Milky, annoyed. She picked up the book from her lap, put her glasses on her head, and stood up. "What has you here, anyway?" Milky explained how she accidentally freed Black Hole from her planetoid, and how she had to travel across the Solar System to find the fragments. "So let me get this straight: you freed a malignant force "by accident" and you're getting help from a bunch of people?" The girl asked. "Yes?" Milky replied. "Yeah, this feels more like a you problem than an us problem," The girl told Milky. "And besides, I have much worse concerns than being swallowed whole by a vortex." The girl reopened her book and started reading. Milky stood there for a minute, hoping the girl would change her mind. Finally, the girl looked up from her book again, saw Milky still standing next to her, and sighed in frustration. "Fine! I'll assist you!" She said, putting her book away. "I am Uranus, before you ask." She said, causing Milky to snicker. "Yes, very funny." Uranus replied, sarcastically, crossing her arms. "Sorry, I'm Milky Way, but I-" Uranus interrupted Milky before she could finish introducing herself. "Yes, yes, come along Ms. Way, and we will start looking for this fragment." She said, walking away. Milky was torn about her new companion, on one hand, she looked intelligent and logical, but on the other hand, she came off more passive-aggressive and reluctant to help than the other girls she met. "Well, are you just going to stand there? Come on!" Uranus called out. "Okay!" Milky replied, skating after Uranus.

Uranus held a tiny device in her hand, she had her glasses on, and was staring at the device, intently. "Enter: FRAGMENT..." Uranus said to herself. "What is that?" Milky asked Uranus. "Hold on, Ms. Way," The latter replied. "I'm trying to ascertain the location of this fragment you've been talking about." They waited for the device to process, but an error popped up on the screen saying "Unable to process location, try again later." Uranus sighed. "How can we find the fragment now?" Milky asked. "No use in giving up hope, Ms. Way, we'll have to wing this." Uranus replied. Milky and Uranus had to walk aimlessly since Uranus's device wasn't working, and Milky couldn't even have a conversation with Uranus as she was reading her book and seemed to be ignoring Milky. It was like that for a while, when out of nowhere, a tiny beeping sound could be heard. Uranus looked at her device, a small red triangle was flashing on the screen pointing at the top-right corner of the screen. She put her glasses on and squinted her eyes at the screen. "What is it?" Milky asked. "Not right now, Ms. Way, I can't walk and chew gum at the same time." Uranus replied as she continued to look at her device. "I think it's telling us to travel in this direction." She told Milky, pointing in the same direction the triangle was pointing. Uranus grabbed Milky by her wrist and pulled her in the direction the device told her to go in. The beeping sound increased in speed before becoming a small alarm noise. "I hate that noise!" Milky said, covering her ears. "Exactly, it's an alarm, not a lullaby!" Uranus told Milky in her usual sarcastic manner. She turned off her device and started feeling the ground. She felt an odd, protruding-like feeling under the ground. "There is something under the ground, it could be that fragment you have been talking about, Ms. Way." Uranus told Milky. "Good, and do have some, like, digging machine that could unearth the fragment?" Milky asked Uranus, smugly. "I do, in fact, have a digger." Uranus replied, pulling out a metallic marble. She tossed it to the ground and it transformed into a digger containing a cab with a giant conical drill. "Woah." Milky said, looking at the digger. Uranus climbed inside the digger. "Not to brag, but doesn't this look, as Neptune puts it, "way cool"?" She asked Milky. "Who's Neptune?" Milky asked. "Time to get digging." Uranus said to herself. She cracked her knuckles and turned the vehicle on. The digger, quickly, jumped high into the air and just as quickly landed, drill first, on the ground. Uranus dug through the ground for three or four minutes before Milky heard an "Aha!" Uranus climbed out of the hole, holding another fragment. "Is this the fragment you were talking about, Ms. Way?" Uranus asked Milky. "I still don't know who Neptune is." Milky replied as she took the fragment from Uranus. She put it in her bag will all of the others. Uranus returned the digger to its initial marble state. "Well, I must get back to this book, have fun undoing the damage, Ms. Way." She told Milky before opening her book on the page she was on. "I still don't know who Neptune is, by the way!" Milky said, loudly, but it seemed like Uranus was deliberately ignoring Milky. Milky growled and started making her way through the planet's atmosphere. She looked back at Uranus as she flew and blew a raspberry at her. Uranus didn't see this as she was still reading her book.