The Moonmen

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Two days prior.

Scarlett, Tank and Jayden arrived in an enormous glass dome. The landscape beyond them was a Barron grey nothingness, a cold dead world lies beyond but Scarlett blanked it all. What she saw was a lush green environment held within the 100 metre wide bubble. Ivey overtook the tall dangly wood stalks the Moonmen called trees, their gravity was so low on the moon that the trees know no limit to their hight, so far. There has never been a tree which hasn't eventually outgrown the Moonmen's colony, the tallest of their bubbles reaching a hight of over 450 metres.The grass was more green than any on earth, which covered a good 90% of the 'teleportation arrival dome', one Jayden had specially constructed.

"Alright let's get down to business!"
Jayden proposed.

"Aren't we only here to rest?"
Scarlett objected.

"How the Fuck are we gonna stay here for 2 days? Are you sure these domes won't crack or break or— what if there's another meteor?" Tank was panicking, his astrophobia was starting to overwhelm him, he had never been to the moon before and the sky being nothing but dark and stars was new to him. Jayden injected him with a needle gun she'd been hiding from the group.

"It's a shame he's afraid of something as simple as low gravity, imagine how strong he would be here, let's take him to the hotel, he'll be out for the rest of the day."

"There's a hotel?" Scarlett's face lit up as Jayden nodded. she had always wanted to swim in low gravity, surely a hotel meant a pool right? "would there by chance be a pool at this establishment?"

When she nodded again Scarlett almost screamed, putting Tank over her shoulder and almost carrying him herself. Unfortunately a half tonne was a little to much for her even in moon gravity so she crumbled under his weight. Jayden laughed and helped her up, they put Tank's arms over both their shoulders and headed towards the tunnel connecting the dome to another. As they walked they kept finding themselves having to explain to the local security why they were hauling a body bigger than the two combined, although most of them recognised Jayden before she could show ID.

The two dragged Tank from dome to dome before they finally reached a deep solid blue dome with wavy white lines painted with rows of windows higher up, they came to a tube connecting to a pirate themed blue sign reading 'The MoonSea'.

"This is it." Jayden said before a man who looked like some sort of hotel security walked over, he stared at the two body-haulers before his face changed like he understood the situation.

"Astrophobic pass?" He asked

Scarlett had no idea what he was talking about but then Jayden pulled out a black card depicting the solar system. Scarlett could see a portrait of Tank along with what she could only assume was information running down the side.

"Thank you ladies, can't have just anyone hauling around an unconscious body around." The guard laughed.

"As long as you don't question her carrying me in later after a few drinks." Jayden laughed before they continued inside to the very decorated 'swashbuckler' lobby.

Scarlett was buzzing, this place was literally called the Moonsea, there must be one of the greatest pools of all time right beneath them. But after they dumped their stuff, and Tank, at the 2 rooms they'd booked, she was ever so slightly disappointed, the pool looked no different to that of a common leisure centre's.
The water almost concealed into a thick jelly on the surface and she couldn't tell if it was actually thicker or if it was piss, and the slight yellow tinge didn't help.

"Now you've never done this before but both the 2 pools on the moon are very easy to drown in." Jayden calmly stated. Scarlett gazed at her with a look of horror before she clarified.
"Sorry, what I mean is you must wear arm bands or it'll be extremely difficult to stay on the surface, the water will almost pull you in."

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