The Goddess

Chapter Twenty

As I trailed the male anthro bee, a figure with a striking physique and a determined stride, we found ourselves nearing a hexagon door. Two imposing armored guards stood sentinel, their presence a testament to the importance of what lay beyond.

The male honey bee signaled the two guards to let them and me inside the room, which I assumed was where the escape pod was. The guards were hesitant for a moment, but they were able to open the door for us. 

The male scientist honey bee gestured for me to go first, which confused me. He seemed to notice this, so he responded in a mellow, straight, stern, and knowledgeable tone.

"You seem to know what you're dealing with." He spoke.

The male scientist honey bee, his stature commanding respect, gestured with a sweeping motion of his hand. I followed his gaze and saw the escape pod, a beacon of hope in the center of the room, surrounded by other honey bees in lab coats, their purpose clear. 

I even noticed another species entirely different from the anthro honey bees roaming around in the room with hex-shaped clip boars, pen scribbling, and what looked like they were taking notes of their observations.

The other creatures in lab coats were slightly an inch taller than the male honey bee. They were anthro cobra-like creatures with light lime-colored green-scaled cobra snakes. They instantly noticed me as I entered the assumed scientists' room. 

I looked at them for a moment, and they reminded me of a game I'd seen called X-Com, an old PC game in my world. They looked similar because their features showed they were female, except that they didn't have scales colored like sand, and their eyes were deep red, but they were light reptilian yellow, the same way feline cats are in my world.

Before they could do or say anything, the male scientist that followed me spoke in the Hexian language, but before that, another that I couldn't understand, and it only sounded gibberish to me.

But when the male scientist spoke in the Hexian language, he said. "Everyone, we have a guest today, and he will demonstrate for us, so continue your work; we will notify you all when there is an update," he said, and when he signaled me to go to the pod, everyone, including the anthro cobra-like species, and it made me a little uncomfortable by the fact that a whole bunch of scientists was staring at me walking over to the pod and the male bee seem to notice this and shooed them off so they wouldn't make me feel the way I was feeling, once at least there was a few that walked away and lost there gazes at me and were speaking to one another in their foreign language I went over to the pod and looked to where the emergency output cable was, their hatch was a safety lock mechanism that keeps the internal circuits and electronic secure in the pod so it wouldn't malfunction or cause any problems to the user that's suing it.

Once, after a complete walk around to check if nothing was damaged from the exterior, I found the hatch-titled output ports, which had a small security lock mechanism. 

Thank god I did know how to bypass it. Undoing the bag, around my should I set on the ground next to me and I unzipped it, running my hands around it in hopes of finding what I was looking for, finally I found that I still had my security lock tool, gently as possible without breaking the lock I was able to maneuver the lock, it took some time to adjust to, by the fact of it entering the planets atmosphere and almost burning it to a crisp.

Once the hatch handle extended, I turned it clockwise. The hatch door popped, letting out a slight hint of dust from the exterior parts, which were burn marks. I carefully set the hatch door down to see that the output ports looked intact.

"Great, now for the tricky part," I muttered in my human language.

I pulled out the device I initially used for the detection unit and went rogue to God knows where, but my only focus was to check if the pod could detect any other one that had survived the crash. 

I also pulled out an HDMI cable with an output plug-in port that would connect the pod's internal computer to a radar beacon on my digital tablet. 

But there wasn't any power in the pod, so I went over to the other side and opened another security hatch carefully in hopes the battery didn't melt from the thermal reaction of the atmosphere in the re-entry.

But once I found a tiled backup switch, it whirred back to life slowly. I waited a few seconds for it to work until I promptly muttered, "Yes!" While I went over to the other side, I could plug in the USB port from my digital tablet to the output port from the pod.

Once it was plugged in, I waited for a few seconds until an icon popped up in front of me, showing your connection to pod01427. 

Do wish to proceed, it showed a y and n icon button system, and then I quickly pressed the Y, and after the icon left it showed me the systems and settings of the pod, and after a minute or two scrolling and muttering the title Pod Radar, or Beacon somewhere in that titled I kept scrolling until I spotted the titled pod search, and I pressed on that, and after I pressed on that icon it showed me many other icons in a up and down category, after looking through them from Pod reboot or diagnostics to Pod near me once I pressed pod near me it opened up another window and showed where I was in a home device map structure, and it showed me where I was, and the window had to icons that said scan for pods, and so that's what I did, after I pressed that icon it showed it was loading in progress and I was worried that I wouldn't find any other pods outside from whrere I was now, but suddenly after my train of thought and noticing my foor slightly tapping in impatience the pod that I was in miraculously was bale to detect a few pod that were outide from the palce I was.

One showed that it was near a field of tall grass, and another was near a few mountain terrains, most likely a rock environment. 

Zooming out from the map, they were the only ones the pod could detect because the signal from the pod was unfordable. 

I used how I averaged the range of how far the pod could detect the other pods; it was a start. 

I was relieved that there were at least two out there, and they hopefully had a survivor waiting to be rescued.

And I was planning on saving them, hoping to save others that survived from the ship.

To be continued