Atomic Galaxy: Solar System III
Planet 24: Someone to Protect
It was quite late when he returned home, or very early depending on how you looked at it. The clock on the wall read 4:31 and the sun had not yet woken up that day. Regardless of the sleepless night and the long busy day that waited, he was victorious. He might have not escaped without a scratch, but he had escaped and he had the blueprints he needed.
He fell into the couch exhausted and fought to stay awake and open up the blueprints. His eyes demanded rest but he forced them to read the numbers, notes and symbols, analyzing his findings. Then he noticed the kitten sitting on the couch holding his plushie. He picked up the boy but before he could take two steps in the direction to his room, the child woke up.
"Otousan," the boy was still half asleep.
"Go to back to sleep, it's late or too early," his father spoke.
"Let me stay here with you. You were gone all day. I won't bother you." That sad kitten look could convince anyone, even a villain.
Or maybe he didn't feel like arguing with his son and risk having the boy wake up completely and turn back into his usual energetic hyper self. "Alright, but you have to be quiet, I need to concentrate." He placed the boy back on the couch and sat down next to him once again, turning his attention to the blue prints. He picked up a pencil from the coffee table and scribbled notes and calculations, accompanied by lines over the drawings. He would take this technology and make it his own and he would improve it far beyond what the Galactic Guardians could ever accomplish.
By the time the improvements on the blueprints were finished the pencil lines over the original ink ones changed the shape of the technological device almost completely. It would work better that way; he didn't know why who ever came up with the idea didn't think of those changes. Maybe it was the lack of a villainous purpose.
He glanced at his son, who had kept his promise to be quiet, probably because he was sleeping again. The clock now indicated that it was 5:47. He knew the kitten wouldn't last too long awake. He picked him up, more carefully this time so he wouldn't wake up, and took him to his room. He placed the boy on his bed and quietly left.
He returned to the living room and picked up the blueprints. There was no time for sleep; he would start working on the new device right away.
For a moment he paused remembering his escape earlier. The guardians clearly didn't think he could pull it off, but he did. For a moment he too doubted he could do it, his logic told him he would be inevitably cornered and captured by the Galactic Guardians, yet that didn't happen. Even if the rational part of his brain told him the escape wouldn't work, he somehow knew he would get away. He wondered why then he remembered the kitten who was waiting for his return. He felt sad that he couldn't save the boy's mother, but at least he didn't lose them both. Then he realized that was the reason he would always be able to escape from the Galactic Guardians, at least while the child was still a kitten.
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Planet 25: Second Chance (BettyxSparky)
Atomic Betty's Point of View
What if there was someone that cared about you and whom you cared for too? What if the things that made you break up in the first place, were things left in the past? Maybe we were too young, maybe we weren't ready, but it's different now.
This was supposed to be a rehearsal kiss for the scene in which my character discovers that Sparky's character somehow survived at the end of the first movie. But it doesn't feel fake at all. It's real, we both know it.
